Categories: Overseas, Personal life, Rants, Travel
I was wide awake after sleeping for 1.5 hrs. It’s quite an achievement given that I usually cannot sleep much on flights. This time I have a goal – to sleep as much as I can without trying to match my destination timezone. Can fall asleep already very good liao haha. I shall not give myself too much pressure.
I was able to sleep for 1 hr for my first flight (SIN – NRT) and 1.5 hrs so far for my second flight (NRT – SFO). I doubt I can sleep for the third flight (SFO – PHX) as it will be quite shaky since it is a smaller aircraft for domestic short distance flights.
I hope jet lag won’t be too bad for me and I hope to achieve more than 4 hrs of sleep daily. Last year was especially tough with just 4 hrs of sleep a day during my entire US journey. Even Gulabi got worried for me because I hardly sleep… She knows I can really sleep and will keep snoozing my alarm usually. So she was quite worried why I can sometimes wake up before my alarm.
For my first flight, I was sitting at the front row seats for Premium Economy so there was quite a bit of leg room. Unfortunately I was seated next to a guy who decided to put his feet on the board in front of us. Then he was snoring as well. I can smell a bit of his smelly feet even though I was wearing a mask. I also can hear his snoring when I removed my headset. So I just keep wearing my headset (Bose NC 700) which simply cancels out his entire snoring noise. Definitely can trust Bose when it comes to Active Noise Cancellation. 🙂
For my second flight, I was seated next to a rather judgemental white lady. She kept looking at what I am doing – using wet wipes to clean my seat, then my bracelets, etc. I was also munching on snacks during take off.
Actually I got a bit of blocked nose and sinus back flow before my flights so I was worried that the same issue that happened in my Hong Kong flights will happen. I realised I haven’t finished uploading my Hong Kong photos so the post about my flight experience is not out yet.
Luckily so far so good so may it remain this way until the end of my entire trip.
Categories: Friendship, Personal life, Rants
I had a catch up with one of my colleagues after a long time over lunch on Friday and she was sharing about renovation for her current place as well as properties in general. I went to Ashley’s place for dinner catchup on Friday evening and we were talking about property investment in Indonesia, India and Singapore. I went to Lynn’s housewarming on Saturday afternoon and again, the topic on properties came up again.
Wow, have I reached the age whereby it is normal and very common to talk about properties or am I just attracting the same topic again and again? Hmm…
I guess… Welcome to the new era where every social gathering will cover the topic of property and asset accumulation? Lololol.
That’s also when you know you really is becoming older… I also noticed that I enjoyed just chit chatting with friends over a simple meal at their homes or just one of the homes. No need to go fancy cafe or anything to chat unlike in the past…
Categories: Insights, Personal life, Rants, Work
I’m counting my blessings at the work related opportunities that I receive.
Not everyone has a job and not worry about impending layoffs.
Not everyone gets to travel on business trips to other countries.
Not everyone gets budget to study/upskill themselves.
However, as much as I can get these opportunities, there will always be people who are jealous at what I get. I mean… If you don’t ask, you won’t get it, right? If you don’t deliver results, you won’t get it, right? This is a reminder to myself that there will always be jealous, negative and toxic people around.
“Yeah. We are our own person. If people are negative best to limit the interaction.
Cuz we are influenced by the top 5 people we hang out with.”
This is something that one of my mentors, Marie, told me. Not exactly linked to the jealousy I received from my colleagues but something where I asked for advice on.
Obviously people love to see and gossip about the good stuff that others receive, including myself. What others did not realise is the difficult times people have to go through. They also did not realise and did not want to see the amount of hard work people put in to receive these “good opportunities”.
As I grow older, I realised it is even harder to have people around you who truly appreciate what you have and are happy for your accomplishments.
I realised that as I become more self aware and mature, I am gaining more empathy and awareness on the effect of my words and actions. The world of the empathetic is tough.
You know you are becoming old when you go Comex tech and exhibition to look at curtains, power tracks and water purifiers. It is no longer looking at laptops or gadgets or cameras or monitors anymore…
Where did my youth go? Omg lah… I wish I can go back to looking at the gadgets/toys instead of actual house/adulting stuff. :/ For someone who is quite decisive, that is a bit too many decisions to make.
Categories: Friendship, Personal life, Pictures, Rants, With my NEX
I went with Alex and Jin Quan to take photos for National Day Parade (NDP) yesterday. Well, it has been like the tradition for many years with them. I’m very glad that I still have friends who are still into camping for taking photos on the NDP day. Last year I joined them at a later time because I don’t want to fall sick just before my surgery. It was my first surgery and also my first time having GA so I want to make sure that my body can handle GA. So I joined them at a later time. This year I planned to join them earlier but I ended up taking more time to pack my luggage. I also started using my hand carry luggage to put mostly my camping essentials rather than the camera. Haha. Should have packed the night before since I am quite a slow packer. Anyway, shortly after I joined them, I saw the rain clouds coming and it started raining heavily. I quickly put in my jacket and started looking for my umbrella in my luggage. I did not expect the rain. One of the rare times the weather forecast is accurate omg.
Anyway, I took some time to set up my tripod to “chope” (reserved) the place then stood there for a while to see if I can find Alex after knowing. I ended up standing in the rain for a few mins before I decided to just seek shelter. Then I forgot to take my Koi black tea latte. Sigh, I only drank 2 sips and it is a large cup. Sighhhhh. I was feeling really irritated by myself when I realised I forgot about it when I reached shelter. Luckily Alex and Jin Quan shouted at me when I walked past them so we managed to reunite at the shelter. Haha.
After the rain somewhat stopped, we went back to the place we “choped” and I had to look for my orange tripod before. So glad that my tripod is bright orange so it is easy to spot it in the sea of black tripods.
I had to throw away my black tea latte even after reuniting with it because it probably got lots of rain water. Oh well. Wasted S$5.60. I also noticed that I am losing the data connectivity on my phone but luckily I didn’t really use my phone much. We watched the NDP show on my iPad using Alex’s data plan. Somehow his phone network is not impacted. Low key irritated that mine was impacted though. I should have paid the S$5 enhanced data connectivity instead for my black tea latte. Lol. Alex didn’t pay for the enhanced data connectivity and is using the same telco as me but was not impacted. So weird…
Alex’s SD card stopped working when he was checking his camera. Luckily he realised it before we need to use our cameras to take photos.
We also met Jin Quan’s photography friend, Ethan, along with some other folks who are like below 20 years old. Happy to meet new people with the same love for photography. Alex and Jin Quan were exchanging Instagram handlers with them but none of them asked me. Lol. Probably quite awkward because I am literally the only lady in the area. Lololol.
While on my way back home, I met this extremely rude and irresponsible for her own safety lady in the train. She fell down and grabbed my hand to break her fall. In the end, she broke 1 of my bracelets and did not offer to compensate. In fact, her stop is the next stop and she just alighted after apologising. Lol. Such a rude lady and now I am a broken bracelet. Luckily it is costume jewellery and not my diamond tennis bracelet. I almost planned to wear that today. Thank goodness I decided not to. So now I have to bring my heated ruby with freshwater pearl bracelet back to ACrysty Co to repair and have to pay for the repairs out of my own pocket. Oh well.
Maybe the bracelet is broken to block some bad/unlucky energy for me? Shrugs. Luckily she didn’t break my rainbow tourmaline bracelet. I will demand for compensation if that’s the case because that is quite expensive even though it is costume jewellery (because it is not using real gold hardware but gold plated hardware).
I came home with tired legs and very tired arms and shoulders. Well, 2 days of gym on 7 and 8 August 2024 is really draining. Lololol. I don’t think I can hit 3 days of exercise this week sadly. Oh well.
Update: Sharing some of the photos I took during NDP this year.
I also uploaded the photos I took in last year NDP events too.
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