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Book Review : January 2018 Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng is a book based on bi racial 2nd generation immigrant family and their struggle. It's a book that touches many social issue in 1980s , which undoubtably still exists in different from. Marian , a woman with great potential marries a 1st generation immigrant, James.   Though James grew up in US, however he never felt at ease in his own country. He was unable to make friends . They hoped their oriental looking children will have better luck. The undo pressure on their children , makes them feel even more unease. Author hit so many notes in each character, from woman's lib to parenting to racism . I can relate to almost all the characters in the book. Each character has very different struggle. As a 1st generation immigrant working parent, I can relate to lot of their struggle. Great work from a new author.

Another December has come. It time to do 2017 year end review and 2018 resolution. I'm very surprised I follow thru most of my 2017 resolution. 2017 Review Loose baby weight - I lost most of my baby weight. However, the holiday season is making it hard to keep it off. Become an effective mom - I don't know if I 'm effective or not. However, I'm more comfortable in my mom role and enjoy spending time with my little one. Overall I enjoy motherhood. Advance in my career - I took on a leadership role in my current organization in 2017 Make an effort to talk to a stranger every week - This one I did quite regularly. I became more comfortable making small talks with strangers. Not only  that I build a great network for all kind of help. Bonus : This was not in my resolution. But I read a quite a few fiction and non fiction books.  Now my resolution for 2018 Meditate at least couple of minutes everyday. Took an international trip with my daughter.  Do s...

I’m trying to amp my reading this year. Here is some of my recent readings and what I think about those books.  Fiction: ·        Cinder By Marissa Mayer: 1 st book of Lunar chronicles. Sci-fi thriller loosely based on fairytales. This book left me wanting more. I finished next 2 books “ Cress ” and “ Winter ”. Writer dragged "Winter" a bit. She could have finished the book while the suspense lasted. ·         A Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman : This book reminded me of Himu by Humyun Ahmed. Feel good book. ·        The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins: Too mellow dramatic. Not as much thriller as I expected Good read for a rainy afternoon. Non- Fiction: ·         Brag! The art of tooting your own horn w/o blowing it : Great book on Networking ·         Leadership and Self Deception: Conversational...

Can't believe  it's December . 2016 has been a great year. This is the year I become a mom. I  usually do an end year look back and next years look ahead plan quite religiously. I'm quite surprised that I didn't do it for 2016. Not sure why? 2017 Resolution Loose baby weight Become an effective mom Advance in my career Make an effort to talk to a stranger every week 2016 Achievement Have my daughter Became a commission member for my city complete business intelligence certification Disappointment: Couldn't finish ski lessons, as after the very first class I learned I was pregnant. For same reason didn't travel or hike that much.

02/04/2016 I experienced my first morning sickness today. Tough it didn't happened in the morning. It happened during lunch. I was in a meeting, right before lunch. about 10.30am. Mt stomach started growling. I thought I was hungry. I was planning to have a hearty bean burger with lots of pickles and hot sauce. but as soon as I looked at the burger, I felt so repulsed. I closed  my eyes for few seconds.  Tried some dried ginger to get true the moment. 02/09/2016 everyday is a new adventure . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty31QY5ZGHo 02/11/2016 This week I became more comfortable with the idea of being pregnant. I don't have much nausea yet. However, I'm having very bad acidity and gas.  I woke up and go to bed with bad acid test in my mouth. I think the baby will be like Yeameen and won't like tart foods, which is my favorite :( Digestion is not good as well. Don't feel like anything I make. Junk food tests awesome though :p 02/17/2016 As I just...

Few days back , I wrote this on social media, reinforcing my believe in hard work. My dad always says "There is nothing called free lunch, you pay for it one way or other" . When Senetor BERNIE promises FREE tuition, health care, it scares the hell out of me. I wonder who is going to pay for this? Teachers or doctors are not going to offer their service for free. I earned my education; worked really hard to pay off my student debt. I believe it builds character, it builds dream. I want my children to experience that some day.FREE makes people lazy and lazy people can't make a difference in the world. There is no alternative of hard work. It's the only way to achieve AmericanDream.  It somehow attracted lot of conversation on my social media. Some  shared their views, own personal stories, some applauded, some even called me arrogant or ignorant. I would like to clear the air. May be I did not make my views very clear.  Here is a little bit of my ...

2015 was a quite & happy year. I think I grew a lot. I took only 2 trips this year . We went to Alaska in summer and Hawaii in winter.  However, we did hike quite extensively this year. I hiked to the top of mailbox peak . This is so far the hardest hike I completed. It was a personal achievement. I also completed my 1st 10k in an hour this year.  Yermeen and I started crossfit training in January  and continued through out the year.  In fall I started going back to school. Not for MBA. though. I 'm working towards certification in Business Intelligence with UW ( university of Washington). It was a compromise. With my very demanding full time job and marital life, I simply do not have the bandwidth for concentrating in MBA. I volunteered with YWCA . I taught ESL ( English as Secondary Language) to non native speakers. It was quite a fun experience. My baby sister got married toward the end of the year. We had lots of house guest this year. For 2016 I do ...