Categories: Friendship, Personal life, Pictures, Rants, With my NEX
I went with Alex and Jin Quan to take photos for National Day Parade (NDP) yesterday. Well, it has been like the tradition for many years with them. I’m very glad that I still have friends who are still into camping for taking photos on the NDP day. Last year I joined them at a later time because I don’t want to fall sick just before my surgery. It was my first surgery and also my first time having GA so I want to make sure that my body can handle GA. So I joined them at a later time. This year I planned to join them earlier but I ended up taking more time to pack my luggage. I also started using my hand carry luggage to put mostly my camping essentials rather than the camera. Haha. Should have packed the night before since I am quite a slow packer. Anyway, shortly after I joined them, I saw the rain clouds coming and it started raining heavily. I quickly put in my jacket and started looking for my umbrella in my luggage. I did not expect the rain. One of the rare times the weather forecast is accurate omg.
Anyway, I took some time to set up my tripod to “chope” (reserved) the place then stood there for a while to see if I can find Alex after knowing. I ended up standing in the rain for a few mins before I decided to just seek shelter. Then I forgot to take my Koi black tea latte. Sigh, I only drank 2 sips and it is a large cup. Sighhhhh. I was feeling really irritated by myself when I realised I forgot about it when I reached shelter. Luckily Alex and Jin Quan shouted at me when I walked past them so we managed to reunite at the shelter. Haha.
After the rain somewhat stopped, we went back to the place we “choped” and I had to look for my orange tripod before. So glad that my tripod is bright orange so it is easy to spot it in the sea of black tripods.
I had to throw away my black tea latte even after reuniting with it because it probably got lots of rain water. Oh well. Wasted S$5.60. I also noticed that I am losing the data connectivity on my phone but luckily I didn’t really use my phone much. We watched the NDP show on my iPad using Alex’s data plan. Somehow his phone network is not impacted. Low key irritated that mine was impacted though. I should have paid the S$5 enhanced data connectivity instead for my black tea latte. Lol. Alex didn’t pay for the enhanced data connectivity and is using the same telco as me but was not impacted. So weird…
Alex’s SD card stopped working when he was checking his camera. Luckily he realised it before we need to use our cameras to take photos.
We also met Jin Quan’s photography friend, Ethan, along with some other folks who are like below 20 years old. Happy to meet new people with the same love for photography. Alex and Jin Quan were exchanging Instagram handlers with them but none of them asked me. Lol. Probably quite awkward because I am literally the only lady in the area. Lololol.
While on my way back home, I met this extremely rude and irresponsible for her own safety lady in the train. She fell down and grabbed my hand to break her fall. In the end, she broke 1 of my bracelets and did not offer to compensate. In fact, her stop is the next stop and she just alighted after apologising. Lol. Such a rude lady and now I am a broken bracelet. Luckily it is costume jewellery and not my diamond tennis bracelet. I almost planned to wear that today. Thank goodness I decided not to. So now I have to bring my heated ruby with freshwater pearl bracelet back to ACrysty Co to repair and have to pay for the repairs out of my own pocket. Oh well.
Maybe the bracelet is broken to block some bad/unlucky energy for me? Shrugs. Luckily she didn’t break my rainbow tourmaline bracelet. I will demand for compensation if that’s the case because that is quite expensive even though it is costume jewellery (because it is not using real gold hardware but gold plated hardware).
I came home with tired legs and very tired arms and shoulders. Well, 2 days of gym on 7 and 8 August 2024 is really draining. Lololol. I don’t think I can hit 3 days of exercise this week sadly. Oh well.
Update: Sharing some of the photos I took during NDP this year.
I also uploaded the photos I took in last year NDP events too.
Categories: Friendship, Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Travel
After my work trip in Scottsdale, I extended my US trip with a vacation to Santa Monica, Anaheim and San Francisco.
Flew to LAX and we checked into our hotel near Santa Monica beach/pier. We went to get our lunch at the pier and gosh, it was quite horrible tasting.
It was my second time to Santa Monica Pier. I remembered how I spent so much on an Uber ride from Downtown LA to Santa Monica to catch the sunset and it was one of the most worthy Uber ride ever.
This time I also managed to catch the sunset since I stayed so near to the pier.
This time I wasn’t alone in the trip. I went with my colleague, Revathi, and my friend, Gulabi. Exploring the same place with friends just felt different. 🙂
Categories: Friendship, Insights, Personal life
I can really relate to this post from one of my favourite Hermes influencers. She is also a doctorate and working as a psychologist.
In her words…
“Long post warning, but I really want to share this today.
A few years ago and again recently got reminded, I learned it is not my concern when people feel intimidated or threatened.
Look here; I don’t live my life trying to make others uncomfortable or demeaned; that would be…just..mean.
Who has time for that?Know this: I’m never trying to “one-up” ANYONE…EVER! It’s just that I love to read, work very hard, and have been blessed with a brain that works well (for me). I never attempt to overshadow any other person in any situation.
When people are jealous, they may subconsciously feel like they’re inadequate or that you’re to blame for taking away their spotlight. Get out of here, I say!
Even so, we still have to be kind.
At the end of it all, your feeling threatened will not manipulate me!
At the same time, I don’t live my life to make people feel comfortable around me other than walking in love and kindness.
If I know an answer to a problem – and it’s my place to share it – I will share it.
#lifeisyourstage#letthembethreatened#wiseliving#liveunapologetically”
So yeah, to the jealous ones, you can continue to stay jealous. To the haters, you just have to keep on hating because that’s literally all you can do right? I may not love to read but love to learn, work very hard, and have been blessed with a brain that works well for me. Just because you don’t see how hard I work does not diminish the hard work I put in. The amount of time and effort to put in myself to grow and get stronger will show in the results that I achieved. In fact, most of it are not linear because I put way more effort than what I actually achieved. I will need constant reminders to have self compassion in myself.
I guess when you reach the stage/point of life when people are actually jealous of you are even hating you, it means you are already out of the level that you no longer need to stay with such people. You are already out of their league. So the next time someone said something rude and shows jealousy, I’m just going to take the advice from Sara Jane Ho in her Mind Your Manners book and asked “Are you okay?”
Lastly, if being envious or jealous or hatred is all you know, then I don’t think we are at the same level that we should be knowing each other. Bye.
Categories: Friendship, Personal life, Pictures, With my NEX
I went to i light festival 2 times this year. It’s the 10th year anniversary so the exhibits are actually quite nice. It’s also bigger too. I went to Marina Bay area to explore the exhibits on 1 of the days. Then sometime later, I went to Tanjong Pagar area with Alex and Jin Quan.
It’s funny how my ID saw me when I was at Marina Bay area. She probably saw me with a guy but I didn’t explain further. Lol. Doesn’t matter anyway since I rejected him liao… 😡
Here are the photos I took that I shared on my Instagrams for Marina Bag i light event…
Also spotted a snail whole walking back to the train station after the date.
Here are the photos from Tanjong Pagar…
Categories: Food, Friendship, Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Travel, With my NEX, Work
I’m getting quite motivated to post more photos on Instagram since Alex and Jin Quan started the trend recently. So I thought why not post some of my old photos that I haven’t got time to edit/process them. Since I am making the effort to edit them, why not post it on Instagram then blog about it here right? Haha.
I went to USA last November/December for my business trip. I extended the trip to visit Disneyland at Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
On Thanksgiving day, I have to make sure that I reach office as early as I can. I think I left the hotel at 6am and reached at 630am (before my director reached the office). We also managed to catch the sunrise in office and I took some photos of it. My colleagues told me in advance that there is a nice sunrise that can be seen from our seats so I brought my camera and tripod to try to take photos of the sunrise.
Before the sunrise, I also saw the stars. It’s something that I don’t get to see often in Singapore, especially with the huge amount of light pollution.
Most restaurants were closed for Thanksgiving Day so it was difficult to get dinner on that day. Luckily one of our colleagues sent us a list of places that is still open on Thanksgiving Day and we managed to get dinner at one of the places. The food is really nice too. One of the best meals I had in Phoenix for sure.
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