Celebrate the simple life everyday

Time flies and it has been about 8 months since fashionably yours last blogged.  Thank you for supporting my blog despite not blogging for so long.  Well fashionably yours is excellent, as usual, doing the normal stuff, such as eat, sleep and of course working.  However am very busy working that I don't have much time to shop.  In a good way is I cut down my expenses since not much time to shop.  Yes I still do shop but only buy what I need and not wants. 

Glad I took the leap of faith in my profession.  Not gonna discuss about work here but just feel that I have grown and learnt a lot during the last six months and counting.  Things that I would not have come acrossed if I had stayed in my old division.  One thing for sure is change is constant.  We must always adapt to it.  If you don't add value anymore in what you are doing, it means time to move on. 

In fact, one doesn't need much to survive, just the basic will do.  Sun, fresh air and clean water.  I am grateful when I could open my eyes everyday when I wake up in the morning to breathe the fresh air and see the ray of sun shining through my windows or listen to the rhythm of the falling rain.  We can be happy everyday living the simple life.  One don't need to own many branded goods or attend the most posh events and parties in town to be happy.  What does happiness mean to you ?  To me, being alive is happiness :)  Simplicity is bliss and I enjoy my privacy. 

Met my workspouse for lunch last week and he told me that I am looking better than last time.  It glows on my face. Yes indeed though my new role has kept me super busy yet fashionably yours has gained about 4kg since moving to my new division for only about six months.  I organised  lots of corporate events and so much eating *LOL*   If anyone of you have any good food caterers, feel free to recommend to me because I am in charge of ordering yummy food for our corporate events.

Oh la la......talking about food at this wee hour. Oh my.....making my tummy growling.  Nevertheless I just had some kettle brand honey Dijon chips which is my favourite. I think my favourite past time is eating nowadays.  Recently there is the launch of a famous donut outlet at Orchard Road. I shall not mention the name here since they are not asking me to endorse.  I find it amusing seeing people lining up before the store open for business.  It is only donuts, don't get too excited.  There are better things to do than to form line. Maybe Singaporean favourite past time is lining up.  They can line up for lots of stuff, such as buying iphone, ipad, donuts, fast food hello kitty, etc.......With so much training on lining up, can they line up properly when boarding the bus and train ? hmm....not so sure on this though hahaha......

Besides working, fashionably yours enjoy cooking simple and healthy food. It helps me to destress.   Perhaps I should blog about my cooking someday and post pictures to share recipes.  Just now I cooked spinach and mushroom soup.  Yummy.

 

 

Fashionably yours took leave on Monday to rest and relax, enjoy this long weekend,  Have been working so hard.  Hence glad to take this short break for a breather.  Wishing all Muslims friends Selamat Hari Raya Haji. Happy holidays to the rest of my friends and readers.

Let's celebrate the simple life everyday.

Cheers

Happiness

New studies of consumption and happiness show, for instance, that people are happier when they spend money on experiences instead of material objects, when they relish what they plan to buy long before they buy it, and when they stop trying to outdo the Joneses. Acquisition of material goods doesn’t bring about happiness. Yes we can splurge once a while and we really can get by with just a few things in life. So live simply.
 
A nice article to share here


Have a fabulous week ahead everyone :)

What is your measure of your happiness ?

It is so sad to see some people let money measure their levels of their happiness. Don't be so obsessed with wanting more money. GREED is in action.  Be careful of the damages caused by GREED.  It is so not worth it.  Must enjoy every moment and be happy.  What is your measure of your happiness ?  For me is very simple, health is wealth and live within your means.  Live and let live. Life is so beautiful.  Just now fashionably took an afternoon walk. Just loving the warm feeling of the sunshine on my body....feel so good to be with nature :)) This is bliss and priceless.

Is your life well lived ?

Human being always want more - money, love, personal possessions, etc....and the lists goes on and on and on....never ending lists.  Why are we working so hard ? What do we really want out of life ?  Are we happy doing what we are doing now ?  Have we lived life ?  Are we persuing what we love and want ?  What is your passion in life ?  We should live life to the fullest.  Living in the present and enjoying doing what we are doing when we are doing it.  Have a good quality of life and work life balance.


People can be so caught up with their daily lives that they forgot how to live life.  They forgot to stop to smell the roses and take a stroll around the block.  Some people might be stucked in a job they don't like because they have family commitments, they need the money and some other heavy responsibilities such as debts and loans to pay.  We should count our blessings and lower our expectations. Spend within our means and be contended with what we have. You decide yourself and not the society.

We actually don't need that much to get by in our life.  Human beings can get by with just a few possesions in life.  Less things and less wastage, save gaia.  According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs - physiological well being (food and water and shelter), safety, love, esteem and self-actualisation.  Live the simple life as long as the basic needs are met, the rest are secondary.  Nowadays people are working too hard to earn more money to chase after luxuries materials such as buying their dream home, buying their dream car, buying that luxury watches or jewelleries and never enough, they just want more.   They are so busy chasing money and don't have much time for their love ones.  They forgot to enjoy life.  When was the last time you had a good chat with your parents and siblings and had a meal together with them ?  Have you cared and shown concern for them ?  Happiness is beyond money and materials possessions.  It should be good feel and good quality time spent with friends and our love ones.  The most precious thing we can offer to our love ones are our time, our care and concern, which are more valuable and precious than anything you can measure.

Greed is one of the seven deadly sins. Don't be greedy, learn to be contended. Greed can cause lots of unhappiness in life. Look around you, money is the root cause for lots of unpleasantries, such as betrayal, lost friendships, lost kinships and many more.  Money is just a tool. Yes we need money to survive but don't have to be too greedy for it. There are other precious things which are more valuable than money, such as human relationships with friends and love ones. There are some people who are so hungry for money that they are so less humane and that is so scary.  We may not have the best of everything in life, but we can make do with the best of everything we have.


What is a life well lived ?  Is your life well lived ?   I feel that life is short, so enjoy every moment and be happy. You never know what's gonna happen next, so enjoy every moment, cherish and love your love ones, such as friends, relatives, family members, colleagues and the people around you.   There are never ending cash to be earned and never ending materials goods to possess.  We only live once, so enjoy every moment.  Don't work too hard and be so hard on ourselves.  Let me give you two scenarios, you tell me which is more pathetic ?  (1) You have spent all your cash but still alive. OR (2)  You are dead but you have not finished spending your cash ?   I think the latter is more pathetic. This is because you might be so busy earning money that you have no time to enjoy the fruit of your labour, did not live to spend it and did not enjoy a fulfilling life. 

I thank God for supplying and providing all my needs according to his riches and his riches are abundant.  Let me share one of my favourite bible phrase here with all my dear weblogders.  Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle. (Proverbs 23: 4 - 5) 

Take some time to ponder on it.  Reflect on it.  Today is Sunday and is rest day for almost everyone.  Hope you are not working on a Sunday but enjoying life doing what you love doing and spending quality time with your love ones and youself.

Wishing everyone a beautiful Sunday.  God bless you.

Rainy night

Pitter, patter, pitter, patter....it is raining now.....I like to watch the rain drop falling from my window. It is so romantic to watch the rain drop falling at night. I like to see the light on the lamp post too at night. Fashionably yours is a night person and love the night. I can simply do nothing, but enjoying the silence of the night....so solitude, so calm, so peaceful and lovely. Simply love the kind of feeling....Feel happiness is in the air while enjoying the silence of the night.

Guess nice and cooling weather to snuggle under the duvet tonight. Nitey nite and sweet dreams everyone.

I am gonna enjoying watching the rain drop falling from my window....the stars and the moon are sleeping now, cannot see them on the dark sky.

Are You Happy ?

Study show that unhappy folks spend 30% more time in front of TV than happy people.

Happy people spend a lot of time socialising, going to church and reading newspaper, but they do not spend a lot of time watching televison, a new study has found.

Dr John Robinson, co-author of the study said that "TV was the one activity that showed a negative relationship. Unhappy people did it more, and happy people did it less."

University of Maryland analysed 34 years of data collated from more than 45,000 participants and found that watching TV might make you feel good in the short term, but is more likely to lead to overall unhappiness.

Television viewing is a pleasurable enough activity with no lasting benefit, and it pushes aside time spent in other activities - one that might be less immediately pleasurable, but that would provide long-term benefits in one's condition. In other words, TV does cause people to be less happy.

Source : The Straits Times, Saturday, 22 November 2008 (Extract)

Fashionably yours seldom watch TV. I spent most of my time socialising at private events as a socialite, since I often get invited to many private parties. Sometimes I have to attend two private events on the same day, back to back, rushing from one venue to another. I like socialising at these private events. It is interesting. I enjoy meeting new people and making new friends. It's something I enjoy doing. My Big commented to our common friends in front of fashionably yours that my events in one day is more than his activities in a week. From these private events which I attended, I noticed mostly are the women folks that turned up together with their girlfriends. Usually their significant other keep low profile and don't turn up together with them at these private events. I knew it because we can see familiar faces rubbing shoulders with each other. It's our networking for like minded people and we chat with each other happily. In other words, it's the wives or girlfriends who turned up minus their significant other. I can see the similarities in my case. My Big has no time to attend such private events wth fashionably yours. Furthermore, I think it's not his cup of tea. I would prefer to attend such private events (in the fashion and arts) with bestie and girlfriends. It's more fun, chic and hip to see and to be seen with your girlfriends at such private events. My Big said he will ask me to accompany him to his private events to rub shoulders with his other VIPs of the State. Those are the very grand and formal private events, given his social status. He needs a woman socialite like me with good PR skills, who knows how to mingle around and can talk to anybody with ease.

Never under estimate the networking power of the wives or girlfriends at such events. The wives or girlfriends network, socialise and connect with each other. In turn, all these somehow play a role in influencing the husbands' or boyfriends' in decision-making in the business world. The wives' or girlfriends' voice carries some weight too. See, it's never easy being the woman behind the successful man. We are their pillar of strength, encouraging them and assisting them quietly in our own ways without making our man losing their male ego. In turn, hoping our significant other to be successful in the society. Also to treat us and cherish us, the wives or girlfriends better and lead a good life together.

When fashionably yours watch TV, it's the news, documentaries and some of my English sitcoms. I usually watch news from one Channel to another. Oh I would love to be the news anchorwoman reading the news. I like watching the news. I don't watch much TV shows though, apart from watching news almost everyday. I also read the newspapers everyday, TODAY, My Paper, The Straits Time and The Sunday Times.

Fashionably yours is generally a happy person. I like to socialise, read the newspaper regularly and watch less TV show, except watching the news and my favourite sitcoms. I don't have enough time to sleep, let alone have the time to watch TV shows. I am too occupied with my other activities. The last thing I wanna do is sleep, so watching TV shows is optional and not compulsory for me. On a side note, bestie lent me a Korean drama DVD the other time. I really have no time to watch it and returned it to her without watching it. Thanks for lending me the DVD, but I really have no time to watch it.

So, are you happy ? Do you watch lots of TV shows ? You may want to reflect and review. Afterall year end is approaching, time to do something about it. New Year Resolution ? Whether one is happy or not is very subjective. This is only a study carried out by the University of Maryland. If you feel happy by watching TV shows, by all means, go ahead and be happy to watch your TV shows.

I wish all my weblogders happiness. See you around !

Feel Happy

OMG ! saw him early in the morning. Great he is the first person my eyes saw this morning on my way to my office. Feel happy to see him. He looks so suave and muscular in his T-shirt and Jeans. So sporty looking. He has got strong arms judging from his arms' muscle. A good start to my day. Oh...la....la....

Sometimes I feel, strange as it seems, we've been near each other, but our paths did not cross till recently.
I think I will see him around more. It just lifted my spirits seeing him, and brings back memories of our good old days together.....always full of joy, happiness and laughters. Stay that way.