Doing Better and Better!
Almost cannot believe that it is 2007 and I am already 24.5 years old!
2007 started with toasting, greeting each other and watching a lot of fireworks from the neighbours of Maria (a friend of Aron's parents, also living in Väjöx). It was a lovely New Year's eve dinner at Maria's house. I contributed a Chinese cucumber salad which was the first time that I made it, more challenging than that, through reading an Asian cookbook in Swedish. Good food, good drinks and good conversations.
I used to reflect a lot while finishing a year and entering a new year. This time I caught the fashion of making new year resolutions:
1. Excercise more. I can even delete 'more' because I don't excercise at all for now. So I have signed up for 2 spinning classed in company's gym. One is regular on each Monday. One is adhoc depending on when the instructor will be free. I have also signed up for 2 running: one of 5km in June and one of 10km in August. Very excited about starting the spinning classes to spin off some fat on my tummy. :)
2. Learn Swedish. Learning Swedish is a lot about having an easier life living in Stockholm though very unlikely I will be here longer than my traineeship. It is also a lot about being able to communicate with Aron's parents better and deeper. After all, I have always loved learning new languages. Shall be fun! So I have found one very good Swedish institution at a very good deal (900SEK for 6 months and I can go as many times per week as I want). I will try out one class this or next week then decide if I should subscribe!
3. Pick back Aikido and Zazen practices. Shame on me that I haven't done either even once since I moved to Stockholm (almost 2.5 months). Jan 20th I will attend a Zazen induction session at Zen Centre Stockholm. Still figuring out which Aikido dojo I should approach from a friend whose son is practising Aikido.
Otherwise, things are pretty okay:
Before leaving Stockholm, Aron and I went for an Ice Hockey game between Sweden and Canada of U20. Then I had a relaxing 10 day rest in Väjöx. Getting up around 11am each morning for a brunch. Then go our for a walk, to go the city centre for boxing day shopping, go to a theatre for a play about immigrants coming to Sweden, go for stick walking in the forest close by, a lot of good and long conversations over dinner table. Family, nature, excercise.
I have always liked western Christmas eve dinner. Nice food with the entire family followed by 'gifts presentation'. More than the gifts themselves, I always appreciate the thought behind choosing the best gift. This year I got a huge book called Sweden from the above from Aron's parents. And some other practical households to start my life with Maria. I felt touched by the magnetic stones Aron's dad gave to me and Aron, symbolizing how relationship is and how we should approach it. Aron's gifts are a dinner together with an opera on Feb 2nd! :) Looking forward to it!
Work is not getting me much busier still. However, I can see myself getting involved in more projects. (Ironically, my managers are so busy that they have no time to brief me what they want me to do.) My team is doing our spring planning on our team meeting tomorrow when I will know what's gonna happen and what involvement I will have. (Yah!) I am looking forward to the first quarterly evaluation meeting at the end of Jan: hopefully we will move one level up to work together as a team then! Also next week, my 2nd biz trip is coming up: 16th in Brussels and 17th in Holland (going back after 5 months).
In short, my personal life here is very eventful. I don't think I have ever participated so many shows, concerts when I was living in other cities in the past. I need a bit of patience to see how my professional life will evolve. Doing better and better!
2007 started with toasting, greeting each other and watching a lot of fireworks from the neighbours of Maria (a friend of Aron's parents, also living in Väjöx). It was a lovely New Year's eve dinner at Maria's house. I contributed a Chinese cucumber salad which was the first time that I made it, more challenging than that, through reading an Asian cookbook in Swedish. Good food, good drinks and good conversations.
I used to reflect a lot while finishing a year and entering a new year. This time I caught the fashion of making new year resolutions:
1. Excercise more. I can even delete 'more' because I don't excercise at all for now. So I have signed up for 2 spinning classed in company's gym. One is regular on each Monday. One is adhoc depending on when the instructor will be free. I have also signed up for 2 running: one of 5km in June and one of 10km in August. Very excited about starting the spinning classes to spin off some fat on my tummy. :)
2. Learn Swedish. Learning Swedish is a lot about having an easier life living in Stockholm though very unlikely I will be here longer than my traineeship. It is also a lot about being able to communicate with Aron's parents better and deeper. After all, I have always loved learning new languages. Shall be fun! So I have found one very good Swedish institution at a very good deal (900SEK for 6 months and I can go as many times per week as I want). I will try out one class this or next week then decide if I should subscribe!
3. Pick back Aikido and Zazen practices. Shame on me that I haven't done either even once since I moved to Stockholm (almost 2.5 months). Jan 20th I will attend a Zazen induction session at Zen Centre Stockholm. Still figuring out which Aikido dojo I should approach from a friend whose son is practising Aikido.
Otherwise, things are pretty okay:
Before leaving Stockholm, Aron and I went for an Ice Hockey game between Sweden and Canada of U20. Then I had a relaxing 10 day rest in Väjöx. Getting up around 11am each morning for a brunch. Then go our for a walk, to go the city centre for boxing day shopping, go to a theatre for a play about immigrants coming to Sweden, go for stick walking in the forest close by, a lot of good and long conversations over dinner table. Family, nature, excercise.
I have always liked western Christmas eve dinner. Nice food with the entire family followed by 'gifts presentation'. More than the gifts themselves, I always appreciate the thought behind choosing the best gift. This year I got a huge book called Sweden from the above from Aron's parents. And some other practical households to start my life with Maria. I felt touched by the magnetic stones Aron's dad gave to me and Aron, symbolizing how relationship is and how we should approach it. Aron's gifts are a dinner together with an opera on Feb 2nd! :) Looking forward to it!
Work is not getting me much busier still. However, I can see myself getting involved in more projects. (Ironically, my managers are so busy that they have no time to brief me what they want me to do.) My team is doing our spring planning on our team meeting tomorrow when I will know what's gonna happen and what involvement I will have. (Yah!) I am looking forward to the first quarterly evaluation meeting at the end of Jan: hopefully we will move one level up to work together as a team then! Also next week, my 2nd biz trip is coming up: 16th in Brussels and 17th in Holland (going back after 5 months).
In short, my personal life here is very eventful. I don't think I have ever participated so many shows, concerts when I was living in other cities in the past. I need a bit of patience to see how my professional life will evolve. Doing better and better!
posted by Jingwei @ 10:09 PM
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2 Comments:
Hey hey hey...
Good that you're enjoying your personal life there...and it seems that you are really really doing so many things there :)
keep on updating, Jingwei ;)
with smile,
ali
ps: i also cooked my first indonesian food here (but of course the spice had to be adjusted with the taste of people here) :p
what is this??? you have to visit me as well during this year often! ;)
vero
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