Florence, March 2007
Hongkong, January 2006
Washington D.C., November 2006
Berlin, April 2004I turned 37 this year. I am neither young nor old. At this point in my life, I think I have accomplished enough to be proud of what I had become, but I still want to accomplish more so I can be the person I really want to be. My journal will attempt to document all things I am thankful for as well as things I still strive for. My journal will also be about my life as a career woman, a college teacher, a wife, a daughter, a sister, an aunt and of course as a friend.
To start off, I have to list all the things that I am thankful for:
1. A loving husband who has supported me in all my endeavors. In the 15 years that we have been together (10 years as a married couple), he has seen me through my journey to be an accountant, an MBA, a Master of Science in Computational Finance, a college teacher, a lecturer and a full-time career woman. I will never be thankful enough for all his support and love.
2. A wonderful family and in-laws.
3. A nice home.
4. The right career breaks, a challenging and stable job.
5. Wonderful friends
6. Opportunities to share my skills and knowledge with young people.
7. Opportunities to travel
I'm sure that I will be able to think of more things to be thankful for. Meanwhile, I would also like to use this journal to do something that I have always wanted to do but never really knew how...until I discovered blogging... and this is documenting our travels.
My husband and I love travelling and we are lucky enough to have travelled together over the past 10 years of our marriage. We never really went on a real honeymoon when we got married in 1996 as we were building our house and we didn't really have enough resources for a grand honeymoon. The first time we travelled was in 1999 when we went to Hongkong. We would go to Hongkong once or twice a year after that. It would be something that we always looked forward to.
Our first grand vacation was in April 2004 when we went to Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Lourdes, Milan and Rome. We had the time of our lives. In 2005, I went to New Zealand without him. In 2006, he went to Italy and Israel without me and I went to the United States without him. In March of this year, he again went to Italy without me.
We did enjoy our travels even if we weren't together but we both realized that nothing really beats travelling together. Three years after our European vacation, we still talk about our adventures, and in fact filled our home with our travel photos. Our goal right now is to travel together to the United States this year or early next year. The challenge is to be able to save given that our favorite activities are shopping and eating out =).
