Categories: Friendship, Lihotography, Personal life, Pictures, With my NEX
I went to Gardens by the Bay Cherry Blossom festival (“Sakura Blossom into the night”) with my friends, Alex and Jin Quan, over the weekends. We all brought our camera equipment and I even brought my new Leica Sofort 2 to pose for a particular photo which Jin Quan found that I love it a lot. Jin Quan found the concept, Alex helped me took it after I found a perfect spot for the photo. Now the photo has become my profile picture on WhatsApp. š
Haha, I wonder how my friend is going to recognise me when we meet at his office tomorrow when the new profile picture doesn’t show my face. Well, I have glow up quite a bit over the last few months so he better have something good to say. HAHA. If not, he can just keep quiet. LOL. š
I’m literally the sakura that blossom into the night… and day.
So cringing hahaha. Anyway, I’m just sharing some of the nice photos I took and posted on both of my Instagram accounts here…
Well, the outing is inspired because Alex and Jin Quan both got their new Instagram accounts that features the photos taken by them. It all started when Alex is like idling away and decided to create an Instagram account for Jin Quan. Then he renamed his account to lifeandplanes so Alex followed suit and created another account – flowersandlife9. Such bromance and even their Instagram account names are so similar. Well, I kept my usual thetreblestory and lihotography.
Happy International Women’s Day! Well, it’s technically 1 day late since it is 9 March today. š
This year is especially special because of I realised just how little the female presence in the Cyber Security field or even in technology space. Swiping on apps certainly make me feel very, very rare because there aren’t many ladies in tech space. Lololol.
Anyway, it’s a bit of pity that we don’t get gifts for the IWD. We did have activities though and I tried acrylic painting for the first time. I opted for the rose painting workshop and added stars into my painting as well.
Well, the workshop was on 7 March and there were no activities on 8 March. I went for hotpot dinner with my Autodesk excolleagues and had a really good catchup.
I went to office 4 days this week and whoa, it’s really tiring. So glad that I don’t need to do the same for next week – I hope. Fingers crossed!! I really need to find time to study for my GCP Security exam. Bleh. I haven’t even register for the exam yet. Gahhh.
My favourite luxury jewellery brand has opened a new store at Raffles Hotel and they have a new exhibition space. Itās quite small but the pieces on display are eye-opening. I went for their first exhibition which they mentioned is the first one in Asia. I really like the exhibition space and it has the floral feel like what I saw in the Seoul maison.
The entire exhibition space is designed by Jean Baptiste Auvray. Iām in the era of interior design these days so definitely taking inspiration from the space.
Iām still considering if gold finishing is worth the extra costā¦ I think a few IDs kind of think I am into gold finishing. Haha. May God bless and protect my wallet. š
Here are some of the pieces that I like. My favourite has got to be the bouquet of daises. I love daises! It is also especially special because it is made of platinum, yellow gold and diamonds. I have never seen a jewellery with both platinum and gold combined together. Itās like so rare and so difficult to make.
The second favourite is the sapphire leaf. Iām very impressed by their mystery setting. Itās VCA specialty and I am really happy to see it in person. I also learned how it is achieved during the guided tour.
I went with Evelyn and we both dressed up for it. She asked about my dating app journey and reviewed my profile. Then she told me she will take better photos for me and asked me to remove 2 of the photos. š®
Anyway, I did get a very nice photo that she took and edited for me so it became part of my pictures in the profile. Lol! I really need to work on my posing. Iām just so awkward. Will probably need some time to get back my posing skills before 2018.
After about 2 weeks of ābreakā from studying, itās time to get back to the studying mood tomorrow again. I got my GCP Security certificate to renew. Iām done with my AWS Security and Azure Security certificates renewal so now it is left with GcP Security for this year.
I also managed to get 2 new blouses from Uniqlo this weekend. I am loving the new Uniqlo C series. It helps in glowing up as well. Haha.
Happy Chinese New Year to everyone who is celebrating! Hope life has been good to you guys so far!
My life has been pretty boring these days. Other than working, I have been studying. Almost all my free time were spent on home stuff. Well, I guess thatās adulting. š
I am feeling blessed that I have friends who supported me during the tough times and also listening to my rants. Yes I know sometimes it can be quite overwhelming haha. Sometimes I am also impressed by myself on how I can able to push through.
Iām on my healing journey after the traumatic breakup. Well, it doesnāt matter how fast my ex-boyfriend can move on to the next relationship as I just need to focus on my own healing. Itās a constant reminder to myself. Things happen for a reason and I have many lessons learned about men and also myself. I should count my blessings and be glad that at least I am still alive and well. I am also thankful for the various mentors who spent time to teach me my soft skills and life skills (like how to filter the right men faster and see through their masks fast) hahaha.
I really donāt want to go through more surgeries after going through 2 surgeries last year. Still waiting for my āstop all weights lifting exercisesā mandate from my surgeon to be lifted before I can resume my gym and also yoga classes. I can still do hiking which is what I was doing before I got really busy with life in general.
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