My 6 years' anniversary weekend

This weekend I was away in Phuket for the Dispute Resolution Practice Group Joint Office Retreat. It was a 3 days 2 nights event with training on Risk Management and for us to get a chance to meet our colleagues from the Baker & McKenzie's office in Singapore and Jakarta. It was pretty fun except for the fact that it fell on my 6 years' anniversary weekend! >.<

When I got back on Sunday, Azmir came to pick me up from the airport with a white hydrangea!!! :D It was good to be back home :)

We then had our own little plan for the day and I took Monday off since half of my Sunday was gone in Phuket :P I had tons of work deadlines on Monday and Tuesday but I decided to do it remotely...at least that way I can still spend the day with Azmir albeit intermittently interrupted by bb e-mails and work related phone calls (sorry sayang!).

All in all, a good weekend! :)

Rainbow Cupcakes!

Yesterday we had a BBQ at Audrey's place to celebrate Jonie's and Audrey's birthday. It was a potluck event so I decided to volunteer to make the dessert and made cupcakes. Since it was intended to be the birthday cake, I decided to do rainbow cupcakes, with the aid of Azmir of course. It was a team effort :) I did the yellow, pink and purple icing and Azmir did the orange, green and blue ones.

We then used mini M&N's to spell Audrey's and Jonie's names on the cupcakes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADIES! :)

The Highlights of My Week

Many things have been going on and I just thought it would be worthwhile to jot down the upshot of the weeks before this:-

1) Laduree Macarons! - One of the attachment student went to re-sit for one of the Bar papers in London and came back with Laduree Macaroons for me :) She came into my room on a Monday morning to say that she is back and handed me a light green paper bag with macaroons...it made my day!! :D

2) Went for a family day at PD (with my relatives on my dad's side) - Each family had to perform so we did a puppet dance from my niece's gymboree class and we won! lol I think everyone was very amused by Aqil and Hannah dancing to the puppet song.

The winning performance was posted on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150196182985614&oid=109242149141048&comments)

3) Had a good performance review and been given a 'downline' to support me :) - The partner realised that I am close to collapsing with my workload and instructed one of the pupil to be my full time support and give my instructions priority. If any other lawyers need the pupil to do their work before mine, the other lawyer have to get approval from the partner first!

I can finally see the light :)