Yesterday was one of those days when I am like so productive. Started my day shifting my luggage to my parents’ place then went for my personal training class before heading back to my parents’ place for lunch. Then I went to see TCM because I am still having back flow of mucus and my knees are hurting again. Then I went back home to do laundry before heading to Vivocity to check out the Monday Made x Miki Rai collection as well as getting a replacement pan from Happy Call.

Then I went to Steph’s place to collect the lemon essential oil that I asked her to help me get from Young Living before going back home to cook my dinner and rest for the day/night. My legs were so tired from all the rushing but also because of the leg/butt exercises that I did during my personal training session too.

I fell sick yesterday. I spent most of the day sleeping and now I’m not feeling that sleepy to sleep. I will be back to work tomorrow though so I do need to sleep earlier. I think I have been lacking sleep due to the amount of housework and my new job responsibilities.

Well, I got promoted to MTS2, or rather Career Ladder 7 (the new terminology) after close to 5 years. That also helps to reduce some of the financial burden I have since a job promotion means more salary. Haha.

I need to prioritise my sleep more and stay healthy. Being sick while staying alone is especially lonely. In fact, staying alone is already quite lonely. Oh well. Today I realised the single lady owner of another unit in my floor is renting out 1 of her bedrooms to another female tenant. I’m surprised that she can somehow manage to store all her stuff in 1 bedroom when I am struggling with 2 bedrooms and to store all my stuff. Lololol. Well, she has 2 toilets for her house since she got the bigger unit while I have only 1 toilet. At least I can still sustain for now. Hopefully I can sustain without the need to rent out any of my rooms because I am really struggling with space.

One of my neighbours who is staying in a 4 bedder in the same condo project as me is renting out 1 of their bedrooms to a male tenant. They are a family of 4 and they are also renting out a room. I realised the ability to not need to rent out is a good spot to have. Privacy is really a privilege.

New month, new course. 

Actually, the course started last month. This is my first experience meeting classmates virtually from such diverse backgrounds, with a notable number hailing from the Middle East. I found that the perspectives shared are quite different from those I have encountered growing up in a small but developed country, Singapore.

It was also an eye-opening experience to enhance my leadership skills. I have been leading the innovation4good program for close to a year now. It is a program whereby people of different backgrounds come together to brainstorm ideas to aim for patents. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get patents so far but I definitely increase my outreach and more people are joining on a regular basis. I must say I have been feeling imposter syndrome but I managed to get past it after some time. It’s just like how I have this imposter syndrome when I first started work in PayPal. It’s been nearly 5 years now and I have received my promotion. It was my second job promotion ever since I have started work. 🙂

Looking back at my own career journey so far, it’s been quite a journey. All these have shaped me for who I am and how my leadership style will be.

I’m not sure where my next steps of my career will lead me to but I am open for more opportunities. Yes to potentially relocation. No to running away from relocating to US after so long. I even changed job back in 2017/2018 to avoid potentially relocating to San Francisco… Well, 8 years later, I’m finally ready for the decision. Can’t help to say that part of the ready-ness came from the peace I have living alone and also settled my first house.

Wow, I have been so busy that I haven’t blog for so long! I have been busy moving house and setting up my house and I think I have somewhat set up a rough routine for myself at my new place. I haven’t finish moving all my stuff over though but my clothes are like halfway here. Most of my accessories are moved over so that means I can really dress up when I am staying here instead of just using the same few accessories. Haha.

I have been cooking a lot more for myself and sometimes I lose motivation in cooking but my stomach will tells me otherwise. My fridge is full of food and my huge snacks cabinet is overflowing too. I’m not hungry when I am home for sure hahaha. Unfortunately for me, I think my skin is not used to the dishwashing soap so it gets dry quickly. 🙁 I’m thinking if I should get a dishwasher but I have ran out of countertop space after my air fryer is here.

I have to admit that my home is quite cosy and I do like staying at home. I have designed multiple nua spots (spots where I just go there and do nothing or surf the phone) and it is working out so well. I can see a good view of fireworks during NDP rehearsal days from my balcony and bedroom. My bedrooms are nice and cooling as I have one of the top brand solar films from Japan on my windows. Didn’t go for it for balcony door so living room is pretty hot.

The past month (April/May) has been pretty crazy. I’m like crazily busy as I am going back nearly on a daily basis to check out the renovations. My ID also somehow schedule something almost daily. Someone or something is will always be in my house somehow on a daily basis so it is either the ID contractors or I have to go back and bring my items into my unit. With the theft cases in my block, I don’t really dare to take risk in leaving my items outside my house.

I have been trying to bring some stuff to my new house on a daily basis so it is a lot of carrying to do. Just imagine me bringing multiple huge bags and take bus to my house on a daily basis. Haha. 🙂 I don’t know when I will finish carrying everything. However, I also don’t really dare to move all at a go because I still need to declutter and make sure no termites follow me to my new place. I have a lot of carpentry in my house so I really cannot take the risk…

The next few weeks will probably be intensive in packing, moving, unpacking and sorting. I’m feeling quite tired and sometimes I lose sleep at night because I was worried that I forgot something or didn’t consider some aspects. I also don’t want to end up buying stuff that I ended up not using because house stuff is not cheap and can take up quite a bit of space.

I got a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 to document the entire home journey too. Haha.