Pam's Blog (Life, Marriage & Parenting)

Mobile Blogging: Finally I had the opportunity to try leisure acrylic painting at Arteastiq. It was a therapeutic and indulging experience because I simply love art. I wish I had more time to paint properly because at the last half an hour I was struggling to complete my painting. Within 3 hours, I should've chosen to work with only 3 acrylic colours but I chose quite a number of colours. Therefore, that was a valuable lesson learnt. :) Here are some pictures. A lot of room for improvement. Additionally, I'm thinking of signing up for the Western Painting short course at NAFA. That will come true if I can work out time from my schedule and budget appropriately. Pam Petite

Since I have some spare time at work, I have decided to blog, secretly. Today marks the 6 th month of my relationship with Nat. In my/our own world it actually felt like 6 years. Since the inception of our relationship, I have hope that it will be eternal.  Relationships of the past have been short term.  Just a bit from what I've read recently. As revealed in the first few chapters of Sex at Dawn , women prefers to settle down with men who protect and provide for them monetarily, whereas men get married to father children and spread their genes. I have not read the book completely but it attempts to explain the reasons behind infidelity.  Though it may seem like we, mankind are pragmatic, to a certain extend I agree.  Is true romantic love impossible?  Though I am one for the existing society norms and believe that monogamy is the way to go (unlike Samantha of Sex and the City) , I can comprehend the struggles to staying in a loveless re...

Blogging from my iPhone: Before I sleep tonight, I feel a little melancholic. Perhaps it is the fact that I just revisited memories from the past. Once again, I hope that some memories can be washed away. Yesterday before I started on my English assignment, I looked at my grades for the past three semester. I couldn't help but felt remorseful for not working as hard as I wanted myself to. At the back of my head I was thinking this is due to the fact that I am studying part time and making the wrong decision to take so many heavy modules. Anyway, I hope to do my best from now on. So then, even if I don't do well, I will not regret as I've tried. Sometimes when I reflect, I think my train of thoughts may be kind of peculiar. Here I'm studying for a Bachelor in English with Business, there I am working as a Volunteer Management Executive. My interests are even more diverse; it ranges from animals to art to politics. Sometimes I don't even know my true identity.....

Allo! It's my last day of work at Nippon! Yay! Though I must say I will miss my dear colleagues. Since I have plentiful time, I've listed some activities that I want to do before I face the new challenges ahead. :) Things to do before I start on my new job next month 1. Go for a good brunch 2. Complete reading a book 3. Trekking 4. Painting 5. Cycling 6. Visit the wet market 7. Visit an animal farm 8. Visit a museum 9. Watch a movie alone 10. Attempt to cook something / Learn something new Love, Pam

Following the death of my best friend's dog, I become worried about my dog's well-being.  Also attributed to the fact that Happy's (my dog) skin condition was worsening, I decided to wait no longer and brought her to the vet yesterday evening. Facts about Happy #1. My dog, Happy is turning 11 years old on 1st of March. #2. She has always been a little overweight. #3. Other than ear infection these few years, she has some skin problems lately. #4. She is still as active and adorable. #5. She rushes to me excitedly everytime I come home. Facts about Me, the Owner #1. I walk Happy occasionally; once every month (my dad walks her every morning). #2. My parents are the main people looking after her (feeding, cleaning and bathing her). #3. My parents think that I am incapable of taking good care of her if I am the only one left to do so. I admit that I am guilty of not keeping to the promises I made 11 years ago on 11th June 20...

Great video! Religion is man centered, Jesus is God-centered. Love, Pam

2011 has been a great year for me! Today as I was reading "Be Excellent at Anything", I learnt a new term called "realistic optimism". I find it rather interesting as I have been reading a lot of self-help books which taught me to be positive in every situation. However, there are many times in my life which I found utterly hard to be positive. For instance, if I want for myself to be the fastest Singaporean female marathon runner within 2 years (which is  really unrealistic). I am not stating that it is something absolutely impossible but that would mean I need very disciplined training immediately. It may not be feasible because I have other priorities to attend to therefore I am not able to entirely focus on this particular goal. Realistic optimism in my opinion, is to be humble and set rational means to achieve desired outcome. The author continued to relate that, "more commonly, and often unconsciously, we look to confirm what we already believe - by...