It’s day 3 of my hospitalisation leave and I am taking less naps. I still get dreams which are odd and wake up at odd hours too. I’m spending the day watching Love in Contract. My finger is still hurting but the strong painkillers are also helping my fingers. I didn’t dare to continue my TCM medicine for my finger since I am already taking really strong painkillers for my wound. Hopefully it doesn’t bleed as much tomorrow. It’s been a challenge to make sure that the bandage stays put though. Can’t wait for my followup appointment with the surgeon.

I also received a care hamper from Geck Keat today. She sent me some bird nest and vitamin C drinks. As a big fan of bird nest, I guess this is my excuse to spam bird nest? Hahaha. 🙂

I’m feeling blessed with the care and concern I received so far. That includes the care and support I got post-breakup. It wasn’t easy to navigate the health issues while the relationship was in the rocks. 🙁 I guess God has his way to make sure that at least I have supportive friends and also met a nice surgeon who encouraged me to just go for the surgery. Hopefully the scar is not as bad though haha. *fingers crossed* I hope I can trust a senior consultant surgery skills hehe.

I still remembered when I told my bestie that I have to go for the surgery and she went to find an auspicious date for it and told me to pick that date. I thought she meant she is only free on that date but it turned out she went to check every date before lunar 7th month to find out which date is auspicious for surgery. 🙂 The stars were aligned as that is also the earliest possible date when my surgeon is available. 

If I am still in a relationship with Chin Hau, today will be the 5th anniversary. However, the relationship was not salvageable. I tried my best and don’t know what else can be done. Relationship counselling only works if both parties are in the mindset of trying hard to salvage the relationship – like work together to fix the issues instead of fixing each other. It takes 2 hands to clap for it to work.

5 years is really long time. It’s also too long to have a relationship and not get married. If the couple were decisive and able to be honest with each other from the start, I don’t think it will take more than 3 years to settle down. It takes 2 hands to clap – for both to be decisive and honest with each other. It also takes the decisive one to see and point out the issues much earlier so we can’t just blame the indecisive one.

I would like to end this post with the following quote. It’s always difficult to see the true nature of people in good times. It’s the difficult times that will let you see the real beauty of people. Just like diamond – it takes a lot of heat and pressure for nature to create such a beautiful stone.

“Never forget three types of people: people who helped you in your difficult times, people who leave you in your difficult times and who put you in difficult times.”

I definitely learned quite a bit from this failed relationship. Sometimes it might be better to be single than to marry the wrong one or into the wrong family.

It’s been a month since I am back from my Seoul trip. I have filed my damaged baggage report with Singapore Airlines. I don’t know why I keep having problems that I need to fix. It’s been tough because my health has not been great. Stress levels has been quite high for some time too. I remembered I had to get a new Windows laptop in less than a week for a technical course. Luckily I have my then boyfriend, Chin Hau, at that time to help me with the laptop shopping research. However, sometimes it felt lonely with with so many issues but not as much support. Well, that’s adulting, isn’t it?

I am going through a broken heart phase right now. I’m not ready to talk more about it at the moment and I appreciate some privacy on it. Time will heal all woes, I hope. If it is meant to be, it will be.

My life has been really tough recently. I don’t think I am at place to blog much about it, other than the publicly known information like how I got 2 confirmed exams to prepare for, 1 to 2 upcoming ones as well and maybe a violin exam at the end of this year or early next year. Oh, and the usual work stress but never ends since the geopolitical situation is not improving currently. When there are wars, there will be more cyber attacks. That’s just a fact of life for my industry. I heard from some of my ex-colleagues who are also facing immense amount of stress recently given the ever increasing cost of living in Singapore. It’s getting really tough not to layoff people even though we need the manpower to address the huge amount of workload. Oh well.

I may blog more about my personal life issues when things are more settled. In the meantime, I wish everyone is doing well now. 🙂

If you didn’t manage to book any of the free fitness class at HermesFit event in Singapore, don’t worry. You just save some of your own time. I managed to book 1 of the class (Hat Balance) after missing my original Carre Yoga due to COVID.

It is one of the worst fitness class I ever been so far. The music was blasting so loudly that I cannot really hear what the instructor is saying, the instructor is not really showing the moves in advance and the mats are placed in a way that it is difficult to see what the instructor is doing. Prior intermediate/advanced knowledge in yoga is required because no one will correct your posture. Do it at your own risk basically. Fortunately it is just a 15 mins class so if you are a beginner, I doubt you will get badly injured in 15 mins. It’s nice to go there and take photos. If you are into showing off in social media, you will like the event. No need to join the class for it.

The yoga mat isn’t very good either. It’s gripping type but they don’t sanitise after each class. I saw a mat that had some juice stains – probably left by users who was drinking the free juice provided. I would have thought the post-pandemic world will make luxury brands focus more on sanitary needs. The focus is too much on what looks nice on social media, rather than the usual Hermes focus on high quality standards. Oh, not to forget it’s the start of yet another COVID wave in Singapore so I wouldn’t be surprised if someone got COVID from HermesFit since nothing is actually been actively sanitised. 🙁

I like it that they try to make the event very youthful although I have to say the bulk of their long term customers aren’t exactly the youthful type. Maybe Hermes is trying to expand to a younger audience although I am not sure how many will end up as the long term customers. Nevertheless, since it is a free event, it is a good idea to go except for the free classes. It’s not worth risking your body for potential injury.

For Hermes high quality standards, I have to say that this event is quite disappointing. I guess they need to lower the standard to attract the general public. Like make it feel less of an ivory tower. However, since I’m already used to Hermes standard, I didn’t like this event as much.

Go for it if you like to post nice photos on social media and you are not used to Hermes high quality of standards. Or you can go and not think that it is a Hermes event. It’s still a nice experience for potential Hermes customers.

I guess Hermes is no longer quiet luxury and their business strategy is to make it as loud as other competitors (Chanel/LV). Maybe other HermesFit in other countries are much better. It’s a huge pity that all the other Hermes events in Singapore are really good and I enjoyed it a lot as a Hermes customer. This is the only event that I actually told my friends don’t bother to go.

P.S. I still enjoy my Hermes products and hope that their drop in quality standards don’t affect their products in future.