{"id":32728,"date":"2024-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=32728"},"modified":"2025-01-01T21:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:33:14","slug":"goodbye-2023-hello-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=32728","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye 2023, hello 2024!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy New Year! I&#8217;m quite happy that 2023 has ended. It was one of the toughest year in my life and on hindsight, I have grown and learned so much in the year. Nevertheless, I don&#8217;t want to go through more surgeries in my life anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going back to setting new year resolutions. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Put myself first &#8211; my physical, mental and financial health are more important than everything else.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have more confidence in myself when it comes to trusting my gut and my ability in managing my financial health.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don&#8217;t be too hard on myself this year &#8211; this is especially important when I have to do major packing and unpacking at the end of the year. I&#8217;m dreading it now as I am trying my best to declutter as much as I can&#8230; I need to remind myself that very little progress I made is still a progress!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I was reviewing my finances last night and is shocked at how much I have achieved. \ud83d\ude42 I managed to undo the bad investment decisions I made back in 2022 and now it is back on track. \ud83d\ude00 Sometimes I just need to have more faith in myself. I&#8217;m pretty awesome and amazing that I surprised myself when I do the final calculations&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I injured my index finger on my right hand end of 2023 then injured my wrist at the start of 2024. I&#8217;m glad that both are on the road to recovery. No, I did not take medical leave for any of the injuries because I have too much work to clear when I am out for my vacation in LA and SF then medical leave due to a really bad flu (down for fever for 4 days) then a surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I felt like I pushed myself too hard after my breakup last year. Yes, I did achieved what I want and got my life back on track. Yes, I managed to fix the delays in life goals in a few months which shocked many of my friends and acquaintances whom I recently met. But all these are at the expense of my body complaining and making me fall sick so many times last year&#8230; I had insomnia issues for putting too much pressure on myself as well. Well, what a normal person will take to achieve in years were completed by me in less than 3 months. It&#8217;s no wonder my body is complaining so much given the amount of pressure that I am under to get all fixed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the cancer scare, it&#8217;s time to prioritise my health more. I&#8217;m not sure if I will still be in Singapore when I review my 2024 year but let&#8217;s see how things turn out. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m already excited for the upcoming year. \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! I&#8217;m quite happy that 2023 has ended. It was one of the toughest year in my life and on hindsight, I have grown and learned so much in the year. Nevertheless, I don&#8217;t want to go through more surgeries in my life anymore&#8230; I&#8217;m going back to setting new year resolutions. \ud83d\ude42&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"read-more\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=32728\">Read on<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35613,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32728\/revisions\/35613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}