My goodness, my quarterly updates have now extended to 3 quarters in one update. 1 week of travel in January and another 3 months of traveling from Feb-Apr certainly threw me off on all my blog updates. Extremely behind on all my backlogs for my trip contents and I'm still not even close to catching up. My weekend unpaid job consists of editing videos, photos, and working on my blog. No idea how I got myself into creating so many versions of the same same but different contents on different platforms - Instagram, Youtube, Blog, Website, Facebook. =.= Been trying to balance consuming content and creating content since I got back in May, all while getting my actual work done, building AI agents for work, and working out. Here's the photo dump on what's been going on in our lives since December 2025 (when we are not traveling).
21 Dec 2025 (Sun): Cookie making with Anna and Steven
25 Dec 2025 (Thurs): Christmas morning with the family at SiL and BiL's place. Lil' Copper is at a fun age where he understands and believes in Santa. He was so excited to show us his Soda Pop presents from Santa...lol!
27 Dec 2025 (Sat): Christmas Party at MiL's
27 Dec 2025 (Sat): Galaxy of Lights with the family at Huntsville Botanical Garden
22 Dec 2025 - 11 Jan 2026: Moved out of our house for 2.5 weeks while home refresh work was getting done in the house. Thanks MiL for letting us crash at her place over the holidays. Funcle Daniel introduced Mario Kart to lil' Cooper.
22-24 May 2026: After returning from our travels, hubby invited his to come over to our place over the weekend to hangout and play video games.
21-25 June 2026 (Sun-Thurs): GenAI Deep Dive in Tampa
Volunteered to travel to Tampa for GenAI Deep Dive project...officially on the 2026 AI train...lol! Since I no longer have any airline status, I decided to fly with Delta this time around. It's been awhile since I traveled with Delta, the Atlanta airport has been refreshed since my last time here.
Rental car swaps with National. :)
Stayed at the Hyatt Place Tampa Airport/Westshore this time, the same hotel we stayed at in Nov 2025 before our Margaritaville cruise. Got a free Cat 1-4 free night certificate from this stay.
Spent 4 days learning and exploring the various GenAI tools, and left Tampa knowing how to build agents and build apps with Codex.
Back in 2020-2021, when I first joined the COE, I discovered that I actually enjoyed building things - spreadsheets, dashboards, figuring out how to make things work better. To the point where I'd happily spend my own time after work learning and experimenting with them. Now, a few years later, I'm doing it again with AI - voluntarily spending my evenings buildings agents and figuring out how they can be useful to more people. The COE has matured, so those opportunities to build from scratch have naturally become fewer, but I found something new that I genuinely enjoy...building things, solving problems, and getting to use my creative side...even in a supposedly 'boring' job.
Co-workers I met in Tampa...majority of them for the first time even though we've known each other for a long time.
Places I 'visited' in Tampa...lol!
Food I ate in Tampa. :P
Wrapped up a fruitful week with a nice team of people.
27 June 2026 (Sat): Watched Toy Story and had dinner at Red Robins with the family.
8 Aug 2026 (Sat): Met up with cousin Luke for a meal when he was in town.
15 Aug 2026 (Sat): Birthday weekend with the family (my last birthday in my 30s).
Thanks MiL, SiL, BiL, and nephew for the food, cake, gifts, and laughters.
Since when did my auditor job scope expand to AI agent creator + content creator? I know self praise is no praise but pretty proud of myself for developing an AI agent, which was published on our firm's Digital Lab. Embraced AI a little too much and accidentally made it to the Top 1% and #1 in the Director group (across the firm) for AI usage...lol!
Getting random unexpected feedback like this makes it feel like it was worth my extra time and effort. A good reminder that a little appreciation goes a long way.
It's been a year since I started going to the gym in July 2025...and I'm still keeping up one year later. :)
As always, wrapping up this post with my weekly meal prep photo collection...boringly consistent :)
14 & 21 Dec 2025 (Sun): Chicken herbal soup, baked pork tenderloin, pork porridge, baked chicken, yellow rice, rice, stir-fry veggies, brocolli, celery & carrots.
3 & 10 May 2026 (Sun): Chicken herbal soup, baked pork tenderloin, pork porridge, baked chicken, yellow rice, rice, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
17 & 31 May 2026 (Sun): Chicken herbal soup, baked pork tenderloin, meatball pasta, baked chicken, yellow rice, rice, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
7 & 14 June 2026 (Sun): Chicken herbal soup, braised pork rice (lu rou fan), baked chicken, rice, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
28 June & 5 July 2026 (Sun): Bakuteh with chicken, baked pork tenderloin, potato salad, baked chicken, yellow rice, rice, pasta, mash potatoes, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
12 & 19 July 2026 (Sun): Bakuteh with pork ribs, baked pork tenderloin, pork porridge, baked chicken, yellow rice, rice, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
26 July & 2 Aug 2026 (Sun): Bakuteh with pork loins, pork porridge with black beans, baked chicken, yellow rice with black beans, rice with black beans, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
9 & 16 Aug 2026 (Sun): Chicken herbal soup, tomyum noodles with meatball, baked chicken, yellow rice with black beans, rice with black beans, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
30 Aug & 6 Sept 2026 (Sun): Chicken herbal soup, baked chicken, yellow rice with black beans, rice with black beans, meatball pasta, potato salad, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
13 & 20 Sept 2026 (Sun): Chicken herbal soup, tomyum noodles with meatball, baked chicken, yellow rice with black beans, rice with black beans, stir-fry veggies, brocolli & carrots.
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