Happy New Year! I have blogged 106 posts in 2024. 🙂 That’s like an average of around 8 posts per month. 😮 Wow! That’s such a big jump from all the previous years…
I have reviewed the New Year resolutions I set for myself in 2024.
- Put myself first – my physical, mental and financial health are more important than everything else.
I definitely achieved this for physical and mental. Financially – I spent way too much this year. Glowing up is really expensive. Lol.
- Have more confidence in myself when it comes to trusting my gut and my ability in managing my financial health.
I definitely have improved in this. 🙂 I shall continue to keep up to this progress I am making.
- Don’t be too hard on myself this year – this is especially important when I have to do major packing and unpacking at the end of the year. I’m dreading it now as I am trying my best to declutter as much as I can… I need to remind myself that very little progress I made is still a progress!
Well, the move got delayed so I guess I still need to keep this goal this year.
It’s 2025 and I am still based in Singapore. Lol.
Anyway, for 2025, my new year resolutions are as follows.
- Learn to prioritise yourself consistently – physically, mentally and financially. Time to practise intentional spending of time, effort and money. Especially money. Lol.
- Appreciate what I already have and enjoy my acquisitions as much as I can instead of adding more. Basically less shopping because I did buy a lot of new and beautiful stuff in the last 2 years. 😀
- Be kinder to yourself. Don’t be too hard on myself this year. This year is a year of transformation and changes. No idea what kind of challenges I will be facing but it should be quite mentally draining for me.
- Learn to let go relationships whereby the efforts is only one-sided. Enough of holding onto friendships when the other party is not putting any level of effort. I already have a few friends who are under this category. I am been practising patience for some friends for many years but I think it’s time to let go.
Let’s see what I can achieve in this year. 🙂
Categories: Food, Friendship, Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Travel, With my NEX
I have to say the highlight of this Hong Kong trip is the food. Not sure if it is a sightseeing trip or a food trip hahaha.
We went to Jenny’s Bakery because Lay Lian and Xiao Wei both want to get snacks back to Singapore. Jenny’s Bakery is located in a very ulu place and I spotted some interesting sights along the way too.
Categories: Friendship, Overseas, Personal life, Travel, With my NEX
We managed to drop by to Hong Kong University as well. 😀 I always like to visit universities in the new country because of its architecture.
Very glad that Lay Lian and Xiao Wei agreed to spend a few hours here even though they are not that into universities. 🙂
I really like the contrast of this photo and the framing too.
Categories: Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Travel
I wouldn’t recommend staying at our hotel because we spotted a living cockroach running around the room on the day of checkout. Nevertheless, it offered really good views of the city…
Will I go back there again? Definitely no. Do I like staying in Mongkok area? Yes but I will most likely try to stay in other areas as well next time I go to Hong Kong…
Categories: Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Travel, With my NEX
We also went to Tai Kwun which was a prison previously. Not exactly my favourite part of the tour but the architecture is kind of European which kind of fits my liking, I guess?
Will I go there agin? Yes. Will I stay here for a few hours? No. For some reason, the tour guide gave us a very long time (maybe 1 hr or so?) to explore the area which I found it to be too much.
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