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My friend Jenny is getting married in two weeks. After that, the newly-wed will move to Wyoming, where they both will start their new jobs.

We used to spend a lot of time together, but after her wedding, I obviously won’t be seeing her, unless during her future bi-yearly trips to California she happens to have time to catch up. But even that, I might be the busy one. Knowing how difficult it will be to spend time with her after her wedding, I made sure that I gave her a firm “YES” when she invited me to her bachelorette party. The bachelorette party was held over the 4th of July weekend, in Las Vegas. Read the rest of this entry »

Two weekends ago, a group of us, all core members of a non-profit volunteer organization, got together in Las Vegas for a retreat. By retreat we meant a whole day of meeting, and only head out for food and for some fun after all businesses are done. We stayed at John’s condo. It was so very nice of him to host the group.

It was quite a bittersweet weekend. As we talked about the future of the organization, and on our future involvement in it, we learned that …. none of us present core members can continue to stay involved. Everyone has a good reason — career, school, going back to school, business travel…etc.

On my end, although I enjoyed being involved very much and am passionate about the mission of the organization, I can’t commit to it beyond my present term because… well, I’ve got a wedding to plan. Along with the wedding are many, many significant, life-changing moves to make, and changes to adjust to.

Our term in the organization will end in September. After that, perhaps we won’t even be able to get the group together anymore as everyone will go on in their busy lives. All of a sudden, I realized how precious my remaining time in the organization is. Thinking about not seeing this group of fabulous people, and not working with them on events and projects anymore, makes me sad. The picture above might be our last group picture together. Who knows?

I guess at one point or another, we must all move on. As bittersweet as it is, we must all embark on our next journey.

I wish the best of luck to everyone.

I’ve been keeping up with my promises to meet up with friends. Yeah, I cancelled plans with several of them multiple times before because I was too busy, but, although it took a while, at least now I am making good progress to meet up with them.

Two weeks ago, I met up with Ray for ramen dinner. It took over a year to finally happen (all my fault), but at last it happened. Last weekend, I met up with Fanny for yogurt snack. Tonight was the best! I met up with Pei for Italian dinner.

Tonight’s dinner also took a while to happen. Five months? But it wasn’t completely my fault. We met up at this mom and pop Italian restaurant in her neighborhood, which, surprisingly, was only 2 miles from where I work! We met through a friend a year ago, and since we are both urban planners and we finished graduate school at the same time, we’ve been wanting to meet up for a long time.

I am so glad we met up tonight. Although this was only the second time I saw her, I felt very comfortable with her and we had a really, really, really good chat. We exchanged many hilarious counter stories as well. Ha, you don’t realize how much fun your work is until you hear funny/silly stories from another person with same job.

I am so lucky to have lovely people like these around me. Even though I’ve always been the MIA one, whenever I am in need, there’s always someone there. I am truly fortunate to have some friends who never abandon me.

There are still many people I haven’t seen in a long time and want to meet up with … Pamela, Juliana, Sophia, Amanda, Jenny, Susan, Heidi, Debby ……. hm… I hope I am not missing anyone but I know I probably am.