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. 🙂

I’m now on my first domestic flight to New York. It’s my first time going to New York and I am there for vacation. It’s pretty exciting yet scary for me at the same time.

My flight was at 6am MST and I managed to finish packing earlier and checkout earlier as well. Fortunately my scheduled Uber ride came earlier as well so I ended up reaching at 3:45am. The baggage drop off counter was not even open at that time even though I slowly take my own sweet time to print the baggage tags and join in the queue for baggage drop off point. I heard that someone said the counter will open 2 hrs before the first flight. In the end the counter open close to 4am. I guess I am taking the first flight after all.

No wonder my colleague said that the airport will be quite empty after hearing that my flight is at 6am. No wonder my Uber driver is telling me that the first flight out of the airport is at 5am. No wonder when we drove past Terminal 4, it is nearly empty. I was shocked as I have never seen such an empty domestic airport in US before…

I even had time to finish drinking my fruit juice smoothies (2 packs as I did not want to throw them away) and half a bottle of water before heading to the security checks.

Wow, I just realised that my expected flight landing time in the transit airport is just 10 mins before the boarding start time for my next flight. 😮 Oh my gosh. Do I have to run again? 🙁 

I wanted to blog about my flight experience when I had a 1h 50min layover at SFO airport. It was my third flight journey. My second flight (NRT – SFO) was delayed and I had to run to catch my third flight (SFO – PHX). I literally ran with my hand carry luggage to clear customs (25mins queue for a 30 secs check). Then ran to baggage claim to collect both of my checkin luggage. Then ran to drop off my checkin luggage followed by to the boarding gate. I made it just in time when the boarding starts.

Moral of the story: Try to book at least 2.5hrs layover for international to domestic flights next time.