What have I been up to for the first six months of this year: 1. Concluded my "a-decade-and-one"-year full-time day job. It hurts to say good bye. The cut is unfathomable. But life is about priorities and the biggest decision I had to make was realized by sacrificing the career I held so dear with paramount dedication and pride. But I have no regrets of leaving it all behind. 2. Transferred to a whole new world, " a dazzling place I never knew "... 3. Re-awakened my artistic soul. My DAISO haul of art stuff and washi tapes for my journal. My work of art, a water color painting which I entitled " BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHER FLY TOGETHER" - with reference to the famous idiom. 4. Journalized my daily life accomplishments. Colored pens, stickers, gifted and purchased washi tapes and my daily life stories in the decorated notebook. 5. Summoned the poet in me. To announce to the world that I am officially missi...