I am thinking if I were to change my mobile phone, not like I’m going to change my phone soon but a girl can dream and it somewhat pumps me to work harder , what phone should I go for? Or maybe an ipod nano, oops, side-tracked.

I’m in between the sweetie pink LG Lollipop and the geeky HTC Android (or maybe Blackberry). Tough decision, cause it’s equally important to satisfy the girlie side and geeky side of me.

Honestly speaking, I still miss my pink LG ice cream although it’s been one year that I lost it. *can’t accept the fact that it’s gone* LG Lollipop is less sweet but still pretty enough if compare to other phones in the market. So the reason LG Lollipop is in my mind is because of the outlook – sweet pink and kawaii look, also cause it’s a flip phone. Not much on the functionality, some more previous experience with LG ice cream tells that the phone has a slow responsive especially in typing message.

As for HTC Android (not sure which type yet, most probably “Desire”), it’s definitely because of the functionality. Wifi, GPS, apps are to die for. Blackberry will do too, me love qwerty keyboard and the bbm functionality. But I hate the black color and hate the idea of using casing.

Can I have the best of both world; girlie and geeky at the same time? Kawaii, flip, fast respond keypad, pink, GPS, wifi, apps, you know.. beautiful design plus killer functionality. Hm..

Here’s a random-list post to summarize my 2010. Slightly late, but better than never. Many “finally” and “first time” moment.

January – April:
Registered our own design company Zhng Design Studio in January, also means welcome taxation and whatsoever paper work. I was still adapting to life in Sibu and the routine.

Had my first cheongsam, custom-made in time for Chinese New Year at RM65 only. It’s in my wishlist since college era so Yay for getting it now.

Had our ROM at JPN Sibu in February, which means we are married legally (finally) . Oh so relieve cause it took us almost 5 months of settling the paper work.

First time didn’t get to spend Chinese New Year with family in Medan, cause flight tickets were expensive to the max. We went back after the 15th day of CNY and settled the marriage registration there as well.

I dyed my hair for the first time at my favorite saloon in Medan. Another “finally” moment.

Met up with ex-housemates whom I haven’t met since 2007. Glad to catch-up again. We had dinner together at Full House, Sunway Pyramid.

Our all-time-dream came true. Bought entry level DSLR, Nikon D3000, and sold our Canon IXUS 870 IS.

The time when a friend hit me with “What’s next?” question; maybe start with managed hosting service or other new thing? I’ve been thinking about another start-up/online business since then but haven’t take any action yet in 2010.
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Ah.. still can’t believe that another decade has just passed by and we are in 2011 now. Whew.. Time keeps ticking and never wait for us. Anyway, here’s my new year list – I don’t feel like calling it resolution:

• Make time to do things

Not unimportant things but things that I need & want to do. Hah, sounds tricky eh? One of those things is, last year we moved back to KL with one of the purpose in mind, to socialize with fellow designer/developer/web peers or whoever new people. But we ended up kept on saying that we didn’t have time cause work took most of our time blablabla. All excuse!

The meet-up with Ollie in Jakarta made me realize that if we want it badly enough, eventually we will spare time for that thing no matter how busy we are. Now this could also means: stop making excuse.

• Live healthily

Ah, everyone wishes for a healthy life, no? You know how annoying it is when you get sick and can’t enjoy the moment in life, how expensive medical treatment is nowadays, so better prevent than cure. I mentioned about going jogging on April last year. We did it for a few weeks and stop. Boo! Needs to pick it up now or the ‘spare tyre’ around our tummy will getting bigger as we sit all day in front of computer.

Hubby is on his way to cut down smoking and use electronic cigarette more. The risk of passive smoker is not less dangerous than active smoker. We are talking about health now, I don’t want him to quit because “Oh my wife doesn’t like/want me to smoke.” but more to knowing about the consequences in the future.

• Do things differently

I still remember this term from 95% Academy “If you do what you always do, you will get what you always get.” Time to pick it up now. It could be: try to wear bright color shirt as I always wear white, grey, black. I’m modifying the term to not only do things differently, but start doing things that I never do, such as picnic – imagine green grass and bright blue sky, beautiful!

• Have at least another start-up

We started simplyWP in July 2008, registered company Zhng Design Studio at the end of 2009, have tonnes of start-up ideas in head in 2010 but again, the excuse of no-time comes in and that we are not that good as others (scare). But hey, we weren’t good in WordPress when we started back then and picked up the knowledge all by ourselves. So yea, we are going to realize those ideas this year, at least one and have it grows nicely by the end of this year.

• Be more patient

I was baptized at the last quarter of 2009, not entirely my wish. Amazingly I grew my faith in 2010, all thanks to a book that hubby bought. I hope to grow my patient in this year.

That’s all. Let’s do it!

Yeap, that’s my personality type based on the online personality test, with 41 questions, go here. Being someone who loves doing personality test, I tested after seeing it on a blog. After all, only 41 questions with multiple choice.

Kathie’s personality type: “Good-natured Realist”
Quiet, kind and conscientious. Can be depended on to follow through. Usually puts the needs of others above their own needs. Stable and practical, they value security and traditions. Well-developed sense of space and function. Rich inner world of observations about people. Extremely perceptive of other’s feelings. Interested in serving others.

Hmm, don’t judge me please. Let’s see what’s best for my career.

Careers that could fit Kathie include:
Interior decorators, designers, nurses, administrators, managers, secretaries, child care/early childhood development, social work, counselors, paralegals, clergy, office managers, shopkeepers, bookkeepers, homemakers, gardeners, clerical supervisors, curators, family practice physicians, health service workers, librarians, medical technologists, typists.

Aha, I’m working as a designer now. Sort of a manager and secretary to my hubby . Lucky it doesn’t list banking careers for me. But, child care/early childhood development? I can’t foresee myself being surrounded by kids, help me out please. Gardeners? You’ll see dying plants instead of blooming flowers.

Well, go test it just for fun.