Mother and her baby

Last Wednesday a very good friend and I met in downtown and had appetizers and drink at at a restaurant close to work. So we did our usual chit-chat and we were catching up on what had gone on in our lives. After we went to the hotel where her husband was working and stayed in the lobby to talk.

While there, a mother and her baby got into the lobby and the kid kept coming to where we were sitting. The baby who we found out was only 11 months old was walking quite well and starting to talk but sounds like mumbling. So we were playing with him and we kept talking about them. They were in the hotel as they had just moved to Edmonton because of job transfer


We found out the baby's name is Shaurya which means brave in India. The mother's name is Amrit which means wisdom. We had talked about a lot of stuff and it was like we had known them a while. So I took their picture and told her I would put them in my blog.

So Amrit and Shaurya, welcome to Edmonton. It was a pleasure meeting you. Hope to see you again.

RBR Guest blogger from Limassol, Cyprus

Hello from Limassol, Cyprus. A journey of a milestone, one starting on the very first day I met this wonderful lady. This isn't a walk with you, it's a life being United in love with you. I'm happy you have chosen me to bring to life this new chapter.

Love can make you heartless, love can make you hate who you used to love and sometimes bitter. My dear friends, it ain't easy to find true love in today's world. ....but should God help you find one, appreciate it, hold it with delicacy, and count value in it. Invest in it, make it colourful and admirable, protect it, sacrifice for it, fight for it. Don't let it easily go over minor things that can be addressed as adults who were interested with each other at first.

Thanks for stopping by.

First bumps

Like any other journey, I had now encountered few bumps on the way. But I am determined to succeed. I have to go back a bit and restart. Ok, without help and understanding from a selected few, I probably would have done a bit of a damage.

With this personal journey, I am not alone so it helps. I need all the support I can get to achieve my goal. And I'm going to try real hard.

When given a chance, I would really like to grab and take my chances. I know the risks but that is what life is all about. I had been told I'm persistent. I think that's a good quality....not giving up right away. 

So this is like a diary of my journey. After a few posts, I will do a page for this one. I hope to one day be able to read it whether it was successful or not.

My guest blogger should be ready in a day or two.

To RBR, I hope you enjoy the journey. As you have told me, we are going to do it together. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Life journey

As I have posted before I'm doing this life journey posts. After being on med leave for almost 3 months, I am lucky to have recovered but it was a struggle. I had to do a lot of difficult decisions. 

I left my job and a few friends there. I actually enjoyed my job there until the manager from hell got on board. The environment was toxic. I found new job where they care about their staff. No drama here. They just hired an admin assistant and she is a friend of ten years so that would be great.

So my life journey on my professional side is doing well.

Now comes my personal life. I have been on my own for a long time and I have been in relationships but did not work out. This part of my journey is the one I'm concentrating on now. I know it will have its ups and downs. Knowing my history, I'm hoping this will turn out ok. 

When I was visiting my sister, I was a guest blogger for her. So I will have a guest blogger. I don't know how this will work out but I'm hoping it will be interesting. And this is part of my life journey.

So thank you. I know I have a new visitor checking out my blog. To you, thanks a lot.

I'm definitely back.l can't promise I will blog all the time but I will post when I'm in the mood. I'm well and I believe close to full recovery (knock on wood).

I would like to thank again everyone...sister, cousins and nieces, friends and officemates  for all the help, support, kindness and encouragement during my illness.

Now I'm on an exciting new adventure, not the travel kind. Life adventure, it could be a roller coaster ride with its up and downs. I feel, believe and confident it would be a wonderful trip. I'm praying it will be successful in the end. I will probably post part of it but there will be no pictures, maybe in the end part

So RR let's go. You were kind and brave enough to join me. I'm glad for the complete and unending support and encouragement. Wish me luck.

A new job.....

Today is an exciting day for me. I am starting a new job. It is the same type I have been doing for a while but with a different company. I left my previous company because of the unhealthy environment which I believe will not change.

It has become too toxic that while I was on medical leave I made the difficult decision of not going back so I gave my letter of resignation. While my doctor did not want me to be applying for a job, I still tried to just check on line to see what jobs are available. I sent a few resumes and got called in for a few interviews.

Just a week ago, I went for an interview and it felt good while I was there and the Vice President who I will be reporting to offered me the job and I am excited to start. It is close to where I live and I can walk to work although the company offered me free parking which I will take once the weather gets cooler. In the meantime I will walk the 14 blocks and I know I will enjoy it. It will be my daily exercise and it will be good for my diabetes. 

I will miss a few of my coworkers as there were a lot who have left while I was on medical leave so I don't really know or hardly know the remaining staff.

Thank you for stopping by. Enjoy the week.

Friendship.....

While I was on medical leave, I realized who are my true and trusted friends. When I was not really feeling great and needed to talk, I knew the friends who I can depend on and they were the ones who really supported me.

I appreciated the wonderful ways they have found to make sure I was feeling ok. I got text messages and phone calls just asking how I was doing and made sure I was doing what the doctors have told me to do. Even when I did not want to go out, Carole made sure I went out and met her at one of the closest restaurant  close to my place even just to get a drink (virgin drink) and an appetizer.

So to everyone who were concerned and kept me in their thoughts, I thank all of you and I appreciated everything you all have done for me. Also to my sister who came to visit to make sure I was doing better, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You made it easier for me to get well. Thanks for everything and I mean everything.