Simple New Year Gathering at Our Place

Food...

Board game...

... and a birthday.

Happy New Year to all. May 2010 be a better and happier year than previously.

Coin collection

I collect old coins. Occasionally. Every time I found them in my small change, I will put them in my collection. I think I picked up this habit about two years ago.

This is the oldest one that I have... a 1967 twenty cent coin. Yeah... yeah, my collection is not that old. But from my brief coin collecting experience, Malaysian coins before 1980 are really hard to find. I hope to find really old ones in the future.

My Work Bench

The study table. Looking forward to use it again come February 2010...


... praying hard that I'll pass my CFA Level 1 Exam.

Weekend of Weddings: Wedding No. 1

Mr Saxophonist doing his stuff at Wedding No 1.

Year end presents...

Since we got married, my wife and I made a point to give each other presents during year end. They don't have to be expensive. In fact we limit the budget to around RM100. My wife picked up this idea at her previous office's Christmas celebration a couple of years back. We would make up a wish list early December and the other have to go and get them before Christmas. We obviously don't celebrate Christmas, but to have this arrangement coincide with it has some advantages: year end bonus to spend, year-end sales, many nice wrappers/boxes to choose and for me I can ask for whatever I want to start off the new year with.

For me: New shirts for work and a mug to keep my coffe/tea hot at the office.

Wifey's: Robert Pattinson and Twlight stuff. Yuck. =p

Happy Christmas to those who celebrate it and in case I don't have an entry for the new year, Happy New Year to all.

Changing light bulbs

During the weekend, my wife and I discovered that changing the bulbs on our downlights can be tiring, especially when we replaced 20 odd of them. Next time we'll most probably just call a technician.

Now our apartment is well-lit again.

Steak pon sodap.

Today, my wife finally got the phone call that we've been waiting for. She finally got a job offer from one of the local investment bank. We celebrated with a steak dinner at TGIF. After laying off luxury food and such for two and a half months (as part of our cost cutting measures while my wife was unemployed), the taste of the juicy medium well beef was priceless.

A new toy...

Can you guess? (Hint: Not the watch)

Blogging again?

Sat for CFA Level 1 exam on December 6. Hopefully all my hard work will pay off once the result is out on January 27, 2010. Currently finding a lot of free time during the night as I'm no longer studying for the exam.