I've settled down more or less since coming back from Egypt, and back to the daily working life. It didn't help that Chinese New Year was one week after we came back, and we got another few days of holiday. Then there was Thaipusam (I just love staying in Malaysia, we get tons of holidays!).

You would think that with all these holidays, my needle would be flying, and I'd be completing lots of my HAED. Well, think again. Since January, my HAED progress has been more like complete my daily quota as quickly as possible, then rush downstairs to play Persona 4! I've been averaging about at least an hour on my PS2 most nights, imagine how much of my HAED would be completed if I used that for stitching instead. Instead, here's how much I've completed.

I've got maybe about 150 stitches (mostly single ones!) left on my page, and then I'm done. In the meantime, I've branched to other pages, the single stitches were getting to me. That's why her neck is elongated, it's a nice part to stitch which is all one colour.

While Eel was here, we did a couple of not-normal activities. Normally when we meet up, all we do is eat, chat, or perhaps go for a movie. This time, we went Skytrekking! There's a place in the Bukit Cahaya park in Shah Alam called Skytrex. Basically they have an obstacle course 17 meters above the ground. You're hooked up to carabiners and pulleys, and you have to make your way through the course, going through flying foxes and jumping from plank to plank, and swinging from ropes. It was...fun? During the course I kept wondering why I was putting myself through such torture, as I'm not a big fan of heights. But looking back, it seems fun now that it's done.

The other thing that we did was to have a photo shoot with a bunch of our friends. We've all known each other since we were about 12, some even before that! We thought it'd be a nice thing to have some great photos of us, so that we can look back to this time when we're all young and beautiful. ;) I must say, I don't know how models do it, my smile felt so stiff a lot of the time, especially when the photographer was trying to get the settings right. In the end, we did end up with some pretty good pictures, especially one where we were trying to reproduce a "FRIENDS" tv show picture. Heheh, good memories...