If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.
So over the recent Good Friday weekend, I brought Mother along for a trip to Danang, Vietnam. Breakdown as follows: Flight (VietAir) + Hotel (TMS Hotel Da Nang Beach): $830 SGD/pax Activities (Ba Na Hills Tickets/Lantern Making/Parasailing): $150 SGD/pax Food & Expenses: $200 SGD/pax Total Damage: Est. $1.2K SGD/pax Day 0 | Arrival Collected our... Continue Reading →
I feel so frustrated with the world sometimes. Maybe it's just this place. Everyone is trying to sell you something, tell you what to do, what's a "great deal you shouldn't miss out on". FFS this bombardment needs to stop. Perhaps that's what happens when you work in the media industry or maybe it's just... Continue Reading →
Today you turn 21. Wished things could be different but we don't always get what we want. Happy Birthday.
It's March and I realised I didn't wrap up 2023 so here goes. In 2023, I went on the first mother-daughter trip to Korea and had a blast. I also swam with whale sharks for the first time in my life. I also went to Bangkok for a short shopping/food trip. Lastly, I visited Japan... Continue Reading →
October has been rather slow with a couple of random thoughts I thought I wanted to pen so here goes. The human experience should be the reason why you want to bring a kid into this world. To enjoy what it means to be human. They shouldn't come into this world to suffer and I'm... Continue Reading →
I turned 28 this year and I wouldn't have minded if I slept the day away as I did last year but plans change so I went to Japan for the very first time this year to spend my birthday. Wanted something special so I booked a luxury resort to spend my birthday in (it... Continue Reading →
"How do you find this company so far?" "I think I can retire here". "That's plausible but you can also consider other paths and come back here OR I say give it 30 years tops and you can reach director level; that's how it works around here" Well it's been two years here and ngl... Continue Reading →
Time flies. And yet it doesn't. It's been almost a year? Oddly enough, it feels almost like it was yesterday. Perhaps even more so for mother. It still feels unreal that Dad died tbh. Not that it affected my life much, which says a lot. Made my brother move back home since Mum has been... Continue Reading →
Is this normal? Am I normal? Do you know that feeling...where you stand and watch everything unfold knowing full well this is a fucking sht show? Weird. After Mother came back from her counselling session, she started complaining that every single time she goes for the session, she just ends up crying so she doesn't... Continue Reading →
What if I told you that nobody really cares about you? You're not really that important. Maybe at some point you might think otherwise but honestly you're not. Everyone has their own lives to go about and you are no different. Sometimes a couple of people do check in on you to see if you're... Continue Reading →
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