Been awhile

This used to be a dumping ground for all my emotions, be it positive or negative. Nowadays I become so consumed with the lives of random strangers on social media platforms that I no longer pen/type my thoughts down anymore.

Life has been pretty good.

1. Went for a surgery, recovering well at this moment. 

2. Caught up with friends whom I have not spoken to for a long time.

3. Finally have friends at work and this is the best thing that happened to me this year considering c.60% of my awake time during weekdays is spent at work.

4. Finally travelled with my long long long long time friend (can't believe we have never travelled before though).

5. Quite a few more trips lined up for the rest of this year and I am extremely looking forward to.

6. Moving out of Yishun to a more central location is still the best decision Jon and I have made so far. So much time has been shaved off commuting each day, and quality of life has improved tremendously. 

7. Still an obsessive and compulsive shopaholic (can't believe I bought 5 sport shoes and 12 lipsticks/lip balms at one go during the 6.6 sale, and this excludes all the random small little things from Taobao).

Everyone around me is moving on with their lives/progressing to another stage of life well and I am genuinely happy for them. 

Hopefully with a new laptop, I will visit this place very very often from now on! Been a long time since I posted about my trips. I'd love to resume those blog posts so I can always look back to reminisce in future but, the laziness in me procrastinate things...... Thank you blogspot for recording all my life phases. Please don't shut down like most of the other websites.

Random

Roller coaster life

Happy New Year

2023 went past in a blink of an eye. 

2023 was great. Work is good, life is good. Bought a new car, bought a new car, heavily in debt, not a good time to be owing the bank money at such a high interest environment, but telling ourselves that the house is an investment and that hopefully our future self will thank the decision we make last year. 

May 2024 continue to treat us well.

Year end was really good, managed to catch up with all my loved ones. Overall I'd rate 2023 7.5/10. 

Hopefully 2024 will be an even better year. 

2023

As we grow up, we have to accept the harsh fact that friends drift apart from one another. You may be really close to someone last time but as they make new friends and as you guys walk different paths in life, you guys drift apart. 

We can always keep trying, putting in extra efforts to try to salvage the friendship - but if the other party does not reciprocate, somehow there comes a breaking point that we come to terms that this is not working out and we should stop.

First

Documenting my very very first time making such a big purchase, other than my BTO house.

Trying hard not to get too emotional..

 It will get better.

Friends in need are friends indeed

Awfully thankful for the bestest of friends to be checking on me and being physically there for me.

I am really really really lucky.

The love I have received from my family and friends far exceeded what I honestly expected. Really really thankful for them. 

Time crawls when you're in misery. Breathlessness, giddiness, sleepless night, shivery hands - These are all temporary.

Been awhile.

Only when we're certain to leave the past completely buried to collect dust, will we be able to open ourselves to the future.