tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64277781604369379022024-03-13T00:37:11.174-07:00xoxo, Ccharchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-31283730597189623042023-09-10T09:37:00.000-07:002023-09-10T09:37:12.470-07:00Q3 2023;<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">lately i've been thinking about how being alone/having alone time is greatly underappreciated. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">most people associate being alone as a sad/negative thing because of what is portrayed as societal norms - that you need connections to get far in life, and that you should be focused on finding a partner in life, etc. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">but sometimes, we overlook the value/healing power such alone time can bring to us. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">last weekend was a long weekend cause it was polling day on friday here in Singapore. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">my mother is not in town as she's been away visiting my dad so these days it's just me and my sister at home.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">but last weekend my sister went to malacca for a work retreat so i had the house all to myself. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">usually when my sister and i are home we usually stick to our own rooms and don't particularly have many interactions cause we're both so tired after work on weekdays, and even on weekends, we just want to chill haha so i didn't think it would feel much different being home alone.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it was however, very different. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it's such a completely different feeling when you know that if you wanted to, you could like lie in bed all day without even speaking a word or having anyone interrupt your thoughts with any sound whatsoever.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">you can also do whatever you want around the house (play your music, walk back and forth, use the massage chair for an hour, fall asleep at the dining table, etc.) without any thought of disturbing others around. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i had a super chill weekend last weekend and it turned out to be just perfect.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">on saturday morning, i slept in and then when i woke up i kept my phone on do not disturb and just read for hours till early afternoon.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and then i went to the gym, showered, prepared an early dinner, etc.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">when night time came along, i started on a new book, watched some TikTok videos, and then watched my favourite footballer score a hat trick in their match that day.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">to some people it might sound like the most boring day ever, but i remember thinking to myself what a blessed day to just recharge without having to talk to anyone. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">friday had been pretty much the same routine in the day with the addition of walking to the polling station to vote.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">but i had gone out at night for dinner and a movie so there was still some interacting folded into the day. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">but saturday had been completely just focused on being alone and doing the things i like (sleep, read, watch football, etc.) and it was amazing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and then on sunday, sitting alone at church was an amazing spiritual experience for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">normally at church i have lots of family around me cause my aunt and also my cousin and her family attend the same ward so we all sit together.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it so happened that last weekend they were all travelling so it was just me by myself. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">sitting by myself i could really focus and ponder and take in all the thoughts and feelings i had during church. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">as i listened to the music and testimonies and watched the people around me, i had time to think and record the feelings i had in my journal.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it felt like one of those moments where a lot is happening around you but you're not distracted and you're calm and listening to what's inside of you. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i hope we can all keep still from time to time and not let the world drown out these valuable moments.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i recently read this book by Jay Shetty titled "8 Rules of Love" and in the first part of the book he talks about how before we learn to love others or work on our relationships, we need to first learn self-love.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and he talked about the power of solitude: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">- "Solitude is not a failure to love. It is the beginning of love. During the time we spend without a sidekick, we move through the world differently, more alert to ourselves and the world." </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">- "Through choices we make in solitude, we set our own standard for how we want to live and love and be loved. With the space to write our narrative from our own point of view, we gradually overcome the influence of movies, books, our parents' or caregiver's model, or a partner's wishes. We clarify our vision of love. Solitude helps you recognize that there is a you before, a you during, and a you after every relationship, forging your own way even when you have company & love."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i loved this part of the book so much because it is so true that many times we're influenced by what's around us or how we feel we should act based on the narrative that's written for us.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">but instead, we should be looking inwards and creating our own narrative.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">this will in turn help us in our connections with others later because we know truly who we are and can stay authentic versus trying to portray an image we think others will like or expect. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and we all know i've always been one in life to enjoy connecting with others and have always been grateful for the friendships i've been blessed with over the years. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Q3 is almost over, which means that my next travel season is coming right up hehe. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i'm so excited cause it feels like it's been so long since i last travelled, even though it was just april haha. but that was like a good 5 months ago now so it's about time haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">work has been really busy these two months so i can't wait till my event is over at the end of the month and then it's travel time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i've a trip in mid-oct and then one in early nov so it feels almost exactly like my travels in march and april that were essentially 2 weeks apart too haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and then it's looking like i'll have a business trip the third week of nov so it's a lot of travelling coming up.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and then before we know it, it's december and it's time to write my christmas cards.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">omg it feels like the months of this year went from "1, 2, 3... 10" suddenly hahaha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i feel like i don't have much to update on cause i work, eat, go to the gym/for pilates, read, hang out with friends, bake, watch football, sleep, repeat haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">on weekdays i just look forward to the end of the work day and to the weekend.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">on the weekend, i look forward to football lol and then if my team wins i'm on a high and depressed that i have to wait a whole week more for the next match hahaha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i also feel depressed that basically the weekend is over - sunday nights are seriously very rough haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">speaking of which, i should probably go to bed now.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i'll end off with a photo dump as usual. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCotS9tNlY03rSnuLhCt3FpiP-PYC91fCGUFIWNKVzeRdR70RBV6vmDrku5HrYTMTu5ykjrFJPiEwqo8mKJ1l9EC9_fEx-MGEYH3gDzz4n3JmTlDPmGMbhgmaP9jH-Mjj7RDJjNYCZ6omyUq3F60kdH8OHIlTJejSoWv4X6DZDA344wxrmtWFOKVLLpnw/s4032/IMG_2625.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFMUwkhFsbmPpodUvpsi-EZa8BKJETPm8HxKMdPWiSOISNZWB3k3PWE4wv9xs_Xi0AU3u_w69y8uJd859zWGDCmfbtR4X_bepQCCK1tUWreitnGFezqVyjm5w2sdWNe6pCeAIImsvtcSDedRwJhILFLce3QK7AAv1lvqmU0XdHGMsY4vkwXSemRhnZQvY/s4032/IMG_2376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFMUwkhFsbmPpodUvpsi-EZa8BKJETPm8HxKMdPWiSOISNZWB3k3PWE4wv9xs_Xi0AU3u_w69y8uJd859zWGDCmfbtR4X_bepQCCK1tUWreitnGFezqVyjm5w2sdWNe6pCeAIImsvtcSDedRwJhILFLce3QK7AAv1lvqmU0XdHGMsY4vkwXSemRhnZQvY/w300-h400/IMG_2376.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicz30zu1vU4kX-Uu6xGhJhcO1cph8mAQAWCIvbLoGJZX8JrSZhU2O5NOwV5SoGrjpxpXSDBpLth_XumcloVN1ZWEQ3YQ12pi2xekGIrJZwmWEwzq5TkUWL2IqU6__2WzOruwa6A4fp-yRFnM5Dd73Q3sgrPc67mTPZhj69ZeBDv-d6GAfULaRBKdcyhYk/w300-h400/IMG_2387.JPG" width="300" /></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">my friends surprised me with what you could consider the best but most embarrassing cake hahaha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaN9qFvYH6AD6GjCNdtm_5kq4jesExcRmhnq3l-zUOyrBM8feHXuboEKeMRw7qyDTu1AtAK2wJUo_CF3Kd3LI9lfsq0qYns-b6bTaihEgnMyjf78gvodXObGfQ2VRLqhQcWu2NrdnEXXH7faJnYGnBZlpCGI4WCdGqCvRyw0ek2rUNCSzElqavbDoz4WY/s2048/IMG_2536.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaN9qFvYH6AD6GjCNdtm_5kq4jesExcRmhnq3l-zUOyrBM8feHXuboEKeMRw7qyDTu1AtAK2wJUo_CF3Kd3LI9lfsq0qYns-b6bTaihEgnMyjf78gvodXObGfQ2VRLqhQcWu2NrdnEXXH7faJnYGnBZlpCGI4WCdGqCvRyw0ek2rUNCSzElqavbDoz4WY/w300-h400/IMG_2536.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="2066" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRjfSPvSZFj4_L4REwBRRtAkiPZouoINiJGdOHZE4Lm83aXvuGO3KDHCqL8zD8ZUHMPTOB2V3mOgZl4vijEkXvrkD7VQhitDilNpacA2SmIwlZMjVpgG_vqQF8Jqlhwh7YQ8cL4OFg-jsbelptaymlFjjeVDurXEtvTejL2Jhu0evF3_r5LGrVjWwpkTE/w225-h400/IMG_2543.JPG" width="225" /></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">been so blessed to be able to celebrate our birthdays together for maybe 20 years now</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bENA0YGDJR6-xaQxVmU7CjujOQr0QYSzUx_LHbTsGkzGIYBzD2BYzK3mKvNgXiAThh8NVYkKMd4Ul7kodl7FNqWTE017BjydoWj8HmCd9-aaWUyFsR2bFOR2du4PJ8FiUettI5m5XFO4MvIrsdLr4bvSIMFhGnbQ_9esFZ1xu0Yw4JfszilAOlTVRUM/s4032/IMG_2574.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bENA0YGDJR6-xaQxVmU7CjujOQr0QYSzUx_LHbTsGkzGIYBzD2BYzK3mKvNgXiAThh8NVYkKMd4Ul7kodl7FNqWTE017BjydoWj8HmCd9-aaWUyFsR2bFOR2du4PJ8FiUettI5m5XFO4MvIrsdLr4bvSIMFhGnbQ_9esFZ1xu0Yw4JfszilAOlTVRUM/w640-h480/IMG_2574.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">tried Mott 32 at MBS for the first time and their peking duck has entered my list of favourite peking ducks. along with the char siew. so yums.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip4XnI5PAHoJ-2X6ATIDubYwyqWWgAfLykCocp4Bmc1qO2ooE6MNYUwSl5k5SN84e3NeSZQHDhzVjP9mLxWdZEFKLF7_EEDMAJn3K2jHY2hAsBiWXPz7vDGwJ68-rNj0ARoGGlw5UwPLhDBN7776FXvw4GXwIfKwMxH8emDj7602HhQpVxVzqmF07h2SM/s320/IMG_2609.JPG" width="240" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSXtaW4WubF309uDmDK0OXm73xm0MlNC6sxKNDYTXBp439DRR78a1b0tDXygQhfbP5oVj75_n384cRhRU-oBpJ3wm74wnddm5PQfwXtr_Bh6B2xkLiNW6NklkX4XAQ85H8Ls8teEdePpyVadrIcKevkPXUARLi2-3IJ9cpti9PvGTG47OV7wbmIbJF3yA/s4032/IMG_2615.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSXtaW4WubF309uDmDK0OXm73xm0MlNC6sxKNDYTXBp439DRR78a1b0tDXygQhfbP5oVj75_n384cRhRU-oBpJ3wm74wnddm5PQfwXtr_Bh6B2xkLiNW6NklkX4XAQ85H8Ls8teEdePpyVadrIcKevkPXUARLi2-3IJ9cpti9PvGTG47OV7wbmIbJF3yA/s320/IMG_2615.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">i've become obsessed with this tiny jap restaurant that was introduced to me some months back and i can't stop going back haha. the fish is so fresh and the teppan beef is so good!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLqtnYs4J4EMXykuRfKeKWidHENfL-t-cp8HdeBWXBGjaRhMQvVe3OrWsqiyWoTgxjSj0wtyyFK1N0J5N1d45sGVjZoZhm8HYlWOomt7OMvtLCy3VkBrBKIPPaDpC7RPSxg7wVryEy73mPNC1BwfyTuOdPnvpWNS-Ek7Cf5G9BRi_jBBviIeGGY7M9Sfs/s4032/IMG_2510.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLqtnYs4J4EMXykuRfKeKWidHENfL-t-cp8HdeBWXBGjaRhMQvVe3OrWsqiyWoTgxjSj0wtyyFK1N0J5N1d45sGVjZoZhm8HYlWOomt7OMvtLCy3VkBrBKIPPaDpC7RPSxg7wVryEy73mPNC1BwfyTuOdPnvpWNS-Ek7Cf5G9BRi_jBBviIeGGY7M9Sfs/w640-h480/IMG_2510.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">somehow managed to gather the full group of ex-jtc coworkers - definitely quite the feat as i can't remember the last time we've had full attendance. i greatly enjoy the company of this group even if we're so loud hahaha. i have some of the best work and play memories with this group. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9iaeewqdpFSgyYL8aM8wQS2Fbp75ai3LvqclCMrA3uBN8n3QhaIHIA8qdq4FF4vsUI_PxNB29faOtkoWzeEGOYSL0O3nf2nAEJk9kyJ903h0YZVezn9kvy0r_UnIDVLqzaJIsYaqKi1wSTQjHPlDxyDLB-lKM9cFzIfpUHyvV3xh44I4gE3aqw8A0EU/w300-h400/IMG_2109.JPG" width="300" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">may and june i had back-to-back weddings and i've realised that i've come to really dislike weddings over the years so if i'm there for your wedding, i must really love you as a friend haha</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4IKgm-rRc2nAhw9YQiXyUBpp292csm9X853TUGG5iOAcAyPjZ1FhnVzkHDE07yhXNgizHDUUaCMd6bQXOYuXkAAT6f-4GBB3_BUlK-PU-iSYETFDoWiO-Lpb1xb-z4gWxkJCespLH_93A974J3PMQFQ4GVFFqa-6kIFRTjoe5DYa4CW89pVsYK7Pn1Y/s4032/IMG_2710.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu4IKgm-rRc2nAhw9YQiXyUBpp292csm9X853TUGG5iOAcAyPjZ1FhnVzkHDE07yhXNgizHDUUaCMd6bQXOYuXkAAT6f-4GBB3_BUlK-PU-iSYETFDoWiO-Lpb1xb-z4gWxkJCespLH_93A974J3PMQFQ4GVFFqa-6kIFRTjoe5DYa4CW89pVsYK7Pn1Y/w300-h400/IMG_2710.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">july was such a good month cause omg guess who finally came back for a visit after like almost a decade! so fun to hang out with pek kim (rachel). things don't change even after she's had 3 kids!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUo4_TEdhDNn0a7_C2ibIVRpFIdTeGgzi-zKQAhRH4vj3RpOWwWU-_u4i2b2u58sB9LtYO_PWTGFIaJi7HuBXVSpsRYtiTuxuvNXS9NvcXV327zmWWPP7ClO-mdi3u5-dMXbcdETmfySl4h8gXHbkPPE85ZcjoKDTsdE0CO0w4VIdwMm-o5F5yE6qmBIw/s3672/IMG_2985.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="2066" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUo4_TEdhDNn0a7_C2ibIVRpFIdTeGgzi-zKQAhRH4vj3RpOWwWU-_u4i2b2u58sB9LtYO_PWTGFIaJi7HuBXVSpsRYtiTuxuvNXS9NvcXV327zmWWPP7ClO-mdi3u5-dMXbcdETmfySl4h8gXHbkPPE85ZcjoKDTsdE0CO0w4VIdwMm-o5F5yE6qmBIw/w225-h400/IMG_2985.JPG" width="225" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TClL17DlAKdCTU_78-vJxSz7gz8mNmxy0I_eHYm1M3U9twDDsuZGElsEA76NxB2PD-fHgRWhKcC1WU1hVxkNWLq9lK_MRA-VBJaJ3NG6cmOIVINtWYVJgx4dHWBJViGbO-Yur3f2VhxgPNU4azGylnL_cpFzYRq5nljVdrhcyDJp2Jj9MtbCBstcPGE/w300-h400/IMG_3090.JPG" width="300" /></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">also got to see my favourite footballer live in action in july so july was a good month haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30B_UpdpvZ9cIQDULarYqK-gFJ0GLX5EjsF9lRa05SNxDusNLWp3QWMx6dbcAmfrV48FqZO6dqWFBZ1kMSIMgPFNLdZx9Ab4MEe57ljap9JcpqB-kpya9FZs2dTKdsuzdR6OhOh18loRPokIgUUdvBaphDqhpzTIuXR3ibNL6lrMBgrkUPuMKQVBnemc/s4032/IMG_2723.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30B_UpdpvZ9cIQDULarYqK-gFJ0GLX5EjsF9lRa05SNxDusNLWp3QWMx6dbcAmfrV48FqZO6dqWFBZ1kMSIMgPFNLdZx9Ab4MEe57ljap9JcpqB-kpya9FZs2dTKdsuzdR6OhOh18loRPokIgUUdvBaphDqhpzTIuXR3ibNL6lrMBgrkUPuMKQVBnemc/w300-h400/IMG_2723.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbB9ftKeDip89Z0XhWlJVVBOGAYcR5G-wI7VLpBvQvOhsR92MLZWldajuUZPQW5twsht5Tlee6BWMCYfmu8hARCW94Ib_v2AYffywlt8W2pRMnpQgfRij8JnKk-TX_n7OcKknj6zM9Xt8tI9MYCWozxtHLH146iYdrirmuk5cud_GdbUUFYATb9R7zLEE/w300-h400/IMG_2724.JPG" width="300" /></div></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">i love when i can spend time together with some of my favourite friends even if it means going for a torture session (i mean barre class) on a weeknight and ending the night off with soya bean and you tiao sitting in a table set up in an alley haha. it's all about the company</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiNlup4tlzm5R5H0PJw019xq-7QbvktnWSVHR-l4TjxXgHOvXY5KuV3wkZl_3C0sV0nsfE-CtU7kwYTF1-jrhmlbSWzBSKta_5KSwz1dNMKeHYUsn7WqJYmGfYyXstElUHa2Lp768knSVST_Ejj2J4NARmvtdDqXtmbr93YLEv8qp4NGgA_Sz5pJDM6I/s4032/IMG_3139.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiNlup4tlzm5R5H0PJw019xq-7QbvktnWSVHR-l4TjxXgHOvXY5KuV3wkZl_3C0sV0nsfE-CtU7kwYTF1-jrhmlbSWzBSKta_5KSwz1dNMKeHYUsn7WqJYmGfYyXstElUHa2Lp768knSVST_Ejj2J4NARmvtdDqXtmbr93YLEv8qp4NGgA_Sz5pJDM6I/w300-h400/IMG_3139.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">finally had a games night in what feels like forever. i miss game nights but these days it feels like we're all just so tired and want to just sit and eat and chat when we meet up haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcpBtxlnNoFA0xY3ekmhWuwiedENJ0zr08wTM03HNMm5uz2shEM_3pJzGW3f4XAUBDklr-qy89bPgeclbHCs_W7BQe_yT2ydf4VKK9wDVy3sUZUCPfsqrzmwz3eAzqBZSP4NQg5qo7RjAXH0p3aG_ayHBHFQXtkwJpM5B7QgCOyIBALglonTTQkDHuBHk/s4032/IMG_3161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcpBtxlnNoFA0xY3ekmhWuwiedENJ0zr08wTM03HNMm5uz2shEM_3pJzGW3f4XAUBDklr-qy89bPgeclbHCs_W7BQe_yT2ydf4VKK9wDVy3sUZUCPfsqrzmwz3eAzqBZSP4NQg5qo7RjAXH0p3aG_ayHBHFQXtkwJpM5B7QgCOyIBALglonTTQkDHuBHk/w400-h300/IMG_3161.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">moved to a new office location! and guess what, i actually take the train now when i go into the office instead of driving. the TEL line by my house is lifechanging and i get to work in half an hour, without having to deal with all the traffic. i can also zone out or read on the train. it's great.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyb6Ba3U-6TL4yrtBfDGxiMaY4zTsznPaqwzsdI6YnvkErvVKJhw9jkWH_ACdUnNo3jUlb1nm9Wr-AqkRasPpnfsPo3Y5EQ9w-O8OTbd7D8TYGAlPB7DVvI7wp8hJOPUqtkzkvTIht5pWaYXoI39wSWpKKQ20nioeJW8bFjgMhfh6IlH8QITE68dOuVGQ/s4032/IMG_3171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" 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width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">found a new favourite spot for spanish food: tinto. the gambas was so good. the lobster and shrimp paella too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><span> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPe6eh0979Dke_EWegPqhJwy80VbGsuEsHV4XaKGGIt66ezf0iu-giIIbk3ZfkNGYfNINFdvqRTCBl8PiHxRZOjgrs9Ik0BVY5UHxxoP5YGe1KyJ1jGt6nVTS1X5LSOY3GUybeLllilS_hlOHo9djydG_qD91MDz78zzH5vhbbcFNZH6HxQbc4ypFXYk/w300-h400/IMG_3297.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKACBCUyHhRxrJBfycT6kuqlTzHVecqLef052ydbiLyVmT52gf-53ugz0z-YBjVcqFBiLorj5HuGSnBRUORfttlhhne_0HWYx_zvhNGg2H-20eNGoMn1GQTjDSS9lulcJxwu-majLOAUHY4YgMlUI-m6ojpyFDgbuFMNDRUWVWQSsqgHlZ-CsZYfK1FRk/s4032/IMG_3409.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKACBCUyHhRxrJBfycT6kuqlTzHVecqLef052ydbiLyVmT52gf-53ugz0z-YBjVcqFBiLorj5HuGSnBRUORfttlhhne_0HWYx_zvhNGg2H-20eNGoMn1GQTjDSS9lulcJxwu-majLOAUHY4YgMlUI-m6ojpyFDgbuFMNDRUWVWQSsqgHlZ-CsZYfK1FRk/w300-h400/IMG_3409.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">celebrated my omma's birthday and retirement in the same month!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ95Z2XjH3dQUhl5S9wLzudMkXkgwxqW7Ju1rvpu7cyCN8pBMcAcJBS2S0GgkjL90Wg-2kuP7fjjxi3OnXG2D0yFTM16d-K8_XJxL_xrAjn5I6WgfG0ciPA9nX-INevB1uOol_3A5iKqxagApKA_dtsM9xRXs2A1f9EakNPbo8KGUAYcW2kKZDl6vUE00/s4032/IMG_3398.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ95Z2XjH3dQUhl5S9wLzudMkXkgwxqW7Ju1rvpu7cyCN8pBMcAcJBS2S0GgkjL90Wg-2kuP7fjjxi3OnXG2D0yFTM16d-K8_XJxL_xrAjn5I6WgfG0ciPA9nX-INevB1uOol_3A5iKqxagApKA_dtsM9xRXs2A1f9EakNPbo8KGUAYcW2kKZDl6vUE00/w300-h400/IMG_3398.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">found a yummy dessert spot with pandan mochi waffle! pandan and mochi are two of my favorite things so when they're combined into one - yums</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6u-oHUtQ7_YlVzSKU1jLyjA2moFIcOgDZiZEqPsB0Gsf5BgkxgaOdGRoDIvcuGbHo1LuMsIQIMFrTp-Tsjw4evE8DXN2IQ50rUwVYhDJ3_QlM8UT69gTsIbGkSvOR48_WoXxQlIAFYfx0xz4LZsUFEHcXMFzgkBfIDo41At_opgiMl568lX3TsOxODs/s4032/IMG_3616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6u-oHUtQ7_YlVzSKU1jLyjA2moFIcOgDZiZEqPsB0Gsf5BgkxgaOdGRoDIvcuGbHo1LuMsIQIMFrTp-Tsjw4evE8DXN2IQ50rUwVYhDJ3_QlM8UT69gTsIbGkSvOR48_WoXxQlIAFYfx0xz4LZsUFEHcXMFzgkBfIDo41At_opgiMl568lX3TsOxODs/w300-h400/IMG_3616.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;">pei yong's housewarming party! where i decided to bring the ingredients for my bake of the day and have my friends work for their own bake hahaha</div><div style="color: #134f5c; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-9724775946236009512023-06-10T02:24:00.000-07:002023-06-10T02:24:27.363-07:00first half of 2023;<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i did not end up blogging in dec last year afterall haha, like i said i might at the end of my last blog post haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i think about blogging from time to time (even thought i know it's like such an old school thing now) but always get distracted or lazy. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i mostly post life updates now through IG but old school blogging does have its charms - for one, it allows me to really let my thoughts just flow instead of limiting myself to very concise captions lol.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it also allows me to spam more than a few photos haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">so instead of lying down for a nap or getting sucked into my book, i decided to blog today before my dinner appt since the first half of the year has already flown by.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">life has continued in a very steady pattern for me consisting of work, pilates/running, hanging out with friends, reading, travelling, editing reels, planning trips, occasionally baking, repeat, and i love it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i actually managed to squeeze in two trips in the first half of the year and am now on a travel break before my next trips in october and november. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it's funny how my travel season is the opposite of everyone's since everyone travels in the summer.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">but i don't know, i've never really enjoyed travelling when everyone is travelling cause it just equals crowds and inflated prices for everything. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and living in a tropical country, that just means that 'summer appeal/nice weather' is not there for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i'd much rather travel when the weather is cooler since i don't get that where i live. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">march travel highlights - took a trip to Korea with my mom where we explored jeju, seoul and gyeongju. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it was a very random trip that i planned out of nowhere cause i had 7.5 vacation days left that i needed to clear by end march. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">was going to do a solo trip at first so i chose somewhere i knew well enough and felt comfortable exploring alone.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">then my mom decided to tag along so no solo travel for me. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">honestly the solo travel idea felt exciting but scary too cause what if i encountered any issues then there's no one to problem solve with me.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">anyway it was great to have a travel companion cause then at least i could order a variety of food when it came to meal times.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">we hadn't been back to jeju since our first time there many many many years ago and i've been wanting to go back for a long time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i'm glad we finally did cause jeju was just so peaceful and calm i absolutely loved the overall vibes.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">some of my favourite moments/things from the trip.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcRiGCYi35QeMG_pZ4q0XPQLhsVKpbdbmzrGuzHArg16SSaEIRfKjXbOyUlCBYixtSKIYAe7Mrcyt7smMStwmGFNxF7MI9XyBBjNb72VL8HwFld7W94DNnernrt6Cd_GEl0z9E5eR7z4cLizvr5WXMCfFY4ggQY9lylz37hOEBsQudKPDNXPscXdnZ/w300-h400/IMG_8276.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSu5CNdSuN7k_gPLBEjlzwMvLcGsVMkeC9r0ChtdrBj9V5kkPBCs6DyjveAYYo0t1Pb16Hw1vwMqxZMqu4_0PMcmBos5CktdgwUTPaDdZhDb7ese8QmkaqiOWwClva1EQiweMasnHo-3dfLXN1ixpxiKueo3eHBj9NahgMBxHcdrAKyIUoKCpelpoG/s4032/IMG_8253.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSu5CNdSuN7k_gPLBEjlzwMvLcGsVMkeC9r0ChtdrBj9V5kkPBCs6DyjveAYYo0t1Pb16Hw1vwMqxZMqu4_0PMcmBos5CktdgwUTPaDdZhDb7ese8QmkaqiOWwClva1EQiweMasnHo-3dfLXN1ixpxiKueo3eHBj9NahgMBxHcdrAKyIUoKCpelpoG/w300-h400/IMG_8253.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">jeju beaches seriously have the prettiest, clearest waters // also, super fresh seafood!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Zel0KEM1d9T7sGlHS5pvXgsafqmdK3NU9eSLQZxlfYRKwUjgW6HYF2f2bzMtAmCHUio2FRFznKu940smZxStkwFpiw1KQaUyNZtIV1-Hxzngb4n-x5D0omUsAzHyZeHsHp45joIeioe-gN8kMy4CWDO3ptmV2Dsyv448tZGD3Di5_oDdu6D7tj3q/w300-h400/IMG_8368.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0xtafEHFEuzlFCEelCXF4G2YJ3N-TxDGfB73XKjed3pRReCB8mWp6qwq8YoxHli2j90ZkSrYNADtj7u8gpE0Kbvt3jJ0dYkQGh-ertq7vOm-4MBkwAkOyMBSwBpz9COR0D-SXvuZ-CxeoI7pQb3uM53Hpeu7KDgexm90wBvzSz7dIY3Cmzrndut1/s4032/IMG_8563.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0xtafEHFEuzlFCEelCXF4G2YJ3N-TxDGfB73XKjed3pRReCB8mWp6qwq8YoxHli2j90ZkSrYNADtj7u8gpE0Kbvt3jJ0dYkQGh-ertq7vOm-4MBkwAkOyMBSwBpz9COR0D-SXvuZ-CxeoI7pQb3uM53Hpeu7KDgexm90wBvzSz7dIY3Cmzrndut1/w300-h400/IMG_8563.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #674ea7;"><div style="text-align: center;">jeju oranges are seriously the best - so sweet and juicy! we also took a day trip to udo, this cute little island and they're famous for peanuts - that peanut ice cream was super yummy // jeju sunsets with canola flowers in full bloom was quite the sight too</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI2GbRR_DXD8VO1RGLb_066fjjGrq4evfT7Ie9XjP4cyjaYfj1zEZnIhwbpIWR3adQqgcBeSQP8XHW8ynnTjcTpoYwmR99vDDGI2I5F3ZkjVoJs53y2-6UXgLudQRO3ajm8HizCbc3TgdTuz1lUwZ5hMBHCS496KMGFtFLRAzttSghn-2dAPf-p3Ik/w300-h400/IMG_8576.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yEmKBbhnc76M2okg_vw__rJ8TR0njR4wBIl7wmMeqspC2K45OhVS9Fgd6B_Htn8qCrrDMR2jDUxFQVJH6M8foeb5jGD_bhUDp0KXyP8tBni9dv9aFjtvIYdTjzOm7LbTqev4sxuBjlfCwo8L7EgUQPodetpzqufUlzIYEaz-mJimJr5qXf6-Ts9j/s4032/IMG_8807.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yEmKBbhnc76M2okg_vw__rJ8TR0njR4wBIl7wmMeqspC2K45OhVS9Fgd6B_Htn8qCrrDMR2jDUxFQVJH6M8foeb5jGD_bhUDp0KXyP8tBni9dv9aFjtvIYdTjzOm7LbTqev4sxuBjlfCwo8L7EgUQPodetpzqufUlzIYEaz-mJimJr5qXf6-Ts9j/w300-h400/IMG_8807.JPG" width="300" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">i mean, look at the sea of yellow flowers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2V11y19c9vFSbwzNS8Y1VXY90rrwt5P-iIzYuVSan9iB1LOJlgeWuZKOFG0Dk2Mn3zwnSeZeIFsQ4ggl-kLH3GexqWfpOqn-yNu3P3siga6xLip576yYJdfbEvkM6sLbWiviy-vtNP6S32k8sXZWVb4-vrS7fMtxmBFe5X3z0ni7z-LxOslXRhy_b/w300-h400/IMG_8359.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKD6DV1Wlofo4csIMCNbyVJlGaXUDmkPSr65F7pTm7LYqIbkB1DVJx6RRZc9VoDUN1kKcSPs5fkKvznWlJIFlI6vGzbNE0KUIgQsbSun_PdrJ7SA1qvlne-W1c16lNR5GxbIj9mMcWjrTga2nCPhyBhLAtl2fqMO6LpYFh7Z8oFQ4DCsddv7KIcpq/s4032/IMG_8654.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKD6DV1Wlofo4csIMCNbyVJlGaXUDmkPSr65F7pTm7LYqIbkB1DVJx6RRZc9VoDUN1kKcSPs5fkKvznWlJIFlI6vGzbNE0KUIgQsbSun_PdrJ7SA1qvlne-W1c16lNR5GxbIj9mMcWjrTga2nCPhyBhLAtl2fqMO6LpYFh7Z8oFQ4DCsddv7KIcpq/w300-h400/IMG_8654.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #674ea7;">another snack i fell in love with - this cheese filled squid sweet bread thing haha // jeju is seriously full of waterfalls</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFfgwEu_kTuPo8WUuv7ISYGFxZRk9VNm7Iy10I82zFiMINMxEDTeCtIFaOIE5g4uqt6ooRs-cn8Ah7orV7cpSB9yRCgLwSlgqlG9jVDbipXr26IfXuFlIsX8metJdp-z1Ojwx0W81bBpfTX8loh7gSeYhP14U0w8kcTnsLaBVxWLY_eYYZJwSmEkD1/s4032/IMG_8894.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFfgwEu_kTuPo8WUuv7ISYGFxZRk9VNm7Iy10I82zFiMINMxEDTeCtIFaOIE5g4uqt6ooRs-cn8Ah7orV7cpSB9yRCgLwSlgqlG9jVDbipXr26IfXuFlIsX8metJdp-z1Ojwx0W81bBpfTX8loh7gSeYhP14U0w8kcTnsLaBVxWLY_eYYZJwSmEkD1/w640-h480/IMG_8894.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #674ea7;">saw colourful photos of this rainbow coastal road all over social media and decided to pop on over our last day in jeju and it was so cute. did not disappoint at all</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiG_o1t0Wzrgo3ij7UeDVmmTgI_uUgEn8DqQtYFEYyxkT0RHDJguRD5b3EP-60FYhu9Ma4xZ1idn8VsHq9Om0tTcAb4Pkx7p9GMaRXP9lntOOvwjK86t6lESakhj4esegyoxtFgGbkhTAucM3JkeZ0WHNdm3xn2g1OQFWL8U-Q4fhLA06UiSU503KK/w300-h400/IMG_9067.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMtDMLXWGAle0uHWjzKw55wLlJ0mR9MxuRDkDmfAYG61IyRXgdzLZxIqLIluKj2hqIM_CEV1xqbRDXSHrX2QlcigXa8N3kToNhLfEQGKqxgB-GA2LmHVdwtaXArVnr7Y3eLpVew3efpuRamelVI8aEVoG6nRxGld5iCplW6fXdXhstzGatIkd8sEM/s4032/IMG_9077.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMtDMLXWGAle0uHWjzKw55wLlJ0mR9MxuRDkDmfAYG61IyRXgdzLZxIqLIluKj2hqIM_CEV1xqbRDXSHrX2QlcigXa8N3kToNhLfEQGKqxgB-GA2LmHVdwtaXArVnr7Y3eLpVew3efpuRamelVI8aEVoG6nRxGld5iCplW6fXdXhstzGatIkd8sEM/w300-h400/IMG_9077.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #674ea7;">visited a hanok village that's less visited by tourists and i loved the vibes of the place. so much quieter and more spread out than bukchon hanok village. i also loved the tteok and grapefruit tea that we had at the cafe. would 100% recommend this place (eunpyeong hanok village) even though it's a bit of a trip out from the city centre </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiKbp2F6n72flce6nF22yRQOHZyq62JlyLJ6fZz53azER3xLfl23QYBsg9Gws3Tei6PYh-y2THJhChGgGpUxALRbXhvpCR6hb83H9CbtChJ82es2_FhiQ-_q4KA_oXO1KL64mmgaftCX0CoyMSzZkYuRYMAksmLJSFswq6ugkYZmFqvRFeBLbQrgsQ/s4032/IMG_9129.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiKbp2F6n72flce6nF22yRQOHZyq62JlyLJ6fZz53azER3xLfl23QYBsg9Gws3Tei6PYh-y2THJhChGgGpUxALRbXhvpCR6hb83H9CbtChJ82es2_FhiQ-_q4KA_oXO1KL64mmgaftCX0CoyMSzZkYuRYMAksmLJSFswq6ugkYZmFqvRFeBLbQrgsQ/w300-h400/IMG_9129.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMLTggXqenzOHbMF6HQdtrQdph6ejuQ-29q8EyyPyrMCA5OVXo2DcPIJ7pY-VL9xjVmsMdOjiCip-85CrS_jHg_XElgUcRSuY_x7FWE09YtzTWT0z6QmATP56J_rdysoJYCWuS-CKfT2trSyxp374Zh7JhPVWBOZBbwtaruSouI072JWF4FOgfjeV8/w300-h400/IMG_9166.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #674ea7;">trained my mother to take jump shots for me (well sort of, she holds the phone in place while i activate the timer from my Apple watch haha) // this sight is one of my favourite sights during cold winter nights</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcYwSFkgqiBQmF_qyyxLOZsxSAZgHTIzqqGN_FV2feVhHFwvLkfWVz5MKu96-e4a1W_ZELI1KPL6gSwfVZ4vrVwws7Rce6XqryFcf2DpUj2gtTEikrzlGEuFb0MZvu8EOUAgokp8NwQdVXltYjkXfJEEYVjbq7nYOeVYzTQ93e7MO3x9bh1NJWnM3p/w300-h400/IMG_9280.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6D1SO6iL0lzC-IUh-YLY3ysyXaWUg5ApYK-qUbApdxKYH0F9-NZTfwfgdl2fC_sr-KMSistuPK1VHZvqL6Q80km9KDMj8fdVCRIked8y2ltsKrNC610rwvKiC_qnEugvfkEn4pANsarFvMK4aWVpGpGRO9zcz8qRmewI0P-8mJSPcJxfOfwUg7570/s4032/IMG_9435.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6D1SO6iL0lzC-IUh-YLY3ysyXaWUg5ApYK-qUbApdxKYH0F9-NZTfwfgdl2fC_sr-KMSistuPK1VHZvqL6Q80km9KDMj8fdVCRIked8y2ltsKrNC610rwvKiC_qnEugvfkEn4pANsarFvMK4aWVpGpGRO9zcz8qRmewI0P-8mJSPcJxfOfwUg7570/w300-h400/IMG_9435.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #674ea7;">fell in love with more cheesy breads in gyeongju haha // korean strawberries are seriously my favourite - honey sweet as the farm owner would tell you lol</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">april travel highlights - april was our annual trip to the U.S. and this trip was seriously like 2 weeks after we got back from Korea haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">my dad was like judging me cause he said i'm gone from work then barely back at work and then gone from work again. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">but hey, that's my entitlement okay, and my boss always reminds us "taking time off is never a problem".</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">and i must say that taking time off in my current job versus when i was at jtc is so different.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">when i was at jtc, if i was going on a 2-week vacation, the days leading up to the vacation was always a nightmare with long long nights trying to wrap everything up.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">and then i would come back to 800+ emails after the break - the before and after are always just horrific.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">but now in my current job, i work normal hours leading up to my vacation, and come back to like 200+ emails that can be easily cleared the morning i'm back.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">it's seriously worlds apart and something i'm super grateful for.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">anyway, this year we did east coast so boston/NYC/DC.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">we always either fly into san fran/LA or NYC so we kind of plan our vacations around those areas.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">we've done cali quite a lot in recent years and my family had never been to boston so we decided to do that this year.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">our great american tour this year was basically 1. early beginnings of america/how it came to be (boston), 2. present day american capital (DC) and then 3. city of modern day american dreams (NYC) haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">boston was really cold - not what we were expecting for spring at all, mostly cause of the windddd.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">we were just freezing all the time but i still enjoyed the historical sights which brought my college political science class to life. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">we also popped on over to harvard to walk around and feel smart for a bit haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYQNUO58EbX9sAh07v0W0_DF73r07XuNnTyvadSH7IIrA-u9ilVzyTVscjIOQ4tuvmvc16r5vDe1wF91laL18OZ8Twcup4FZ1hsxDQCga-oZCmQiZ5JAmCssvrlxHExxEu6fXnYjHsVTKxcGqBigXLoE0Q42oG1RYrJDDcniFj5x_pPtUEh0VP4W-l/s4032/IMG_0192.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYQNUO58EbX9sAh07v0W0_DF73r07XuNnTyvadSH7IIrA-u9ilVzyTVscjIOQ4tuvmvc16r5vDe1wF91laL18OZ8Twcup4FZ1hsxDQCga-oZCmQiZ5JAmCssvrlxHExxEu6fXnYjHsVTKxcGqBigXLoE0Q42oG1RYrJDDcniFj5x_pPtUEh0VP4W-l/w640-h480/IMG_0192.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #674ea7;"><div style="text-align: center;">we didn't take very many photos in boston cause we were just so cold all the time we couldn't focus on anything else haha. we toured quite a few old churches and i don't know why but i was so in love with the concept of people renting their own pews haha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKw82vNGHZg6OhfWq0HKpzF69sdmNz-PKP5Q-PhmZWOYPFt1zq-KAjrmMMhuZL3oeFgxplUWXpY7eyLjBRIniDYirgKYZ1JARp3t8cTfvgQDg_b_ZMbPexjVCqMbWeNSkfX5gOCowZjF_-CMsCk2uN_HU3AJLLozTE7iAAW9EWdFYMzfHHLkEeQQlR/s4032/IMG_0386.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKw82vNGHZg6OhfWq0HKpzF69sdmNz-PKP5Q-PhmZWOYPFt1zq-KAjrmMMhuZL3oeFgxplUWXpY7eyLjBRIniDYirgKYZ1JARp3t8cTfvgQDg_b_ZMbPexjVCqMbWeNSkfX5gOCowZjF_-CMsCk2uN_HU3AJLLozTE7iAAW9EWdFYMzfHHLkEeQQlR/w300-h400/IMG_0386.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WNyf8CphtoZ577qTl5ficFeOQJskssv4TjVggNn9mLQZK5ndo5U8EBaWE-Dw8ZIz2LZWyvQE0aiGdxwNlzvAL6zed0bmMcSz0Gazv18LeoJq-P54cGjzo4dAtD393b4sZQ-SNuASgQuYLKjUpra_cu122ZXy8Qy2-5f7KbDGXXeWLFgryI_vqyKh/w300-h400/IMG_0422.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #674ea7;"><div style="text-align: center;">taking a photo at the famous john harvard statue that is actually a statue that's not even of the actual john harvard (google it if you're curious) // the libraries at harvard were all so big and beautiful</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE4MqE4UKXoo62XdEByRf71Cx6fsQa5rn6cPFIYWKLBh8zcKTQNb-nS8pxAtffOTlmXidq8GrU2wGlcUYIcU-bN0ih8S8uO1_wh45bib0KJGWyD8s_Q6gX0t77VHdofRApKghTj2Pue7GVNRCBfvGarV24nP8EsD2fplXlCCDhDQ5DenHRmfnPZsLN/s4032/IMG_0456.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" 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#3d85c6;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">DC weather was a little better and more like spring.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">although it was super cold the day we took family photos.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">i don't know why we were so unlucky with weather this trip. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">i always love DC cause it's just such a classy city.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">we were also lucky to catch some of the last cherry blossoms.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" 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/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">DC has so many different fun museums - there's this one called planet word that explores languages and words, which was really cool // us all freezing in between photos on our photo shoot day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaQLQxSjh5wZjgNJfdkj0Urod8DCZb58ViNSOrx_T3CysrpMZgEpqefrFiPK4bn7LOsAeTRQhIBUpT_qfY4SVYkcwgx3rG6s-7z_EJ7Zqv0pjKVhP_Yc92Ley7BPNbKLrMV8658H_Uqb9feoWXZQ2E3JCRNAj47upmOpabOB9HljJk47FzK7IGMtkw/w300-h400/IMG_0572.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2IpnmGZSQdetM89dRmA_Uupa-JBB_1aIseEVEWf2jHMnWtcfQXrxDoYaG9lZcZw58IyZ-SsTybxJN8ffFijUs7wCF9b-l-MN49Zzz4EOUtUA0sxsJLWF5QSD_UkHfBXvXGZ6ae-xar68uFL-3ywRbxbZXJr_GNoC77POAN_sYIs4_mX_ZdfG781-/s4032/IMG_0720.JPG" 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class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVeG7GZi9ShHGNYErYFv-xDzOBy8CW7BYruIv24EMTaZfXyUobpS_ZhigcbCrjKiM_lYVZlEt4j7vSp6Br2rpk9OANtgKZzspGNfQyEgVvZiai_HC39gpB83dqNwXXaUQSxF4DHEWxA1150WT13fBX262IFGPrLwM4jKaIbmCvkf-bldAY_diy4XVT/w300-h400/IMG_0927.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTY7yej2AtbRm1y4i58yY1lnvXUvRQRcXeVspcrMD4vYpvZi9nqNvzv4OEZc3Q0i8Rylg_1fLMqqHbPkJgp7M_o8T0Ysyvp0PJ-yFkGeqTejwRwp_ouERMKNecZhWPMTzc_2XxQn5n3i-Ap-7G3e7LyOLoF_ohSI2GUPR7-E22VZx7FjDCNx1yssTq/s4032/IMG_0966.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTY7yej2AtbRm1y4i58yY1lnvXUvRQRcXeVspcrMD4vYpvZi9nqNvzv4OEZc3Q0i8Rylg_1fLMqqHbPkJgp7M_o8T0Ysyvp0PJ-yFkGeqTejwRwp_ouERMKNecZhWPMTzc_2XxQn5n3i-Ap-7G3e7LyOLoF_ohSI2GUPR7-E22VZx7FjDCNx1yssTq/w300-h400/IMG_0966.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">i've done the U.S. capitol tour a few times now but still love it each time - the inside is just gorgeous // the first ladies gallery is still my favourite when we visit the smithsonian museum of american history</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLRP43BqGd547YQbm395L7YifKF-ckV0qf2y82pwYsNNbsyYCQJ97VVH-VWwcI_aOgUdbaxnczft8bxorB79zMl8oAUROspMJD5hPetCeKAQ6zZra-nXCYQ0pxVuRMoQyNkiice3kBPTDQHTCMIqK1XZhUCrixl9dpMWMvCDC9qaL7JnNb7PcHIGiD/s4032/IMG_1162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLRP43BqGd547YQbm395L7YifKF-ckV0qf2y82pwYsNNbsyYCQJ97VVH-VWwcI_aOgUdbaxnczft8bxorB79zMl8oAUROspMJD5hPetCeKAQ6zZra-nXCYQ0pxVuRMoQyNkiice3kBPTDQHTCMIqK1XZhUCrixl9dpMWMvCDC9qaL7JnNb7PcHIGiD/w640-h480/IMG_1162.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #674ea7;"><div style="text-align: center;">biking, to me, is the best way to see the national mall</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxaBLyX6WesopRJnMxPuDn2bwAbnSuHRnzJmVqzK1kXBOL_bVma0qHGZW8Ruz-jnH02-65_7OPKrsX7arme4mYdcSh6jtbrF8FPT9-JdEfbJT-_hHJB9XQP8yHG5NU1LhsGLRMcJ21jI5aMKJRgephfdX5k5S63J0JoCzl7_VXdXpsXbHfKs47fbo/w300-h400/IMG_0985.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi20RNPzYkPyKWATc9sbuqOdfWqrLwTtCLWiXWrmvyXBNmF2NBjHoURcuRNJKMddN1KGHLo1TVm2wPdZiwwvqnppJ6UIOUZqIXuau2ZREeQjrBoD2--NwsyQ5wuSsnmowhJvmW-thnZOLsLM8EOYn2apYJUbqgsNz_t8DLL873T5y4Hj6nl4uczT6uC/s4032/IMG_1113.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi20RNPzYkPyKWATc9sbuqOdfWqrLwTtCLWiXWrmvyXBNmF2NBjHoURcuRNJKMddN1KGHLo1TVm2wPdZiwwvqnppJ6UIOUZqIXuau2ZREeQjrBoD2--NwsyQ5wuSsnmowhJvmW-thnZOLsLM8EOYn2apYJUbqgsNz_t8DLL873T5y4Hj6nl4uczT6uC/w300-h400/IMG_1113.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #674ea7;"><div style="text-align: center;">when you pose all cute for your siblings photo and then someone just cycles right through tsk // we stayed and watched the sunset and the sky change colours. highly recommend!</div></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">NYC was so so so so hot i legit thought i was back in singapore haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i love NYC but there's one season i do not enjoy being in the city and that's summer.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it's just icky and smelly haha, and we were just so exhausted since it was the last stop on our trip.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">we still managed to do some fun new stuff like roosevelt island, vanderbilt summit, harry potter store, etc. but omg i was reminded once again why i hate times square haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the pre-covid crowds are back and it's maybe worse now - it didn't help that we stayed in times square this time so we had to push through the crowds everyday.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">brought back bad memories of pushing through the crowds (of tourists who just stop in the middle of nowhere or walk really slow) during lunchtime while working in the city.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczq_ObjAdmeDDh33-ZvjSBG_qWs-2SPJU2lPvfeJPY7ANVw8mzoFiwazAPkpxJaUZlJ0pF_UCqsIy74YjWto_lM55F0JzErKBOOwDdo7OEXE5Z3mwQpD_wCBWKlVSlMax4WSl3aom3Xux-uhOzdFruqPmCCAFgcXYKO3wlrk9UNZ4x2Dpu9jWxtBn/s4032/IMG_1207.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxNHuF818dfTQdJ-Vkzj0wSHnAiaQHO6EFHjV8TBul9ahFHKD5rXszH1sEl4DM89sqvCRIgmXSYI-QOPH8n5WdA1_7X0bpivgznQxyrOnpRkxbrOpQLv3U1hPXfjJHhvWF2lR1fzsPweKWmFr24qLXf_PPzsyibo7OfZ9GYCjC7_g7z20QVw_E5bSt/w300-h400/IMG_1268.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFAg_8jnkDVT5LlQ7lONPRP68JmFGY6WRHay4jCiIs8ju8Okq064pji4OU-NFDfu_FtOHCv5h4AhnyVrykdH_rlQkaOiN4p08mxU3L9pIrPWruZ-syhB4MXaChpR8g2TR7GcZa3YPxWVv_umTyEwc_ksiUUgxTKYBz-uPlIXZiDUVEw0zbBOUeiXOv/w300-h400/IMG_1273.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #674ea7;"><div style="text-align: center;">the harry potter store was glorious - made me so excited for my upcoming trip to the harry potter studio tour this fall</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCkE8y0hWJssalVHY7Je4tVzHutqjtHj215lRcwbHEjXw_I1Y-d7pQSh7cA_8Kz0z8BzhJ2bd4UGSRj2jI3xZIwDmeHi7lQmXtkPdbMhdKzSmJZbN-UZV8JO3l23ovS1xc-e19xIEHmYuzECd-ncFFxYX3g-g7KOY3nBsD13rdg12ZkVDiXsxQpWiP/w300-h400/IMG_1288.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpU9PLoH0t931RMbKLL7mpbO6v60weP-ORPIzCgLma7PRVdAQHOOGs8IAn5ubWs1uVyt96TDgoF5fx98lJ0nlJvaO0El5g3y2g7yZPk9kabKGIViOUIHmwvy6T9hXxXgnN3bQklyioaM3C5dVcM_9nDGJDS7kb7lzvUFCwo2Xm9VFodlR9ZKiSvt-_/s4032/IMG_1312.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpU9PLoH0t931RMbKLL7mpbO6v60weP-ORPIzCgLma7PRVdAQHOOGs8IAn5ubWs1uVyt96TDgoF5fx98lJ0nlJvaO0El5g3y2g7yZPk9kabKGIViOUIHmwvy6T9hXxXgnN3bQklyioaM3C5dVcM_9nDGJDS7kb7lzvUFCwo2Xm9VFodlR9ZKiSvt-_/w300-h400/IMG_1312.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">nightmare crowds // i just love the sight of the empire state building so much. this is super random but also, the empire state building twitter channel is hilarious. if you're looking to be entertained, go check out their tweets haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbhc_2HFT-iQ2_9Pka5XbYNCUS-hL1Ny75ga7wk7MQidjXfIFCEaLbtEkvru1EdBNmcBYcZ0cuCloT5WmG7skYBGxQozN0-X9gxIqG5RmSvdRn8GoO4UMo8jzM2kCmNQH8p7DrRuDOOZ4W-9DU0ZnKkyXMVg3O2jA1PPfQBswwtoyljpMVA62NBf0/s4032/IMG_1542.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQbhc_2HFT-iQ2_9Pka5XbYNCUS-hL1Ny75ga7wk7MQidjXfIFCEaLbtEkvru1EdBNmcBYcZ0cuCloT5WmG7skYBGxQozN0-X9gxIqG5RmSvdRn8GoO4UMo8jzM2kCmNQH8p7DrRuDOOZ4W-9DU0ZnKkyXMVg3O2jA1PPfQBswwtoyljpMVA62NBf0/w300-h400/IMG_1542.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh-5qeqv1Fv5QwQ95Z9_oihlLyfKYT7xpwetaaeoZ-mnpgt75AXmhBxshRe43Ld-jcBkdazuGGHGLlcaZfyTVS1PfkMODkyRu_ocsiHCBF0UfkSnl5YVxPmr36uM5Qp64zmvSh7Q48lrytHXQX_PNNw3VoEprA7BsKITzHXdrpb6jhWDh7m2Mi_UmX/w300-h400/IMG_1554.JPG" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">the views riding the roosevelt island tramway and the views of the city from the island are amazing! highly recommend this as well if you've never been to the island</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and there you have it, 2023 first half travels haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it's crazy how travel has just gone back to normal like covid never happened.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">was just thinking last night while baking about life during the pandemic when everything was shut down and all we did was bake, stay indoors or go out for a run.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">life was a lot simpler then and i think we lived in a very different state of mind.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">we've sadly gone back to busy busy lifestyles where time is a scarcity again. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it's so difficult to align schedules, especially with travel back in the mix.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">and oftentimes you start to see people's true selves based on how they prioritise.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i honestly get quite tilted when people show a lack of respect for other people's time by flaking out.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it's like we're all busy people and when i block out time for you, that means i'm turning away other people or sacrificing precious time i could be running errands or resting. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">sometimes i feel like people don't get that or 'allow' conflicts to happen, which is just very disrespectful in my opinion </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">but recently i came across this thing called the "let them" theory, which is basically a state of mind in which we refrain from forcing other people to match our energy, expectations and needs.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">you allow people to show who they truly are and then you recalibrate your expectations so you don't waste your energy. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">although i still feel it's a matter of respect, i do think recalibrating my expectations and adjusting how i invest my feelings into such friendships helps my overall sense of peace. </span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i had a lot of other thoughts when i started this blog post but they've kind of slipped my mind now and my travel updates took up a lot more than i thought they were going to haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">plus i'm going to be late for dinner so till next time.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-13249615984915311902022-11-20T20:02:00.009-08:002022-11-20T20:12:34.579-08:00Q2-Q4 2022;<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">oh my, I have been so horrible at updating my blog this year.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">honestly every time I tell myself I need to blog, I end up getting sucked into a book, editing a Reel, or scrolling TikTok.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">but I've been working on monthly Reels since June (with the exception of mid-Sep to Oct cause life was so crazy with sam's wedding and vacation plans and all) so I feel like at least there's a peek into my daily life haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it's been quite fun to edit my monthly Reels cause it helps me look back on each month and relive the funny moments (captured with sound too). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">I titled this blog post Q2-Q4 but I really didn't even do a Q1 update this year haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">life has gone by so so so so quickly this year I can barely believe it's thanksgiving this week and then we're into december. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">I haven't even started on my holiday cards soooooo </span><span style="color: #800180;">i'm so screwed haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">there's just been so much going on I feel like I went from CNY to my Korea trip in the spring to interviewing for jobs to wrapping up my JTC life to planning our U.S. trip to sam's wedding and our hawaii trip to starting a new job to going to bkk to now. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and then in early nov, my grandmother passed away and tate was hospitalised.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and it was just a lot.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">I feel like i'm still barely recovering from it all. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">but yeah, that above is pretty much my year in a nutshell. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">outside of that, I'm really just constantly planning my next trip, reading a book, or meeting up with my friends so we can catch up on each other's lives on at least a monthly basis.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it's a simple simple life but i'm contented. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">was just looking back on my New Year's Resolutions since it's coming to the end of the year and I must say I've done pretty good.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i managed to hit probably half of them - that's pretty good right haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">anyway, as usual, less rambling and more visual updates:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gkn17huw_TwNV_OAd68MzwlqIkkzBzS6ms5jxfCHxio7F56AOb1Zd5cij5QncMNHuvcWGJz6bzmXUykxUZa3Xe2x9O7W7HThW6lE6Wjm-Vfbnlm-IuxWLxUGMobFxi-TJqqwgKtji5pob-Et87Iq-czCvJ4_S0yQj9Itx1ZaCP2LfyClo4yVJDv3/s2048/IMG_8857.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gkn17huw_TwNV_OAd68MzwlqIkkzBzS6ms5jxfCHxio7F56AOb1Zd5cij5QncMNHuvcWGJz6bzmXUykxUZa3Xe2x9O7W7HThW6lE6Wjm-Vfbnlm-IuxWLxUGMobFxi-TJqqwgKtji5pob-Et87Iq-czCvJ4_S0yQj9Itx1ZaCP2LfyClo4yVJDv3/w426-h640/IMG_8857.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">january 2022 highlight: matt flying in to surprise sam and propose</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ2zgrVstkd5zO8RokIvX8HMWZCmIVtdcdP_GLGB7dklAW9nX5agqkIAeUpkr09mKziMEN0XNugPvBsO805OD319n6rIgdWtSdWq-fO9etkk2d5UT8V1cBdDRnw1-1NK1sLOYazlNRujBww9hd0wV6tqNP_MCAtcGkzQ0vmXN0FYi2-jQcPkF_ktC6/s6000/AIP_EVE_Matt-Meyer_2022-01-29_HR_010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ2zgrVstkd5zO8RokIvX8HMWZCmIVtdcdP_GLGB7dklAW9nX5agqkIAeUpkr09mKziMEN0XNugPvBsO805OD319n6rIgdWtSdWq-fO9etkk2d5UT8V1cBdDRnw1-1NK1sLOYazlNRujBww9hd0wV6tqNP_MCAtcGkzQ0vmXN0FYi2-jQcPkF_ktC6/w640-h426/AIP_EVE_Matt-Meyer_2022-01-29_HR_010.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">can I just say, find yourself friends who will come over and help you build a balloon arch for your sister's proposal haha </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(p.s. i'm very proud of the balloon arch we built)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh77ZxJi-RXwo_47cEd7-lMynMMtb469cZVvG6tq6C9HI5Wa2atoK0m5UsxwBAl_5EbEVojatNTk3IkXVGdGN_Vwni7OqPYueLAnqiBfhBgfVtLeCA-5OCUv2cqU6uL6B0_Yr89TtuI-ZxOKRNFE20Sm6PQKPl5z6ElNSQW0Q9ZGx8xNVykQFHey0ha/s6000/AIP_EVE_Matt-Meyer_2022-01-29_HR_093.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh77ZxJi-RXwo_47cEd7-lMynMMtb469cZVvG6tq6C9HI5Wa2atoK0m5UsxwBAl_5EbEVojatNTk3IkXVGdGN_Vwni7OqPYueLAnqiBfhBgfVtLeCA-5OCUv2cqU6uL6B0_Yr89TtuI-ZxOKRNFE20Sm6PQKPl5z6ElNSQW0Q9ZGx8xNVykQFHey0ha/w640-h426/AIP_EVE_Matt-Meyer_2022-01-29_HR_093.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I mean, just look at how good that looks haha</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZsK11esLw0ZZB-tVmZmxNJUED5ncpBdm32m_QwM4MzT5aBgooMLUcv77if21cF5mIYUJliC8f5TpRwk2MVGwjSGkCk1zE3ScVVJGKPNKykAqsuPQUKey70XEWzkXvQosD7tPCIQd8mxVjAowOnY8z-SOPMOoDSaBzyWTpdAWl0PkynkpET1LFe7K/s4032/IMG_8909.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZsK11esLw0ZZB-tVmZmxNJUED5ncpBdm32m_QwM4MzT5aBgooMLUcv77if21cF5mIYUJliC8f5TpRwk2MVGwjSGkCk1zE3ScVVJGKPNKykAqsuPQUKey70XEWzkXvQosD7tPCIQd8mxVjAowOnY8z-SOPMOoDSaBzyWTpdAWl0PkynkpET1LFe7K/w640-h480/IMG_8909.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">reunion dinner 2022 (so excited to have a full reunion dinner next CNY since there are no more gathering restrictions)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnh2G9_p0bB3zYelm7eWcTxd1R3BuuXfJNm5oTSoaAamejy-nvuBt6zQ2kxpqiagar0BqzzPcd46KwFLys3EyEwxv1bs2AAWsOLTwz98vKIOEtHHEG6o1VHCr5s_JjaUYwUWHbzuJbULeBWZ5GQP1u1CCqDtwgr7GgnSWh2eSrX6RUH2N6ip83LdO/s4032/IMG_9169.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSnh2G9_p0bB3zYelm7eWcTxd1R3BuuXfJNm5oTSoaAamejy-nvuBt6zQ2kxpqiagar0BqzzPcd46KwFLys3EyEwxv1bs2AAWsOLTwz98vKIOEtHHEG6o1VHCr5s_JjaUYwUWHbzuJbULeBWZ5GQP1u1CCqDtwgr7GgnSWh2eSrX6RUH2N6ip83LdO/w640-h480/IMG_9169.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Chen sisters with our cheongsams and signature mahjong bags</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjisdUnPVOdXIyg8zI_RkT2Z04-NeGiK2bOspOfYWZRYASRjyk38ELv_4LR5leWjFXTnpY8Kh3zsC8hLQ9qvc01mmwNvC0qDShjeZRJRG-aS29kv4fpc__tlqtLFe5IdtERr0CF-iW4RvRliJ5FenSEqHu6MZeJIFRYO5HUdKh3Zs64wWcDb2bdo6p-/s5472/IMG_1846.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjisdUnPVOdXIyg8zI_RkT2Z04-NeGiK2bOspOfYWZRYASRjyk38ELv_4LR5leWjFXTnpY8Kh3zsC8hLQ9qvc01mmwNvC0qDShjeZRJRG-aS29kv4fpc__tlqtLFe5IdtERr0CF-iW4RvRliJ5FenSEqHu6MZeJIFRYO5HUdKh3Zs64wWcDb2bdo6p-/w400-h266/IMG_1846.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">random photo of me at a work event - working hard to capture stuff for social media haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6OSfKocVImpLgtw3cLUQaXs45M_iaIunmjswxafEnrKaqZrCdldfvMfdY-1qrQXTsX4CA-MJTdIdX51RNn6YshaGGwAJ-X7fQDahIKqpcHRJTiA-hIjjjRaZNEWoe1AkxqaGfojAjaPUKmFOyCTsrX73Ck1VYkKrGiXjTH2uPO4Hos24Zi3UZGCvC/s4032/IMG_1925.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6OSfKocVImpLgtw3cLUQaXs45M_iaIunmjswxafEnrKaqZrCdldfvMfdY-1qrQXTsX4CA-MJTdIdX51RNn6YshaGGwAJ-X7fQDahIKqpcHRJTiA-hIjjjRaZNEWoe1AkxqaGfojAjaPUKmFOyCTsrX73Ck1VYkKrGiXjTH2uPO4Hos24Zi3UZGCvC/w640-h480/IMG_1925.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">may 2022 highlight: JTC OG comms div gathering. at this point, more than half had left JTC. and now it's like 3/4 of the OG team has left.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj74jwJzziCuQ9J7h6CrTQzRzbl_bnOZDZ7VotK3LyjsibkcBmGVrAHpT4zl3w0RLkC15L8ncMALH2gor-txrsmFAB4xWsVZo1H_-YW67vTxYiudZAcSHoVavX5KUH7GtB4G-FipRYfwi7t3yuCCtxSInPVYEurEKfXkHvBbL0VTqsz50k8AEaCbbW/s1620/IMG_2052.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj74jwJzziCuQ9J7h6CrTQzRzbl_bnOZDZ7VotK3LyjsibkcBmGVrAHpT4zl3w0RLkC15L8ncMALH2gor-txrsmFAB4xWsVZo1H_-YW67vTxYiudZAcSHoVavX5KUH7GtB4G-FipRYfwi7t3yuCCtxSInPVYEurEKfXkHvBbL0VTqsz50k8AEaCbbW/w426-h640/IMG_2052.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">this photo always reminds me of how obsessed we were with the johnny depp versus amber heard trials haha. cause we had dinner out and then adjourned to sj's house to watch the session that night haha.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNOEv0-c3D2jDE8Fpkp_OF5m_KUFrLHDd1KB2CGtAd1cM6JOEDnCwIJ70pzFest-5xeoPtmIbx6nv0HwigqovrENPu6knX7Fr3Z4pUuPPcF3alBnmIFgKnJVYwIKW4JJAlqmhw5zVusJPfvXREaq7ihMAVH8ZV2jiOOwc7Rjyt4smCoJwvlAIg6QzC/s4032/IMG_2284.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNOEv0-c3D2jDE8Fpkp_OF5m_KUFrLHDd1KB2CGtAd1cM6JOEDnCwIJ70pzFest-5xeoPtmIbx6nv0HwigqovrENPu6knX7Fr3Z4pUuPPcF3alBnmIFgKnJVYwIKW4JJAlqmhw5zVusJPfvXREaq7ihMAVH8ZV2jiOOwc7Rjyt4smCoJwvlAIg6QzC/w480-h640/IMG_2284.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I never want to see a 7am call time any more in my life haha - I honestly did so many videos in JTC I feel like I need a break for a few years haha</span></div><div class="separator" 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for the first time</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR7bo0WRwcjZf10xQ9M011KTNLC9iQ2qSF7k5xmiJikkDJ-Dt4eM_WLMWakhyrpvAI40OpgdgaiES35BGuVK4aNIPosAi-zIeQcwiIJTBVtrgowBHTfGnoi31acpw7CQbd3azm74Zd0m8gaAxQeQHYXyl_ApFCoCQZ9J8gLG-79SvMgoXpTaTbuAlH/s4032/IMG_3073.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR7bo0WRwcjZf10xQ9M011KTNLC9iQ2qSF7k5xmiJikkDJ-Dt4eM_WLMWakhyrpvAI40OpgdgaiES35BGuVK4aNIPosAi-zIeQcwiIJTBVtrgowBHTfGnoi31acpw7CQbd3azm74Zd0m8gaAxQeQHYXyl_ApFCoCQZ9J8gLG-79SvMgoXpTaTbuAlH/w640-h480/IMG_3073.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">august 2022 highlight #1: jess was back for holiday! we are still eagerly waiting for her to move home haha</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ42t3-5I7_V4DUmrA1lWMwQkOKcViTZHse19NfGxwwBrGQPH8Jn-VmF9hVSKBI7eZIAvS1wvZLubKnvlebf7vMK8UoY1EcwHI7CZlhMT-a25DQOg78WLPNy6pbslZWzAcuiIimhDR4186INoYNC0AsUCir3jelsHnagWluaxWdUnx8hJdO9x9AFne/s4032/IMG_3405.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ42t3-5I7_V4DUmrA1lWMwQkOKcViTZHse19NfGxwwBrGQPH8Jn-VmF9hVSKBI7eZIAvS1wvZLubKnvlebf7vMK8UoY1EcwHI7CZlhMT-a25DQOg78WLPNy6pbslZWzAcuiIimhDR4186INoYNC0AsUCir3jelsHnagWluaxWdUnx8hJdO9x9AFne/w480-h640/IMG_3405.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">august highlight #2: we finally did a girls' trip to JB and it was so great. everything was so cheap and we ate, got our nails done and got a massage</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOFVuesTsXWeri1vxB3CyBrw6kSLrWjS7Bt2Sf-zg7fF4j3Lrpt2eZY4ugoK-ePylnYmzRU5XCvaWvc7oof-E8ntlmAjxSUWO6So_mCpGbjZig4kZXL12TGDPl-_50dNbvXQUp3y0cD4XlSSnrJZVUY-tCKCNSnCj2Hfh4GV3KEYiT4j7mKDyAjfD0/s4032/IMG_3527.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOFVuesTsXWeri1vxB3CyBrw6kSLrWjS7Bt2Sf-zg7fF4j3Lrpt2eZY4ugoK-ePylnYmzRU5XCvaWvc7oof-E8ntlmAjxSUWO6So_mCpGbjZig4kZXL12TGDPl-_50dNbvXQUp3y0cD4XlSSnrJZVUY-tCKCNSnCj2Hfh4GV3KEYiT4j7mKDyAjfD0/w640-h480/IMG_3527.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">august highlight #3: </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I accepted a new job after more than a month of interviewing and interviewing, and then had farewell meal after farewell meal with some of the best people i've been so privileged to work with over the past 4 and a half years</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExTqrA_00ilFYlL5D2BeZtUtfIHC9AFBVzq_6oB8gFb4CnREpG15ZCia7TgxEueEcA24cTgvI2nBsYkACSrBP0SHbV85mlBy73bdeJWrVJvzatwsGhrkmP5k8a1aWBbECdxDVi-0yfYRmcCbPFuErtZ26Z4IcrUF3EUzYcG2qDmkFu_a_duW6Fe4E/s4032/IMG_4210.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExTqrA_00ilFYlL5D2BeZtUtfIHC9AFBVzq_6oB8gFb4CnREpG15ZCia7TgxEueEcA24cTgvI2nBsYkACSrBP0SHbV85mlBy73bdeJWrVJvzatwsGhrkmP5k8a1aWBbECdxDVi-0yfYRmcCbPFuErtZ26Z4IcrUF3EUzYcG2qDmkFu_a_duW6Fe4E/w640-h480/IMG_4210.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">september 2022 highlight #1: hanging out with friends in newport beach. california was the first stop on our U.S. trip since we flew into LA. this time, we decided to stay at newport beach and explore the area and it was really nice. on our first full day there we explored balboa island and rented a duffy boat. you drive the boat yourself and you're totally on your own haha. it wasn't hard to drive it but you do have to concentrate haha. it was really fun and chill just driving the boat around the area and chatting and watching the sun set. definitely one of my favourite things from the trip.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqiu4cmnC7W5KGUta8e6oFpl-5mUcJTpKT-2ZseO16jZUc4c3NGfYBHVuhwe5cC_ml_ANB5xgz5d14U0hvJ5-fI4cGFLa0rzS7jPZVrn9cqOsVtbCMBXkBF6eOG832XndmsTZmxpl0nN3w4tRFaqN7IyYmbWIKi6i-Y1VGvWlkyPqTEDzxut0njPWo/s4032/IMG_4344.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqiu4cmnC7W5KGUta8e6oFpl-5mUcJTpKT-2ZseO16jZUc4c3NGfYBHVuhwe5cC_ml_ANB5xgz5d14U0hvJ5-fI4cGFLa0rzS7jPZVrn9cqOsVtbCMBXkBF6eOG832XndmsTZmxpl0nN3w4tRFaqN7IyYmbWIKi6i-Y1VGvWlkyPqTEDzxut0njPWo/w480-h640/IMG_4344.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">september highlight #2: of course I had to get my annual Disney fix haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf8rqlssitBnLlw2IUBBverf-Lls5lwH-2VamXERClKkvK8393_bs4IEC_CHLXUyCTax3fQhJmdsxX0_9nEABrOZMeCtTE1khHe5-JajhLomf8kvcFS1vet18BQQhxS0zy7miHfE9RBl-gAYudbqxiDmQFvQbkf3Wh5fhxSSgspMcateoCNyzArWKb/s4032/IMG_4476.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf8rqlssitBnLlw2IUBBverf-Lls5lwH-2VamXERClKkvK8393_bs4IEC_CHLXUyCTax3fQhJmdsxX0_9nEABrOZMeCtTE1khHe5-JajhLomf8kvcFS1vet18BQQhxS0zy7miHfE9RBl-gAYudbqxiDmQFvQbkf3Wh5fhxSSgspMcateoCNyzArWKb/w480-h640/IMG_4476.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">september highlight #3: so glad we were able to throw sam a bridal shower just a few days before the wedding. a small intimate dinner affair but it was great.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh79zLkh4kEHfDtRkDXsnQTrTWByvf89S9UL8lQHK3Kk08OXR8g7cWKcq6MAQK43Rxvfi9oWI2IUWzQeshuFfkToSKUC1nA--QX-r1KUL0qc24iOkqZZcOsr7yYTG7dUh4sNvzZ_HZfG0htj33Wtj_v9H_7dNDo72aabS_VV5k8Laq8J0dGry09rkTF/w300-h400/IMG_4542.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRV5cCKLWtga0q3e3LHTCBl0xdFoe5XwJnYSHT2XhyY94BCESPG1rXPe-eHeK7C26mFeIlU-aDgUf0uDkJ0vt9gIv6iXHjjzUin_UeIiCG_sPAzLCAUBJOasWLT06EONvqjgNTtHNjgBLvyqFaT1Gg_3CCGjfeKrLwBklSaqYP9Ebwk3hZgfaalQvW/s4032/IMG_4547.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRV5cCKLWtga0q3e3LHTCBl0xdFoe5XwJnYSHT2XhyY94BCESPG1rXPe-eHeK7C26mFeIlU-aDgUf0uDkJ0vt9gIv6iXHjjzUin_UeIiCG_sPAzLCAUBJOasWLT06EONvqjgNTtHNjgBLvyqFaT1Gg_3CCGjfeKrLwBklSaqYP9Ebwk3hZgfaalQvW/w300-h400/IMG_4547.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">september highlight #4 and the main point of our whole trip: sam's wedding! so proud of my bro-in-law for being such a good sport for the gatecrash</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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good!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGFjlfJgLZqzGXACBFR5FfBN39M2zFedrlovsCdFLbCcXRlZxiHiJLWBgjslmGx3yVCK9-EmFI21A3_AcOFK37B28KszQ8_XTQZ-ir7wTfOZfkv8iyqoUcMxLrnzy4lNhwvWvXcz6Xg_jGb0CRp2IDw6hZpv9ognId7jc55nilfvQQFPO_WOvj6GrC/s4032/IMG_4765.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGFjlfJgLZqzGXACBFR5FfBN39M2zFedrlovsCdFLbCcXRlZxiHiJLWBgjslmGx3yVCK9-EmFI21A3_AcOFK37B28KszQ8_XTQZ-ir7wTfOZfkv8iyqoUcMxLrnzy4lNhwvWvXcz6Xg_jGb0CRp2IDw6hZpv9ognId7jc55nilfvQQFPO_WOvj6GrC/w640-h480/IMG_4765.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">september highlight #5: spent a week in kauai after the wedding and the scenery in hawaii is always breathtaking</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirk_eVEMmZ5j72xzxGk8tAs1xAfBK6csp6_jYUEk2wkoLEUuX-ViCkmQpJI4Cum14uWURAp_qlkYLd6wjyH8eu4GSzYY7uKvhSx8p5kS2YdB4nnFPVc5FXldBgw0Cu3dwcF4_tgHl9x5NF7lNGGpcN4kQjaXW1e3-xRMfigokH8vJL_Z-9JB34LTR1/s1440/IMG_4949.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirk_eVEMmZ5j72xzxGk8tAs1xAfBK6csp6_jYUEk2wkoLEUuX-ViCkmQpJI4Cum14uWURAp_qlkYLd6wjyH8eu4GSzYY7uKvhSx8p5kS2YdB4nnFPVc5FXldBgw0Cu3dwcF4_tgHl9x5NF7lNGGpcN4kQjaXW1e3-xRMfigokH8vJL_Z-9JB34LTR1/w640-h480/IMG_4949.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the sunsets were seriously wow and we were able to see turtles and seals at the beaches too</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq8MDMvsf9BMYf2-1A-AXlDmYWe1fwtMD-qneGXsatrNwdkqGjZtNmh0zH0L0uNMKZPWKUclZXQr6yUKqMFjDfZ82e0buWND6dQvs-rg-Wnb3pI4tFjW0bEMgyQsbMh3j_shvEQ4HkpzSGBiO36CfcaBb5s-F5OBBbR3P6Y42wbQ1b0ILly70biImn/s4032/IMG_4933.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq8MDMvsf9BMYf2-1A-AXlDmYWe1fwtMD-qneGXsatrNwdkqGjZtNmh0zH0L0uNMKZPWKUclZXQr6yUKqMFjDfZ82e0buWND6dQvs-rg-Wnb3pI4tFjW0bEMgyQsbMh3j_shvEQ4HkpzSGBiO36CfcaBb5s-F5OBBbR3P6Y42wbQ1b0ILly70biImn/w640-h480/IMG_4933.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">look at that golden hour</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Y_rIznvMQ8sRcNcp1ZrYqpLpKOuH4xqsKdUr_P7r528JtrT3-oSpN1NLV-1DTBfmKAfBjC8wOpC3OzdKNkitgWgxKopw18pI3MoIzyY01RHlagKQ80alC-UxAZtErvIDOz1cn2eTP05-kBhddiXFi33K7mq6cnD01dpfwhY2mIHGt0qEJrehiLCy/s4032/IMG_4791.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Y_rIznvMQ8sRcNcp1ZrYqpLpKOuH4xqsKdUr_P7r528JtrT3-oSpN1NLV-1DTBfmKAfBjC8wOpC3OzdKNkitgWgxKopw18pI3MoIzyY01RHlagKQ80alC-UxAZtErvIDOz1cn2eTP05-kBhddiXFi33K7mq6cnD01dpfwhY2mIHGt0qEJrehiLCy/w640-h480/IMG_4791.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we took a helicopter ride to see it all and I highly recommend it!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaOyAiLqlEIomjfdVComKR3BDFh6gJC9kPE5bYLGhVVyGYi6OSukpC5vZ9nb4kCTsa_-UZQhryR_5Pr8Xy3A93bPVfxSiaMwPn-1cD4lY6eeAoS98QjhS9aWk1pseG3BWeCNC4Ajvw6Zo8GgxbbZMjJcDTZspzh1fp5sfEs3ebcd_8D2pktz9amEeg/s4032/IMG_4975.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaOyAiLqlEIomjfdVComKR3BDFh6gJC9kPE5bYLGhVVyGYi6OSukpC5vZ9nb4kCTsa_-UZQhryR_5Pr8Xy3A93bPVfxSiaMwPn-1cD4lY6eeAoS98QjhS9aWk1pseG3BWeCNC4Ajvw6Zo8GgxbbZMjJcDTZspzh1fp5sfEs3ebcd_8D2pktz9amEeg/w640-h480/IMG_4975.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">everything was so blue. clear blue skies, clear blue waters. it was amazing. the weather though omg sooooo burning hot haha. we got the most intense tan lines haha, especially after kayaking</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5c9cpYAe8MeDLHxikY_reXVmIZoTR6RgIH4Gmz2vN80e4MW487qJIWc7Y94589yU1XYYE1ryP46VuzcSmk3oPyoIf60ftJnEr2CGnRb7gbPZ_xKLXKSFA3mUqGVwaFy4O8yP-XBSUh101l4IIn10Q28hnjD0zLDS5724ISCyx28A7Zhkh2EWM8R62/s4032/IMG_5050.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5c9cpYAe8MeDLHxikY_reXVmIZoTR6RgIH4Gmz2vN80e4MW487qJIWc7Y94589yU1XYYE1ryP46VuzcSmk3oPyoIf60ftJnEr2CGnRb7gbPZ_xKLXKSFA3mUqGVwaFy4O8yP-XBSUh101l4IIn10Q28hnjD0zLDS5724ISCyx28A7Zhkh2EWM8R62/w640-h480/IMG_5050.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">took a sunset dinner cruise and that really allows you to get up close to the na pali coast. na pali coast from above, from the cruise, from waimea canyon lookouts, etc. was definitely my favorite part of the island</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNA9GFsGc2_lQDoxlEhZK93zEjLFEw6U-EoXHNDKGODnD_cRhzoaxI6X-ZIepwX9ap_wdvFHIZAdSYVXpM58Wq-u3OFUU1psrW42QImQrYkyZ9zCvxdIji5t-sKdAgpqEdOGTR3AprdS-2qtHnzaUYlUP0yMGuO2uOAq9ttPK0_bkDbLyMpct6qYJ4/w300-h400/IMG_5117.JPG" width="300" /><br /></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">kayaked and hiked to this waterfall. surprisingly our arms didn't ache the next day but we got some intense tan lines for sure haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIpCwXPTEpizgR7f7lsoq_DxAa78WliyYmOn1gMDFaMzQcBZ-Ex4Q9fIxJ5w8tuQgLrKCLsJBgvAWy4lWHM917lzWRb8QTfVACfHkRga2S2UKP7zxD8Iv438mRTXYdCEgL0QCSZu0VeC5GiqIn1r46XdHkmZ-PagEw6flbOYa7ylNwdsAEbNuJx8FX/w300-h400/IMG_4904.JPG" width="300" /><a 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoncnP5i-GvJMXi61Xdj7w3yGKwXm2kpjWoRsyPyPeMs_Jvz4ShTvOQDq5htx5QDG8J4AevP_y6mv4ffQZGMAUNLchH1Fsxy0xYzZYrh85BSl_FIYrboXJlMODnGlYmIsoe4jDyepNSQYqmu0DBBTeUPqM62vVV9Vbr0bVxY_fDn4TNIrvZCqtIEwy/w300-h400/IMG_4820.JPG" width="300" /><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;">jumping around on vacation as usual</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd3gYS9Nrijk43inrMBF2T7eCBwQDQrp5Yw1K9LorbUi9XaPJkZboRl1f4YiKgJmqf5mwj8TrXj6tIkxGPgyL6Tk3TCeJY7oFgkSjRzN1yhW0p54gSouBA5fjWINA2XpV6UUmObDPQI60Ygn9v-wuLdU5ctBmESkj0RebhZ5XOTBoOPSKjSb7hnMvA/s3750/kauai-09-30-2022-family-trip-84_original.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="3750" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd3gYS9Nrijk43inrMBF2T7eCBwQDQrp5Yw1K9LorbUi9XaPJkZboRl1f4YiKgJmqf5mwj8TrXj6tIkxGPgyL6Tk3TCeJY7oFgkSjRzN1yhW0p54gSouBA5fjWINA2XpV6UUmObDPQI60Ygn9v-wuLdU5ctBmESkj0RebhZ5XOTBoOPSKjSb7hnMvA/w640-h426/kauai-09-30-2022-family-trip-84_original.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">family photos in hawaii</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-YSOXdp2U2QdQ-0qWaLq79272xrO-VazBdqE_OdH6ZbIbPOfrRdhhiKAMmfS8T2cLB2Ci8WoExMQvIKjOTzcFRDMLrLx61x_m4C9V41Rhad3qvODRDwWGHUGSWx-ga6NtEkvOZgWEPQggSUnpz0eZN_eVpkvzfVu0dEhD9ULhsnWVsCs_MrM657O/s4000/IMG_5515.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="4000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-YSOXdp2U2QdQ-0qWaLq79272xrO-VazBdqE_OdH6ZbIbPOfrRdhhiKAMmfS8T2cLB2Ci8WoExMQvIKjOTzcFRDMLrLx61x_m4C9V41Rhad3qvODRDwWGHUGSWx-ga6NtEkvOZgWEPQggSUnpz0eZN_eVpkvzfVu0dEhD9ULhsnWVsCs_MrM657O/w640-h360/IMG_5515.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">october 2022 highlight #1: bidding farewell to JTC - farewell gathering with the best team</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDmzg_Xb1AMYRxWXbsSm0v_fMEuK2qtxI3dInKv4hzZYr7DyrjSnRQ9mPRRZw_V01UXglf4mI69_QDNbBHz1RBno17----2netWQOO4yMrHfNVJknh8358uojBig7nFMUcgThJBaSrzrFZpkxB2qKZEN67mvmG_2C-TfK2w5vbpzRGDmJOYkQTtIn/s4032/IMG_5570.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDmzg_Xb1AMYRxWXbsSm0v_fMEuK2qtxI3dInKv4hzZYr7DyrjSnRQ9mPRRZw_V01UXglf4mI69_QDNbBHz1RBno17----2netWQOO4yMrHfNVJknh8358uojBig7nFMUcgThJBaSrzrFZpkxB2qKZEN67mvmG_2C-TfK2w5vbpzRGDmJOYkQTtIn/w480-h640/IMG_5570.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">october highlight #2: started my new job!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEigzdHRvNOczTrH6_hSjYSO8Ldqc2UDh8WOF0zcNfLmaEilblRMWZpb4ypz91DOvGMbmIhoctPvEQ3LkTsFWz6mn7uuFw7rTZwJQiLghWaqkUvrgA1st43M8QtRArYhysW7OHr6_rD6exSSZcnQ_8E-zBHok5olPJ-zhhVdu870Flu2ZSZeVIXLE/s4032/IMG_5854.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEigzdHRvNOczTrH6_hSjYSO8Ldqc2UDh8WOF0zcNfLmaEilblRMWZpb4ypz91DOvGMbmIhoctPvEQ3LkTsFWz6mn7uuFw7rTZwJQiLghWaqkUvrgA1st43M8QtRArYhysW7OHr6_rD6exSSZcnQ_8E-zBHok5olPJ-zhhVdu870Flu2ZSZeVIXLE/w480-h640/IMG_5854.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">october highlight #3: taking a trip to bkk for the first time since covid. I seriously love taking short trips to bkk cause food is cheap and good, as well as massages omg. shopping is good too. there's just nothing not to love about bkk. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBuda6dloB2JPqxTwORiGF0ztRMvY0d8qKxWVyPOwHWYoUmaQCUobuvoreNdIu2SlSw3biXPLRAn1V7EhEjjkyU5AR5sCHB41xpKKsiujcOJd3kR_NEASD1EMvlh1xSHw8q_QCKMpg4hTiQXtmWP3IkFWhX2-VMPQLum1SQwH7yqN-M4y_PpQVJUU8/s700/IMG_5957.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="700" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBuda6dloB2JPqxTwORiGF0ztRMvY0d8qKxWVyPOwHWYoUmaQCUobuvoreNdIu2SlSw3biXPLRAn1V7EhEjjkyU5AR5sCHB41xpKKsiujcOJd3kR_NEASD1EMvlh1xSHw8q_QCKMpg4hTiQXtmWP3IkFWhX2-VMPQLum1SQwH7yqN-M4y_PpQVJUU8/w640-h442/IMG_5957.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><div style="text-align: center;">their latest skywalk attraction with a great view of the city from above</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Tl9_1v0lETJl_SCJmDznontRdanFgciStOqRAe0OhxpBQn5wFKX-FttyeTPzOhIVwpRK6EFKNfZEUPCIS6ux-FtU5msuGtMXxJ9_Bhl-WLPomho-37s2z2Y7ePAsw9j3DVUXyO3kQBRHk1J1aOMKQOpXwEANWdGObVapBBlXiRz7VKf7RekEsEWl/w300-h400/IMG_6060.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjupIkaYb90lc9iyHhj5_gOw5MM3u0dAvkCR9gLEkyS0OSwapW7TiBHxvNHCzNjzY3d5uasThhBlCLjH6NNQgIVbfAjqot7fCBDni481UZNMW8EdmMiNPIYSQGiMm5ZEwzs75rSnNKtA5yHzmt-TAsPlfQu8CHVzURjLMjiunTWe-2HEt9xSSL8QiJI/s1024/IMG_6139.JPEG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjupIkaYb90lc9iyHhj5_gOw5MM3u0dAvkCR9gLEkyS0OSwapW7TiBHxvNHCzNjzY3d5uasThhBlCLjH6NNQgIVbfAjqot7fCBDni481UZNMW8EdmMiNPIYSQGiMm5ZEwzs75rSnNKtA5yHzmt-TAsPlfQu8CHVzURjLMjiunTWe-2HEt9xSSL8QiJI/w300-h400/IMG_6139.JPEG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">said goodbye to our beloved ah ma. I hope the second photo is representative of her now, smiling widely and running free</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWGST03pqasxy7ggAiBjcjNHN8qUbtPw7xl1HY8SvBRG4gmHaWR3DZnSXUWVRnH0T0jm7u65X3gH_1_s3A2NFHtg9D8D_02VDCtTQtvjCcu3oeuCsSedoP1fc34H8yqmKqEHhcg41Bji583GsIzAcBoG_n8Q5CQCXbckSLi3tFI9SmHj-JXG-eXgT9/s2048/eab512ca-ae44-4f7b-86b8-550a732a2ca6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWGST03pqasxy7ggAiBjcjNHN8qUbtPw7xl1HY8SvBRG4gmHaWR3DZnSXUWVRnH0T0jm7u65X3gH_1_s3A2NFHtg9D8D_02VDCtTQtvjCcu3oeuCsSedoP1fc34H8yqmKqEHhcg41Bji583GsIzAcBoG_n8Q5CQCXbckSLi3tFI9SmHj-JXG-eXgT9/w640-h480/eab512ca-ae44-4f7b-86b8-550a732a2ca6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">november saw many pokemon play dates with tate tate while he was in the hospital</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcvu6HL4XyhscMXkcBG3atlQPcFpTF_gsSVCTN9vVxpujBg7Vko-AupGv50lMe7dY5vo_Y0im5uo1zQvsJR8GwVBDeZhzkMFzLg6M7IuX9DWq7Ob8t0x0YXVrnEb0o2_qKYSCI-FjrQE5B6DxoPZKgXFViHno5e15B1Z0nXpsBX9oeBjmmDoThQShr/s4032/IMG_6340.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcvu6HL4XyhscMXkcBG3atlQPcFpTF_gsSVCTN9vVxpujBg7Vko-AupGv50lMe7dY5vo_Y0im5uo1zQvsJR8GwVBDeZhzkMFzLg6M7IuX9DWq7Ob8t0x0YXVrnEb0o2_qKYSCI-FjrQE5B6DxoPZKgXFViHno5e15B1Z0nXpsBX9oeBjmmDoThQShr/w400-h300/IMG_6340.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">november 2022 highlight #1: survived my first town hall event at my new job</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eC9UmHWuksPwlLLbXbk4ElvpDAyBIYsBDZkXLIORnhTY6STl3RhlVP0hSKOffiqO3PqtwbpnmWM9Xppw-mDIbbrEWSYw_VYdY1X8gDKcp0BEoWXsaoYf3LLLaamxlJ4ufgYho0YQzytZEPlrexztBvfFXl0Hc37pfUMYSJ2bsIjIgdNp6c5-3FwA/s4032/IMG_6382.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5eC9UmHWuksPwlLLbXbk4ElvpDAyBIYsBDZkXLIORnhTY6STl3RhlVP0hSKOffiqO3PqtwbpnmWM9Xppw-mDIbbrEWSYw_VYdY1X8gDKcp0BEoWXsaoYf3LLLaamxlJ4ufgYho0YQzytZEPlrexztBvfFXl0Hc37pfUMYSJ2bsIjIgdNp6c5-3FwA/w480-h640/IMG_6382.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">november highlight #2: sweetest farewell gift from my favourite work bitches</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTY_EH7NEX1S9Z0Fo8r4Z0o3aAadiAqNlTAd1eQUk-xAiCrgxnuqPHGrSJrKKwbMmwdxsm5dkqWv6OEXw2SFx3HEgy4Z1ClD3LVenXVx7WWDIFMLxFxOVGA4jxwi-5ORPDL2Ei9lNvPfUjN1MwzF15_8mHgKbc0s8sGAbsqqp115w65M3N2hFw6_aG/s4032/IMG_6371.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTY_EH7NEX1S9Z0Fo8r4Z0o3aAadiAqNlTAd1eQUk-xAiCrgxnuqPHGrSJrKKwbMmwdxsm5dkqWv6OEXw2SFx3HEgy4Z1ClD3LVenXVx7WWDIFMLxFxOVGA4jxwi-5ORPDL2Ei9lNvPfUjN1MwzF15_8mHgKbc0s8sGAbsqqp115w65M3N2hFw6_aG/w480-h640/IMG_6371.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">november highlight #3: back with our hotpot gatherings at pei yong's</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ46CPivcjAjpbLbPAVlrKXjGXA5QXOo2Fwcc3DKUqO9HmctNuWfVjycqW6Er8HhqjTAQB2NOjc1KIch6dlRBmi039Ugm31cL4EK0RZoAI52qvF5UHOtDjHpOdh19GhJ0OywOoGwULWIN842f1GUwsf2to2qxiVLqVFJDpqMJLlCHfEp1JpJzRJDxI/s4032/IMG_6398.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ46CPivcjAjpbLbPAVlrKXjGXA5QXOo2Fwcc3DKUqO9HmctNuWfVjycqW6Er8HhqjTAQB2NOjc1KIch6dlRBmi039Ugm31cL4EK0RZoAI52qvF5UHOtDjHpOdh19GhJ0OywOoGwULWIN842f1GUwsf2to2qxiVLqVFJDpqMJLlCHfEp1JpJzRJDxI/w480-h640/IMG_6398.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">november highlight #4: finally got to catch up after 2 months since we had to miss our oct gathering. it's amazing how close we got from working one crazy event together and now we make it a point to meet at least once a month to catch up. we all also now work in different companies haha. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9SL7K5dZPZ0m9YEjrynvPXwQf8g_qIa9sx2M5wi894rz3XFuVqTdkmMHBT_-h7RpECy2Qf7Ilp-rWDwAE-6wah1LgWI0qoYR0c8J9TZcO-Rre5AOeePgwVz72wwca0yc_UtReHKFlyXLmCOI1tT0dsbD3NJ1CmYcNPwa8XZZPX1KsvIT-IfVPU_aZ/s4032/IMG_6416.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9SL7K5dZPZ0m9YEjrynvPXwQf8g_qIa9sx2M5wi894rz3XFuVqTdkmMHBT_-h7RpECy2Qf7Ilp-rWDwAE-6wah1LgWI0qoYR0c8J9TZcO-Rre5AOeePgwVz72wwca0yc_UtReHKFlyXLmCOI1tT0dsbD3NJ1CmYcNPwa8XZZPX1KsvIT-IfVPU_aZ/w640-h480/IMG_6416.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">the work bitches group is also now separated since hj has started her new job too. here's us having separation anxiety and eating dinner together on hj's first day of work haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xdU0VpJ0GQ07N9URjLcHVzRDLXzsqqYxIayX7C71V8PM2W1_SPmpfBcpY6o8zwEQqmYXyWpz8TNptWgOanRC_sHaVin1JwkpSnPm-VATXHyQzeTX_yFhsfWJooXYgQ7K_aFNkrzMTPAONkQAQHcL2aFlKeVnpU4XcbpE2B5AUJaPMHBNOLI0pu_A/s4032/IMG_6452.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1xdU0VpJ0GQ07N9URjLcHVzRDLXzsqqYxIayX7C71V8PM2W1_SPmpfBcpY6o8zwEQqmYXyWpz8TNptWgOanRC_sHaVin1JwkpSnPm-VATXHyQzeTX_yFhsfWJooXYgQ7K_aFNkrzMTPAONkQAQHcL2aFlKeVnpU4XcbpE2B5AUJaPMHBNOLI0pu_A/w480-h640/IMG_6452.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">another JTC group that has now officially become a JTC alumni group haha. JTC really has good people (that they don't do a good job of retaining) haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0e7ml-5VIVmPscVgpjGK7Ga6yPe90RWNhLirArUq-DrQURbUyl5-Y7O6zIPhzN__wJIyN1tfERo5dGJ34srE2x2Ig9_7t_wKKYY138sAzrDCY-iwRAlsrg-4R9RrxEZPiLKK1loeyke-3gYw_js-mlHqmm4yRC821jXLNh01vNjGyt84kjLT7RIBg/s4032/IMG_6468.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0e7ml-5VIVmPscVgpjGK7Ga6yPe90RWNhLirArUq-DrQURbUyl5-Y7O6zIPhzN__wJIyN1tfERo5dGJ34srE2x2Ig9_7t_wKKYY138sAzrDCY-iwRAlsrg-4R9RrxEZPiLKK1loeyke-3gYw_js-mlHqmm4yRC821jXLNh01vNjGyt84kjLT7RIBg/w480-h640/IMG_6468.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">finally got to meet up with one of my oldest groups of friends again. possibly the last gathering before sj pops</div><div style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">so yeah, that's kind of what's been going on around here this year haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">lots of changes but hopefully lots of good changes. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">excited for december and the holiday season cause it generally feels chill and people are usually in a good mood. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and soon it will be time to start goal planning again for the new year.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">goal #1 would definitely be to buy a house (before it gets so exorbitant I can't even afford it).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">if we're lucky I'll do one last post in december before we wrap up the year.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and if not, see you in 2023. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-23675217873911809262022-05-08T09:13:00.000-07:002022-05-08T09:13:31.467-07:00봄 in 서울; <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">i'm back with another korea trip update!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">wanted to do it over the long weekend but alas i got lazy haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">so after our little adventure in the east we headed back to seoul.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the moment we hit seoul the traffic was crazyyy.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we literally got to our hotel, checked in and then were out of there immediately in order to get to the car rental place by 6pm - it was really bad timing cause we were 100% stuck in rush hour traffic.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">but we made it!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">after we dropped the car off and were taking the subway, we already missed our sweet ride hahaha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">also cause our legs were aching from the hike just two days prior haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it doesn't help that seoul subway stations have many many many many flights of stairs haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">anyway, since it was pretty late already we pretty much just did a little shopping and then had my favourite fried chicken and fried chili peppers for dinner before calling it a day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgZ2nt-R0UP5a5PICu6OcPPCwELn2QgXtLe7imchMlczWayte7hn68cZm81oJZMINmOsf_hK_wqWg_9pmakPDQ8LDmfUBeulKuEA35C-iopg8uu31NZDyRmNizKIhn5ODfXt8aYc_XmbYI9tae-1tKOIFtvvuL_jDNrzJ5A7eJ6f86jlkRKTT_Zrq/s1920/IMG_0980.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgZ2nt-R0UP5a5PICu6OcPPCwELn2QgXtLe7imchMlczWayte7hn68cZm81oJZMINmOsf_hK_wqWg_9pmakPDQ8LDmfUBeulKuEA35C-iopg8uu31NZDyRmNizKIhn5ODfXt8aYc_XmbYI9tae-1tKOIFtvvuL_jDNrzJ5A7eJ6f86jlkRKTT_Zrq/w360-h640/IMG_0980.JPG" width="360" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">my friends were so kind to indulge me and let me go to the kakaotalk friends store - which by the way, they've totally revamped! there's no longer 3 floors of merchandise boo. all the merchandise is on the first floor. you scan a QR code when you first enter the store (which looked a lot like our safe entry check-in so we were all so confused at first haha). it then opens up in kakaotalk an online shopping cart. you walk around the store and you scan the QR codes for each product to pull it up on your phone and add it to your cart. and then when you're done, you cart out on your phone, pay using your card, etc. and then it sends the order to the store and they issue you a number for collection which happens on the second floor. once the order is ready for collection, they'll text you and you can go over to the second floor where a staff member will bring out your order items for you to check. it's quite a cool experience. but it is all in korean so not very foreigner friendly if you can't read korean. and then on the third floor is a cafe called knotted bakery which is pretty popular in korea now. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh05S5Rpx7yYiSPXFmo10QVJcnjpPp162gi-jZ8r43H55oPcycOZib8KknMzPB9-Zy-WICIJ3gUVvAGCqbG06uKCFN0ziqaKYWjg_w0Y7t7LA5wKhZzlIBycnmsJFvnQCQcg-JY1TaTUL5HdrbOYkH-pxJCLY3HslRnrW_GWh-bm8vQVLAeaRDpc4cK/s4032/IMG_0988.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh05S5Rpx7yYiSPXFmo10QVJcnjpPp162gi-jZ8r43H55oPcycOZib8KknMzPB9-Zy-WICIJ3gUVvAGCqbG06uKCFN0ziqaKYWjg_w0Y7t7LA5wKhZzlIBycnmsJFvnQCQcg-JY1TaTUL5HdrbOYkH-pxJCLY3HslRnrW_GWh-bm8vQVLAeaRDpc4cK/w300-h400/IMG_0988.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">me being ridiculous while checking my order haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFWEZ3us6e_xIKfPxmhSmwzpb6zSEe0USv5x5peBxM4t7BcSYt8w3vWkpi7Lv3xTki_inGrTQUbuFDJoFrp6Yb-nCFt8dj-R2YhIbLD_oZPC45YkVku_m8tRerfrZTW-0P_sQQfFYk0ZZSnOUGF9FBOifZ-vqMXHA1DtbmSx3pv1i6TBM4WAeCRsx/s4032/IMG_1001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFWEZ3us6e_xIKfPxmhSmwzpb6zSEe0USv5x5peBxM4t7BcSYt8w3vWkpi7Lv3xTki_inGrTQUbuFDJoFrp6Yb-nCFt8dj-R2YhIbLD_oZPC45YkVku_m8tRerfrZTW-0P_sQQfFYk0ZZSnOUGF9FBOifZ-vqMXHA1DtbmSx3pv1i6TBM4WAeCRsx/w300-h400/IMG_1001.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">my favourite fried chicken - it's not one of the popular korean fried chicken chains in korea but just one standalone shop in apgujeong. the place is called hanchu and it frequented by a lot of locals so very authentic in my opinion. it's my go to place for fried chicken every trip to korea. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghoNM8E2AfbbXAXsl7NTR7ZQxYsZWlW757aLv8nC0om7TmfhTGAjFpCJiikgJ5J-xDLi7Xa3zGiQxteShcN3ANvhWKyF3-ieN6g4raGJcs4-DC1CH5RMJu4_1HOz34ss-ncOfh183cs81GGkZdgRRiIDZbMOGDvvnPpyxiF6_mo5vGT_GOHEK-xEFN/s3648/IMG_1002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghoNM8E2AfbbXAXsl7NTR7ZQxYsZWlW757aLv8nC0om7TmfhTGAjFpCJiikgJ5J-xDLi7Xa3zGiQxteShcN3ANvhWKyF3-ieN6g4raGJcs4-DC1CH5RMJu4_1HOz34ss-ncOfh183cs81GGkZdgRRiIDZbMOGDvvnPpyxiF6_mo5vGT_GOHEK-xEFN/w400-h300/IMG_1002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">all ready to dig in!</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">forgot to mention that we spent one night in seoul before heading to sokcho.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">that was the day we landed so we literally took our PCR test at the airport and then headed straight to the hotel where we had to isolate until we got our test results. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">after we got to the hotel we were like taking our own sweet time to settle in, open our suitcases, shower and all. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and like the test results came in so quickly haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it only took like 2 and a half hours, of which we spent an hour travelling from the airport to our hotel so haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">but it was great cause after we got done showering we could step out of our hotel immediately.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">started with lunch at myeongdong since we were staying in that area.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we planned to eat at this seolleongtang place near our hotel cause shu had it her last trip and was raving about it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">well guess what, it closed down haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">actually it's quite sad cause the whole myeongdong area is pretty dead with a lot of empty shops. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we walked around for a bit trying to find an alternative place to eat at and decided to just fall back on good ol' yoogane - which tasted great since we were so hungry anyway haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxkqoN0Vt8T0qVnxBfxixr6yZVHR_VEAeYvcTdQlNtXyBWHPiHKMuwWZa6x_qmO4Bwo8gRFsNYBvsVbfXL7iiXrd9aYLTvHekRBRvhqXVqAfaThR5QhPHukYoVX54eD2eBMw_oX41GgvnnU46TZh_3KTepuHbCHetkMNXY4KfJO__tBx7j-1aE_ty/s3088/IMG_0534.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxkqoN0Vt8T0qVnxBfxixr6yZVHR_VEAeYvcTdQlNtXyBWHPiHKMuwWZa6x_qmO4Bwo8gRFsNYBvsVbfXL7iiXrd9aYLTvHekRBRvhqXVqAfaThR5QhPHukYoVX54eD2eBMw_oX41GgvnnU46TZh_3KTepuHbCHetkMNXY4KfJO__tBx7j-1aE_ty/w300-h400/IMG_0534.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">excited to be done with our PCR. a lot of people said that the on arrival PCR is super painful so we were all prepared for it. thankfully it wasn't too bad. i was so scared i told the girl in korean to like take care of us/go easy on us haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2u1QSuVq5ZEO4F8FZ_n4CoCRo5px-VJp1VcMoO2meFx2XruNiSsl9mg-tgD8aaAiQMPGVLBtTvi2IaJ2-v4c_GbTp9NHy6dHbPe7IsrjCGtYQWS-Of7Bt_J9Y8JNQafxxqm8Ln61RmVdXTrUTyiwUS-yTXcm2tzn_9UjA5qCtJTsSWaL4d_36C-US/s4032/IMG_0540.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2u1QSuVq5ZEO4F8FZ_n4CoCRo5px-VJp1VcMoO2meFx2XruNiSsl9mg-tgD8aaAiQMPGVLBtTvi2IaJ2-v4c_GbTp9NHy6dHbPe7IsrjCGtYQWS-Of7Bt_J9Y8JNQafxxqm8Ln61RmVdXTrUTyiwUS-yTXcm2tzn_9UjA5qCtJTsSWaL4d_36C-US/w400-h300/IMG_0540.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;">dakgalbi with cheese yummm</div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">headed over to kyunghee university after cause the cherry blossoms were in full bloom in seoul that weekend and kyunghee is famous for their pretty cherry blossoms. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and omg, why are all their universities on a slope haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it was quite the trek haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the cherry blossoms were alright - not as pretty as like yeouido area in my opinion. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">so anyway, when we first got there we decided to just chill for a little bit before trekking up another slope to see more of the cherry blossoms.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">while we were just chilling, there was this little boy who was scooting around at superrrr high speed haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we were watching him and then the next moment he mounted a curb and fell over.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">he stayed on the ground and started crying (it did look like quite a bad fall).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we looked around to see where his parents were and then we saw like a group of people close to us turn to look too.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">heard one of the guys say 'what happened/why is he crying' and then he proceeds to walk over to the kid. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">he helps the kid up and omg the kid immediately stops crying, smiles and waves HAHAHA.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">omg wow the little actor haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it turns out this guy wasn't his dad cause a few moments later the boy's real dad comes running over from a distance haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we were so tickled by this little boy that we just kept watching him scoot around for a little bit after - still at top speed despite the earlier fall haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BthdcTF90mrETmlEAVLbUkrJnug8jVKZwTZo2OdnxFQANIKCf7Sxy-K40qjvi5OnOjHBx7B8qwxZ23HZ-TIZWkM1_NiaK-VV8sU29YUmGTcw5cAYNZIRTRwLRghSHFOGbA95JzE4X8kexe1C0PXgE29dgzTwHn0zLd-vN5qCaJ3O9jl6W87OfrFr/s4032/IMG_0552.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BthdcTF90mrETmlEAVLbUkrJnug8jVKZwTZo2OdnxFQANIKCf7Sxy-K40qjvi5OnOjHBx7B8qwxZ23HZ-TIZWkM1_NiaK-VV8sU29YUmGTcw5cAYNZIRTRwLRghSHFOGbA95JzE4X8kexe1C0PXgE29dgzTwHn0zLd-vN5qCaJ3O9jl6W87OfrFr/w640-h480/IMG_0552.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">i must say though that korean university campuses are all so pretty </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1oft01HYqHNuNSmxXRs397CGKBKvVq_ixuzbI4EW1MGx6PSyP1COUCtm0q-vL-ly8AeMKsOwd_wzJr1hSANvJnUGqLKYIQfRwSD2ZxxUgn0TcLUkl5yMGsXaBHUpVaKy-8kZuH2yw_XEZFuRMnr4cHl9CtgfBTCAs3jpNbq_qshKFNmv627_ELhAV/s4032/IMG_0577.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1oft01HYqHNuNSmxXRs397CGKBKvVq_ixuzbI4EW1MGx6PSyP1COUCtm0q-vL-ly8AeMKsOwd_wzJr1hSANvJnUGqLKYIQfRwSD2ZxxUgn0TcLUkl5yMGsXaBHUpVaKy-8kZuH2yw_XEZFuRMnr4cHl9CtgfBTCAs3jpNbq_qshKFNmv627_ELhAV/w400-h300/IMG_0577.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">still looking so fresh even though we were running on very little sleep that day haha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnkPcQ0gR40B8hR00SC7SojIX1yR3x0iZTtaBFVbrNS9YMP12aEXg0gcTmubYE4qVjtWb1_sRUPEJyhz12mk8VHZfmc8-M9q6vR-WjVY3nSUdbn3-OR0ziPN0PGDHhZp5gd3CFdHqElAr5QnND56OGlveTTZTQFuVpIS65QqboNo9ebZpAdhgyzJJ/s4032/IMG_0588.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdnkPcQ0gR40B8hR00SC7SojIX1yR3x0iZTtaBFVbrNS9YMP12aEXg0gcTmubYE4qVjtWb1_sRUPEJyhz12mk8VHZfmc8-M9q6vR-WjVY3nSUdbn3-OR0ziPN0PGDHhZp5gd3CFdHqElAr5QnND56OGlveTTZTQFuVpIS65QqboNo9ebZpAdhgyzJJ/w300-h400/IMG_0588.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">headed over to DDP after to walk around for a bit before dinner. also did a bit of shopping since we were in the dongdaemun area and it was still a bit early for dinner. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgP-REPCGjwdphte2nxU0HYpnWsoyZ4AdUtidPz0WtodhKtZChOSkalz8F9lTvUpWSEFoggeREhBCkQcKdT4tMhQV0NLrctzaGvlrKxFMhCTgd1YxRZUG5_OfZaj1uL3z8TUCIPdtxREywxT_7-lksGuXhs5GiUQc0A7gseW9riGT4U_GYjpriInoi/s4032/IMG_0589.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgP-REPCGjwdphte2nxU0HYpnWsoyZ4AdUtidPz0WtodhKtZChOSkalz8F9lTvUpWSEFoggeREhBCkQcKdT4tMhQV0NLrctzaGvlrKxFMhCTgd1YxRZUG5_OfZaj1uL3z8TUCIPdtxREywxT_7-lksGuXhs5GiUQc0A7gseW9riGT4U_GYjpriInoi/w300-h400/IMG_0589.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;">had kbbq for dinner at a kbbq restaurant recommended by a friend but idk, we weren't really impressed by it. not sure if their standard dropped over the years or what.</div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">our time in seoul was mostly spent eating and shopping really haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">i would have to say that my favourite day was the afternoon we went to hangang (han river) to cycle and just enjoy the spring weather.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we actually did not plan that in initially cause our itinerary was really packed already but we unexpectedly had a free afternoon after our paragliding in danyang.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we initially thought we would be in danyang all day but ended up getting done with paragliding a lot earlier than expected and so we changed our train tickets and headed back to seoul much earlier that day. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi129Je8h_4kpKbmWq_ANeFumRe7uZP6JyoZsVC1jYWCSStzhHJl-ciQARmSw7uwKh9ar9zdJqlmAAVinNhriC6D40h_0pUSlzq7yUQrENvVRQFllMcOaqEpDSa1-HOPFNRj8N7g9TKgFj7SpXv8-DPlAR_bAulGTIL5LDWfuDELkxRfNFeWXTutra/s4032/IMG_1167.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi129Je8h_4kpKbmWq_ANeFumRe7uZP6JyoZsVC1jYWCSStzhHJl-ciQARmSw7uwKh9ar9zdJqlmAAVinNhriC6D40h_0pUSlzq7yUQrENvVRQFllMcOaqEpDSa1-HOPFNRj8N7g9TKgFj7SpXv8-DPlAR_bAulGTIL5LDWfuDELkxRfNFeWXTutra/w300-h400/IMG_1167.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">the weather was amazing. it was a friday afternoon and there were sooo many people just picnicking. it was so cute. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0woCUPUNNxAR0cynCwRKbSACoQ-4oSBMJdDjxEpZBzv8WpHbibn6ouNIMNXzmTmO28oZVqvrnxPv4kBeVJddd5WRTEPJvNrb-z6t3Bu4uWRg6YWiEdv6xoJs9D9ooYqaiU_qDj7XcPomUsSj1_JdwrDcgHBp8apwUgKIYVtpFCHAhmfewe9G6_zL2/s4032/IMG_1177.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0woCUPUNNxAR0cynCwRKbSACoQ-4oSBMJdDjxEpZBzv8WpHbibn6ouNIMNXzmTmO28oZVqvrnxPv4kBeVJddd5WRTEPJvNrb-z6t3Bu4uWRg6YWiEdv6xoJs9D9ooYqaiU_qDj7XcPomUsSj1_JdwrDcgHBp8apwUgKIYVtpFCHAhmfewe9G6_zL2/w400-h300/IMG_1177.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">there's something calming about the water. and it was such a nice experience biking in korea compared to my last experience biking as a tourist in san francisco. the koreans are so polite and always apologise as they pass you or very kindly inform you that they're passing you on your right or left side. i remember biking in san francisco and the bikers would yell so rudely 'keep to your right!' it was on the golden gate bridge and like the path is very narrow and there are lots of tourists. like we're not professional bikers, what do you expect seriously. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PhJDgca6S6LICjMM60Moyaa7CK7RmT7Oi5ecZoRousU0J4PQkQJsmqoBmCJLL9xHYRKRc997Vyatp_jQAG8CiEfvwYXqUfFnsp3kjXgIpENqfitSz1W0C7PNoEbdsK-XioB5gVfz_yfKFIutyLsPOi1ZPXh_90VQWfVTtLARNLEi71LU5NLL6lY_/s3008/G0854007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PhJDgca6S6LICjMM60Moyaa7CK7RmT7Oi5ecZoRousU0J4PQkQJsmqoBmCJLL9xHYRKRc997Vyatp_jQAG8CiEfvwYXqUfFnsp3kjXgIpENqfitSz1W0C7PNoEbdsK-XioB5gVfz_yfKFIutyLsPOi1ZPXh_90VQWfVTtLARNLEi71LU5NLL6lY_/w400-h225/G0854007.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">of course we got ramyun at the convenience store</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbqjf-LwMnp2eFfNv7Em3XXVWtBbOIDHFgvsS-ZDvKS1mSkKh15qXyo6jJy_U5dSIafY2A4vKuX910ilXHUUmc3rs8nlTB_3XzAn621ctbj-tk5rla6jQwxwE2qcuZ4EIkIyUYbF-KAWZg7JwtqD0eUYcHdbGggGa4DyK2dFrnEtndbwqmPjzJwWX3/s3088/IMG_1162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbqjf-LwMnp2eFfNv7Em3XXVWtBbOIDHFgvsS-ZDvKS1mSkKh15qXyo6jJy_U5dSIafY2A4vKuX910ilXHUUmc3rs8nlTB_3XzAn621ctbj-tk5rla6jQwxwE2qcuZ4EIkIyUYbF-KAWZg7JwtqD0eUYcHdbGggGa4DyK2dFrnEtndbwqmPjzJwWX3/w300-h400/IMG_1162.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">cooking our ramyun</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jYbhSZAZtld62TMaTHvhQqwBpmQ5-srRMvwLDiogsGikIkIsQlhJQIGCzl51hXTg-oizwmjWOyu_RXxQVH1l4kwLHLGkams3POiMMGHUV0q8MB4htUaBKUSNbmLAaR3lkWXOYWoe3W1_cZXRvpFfuXN5N84LPIP2Jks6rC-tWbBaP4XHdo-ZO9gn/s3008/G0884017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8jYbhSZAZtld62TMaTHvhQqwBpmQ5-srRMvwLDiogsGikIkIsQlhJQIGCzl51hXTg-oizwmjWOyu_RXxQVH1l4kwLHLGkams3POiMMGHUV0q8MB4htUaBKUSNbmLAaR3lkWXOYWoe3W1_cZXRvpFfuXN5N84LPIP2Jks6rC-tWbBaP4XHdo-ZO9gn/w400-h225/G0884017.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">can't go to hangang and not have ramyun by the river</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6NG1ueOl2yqMf6Hwsa1zWq4EY3J-rXNwETroHhKe90oK1-na7RJ8DUWfgolcX564k-PbEWHTgFlY2qVDq_RfvcN3vzgLQUqYYgYKhhZObBq2gmnUP5hQD2DpWTG8v3u0U8wyzHtFQxN8ZwFCjUF_XSSdZ6fynNJFjxW6xODQG0R6Ya0tcEUElCx48/s4032/IMG_1193.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6NG1ueOl2yqMf6Hwsa1zWq4EY3J-rXNwETroHhKe90oK1-na7RJ8DUWfgolcX564k-PbEWHTgFlY2qVDq_RfvcN3vzgLQUqYYgYKhhZObBq2gmnUP5hQD2DpWTG8v3u0U8wyzHtFQxN8ZwFCjUF_XSSdZ6fynNJFjxW6xODQG0R6Ya0tcEUElCx48/w640-h480/IMG_1193.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">quintessential seoul photo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">on that same day before our hangang adventure, we also randomly decided to go to a rooftop hanwoo burger place haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the view was gorgeous.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and the burger was juicy and tasty too!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the place is called the 100 food truck and is located in the huam-dong area where there are a bunch of rooftop places to eat at. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it's very close to the namsan area. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje7eIYuORuW5B7RYWaGbcCCsj5U9v6ehVfGCt7Xj8khRM16NTMKFAfbY3oBTXvWDVivMv9Lf4mJxS3JzBF6QxQCrEJzTKRSgNDY_PIkkIGzHctLiKrMRAwZ6uphGAxfuiavZF5c6wv_vpWHZA58c439r2ac3pZ83YBe31VIY5LOHYIQxXubtVsMGdY/s4032/IMG_1130.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje7eIYuORuW5B7RYWaGbcCCsj5U9v6ehVfGCt7Xj8khRM16NTMKFAfbY3oBTXvWDVivMv9Lf4mJxS3JzBF6QxQCrEJzTKRSgNDY_PIkkIGzHctLiKrMRAwZ6uphGAxfuiavZF5c6wv_vpWHZA58c439r2ac3pZ83YBe31VIY5LOHYIQxXubtVsMGdY/w400-h300/IMG_1130.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">a row of rooftop cafes and restaurants</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBS3rhAz-vZtYMHgGR1YiyzUBMgrNDylLeL2Ct2m4POa-kSGKUJHHB0FksaI8D1wod8O1jufP2ThBIuPegVbTG33OJHzmB_0nf3EYlWnnhTtQ7fblpWCKmCVAwPw2Z2jAOkBWRqWC3lK5758SZCqFtX9bOmHfZZLnk5hXaBDPVttRpqlkPOufeTxL/s3648/IMG_1133.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBS3rhAz-vZtYMHgGR1YiyzUBMgrNDylLeL2Ct2m4POa-kSGKUJHHB0FksaI8D1wod8O1jufP2ThBIuPegVbTG33OJHzmB_0nf3EYlWnnhTtQ7fblpWCKmCVAwPw2Z2jAOkBWRqWC3lK5758SZCqFtX9bOmHfZZLnk5hXaBDPVttRpqlkPOufeTxL/w400-h300/IMG_1133.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">us waiting for our burgers</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTj4JNJx4musj9tXBFfO4V9PBAzeV2YEqqEZJCZ5xLP3g9fOO0dGOQXWp4OXC8jamHTtDvnid2oLt6pgn8k5hYdB6HWB8G39zvnDxpWgoKRR7itnYu5VXdLQncid7OB8RqFKcRR44Ffk57EGZEMifbkr5Ju-twhwvqmydWsEreyV4vOcCJoBtUBtQ/s4032/IMG_1136.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTj4JNJx4musj9tXBFfO4V9PBAzeV2YEqqEZJCZ5xLP3g9fOO0dGOQXWp4OXC8jamHTtDvnid2oLt6pgn8k5hYdB6HWB8G39zvnDxpWgoKRR7itnYu5VXdLQncid7OB8RqFKcRR44Ffk57EGZEMifbkr5Ju-twhwvqmydWsEreyV4vOcCJoBtUBtQ/w400-h300/IMG_1136.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">they have tables right up against the glass for this gorgeous view while dining</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFgb2T0LrmY-fXGpgR-72hrnwGvuNH1piqRMe5I6KZH30iB85OHmR_KtRJ1BNvAv4LCBQXrujJLnleoXYDStDVCwcgQashfOXnGA9vpSMADDhCl3yyLw-raPopP7tXT82W4ouM7mKTFoDd_NNSMgEWRWc11kuJ-eRKmIbnyZoM-UGXDIKTbYfLCwvr/s4032/IMG_1140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFgb2T0LrmY-fXGpgR-72hrnwGvuNH1piqRMe5I6KZH30iB85OHmR_KtRJ1BNvAv4LCBQXrujJLnleoXYDStDVCwcgQashfOXnGA9vpSMADDhCl3yyLw-raPopP7tXT82W4ouM7mKTFoDd_NNSMgEWRWc11kuJ-eRKmIbnyZoM-UGXDIKTbYfLCwvr/w300-h400/IMG_1140.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">burger with a view</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjon3QWKsjYMiOXIhJbqScWFr5nmjOliAW0HkOWPEYFpwjGcUbsb_ePY2X6W13UKbEWk_JTvrAvPOuvWpa2PWIpcWUUU1wRvQk3AtYmIiwVo-v45LQ7St890px1hAYbjEr_q058wJ-BiT94UVKAGDm_6Zsf4io2at1ueKZ4Kpu1t8tzSvMqpdPTtoa-/s4032/IMG_1145.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjon3QWKsjYMiOXIhJbqScWFr5nmjOliAW0HkOWPEYFpwjGcUbsb_ePY2X6W13UKbEWk_JTvrAvPOuvWpa2PWIpcWUUU1wRvQk3AtYmIiwVo-v45LQ7St890px1hAYbjEr_q058wJ-BiT94UVKAGDm_6Zsf4io2at1ueKZ4Kpu1t8tzSvMqpdPTtoa-/w300-h400/IMG_1145.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">inside of the burger</div></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">speaking of paragliding since this was the same day, our paragliding experience was actually pretty underwhelming.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we took the KTX to danyang and were really excited.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiURcSQroHXz5pdo2K30GFcFhfNE_kAsubaFZu8o82S3fLgQoaKvNkDu9JDFCTo1oIkahIXrSHhVJXVDonp3wtmldKu5MJqNnpb9GnjsZ05__EL9lgP2nZ5wUKhzVrh2qptjNnrclzSRGYHswZA5WzHUzzCoCYnKIjIzM6darULf_i5vhKzehmTc8t/s3088/IMG_1050.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiURcSQroHXz5pdo2K30GFcFhfNE_kAsubaFZu8o82S3fLgQoaKvNkDu9JDFCTo1oIkahIXrSHhVJXVDonp3wtmldKu5MJqNnpb9GnjsZ05__EL9lgP2nZ5wUKhzVrh2qptjNnrclzSRGYHswZA5WzHUzzCoCYnKIjIzM6darULf_i5vhKzehmTc8t/w300-h400/IMG_1050.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">this was us all excited on the train ride there (even though we had to wake up super early)</span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">once we got to danyang, one of the paragliders picked us up from the station and drove us at lightning speed to the shop to get changed into our jumpsuits.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and like he was just rushing us to hurry change, get our stuff in the locker so we can hurry go.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and then we got in the car packed with a lot of people - we had to share the back seats with the paraglider, like err okay. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the ride up was super bumpy (okay expected of a mountainous road) but like the guy was driving so quickly too. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and then when we got up there, there wasn't even time to like take in the view and slowly get ready to set off.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it was like okay come here hurry we take some group photos and then let's get in our gear.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">like we all just didn't get like what's the hurry and it just really kind of ruined the experience for us.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">anyway, when you first get up there, it looks quite scary cause you're thinking about how you have to run off the mountain.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">but once you get in your gear and actually start running, it's really not scary cause the resistance from the parachute is pulling you back and so you don't feel like you're running off and falling.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and then the next thing you know, you're in the air.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the whole paragliding ride is like 5-7 minutes total so it's like super fast.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and kind of just feels like you're sitting in a giant swing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it's pretty from above but i guess maybe we had too high expectations so we weren't that impressed by our whole experience as a whole.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">i must say though that it's pretty cheap and still a unique activity. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we would only rate it like a 6.5/10, but maybe we hyped ourselves up too much. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO8k1rc7FjBDAs2lbqGlTpcN4NCpRJOxeH3HvQNq-p2nIhJTf6xqjtSbDg-HMYZbebQy2UQACRXUrtpJIup6u-JSC_TiIjIO4KNvWmXHoH0B2gUxp_Y6sfIbIMy8KArdtqRAyACqMWEb2j29lwKea1X5PePe2awkw10gEfJKo1vd8-LZTRTJIdEXM5/s4032/IMG_1089.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO8k1rc7FjBDAs2lbqGlTpcN4NCpRJOxeH3HvQNq-p2nIhJTf6xqjtSbDg-HMYZbebQy2UQACRXUrtpJIup6u-JSC_TiIjIO4KNvWmXHoH0B2gUxp_Y6sfIbIMy8KArdtqRAyACqMWEb2j29lwKea1X5PePe2awkw10gEfJKo1vd8-LZTRTJIdEXM5/w640-h480/IMG_1089.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;">after we were done the guy was like trying to tell us we should check out the other stuff in danyang.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">but i think we were so done with our experience at that point we just wanted to head back to seoul haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and so that's what we did - thankfully we were able to change our 5pm train tickets to 12:12pm. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">other memorable food/stuff from seoul:</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7himjHJDvudk4PqbfdUyw_NN1GVF-YWZmtyVqQPB4uRIomVKWIkgdhZKY3vgI2M_pDqUAIcouSWi_pfpwWk567Pcmg20suS1sJKvxAF1R58-wG6Tp670T3aa-G-b7S1r3bNr8hnjulmTvj_obS48Qk5DO1tbJDfhZAuAKO5H6HN8lNVPVhiA2TbU/s4032/IMG_1028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7himjHJDvudk4PqbfdUyw_NN1GVF-YWZmtyVqQPB4uRIomVKWIkgdhZKY3vgI2M_pDqUAIcouSWi_pfpwWk567Pcmg20suS1sJKvxAF1R58-wG6Tp670T3aa-G-b7S1r3bNr8hnjulmTvj_obS48Qk5DO1tbJDfhZAuAKO5H6HN8lNVPVhiA2TbU/w300-h400/IMG_1028.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">sindangdong tteokbokki is also another must for me when i visit korea - it's basically just rabboki but it's soooo good. another one of those places that's constantly packed with locals too. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7JXDBMKkHUI4-MseHem7B6rV4suMFEp_RbGFCWYvs3KJVw7qZbNSKdm3LW_XJATUSKl-437jvU5bGI3IHY2tmQxi7UE7cACNRvx_jGbUxrbB7MFquLO0mSelbd6LCzj4o2ldGwLYkjjfshnujiuqMRqtfj3fXLivqT00cWfL-WxQi4KyzY2hA1j5u/s4032/IMG_1036.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7JXDBMKkHUI4-MseHem7B6rV4suMFEp_RbGFCWYvs3KJVw7qZbNSKdm3LW_XJATUSKl-437jvU5bGI3IHY2tmQxi7UE7cACNRvx_jGbUxrbB7MFquLO0mSelbd6LCzj4o2ldGwLYkjjfshnujiuqMRqtfj3fXLivqT00cWfL-WxQi4KyzY2hA1j5u/w640-h480/IMG_1036.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">thanks to shu for indulging me even though she doesn't really like tteokbokki. funny story here. i was telling the girls about how on my last trip we kept seeing people drink this peach yogurt drink but when i look at the drinks menu i can't seem to figure out what it is. and sure enough, there were a lot of people drinking it this time too. so shu just waves to the ahjumma, and like does the drinking from a cup action and like basically uses body language to order the peach yogurt drink hahaha. after the ahjumma brings it over and marks the order slip, then i realised, it's calpis on the order sheet. it was so funny to watch shu try to act it out and the ahjumma try to figure out what she was trying to say haha. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqyluiHMjeRo8d7vRLzWOCNvXP2ekg6B1HHamBSUopsKHzyb4mJKgf8ZVqwaqgIjn-M2lmsiH5UNCBRlfQ2PnqcdCl7yddOohtkSoi06vXXHk2LtAYbAIw2PcSroE0Z8Zig2b09WJh7ta-67eqmmvVQ8lW9w8PTwnTSniPMQqpPkBQpoDHLpTs1nT/s4032/IMG_1009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqyluiHMjeRo8d7vRLzWOCNvXP2ekg6B1HHamBSUopsKHzyb4mJKgf8ZVqwaqgIjn-M2lmsiH5UNCBRlfQ2PnqcdCl7yddOohtkSoi06vXXHk2LtAYbAIw2PcSroE0Z8Zig2b09WJh7ta-67eqmmvVQ8lW9w8PTwnTSniPMQqpPkBQpoDHLpTs1nT/w300-h400/IMG_1009.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">i always like to visit a traditional market when i'm in seoul - gwangjang market or tongin is usually my go to. there's just so much to eat here.</span> <span style="color: #800180;">we went to gwangjang market this trip.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzS7tXdDcuLl2I6tRQUHXfrW8RiYh6mpDaT9Ol4zxpsPCGihnNP0rWS6X0U1otnlb-3YEU_yy1Zks5HT-xqa9bCFwQUHeALDySJQMacTidj_DgL9572C1UTcgXKM04ymwZuPC0c_NAEnXqDydaL8tAhq8J8HWCA6ohXe9LNMBPmlPiU6raawgQ-iK/s3008/G0673949.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzS7tXdDcuLl2I6tRQUHXfrW8RiYh6mpDaT9Ol4zxpsPCGihnNP0rWS6X0U1otnlb-3YEU_yy1Zks5HT-xqa9bCFwQUHeALDySJQMacTidj_DgL9572C1UTcgXKM04ymwZuPC0c_NAEnXqDydaL8tAhq8J8HWCA6ohXe9LNMBPmlPiU6raawgQ-iK/w400-h225/G0673949.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">just so much food to choose from. the japchae was SOOOO good.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqIfTXH3MLt_LDQnDl8Njqw7GH-R9ieKTd-KB6MHp8JWym9CfLseFaoVTA6Ini_5yB_N_mSOTzg2Bh50lykiglnGuomdVrYqj4kAGXCzAJkiD9QzMA_ScrDBHHhx4vukgfcNLFDQgtJI3qFiEjmkKnejlWkE5DSzFedggpZKB12pOFJDB0rURaKpB/s4032/IMG_1046.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVqIfTXH3MLt_LDQnDl8Njqw7GH-R9ieKTd-KB6MHp8JWym9CfLseFaoVTA6Ini_5yB_N_mSOTzg2Bh50lykiglnGuomdVrYqj4kAGXCzAJkiD9QzMA_ScrDBHHhx4vukgfcNLFDQgtJI3qFiEjmkKnejlWkE5DSzFedggpZKB12pOFJDB0rURaKpB/w300-h400/IMG_1046.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">random photo of our mess in our hotel room haha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2EfGal74LQ7VQR2srB3onMXG9qh5GgvB9-r_6d2bakjtNhHivtQ_emHcoGnOfWopTUGG5FyZddlKXNSCfZ2UzKk82-U23HHiR6dAHfTGp2Y3RspkQzqq15TrDW7dRiwCx-_5epssaOhGHNz465sorSU7oKmUQejS5FL3Pagj7YJMzUGeycjWZjeX/s3008/IMG_1294.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc2EfGal74LQ7VQR2srB3onMXG9qh5GgvB9-r_6d2bakjtNhHivtQ_emHcoGnOfWopTUGG5FyZddlKXNSCfZ2UzKk82-U23HHiR6dAHfTGp2Y3RspkQzqq15TrDW7dRiwCx-_5epssaOhGHNz465sorSU7oKmUQejS5FL3Pagj7YJMzUGeycjWZjeX/w400-h225/IMG_1294.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">surprisingly, we didn't eat much hotteok this trip. but omg i love a good hotteok. we chanced upon a hotteok place selling both savoury and sweet ones along insadong and we had to get it. we got the japchae one and the honey one. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TedKzusepGc_V_3f0Uvyvz5cOsegn6w2wyNC5teARZCvAFS-SgbdRIKVfkYcf7o93bsMCim6MH973jpYdDFQRk9vyYCQPX7PBOeL1wxbuLM6-IQWT2XeEhTHjjiVubaTdI3nUxt7610BdxhYdlGFSvSuaI9WaLW5zbgqK74WgN1gmJpROEbABpJV/s4032/IMG_1298.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0TedKzusepGc_V_3f0Uvyvz5cOsegn6w2wyNC5teARZCvAFS-SgbdRIKVfkYcf7o93bsMCim6MH973jpYdDFQRk9vyYCQPX7PBOeL1wxbuLM6-IQWT2XeEhTHjjiVubaTdI3nUxt7610BdxhYdlGFSvSuaI9WaLW5zbgqK74WgN1gmJpROEbABpJV/w300-h400/IMG_1298.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">walking around ssamziegil - there weren't as many nice shops this time compared to my last trip.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8ShGseOSGuvFemElnehNB0QIFbCu7rwvheVFq2viEFHLlzyCh6_j6opGpOrMS_JMeu4JmiA6WBkhIDhi6YgEwOIqQUUUixRaymAacv1ng0UttL1JqiFgizyq4b_b_ZxDFJUU7Fkh13JNr9CrvOWxO6SBFhMJ8raABYBBIDuv-hs7hXApPcU7Go1e/s3648/IMG_1308.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV8ShGseOSGuvFemElnehNB0QIFbCu7rwvheVFq2viEFHLlzyCh6_j6opGpOrMS_JMeu4JmiA6WBkhIDhi6YgEwOIqQUUUixRaymAacv1ng0UttL1JqiFgizyq4b_b_ZxDFJUU7Fkh13JNr9CrvOWxO6SBFhMJ8raABYBBIDuv-hs7hXApPcU7Go1e/w400-h300/IMG_1308.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">because we were so unsatisfied from our previous kbbq experience on the first night, we decided to seek out some yummy hanwoo bbq haha. after much research online, we settled on daedo sikdang (대도식당) which is a very famous hanwoo place. it was so worth it! they serve you according to how many people are dining and the meat was delicious! it was also not super expensive - we paid 143,000 KRW which comes up to $50+ per person so it's similar to eating kbbq in Singapore, which is not even hanwoo. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid187P78cJbyPAg6e_ViN3R-fMyNirUowQDA6HzMVzhcE0qRuZoPshSUZ9zmyCaMTCPur1aRrrt08s5rwVAqVbiYiZ8oOCoRqUtFnF8j55mMiDL7N2zqrf5n1t5sDeVo0s4Y30b10vmYnlIfrO-hIyvGLuv0FIlF_qLIn626ESF9Fl3RwZzdrfIOZG/s3008/IMG_1316.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid187P78cJbyPAg6e_ViN3R-fMyNirUowQDA6HzMVzhcE0qRuZoPshSUZ9zmyCaMTCPur1aRrrt08s5rwVAqVbiYiZ8oOCoRqUtFnF8j55mMiDL7N2zqrf5n1t5sDeVo0s4Y30b10vmYnlIfrO-hIyvGLuv0FIlF_qLIn626ESF9Fl3RwZzdrfIOZG/w400-h225/IMG_1316.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">we actually took the bus quite a bit this trip and it was fun haha. it's quite convenient cause then you don't have to change subway lines so much or walk super far. when we went to the rooftop burger place, we even took a small mini bus (similar to the hk type) from the neighbourhood to the subway station haha. the only thing about buses is not all of them have the stops in english so you would have to be able to understand korean or literally count the number of bus stops haha. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWK9Zh5x20uasAx1WxbNrczTkiWHgTEkL8DMDdl_OeY52CRacowQ9HE-OVBqESyS6Dk5jpJtv0-5CCA-a7OL1mgcKPrQ43yLoWPDa1PThGWR7HtFtpZWk76pJku973cUFRjBXUF7n1rqysYdtQ8O_Ykh0FD-pXXvS_288SnSgphe1JHNgobLIcXQ27/s4032/IMG_1319.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWK9Zh5x20uasAx1WxbNrczTkiWHgTEkL8DMDdl_OeY52CRacowQ9HE-OVBqESyS6Dk5jpJtv0-5CCA-a7OL1mgcKPrQ43yLoWPDa1PThGWR7HtFtpZWk76pJku973cUFRjBXUF7n1rqysYdtQ8O_Ykh0FD-pXXvS_288SnSgphe1JHNgobLIcXQ27/w300-h400/IMG_1319.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">also visited a rooftop bar (roof 808) while we were in seoul just cause. it was kind of cold since it's a rooftop haha but they give you blankets and have space heaters and all so that was nice. the view was kind of disappointing though cause there are huge windows like this. the burger place definitely had a nicer rooftop view. and shu said the alcoholic drinks were horrible haha. mine was a mocktail so tasted totally fine to me hahaha. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_rDz8ENq3ae5wKz3LNWJi75CQOWIVTXr2KGqoUBNnS2eb0L04lj6kCUgB5DWX1852fu5gz4GLPdmqrK29cdRcA1avCiP3GLF40DCbkZjfCLZ0xc1-QWNjtDOuP64Ltuho15icDgVQUHBHEDwygPNyDeV0I1nUXGASeT0Nf7jhdCNBTLAiPCpxI1tB/s4032/IMG_1326.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_rDz8ENq3ae5wKz3LNWJi75CQOWIVTXr2KGqoUBNnS2eb0L04lj6kCUgB5DWX1852fu5gz4GLPdmqrK29cdRcA1avCiP3GLF40DCbkZjfCLZ0xc1-QWNjtDOuP64Ltuho15icDgVQUHBHEDwygPNyDeV0I1nUXGASeT0Nf7jhdCNBTLAiPCpxI1tB/w400-h300/IMG_1326.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">it was such a happening night though haha. we had a fun experience people watching while having drinks haha. and then when we were walking to the subway station to head back, there were three girls rushing to the station and one of the girls fell and just face palmed. and her friends were so quick in whipping out their phones to film her omg hahahaha. and she was like just laughing and on the floor for awhile and just constantly saying "난 안 취했어" which means i'm not drunk but hahaha usually when people say that, they're drunk haha. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPlsokjHA9EzjyBaBESYvO_Qyhgq2QEaKTED-b61WTrwgUqnlJ873t2WxofE2rBJ2T_GsRIJRWolC-u9WykKTOyuvWv0gjtPdN7qpCXbG1kADL_so1sZijAgT6As7GWrTjMsOoY3H0up9JjrUVIufVqF6OctK562WUswV54FcfkWMfB3I3VfS6brK/s4032/IMG_1329.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPlsokjHA9EzjyBaBESYvO_Qyhgq2QEaKTED-b61WTrwgUqnlJ873t2WxofE2rBJ2T_GsRIJRWolC-u9WykKTOyuvWv0gjtPdN7qpCXbG1kADL_so1sZijAgT6As7GWrTjMsOoY3H0up9JjrUVIufVqF6OctK562WUswV54FcfkWMfB3I3VfS6brK/w400-h300/IMG_1329.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">we asked the waiter to take this photo for us and we took so long to like take off our masks, and then my mask was entangled cause of my earring or whatever. and haha i think the guy was so done with us haha. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig_7VdsDfyaq4yA8i97MpdFeaf4PL8KyqnDEMJSWIU8nHOXKS9RXopijuPxktF6NweIBGNtxY-IfLe1sP2GOKrA1pp122TTVcg0EMle9sJT6Cq9ZmAYspik68J_8lkDDEmvj6pD4jEL0jmuD1DvNcx9_DkIZOQZBCqUtdtkLyclywnkFTzGVKX43VE/s4032/IMG_1333.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig_7VdsDfyaq4yA8i97MpdFeaf4PL8KyqnDEMJSWIU8nHOXKS9RXopijuPxktF6NweIBGNtxY-IfLe1sP2GOKrA1pp122TTVcg0EMle9sJT6Cq9ZmAYspik68J_8lkDDEmvj6pD4jEL0jmuD1DvNcx9_DkIZOQZBCqUtdtkLyclywnkFTzGVKX43VE/w300-h400/IMG_1333.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;">isaac toast! we specially woke up and went to get this for breakfast one morning cause i can't go to korea and not have isaac toast! it's still as good as ever. wish the one in singapore wasn't so gross. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">we also did a hanbok day while in seoul haha.</span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><div style="text-align: left;">yes i've worn a hanbok many many times now.</div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">but it's always so fun with friends. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-qOk0YYbvSLCzw6i9Q4164zvVaNCWMg-eIqnpKzH6sGn7hoTAj25etk74t9IZGVw9glmQSjmNWF5PCGXvbojMMZ-r_4L9KlSJeKlOCmw5xh8Wsp2q1rCbMMrHDDyoEdVv8k_F5QxXNQn0YbwoXb0fj0Mp9Ybt6tvbCILMFY_1ZA7BBi-DQyiPiOi_/s3008/G0934028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-qOk0YYbvSLCzw6i9Q4164zvVaNCWMg-eIqnpKzH6sGn7hoTAj25etk74t9IZGVw9glmQSjmNWF5PCGXvbojMMZ-r_4L9KlSJeKlOCmw5xh8Wsp2q1rCbMMrHDDyoEdVv8k_F5QxXNQn0YbwoXb0fj0Mp9Ybt6tvbCILMFY_1ZA7BBi-DQyiPiOi_/w400-h225/G0934028.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">the choosing part is always a nightmare cause there are so many options. they also do your hair so we all had the same hairstyle for that day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptRWZkXP5wqGvuxNIEk-3sj4slzZiFsjNo7PwpV6ljmUa5IyJGOm9yxJG_bnJ2Q0gEjg2q0Wey2pIUxLrJ7FsxRcxSpsYuVYARFRdOsAGPY9lNITJo3prnD-oN8MyMCKqwiLmaZndqxZe4VhDSkh7jxKqzRdSHrkUh1pJHfV0E1BzyKfPjgUaOqr6/s4032/IMG_1231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptRWZkXP5wqGvuxNIEk-3sj4slzZiFsjNo7PwpV6ljmUa5IyJGOm9yxJG_bnJ2Q0gEjg2q0Wey2pIUxLrJ7FsxRcxSpsYuVYARFRdOsAGPY9lNITJo3prnD-oN8MyMCKqwiLmaZndqxZe4VhDSkh7jxKqzRdSHrkUh1pJHfV0E1BzyKfPjgUaOqr6/w300-h400/IMG_1231.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">we went to changdeokgung nearby and i love going to the palaces in a hanbok cause #1 admission is free when you go in a hanbok, and also, you don't feel as out of place cause many people wear one too. and it's so cute cause there are always kids or grandmas around who would comment that the hanboks are pretty. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirvXpxywX-oZjaIelDxGAM6r9HB0xzOHvGg759S1D7m4aPcQeZK5KBFG5lNVFROGffq6qQ07tLqgVBmQQ1-BidFhLAowJbIRtFSlInaUMf4Eh9wvvKsiqhTgikCfAOSIXDLQ0W-eA-pnx7k0QRLhtps2UxL7o86kMmr9hI6mDdZTYI5ar121_lP7qO/s4032/IMG_1286.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirvXpxywX-oZjaIelDxGAM6r9HB0xzOHvGg759S1D7m4aPcQeZK5KBFG5lNVFROGffq6qQ07tLqgVBmQQ1-BidFhLAowJbIRtFSlInaUMf4Eh9wvvKsiqhTgikCfAOSIXDLQ0W-eA-pnx7k0QRLhtps2UxL7o86kMmr9hI6mDdZTYI5ar121_lP7qO/w300-h400/IMG_1286.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">all wearing different shades of blue. went with a darker palette this time since all the other hanboks i've worn previously were all more of a pastel colour</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEi-500IpHkvSSXc0SF-N08dxEhGxYYNPMSQXsiW4iccDCj7JuyNmrRRZZwD32Lg20wtQ-TOhiuoBUtk7HTljqWnDIfsFapa-72ukne0wmUKlaZwFeMit13v5CyyCMiJTq0jM0Crx1kZ3JJytBk8zI3TpaqDC36QypyCKAe4ON3oukUWtsbENvL8wR/s4032/IMG_1219.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEi-500IpHkvSSXc0SF-N08dxEhGxYYNPMSQXsiW4iccDCj7JuyNmrRRZZwD32Lg20wtQ-TOhiuoBUtk7HTljqWnDIfsFapa-72ukne0wmUKlaZwFeMit13v5CyyCMiJTq0jM0Crx1kZ3JJytBk8zI3TpaqDC36QypyCKAe4ON3oukUWtsbENvL8wR/w300-h400/IMG_1219.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">there were some remaining cherry blossoms in certain spots around the palace</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh49w_kKkDQSchjZbnroeCH_BfxCDnZxgoOtnllSmllNTL8SlBjzZ_6Y0OUO6tbfN07B-Klxf9ZVUHxWSHyMlD6iivgQaUZq01hWnspuLjg6YpeyiHvFZKVoFMBJ355HBYyu-bThzApkdNrjknuYmuXlHZ42mTdn_e05sZ8wqcGL3I0j9RQ_fP82Cm6/s4032/IMG_1224.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh49w_kKkDQSchjZbnroeCH_BfxCDnZxgoOtnllSmllNTL8SlBjzZ_6Y0OUO6tbfN07B-Klxf9ZVUHxWSHyMlD6iivgQaUZq01hWnspuLjg6YpeyiHvFZKVoFMBJ355HBYyu-bThzApkdNrjknuYmuXlHZ42mTdn_e05sZ8wqcGL3I0j9RQ_fP82Cm6/w400-h300/IMG_1224.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">the palace backdrop is perfect for hanbok photos</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispp30ENVfeB9qkSmLgj66lAtDPqMl9MKrJ31bwMuS-xM9xPZYJ5ijNrSdEP2_GnJ4nFQK-M0bwAwZmdM4iM5SIUKF3r4imKkra6OPp2vYyMyBJ8r0nPZF1GRckztXl_2ZGNuIZRoPh6B_eH8wBgWfvoX8lt17yqRgm81HIiN6mepmvb4ToghWWZjF/s4032/IMG_1255.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEispp30ENVfeB9qkSmLgj66lAtDPqMl9MKrJ31bwMuS-xM9xPZYJ5ijNrSdEP2_GnJ4nFQK-M0bwAwZmdM4iM5SIUKF3r4imKkra6OPp2vYyMyBJ8r0nPZF1GRckztXl_2ZGNuIZRoPh6B_eH8wBgWfvoX8lt17yqRgm81HIiN6mepmvb4ToghWWZjF/w400-h300/IMG_1255.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">taking shots in pairs cause for some reason, people are just not good at taking good photos for us</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUP_40nXLeA_IMfZj9TpH4K26X3b1o2scG7df6Gdy5HijpZlfjIBjD0QOSd5csWbd3XthPGsq5CQpyEv9skkq9jEoSTH14Lcuy6Wnh0hRMeujDgwBuT_blpkI9ZZbe2rFkvwSJuOnQwfbADlbANPSa6MvuzJ89VQ62kzVEQ3aW8Z4LWt8iEiRVMFHE/s4032/IMG_1261.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUP_40nXLeA_IMfZj9TpH4K26X3b1o2scG7df6Gdy5HijpZlfjIBjD0QOSd5csWbd3XthPGsq5CQpyEv9skkq9jEoSTH14Lcuy6Wnh0hRMeujDgwBuT_blpkI9ZZbe2rFkvwSJuOnQwfbADlbANPSa6MvuzJ89VQ62kzVEQ3aW8Z4LWt8iEiRVMFHE/w300-h400/IMG_1261.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">we even made it to the secret garden. it wasn't as pretty since there weren't many cherry blossoms left. definitely much prettier in the fall.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXAt3ilwnB_hROo3OwfJ8Imidyj1TMCFLKBh4XB3L_6VTZyGrSQhG8ZPDGUKsBxRy6DxC4VHlJ65PKyKI1FLMKJLgvMDKXNMrNvS8BwxkU2aP9MflifVfGWYjIOHDHMMXoeZatIDCxAeGCUlXlCYuLpdGJM33L5VkVd3NGHccsf2jDtRyC62Q33OtC/s4032/IMG_1236.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXAt3ilwnB_hROo3OwfJ8Imidyj1TMCFLKBh4XB3L_6VTZyGrSQhG8ZPDGUKsBxRy6DxC4VHlJ65PKyKI1FLMKJLgvMDKXNMrNvS8BwxkU2aP9MflifVfGWYjIOHDHMMXoeZatIDCxAeGCUlXlCYuLpdGJM33L5VkVd3NGHccsf2jDtRyC62Q33OtC/w300-h400/IMG_1236.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="text-align: center;">we even went and explored ikseondong in our hanboks haha. posing for photos at the famous cheongsudang cafe. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJw0MgkkUoAYLGyF14radANrMNDKl1GZS1Auc-c4emyQR_HvSmYTlZluTQ0ZVfZFJQtvfLxYu1NwjcT1-fXtVsRyKFLC9Dz54Y0HLPzuL8QmNVXMJpJfr6ixQoVBJiIQcwRf4FWzCCv2IuPW7IVxZzci7MrVJsugMsSdyJFsp9XsjaujwI9xQj7_I/s4032/IMG_1239.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXJw0MgkkUoAYLGyF14radANrMNDKl1GZS1Auc-c4emyQR_HvSmYTlZluTQ0ZVfZFJQtvfLxYu1NwjcT1-fXtVsRyKFLC9Dz54Y0HLPzuL8QmNVXMJpJfr6ixQoVBJiIQcwRf4FWzCCv2IuPW7IVxZzci7MrVJsugMsSdyJFsp9XsjaujwI9xQj7_I/w300-h400/IMG_1239.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;">the whole area is super cute cause it's a lot of hanok cafes and all. very unique architecture. there were also a ton of kbbq places. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #800180; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFR5T7HnriF6o94QB8VtyzUsKBcK0o_RgnNHOGhPe2rAhhdpEtaWBTz5-ilKyTOEffau23dDcuJ4bbPn_LscbMMnpZZDRXG3dNH5bkH5GnM_OVshVi17pxLR74VtldkvKHxif4q1_1i-Hv2-kWVOijjtld_e9cuukdyIcWhwkZzimN2g66Mb8Jhu3/s4032/IMG_1289.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFR5T7HnriF6o94QB8VtyzUsKBcK0o_RgnNHOGhPe2rAhhdpEtaWBTz5-ilKyTOEffau23dDcuJ4bbPn_LscbMMnpZZDRXG3dNH5bkH5GnM_OVshVi17pxLR74VtldkvKHxif4q1_1i-Hv2-kWVOijjtld_e9cuukdyIcWhwkZzimN2g66Mb8Jhu3/w300-h400/IMG_1289.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;">we had cake and drinks at one of the cafes, and there's a funny story here too. while we're eating, shu keeps looking at the girls sitting behind me. anyway, one of the girls had just purchased a pair of mint sneakers and it was really pretty. shu was eyeing it and wanted to know where she bought it. i refused to be the one to ask cause so paiseh. so instead, i taught shu how to ask the question in korean. so she learns it, then proceeds to tap the girl behind me and ask the question. but then the girl starts answering in korean and shu's like 'eh what's she saying?' hahaha. so in the end i still had to turn around to listen to the answer and ask follow up questions haha. </div><div style="color: #800180; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">so there you go, our seoul days. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">the rest of the time was spent shopping, of which no photos were taken since we were busy shopping haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it's funny cause as i look through my photos to put together my blog posts, i realised that i was so busy all the time trying to get photos and also short videos so i could put together our IG reels.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">and in the end i feel like i didn't get enough of both even though we had so many photos and videos still haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">it's also the first time i was so diligent in editing videos on train rides or at night before bed so the IG reels would be pretty timely still haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">would totally do it again though cause i constantly watch those reels on repeat to relive the memories. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_TMZJcPFbluptTSM7sUaJrys0DlqeRQz2vDB4Of7K_g57hKdzChLegaNK42HJ18w3P-g2rvVOHwVTZYvJ8Iiw3OFpgAlGxzN_mPTTHn3mEGOxeSAs3qFV9a87iaHF9v8ngTHkgAju3qTBu0-gDr4OjUXJdEAY0KNglkPMGtMOxcMYi_zzv1rppiD/s3648/IMG_1125.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_TMZJcPFbluptTSM7sUaJrys0DlqeRQz2vDB4Of7K_g57hKdzChLegaNK42HJ18w3P-g2rvVOHwVTZYvJ8Iiw3OFpgAlGxzN_mPTTHn3mEGOxeSAs3qFV9a87iaHF9v8ngTHkgAju3qTBu0-gDr4OjUXJdEAY0KNglkPMGtMOxcMYi_zzv1rppiD/w400-h300/IMG_1125.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">next stop: incheon.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-5312536215883760742022-05-02T10:43:00.002-07:002022-05-02T10:43:22.773-07:00바다 보러 가자~<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i'm so so grateful for the extra long weekend - 4 day weekend, it doesn't get any better than that.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i know lots of people are out of town since it's such a long weekend but i'm just taking all the time to rest up and chill man and it's been soooo great!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">just now my mom came into my room and asked if i wanted to go out to j8 to get some stuff and i'm like nope i do not have plans to get out of my PJs today haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i've been spending the weekend sorting through my Korea photos, catching up on my shows, reading 'Midnight Library', and just living the life haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i love looking through our Korea trip photos cause i'm literally just reliving the moments as i go through each one. we took like more than 1,000 photos and videos haha it's crazy.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">anyway, i didn't manage to do a Q1 blog post before the trip but i'm going to blog about our Korea trip while the memories are still fresh in my head. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it was such a great trip!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">at the end of the 11 days i really wished we had decided to extend for another weekend.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">korea in the spring is my second favourite season, after autumn.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">the weather is just perfect and there are flowers all around. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLXvaCpkUOXaBaRiH1yS_UdewotJLl0ZD4YRhgYBZSrw3FTuqxmKRcCCCexiFH3OLeh5oU1bB3o3jEDRh59G7GImn4JrPJKkx_yjdTRtNwW31hl-FjAcAWcuOMN28IinjRjlvTa2suz8uYORR8ZGd7XpE7uuIIfjnIYQbSEDHKjChto57YSR6--CLP/s4032/IMG_1370.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLXvaCpkUOXaBaRiH1yS_UdewotJLl0ZD4YRhgYBZSrw3FTuqxmKRcCCCexiFH3OLeh5oU1bB3o3jEDRh59G7GImn4JrPJKkx_yjdTRtNwW31hl-FjAcAWcuOMN28IinjRjlvTa2suz8uYORR8ZGd7XpE7uuIIfjnIYQbSEDHKjChto57YSR6--CLP/w300-h400/IMG_1370.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">cherry blossom season!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we wanted to venture out a little this trip since we have all been to Seoul before, and so we took my friend's recommendation (thanks joon!) and drove to the east!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">settled on 속초/양양 since i already visited 강릉 my last trip to Korea. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and i must say that i really loved how peaceful and chill it was. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we rented a car from hertz (which was really just under lotte rent a car - one of the well known car rental places in Korea).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we picked the car up from the outlet near Samseong subway station and it was really convenient - just a short walk from Exit 7/8. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">do note though that the service staff don't really speak English but they mainly just need your reservation info, your International Driving Permit, your address while in Korea, and then a credit card for payment. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">after that's done, the staff will show you to the car parked out front. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">they'll take you through the contract and have you sign a few things but um, all in Korean haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">main things are confirming that they've given you the car with a full tank of petrol and that you will return the car with a full tank of petrol, also confirming that you received the car in good condition, etc. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and then you're on your way.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">at the check in counter, they also provide you wet tissues, trash bags, etc. for the car so that was nice. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUp24dGaRNBqt4h60-mm8OTeFSbR59eonKGsUgsDlYVxQLCS9EmfCQ9cslWRZwnFC7cdD4tTZzlbOG7NrQaLQiRi5jBmLQr8rX3y1ZoM5Jk9uyc6dCxxggluO1TmSReISXQcV_9fO3cb0c5tDFgRvK7jmZu335-daCEYiCfWOyWRW91Tukr5RN_18T/s3175/IMG_0599.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3019" data-original-width="3175" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUp24dGaRNBqt4h60-mm8OTeFSbR59eonKGsUgsDlYVxQLCS9EmfCQ9cslWRZwnFC7cdD4tTZzlbOG7NrQaLQiRi5jBmLQr8rX3y1ZoM5Jk9uyc6dCxxggluO1TmSReISXQcV_9fO3cb0c5tDFgRvK7jmZu335-daCEYiCfWOyWRW91Tukr5RN_18T/w400-h380/IMG_0599.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">thankfully the train ride to collect the car was pretty empty so we all managed to get seats</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it was my first time driving in Korea so i wasn't sure what to expect.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">but it's really just like driving in any big city when you're in Seoul.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it also helped that i'm used to the left hand drive from driving in U.S. for so many years. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">the drive from Seoul to Sokcho is about 2 and a half hours so not too far of a drive.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">when you first leave Seoul and enter the highway, there's a toll station.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">there are a few lanes for the toll station and you'll want to make sure to keep to the extreme right where you can take a ticket so that you can pay in cash at the end of your journey. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we made the mistake of going through their hi-pass lane and were semi panicking that we were going to get a fine haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">thankfully when we got to the exit toll station where we had to pay, we simply told the attendant that we didn't have a ticket.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">she then made a phone call, indicating our car plate number and then told us how much to pay. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it's super funny cause we made sure to go to the right lane when leaving sokcho a few days later but somehow couldn't figure out how to take the ticket and there was someone else behind us so we had to just move ahead without the ticket haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and then do the same thing when we got to the seoul toll station - stupidly explain to the ahjumma in korean that we were unable to get a ticket and ask her to make a phone call again haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">basic korean speaking skills definitely came into play haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3fULRtzAhKJZgF6su6n1C4v-KqhNk76DufgFBRmXVc8MgI7eUVvojExBo6DIdXZHGC2sEwQxpbZrRbH5fC6qCB39sdpfk8BscWJqobRhjb8ODdHWd6IBYpcGxW_hv_GjKSHw4LVJ9rHG5IKIEbzr46w4ENFr6MD8ICnE89kucDPcKq-IwMmWvtyK/s4032/IMG_0602.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_QFMerOjt-VVjv1iDyhUUMUjX1QBnwSS3hMHv-63DGPt8SZHA2IC2PQunUgE5UCiAxDzfYPSp3dcd_E6F-sGpwYxdPPchU75vZdQr9vrQX5h5NtjH7XDul1F9QlVXqdBQc8LajbpDp5GTCQ4QEDbInDBC7nlKIIcfIgc-ulJXnEcg8ZFmnell2FOA/w400-h225/G0213797.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">driving through countless tunnels</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">speaking of which, if you want to explore outside of Seoul, i definitely feel it helps to have someone in the group who can speak/read korean. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">honestly, my korean is not great (simply because i get super self-conscious and always want to make sure my korean grammar is 100% correct or i won't speak haha. but i'm sure if you just use broken korean people will get it) but when all the signs and menus, etc. are in korean, it suddenly becomes very helpful haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">when roadtripping in Korea, rest stops are also a must!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Korean rest stops are on a whole other level. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">if you're driving to gangwondo area, there are two major rest areas along the way - gapyeong is the first one you'll encounter followed by hongcheon.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">the rest areas have a ton of food options, a huge and clean restroom, and most importantly, my favourite 호두 잦 과자! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it's kind of like a taiyaki with red bean and pine nuts in them - it tastes seriously the best when it's freshly made and warm. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLtRPpD4DhnogNNvREhcVd38pf3DZOXs7KyGzh7Ml7vZGiOBFvLINK3CnvgpgR2evv6HYWRyz1ndHwxXx0nsONZvQW9slePeZrghJXtrhPRPrD6bjKcrKJ3ZU0ZVIfoqvsj9XdKdTYbTePpjegiHkksUOruK6JKf6VcgBn2Us3KPFw2uI5SbVENlh/s4032/IMG_0611.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuLtRPpD4DhnogNNvREhcVd38pf3DZOXs7KyGzh7Ml7vZGiOBFvLINK3CnvgpgR2evv6HYWRyz1ndHwxXx0nsONZvQW9slePeZrghJXtrhPRPrD6bjKcrKJ3ZU0ZVIfoqvsj9XdKdTYbTePpjegiHkksUOruK6JKf6VcgBn2Us3KPFw2uI5SbVENlh/w300-h400/IMG_0611.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbD3ueXoeJDTF14hUzkOtn1D0KqhgFUYPcMM3Byx3SgEukLpqlNqRFwizSdAp7AXA6RduZsnHWPJ4UUhU2xYafrkbx9V1y6GLerKDTwMbqNhuQRO7Bruk9C6JBVdQsfAC83mae0Xbq3DgQrNPZgwc5FakOdmk23Yr1-vNgOJMDTZHtdkltaxTUTfr/w300-h400/IMG_0608.JPG" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">my 호두 잦 과자 // there are lots of korean food options to choose from at the rest area food court - we had tteokgalbi milmyeon and mandu (the mandu was from my favourite mandu chain too - bukchon son mandu)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGD1HfGIj8xt3tQPlmP_Pp-8w8reSImxuPSSyGiprMEA-kNekHMvgOw46WxGdWTha4OlXRG3-j0-jIdK_X_37KY_wzysbGD_ZjwQVkyM__tJ15VL4QquJlusL8qOyTBwv2OC2Byz-uRxHWGw8kAfb-2vgUlI3Yz5fC6L55JKHR-eZtK1hCiV6as9i/s4032/IMG_0609.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnGD1HfGIj8xt3tQPlmP_Pp-8w8reSImxuPSSyGiprMEA-kNekHMvgOw46WxGdWTha4OlXRG3-j0-jIdK_X_37KY_wzysbGD_ZjwQVkyM__tJ15VL4QquJlusL8qOyTBwv2OC2Byz-uRxHWGw8kAfb-2vgUlI3Yz5fC6L55JKHR-eZtK1hCiV6as9i/w400-h300/IMG_0609.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">enjoying our rest stop meal</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCHthtZJtLgwTnfDYqcBkGToRIgN3IyF4mhfFT0mXiDoCXt--3TBzZFt6Tk5Fxn4_FPJNzWVNJnCaojvipsbuyCwPt5EtIV-bL8wqoSsBWjIWio1XsDPIYzoSOqKxlrFbgTD31JvO1AdDjPRivkAHXGyQbA_D6oNuukZrQdyS4QV-Dr3jf4q3X8upa/s3648/IMG_0615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCHthtZJtLgwTnfDYqcBkGToRIgN3IyF4mhfFT0mXiDoCXt--3TBzZFt6Tk5Fxn4_FPJNzWVNJnCaojvipsbuyCwPt5EtIV-bL8wqoSsBWjIWio1XsDPIYzoSOqKxlrFbgTD31JvO1AdDjPRivkAHXGyQbA_D6oNuukZrQdyS4QV-Dr3jf4q3X8upa/w400-h300/IMG_0615.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it was so sunny the first few days we were in Korea and so here's a shot of us enjoying the warm weather</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJGg7RCgvb13HXhBAunNjglxoLm3o5AmgdhDyUcwF5uRTooA3kmdeJYJukHBR73zi0DQEZ7K-2pnbTDjRJcS6H777ymJJG8B2YH6A_OHIxs9rdVZz--M5Wv8lj5N_HJz2leQ2oJW_FEwdXpq61tpPfnFhrlo693X6Exk8181BopD1mB4BUGYWduAa/s4032/IMG_0616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIJGg7RCgvb13HXhBAunNjglxoLm3o5AmgdhDyUcwF5uRTooA3kmdeJYJukHBR73zi0DQEZ7K-2pnbTDjRJcS6H777ymJJG8B2YH6A_OHIxs9rdVZz--M5Wv8lj5N_HJz2leQ2oJW_FEwdXpq61tpPfnFhrlo693X6Exk8181BopD1mB4BUGYWduAa/w300-h400/IMG_0616.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">drove through so many tunnels along the way and in some of these tunnels they had pretty rainbow lights</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we <a href="https://www.airbnb.com.sg/rooms/53244358?source_impression_id=p3_1651492783_3R%2BJ8pKmW%2F5e6ViX" target="_blank">stayed</a> right beside the beach in Sokcho and it was beautiful.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it was a 2-bedroom apartment with 2 bathrooms, a kitchen and living room.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it was nice to have all that space and be able to eat at a dining table and all. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjlBiHK5wBI_hlov8WxzhEBh3BpumOBO3xHqK9tx89r6lgfMVPjNw-yDy2wAqXjApBzwubYq6LLOHLdexWTnG7TMmhP8ff1uI4wQ-nstSMFJfSHcKPo7f4Bp02qsUlQBdL_XONPTcGinXr_BrdqfMSVesAmz88B5hCMJLep2U-ETeZNfBC26vl_8fT/s3008/G0223813.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjlBiHK5wBI_hlov8WxzhEBh3BpumOBO3xHqK9tx89r6lgfMVPjNw-yDy2wAqXjApBzwubYq6LLOHLdexWTnG7TMmhP8ff1uI4wQ-nstSMFJfSHcKPo7f4Bp02qsUlQBdL_XONPTcGinXr_BrdqfMSVesAmz88B5hCMJLep2U-ETeZNfBC26vl_8fT/w640-h360/G0223813.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">our cozy living room</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLQ2yFns2DNS8Z7zLJgTgbY-uC1TIfAdEKT7odRovEepYXwyWCCJL9_14zhc1zZoDCqNZ8IRQlH11seqxTVG5w-Blwl-9tO8OYRhOWAj0adEMIttgjvNWQGoX-yX_NYzvA3RcX5PdMGrqgWRR1104addnacSnSTyXkEZXrzvgYycpBq_Kb7DtgZs7/s3008/G0223807.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHLQ2yFns2DNS8Z7zLJgTgbY-uC1TIfAdEKT7odRovEepYXwyWCCJL9_14zhc1zZoDCqNZ8IRQlH11seqxTVG5w-Blwl-9tO8OYRhOWAj0adEMIttgjvNWQGoX-yX_NYzvA3RcX5PdMGrqgWRR1104addnacSnSTyXkEZXrzvgYycpBq_Kb7DtgZs7/w640-h360/G0223807.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the famous ferris wheel was like right outside our apartment</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">after settling in, we decided to take a little walk along the beach since we had some time before dinner and it was really nice and peaceful. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHH-KyWEidUqxGryL_q-fcVIQ3IDp_uKIuAtUoEoLtaE2IUaGGIDBU6cfepH0LrenmsnWVxx_5ndKWY_MtmqoskapumKm-Hg6HLoyrhVzFCq7lEQQuJx6OuNVFWySE9TQXX6kgL8ticYQ135_MQDdGpBembCWzx6ETmTwnr7d8qi3ALeMKRx0zK7Ga/s4032/IMG_0621.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHH-KyWEidUqxGryL_q-fcVIQ3IDp_uKIuAtUoEoLtaE2IUaGGIDBU6cfepH0LrenmsnWVxx_5ndKWY_MtmqoskapumKm-Hg6HLoyrhVzFCq7lEQQuJx6OuNVFWySE9TQXX6kgL8ticYQ135_MQDdGpBembCWzx6ETmTwnr7d8qi3ALeMKRx0zK7Ga/w300-h400/IMG_0621.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the sunset was so beautiful in person - you could see the mountains in the skyline and it was just wow.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimit3DYsQHbXLCZPVDHiTsaiH7hNvM38mmI9AuqDI4ZPZnS2AeBnFooAxg2cIwGlTFPKx8NOmFnc_YrCm1Wi0w73JtUzB4AC8M6XwHVeo2iWN956by3kDfCihgdm34PMUUiN5KyrYqSaatOXlTT3bxdZuptmqU2DrEHnp0uhyZnAjYIqhZgSdbmFTl/s3008/G0243817.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimit3DYsQHbXLCZPVDHiTsaiH7hNvM38mmI9AuqDI4ZPZnS2AeBnFooAxg2cIwGlTFPKx8NOmFnc_YrCm1Wi0w73JtUzB4AC8M6XwHVeo2iWN956by3kDfCihgdm34PMUUiN5KyrYqSaatOXlTT3bxdZuptmqU2DrEHnp0uhyZnAjYIqhZgSdbmFTl/w640-h360/G0243817.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">walking to the beach</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw3CftfI85dN33X2yZm-1j7-ZlGu3uq4xK9f6_v-F55UYz6FF6cV4kUyR9q_EYRpIMUDtusrXpasWIGYi_Lr00el8qAFE4usNLbONInaOXBvKqHH3u9oufTFceb-H7txww7w8BWcvAm1rrG3Y1Qwg-atzEatvYcm59qz86Uvh7Hbw9mAfZHiduL9HU/s4032/IMG_0628.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw3CftfI85dN33X2yZm-1j7-ZlGu3uq4xK9f6_v-F55UYz6FF6cV4kUyR9q_EYRpIMUDtusrXpasWIGYi_Lr00el8qAFE4usNLbONInaOXBvKqHH3u9oufTFceb-H7txww7w8BWcvAm1rrG3Y1Qwg-atzEatvYcm59qz86Uvh7Hbw9mAfZHiduL9HU/w300-h400/IMG_0628.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjma4MPqZodABtdf39BFkjcMh4Sg7m4lgz5qAviQ2V2FSPfJBBYX8L1Syws-_h4XK-e7kq166MuIyWEY2FksdBU2whkSMQ-TVX1O3e5QtVk6Rlvz8xalwQwAbSw-nCwLMuFSootb6_mRsidolGxGWc6CMfAZzMmBR0pAttcffMvfKvjOqOfH4nZeA9a/w300-h400/IMG_0649.JPG" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">it was nice to see families spending time together on a sunday evening, just chilling on the beach</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">once night came along, the little beach town got really quiet and we soon realised that restaurants and all closed pretty early too.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we drove to the dinner place we had planned for the night - it was down very small roads and quite the adventure cause the roads were very dark.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and sadly, it was closed!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">thankfully we managed to find another restaurant from our list.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">ate at this restaurant by the beach which serves mulhoe - seafood is really fresh since it's a beach town. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i'm not a fan of raw seafood so i ordered the 홓게비빔밥 (red crab bibimbap) and that was really yummy.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we also ordered the 오징어 순대 (squid soondae) which is a gangwondo specialty and that was wayyyy yum. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEojbL-LOIR8BSKeYfWx-TU17HTUL1iqqXv2s5klGUQqT7ZFh8Id5b5U2Xk-E6ORNUGFF5MeUT8WjmGhLgjcj10lA6JE55uYx2kd3koI7eaHzj9UUhkHD3mhAp8-OLFOEf4qOhQRvVsc1cSLOHb4loNN_fYmkVV24MjtxqNzzSSGs_HjHo9e5L826/s4032/IMG_0664.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrEojbL-LOIR8BSKeYfWx-TU17HTUL1iqqXv2s5klGUQqT7ZFh8Id5b5U2Xk-E6ORNUGFF5MeUT8WjmGhLgjcj10lA6JE55uYx2kd3koI7eaHzj9UUhkHD3mhAp8-OLFOEf4qOhQRvVsc1cSLOHb4loNN_fYmkVV24MjtxqNzzSSGs_HjHo9e5L826/w400-h300/IMG_0664.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">a table full of food and side dishes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1LgLECIlJitCMxI4Xw9grt6xsdACReYzXEISHfJkuJXTskCKQZ6WVGWz8_LmtCUqmJ4pBknN4_SjH9SeTh02wRjxKtlH6zcjG3ctNMmK8gJwCU5e90kAMNYZAseo-Fb8HuQG0kfpKEQQ1np3bxe3voG6Oy9qe4rru5gKrrpzNKnkAc9mbOf6TDWwO/s4032/IMG_0666.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1LgLECIlJitCMxI4Xw9grt6xsdACReYzXEISHfJkuJXTskCKQZ6WVGWz8_LmtCUqmJ4pBknN4_SjH9SeTh02wRjxKtlH6zcjG3ctNMmK8gJwCU5e90kAMNYZAseo-Fb8HuQG0kfpKEQQ1np3bxe3voG6Oy9qe4rru5gKrrpzNKnkAc9mbOf6TDWwO/w400-h300/IMG_0666.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">happy to be having dinner - the restaurant name is 봉포머구리집 (Bongpo Meogurijip). the restaurant was really cute - you scan a QR code to order (warning, it was all in korean), then a robot brings you your trays of food. note: do not take the trays off the robot - just take your food. my dear friends were noobs and tried to take the trays off and a nice server came over to tell them not to. the server found out we were foreigners after that and was super nice to us the rest of the night - we must have looked like real noobs haha.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-A0kOZVTb9IodQi1sJTMOGhwSCAnEqgY04XpiYj0yBBz4f2EsywpyoTRdkmBR5DylejR6DhZbhDlM23YOLwL7dLViUkKkJ79Uu8sEfuZLWFTGosAoI_KsPFjZo6oeF_CtJRIVhvAdFf5XGxNAs1xX9LHhTSExJq5OQNP-jYdNYuIECY8lWbhmjFPm/s4032/IMG_0667.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-A0kOZVTb9IodQi1sJTMOGhwSCAnEqgY04XpiYj0yBBz4f2EsywpyoTRdkmBR5DylejR6DhZbhDlM23YOLwL7dLViUkKkJ79Uu8sEfuZLWFTGosAoI_KsPFjZo6oeF_CtJRIVhvAdFf5XGxNAs1xX9LHhTSExJq5OQNP-jYdNYuIECY8lWbhmjFPm/w300-h400/IMG_0667.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">오징어 순대! i don't normally eat 순대 but i fell in love with the 오징어 순대 when we went to 강릉 my last trip</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">day two in sokcho, we went to 설악산 (seoraksan national park) and went on a hike haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">hj and i wanted to just take the cable car and do a simple hike, but shu wanted to do a more difficult hike haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">so we agreed, on the condition that we would turn back any time we wanted. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">honestly, we were like what are we doing to ourselves so early in the trip haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we chose the 울산바위 (ulsanbawi) trail cause that seemed moderate and with nice views. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it was definitely quite steep and with lots of rocks and stairs along the way.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">but guess what, after 2 and a half hours, we made it to the top.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it felt like a great accomplishment and the view actually looked quite like angels landing at zions. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">when we reached the top, we sat down at the top for a bit and ate our kimbap and snacks.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">felt so good. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifiFja7IpjlHJ3nZsftubFIKc4QniUTWuzBNiTZ_A5PnIj7Am9iG_M_mce5NeYVnuKpdfe4vcWdmJV7fui3_vh67kpvGlPXUQ4LSQkpcw8wsPVKf1nTtnurAdasBQ5Vg_1agefRLe6YAft35wxY3uhwK-ilHcsOpQH-nCuemqC0Pu9F1eN9dpS_6hU/s4032/IMG_0676.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifiFja7IpjlHJ3nZsftubFIKc4QniUTWuzBNiTZ_A5PnIj7Am9iG_M_mce5NeYVnuKpdfe4vcWdmJV7fui3_vh67kpvGlPXUQ4LSQkpcw8wsPVKf1nTtnurAdasBQ5Vg_1agefRLe6YAft35wxY3uhwK-ilHcsOpQH-nCuemqC0Pu9F1eN9dpS_6hU/w300-h400/IMG_0676.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">fueling up before the hike. my favourite thing to do every day was drink my banana milk. i miss it so much. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQN7gsZgBEOuDLJvvvpwo8QAhg2QUBnKTwmFZvH0FACgeLgCxX2hnPE-MRpFEQXeECL4o1AI5hCS5WvwofLjzZ_ZmfemEnNWFuh7_2NhE8AgnSCtFwlpXepSWOxIakGEoMjCxH9VK0W-K6IWLKAGwMh8mtuewOHhCEvJKVo30Y1Oz63cWrx3fpLWQs/s4032/IMG_0707.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQN7gsZgBEOuDLJvvvpwo8QAhg2QUBnKTwmFZvH0FACgeLgCxX2hnPE-MRpFEQXeECL4o1AI5hCS5WvwofLjzZ_ZmfemEnNWFuh7_2NhE8AgnSCtFwlpXepSWOxIakGEoMjCxH9VK0W-K6IWLKAGwMh8mtuewOHhCEvJKVo30Y1Oz63cWrx3fpLWQs/w300-h400/IMG_0707.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTsn9SusGzs2DPj-sFTnXhPEkgWjjKLaiqm_abgqM3jwTqGH1KcX3cLxCo5if7QA3KlUsuquwU3Tju49It-NdpuDviLwGiKAY6KGcDqg7tmeTa2MvFm8JX4A3a5LSDUqpkUzHhfTd8hxNsrP0oKJW6uc4qrcYcTEDc3Nd7lwQfbX5McXnB8_k7VeE/w300-h400/IMG_0712.JPG" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">many many many flights of stairs haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8R9RIOTUoQDmmZ-ctxetpy6RghW0VO0V21A7Uy7HHd7tT2U4323Mwd-nvZSLQSy_XiKWlfOHe8q_k1ZCKxfIRWYtyLrjnmBVCsRIiIJo2GeO1Dk2WA3s8fkBgnLcJgU94u0Lyf8e4NsUETg2OxqjHu9Se1_VQzABHHup-uZ-6kLkDgpW3261-YcK/s3008/G0353851.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8R9RIOTUoQDmmZ-ctxetpy6RghW0VO0V21A7Uy7HHd7tT2U4323Mwd-nvZSLQSy_XiKWlfOHe8q_k1ZCKxfIRWYtyLrjnmBVCsRIiIJo2GeO1Dk2WA3s8fkBgnLcJgU94u0Lyf8e4NsUETg2OxqjHu9Se1_VQzABHHup-uZ-6kLkDgpW3261-YcK/w640-h360/G0353851.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">according to people coming down, we were just 200m away from the top at this point. we look so fresh but we were really dying inside haha. the people we met along the way were all so nice and encouraging though and kept telling us, 'almost there'!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj22_DI0AygU_f4VL31m-pNx2q7kbKjNEuy9p9RJWUgfowpT7fcPI09H9zpEdYHehgHnbCx7A_M5wDubpz99cA6A688kA9ovgbU8MLTXb3-EvH4THgyOCn2Czp8rLs5R-YZpz9KGuZmK6rjGLzi35jAfTpjdUuUA-Zb2i-3YW5fAMZ0M43GUUts8ezu/s4032/IMG_0726.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 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/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">hj and i look like we're ready to fight each other hahaha, but we're just being our typical sassy selves/purposely annoying each other haha // we made it!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFsUhXADop0vDTqnM5fcx4wjYOo2GBmMmWLMcvQrOREzx8TMzSCAMnrGS02xLmewQ_gLj3WmiUqnDzjrYNzIZ_owe0HJ9u3j76Hu7VnfKTTKAcMg01Li1DRmYOharUGuHTbSl6mEnTn4DMZDWPWLqrUTh2ommZHwfgSv-RsJsidwPB4i8VDGDxntio/s4032/IMG_0769.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFsUhXADop0vDTqnM5fcx4wjYOo2GBmMmWLMcvQrOREzx8TMzSCAMnrGS02xLmewQ_gLj3WmiUqnDzjrYNzIZ_owe0HJ9u3j76Hu7VnfKTTKAcMg01Li1DRmYOharUGuHTbSl6mEnTn4DMZDWPWLqrUTh2ommZHwfgSv-RsJsidwPB4i8VDGDxntio/w300-h400/IMG_0769.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">funny story about this jump shot. i always take jump shots on my trips and so i decided to ask shu to try taking it for me. well she took the shot and was so proud of herself cause she said she got it. and then she shows me this shot. i died. she was like 'but your feet are off the ground' hahaha. she was banned from taking my jump shots for the rest of the trip haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb_0EdMqlukL4NVt1vuF2wZIqTCSD0xFYnoSClMwSG23YDMWhMvYTkJTZVBeKqJJjAYNDrxFfc2EtuT7elq9i0PRhHoftYwSDv7NF4EYIC3cvPkjJR9ZqzGV85iCMDEqwq3jrabWu4_u2JQHCvDwwRCee8-EhBsfTRwlyv1H7pb5SJg7rUk4eY3nu/s4032/IMG_0766.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqb_0EdMqlukL4NVt1vuF2wZIqTCSD0xFYnoSClMwSG23YDMWhMvYTkJTZVBeKqJJjAYNDrxFfc2EtuT7elq9i0PRhHoftYwSDv7NF4EYIC3cvPkjJR9ZqzGV85iCMDEqwq3jrabWu4_u2JQHCvDwwRCee8-EhBsfTRwlyv1H7pb5SJg7rUk4eY3nu/w480-h640/IMG_0766.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">excited to be heading down and not up hahaha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDMNhk6X7Apm28gDFuBhiSfva7k3RQWyJ8iGRkjtfztt4QAQR6pg-2mvFq2g4w5ycmr7ohZiYF0OKmfkCE67zxGFEkPBJokDBUIpfmoVF4Dws6WV-am0iGhuX4hQaLwMzxeConqGXB2_t9cDECwBCC0oKQKq_Ct6lurZM1w-j36ttAfUVRYRiK_MFd/s4032/IMG_0794.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDMNhk6X7Apm28gDFuBhiSfva7k3RQWyJ8iGRkjtfztt4QAQR6pg-2mvFq2g4w5ycmr7ohZiYF0OKmfkCE67zxGFEkPBJokDBUIpfmoVF4Dws6WV-am0iGhuX4hQaLwMzxeConqGXB2_t9cDECwBCC0oKQKq_Ct6lurZM1w-j36ttAfUVRYRiK_MFd/w300-h400/IMG_0794.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">hiking 끝</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnq9XgJ4-95QD_Hvdv36dpSS6XwLanpsAneSe39oifr733ix7dzmaoA7FM6MaHoVg2gmdeWEpCzSEgjGF9LzAFpqhA6YnWkCjCPfLiWXBS-eLoJmodip9jeBHYw8WvVk9abXmc9QIrlGaOGpWMxHR7O5ESfn8kxSXF7viDy1Hij5rAAXcchBWSqPoH/s1792/IMG_0905.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="828" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnq9XgJ4-95QD_Hvdv36dpSS6XwLanpsAneSe39oifr733ix7dzmaoA7FM6MaHoVg2gmdeWEpCzSEgjGF9LzAFpqhA6YnWkCjCPfLiWXBS-eLoJmodip9jeBHYw8WvVk9abXmc9QIrlGaOGpWMxHR7O5ESfn8kxSXF7viDy1Hij5rAAXcchBWSqPoH/w185-h400/IMG_0905.PNG" width="185" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">burned almost 1,000 active kilocalories</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">headed over to the sokcho jungang market after to grab our dinner and the market was bustling with people getting dinner. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we grabbed a bunch of stuff and headed home to eat since we have a nice dining area at home. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hVHAqWzucRjqorLA7WA3Qwkwj0bI_r3ytcNtJV4sbK5_g2-RgTi-Tg0WdJVwp-9ZCMSTd4MCfy_i4CPkKrNspULp8KOC6m5rDe9780wtCFIt9k-fvdL-lcnKwuPyRNwDbRj1C62BclTXUYWRso8-VgnmTTb6Q3TvcWE98qkcZQmOVULTjDx3pE8E/s3008/G0403867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4hVHAqWzucRjqorLA7WA3Qwkwj0bI_r3ytcNtJV4sbK5_g2-RgTi-Tg0WdJVwp-9ZCMSTd4MCfy_i4CPkKrNspULp8KOC6m5rDe9780wtCFIt9k-fvdL-lcnKwuPyRNwDbRj1C62BclTXUYWRso8-VgnmTTb6Q3TvcWE98qkcZQmOVULTjDx3pE8E/w640-h360/G0403867.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">lots of people getting dinner</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVPFG-2o2ogHzfKUhyq6os-odB9Xr5o2f0C81aR1ZSXoN92LBtCXyGoyoPRR10kAGsLT0BGJKntHCd2F-Q8Yvez74VeM6WQGNFStAjQtfJigeif0KNSmpLHC_0CmZc7uUmDMWMbr7jzxtAqataDgHQDGXilk9dnMT5b4z6O66MpqsAaJ7FfI3mptx2/s4032/IMG_0799.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVPFG-2o2ogHzfKUhyq6os-odB9Xr5o2f0C81aR1ZSXoN92LBtCXyGoyoPRR10kAGsLT0BGJKntHCd2F-Q8Yvez74VeM6WQGNFStAjQtfJigeif0KNSmpLHC_0CmZc7uUmDMWMbr7jzxtAqataDgHQDGXilk9dnMT5b4z6O66MpqsAaJ7FfI3mptx2/w300-h400/IMG_0799.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">had some snacks while we were waiting for our crab dinner to be ready (spot the photo bomber behind haha). funny story about the crabs. we were so excited for the crabs and then halfway through we all got so tired of peeling the crabs and were already so full. we were also super excited for the fried rice they put in the crab shells but that turned out to be super bland. anyway,we decided to peel all the crabs to keep for the next day (so painful cause we were so tired already) and i'm glad we did cause the next day it was so yummy hahaha. it is also extra yummy when you put it in ramyun. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJVxeh4GQ1Iic_CsdsMkfy44lTycBMyaQ176XE5kKsjcH4UUWujFjfEc2B6zZJ7QIdO_bPpF_pk0zlQvsGnayK-0C_SfxUp-o6G41s_9huKYDMg-iDbLEK_Znbd-Rgm_KFrmA1gB4Brj1RCgKNyJqum9m2EwlppV7tjuliNfejlyaNdfir22jDhbll/s4032/IMG_0807.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJVxeh4GQ1Iic_CsdsMkfy44lTycBMyaQ176XE5kKsjcH4UUWujFjfEc2B6zZJ7QIdO_bPpF_pk0zlQvsGnayK-0C_SfxUp-o6G41s_9huKYDMg-iDbLEK_Znbd-Rgm_KFrmA1gB4Brj1RCgKNyJqum9m2EwlppV7tjuliNfejlyaNdfir22jDhbll/w300-h400/IMG_0807.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">this is the crab fried rice. looks sooo good right. but it was so disappointing sadly. </span></div><div 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class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFhPChFvYzK_rhQCmuXU6a5hcOi98tJn_b50imAqRA2KXAI-0nkyxPtyFekYFMEU2CgvS1UNzERKo1ESjeMuYcOm6EHy1Fzh-yDXHbmJMDD00Hl1yoYkei8g_hGOIpjG9GPnLMJG8acBz_ca4wE9X5y95udyequUhGa_pHWBj-RAmAILs5zCLvYXz/s3008/IMG_0808.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqFhPChFvYzK_rhQCmuXU6a5hcOi98tJn_b50imAqRA2KXAI-0nkyxPtyFekYFMEU2CgvS1UNzERKo1ESjeMuYcOm6EHy1Fzh-yDXHbmJMDD00Hl1yoYkei8g_hGOIpjG9GPnLMJG8acBz_ca4wE9X5y95udyequUhGa_pHWBj-RAmAILs5zCLvYXz/w640-h360/IMG_0808.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">so ready to eat after our hike haha</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we definitely slept well that night after exercising and feasting haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">day three in sokcho i decided to wake up to watch the sunrise since we were so close to the beach and it's supposed to be really beautiful.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">unfortunately it was quite foggy but definitely still pretty. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UXUWC44J-sRXPBq-maEG0C4KBSSOHwZSFSbS4adw7Gy83bkpA24nas1WkSrnsHsSdNUz3d5IL7WjfzqG4QqFTwd0TdnKlbkfZPXiurBOyri6jIE9F6WMCa3UpF1NBuGtvUYOqeCF0WPUKsIyzXCUx0sa-2Y9BdtIHIwV0T4qk3HEov9rIkY5mt8V/s4032/IMG_0816.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1UXUWC44J-sRXPBq-maEG0C4KBSSOHwZSFSbS4adw7Gy83bkpA24nas1WkSrnsHsSdNUz3d5IL7WjfzqG4QqFTwd0TdnKlbkfZPXiurBOyri6jIE9F6WMCa3UpF1NBuGtvUYOqeCF0WPUKsIyzXCUx0sa-2Y9BdtIHIwV0T4qk3HEov9rIkY5mt8V/w400-h300/IMG_0816.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">when i first got up and the sun was just starting to rise</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBYxmcxpp3ipdU5ATtAtpxAJli6t-8vCWw-vJ5zF8EeFLErwA9oNDnfAAvhwgAVAmHjb9YfkM6ABbfNwGqHwpSK78nAWRi7q6JwjaV9a_W9AOnJ514oIUrNjQkP75z4ASmP87kf_LzcgSszP3jN7MpdpYScMIqq1eyzhSnlJrPShVhRBly9wKC1Oe7/s7206/IMG_0825.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3952" data-original-width="7206" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBYxmcxpp3ipdU5ATtAtpxAJli6t-8vCWw-vJ5zF8EeFLErwA9oNDnfAAvhwgAVAmHjb9YfkM6ABbfNwGqHwpSK78nAWRi7q6JwjaV9a_W9AOnJ514oIUrNjQkP75z4ASmP87kf_LzcgSszP3jN7MpdpYScMIqq1eyzhSnlJrPShVhRBly9wKC1Oe7/w640-h350/IMG_0825.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">after 10-15 mins - i can't remember how long it was really cause i was really half asleep haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjijartogME9djJfoh22dv5jidwZruI1EnCzu_J8gXszK0b3tIzzURkC2A7Z2Ko1i8ZzGxqNbL8dg3OW4rolSVGAHNt7RmVsT7V1L3KCQ86xjQYAvpZ5TQLtQy_AatNpeePcaG6AaiWOxkxY-zZIqObb_hqpy2ttOs-OAbQYjE4AtJcYn05bm9oXUar/s4032/IMG_0837.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjijartogME9djJfoh22dv5jidwZruI1EnCzu_J8gXszK0b3tIzzURkC2A7Z2Ko1i8ZzGxqNbL8dg3OW4rolSVGAHNt7RmVsT7V1L3KCQ86xjQYAvpZ5TQLtQy_AatNpeePcaG6AaiWOxkxY-zZIqObb_hqpy2ttOs-OAbQYjE4AtJcYn05bm9oXUar/w640-h480/IMG_0837.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">first order of business for our last full day in sokcho was to go to the grilled fish restaurant we wanted to go to on our first night. it's called 88 grilled fish restaurant and it's a fixed price per person - 17,000 KRW. they serve you a mix of fresh fish and squid, and it was honestly probably my favourite meal from the whole trip. the fish is so tasty! highly recommend it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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/></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">checked out the chilsung boatyard cafe after so shu could get her coffee. they transformed an old boatyard into a nice little cafe and store. the view was pretty and it was nice to just sit and listen to the water. the blueberry financier from here was really good. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUg1UzusQlzrFyknRn8S_1FWeWmLOjV-98afqm7NpzIZFmrTAJHC8KM2CdHFVnPA_edoolWhH6O6lBFaCD_hfzrPzLKaOuvzpvK7dtBR1BPcbXaYs6nnB_Zz7xZltHYvhRPM-RGsJ4cHs0cPO32ej9DJwKy4VKQLdWSTXqQZz3sAzzOdGDtCFym2er/s3008/G0573917.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUg1UzusQlzrFyknRn8S_1FWeWmLOjV-98afqm7NpzIZFmrTAJHC8KM2CdHFVnPA_edoolWhH6O6lBFaCD_hfzrPzLKaOuvzpvK7dtBR1BPcbXaYs6nnB_Zz7xZltHYvhRPM-RGsJ4cHs0cPO32ej9DJwKy4VKQLdWSTXqQZz3sAzzOdGDtCFym2er/w640-h360/G0573917.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">this was the view</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzS04w4O8hHlsfCyfEXdlltXix6WQU6Wn9-wWSveVqVr87M-VNnssI9q5lJxQnjuJfm0I5dLOtxbF-RUyk4IAiDpSNOEfwOYnQ4NQGpi0ZHb0TjYMfXkhYxX3txXtgL-UXh27pyeceEtc57jL0hJUkyHBPHfLwKhovbrvP-hJzmGItboE_z0-Z0_Cu/s4032/IMG_0856.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzS04w4O8hHlsfCyfEXdlltXix6WQU6Wn9-wWSveVqVr87M-VNnssI9q5lJxQnjuJfm0I5dLOtxbF-RUyk4IAiDpSNOEfwOYnQ4NQGpi0ZHb0TjYMfXkhYxX3txXtgL-UXh27pyeceEtc57jL0hJUkyHBPHfLwKhovbrvP-hJzmGItboE_z0-Z0_Cu/w640-h480/IMG_0856.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">us sitting and chilling</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqqDPdYoNAgcqNwhLRP2xHlL0iQLGpen-0rCjZXKiBx0JiBvQTMdNfK-9ZoHRa1aBkjlCl18KdEe88fGEmQjAq_pyrYGHX_IboYQkVJ7kveSxziFWO-uTTRtdk_hC7bS9BYMABcvmHXL6mxOh09rW82uEPU1rqy39EqYDQH8s2iB9JsXmue0qBNOfH/s4032/IMG_0860.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqqDPdYoNAgcqNwhLRP2xHlL0iQLGpen-0rCjZXKiBx0JiBvQTMdNfK-9ZoHRa1aBkjlCl18KdEe88fGEmQjAq_pyrYGHX_IboYQkVJ7kveSxziFWO-uTTRtdk_hC7bS9BYMABcvmHXL6mxOh09rW82uEPU1rqy39EqYDQH8s2iB9JsXmue0qBNOfH/w640-h480/IMG_0860.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">them making fun of me - the sun was so bright so i couldn't see the screen on my GoPro haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2-fVnwZPi_iWVI3T_wBn9uo3h7Ep4Nf0FZsWq5j2KP-58ivle3H_6MFAESFI5olIgMti6YcwmYUR83JfjDwFQ1p7xLeg9mxuUJINK-vmDtgOIW2wh3d98bHxyJpIHUWrdF-pmepKoTnsKfilEFBYQm5ZcrOck-kQg9qZdBoL8a8qvCUmZHF6a_uj6/s4032/IMG_0861.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2-fVnwZPi_iWVI3T_wBn9uo3h7Ep4Nf0FZsWq5j2KP-58ivle3H_6MFAESFI5olIgMti6YcwmYUR83JfjDwFQ1p7xLeg9mxuUJINK-vmDtgOIW2wh3d98bHxyJpIHUWrdF-pmepKoTnsKfilEFBYQm5ZcrOck-kQg9qZdBoL8a8qvCUmZHF6a_uj6/w640-h480/IMG_0861.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">loved how they transformed the old dock where they pull the boats in into places for people to sit on</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-110BC0B8VcOButfn5emD-UvwpHjznPJczftodGNwsOI0rk4ZtPL1n2pdysDmyYSRXikn5QiF2sShKVzK2k43d-efkNgfu--lADqOY7T7A47sg_NeHfG-TboSJLRlyrX7UR2b6nU4C1VucTtI_gL2sjmTWCbA6Q-C8Kgq45AC5AfzhyiIammncL0M/s4032/IMG_0867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-110BC0B8VcOButfn5emD-UvwpHjznPJczftodGNwsOI0rk4ZtPL1n2pdysDmyYSRXikn5QiF2sShKVzK2k43d-efkNgfu--lADqOY7T7A47sg_NeHfG-TboSJLRlyrX7UR2b6nU4C1VucTtI_gL2sjmTWCbA6Q-C8Kgq45AC5AfzhyiIammncL0M/w640-h480/IMG_0867.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">rejuvenated industrial spaces are really becoming more popular</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">after a quick coffee break, headed over to 양양 (yangyang) to check out the surf beaches.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">headed over to surfyy beach first and it was pretty quiet since the weather was still pretty cold.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">but there were still surfers in the water - kudos to them cause the wind was blowing so i can only imagine how cold the water was. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6vNnSoFAwe_SbDW5n-N9ghvTcE7m5unx2IySMmAH5PZDbTCynmK4LbHp4OWtAqiyTZ503QVIou8EOCkN5v2k5CaKgcjif25swRGJfbh6wt2Z1PGuPr37ZRIR9z4Nyee8OhjWNw1r0NFE1dQwJMbyRLmyg-DqT-e1U3tAMIdnDkHCXYgfKMdvMNhUN/s4032/IMG_0881.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6vNnSoFAwe_SbDW5n-N9ghvTcE7m5unx2IySMmAH5PZDbTCynmK4LbHp4OWtAqiyTZ503QVIou8EOCkN5v2k5CaKgcjif25swRGJfbh6wt2Z1PGuPr37ZRIR9z4Nyee8OhjWNw1r0NFE1dQwJMbyRLmyg-DqT-e1U3tAMIdnDkHCXYgfKMdvMNhUN/w640-h480/IMG_0881.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">taking the standard surfyy beach shot in front of the sign with all our hair blowing into our faces haha</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">drove over to hajodae after to check out the pavilion which is apparently a popular spot to watch the sunrise over this really old pine tree.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHfZmJuMCTJUm2d-R1H0IVbRsAlS8xnR6S2jq9H_0vvwoMNmblSrq6WhBIWAXYFgCudj0JPXKKIuLkeqxPAxNXNZVkL9e2JGA_QjEXiXhHt9cuCW5aBIQoJTfDeGiecn51RyeTEb2mptVfymam7SS-EFJZ9z5CuCiosd0cupCjgV2Ph1WHufMOkVON/s4032/IMG_0893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHfZmJuMCTJUm2d-R1H0IVbRsAlS8xnR6S2jq9H_0vvwoMNmblSrq6WhBIWAXYFgCudj0JPXKKIuLkeqxPAxNXNZVkL9e2JGA_QjEXiXhHt9cuCW5aBIQoJTfDeGiecn51RyeTEb2mptVfymam7SS-EFJZ9z5CuCiosd0cupCjgV2Ph1WHufMOkVON/w300-h400/IMG_0893.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">this is the pine tree</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQDDDwlvzU3JtbXLNPj1C0trgs9Rk2KgaBgMO2rCxVu_PGBxC1ZDFPVd-NmIzsLvBD9XOSEvMm6ejR-GK_8lWpG5PcTH1Op0zJpsMiNYcd15OuFs__Qy7teqmKZQsh1s4kvXQFB-xhkLmSzUW7NKKye0ET7Q2VliFi-0kGJn8vzdgzSd26Y0I76tko/s4032/IMG_0898.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQDDDwlvzU3JtbXLNPj1C0trgs9Rk2KgaBgMO2rCxVu_PGBxC1ZDFPVd-NmIzsLvBD9XOSEvMm6ejR-GK_8lWpG5PcTH1Op0zJpsMiNYcd15OuFs__Qy7teqmKZQsh1s4kvXQFB-xhkLmSzUW7NKKye0ET7Q2VliFi-0kGJn8vzdgzSd26Y0I76tko/w400-h300/IMG_0898.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">there's a funny story here too. we met this ahjussi while we were there and he was taking a selfie. after he finished taking his selfie, he was very kind and offered to take a photo for us with the pine tree. he proceeds to take a few shots but the shots all didn't have the pine tree in it. and i think he was very confused cause he could clearly get it in when he took the selfie. after a few shots, i think he gave up. this was really the only shot you could see the pine tree but his finger was in the shot haha. i think he thought my camera was weird cause he asked me in korean how come there's no sound and i was like oh there's no sound i turned it off haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdpcJbIJ_vKYXMPM4yek4WVC158Xv0l0vMC1eGNl6il1quio1qjE-92dRAKkAl4LFuWiABPbTGi8CMheWpd44LrLEvyCLjJEx8bEOPI6wPC1XZ5NvAovMkTUqYAZ84-NSWsdaBfVGvBWwFQOM9SzeuMPxKbwNXOFEIorJlo4gH9mWXV7NR4vmph7wK/s3648/IMG_0902.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdpcJbIJ_vKYXMPM4yek4WVC158Xv0l0vMC1eGNl6il1quio1qjE-92dRAKkAl4LFuWiABPbTGi8CMheWpd44LrLEvyCLjJEx8bEOPI6wPC1XZ5NvAovMkTUqYAZ84-NSWsdaBfVGvBWwFQOM9SzeuMPxKbwNXOFEIorJlo4gH9mWXV7NR4vmph7wK/w640-h480/IMG_0902.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">we took a selfie after and managed to get the tree in haha</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and then we walked over to the lighthouse since it was just right round the corner.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and guess what? yes, the same ahjussi was there too. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we tried to just not make eye contact and just enjoy the scenery for a bit.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">but he was very kind once again and offered to take photos for us again.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we really didn't want any but we had to since he offered.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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#800180;">ended our little trip out to yangyang with a stop at 함's bakery to get the yangyang specialty bread: 준빻 (chun ppang). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">the outside texture is kind of like a bolo bun and the inside is like mochi.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it was super yummy!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i kind of want to learn how to recreate it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIKY-ehsx7CRaAwh06rx6SDB9jEs8XLJ1LO9PrNbr2KH__NlVsTqZEZFH71kMCYoUQUyrEZaDpSv-SYe7np3XZbDrt0k1ze0KEKB8QIkcUbG8i8JBLBzgNv4IUgIMNNc5fquEp7xGxjGMdBRRhWrBqB-7BmyZn1uB6zj26O4VInRrkMYLuXgiMkFAy/s4032/IMG_0920.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIKY-ehsx7CRaAwh06rx6SDB9jEs8XLJ1LO9PrNbr2KH__NlVsTqZEZFH71kMCYoUQUyrEZaDpSv-SYe7np3XZbDrt0k1ze0KEKB8QIkcUbG8i8JBLBzgNv4IUgIMNNc5fquEp7xGxjGMdBRRhWrBqB-7BmyZn1uB6zj26O4VInRrkMYLuXgiMkFAy/w300-h400/IMG_0920.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">we finished both pieces during our car ride back to sokcho haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKSwbHAo7T7fvXWCCWe9mPEKz-YvqVgGPCEgDZdMy9UjJ0ak9lJg2lvlraMUV-rZklifcV1hdGnPepmanHmmVuqrawtLzghJjxxljRN4uJ49Tr4d6P-CrAVRvjOqHQ3wLEQCD9sIsBsDk-N9NdjTlUnhaOpea5-DbAQraz5EnNw7r3WeDp4rDYgfBM/s3008/G0623934.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKSwbHAo7T7fvXWCCWe9mPEKz-YvqVgGPCEgDZdMy9UjJ0ak9lJg2lvlraMUV-rZklifcV1hdGnPepmanHmmVuqrawtLzghJjxxljRN4uJ49Tr4d6P-CrAVRvjOqHQ3wLEQCD9sIsBsDk-N9NdjTlUnhaOpea5-DbAQraz5EnNw7r3WeDp4rDYgfBM/w640-h360/G0623934.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the place we wanted to go for dinner was closed so we decided to just go back to the sokcho market cause we were eyeing the crab ramyun and the 감자전 (potato pancake). interestingly the market wasn't as busy that day compared to the previous day. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT0vSQei1Le_8QfXSSIBrvV6wVZ958Seb3xGAatD1dcAwv8TRX6qjNvqlF6YkNPy92wxrI_mP2ejCwwm5LDWtX2rQZ6pX12Q5brE30IlnfCOctmMoiFY9Pjqr3tIMAUdLJMvnpqqubs48x4o81B4KhBBREi8qj04u9OeZYvv9J3Hc1e5VBUxRBatQy/s4032/IMG_0923.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT0vSQei1Le_8QfXSSIBrvV6wVZ958Seb3xGAatD1dcAwv8TRX6qjNvqlF6YkNPy92wxrI_mP2ejCwwm5LDWtX2rQZ6pX12Q5brE30IlnfCOctmMoiFY9Pjqr3tIMAUdLJMvnpqqubs48x4o81B4KhBBREi8qj04u9OeZYvv9J3Hc1e5VBUxRBatQy/w300-h400/IMG_0923.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the crab ramyun tasted like singapore prawn noodles. they were pretty good. the menbosha was a disappointment though. and the <span style="text-align: center;">감자전</span> was alright. we all were like 'i prefer a rosti' haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and omg we had quite the adventure with our parking that day.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">the previous night we parked on the street but somehow we couldn't find the street to park on again so we ended up parking at the actual carpark.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i was a bit hesitant cause i was worried our foreign credit cards wouldn't work for their machines cause earlier in the day we parked at one of those carparks for lunch too and the machine wouldn't take our cards.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">thankfully for the one in the afternoon, there was a parking attendant mending the machine and i ended up asking him if we could pay in cash instead and he agreed and instead paid using his card while we gave him cash.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">anyway, so we get done with dinner, and first, we couldn't find the way to get back to the carpark cause i guess we didn't pay much attention to which way we walked.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and then when we got to the carpark, you have to go to these payment machines and key in your car plate number and then pay for the parking charges.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">well, the machines wouldn't take any of our cards - we literally tried them all.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it was quite late by then so there weren't many people around so we weren't sure what to do.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">in the end, we had to like approach this couple that was in their car and about to leave to ask them to help us pay using their card at the machine and then we would pay them back in cash. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">omg we must have looked like scammers or something man haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">anyway, the guy was so kind and paid and then wouldn't even let us pay him back.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">luckily it was just a very small amount but we were so so grateful.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">it rained quite a bit that evening and so the weather seriously got a lot colder - compared to our first few days.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i mean, it was so hot during our hike just the day before. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">we were super bummed cause it was our last night in sokcho and we had bought fireworks the night before to set off at the beach that night. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">got home and after awhile, it looked like the rain had pretty much stopped so we quickly put on our jackets and went to the beach. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">there were people also setting off fireworks when we got there. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">anyway, i'm so glad we did it cause that was probably my favourite part of the sokcho trip.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">there's just something fun and magical about setting fireworks off at the beach.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">there was also some funny screaming and running moments cause it was both shu's and hj's first time setting off fireworks - check out my sokcho day three IG reel for the footage haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrWrgbKEey5dJWRXEdoaK6gLPYLI248z6On_8x2Li6UfJHncPMcsoNUZ1OLmGFScwVvBOmt1MO0RxdwVbHFYHQ21W4cHrhV5QdM_aY_ktt0eCncXUvF0r-avKWqTyuqfb-xDUEnB85qwMPxrflQU8SQ_9RXJgEn1zVFVVc502eQwHsSKmlX9A0ciS/s4032/IMG_0929.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNrWrgbKEey5dJWRXEdoaK6gLPYLI248z6On_8x2Li6UfJHncPMcsoNUZ1OLmGFScwVvBOmt1MO0RxdwVbHFYHQ21W4cHrhV5QdM_aY_ktt0eCncXUvF0r-avKWqTyuqfb-xDUEnB85qwMPxrflQU8SQ_9RXJgEn1zVFVVc502eQwHsSKmlX9A0ciS/w300-h400/IMG_0929.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">all ready to set our fireworks off</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwYCXdLbXRBzb670ofHYaQa2RFpE8ucg_1c9pSgoR6cOdhm33ofCuFC5IhlOrCWJfZpCZMhGa2C9nMAeF3q1G9cmS0vOiRWEzKgkuJbiROHAjrdmaYVxHE72LfXGZklD_hDkHDN2gIQf-lxMvj7gy8LoWRCLYs9F6IKxyajqRiGdaGJ5pFzqFP4e1j/s4032/IMG_0936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwYCXdLbXRBzb670ofHYaQa2RFpE8ucg_1c9pSgoR6cOdhm33ofCuFC5IhlOrCWJfZpCZMhGa2C9nMAeF3q1G9cmS0vOiRWEzKgkuJbiROHAjrdmaYVxHE72LfXGZklD_hDkHDN2gIQf-lxMvj7gy8LoWRCLYs9F6IKxyajqRiGdaGJ5pFzqFP4e1j/w300-h400/IMG_0936.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">the last time i set off fireworks i was in the states, freezing on NYE haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz9QEu2kyzKTdkvgbGP4AaWPph9Q8RpFcOrISeh4fFe90u5FONemGvZD9SispMWfHNAdTjJ68-46p95dkT-7Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and that was the end of our 3 days in sokcho.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">another sokcho experience to remember: we had the nightmare of having to use a car lift!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">there was free parking at the AirBnb but you have to use the car lift to go down to the basement levels to park and the car lift is sooo tight - you literally have no extra space so you have to be exact when you go in and out of the lift. it was so stressful haha.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzmZ8MweMEPNJI2wxJ2z08dTi2C8dfvUAKAuaBqzGgv0zYQfMkJjSTSbxyoCOLMDiCjyn4_o5JdKB_eAFv22w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">i was so traumatised the first time but then it was less scary after but definitely still nerve wrecking haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoZvyBKAibS-e7mXsxmcrQUUi-rkz68YkbOH3QlETI-rQeNw6bXcgxEta629_OSzzaTOf0uxt7LRzToz30g-wUreZQ-1A0kG3xUh-r0_itRfXbo3UrF3ZV6j0wiUfhXxFQhWBw34NzCWqYX7x8q8YHF8RagfzgxuRzr0uANaGs2EU5pF2sDMvQIDd/s4032/IMG_0961.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoZvyBKAibS-e7mXsxmcrQUUi-rkz68YkbOH3QlETI-rQeNw6bXcgxEta629_OSzzaTOf0uxt7LRzToz30g-wUreZQ-1A0kG3xUh-r0_itRfXbo3UrF3ZV6j0wiUfhXxFQhWBw34NzCWqYX7x8q8YHF8RagfzgxuRzr0uANaGs2EU5pF2sDMvQIDd/w300-h400/IMG_0961.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">last breakfast in sokcho before setting off for seoul - they had the honey banana milk in gangwondo and it was meh. the honey was too strong and so i still prefer my regular banana milk.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZMXR83fdKTRpwI_zP8Pz7Jf77h0PZowPTc6zs3-K7dkX9G0LFnnj2Xgxl1LAV1cCtrs8ZqENxrzHB3VWOk1u2MQaLKM3J-qIbNdu8E5gLXyWDYnJwBBRkEXA7bQ0VzCO1MwBOYgLwAA8dUEw7RcOpgYdX2A6-j73vqHTCsOvERrylxv8GWxUUtNQS/s4032/IMG_0963.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZMXR83fdKTRpwI_zP8Pz7Jf77h0PZowPTc6zs3-K7dkX9G0LFnnj2Xgxl1LAV1cCtrs8ZqENxrzHB3VWOk1u2MQaLKM3J-qIbNdu8E5gLXyWDYnJwBBRkEXA7bQ0VzCO1MwBOYgLwAA8dUEw7RcOpgYdX2A6-j73vqHTCsOvERrylxv8GWxUUtNQS/w300-h400/IMG_0963.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">on our way back to seoul. it was such a foggy/rainy day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6P_Ra4YL_BLG4fFWaJ06iL7ryV79CiXucmsvRqnIaMXgXgdflCUefck5VaK9aLjLbsJZu55hiwWXHEJwnkLgb9BLzFwjAXNpEJuszNh4-W3zrCorRsV1utSKQ9eKrnhV3YfNi3nXFyeKMTu8uGXb4vIFxiMNicl0qXs9pYBiid2dkcTgxL1EoPIcU/s3008/IMG_0964.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6P_Ra4YL_BLG4fFWaJ06iL7ryV79CiXucmsvRqnIaMXgXgdflCUefck5VaK9aLjLbsJZu55hiwWXHEJwnkLgb9BLzFwjAXNpEJuszNh4-W3zrCorRsV1utSKQ9eKrnhV3YfNi3nXFyeKMTu8uGXb4vIFxiMNicl0qXs9pYBiid2dkcTgxL1EoPIcU/w640-h360/IMG_0964.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">here's us freezing at the rest area cause of the wind haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyQzOV7RLoWSb2qPXlYSPyKi0uy_bK5HJLfSCnuNxjM-JUHJTOYPI9RJBbFvTzLGpOn1Ne2HoSbVpG6FyFL_nPUwjJqeRx6J0czDv_yJoBEaznxNMkmcxSS098HSkBd9loIbAWgeLk_gBEh0mqrlXOOmJBmldvX8Khv5XVl3IW1xkiCj8MfQE0wAd/s4032/IMG_0965.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFyQzOV7RLoWSb2qPXlYSPyKi0uy_bK5HJLfSCnuNxjM-JUHJTOYPI9RJBbFvTzLGpOn1Ne2HoSbVpG6FyFL_nPUwjJqeRx6J0czDv_yJoBEaznxNMkmcxSS098HSkBd9loIbAWgeLk_gBEh0mqrlXOOmJBmldvX8Khv5XVl3IW1xkiCj8MfQE0wAd/w400-h300/IMG_0965.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">we all got something soupy at the rest area cause we were cold haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Inq2Fmzu9DmpIPgMbLdzKdmjWBJScQWxGwMCtURLSAp8sgtp3cR6ouHMbOEqU0ba681fAtmR9jPbNxNhOatNg3awUW_2boYoOy26NEDVQcgNYBVt7QDg_8ffUOwR2uL-c8ABraMGavdTRqivQgQFEIK6ESDVMVb79IgT3QtLndcwW5085sPtPJbh/s3008/G0653944.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Inq2Fmzu9DmpIPgMbLdzKdmjWBJScQWxGwMCtURLSAp8sgtp3cR6ouHMbOEqU0ba681fAtmR9jPbNxNhOatNg3awUW_2boYoOy26NEDVQcgNYBVt7QDg_8ffUOwR2uL-c8ABraMGavdTRqivQgQFEIK6ESDVMVb79IgT3QtLndcwW5085sPtPJbh/w640-h360/G0653944.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">always chaotic in the car. if you're wondering what we listened to, we're old people so we listened to old school kpop from like first or second gen idols (think shinhwa, DBSK, 2PM, etc. haha) and also, chinese songs hahaha (from like old school boy bands like energy, F4, etc. hahaha so ridiculous)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0azrIFfE_cAYVcCJxn2MmXFJ4qPatEvPtLozgxbXow_-fW9_o7_0P4s9E0_xM8dJO9iTPvel0PrzXvpPcyC49f8PqU0uPeYsPMPIZnfcmJiMbT4u-050yXpe6hGfMFooMBydSErrDndJc_GZEX_aozGGuad7k-cIUhr66jpSuwY7bc6aTe61y7jA/s3088/IMG_0978.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0azrIFfE_cAYVcCJxn2MmXFJ4qPatEvPtLozgxbXow_-fW9_o7_0P4s9E0_xM8dJO9iTPvel0PrzXvpPcyC49f8PqU0uPeYsPMPIZnfcmJiMbT4u-050yXpe6hGfMFooMBydSErrDndJc_GZEX_aozGGuad7k-cIUhr66jpSuwY7bc6aTe61y7jA/w300-h400/IMG_0978.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">saying goodbye to our ride :(</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and there you go, our little adventure out of seoul.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">would 100% do it again.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">next post: back to city life in seoul.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-56464052984675095442022-03-11T06:08:00.001-08:002022-03-11T06:08:05.719-08:00goodbye 2021;<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">yes, it's been forever.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">i met an old friend at a wedding at the end of dec and he asked me if i still blog.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">and then i was like haha yeah i should update soon. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">but i didn't have any motivation during the holiday season and then january and february were quite crazy and now we're almost in the middle of march.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">time is a scary thing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">looked back at my last blog post and i had just finished a campaign, and was talking about how i could take a little break until the next one in feb.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">well guess what, just finished my feb campaign haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">which was supposed to be a mini campaign but it grew into a full campaign.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">i admit though that i did it to myself.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">but honestly, if there's content you can't just do a mini one. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">it was a very very crazy january getting everything prepped though.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">at some point i really wanted to die cause it was a lot juggling work and also a lot of personal things going on.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">but as usual, i made it through haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">not without the help of my team mates and friends.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">there was this one night a few days before the campaign had to go live where the whole team was in the office all either writing social media captions, uploading the feature stories to the website, working on the EDM, or editing the link preview images, etc. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">that's what you call a team that really has your back. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">i've also been able to finally take a plane out of singapore since the last blog post!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">omg i never thought the day would come. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">it was all very nerve-wrecking trying to make sure i had all my documents prepped, and also reminding myself how to take a flight again. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">flying long haul with a mask on the whole time too was quite the experience.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">thankfully i still am able to sleep a lot on flights so that was helpful.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">was not fun having to take so many PCR/ART tests but it was worth it!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">honestly felt like my whole soul was recharged after the trip.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">i won't do a detailed breakdown of my trip but here are some photos of my favorite moments from the trip:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUojeTtObbsSehfFuJg9b01RzVOfwKAWj1ftngDGyKhgDxlOHikchHned8azBXOR498T0TXmrwgzqM1DF9skaHKQuaib9mYfwtM_ofdBT4AWbbcSWcY_HUSJnsEi2AsrL3Nc620Emuzl_PRLgJVx9XSRpR-1HJW2cWyLYRpJK3PCRyQ5GfOJZMsv6D=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUojeTtObbsSehfFuJg9b01RzVOfwKAWj1ftngDGyKhgDxlOHikchHned8azBXOR498T0TXmrwgzqM1DF9skaHKQuaib9mYfwtM_ofdBT4AWbbcSWcY_HUSJnsEi2AsrL3Nc620Emuzl_PRLgJVx9XSRpR-1HJW2cWyLYRpJK3PCRyQ5GfOJZMsv6D=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">i've definitely missed this view</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-fepNyQPn0TSxXVFvztq42ztaiZ5AC5h0WS7Ihuq1THPPrkTbegf7S9L6MA7XQU4NX-9BAyvRblHtHsaAIe5CVF415fNDL8Rs1PgjCpK6lZ-sYXFwiE84mBnJO0qP8dCyD09ryghu0-teORBmxMmEwGt78pk0Uyo_8AGAHC9EQdY_d45g3dTvoWpg=s3088" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-fepNyQPn0TSxXVFvztq42ztaiZ5AC5h0WS7Ihuq1THPPrkTbegf7S9L6MA7XQU4NX-9BAyvRblHtHsaAIe5CVF415fNDL8Rs1PgjCpK6lZ-sYXFwiE84mBnJO0qP8dCyD09ryghu0-teORBmxMmEwGt78pk0Uyo_8AGAHC9EQdY_d45g3dTvoWpg=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">it was so fun to reunite with jess after like 3 years. have forgotten how much we just die of laughter when we're together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfoEhq6ML2tRdmCg82x1eRyMFtRqgT765LZvsUM0AKbu-cCMX3ppWIqgbZoYmmlbhPjRsxFVf3m_26-vwML09miupzMklEtFXlR2_VVJ9UGOtYUEcV-IaGWa7u1i5Ev6H_6DnB6_-qrkG0Gm5n2Sco1W8atOjoGHxVrh3AfllrFBdWB1vYXHeBAOhj=w300-h400" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZfIR3yiB5JtlRAOetWBns-Btvlv-gcuvVdFFoxoRRsInj4Uth_yCxj1RF9vhIKIBFivUtRpy6yHuKhvHnhJTdZyGGafVJolXfwxvbAKFdqKY7qa3zOvfo55wZsHrw0kmJJVFbP1LcBJ3kGNA7VU0yRXbZ-Hpbfjf08kao_XqPBiXBjRIDbHxz3usI=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZfIR3yiB5JtlRAOetWBns-Btvlv-gcuvVdFFoxoRRsInj4Uth_yCxj1RF9vhIKIBFivUtRpy6yHuKhvHnhJTdZyGGafVJolXfwxvbAKFdqKY7qa3zOvfo55wZsHrw0kmJJVFbP1LcBJ3kGNA7VU0yRXbZ-Hpbfjf08kao_XqPBiXBjRIDbHxz3usI=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">can't go to the U.S. without making a trip to my favorite magical place on earth. my parents hadn't done a disney trip in a very very long time so they were dying with all the walking and all (like 20,000 steps a day) but were still such good sports about it. but my dad was like i don't need to go to disneyland again for another 20 years haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYEv8Xdyx9pByogEXpNIgUKJyS45SepjkR0WhQFV9G5mW6smFExvJohiKcaZ_6SYTEqN11CrM5mv7D4pOebnSohwBQY-wiQrezfu5yVXhUeNt0G8VxJ8vaNM8MOTLqUOZqok3_vk_ahY80T_ybtS_iAdJFDO1FxoZozRg8e2E5ACGhpNHasDUYimnD=w300-h400" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiV4vUgHXNmDxRd9y0LHp68gdSii3T2LsmJIrL-rCHcDDSx8A0sinip-bFotIeTMTXIQcnRY_ZSdMEg18YPo5L5dPgWUpezf2Ktahn-H1Pw0AGRP9u7lS-z6LxSNLa1MDg-GGAVsoLCUhtMD1Kj8jBHZdzzgyTKnz3JhFqU_Gr7-_HvWc4WHu9WlS47=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiV4vUgHXNmDxRd9y0LHp68gdSii3T2LsmJIrL-rCHcDDSx8A0sinip-bFotIeTMTXIQcnRY_ZSdMEg18YPo5L5dPgWUpezf2Ktahn-H1Pw0AGRP9u7lS-z6LxSNLa1MDg-GGAVsoLCUhtMD1Kj8jBHZdzzgyTKnz3JhFqU_Gr7-_HvWc4WHu9WlS47=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">they even took splash mountain with me hehe</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9sY9jfqNOod0eUmiAhjxZwJsww0F0VaRkXb4mP1CiF6OzAB_dFZOajefc43qPKnYgINiboaENvASmqmb5LezoQZvVk75Gw_Pd3DbfZQ7md_1cYwZPDousX4YCJBnjXovaI0LVgOQHHZeT_LT1Vkbdg7xqNOq7KMSgQ-IBufH45I5Bh7l-z-aV6_5h=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9sY9jfqNOod0eUmiAhjxZwJsww0F0VaRkXb4mP1CiF6OzAB_dFZOajefc43qPKnYgINiboaENvASmqmb5LezoQZvVk75Gw_Pd3DbfZQ7md_1cYwZPDousX4YCJBnjXovaI0LVgOQHHZeT_LT1Vkbdg7xqNOq7KMSgQ-IBufH45I5Bh7l-z-aV6_5h=w300-h400" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgU9JfhGaMnzqG9syia-Lh0XMMXBezQ5VPFBIbTcu4ucbnGvlN_rdLkpSi1vE87vR6f_mq1LWqfaWFwtv9j_0ijrS3_zTFJDlDeMGwqpBJdT_BZbL9kdIF-8H0Su9y2wEBMKpX5ZSXlE2MPeIs5spDaU2xwP8luwCrT-YrsK9zzeoWe8AnpBaYZYRfC=w300-h400" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">we did fruit picking at one of the local neighbourhoods in San Pedro and it was so fun! we even made our own limeade after. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpNmMP0mbZ4miL74JTLIGbD-52jkV550bfmLB9aKWnhUk6Ulb3voDxK0gJKx9Ny9EkZj_A1HUUR24sRRuo-l5Ci5bjcrqpuKEjhifXroyO7GPFtX_09ipsT-M25awpg6UvpLqUZ_glUPKgkYWQigDgAc7mMgqMO-WwSvT69QX4uq-E5C-wcO5Zfe7D=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpNmMP0mbZ4miL74JTLIGbD-52jkV550bfmLB9aKWnhUk6Ulb3voDxK0gJKx9Ny9EkZj_A1HUUR24sRRuo-l5Ci5bjcrqpuKEjhifXroyO7GPFtX_09ipsT-M25awpg6UvpLqUZ_glUPKgkYWQigDgAc7mMgqMO-WwSvT69QX4uq-E5C-wcO5Zfe7D=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">ADA ADA. we used to have reunions in NYC and now her and brian are in LA so we get to do our reunions on the west coast now.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQoYUACkeDvR8Z439A0OiEST1l94oIpnGOyMdvqwwfmHjdsVLLJJVOzC5lXQa_SL_i6F2Aru5De82rhRp3PYIn8epYJM0g6MpfU9NvGdCJZZ8t081m8StW7BAJm1WPjGOGoyfm7VaDqkVX7RlgQbmjW3jkRg37GCXwg2nGRO_n7XHqPxsbHr9bgu7r=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQoYUACkeDvR8Z439A0OiEST1l94oIpnGOyMdvqwwfmHjdsVLLJJVOzC5lXQa_SL_i6F2Aru5De82rhRp3PYIn8epYJM0g6MpfU9NvGdCJZZ8t081m8StW7BAJm1WPjGOGoyfm7VaDqkVX7RlgQbmjW3jkRg37GCXwg2nGRO_n7XHqPxsbHr9bgu7r=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">so grateful we could hang out with this doctor power couple a day before thanksgiving. jason, the poop stories are so disturbing hahaha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkB5COrgI7MA4hN8JkyXISHm8hktS9k_wzlHrmYVScy5bE-tbtpXIsn-vHbdyS36JIIsFOSqzCEuBipl0SQFrFDKdrigVHMS7UpCaUYxuJMlwiqwidTzDsQIsfLLYbtB0Fs4PXpBQjbsSrKN44HYWzCi6ETmE5SeDF6w-I9C7fxKyFGK0xBkGe464D=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkB5COrgI7MA4hN8JkyXISHm8hktS9k_wzlHrmYVScy5bE-tbtpXIsn-vHbdyS36JIIsFOSqzCEuBipl0SQFrFDKdrigVHMS7UpCaUYxuJMlwiqwidTzDsQIsfLLYbtB0Fs4PXpBQjbsSrKN44HYWzCi6ETmE5SeDF6w-I9C7fxKyFGK0xBkGe464D=w300-h400" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPUp1DsGSV760iNrlRGGhMmKuIFfPNtwmDyhjA-BIoXyh0gf9ByRXLqBmwWkGfLbsmcJVX4n-Uwi90zQu_H1PJKmUDzbJ9vm1NvK8UzliUfm8KlW7FQntZOTC7eHvqaMW-_aDCBO0Rs9ft-OvesftlzGttdG-2bly4GucREitco05Xn_rclO03Cv7k=w300-h400" width="300" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">jaymie & jordan. it's honestly hard to find many couples where i like both the husband and the wife hahaha. these two are so solid and it's always so fun to hang out with them. // jennifer~~~ i miss our ahjummas group so much. missing blair who's now on the east coast</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA1JtzI9eOXZnc0C4n1-qNwrKDHUf4Co30v3zGC9XTHBi6KWyVtaScXV47hjhiOMemU9xycngaZiUbCFep-wy4fpqSkMZrd6CIj3v7cWSvzyIedVxd4PqfzJ0uXM8YAB4HgrKUUttxPH3zY_Dm5xwtG5QTjt4O6Y0InyhJG_mPKgd1XO9SNEjVeO_R=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA1JtzI9eOXZnc0C4n1-qNwrKDHUf4Co30v3zGC9XTHBi6KWyVtaScXV47hjhiOMemU9xycngaZiUbCFep-wy4fpqSkMZrd6CIj3v7cWSvzyIedVxd4PqfzJ0uXM8YAB4HgrKUUttxPH3zY_Dm5xwtG5QTjt4O6Y0InyhJG_mPKgd1XO9SNEjVeO_R=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">if you like me at work, these people deserve all the credit for making me into the person i am today.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgucFj9HtxORlWgNWJe_WPfM9borJdyP4O185PRt6c_XdsGOJRBBvNcL1n6Zce9-eFmtVY5RTT1BnaTZzDM4uQjInOPxaqZg9tFvxOc68oOhljO3eQePe1zI4FaN0X02tLHyF8tnNgiCmLE-JrYS58ISgzIGK-aviokDX37yEGxQGoD1KxVVNxI6w-G=w300-h400" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidBbB30tCBPtVguHY1NYwsBogvCD3-n9WybBtqarmC-r9_k94o0oFv3ARt1_r9lOFfcxsDDdTDyY8XqON5SNdyXHlrp93cKOW2BlFSwl_vHWAY2XYUt7jpgjZdyYrbFzKksU5_lEnYF-NriAeZPHoR1pF7aySnqLPELEQOsNZQoSnqV8Ae-jv0iijw=s3088" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidBbB30tCBPtVguHY1NYwsBogvCD3-n9WybBtqarmC-r9_k94o0oFv3ARt1_r9lOFfcxsDDdTDyY8XqON5SNdyXHlrp93cKOW2BlFSwl_vHWAY2XYUt7jpgjZdyYrbFzKksU5_lEnYF-NriAeZPHoR1pF7aySnqLPELEQOsNZQoSnqV8Ae-jv0iijw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">old college roomies // old P2 coworkers. all of whom have become some of my most precious friends.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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surrounded by so many good people. also, note the difference in california winter wear and utah winter wear hahaha.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnoCWuR_8ZlCxsy25Ylrb-PJUQG33N0euKibcWWmDWo_qzw92nr7wPVmdkGUHwue_sOLws6ed430F9hD88TnUJcZ6mXaZ54TBW7I2_Bhqal-8laygXXPwV0ANSXf-fhecILivyYJ1Qhaz9tSRYZW5EIRUJHsJgOUE_QPk4AEBH6bf2jYgpdwihCgss=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnoCWuR_8ZlCxsy25Ylrb-PJUQG33N0euKibcWWmDWo_qzw92nr7wPVmdkGUHwue_sOLws6ed430F9hD88TnUJcZ6mXaZ54TBW7I2_Bhqal-8laygXXPwV0ANSXf-fhecILivyYJ1Qhaz9tSRYZW5EIRUJHsJgOUE_QPk4AEBH6bf2jYgpdwihCgss=w300-h400" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpZZsV7gsYyJ6G_Gs5SSdFnkoz9w8de6i6SjydfU8WarLaRmshQ7vmzd7QiFYTEo-9Qb_RA5XihRmBcfRnKgBS_2ooihmtNhpE8WtUsqwTsREzl54fuPN4iAjVuF8BTH-6CDTjT39I4rVw7TWkCihdRiuNVf2BJoSggNlGEkSeI8zqDMqXkZHe9BUb=w300-h400" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">downtown LA was so sketchy but still pretty fun to explore. and omg crazy/fun story from our DTLA day. our rental car got scratched while it was parked at the grand central market parking garage. we were hanging around taking photos of the scratches and what not, and then a nice lady driving out told us she saw the car that scratched our car and that it was a white taurus but she didn't take the license plate down. so anyway, we decided to drive through the different levels in the parking garage to see if the taurus was still around. and lo and behold, we found it parked a few levels up! we left a note for the driver and a few hours later, she called! poor girl is only 17 but she still shouldn't have just scratched the car and driven off. what an adventure. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKg4UusIrHDvJnKPNPwNEIIaNSep_Zj4ekpnqwkG0XdZWsP7qTNEHHgPlTLsvRDyfG6mkPFRbo4z6fmHKlmLJlHD8sxp775vkIz8LTvaYBX2l0i7a-Wao4ugYNnc8ZaGuOcv3ZPRlR9felLBtoOvm3HgPJKc8x2WgJwjNgqDupHLvfHWVOp3U7p38I=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKg4UusIrHDvJnKPNPwNEIIaNSep_Zj4ekpnqwkG0XdZWsP7qTNEHHgPlTLsvRDyfG6mkPFRbo4z6fmHKlmLJlHD8sxp775vkIz8LTvaYBX2l0i7a-Wao4ugYNnc8ZaGuOcv3ZPRlR9felLBtoOvm3HgPJKc8x2WgJwjNgqDupHLvfHWVOp3U7p38I=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">went to a van gogh immersive exhibition and really loved it. </span></div><div 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before the year is over. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">or maybe that's cause most people are more free at work in dec. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">it was like a mad rush but thankfully i had already finished half my christmas cards while i was in the U.S. so it was not as crazy in terms of the holiday traditions this year.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzwNZH4VAmVS1e1ymRzun_r9WlIuIyJsOceTGxaNDOvblJKdr5ts7dSDrsHTxsMjQb6f4X_mAR0iALolctI3-YZEJatoJ1JDTNnhcbV4d331iwhMXWaBhdzt3_WjHpsiyhDp9MPFHpEWKUvRwOiBLabFhhuZ6fpyS-khDmX7KeVx5O0RsnQpVKLmRX=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" 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#a64d79;">met the cutest chubbiest baby - who is also the most easy going and smiliest baby</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMHc5LSWsWXWPlm3wMp7hJhfeNZPAmEtGAq1y5ByiwjOiDhnAA3HcuM9PBsb19IeIWdYXl8_4OvEgLfvcWFyEMyYzIeFEavE_OnHmP6dIWt7Qm3_lkbP7INtmOk7LLfZebT-jyxCKz5VlN44V61KiCdjM-nrvlSiSUzu-1pkutWRLtHYuoOlfNxoEn=w300-h400" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKpODT_ZwihnANLFuRdiQIz_9I4L2EFUkEl9e2isF6oVztfUCoIYx35sUtnV9K2seu0lxbtbt9p_tDI1bevlLmNmuenu-U-KkZaZ9qmYx_XickpNVootOX-63WGWARhFYCREvC-HyWiLJ_k-9p7PmmL9FolqSkpF2ZgGA4cPzgnCNCrhwAcpfSFU0C=s1600" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="400" 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh18MvykAHXUbQQfactMiWVL4ZJOf00x2f3knRo-5bG8BEpPsgfbz5iM4iGZnFd81MxVLLZFr-kUIHp8-6UcIeY9qH8Gxz6UDkeyWcvaZamUlUsZtzo6tKx3AT5SCSwZIr0xMDAFNiA6QR-fyScY9NFG6T_5OLDvurcN3MJdCf1okKhY5TFJ7WHMQQs=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh18MvykAHXUbQQfactMiWVL4ZJOf00x2f3knRo-5bG8BEpPsgfbz5iM4iGZnFd81MxVLLZFr-kUIHp8-6UcIeY9qH8Gxz6UDkeyWcvaZamUlUsZtzo6tKx3AT5SCSwZIr0xMDAFNiA6QR-fyScY9NFG6T_5OLDvurcN3MJdCf1okKhY5TFJ7WHMQQs=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">we only see each other at key times during the year like cny, birthdays and christmas haha. so each time it's a 9 hour session and yet it's still not enough time to cover everything we want to catch up on haha.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqhtblwaW0doAp0VDgFXOBwLm-2elTqgbgcn8XB_Shrnu5JpvYQ_k4QOaw8S_GRmUjfdjuIjHm1CZifVM7B8WwR4Kxvgl8oHYadtFCdhT8xM0EXhBeQ1lk_N54Yb_NurDGqzKrC1StOm8o-C6ASebIS5ONShaUZnftmp3vtFKsWkY46rvGq6IUl5QX=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqhtblwaW0doAp0VDgFXOBwLm-2elTqgbgcn8XB_Shrnu5JpvYQ_k4QOaw8S_GRmUjfdjuIjHm1CZifVM7B8WwR4Kxvgl8oHYadtFCdhT8xM0EXhBeQ1lk_N54Yb_NurDGqzKrC1StOm8o-C6ASebIS5ONShaUZnftmp3vtFKsWkY46rvGq6IUl5QX=w300-h400" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPPVB0v-5gplwJ6M8sLVCJae_0RCNrEEZH_olaa2KxdDeQFdeqj_yniJQ906nJnLErtw6MMy86Bvkc7KTAn5YNrFSPbUr_4NVXBorqEdJTrtLnLKPoodHtoug4QYRyFPvHmaQrKjt46rDp-zZO1ebL0J6cI1pVdbwAtvA5u8-1YjDI8Inr4sR0n0j5=w300-h400" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">realised that i always spend new year's eve eve at shu's so we're making this a new tradition haha.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhByU2qSlt4MkMWqnltT8VEBzWDQRRNwy5qTwNNW3fRRa8_kV3LXB2x_oHGn_5KSvLP4sd3-PzUj3Bm1l-vF8-hD-Uu7VWQJBCmD6PhoGLb_lwZS-a6PvLNO951ewigUA6-riO-NofYAxmkr7can5g1f84DkEVoAtJu0V7AetitDudhOof7xU3SBy7n=s4032" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhByU2qSlt4MkMWqnltT8VEBzWDQRRNwy5qTwNNW3fRRa8_kV3LXB2x_oHGn_5KSvLP4sd3-PzUj3Bm1l-vF8-hD-Uu7VWQJBCmD6PhoGLb_lwZS-a6PvLNO951ewigUA6-riO-NofYAxmkr7can5g1f84DkEVoAtJu0V7AetitDudhOof7xU3SBy7n=w640-h480" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">new year's eve family steamboat before we all crashed before midnight hahahahaha</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">it's always fun to be able to catch up with everyone before a new year starts. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">my friends call me a party pooper these days though cause of my new sleeping habits haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ever since i came back from the U.S., i've started going to bed at 11:30 p.m. and waking up at 8 a.m.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">on the weekends, i stay up one hour later and go to bed at 12:30 a.m.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">and it's been such a game changer.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">i feel so much more refreshed in the morning now and don't wake up grumpy haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">it's funny cause when it's midnight at someone's place on a friday now i can barely keep my eyes open hahaha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">how did i used to last till like 3-4 a.m. haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">i never used to understand how come people would feel sleepy when we were reaching midnight but that person is me now hahahaha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">no regrets though haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">wanted to also blog about Q1 2022 but this blog post is getting too long so i will save it for the next post!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">hopefully i do it before apil when my next trip is planned cause then there'll be more to update about!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-81087931452863841752021-11-11T08:27:00.006-08:002021-11-11T08:27:58.069-08:00Q3 2021; <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">am way behind on my blogging haha.<br /></span><span style="color: #674ea7;">it's already mid-nov and here i am doing my Q3 update haha.<br /></span><span style="color: #674ea7;">better late than never though.<br /></span><span style="color: #674ea7;">finally had a chance to really breathe from my constant campaigns at work. <br /></span><span style="color: #674ea7;">the next big campaign is not till feb so i'm slowly prepping for that but really enjoying the slightly slower pace.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">soon i need to start writing my holiday cards wow how is it that time of the year again.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">this year felt like yet another 2020.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">i want a refund on the last two years of my life haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">the only positive thing is that we finally have vaccinated travel lanes which means we can travel to certain countries without having to quarantine on both sides!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">seriously the best thing ever!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">can't wait to travel - i honestly feel like i've forgotten how to take a plane, etc. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">everything is so foreign now and the sad part is you have to take a PCR test to get on a plane ouch. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Q3 was pretty good.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">actually did quite a lot of new things and even squeezed in a staycation just to get away from work for a couple of days. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">i'll let the photos do the talking.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPb0JcAonn-Db7ZKDOpvGPp2DOTjkhI_du6hL8q87kNwMQ6NDERA1EASdri_ggHlcmRAxzco4dgotYSkfMLX_yRls1cpHxDVx1F1hY7hFUGnBHSbLiLtuFOq1tXuEnjsyCpeqxWXVfEIM/s4032/IMG_5240.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPb0JcAonn-Db7ZKDOpvGPp2DOTjkhI_du6hL8q87kNwMQ6NDERA1EASdri_ggHlcmRAxzco4dgotYSkfMLX_yRls1cpHxDVx1F1hY7hFUGnBHSbLiLtuFOq1tXuEnjsyCpeqxWXVfEIM/w400-h300/IMG_5240.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBkfBovao0DjPDaj7BzoYEe7VzV-kCLhAFTPf2YZwQeCRGsgKrfLmBHxRTle-X4yabRpVohcCY-FJ5mJYLE9E_BR2LRn0yvn4-VFmQyhH9etjE54XeV4GPvBOZ6Ux7TTKtJRHl8kCWto/w400-h300/IMG_5260.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e;">we all finally had time for a games night. it's been too long since we had the last one last dec. we finally got to celebrate many things all at once like engagements, work promotions, birthdays, etc. haha. and now it looks like we can only hope to be able to gather in a bigger group for christmas. also died laughing during dinner with junlong's story of mistaking the FMC guy for the potential customer HALP haha. sessions with this group always cause me stomachaches from all the laughter. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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friends but the gathering size then was 2 pax so we had to make 2 separate bookings. our other two friends booked first and then because shu and i were drowning in work, by the time we went in to book it was fully booked haha. so we had to find an alternative activity. wanted to go ice-skating and that sold out too before we could book. and so we were really lucky we found this activity. it's a bunch of rope courses with a few ziplines! it was really fun and definitely quite the workout haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1xp4ovO1SnjiyZXPWnBhI1j2Zaqo_9Baos030UKP-TfxWoQySppJLQlwBLSsU9lmL7vREjF5zdbMguqRIp68RZf2wnVDu4w1eskvVOJrHgyhFsrQq4ZvoFWMtJxh8JTEoLt0CszsVdE/w300-h400/IMG_5545.JPG" width="300" /><a 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data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizZcI1DHVBmJcKIUvpufUlEVTbVrekKkIO0qwwTyIU3seACY8-Hjx6Yn99PqT-cpg5lAgROH_-TElRzPD3S0xHj_2PyN_M9j87oPFBVqk5dIFaI9Zhe_RpTH9T_jZ2K6hxn8X4qtnK2No/w640-h480/IMG_5549.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">celebrated my mom's birthday in august. her birthday is right after national day so we always have a long weekend when we take her birthday off. she was lucky cause they lifted the dining restrictions so 4 could dine in! had yummy peking duck for lunch, hung around town and then i booked a session at dollop studio where we had fun with self-timer shots. definitely would do it again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" 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suffering through crazy work stuff is making new friends. the four of us slogged hard for an event in july and so when it was over of course we had a celebration with good food and conversations (bitching session really haha) <3</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLJX4Mpxb7VwuxllLdiUbXBjJYC8A5X3TzJwaTyC8qNp9rKhlV0NkYZwbUB17H4RvQSo0p-9ErDazwc-8jxWu0EmkWgjYH_B3Veug_zgaoEgGOg9pae8wn4psoI8fTkMbnTDfM9E1Kys/s3008/GPTempDownload.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1692" data-original-width="3008" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtLJX4Mpxb7VwuxllLdiUbXBjJYC8A5X3TzJwaTyC8qNp9rKhlV0NkYZwbUB17H4RvQSo0p-9ErDazwc-8jxWu0EmkWgjYH_B3Veug_zgaoEgGOg9pae8wn4psoI8fTkMbnTDfM9E1Kys/w400-h225/GPTempDownload.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">staycaytion at sofitel sentosa with the work bff cause we wanted to feel like we were out of singapore haha. we found a great deal for a 4 days 3 nights package so we decided to just take time off and go chill haha. the sofitel pool was great! it's so big you can actually swim laps! and the hotel package came with two meals a day so we definitely needed the exercise haha. it was a great short break with lots of activities packed in haha.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsEd6Ny0y1cOy3gnWfp1D5wloGnqJm9QndM00jvcr3Jh-EOC0XZHrUZzmopdA4KnoNLgtmaaeuO7cXZP-ddpLp8y6ZRIYIDKDcsJ-wtW3rmrbkO_CWk-qesr6fmvwZ1JFlAewt2CVEnyY/s2475/IMG_5744.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1856" data-original-width="2475" height="300" 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activity on our first full day. the skyline lift thing takes you up to the top and then you can ride the luge down. we bought the package that allows you to ride the luge like 3 or 4 times so we took the ski lift thing so many times haha. and the sun was scorching hot haha. till this day we both still have weird shorts tan lines hahaha. the luge ride was pretty fun but too short a track. kind of reminded me a little of the <a href="https://charlotte-chen.blogspot.com/2016/08/blog-post.html?q=park+city" target="_blank">alpine coaster in park city</a> but of course the alpine coaster is so much more fun going through the mountain. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ7gnU2ZKPJqooLKOo4bWvyCQuCqcDieh_gLw7EmtfemGmab5iAlP1Z85jM6fMd67qputMJx1MDuezs0INhQSp6t68lnI8xOTWKFKZK5EL_UK97vsi58r_SaIYFF7cbUiay-lg9K7aAW0/s3088/IMG_5756.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 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definitely felt like self-care month for me cause of the many random days i took time off work. this was a random friday afternoon where i took half day off and went for high tea at goodwood park hotel with my sister. we had been wanting to go for a savoury high tea buffet for awhile and so we just took an afternoon off to go. and omg yum, best decision ever. i love savoury high teas so much more than the sweet ones. the food was so good and they have non-tea beverage options like iced chocolate!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU2TXrMMwb8Mp_t9Y9JusG1isYZ5OK2Dada_-8T3BKiTLOjVn_6wmqNTAMVMySo6Cw0RKfmQVySkWou-ytQa6l05e41Mr96yhdEPhn2kOd4ftVKwGOJ8suY6zGM8d-rwiIQz3wnPqD3nI/s4032/IMG_6005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" 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data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9cO-iKbXUUBUfKcLe5kB-CazA2wvk8Tgz4SxLuJ9irxVAOiO7ysOFTYmYQZs6XiK09-4FNRHGh3WU7RYESduleQUwugnajLxI-0JiGba5Ahect0XbXjG-4DXU5c2DXwotFITqsSSBDTA/w400-h300/IMG_6051.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">first student was very eager</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtOrTKGXyuXjD0wEqBWaBCpfnIElUExmHQkHyybZIqlqqeveBKXJvf54WiOpOOJtCqsC3tr6wwFDCnt-L5Qkyth0_Z_Ztb7PvYC7H9vr7ZjV2yxfGcv7FnIGqnIVagzHFO73uJUG08oWk/s3024/IMG_6120.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2251" data-original-width="3024" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtOrTKGXyuXjD0wEqBWaBCpfnIElUExmHQkHyybZIqlqqeveBKXJvf54WiOpOOJtCqsC3tr6wwFDCnt-L5Qkyth0_Z_Ztb7PvYC7H9vr7ZjV2yxfGcv7FnIGqnIVagzHFO73uJUG08oWk/w400-h297/IMG_6120.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">we all managed to hit our KPI to stand up! it was actually really fun. like once you grasp the concept of just placing your foot against the board and holding a squat position to allow the waves to naturally pull you up, it's really not hard to stand at all. and then once you're standing, it's really quite a breeze as long as you don't pull the rope to try to balance. i definitely would totally do it again! 2 hours out at sea felt too short. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsp51P4h1hVVE7-naNICKl8eS6nHc-wJGihGtzPaKc9h7yPxXiE0VQgimFlSXBIY3wRz49BGPUTa20UFXBFRndTQDRgPPF77tukPQi8k3m5jr1D-387vhzWjBjA3tfM4uPkXTSUiaj6Hs/s4032/IMG_6103.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsp51P4h1hVVE7-naNICKl8eS6nHc-wJGihGtzPaKc9h7yPxXiE0VQgimFlSXBIY3wRz49BGPUTa20UFXBFRndTQDRgPPF77tukPQi8k3m5jr1D-387vhzWjBjA3tfM4uPkXTSUiaj6Hs/w640-h480/IMG_6103.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">the dessert place closed at like 10 or so but we were sitting at the outdoor tables so they didn't chase us away or anything but they did turn off the lights and all so there we were in the dark chatting for hours until the mosquitoes were eating us and we decided to leave haha. always a good time with these girls.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKz6BiXwrNqOpq6BIm1gcWeBQy7Y4rIrKOmcEVwfUujhOwCdiSi6SLFh2QXwrN06T1iWHu8aPgEPbbpg1LDm4L4U_s6aUDx1aoSW8FdocEtDQrDo1HRojjrnzhIRjwX11yAMGGYwX_lao/s4032/IMG_6293.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKz6BiXwrNqOpq6BIm1gcWeBQy7Y4rIrKOmcEVwfUujhOwCdiSi6SLFh2QXwrN06T1iWHu8aPgEPbbpg1LDm4L4U_s6aUDx1aoSW8FdocEtDQrDo1HRojjrnzhIRjwX11yAMGGYwX_lao/w300-h400/IMG_6293.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">bryan was in town in sept! we had grand plans to dabao violet oon and go dine by the waterfront. and then the rain put a damper on our plans so we ended up just bringing everything to my house and eating in. it was still fun catching up and the food was delicious haha. </span><br 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFK_8d_KvkFdfYxXhjSqkYyhi8bOBNwa5Hv1FYn2MRk19y1rRqyx85w-Or6djxMm6ldQhW40JO_PZljsxQLnOjDArrvUqHr_RqsznPEPhdSVWRSbEhPuEOp_INeZVFGsmAQsdyC478GZ4/w300-h400/bd597c50-d8e1-4b04-8e28-ae4f07587a4f.jpg" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #45818e;">what my sundays look like haha. tate was looking at my phone case that has avocados doing yoga haha so i asked him to do some of the yoga poses haha. not bad haha. and guess what, he calls me avocado mai mai. i'm guessing cause of my phone case? hahaha. this is what happens when you have too many mai mais (auntie in hainanese) and have to find some way to differentiate them haha. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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#45818e;">lots of baby lauren time on sundays and when we randomly go over and visit.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicARjUa18n8P_UHAYkHFyyFZvSDQyZUus4iaWwsgSdtXVUD5Q43rBtCwzWP5h8ZBUlcE7UF5TTFPB_rUgdGrrNF0oqQAU8uzJcnApOmpQG5S5lLoPR89ghxQaTEi01iNfVsp0Xxv5z_bA/s4032/IMG_6426.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicARjUa18n8P_UHAYkHFyyFZvSDQyZUus4iaWwsgSdtXVUD5Q43rBtCwzWP5h8ZBUlcE7UF5TTFPB_rUgdGrrNF0oqQAU8uzJcnApOmpQG5S5lLoPR89ghxQaTEi01iNfVsp0Xxv5z_bA/w640-h480/IMG_6426.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">high tea at capitol kempinski with the PDD girls. it was right around mooncake festival so they had a special mid-autumn themed high tea with these beautiful boxes. the only problem was, the table is just too small when there are four of these boxes on the table. and if we all had them open at the same time, we couldn't see the face of the person sitting across from us. quite silly indeed. and honestly the food was not great. would have much rather gone to goodwood park. but the company made up for it.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwdrTAVWl2ZtVzpwPWdqY79pKBrHoHiJYwgqN6hueqBuWTsLixK3pRLvpCVcyomtAFWLls_u4eRJQUPr6wtnn0ou0XFtHxXoe1m-5UeZOfL8t11RtMbsZkJmfwRRmt79VDeJ9FS-vOpNc/s1280/IMG_6450.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDwlL_ezgsYUXrDWZ4W77zp-WiLrN0ziycUyBvihpHK2_bRfzcG60LdJhzzT5S5NPvMUCVABbbKal7unJ5yxPdQg4F5Iw1gPMJxmYFX42mv-9Ru-Ze8Z7qqC8KobLUZZU1oMWRJdeRYhk/s1600/IMG_6303.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDwlL_ezgsYUXrDWZ4W77zp-WiLrN0ziycUyBvihpHK2_bRfzcG60LdJhzzT5S5NPvMUCVABbbKal7unJ5yxPdQg4F5Iw1gPMJxmYFX42mv-9Ru-Ze8Z7qqC8KobLUZZU1oMWRJdeRYhk/w640-h360/IMG_6303.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">more healthy living/new activities. went rollerblading with these friends. it was surprisingly easy to pick it up and we even managed to go 2 rounds around the whole stadium so it was quite an accomplishment.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghME7P2vw3eRx8hM2BJKo_gqkU9MKN28BuNXjZxUwDC2DcOd42Czgaw5sueeyD_F8Cw61qxuK7UazIq0OH3y4QHldJophRvBjxQGDRrSlTXUHiOcLjQEZCAUendtcqFSp2k4zLvWKFPzY/s4032/IMG_6315.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghME7P2vw3eRx8hM2BJKo_gqkU9MKN28BuNXjZxUwDC2DcOd42Czgaw5sueeyD_F8Cw61qxuK7UazIq0OH3y4QHldJophRvBjxQGDRrSlTXUHiOcLjQEZCAUendtcqFSp2k4zLvWKFPzY/w480-h640/IMG_6315.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">tiong bahru apartment late night chats with these girls, featuring shu who called in via FaceTime haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIE4ehKQMPy-AiRev2vC-T_9RhP2CbpKcL4HC95swPrwTEvmLTJhXHGnAhO69xxy-fnJIslnX9JvMsbsG7pSeig5Pa_4MOlBwP0JbUTEBKQXIBUK5NOs8v5FMwFYWPsfAOIdEvbxF2sY/s4032/IMG_6323.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIE4ehKQMPy-AiRev2vC-T_9RhP2CbpKcL4HC95swPrwTEvmLTJhXHGnAhO69xxy-fnJIslnX9JvMsbsG7pSeig5Pa_4MOlBwP0JbUTEBKQXIBUK5NOs8v5FMwFYWPsfAOIdEvbxF2sY/w300-h400/IMG_6323.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">last 5 people gathering at the end of sept before the 2 pax restriction kicked in. we played codenames picture version and omg it's so much harder than the words version because the pictures are soooo weird haha. was still quite fun though. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLrsBgNcOMpdJZhgYH7GWbo-hKEgZGUVnWIYi1IjKVrvVnsyd7TUk41XLY1-Y6emFuiWXryoEU6W6ueBau2E8Y_tLaBCMdALtLuw5U7918JaMu1Fz-JT9Ni09v9k_bI7-_ahDZqhTT6I/s1600/IMG_6326.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhLrsBgNcOMpdJZhgYH7GWbo-hKEgZGUVnWIYi1IjKVrvVnsyd7TUk41XLY1-Y6emFuiWXryoEU6W6ueBau2E8Y_tLaBCMdALtLuw5U7918JaMu1Fz-JT9Ni09v9k_bI7-_ahDZqhTT6I/w640-h426/IMG_6326.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;">celebrated jojo's birthday in advance since we couldn't meet in oct. 16 years of birthday celebrations with this clique. love it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">and there you have it, Q3.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">i'm actually quite proud of my Q3 cause there were a lot of new adventures, breaks from work and catching up with my constants. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">now here's to hoping we can go back to at least 5 pax again soon.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">i miss my groups of 5. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">the next time i'm back on here it will be merry christmas, happy holidays haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">i still have not settled christmas presents... HELP. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">looking forward though to christmas music, the festive spirit and hopefully lots of gathering with friends. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></div></div><br /><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /><br /></span></div><br /><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span></div><p><br /></p>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-41303014769955399172021-07-25T07:19:00.002-07:002021-07-25T07:22:15.865-07:00Q2 2021;<span style="color: #800180;">back with a quarterly update. <br />have seriously been feeling so lethargic.</span><div><span style="color: #800180;">possibly cause i'm so sick of being in this limbo state with the COVID situation.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">it gets better and then it doesn't again.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">and as much as I want to be grateful and supportive of all that our govt is doing, it's just really hard cause there's no constant, no predictability - all of which are very important to me. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">i am grateful though that we finally are all getting vaccinated and that brighter days are ahead.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">was chatting with sammie this afternoon and i miss my little sister - haven't seen her in person in like a year and a half now.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">that's just too long.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">and the thing is, we don't have a date to look forward to to when she can come back and visit or we can go there to visit sigh. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">all that seems to be constant is my crazy workload ugh. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">am about to finally launch a campaign that's been in the works for awhile next week.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">and guess what, right after i need to start working on my next big campaign that needs to launch end sept.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">what is this neverending cycle of insanity. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">the year is just passing by like that and i feel like i haven't accomplished anything.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">2021 is just turning out to be another wasted year like 2020. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">okay enough of that.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">i think i'm just extra moody that the weekend is almost over haha. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">if i had to sum up what i've been up to the past few months (besides working), it would be:</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- still trying out new food places (even if it means ordering it in instead of dining at the restaurant haha)</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- was semi-working in the office and now working from home fully </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- on and off pilates and ballet classes cause of the gym closures during some of the heightened alerts</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- meetups with the consistent groups of friends</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- birthdays</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- mahjong sessions</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- baking sessions, featuring my first time teaching my friends how to bake haha</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- kbbq sessions</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- game nights</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">- still dreaming about travelling</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnKyCOBaY1to35YMyOCFUXbRRR_C26IaLSLKoVUwH__o0vWt_SeJmPED3fD9UhK4H9oGvxDwL3OMMLUOa3EgTHpPobXyKMJCDaUPWe-JZ-OEtX1lBuS8-m9Kd0oB7hmBRha-3TQ1_d-dY/s4032/IMG_4295.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnKyCOBaY1to35YMyOCFUXbRRR_C26IaLSLKoVUwH__o0vWt_SeJmPED3fD9UhK4H9oGvxDwL3OMMLUOa3EgTHpPobXyKMJCDaUPWe-JZ-OEtX1lBuS8-m9Kd0oB7hmBRha-3TQ1_d-dY/w640-h480/IMG_4295.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;"><div style="text-align: center;">when you lose too many mahjong sessions and pay back with budae jigae haha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAOH1aBvZB7kr5WWHcabSlR2JezdiEO6NBQX4OU6Fqan_dRRdwRrgS4IYhsygKE-0OCOMJV32CgLiMfJtdqfwDTSUZkTujCe0OG5EEJCtfpWGhiF84LJjTaxncDz6G2x5NzkG1E3tmuqc/s4032/IMG_4312.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAOH1aBvZB7kr5WWHcabSlR2JezdiEO6NBQX4OU6Fqan_dRRdwRrgS4IYhsygKE-0OCOMJV32CgLiMfJtdqfwDTSUZkTujCe0OG5EEJCtfpWGhiF84LJjTaxncDz6G2x5NzkG1E3tmuqc/w480-h640/IMG_4312.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;"><div style="text-align: center;">i look at this photo and i'm like omg the last time we were back working in the office was april</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRfp3g1u1_NJ0W2T6W52aupSFMltBRF95VTdxrK8gyvWb1LjWBvfunEaAkfP0m0rye4LPknnYr9bkjyqBPA4bR40MG4SztvopPME7Ky5Cq9FsT0bzzTQMuQtcJpnw07qFBmtYgH8mVws/s4032/IMG_4421.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFRfp3g1u1_NJ0W2T6W52aupSFMltBRF95VTdxrK8gyvWb1LjWBvfunEaAkfP0m0rye4LPknnYr9bkjyqBPA4bR40MG4SztvopPME7Ky5Cq9FsT0bzzTQMuQtcJpnw07qFBmtYgH8mVws/w640-h480/IMG_4421.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">mothers' day</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSjYGoEDLzwVe27cZUF2nBD16Du3WUlBaOQQUb9zHCJPmkx4llnNl5qvhDd8Y4aIJCVnXg2BExj4pBrvX20Eqd61l2Eu2xv7mX49lrfBP4QCBLUZOqqC-Po4R9xCokPg_iM6XTAx8iXG8/s4032/IMG_4449.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSjYGoEDLzwVe27cZUF2nBD16Du3WUlBaOQQUb9zHCJPmkx4llnNl5qvhDd8Y4aIJCVnXg2BExj4pBrvX20Eqd61l2Eu2xv7mX49lrfBP4QCBLUZOqqC-Po4R9xCokPg_iM6XTAx8iXG8/w300-h400/IMG_4449.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">this boy came by to drop off mothers' day chocolates and got snacks in return haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKy_1wb5YMFEhlcSOSCRje9RIakaZZUvTDOcuHHvD2GtIb8PNdtCjLmeStOAloIEeJxuKjYixHiCbDN_MwEfmGeNtkfuAyYc-ew4lTa89jBYIzq9mpE9yM9RPS1Vt1Ub6QxQ_HpDaJIl8/s4032/IMG_4545.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKy_1wb5YMFEhlcSOSCRje9RIakaZZUvTDOcuHHvD2GtIb8PNdtCjLmeStOAloIEeJxuKjYixHiCbDN_MwEfmGeNtkfuAyYc-ew4lTa89jBYIzq9mpE9yM9RPS1Vt1Ub6QxQ_HpDaJIl8/w400-h300/IMG_4545.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">i realised that usually when i get 一色, it's usually</span> <span style="color: #134f5c;">筒子s</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXM8MY4WlSN8guaE-8QbpTqmvzeWu0H4juUYCinRVgqK3GMC0KklyyJFwcG560ROlhotsQdqAgsmGOTfL4932pDsNI6RsPif24B4jBE1Fm_Wo1WhufxI4-uj3q8Sn9-mRxLj47IYWV6U/s4032/IMG_4584.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNXM8MY4WlSN8guaE-8QbpTqmvzeWu0H4juUYCinRVgqK3GMC0KklyyJFwcG560ROlhotsQdqAgsmGOTfL4932pDsNI6RsPif24B4jBE1Fm_Wo1WhufxI4-uj3q8Sn9-mRxLj47IYWV6U/w400-h300/IMG_4584.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">baking class in progress haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4p3YIMKdMEAQUU-3IZfIwJcCBFSpxQfc_6RHav2B5Byfi0r6uk18DR6Fyx56PFYWLA6xySqYjsH69Sc6s-qxiYv3-BJuE4MjZ7jj91HoqXeMExQF1mZkfJ0RDAHVSAbeYj3EjKHUM7OU/s4032/IMG_4603.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4p3YIMKdMEAQUU-3IZfIwJcCBFSpxQfc_6RHav2B5Byfi0r6uk18DR6Fyx56PFYWLA6xySqYjsH69Sc6s-qxiYv3-BJuE4MjZ7jj91HoqXeMExQF1mZkfJ0RDAHVSAbeYj3EjKHUM7OU/w400-h300/IMG_4603.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">how many people do you need to pour one pandan cake into the pan haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb3LNVp20SxRKeZ85AAjkDolAI04DjxrhHZ2O9BHd8uTcMoELDoanFeTwm7NI_fO0B208FO-fa2c_ozh-FQi-UGIQSUT3Fsnrxxn7Oy4E64RvDR6eIQugR6ea5pOapoafKB8JR64ZHatU/s4032/IMG_4609.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhni7uVzQoE2vtLx21t60Uk3lcmfjIGDXYJsqJfbTa5QMdiiZKDwQ89ah1HZmKD0475dZAuv_RFMOqz4rkB2vRH6qFUsExxgpEiECG7Q9iLTQE-d_pYg6tMQ0UKv-EttWfUZ5Io_gGJzn0/s4032/IMG_4715.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhni7uVzQoE2vtLx21t60Uk3lcmfjIGDXYJsqJfbTa5QMdiiZKDwQ89ah1HZmKD0475dZAuv_RFMOqz4rkB2vRH6qFUsExxgpEiECG7Q9iLTQE-d_pYg6tMQ0UKv-EttWfUZ5Io_gGJzn0/w640-h480/IMG_4715.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">my dad celebrating his birthday at home again for the second time in a row haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisol9zkFemSj-wXbY1rd1uIaM_9VDA-NIQEUIBvht7AqLU0hotXVgyA8jINZD6g9tGbG2T9vg41KsAcVq2Z2Wpr3p35nt61HgPlZxwGk46qFLrhpHzDCC25y1464BxSka-JT9IY_yZCzk/w300-h400/IMG_4729.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEhGBOYThE9DBhXsr7aC_oKPsc_tE9vu3RvRygwlQWaY1ZngW9y4rlFRalt5KO1h6X3aoV1XT8AxIS68rLufZ9cD2etK6TBvS5bUnPIwCfY8GDWcE_LNxnBvxxsrKkbPZj0N2pO1-iDcw/s4032/IMG_4731.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">after many years of talking about this, we finally made cookie shot glasses and they were a huge success. the cookie was yummy and having the milk in there to eat them both at the same time was such a perfect combination. we both loved it! although, i must say that it's A LOT of work to mold the cookie dough into the shot glass shape man haha. i always love baking or cooking sessions with my yellow monster though cause we get to chat and spend quality time together. this was our early birthday celebration together this year haha. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjHkNOd_hf9uGnR69x02p3BAnIsGJzpce2ZeIh2OBHGP9_JuYwI0y8qZ8D-6dPiEgXscefH1n2VCttO-VUyN9hXglFGfJUH2vnjagowR8U4ZxDIENkc_HO9_y7Ri6GWyFymVQwlAkAw8/s4032/IMG_4888.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">took three glorious days off work for a 5-day long weekend for my birthday and it was much needed. went to the singapore chinese cultural centre on the first day for the singapore人 exhibition and i must say i was very impressed with the whole exhibition. very well-curated and super interactive. i loved it! and i usually hate like museums and exhibitions and all. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgny1NNAiQzP6dyXLauUtuRAu3eVoYoakdQRKhZo2aNBR2O4sipNTRG_7iRntQstwCGWzcTs4Ser2LTz65-hPtMBDuvLYO1IEsZjKTaGFBTC3NoXw2PULk-6qMZu_HKDRU517A2uD3POa0/s4032/IMG_4995.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgny1NNAiQzP6dyXLauUtuRAu3eVoYoakdQRKhZo2aNBR2O4sipNTRG_7iRntQstwCGWzcTs4Ser2LTz65-hPtMBDuvLYO1IEsZjKTaGFBTC3NoXw2PULk-6qMZu_HKDRU517A2uD3POa0/w300-h400/IMG_4995.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-bBih5PE1WRtAikeHua20XDYmtYyI7XiswSHU-ScqJ5n3Xw-7g8JIoowhNrTLi-9wmVRZBIyjFIK1AnbXYGIi88hgWdsET7e4oB9EcRXx9Fgo2cLiJNwjsZnuD6TPRQ-Rh-OfpgPWv5Y/w300-h400/IMG_4998.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">they also have this cute exhibition on the rooftop titled love in many colours with these cute swings and all. best part is, everything is free</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLqIWuPJIJdn9kzWXBAvHLB09lppbUIR6itt_MROP0hTf4dRYIyccKBpVslkpQdfsfSMeM16ln7eNogxhCJ6eXFC3ImC3mjkzepHpHaJ9MWtNyuUvFD5fy7_2Wo7mgBxFVxRx89rXtfdw/w300-h400/IMG_5111.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">i wish the pool was prettier though haha // the whole staycay was soooo chill and that's what i loved about it cause it meant that i really got to relax</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL80dHLiL6U1yHMJpheetK5TMH-Okif17rIHejJbREMeNsqY50IsK66zw2WoRxkO87Xk5zKdm-RMQMjrH-9GbgqtkL4XFGSXjEKMlpML2xRTzNlvbvFn0HhjmtkdEGtCXOiep7fM-0Ck4/s4032/IMG_5125.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL80dHLiL6U1yHMJpheetK5TMH-Okif17rIHejJbREMeNsqY50IsK66zw2WoRxkO87Xk5zKdm-RMQMjrH-9GbgqtkL4XFGSXjEKMlpML2xRTzNlvbvFn0HhjmtkdEGtCXOiep7fM-0Ck4/w300-h400/IMG_5125.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Oul8OoELLdv0-csY-BbvYXwYNNTEjaHKHysvTY9or688XUw89cY5IaS1EGY8JGOEr99hwJ-05r36qgbhe89JWiSTFpfpYoerU-_pOBt1Uboz00VYMjPaouHbshQk2muNaBD-nfyJFQk/w300-h400/IMG_5128.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">spent our dining credits on high tea and wow it was a sugar overload haha. i much prefer a savoury kind of high tea haha<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDv1oiu5uXPDAL1Hv0bt3ilCAKrB8NmAeDqfMXKIFHKan_HMMeKKJOyWts5IO63xGy0GaNsnfy-AEOTN4EkrJ_w3vheQDJG9ECZs9qK8N8qj1uCq-BpPRM-OnZvEeediOFEaffMf3VkAw/s4032/IMG_5137.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDv1oiu5uXPDAL1Hv0bt3ilCAKrB8NmAeDqfMXKIFHKan_HMMeKKJOyWts5IO63xGy0GaNsnfy-AEOTN4EkrJ_w3vheQDJG9ECZs9qK8N8qj1uCq-BpPRM-OnZvEeediOFEaffMf3VkAw/w400-h300/IMG_5137.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">went for a cable car ride because why not and omg, it must have been a long time since i last rode the cable car cause i obviously forgot there's no aircon in the cable cars. it was soooo hot haha. will opt for the monorail into sentosa next time haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiee3SzVfKG5PYY7W4ztKOzRYNQaz4VjW4R1WhkLRqCfa6DpMQY6wlYXLXenf7PMWbN3JF82wQvIsIvowf-NVpjDpnJ-W_5NXf38Ak5BReyZWGImrMkKf075kScYfqMneBDDlCZoHaAuJk/s4032/IMG_5164.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUh36seYaU7Vww36J1hGJIGcr89NLg6FeQefw2a5bMuuxV3bHOx6lpsFR28GuIDfoH8lmTu9Wudsnbi-03ndDTiEGEeS9yiyyfM9umQNHbyyc3gWrRGLHY4kA-R8Gsc9s8TUrYpTGmoqQ/w640-h426/28847162-7b6f-4310-ae22-3b1d0f334ad3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">yummy birthday dinner featuring mee soto by ahmad's mom!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbd2CFRzp4ZdGwbDk3crx6IoWt9mPgwUOBsPudygiRkc7IyQEEA_Zf_vMmoH9n__PZ6d3NbJJysvhESnlhp3TlblK9QvD1QRufDilpYaGJOyZyOJ9hrwgIwA3ZjZLtjUM9taUyWjr0Jn0/s4032/IMG_5232.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbd2CFRzp4ZdGwbDk3crx6IoWt9mPgwUOBsPudygiRkc7IyQEEA_Zf_vMmoH9n__PZ6d3NbJJysvhESnlhp3TlblK9QvD1QRufDilpYaGJOyZyOJ9hrwgIwA3ZjZLtjUM9taUyWjr0Jn0/w300-h400/IMG_5232.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">i finally have a niece! and guess what? baby lauren shares my birthday :)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy8aTYccqBqyvJJFDly3AOgkyGgdh4eLq2SSGaLGBdmDo_m2LRXKwNPx6a3ygZvsM5SmjmFrLLKKiNgrV6cFNSP2BF16LQetttTIFADK4pXOpp_lGToadIF_QROH2jg-BCZd7bMKvibEs/w300-h400/IMG_5387.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPURmNj9wtgHVF6Dmxt0w9LfgSVHqVYNLutj8gT7mPc-dkiEQang9w_xtqlRtC3c31Qfziye92UGO43G8GMTC9b-L6d4iVW1l6QbcqAHjdfRgq2E0OIw9Wgr_vmAUadHebQ5apgpWGzbk/s4032/IMG_5388.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPURmNj9wtgHVF6Dmxt0w9LfgSVHqVYNLutj8gT7mPc-dkiEQang9w_xtqlRtC3c31Qfziye92UGO43G8GMTC9b-L6d4iVW1l6QbcqAHjdfRgq2E0OIw9Wgr_vmAUadHebQ5apgpWGzbk/w300-h400/IMG_5388.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">playing my part, along with everyone else, and getting vaccinated</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #741b47;">food adventures:</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaP-EDjjPBj3NSMJAa1F_j4b4WCmzq_IFhiNh0JqXxtXTMp1ueRTimdtqJcjAVNR5zTw7wAUCtogxaWYlW7WCWipqJ6U22n1JgSIwSx0C5NBIB7_OklpN3qLLb7mv1TZOV4-Fxs2Gr6AE/w300-h400/IMG_4405.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM7qe5LuQ0BvyEEf4VcljMkAApNqyrHYb23pD2jiMDMgm8xgsC73aG_1YmXhYI-ObrKD30ynC1hpAO65TZhOFa4XjILbP6DTkAoQCC6Pn_om6x5QcWhSQIIg-ywNTI2qtMu2gk2gidsI4/s4032/IMG_4406.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM7qe5LuQ0BvyEEf4VcljMkAApNqyrHYb23pD2jiMDMgm8xgsC73aG_1YmXhYI-ObrKD30ynC1hpAO65TZhOFa4XjILbP6DTkAoQCC6Pn_om6x5QcWhSQIIg-ywNTI2qtMu2gk2gidsI4/w300-h400/IMG_4406.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">okay this one's not new but kbbq at go kbbq is always a good idea. look at that yummy meat</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEgLJKxX3PLu-c2bIp4klO3jzcSH0E8bGe2tIxztgxDSWSoNvExbgIzcUW3kxUYB8t9qxFB3vq6hyphenhypheneTUOtQ7gjpwDhi_Z_4b6XzY5v7ik3BooP-aphyphenhyphenGa0uKi_OjglbimPC6ZRdEH4Qg/s4032/IMG_4539.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEgLJKxX3PLu-c2bIp4klO3jzcSH0E8bGe2tIxztgxDSWSoNvExbgIzcUW3kxUYB8t9qxFB3vq6hyphenhypheneTUOtQ7gjpwDhi_Z_4b6XzY5v7ik3BooP-aphyphenhyphenGa0uKi_OjglbimPC6ZRdEH4Qg/w300-h400/IMG_4539.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">tried the mentaiko salmon rice bowl from lagoon in a bowl at amoy and i must say it was really yummy! the salmon was nicely done and it came with blue pea rice</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdsNKZZ-Rpp_xqqZzPhIOVVRV0sB9K1lBpvDDxm1t1ZiEz10d_Kk1tx7dyV7E8ed20pI2KIpcFtNvdK_EG5W2nvExVgY1BTLJO4GHsfk8xApc1Nh_FHcgnzx4DKUbzh3PGcPGJcHYG0g/s4032/IMG_4568.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUdsNKZZ-Rpp_xqqZzPhIOVVRV0sB9K1lBpvDDxm1t1ZiEz10d_Kk1tx7dyV7E8ed20pI2KIpcFtNvdK_EG5W2nvExVgY1BTLJO4GHsfk8xApc1Nh_FHcgnzx4DKUbzh3PGcPGJcHYG0g/w300-h400/IMG_4568.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">tried the lor mai gai from towkaycooks, an IG home-based business and it was yummy! they have a few different flavours in addition to the original and i must say that the curry chicken one was probably our favourite</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG__U2desto-WfkJj1EspdwiEVh8kpkQZuRyW7d3l8m9oJuoCRHw400c9x7uaZaQfvpn895NjnYDrBs7CdxcVX3l4yfBXRy7W0ncLL2OZks1LNRKnw334iUumC3R5qQ_VZ-2yl8NOeWrs/s4032/IMG_4578.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG__U2desto-WfkJj1EspdwiEVh8kpkQZuRyW7d3l8m9oJuoCRHw400c9x7uaZaQfvpn895NjnYDrBs7CdxcVX3l4yfBXRy7W0ncLL2OZks1LNRKnw334iUumC3R5qQ_VZ-2yl8NOeWrs/w300-h400/IMG_4578.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyjZswb3caDxj3MfpGJvBVQbvNvX_D5vGnao00xx21P0Cr872LrRMU7VNQC7jJsC_-EXZXZw1l0nT5u12v8-o_a-gUh7PZFo7ZjI635LHBFtIsee2b_FCRAcpIfyLF_U5MCONztCpllKM/w300-h400/IMG_4580.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">tried the sandwiches and doughnuts (sorry doughnuts not pictured) from korio for our mental wellness day and i liked both the sandwiches we got - the spam and egg one, as well as the mushrooms one. for the doughnuts, i liked the cinnamon sugar small donut bites but not the regular bigger ones. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcw8ZFSNgJJ0XyHI75WYBemPHo1bL35BXDxS4AfB0-JH0xW3HLZNWpqiVCtowp_NENsM7DrUNblPB81AAg52AC_PpYPfUOZ05DGL2yS1y7LmrJqNTfemIxY7Ku50Xuov-z-j6QDBe8vSU/s4032/IMG_4625.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcw8ZFSNgJJ0XyHI75WYBemPHo1bL35BXDxS4AfB0-JH0xW3HLZNWpqiVCtowp_NENsM7DrUNblPB81AAg52AC_PpYPfUOZ05DGL2yS1y7LmrJqNTfemIxY7Ku50Xuov-z-j6QDBe8vSU/w400-h300/IMG_4625.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">tried the new taiwanese food place abundance - they have a limited menu and none of the dishes were super memorable to me. the beef with fried rice was pretty good but the rest were normal</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-jKoj-NWBlOF9GzjpYGWPQ8R69ems5rScwg1QqTst3G1_ejJv1B6CoCLpj7Mtd8I8pqFcbmmwOuAEUURs-kwQNNW6eoreTPCdz7UgJ3GOdULO_dD3R9SaylujIiP0ffOIBohc-hA8I8/s4032/IMG_4694.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-jKoj-NWBlOF9GzjpYGWPQ8R69ems5rScwg1QqTst3G1_ejJv1B6CoCLpj7Mtd8I8pqFcbmmwOuAEUURs-kwQNNW6eoreTPCdz7UgJ3GOdULO_dD3R9SaylujIiP0ffOIBohc-hA8I8/w300-h400/IMG_4694.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">finally tried ahjumma's after always seeing the super long queue on saturdays when we would go to funan for our massage. and while the food was good, i think they put quite a bit of MSG cause i was so thirsty the whole afternoon. so definitely won't eat there again</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNszzkiud74psVhPLId2363E8EJnu0zNZv-f7jVJi2EemUIm33KNCI4dH7rGwLVQ8XORSitVeQkpqK20ssiRhZvMaQC06qRhGdU2zDUJbmo261I045Ki7YqfuyrRDrb2eBKrU3lUUX1sg/s4032/IMG_4695.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNszzkiud74psVhPLId2363E8EJnu0zNZv-f7jVJi2EemUIm33KNCI4dH7rGwLVQ8XORSitVeQkpqK20ssiRhZvMaQC06qRhGdU2zDUJbmo261I045Ki7YqfuyrRDrb2eBKrU3lUUX1sg/w300-h400/IMG_4695.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">homecooked hainanese chicken rice by my dad haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oov-G-gxgmLtYtc2cWOLYPTLX576EngXY2gJdpnAkwORoZiFtcCXckfHBGoWEzCcHoud1vizIQfB8M26nEiq9KAdFg7pdxhHAN6MWBzk-D1WzgbNrhlMWzXgZHUqIHmkq2B1TfL7tVc/s4032/IMG_4697.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5oov-G-gxgmLtYtc2cWOLYPTLX576EngXY2gJdpnAkwORoZiFtcCXckfHBGoWEzCcHoud1vizIQfB8M26nEiq9KAdFg7pdxhHAN6MWBzk-D1WzgbNrhlMWzXgZHUqIHmkq2B1TfL7tVc/w300-h400/IMG_4697.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">wanted to also mention that i tried out this new butter cake recipe the same day we were making the cookie shot glasses. and it turned out really yummy so i've been making this a lot lately haha</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhT0rgqcbLe3nRLvWGkzB_MAZP2rH4oB5p1DrKn0stJeUKZfmLuPFa2F6E3iwyjLVhNPrqHODaf2iCK4MoFzQEzPnCQYVnnsdflNDscG7sYxZN5iQdRDx6YHiwu1JTFrHcwLa1vNtZcys/s4032/IMG_5015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhT0rgqcbLe3nRLvWGkzB_MAZP2rH4oB5p1DrKn0stJeUKZfmLuPFa2F6E3iwyjLVhNPrqHODaf2iCK4MoFzQEzPnCQYVnnsdflNDscG7sYxZN5iQdRDx6YHiwu1JTFrHcwLa1vNtZcys/w400-h300/IMG_5015.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #134f5c;">also, special mention: my yummy birthday lunch at sun with moon cause i just love the food there! such great quality japanese food haha (and of course, my favourite tofu cheesecake)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">and there you go, a quick look into what i've been up to haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">during other times, you will find me either out for a run or on my bed watching dramas/scrolling TikTok hahaha - two very opposite actions haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">i'm seriously running out of things to watch haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">tell me what you're watching these days.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">also, i welcome any tips on how to feel less lethargic haha</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-66750539996208561392021-04-18T09:29:00.005-07:002021-04-18T09:29:47.486-07:00Q1 2021;<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">my mother commented the other day that I have not blogged or baked in awhile.<br /></span><span style="color: #45818e;">so I baked pandan cake yesterday and here I am blogging now haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">now I need to jog my memory to remember what happened in the past 3 and a half months.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">this year is seriously just flying by - feels like it's going by even faster than 2020.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">a year ago this time, we were on lockdown.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">can't believe it's already been a year!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">well, I must say that not much has changed in terms of the pace of life - we're still stuck and can't travel, and work is still suffocating haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">I guess though that we should count our blessings that we are all slowly getting vaccinated, we can go back to in person church, and we can meet up with friends in small groups pretty much like life is normal. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">it definitely could be much worse. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">since we still can't travel (everyone is going on cruises to nowhere but I refuse to get swabbed to go on the cruise haha - and then joke's on me cause I have this big work event next month and I have to get swabbed for that boo), I've been spending all my time (and money haha) on my goals for the year - two of which include getting back into ballet and pilates. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">and it's actually been really therapeutic! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">makes my life feel less boring - having plans other than just the gym or home after work, and also, forcing myself out of the office instead of just working late. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">who would have thought I would have gotten back into ballet after so many years haha - I did ballet for more than 13 years growing up and I remember how I would dread ballet classes some weeks. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">and now I'm putting my body back through that hahaha - my legs are honestly not what they used to be anymore and some lessons I'm just like omg my legs are trembling hahaha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">and then pilates has been so awesome - my coworker huai jiao and I do the duet sessions so it's just the two of us and so the instructor can really customise to our needs and help us correct our posture, etc. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">it's amazing how there are so many different exercises to do each week such that no two sessions are the same.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">and every week, some part of the body hurts hahaha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">like how last week my arms were sore after and this week they're sore again. plus my obliques this week. it's like ouch ouch ouch but feels good knowing you worked it then haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">and I feel like we're much better at engaging our core now instead of just using our back to compensate for the lack of core muscles. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">I must say also that pilates and ballet are a good combi cause in ballet I have to use my glutes a lot and so it's really helpful for pilates exercises that require the use of my glutes too. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75OTbEL8mudiZl6c-YJzdaG0ixeQVFupWVfuyXlqPgd3TEL4f8afW8zEufBpTZg7I28hUMuzYKHHkWnbFCT9CnW1rfqlyQbenefV1JKJbWKEVuseP2MniZSmU9ssemhJLJqhvBw6tls4/w300-h400/IMG_4151.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1C9On4uSG4T1pHM6hOv6bYaka2lxKWxOhCEXc7Pp4ZnmLPzvHMWIJR7mRiUB530nRn951PebLdaZQKnDRIGOqiSq7Z4mQMo6MzjFCq3B0jxj-vII7lTRvx-tnwZnoT80r3bxYqvONQGc/s2048/IMG_4161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1C9On4uSG4T1pHM6hOv6bYaka2lxKWxOhCEXc7Pp4ZnmLPzvHMWIJR7mRiUB530nRn951PebLdaZQKnDRIGOqiSq7Z4mQMo6MzjFCq3B0jxj-vII7lTRvx-tnwZnoT80r3bxYqvONQGc/w300-h400/IMG_4161.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">I've also started teaching the 9 year olds at church and wow, they drive me crazy hahaha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">there are only 4 kids in the class but the 3 boys talk sooo much I just go crazy telling them to keep quiet every sunday. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">only plus side of teaching an older class (I used to teach the 5 year olds) is that they can actually read so I don't have to come up with lots of interactive games and what not - I can just make them look up verses and read them haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">music time is also so interesting now without being able to sing - they've incorporated the use of handbells and although it's noisy, it's actually quite cool.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxbZkwfOuC9hwgmoR8AGTtR0QLdOg2tlx-OCNpUwfVPCtqWgJltqhi4Zwi4oAzKmcv3Jcsikmx2xLwkvVLGAbuvCcj6UzGWCLfhmtyd_YOKN_5qf4I1jB9DzmpssLWD0E6oWYFeG63TM/s2048/IMG_3960.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOxbZkwfOuC9hwgmoR8AGTtR0QLdOg2tlx-OCNpUwfVPCtqWgJltqhi4Zwi4oAzKmcv3Jcsikmx2xLwkvVLGAbuvCcj6UzGWCLfhmtyd_YOKN_5qf4I1jB9DzmpssLWD0E6oWYFeG63TM/w300-h400/IMG_3960.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="color: #45818e;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">ah yes, Chinese New Year came and went by. </span></div>this year's Chinese New Year was so weird cause you could only have a maximum of 8 unique guests over each day so we couldn't all gather together as usual.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">so we ended up hosting at our place for four days straight and it was quite exhausting. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">it was quite sad though cause it's not as festive.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">the only benefit was actually having time to really catch up with the people who came over each day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">cause in the past when it's a huge group you don't really get to have a lot of in-depth conversations because there are so many people to talk to. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">this was also the first year we actually celebrated and mingled with my mom's side of the family - especially since my mom's younger sister and family couldn't go to malaysia to visit their dad's side like they normally would.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">the other sad thing was sam couldn't come home for CNY.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">feels like forever since I saw my own sister. boo COVID. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHkBhLGaVzz4b907FlQB1hFtKpKMv3cmkNidhlUUW5eehI3hkc5jyB-yamGcAFw5kg0HgI6sfyGaU8q4nKiCbfXWUtQMykONuYIOj9Hs4eGJtFdrYCBTpOoaB4Qz1im2PqanwklwQz5_g/s2048/IMG_3248.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHkBhLGaVzz4b907FlQB1hFtKpKMv3cmkNidhlUUW5eehI3hkc5jyB-yamGcAFw5kg0HgI6sfyGaU8q4nKiCbfXWUtQMykONuYIOj9Hs4eGJtFdrYCBTpOoaB4Qz1im2PqanwklwQz5_g/w300-h400/IMG_3248.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">pineapple tarts exchange</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JjfHyuHEU50FbD8KIMo9qz_4OLfLlP6N58l0dHAb6n-qie7rXviQ2lNKeLm_KvUjuQ5N592rG6BJrkRgG3BI_vUP8sJ6v0KD5ZFfQb6a4CpZQTBCkiUd2pqJFpc5D38xLyhYkIthQZQ/w400-h300/IMG_3279.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">standard day one visit to ah po's grave</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVdmIDz5z-upIhFcalarT9MxcGAhHFqmDzSwG9xUSQWgoNu7ne-XOsMWflH7TG7zx5jh3xVnE2vMWml6BwGXPZQbiVhTlBuqYmu7h4-Z597D880NHqytwdQJw0MJzhMeeQzRyYJqm3Pc/s2048/IMG_3300.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnVdmIDz5z-upIhFcalarT9MxcGAhHFqmDzSwG9xUSQWgoNu7ne-XOsMWflH7TG7zx5jh3xVnE2vMWml6BwGXPZQbiVhTlBuqYmu7h4-Z597D880NHqytwdQJw0MJzhMeeQzRyYJqm3Pc/w640-h480/IMG_3300.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">day one guests</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtOG6OQ4yxwsx8Ga_WTDr39mkrqtV2nzFHseIeMYVCyX5OTO9byAV8t6W57zKSaDim1V-J1Ya0fp53R590Qs3h-XNtGAbhoaKBXgtXC7UWOhytb6Y-w-of10dyIH8xdBNasPV2yDn-iE/w400-h300/IMG_3349.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">day three cousins photo</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEjlbwUD4QquILSdyuyGIX81SL4iASgxA62dOpL0wxvpKRNIe6fFzrZ7aRU20Z4jOOwaCGOsgJi3AJSxCHNfj1L054NPszr3cCcKxSafTkqA9jKcbhs3TLJnJuIMWahT_WHWNiP-pYHk/s2048/IMG_3364.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEEjlbwUD4QquILSdyuyGIX81SL4iASgxA62dOpL0wxvpKRNIe6fFzrZ7aRU20Z4jOOwaCGOsgJi3AJSxCHNfj1L054NPszr3cCcKxSafTkqA9jKcbhs3TLJnJuIMWahT_WHWNiP-pYHk/w640-h480/IMG_3364.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">finally left the house for some visiting haha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTYHt5_tMjCpu-9l-MDw8jbUzfu7pJwiml1G8OzOEl5oGG35nzjtS2DDeE0s3yM6nZke7_rRQ7LkBeswA1odQFrKDd7sk6n_M0h9ctVgnG-3ykeKdxQPRypvax-0sp0um51-oy4I0b2o/s2048/IMG_3377.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMTYHt5_tMjCpu-9l-MDw8jbUzfu7pJwiml1G8OzOEl5oGG35nzjtS2DDeE0s3yM6nZke7_rRQ7LkBeswA1odQFrKDd7sk6n_M0h9ctVgnG-3ykeKdxQPRypvax-0sp0um51-oy4I0b2o/w300-h400/IMG_3377.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1kzFPGzIpyh4lSx418x2X1X_skgbW-tKcapyp6O_OYa3cifv0O27HkFt3OQPyEWMlEq-Ef9zSDoksGNkVRTRs06xMBhazihESlG2zHROdVfMfvNFItJabFp-qX0v13xy7i6hqR0qF44k/w300-h400/IMG_3380.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">treated the fam to some Spago on day four of the CNY - we all took an extra day off</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUWaojikbzKqzxwOmVJVj2MVcU6Um567j3lhS-maj3IpARQbUZpfZixE6HDYOW0dWeRJ2cp9QlOay4g264L8ocz_HL-PXxAGlo7Au1U5OO1cFeZ3SuYi62f8CD8bCBkHCvDgsnGuNQSEw/s2048/IMG_3386.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUWaojikbzKqzxwOmVJVj2MVcU6Um567j3lhS-maj3IpARQbUZpfZixE6HDYOW0dWeRJ2cp9QlOay4g264L8ocz_HL-PXxAGlo7Au1U5OO1cFeZ3SuYi62f8CD8bCBkHCvDgsnGuNQSEw/w300-h400/IMG_3386.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjv8pNKOVyG2DrWqRtH0Q6Xckue24AJouMOKf0k2LHoftQ_4yb8eSmwSvdnWN_t-qxl8g87Lj-cX8s4lpY_aP0B8AUaJokD_ZcoUJldDd63F0xtN35Qm5x3KojQZsceFLurUKrTgz79g/w300-h400/IMG_3401.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">managed to make full use of all my different cheongsams during the 15 days of CNY haha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJnD8GTdMpJ78rzO2AqNW5jgm7WO0MvgA161PGCxkjnCvvlsVHisIIVuRyahYliznCKjecjgVrc4AKORRfTK9VDcoEt52R3LrhSM5OUDWzBvWdX_3jxStnFlXgku1gpVYBn5ARtVz6xY/s2048/IMG_3413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQJnD8GTdMpJ78rzO2AqNW5jgm7WO0MvgA161PGCxkjnCvvlsVHisIIVuRyahYliznCKjecjgVrc4AKORRfTK9VDcoEt52R3LrhSM5OUDWzBvWdX_3jxStnFlXgku1gpVYBn5ARtVz6xY/w640-h480/IMG_3413.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">convinced my coworkers to do a cheongsam day when we were back in office after the holiday and they were all very sporting</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVdLKljaVdczLzknYMAu96713BMemzHRUfg0ygVj3ZOfUUyCp7O9hkHuiyBa7_3ekiFjr5o-UUSwLwzoJ8S9GFRSalsRvzYeYMxH4KLfKdpy2sWfUcM4ia043zEP2XAbpe-m-5Nc8JoY/s2048/IMG_3421.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDVdLKljaVdczLzknYMAu96713BMemzHRUfg0ygVj3ZOfUUyCp7O9hkHuiyBa7_3ekiFjr5o-UUSwLwzoJ8S9GFRSalsRvzYeYMxH4KLfKdpy2sWfUcM4ia043zEP2XAbpe-m-5Nc8JoY/w300-h400/IMG_3421.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE0puV5VoC-gRC7-xvfvn0FixrCKenhEqf_iq4JapGx4ZvcdKAt6zE6ljv3OlG65KNQyy2sJmFlEYtKHmLxm9o9Ur55win0ctG49y6Juc-TnkBK2YESvVzOPxiLs75bJm51jFQG_yZCO8/w300-h400/IMG_3425.JPG" width="300" /></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">16 years celebrating CNY with this same crew wowww haha//new pineapple tart earrings haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOA4KtCOXVwglXL6wH024R7siukStZMm9MR-Xjd0sa466-GJAElIPpO3nqypWaA4lKZalcz_VcqIBo5UvQbAB2C_3VLFqCIRO155AgyUhpKYzmndlI5n7huzY3FXbXwfHZYJTLH4erD_A/s2048/IMG_3434.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOA4KtCOXVwglXL6wH024R7siukStZMm9MR-Xjd0sa466-GJAElIPpO3nqypWaA4lKZalcz_VcqIBo5UvQbAB2C_3VLFqCIRO155AgyUhpKYzmndlI5n7huzY3FXbXwfHZYJTLH4erD_A/w640-h480/IMG_3434.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">smaller CNY celebration with the coworkers this year cause of the gathering restriction</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_-FUD9b9S5tDdc1UoqZO9aVzRd6AI0z_8Ex8H6EMMrLUTwvX0UFyrcg_eDBtMkwAguonnudqBke5zYM-zUZQXn2riQ7WFGOrWNoQnvWRLYhM7X_4WcWTtJn-V4J8XBHjsNfLkJg8FQ8/s2048/IMG_3461.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_-FUD9b9S5tDdc1UoqZO9aVzRd6AI0z_8Ex8H6EMMrLUTwvX0UFyrcg_eDBtMkwAguonnudqBke5zYM-zUZQXn2riQ7WFGOrWNoQnvWRLYhM7X_4WcWTtJn-V4J8XBHjsNfLkJg8FQ8/w400-h300/IMG_3461.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">cay's birthday always falls close to or during CNY period so CNY cum birthday celebration haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQ4_ccefRodt-2kfxMERa8t46rsZWIUG0IcIIm8f7el8FXS88wINfZkKFGVVsjXk9YNHMjWUiOunK4A6VrPg9Sd04zqyhtD4gvYYUl_qCglnt26zThTdyBoyuHe_weo3ab3sDWVAHw-g/s2048/IMG_3486.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQ4_ccefRodt-2kfxMERa8t46rsZWIUG0IcIIm8f7el8FXS88wINfZkKFGVVsjXk9YNHMjWUiOunK4A6VrPg9Sd04zqyhtD4gvYYUl_qCglnt26zThTdyBoyuHe_weo3ab3sDWVAHw-g/w400-h300/IMG_3486.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">chap gor meh dinner - we got creative for chap gor meh. we had all the parents at our place and then all the cousins gathered at my cousin's house cause she lives just 10 mins away from us. and then we ordered for all and when the food came to our house, we split half and brought it with us to my cousin's place. 10/10 for effort haha.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-I_5CO0vYqZdQGF-A4UPs0dovAA79iI0cgRoZceDE_kWD6Q2aAC96BPT1nrJD26ssZUVLbI0g-PsqU0wBCWGKTiYKbzbY1IzSm_ubroH5eJ2wJ8sFjmnLXfhSObG3WEoEfxojvikj5A/s2048/IMG_3493.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-I_5CO0vYqZdQGF-A4UPs0dovAA79iI0cgRoZceDE_kWD6Q2aAC96BPT1nrJD26ssZUVLbI0g-PsqU0wBCWGKTiYKbzbY1IzSm_ubroH5eJ2wJ8sFjmnLXfhSObG3WEoEfxojvikj5A/w640-h480/IMG_3493.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">missing cay. miss being able to have our extended family gatherings.</div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">that was basically the highlight of february.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">I don't really remember what happened in january and march.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">and when I look at my photos, I see quite a lot of work photos - video shoots, photo shoots, etc. hahaha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">good thing is, two of my coworkers and I still have our monthly mental health/wellness days - although we didn't manage to squeeze one in in february with CNY and it being a short month.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">if you're feeling burnt out from work/life/the pandemic, I highly recommend mental health days.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">they're good for the soul and honestly, what you going to do with all those extra days of vacation anyway - especially if you're from Singapore cause let's face it, we're not going to be able to travel this year too. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">our mental health days usually consist of an activity, massage, lots of good food and then ends off with games night haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">I super recommend it, especially the massage hahaha. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ8IkbzNUyxhZjfSrzyozl3XdxPF0H5b1uHrNip553mVLRZxChSCyuI3aGLVv1MtcQdv2P3bsmJXJtb92HRAtBjw5Ss9AQj0nIWS-ZFDQ_k_ilgRCyRgbvobjl8VAOrOGMgrnpCygfKgM/s2048/IMG_3013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ8IkbzNUyxhZjfSrzyozl3XdxPF0H5b1uHrNip553mVLRZxChSCyuI3aGLVv1MtcQdv2P3bsmJXJtb92HRAtBjw5Ss9AQj0nIWS-ZFDQ_k_ilgRCyRgbvobjl8VAOrOGMgrnpCygfKgM/w400-h300/IMG_3013.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">january mental health day with yummy french galettes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg39Mdjw3-jYVD7BWSNV4t9QeRY04d7LqBHcNm32lt2N4eqbA6zDspww_1AnJKhas07cpWGCFUQ1cZyghu8j3fBJUsLYItUd2UFvqGa2dUPQJZ5bDqnZBNVvpuMngXxEfEBF3F9zdLRC5w/s2048/IMG_3966.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IPKc3Shj_1gvRlLLl_hkW5x6bY493GH3uR0Ko8Lkf5K8h8Im6rV56rsm9597S3WVZPI0S3bNMpTI7xUinTnneHDkN8P_3ehhXtytom7C8fhyUT1t2GNjRFQD9fOcS8avcQoMbgUh6i0/s2048/IMG_2944.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7IPKc3Shj_1gvRlLLl_hkW5x6bY493GH3uR0Ko8Lkf5K8h8Im6rV56rsm9597S3WVZPI0S3bNMpTI7xUinTnneHDkN8P_3ehhXtytom7C8fhyUT1t2GNjRFQD9fOcS8avcQoMbgUh6i0/w300-h400/IMG_2944.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">learned a new bubble tea game during a gathering in january</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzwQwm4hzTCMgv-QC_EtOmYZ0HpSYOIusBUCQulXEhN4LlyT3yD2NAZtnD98EIMcdoCkd3ghf9Q8mi57VhPgA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">which led us to ordering bubble tea when we already had apple crumble and ice cream ready for dessert hahaha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtr8WCzQOW-RbuLAyBUBrds0O4YP8YPT228El3AIRkdUXhF5pEWqM35GHjkK9cspdBLUibb78r4BsuggDrJNu1Ng6swSKPzAD0o5I4h9qWfBRQP3oM-jFggFUgOrFYgmsxzHyEpPjT1Gk/w300-h400/IMG_2970.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">probably the only time in my life I will get 大三元</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCq3cL9BUPAe0Y8oFM5eWhC96NKDd0fTNZZSTKSttqqifs3GuNE7MCzZH26-pado9DVkJg8d7m0LyWRA_5qziOf4sTw28WMz0uDqA7mrI43SxpYBKpg8sW3af7fRvVyte_xML6mQ86E_o/s2048/IMG_3482.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCq3cL9BUPAe0Y8oFM5eWhC96NKDd0fTNZZSTKSttqqifs3GuNE7MCzZH26-pado9DVkJg8d7m0LyWRA_5qziOf4sTw28WMz0uDqA7mrI43SxpYBKpg8sW3af7fRvVyte_xML6mQ86E_o/w400-h300/IMG_3482.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">what work event photos look like now</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh89vOwRYuJ5p-tgZBl38ZqHaIgpAlUesVDKcDWUayeEXpzqoT1DFriCKO2OytdgpkSemeqGPHMvPnFdWqhYFgcoGC9Tc1pdsc8jnKNT67e2W0Ak-0avRaFtffi7_AISZRuzCBllQYKLmI/s1600/IMG_3872.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh89vOwRYuJ5p-tgZBl38ZqHaIgpAlUesVDKcDWUayeEXpzqoT1DFriCKO2OytdgpkSemeqGPHMvPnFdWqhYFgcoGC9Tc1pdsc8jnKNT67e2W0Ak-0avRaFtffi7_AISZRuzCBllQYKLmI/w640-h426/IMG_3872.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">finally had a team gathering and updated our team photo haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkNtkoCBedcB_yqivXDakEYu2obWHuL6SxWq7MMQJwFTis6l52bHlIY19tsnat17mNR4esB4e3zE_qab-CeiKQXi_jqVie9LO3p7y-hnBkl6Nin69qYbJ3k265DYY3DKpw8agblyg2hUM/s2048/IMG_3891.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkNtkoCBedcB_yqivXDakEYu2obWHuL6SxWq7MMQJwFTis6l52bHlIY19tsnat17mNR4esB4e3zE_qab-CeiKQXi_jqVie9LO3p7y-hnBkl6Nin69qYbJ3k265DYY3DKpw8agblyg2hUM/w400-h300/IMG_3891.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">sourced my own talent for a work shoot haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-7dgTJLAyiVtX1JA1iHBXPy9rocB_sUbFgTdD7loI8NLJ6UuHyX30x4hRnsIAW9OlnJZyr1FQ6gZKqnPidoHMomZnfe6bMaU7jUtEorIFb2hdALIVHfBYpiUnGpyiNEbiLDhRsvUla0/s2048/IMG_3945.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-7dgTJLAyiVtX1JA1iHBXPy9rocB_sUbFgTdD7loI8NLJ6UuHyX30x4hRnsIAW9OlnJZyr1FQ6gZKqnPidoHMomZnfe6bMaU7jUtEorIFb2hdALIVHfBYpiUnGpyiNEbiLDhRsvUla0/w400-h300/IMG_3945.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">smaller middle 3 gathering without aaron and shu qing</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSA6q3tWQgIID943obV3Qo8b76M9mdJ-ayrSgflvw0V2tC9cDFogZy6OTUdxUboVVmy763IH4vpuaiAD9hhqu3JZqH_mcy-0xihSPl0UnL1gPQJ4fpvA2XSJ7d2lRIDIC3GS1oGksLGYI/w300-h400/IMG_3952.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6OkWeVpu_TKT69iT2rGrwo9gdT4KDxILVu2P60nvs6xlqz7OiNHPXmlTiJoDfOWSUm_zuoe2wg3qqMe8LigjyHJoHFeLjG4BXOVsVuR0VwTr7djzfo5AkuL_JO6_2d4yX5j4GQh2_ZwU/s2048/IMG_3953.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6OkWeVpu_TKT69iT2rGrwo9gdT4KDxILVu2P60nvs6xlqz7OiNHPXmlTiJoDfOWSUm_zuoe2wg3qqMe8LigjyHJoHFeLjG4BXOVsVuR0VwTr7djzfo5AkuL_JO6_2d4yX5j4GQh2_ZwU/w300-h400/IMG_3953.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;">march babies celebration featuring desserts overload haha</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5iP5mge8llGIwlBQs43oCB4E2K362ZFzQfd7S4bEuT9CY4ldI19ct3Wfzo_b2iX0zXbDwzzS0H3sxiSBx9BWLYVfeU05VNNUCOesrSQaVOTyMKkY2cWM_FYjGpSuBU8mcxLNefeENYk/s1600/IMG_3955.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb5iP5mge8llGIwlBQs43oCB4E2K362ZFzQfd7S4bEuT9CY4ldI19ct3Wfzo_b2iX0zXbDwzzS0H3sxiSBx9BWLYVfeU05VNNUCOesrSQaVOTyMKkY2cWM_FYjGpSuBU8mcxLNefeENYk/w400-h300/IMG_3955.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><3</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWxfLQJcT1u1PqNfax4bxL_7BAgY4pqVW430URwRMeUJwRkFZcJz4DzBF04pL6Wl-VsZNAz8s5AJSxCHWryErg5WJGzMcqjIlXnAsBvL62QWjuSuQBrTUhrImMtsdZEZ_6Jmx1jWFOr1c/s2048/IMG_4147.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWxfLQJcT1u1PqNfax4bxL_7BAgY4pqVW430URwRMeUJwRkFZcJz4DzBF04pL6Wl-VsZNAz8s5AJSxCHWryErg5WJGzMcqjIlXnAsBvL62QWjuSuQBrTUhrImMtsdZEZ_6Jmx1jWFOr1c/w640-h480/IMG_4147.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">good friday long weekend gathering</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk93cw30tQaijui0S9y1MUfONwp0SfjEkLXc7X5EfMSXL-PaMcPMdck2-nEkQcmLLJwdGV4lVUyiCvm3b6AJLaI4mIoPPIj_9jn50urvpQn_g8BceCu1FgBGiYIEE_IgC1AHeZjrDglTM/s2048/IMG_4173.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk93cw30tQaijui0S9y1MUfONwp0SfjEkLXc7X5EfMSXL-PaMcPMdck2-nEkQcmLLJwdGV4lVUyiCvm3b6AJLaI4mIoPPIj_9jn50urvpQn_g8BceCu1FgBGiYIEE_IgC1AHeZjrDglTM/w640-h480/IMG_4173.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">my favourite jc friends monthly meetup</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcCtU5aJTaa6LVGgwmsk5CJ2OoXNKBLbEEIpfA0AxJGoa_uhPwdlNQeIsABFSabuiHYCTaDcx-hs3Owt4IVsvadheEw2YsEiFsa7ETI-BKIaBzdELuHH9e3beh4MNLu27F9bFjWEuF4Q/s2048/IMG_4175.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcCtU5aJTaa6LVGgwmsk5CJ2OoXNKBLbEEIpfA0AxJGoa_uhPwdlNQeIsABFSabuiHYCTaDcx-hs3Owt4IVsvadheEw2YsEiFsa7ETI-BKIaBzdELuHH9e3beh4MNLu27F9bFjWEuF4Q/w300-h400/IMG_4175.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">my little ah beng nephew with his headless captain america tattoo hahaha</div></span><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">some of my favourite meals/dishes from the past few months:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAirKnq8eivvtbH-IubLx1A1Wmnd1x6X-xre6iFyIC9flJDFnGa7XYaFatqYFXaQbvfyrVNFZhMWKaK8XKKtI0gIp0uyvxFVd7Yc_eoodb3TBk5I38oJFSifNeZcWq5BQddMZp11bDnVI/s2048/IMG_3456.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAirKnq8eivvtbH-IubLx1A1Wmnd1x6X-xre6iFyIC9flJDFnGa7XYaFatqYFXaQbvfyrVNFZhMWKaK8XKKtI0gIp0uyvxFVd7Yc_eoodb3TBk5I38oJFSifNeZcWq5BQddMZp11bDnVI/w300-h400/IMG_3456.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">we went to a hotel buffet and these wagyu on crostini things were sooo yummy. I think I had like 20 of them hahaha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-IHhNQP_L40PqHyAOzD5KlTiWyJ3eX_-GJ5YNXhgYTqXYeBNIk6diTrYLNZ2cl_cGEAtNml7YLTrj59aN9AvOEImkOnBGXiVsllv5lbFMu70tK04GSEfH5YhNXp-VbZNvdC9QvB9uiUA/s2048/IMG_3481.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-IHhNQP_L40PqHyAOzD5KlTiWyJ3eX_-GJ5YNXhgYTqXYeBNIk6diTrYLNZ2cl_cGEAtNml7YLTrj59aN9AvOEImkOnBGXiVsllv5lbFMu70tK04GSEfH5YhNXp-VbZNvdC9QvB9uiUA/w400-h300/IMG_3481.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">genki sushi is always a joy haha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UOCXJl1CHzyH6atzuVMhL2EUro22af03CUwXba85H4XAzGC_HYyz04vSxPl5zR_twnwU8ItUSSZi0OT3VY0U_KiH9Gl6KiF7lseNsmwKN0nRDb-LsprxixExiMF4OVjOp8JkshVDcjU/s2048/IMG_3484.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3UOCXJl1CHzyH6atzuVMhL2EUro22af03CUwXba85H4XAzGC_HYyz04vSxPl5zR_twnwU8ItUSSZi0OT3VY0U_KiH9Gl6KiF7lseNsmwKN0nRDb-LsprxixExiMF4OVjOp8JkshVDcjU/w300-h400/IMG_3484.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">a business lunch at wheelers estate. the food was actually quite good. if you're planning to go, their weekday set lunch is definitely the most value for money. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3gZYS0FcwcVkDzgSorzgMu6nsPMi9MT2gIdOyRj5ds8p8UsX6DcKjiPfojL8xIAoxixnUNTbDa88fG_EQpD_-TXnesc4K0Pg0MVdewTTYfTZt1mqrl6IqWJ1fVUygKBqkqi-TchSqsXQ/s2048/IMG_3860.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3gZYS0FcwcVkDzgSorzgMu6nsPMi9MT2gIdOyRj5ds8p8UsX6DcKjiPfojL8xIAoxixnUNTbDa88fG_EQpD_-TXnesc4K0Pg0MVdewTTYfTZt1mqrl6IqWJ1fVUygKBqkqi-TchSqsXQ/w300-h400/IMG_3860.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">辣子鸡 bento from 火辣辣 with all my favourite sides - purple sweet potato, regular sweet potato, broccoli, corn, cabbage</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxJqR2Jd4EwI-93GWDmwmBS2AZ6PQa3YyeWDOY0JblbyQqoubH0nLB5Jj79AwDg-p7Hy2bu_Lj2Q9zH6-bM23PGvqBim5wptHMf34FZzmjFeaK9W5PX6PjbO0xrcrHvRBVImBbLcgStY/s2048/IMG_3863.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxJqR2Jd4EwI-93GWDmwmBS2AZ6PQa3YyeWDOY0JblbyQqoubH0nLB5Jj79AwDg-p7Hy2bu_Lj2Q9zH6-bM23PGvqBim5wptHMf34FZzmjFeaK9W5PX6PjbO0xrcrHvRBVImBbLcgStY/w300-h400/IMG_3863.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">oven & fried chicken! with some poke to balance things out</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMHJsKHotd9_aAzOzPV_gx4duCdpzOv-61URZ4pdHhlVghw2PU59-bP3Fi13bQ0ii-NVY8d8ySbXKfgRswtJu_2yiNzaxflpQyMIjOQRQ7iW0BUprZmBcsWlG2r0vKoJ_ZBtsVyNPsHM/s2048/IMG_3924.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMHJsKHotd9_aAzOzPV_gx4duCdpzOv-61URZ4pdHhlVghw2PU59-bP3Fi13bQ0ii-NVY8d8ySbXKfgRswtJu_2yiNzaxflpQyMIjOQRQ7iW0BUprZmBcsWlG2r0vKoJ_ZBtsVyNPsHM/s320/IMG_3924.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">really yummy hotate foie gras sushi</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeDj7lusD5EwKBIBXLMPejCGmhDeu-wL8-uVKtyPj84x3Tj0wjghLhTF7dUymO2Fr2redLRN0XkCokEEOqHxraLtvzLuVf7Y_2346vUKeSOwHar8cXSWh93RKS4mEprcXS2lMpwu_wzM/s2048/IMG_3937.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyeDj7lusD5EwKBIBXLMPejCGmhDeu-wL8-uVKtyPj84x3Tj0wjghLhTF7dUymO2Fr2redLRN0XkCokEEOqHxraLtvzLuVf7Y_2346vUKeSOwHar8cXSWh93RKS4mEprcXS2lMpwu_wzM/w300-h400/IMG_3937.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">my favourite zai shun fish</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWohIollQVs8lBJZ_4PXRd-CDLVC3ocCxYddorTKN-57lkMHKtzitmHNcFPWeWJQqYgx1W5gryA8nuwrZdg0-yi2J8TNIX22z6Cibi4t471uJom1wCgjarTik3UEQGXdY4KPVD-JnNiU4/s2048/IMG_3957.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWohIollQVs8lBJZ_4PXRd-CDLVC3ocCxYddorTKN-57lkMHKtzitmHNcFPWeWJQqYgx1W5gryA8nuwrZdg0-yi2J8TNIX22z6Cibi4t471uJom1wCgjarTik3UEQGXdY4KPVD-JnNiU4/w300-h400/IMG_3957.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">found a hainanese chicken rice/steamboat place at golden mile with chicken rice that tastes like my grandma's!</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPx2K-cVg4Q3u0BaQkoOX1XJ8_Vw6hCUux3h8pZ0PsspMrp1ywFfiLg4aBaRlmv3371MQAJCgPWQASwju8J4jaYlNtU6O2jbh42LhnkkA6yKr8w_5kXeDMLG-V8AcwvtEAj_wVWjk5Gnw/s2048/IMG_4132.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPx2K-cVg4Q3u0BaQkoOX1XJ8_Vw6hCUux3h8pZ0PsspMrp1ywFfiLg4aBaRlmv3371MQAJCgPWQASwju8J4jaYlNtU6O2jbh42LhnkkA6yKr8w_5kXeDMLG-V8AcwvtEAj_wVWjk5Gnw/w300-h400/IMG_4132.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">was craving korean food one random day after watching korean variety shows and decided to go to hansang for lunch with my sister. we had the boneless mackerel stew set and it was yumsssss.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKAzVjctKnbqvXn5273jrlJAMzav2Tzztl3VMi86k7COz0jS3pTbZZwKe8dQD_fLxxHhXnaR9tqFfmVsG4sP200Ovdcm1QkEqSO8BPA3_YvL9xATiaTC1cmlq6VXD9MgpszuARfcVGtBc/w300-h400/IMG_4138.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizh1YVMp7n3AaF3C0m77h87-792XCUS4CGrzaOkGgAI7-vdmDW4n3Wx9buvRHl9xlFvii-C7lejO_HVqePVGvrNY9QxQS02SZb1kUt7B9Dygk4rwFaaAMbaGneQmAQ2yG09jy5X9cwMqo/s2048/IMG_4139.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizh1YVMp7n3AaF3C0m77h87-792XCUS4CGrzaOkGgAI7-vdmDW4n3Wx9buvRHl9xlFvii-C7lejO_HVqePVGvrNY9QxQS02SZb1kUt7B9Dygk4rwFaaAMbaGneQmAQ2yG09jy5X9cwMqo/w300-h400/IMG_4139.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">had dim sum and peking duck at hua ting and this was super yummy - truffle beef sesame ball pastry. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqZrp2JyMMTH38l1UUHl2QMf75CqV_mgRvkconcB-xTKpcsYtHxHIBWKKOXhwIh6NqOBO8exqeevliQhNk0jpMuNN6lDBjNDbhQd2BD6DC0AH9KRgCIrvbQGzyeuJSZY1m487W9YQdYw/s2048/IMG_4163.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqZrp2JyMMTH38l1UUHl2QMf75CqV_mgRvkconcB-xTKpcsYtHxHIBWKKOXhwIh6NqOBO8exqeevliQhNk0jpMuNN6lDBjNDbhQd2BD6DC0AH9KRgCIrvbQGzyeuJSZY1m487W9YQdYw/w300-h400/IMG_4163.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">tried this hakka place called ah lock & co at guoco tower and the salmon rice bowl was really yummy - the roasted broccoli actually tasted like french fries, don't know what magic is this haha. their min jiang kueh was really good too - we demolished it and I forgot to take a photo haha. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZ3J0tYUrVOPu8ApNkfCb9j6uvt4BLlUgDZF3-q0uA-SJ1LhqjOeDOREaIBhIMY1Rfd8Xnn1ikd7v_6UNfriUvumIMtm2DyxpJRVFHrkpJhz8H8WZRmDQCkDp_AxWg43yOOLpPC0Fy3U/w300-h400/IMG_4168.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">random salad and sushi from a weekday lunch which actually turned out really yummy</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gO-YRFH7Do08pNrlfXhTc_k6F4o2cT4GGQuHgNLhdd_QU_Gvcmwp8REAEXvrFHVmoY4k9XvzAF21t8kIhAqSFlXfxYlzB1m92dNhP0BvOjUVcuhdRjzULp7NAgHbxXHn_sobFP9Of7Y/s2048/IMG_4171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0gO-YRFH7Do08pNrlfXhTc_k6F4o2cT4GGQuHgNLhdd_QU_Gvcmwp8REAEXvrFHVmoY4k9XvzAF21t8kIhAqSFlXfxYlzB1m92dNhP0BvOjUVcuhdRjzULp7NAgHbxXHn_sobFP9Of7Y/w300-h400/IMG_4171.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">we might have overordered at dim sum the other day hahaha</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8yAunQLVpCGQ2ZrWvmTcOWzvu6ZFEoNcHBUQ-DODO46tK2nODMYJnX0JxiyVXpAOO3k1DzBfmoBHNJN9whyIDcak5uFlfRv5-VRA3G_NPI9dwIGF2wsHqwqtxjkwsmGoVT-UClI-vYKI/s2048/IMG_4172.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8yAunQLVpCGQ2ZrWvmTcOWzvu6ZFEoNcHBUQ-DODO46tK2nODMYJnX0JxiyVXpAOO3k1DzBfmoBHNJN9whyIDcak5uFlfRv5-VRA3G_NPI9dwIGF2wsHqwqtxjkwsmGoVT-UClI-vYKI/w300-h400/IMG_4172.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><div style="text-align: center;">haven't had this in awhile and decided to try my luck at bendemeer food centre the other day and yay they still had peng kueh - this is soon kueh and peng kueh fried carrot cake style, soooo good. </div></span></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Q1 down.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">april almost over.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">work's so busy these few months it's going to be a blur till end may and then it's time to start planning the birthday month festivities. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">and then half a year would be over by then.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">time is a scary thing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;">till the next blog post :)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="color: #45818e;"><br /></span></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-79991446160685765372020-12-31T00:32:00.002-08:002020-12-31T00:32:23.446-08:002020 wrapped;<span style="color: #cc0000;">ahh we're almost done with 2020 so i'm rushing to hurry do my regular end of year blog post haha. <br />oh what a year.</span><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">i have to say though that this holiday season has been a lot better for me despite COVID - no crazy slogging at work through Christmas and New Year's so i'm super grateful for that!</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">since we can only gather in smaller groups, i've had a month full of Christmas meet-ups nonstop coupled with my annual tradition of handwriting Christmas cards.</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">and this year i decided to be ambitious and do Christmas bake boxes instead of presents and omg never again hahaha. </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">i've come to realise that i put too much pressure on myself - like i have very high personal expectations for myself when it comes to social situations.</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">i'm not okay with just doing bare minimum and so i kill myself cooking, baking, meeting everyone, giving my 100%, etc. when really, just showing up is enough haha. </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">here's to hoping that i can be kinder to myself in 2021. </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">i honestly don't have any groundbreaking, super reflective thoughts to share at the close of this year.</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">all i can say is that this year has been tough but it's shown us more than anything that we're all super resilient. </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">there were difficult times, lonely times, exhausting moments and more.</span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">but there were still crazy moments of laughter, time well spent, happy memories and more. </span></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">i've forged greater relationships and that for me is an amazing outcome to call the year a success. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbU45pxUUvaxuTU0PTX0Jv0jYUqtaSxHx_GqUB7IXdd6IiMXiRLoZoDYcFYdbcMGY4lj7OFNbsKA1utIt-j3euu974P6xW9yq-jmaqGewo6BAL8qJzZoed3Ye8TSvADbLw2ebr9Pcv9PU/s4032/IMG_2599.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbU45pxUUvaxuTU0PTX0Jv0jYUqtaSxHx_GqUB7IXdd6IiMXiRLoZoDYcFYdbcMGY4lj7OFNbsKA1utIt-j3euu974P6xW9yq-jmaqGewo6BAL8qJzZoed3Ye8TSvADbLw2ebr9Pcv9PU/w640-h480/IMG_2599.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">managed to meet up with friday clique twice in the last quarter of the year woohoo! once in november and once in december. it's funny how we're all in Singapore and yet it's so hard to align our schedules always. meet-ups featuring pandan cake to celebrate aiwen's birthday (because we're now at the age where i make pandan cake for birthdays hahaha) and 부대찌개 (cause cheryl requested i cook it haha). can i just say that childhood friends are the best cause you know so much about each other. and also, when you ask them about their families, you really know each person of their family and you're not just asking out of courtesy. we were supposed to gather for games both times but we just ended up chatting more because there's just endless conversation topics to cover each time. we really need to be better at meeting up more often haha. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeP2hIOA9ljN9k1yuBmItesR9fZSXYfOWkozPPivB-87sqY5cGhU8xLYQHWhjM-qHt17Opa9t_VJ30BqKvG5tHIJziBOA2vRxVWGyod6E5z8YbkSEBflU9JUNYn7v07MS3-KQzb5VfHAY/s4032/IMG_1883.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeP2hIOA9ljN9k1yuBmItesR9fZSXYfOWkozPPivB-87sqY5cGhU8xLYQHWhjM-qHt17Opa9t_VJ30BqKvG5tHIJziBOA2vRxVWGyod6E5z8YbkSEBflU9JUNYn7v07MS3-KQzb5VfHAY/w640-h480/IMG_1883.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">celebrated my ah ma's birthday at Wah Lok in November - we had their dim sum this time and it was yummy! i'm always down for good dim sum haha. and look at my ah ma - doesn't she look so happy?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFUE8ZXlzb-kufUriw32tV0a3543UN0s_oeBR5i1mR8xgGIN2N5UUeqNaUvz7N4DSUdZfQ8kkyvBWVhnVtkIuxmvw5mcN_nPX73LddOwe7W6Od9Pso13F9G41wA4sHQIwHf8jBDiNXN8/s4000/GPTempDownload.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFUE8ZXlzb-kufUriw32tV0a3543UN0s_oeBR5i1mR8xgGIN2N5UUeqNaUvz7N4DSUdZfQ8kkyvBWVhnVtkIuxmvw5mcN_nPX73LddOwe7W6Od9Pso13F9G41wA4sHQIwHf8jBDiNXN8/w640-h480/GPTempDownload.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d;">our highly anticipated yacht party - we started planning this in october after we had dinner one night at sentosa cove and all through november we regretted not planning it for november cause we were just so excited for it!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="2944" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8ZVy_ILVE6i7pKB_K4hFXprrOFlvX-K12IuU-nZ_i0txK6fojzA9Du14VQlgdPwaHgLBr7V21sdTmulWyoYswxxsqgMXJL9vDqHunhKhevKw1UUOd6kUGfevX3nnK6WQKqD_awbRbyo/w640-h480/IMG_2702.JPG" width="640" /></div><span style="color: #38761d;">the closest we can get to a holiday</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzD_zP768bommlT5XW7DIZRh7I44YJvoLLX5cGBGd9ij1O0_DaXxw4vsTGs3KxCTbHAAdfi52gGlO9MkVptw1sX3eqCGB4SrreOax-8i6JgmTWtGzRMchWxuEbu3rF4AVyIz2nOR81e_0/s4032/IMG_2228.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzD_zP768bommlT5XW7DIZRh7I44YJvoLLX5cGBGd9ij1O0_DaXxw4vsTGs3KxCTbHAAdfi52gGlO9MkVptw1sX3eqCGB4SrreOax-8i6JgmTWtGzRMchWxuEbu3rF4AVyIz2nOR81e_0/w640-h480/IMG_2228.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d;">we booked a half day on the yacht and i have to say that the time flew by too quickly! we managed to do quite a lot - like eat lunch, lay out on the deck and play in the water with our pool floats but it just all went by too quickly and we definitely wanted more time when it was all over. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGpxuv7MOodiA_DPEoJb4U0xhIXnVkO-5o3IwiR2Rlf_fut0i4x6JOHKB22GMWXSKteHDZZsUKq4wYZe7lQaSl8ygid-N8ejXvS1-V3qDsPSDtkWnntThJSYJNJKecao4-S-D6x6QzXbU/s4032/IMG_2234.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGpxuv7MOodiA_DPEoJb4U0xhIXnVkO-5o3IwiR2Rlf_fut0i4x6JOHKB22GMWXSKteHDZZsUKq4wYZe7lQaSl8ygid-N8ejXvS1-V3qDsPSDtkWnntThJSYJNJKecao4-S-D6x6QzXbU/w640-h480/IMG_2234.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d;">heading back to Singapore right around sunset was really pretty!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgirMmcLI6Ec84EqQOcCVyJarhHlehBvPQ5CzVtA979ERid4O0HtPOlkO4je6oEpJSeWqiFYhYzMX3og5cUm2w3ftDGXNBXaofV0ECJD73z69Hjmm5pfhuDqcUmjL2I6YSUZNEU6MLdwu4/s2048/IMG_1983.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgirMmcLI6Ec84EqQOcCVyJarhHlehBvPQ5CzVtA979ERid4O0HtPOlkO4je6oEpJSeWqiFYhYzMX3og5cUm2w3ftDGXNBXaofV0ECJD73z69Hjmm5pfhuDqcUmjL2I6YSUZNEU6MLdwu4/w300-h400/IMG_1983.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d;">i must say that i'm very satisfied with my pool floats haha</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT81fXaO4KnB30ZB8WHhc4C0gcaIdTKya63pp0QP-mXU_hfN5jwaGSjgLlk94ObvQiwjXm7OPA9zfGSqeAW2GHXrjciq_l1GFSRiEjxf2EgNJXrRj9IoSmCgmaNIy7_XRYK4tv-Zrft14/s4032/3A1F44F8-13B9-43B2-83C1-921A2B0C3BAE-3F9A6FE7-FBF0-4D83-BE00-A9F0A632608F.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT81fXaO4KnB30ZB8WHhc4C0gcaIdTKya63pp0QP-mXU_hfN5jwaGSjgLlk94ObvQiwjXm7OPA9zfGSqeAW2GHXrjciq_l1GFSRiEjxf2EgNJXrRj9IoSmCgmaNIy7_XRYK4tv-Zrft14/w640-h480/3A1F44F8-13B9-43B2-83C1-921A2B0C3BAE-3F9A6FE7-FBF0-4D83-BE00-A9F0A632608F.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d;">first meet-up with the jc friends after wai gave birth + birthday celebration for SJ. this meet-up was on a friday night and was sooo stressful haha. with the new WFH situation now, i feel like it's almost impossible to meet up with friends on work nights, even if it's a friday night. i was rushing my work like mad and almost didn't make it to dinner. felt so bad for my friends who had to settle for a late dinner. i look sooo tired in this photo haha. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigipu7luhgGmF2liSxUkcGZrr-m1wMEyGVjqbxWkM8kkdeCuVyCdo0wq6iA2u29RbCalqg4SlkxQiN5Eq2Q_wYTO-kkvF4MEStlKyJeKu42fomHLx8wDWEbT3aqE0VtGryCbxZtjzMvJM/s4032/IMG_2558.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigipu7luhgGmF2liSxUkcGZrr-m1wMEyGVjqbxWkM8kkdeCuVyCdo0wq6iA2u29RbCalqg4SlkxQiN5Eq2Q_wYTO-kkvF4MEStlKyJeKu42fomHLx8wDWEbT3aqE0VtGryCbxZtjzMvJM/w300-h400/IMG_2558.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d;">latest baking obsession - fruit tarts! i made this three or four times in the space of like two weeks haha. and they were very well-received so yay haha. used to make these in the U.S. and randomly decided to try to make this again cause i love fruit tarts and they're so expensive. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiVCspV7-0-Vv9ZMxPxC2liJ5wFRQQKbIXhdyGTzhNTiU1yhMnY4doX8grtXvp0wkplMbpADCV88c3LKRaJYal_Gwr-gPOOFHoSaI3PwagKCd5xkEwq7sMDYZYpV8iQzsug7X1V6ztNrg/w300-h400/IMG_2582.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d;">no need for dessert since we have treat boxes haha // desperate for some mahjong luck</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTE992lHPovO_7cs5SrL8cyfcp_zFAOXOYkQmlv50xMiQyLrWjChPwQKKKatFqHG9Du84bO0fhC3r2TuXpiIgJYhmNtt0Cp_GjNePgrfkYfwwv7mcel6XAOu88MThrQVOa_hyznqIWg8/s4032/IMG_2647.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyTE992lHPovO_7cs5SrL8cyfcp_zFAOXOYkQmlv50xMiQyLrWjChPwQKKKatFqHG9Du84bO0fhC3r2TuXpiIgJYhmNtt0Cp_GjNePgrfkYfwwv7mcel6XAOu88MThrQVOa_hyznqIWg8/w300-h400/IMG_2647.JPG" width="300" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3TY_yUQ3DE79Lif7UkxfVt5C_zPHuZzCmPu_ueun-YTY4WkDRVHrXzyB7JqEpjrhI3KuAFolbdmh2XNLRzFbynPGh9_OTDro5CcT9pc511-H5wM9QM1dlwmPXZFfvqtV95lLrDs0vQc/w300-h400/IMG_2648.JPG" width="300" /></div><span style="color: #38761d;"><div style="text-align: center;">decided to bring this group together for games night cause we haven't been able to see each other much at work this year with the new working from home situation and it was so much fun! we seriously laughed so much my head started to hurt haha. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3B2ocP1BydbW0sRaXUNw5nSjxqGsEh_P7VA5iSRX_6X1MB8IeDOH1dz5PzgrUW-ttGtfNBGU0HRSkFud7MOdPFOw5MPEQWTywSJZuIr2ufUX_dorCtO1-pPvUTBAhw-QX3SPhS7XGsf8/w300-h400/IMG_2232.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGzI-vad3JSAJ-ZjZ3rEP4t2a_fpzg-eN-f9klLE4_B971yydW1ER2DSFK61mqw8n-I0I1kqbPasVFqCaOaTD5qzx7S3_-nh63DPZkRsKW0XOysshdegHrtVrI1DsNy7_oe9ckd6AhhI/s1600/IMG_2241.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGzI-vad3JSAJ-ZjZ3rEP4t2a_fpzg-eN-f9klLE4_B971yydW1ER2DSFK61mqw8n-I0I1kqbPasVFqCaOaTD5qzx7S3_-nh63DPZkRsKW0XOysshdegHrtVrI1DsNy7_oe9ckd6AhhI/w300-h400/IMG_2241.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">no energy to excavate the dinosaur eggs but will dance for cupcakes hahahaha</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiN8xoPLpaf4PzK6HAwxMOuHRtwfvvWGy_ovcwJNaSDHBs1gIIEmGI_mrkTqAwiMsEmZ4nZamW4kGr-gFE3ol0glAUhvIQ8TBA3qek7vVURxfsvYMMH8iXhHOHqH9ebaJxsB_Sz3CdrsE/s4032/IMG_2245.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiN8xoPLpaf4PzK6HAwxMOuHRtwfvvWGy_ovcwJNaSDHBs1gIIEmGI_mrkTqAwiMsEmZ4nZamW4kGr-gFE3ol0glAUhvIQ8TBA3qek7vVURxfsvYMMH8iXhHOHqH9ebaJxsB_Sz3CdrsE/w400-h300/IMG_2245.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">finally got to try bark cafe - so my dad has been saying he's going to bring us there for a long time (he's brought it up 3 or 4 times already) but it never happened. then one day huai jiao mentioned bark cafe and i was like do not mention this bark cafe, this elusive cafe i've only heard of but have never been to haha. so my dad finally brought us there haha. and i've gotta say, the food is yumsssss. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3426hLOXwAE4ZBBMdqKig59gVGc5OUVnhCj2RcRt3a8e52VtHJimvRcTQKNqTmgSicYAya0H_7T4NlwJ8DLRYUyE9i9C2bO3AP7KA0ocbwV2VPil05cM00LOgoqDSVIlbTVrHoIJBmg/s4032/IMG_2249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn3426hLOXwAE4ZBBMdqKig59gVGc5OUVnhCj2RcRt3a8e52VtHJimvRcTQKNqTmgSicYAya0H_7T4NlwJ8DLRYUyE9i9C2bO3AP7KA0ocbwV2VPil05cM00LOgoqDSVIlbTVrHoIJBmg/w300-h400/IMG_2249.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">watches are my favorite type of gift! look at the pretty lavender color</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6U1rqeCgE9ZBsa038s-R6I0YSyd_wn1MHzQbhWfwsVFbzlIsoOnQlJsP5-35N67vuI_xYJG9Aou-eNBVsDpCddC-4nS6dSfKSBbOBDb39GaTxXW9p65-jDcdyKy6qCvi9G3RRmY4_a00/s4032/IMG_2247.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6U1rqeCgE9ZBsa038s-R6I0YSyd_wn1MHzQbhWfwsVFbzlIsoOnQlJsP5-35N67vuI_xYJG9Aou-eNBVsDpCddC-4nS6dSfKSBbOBDb39GaTxXW9p65-jDcdyKy6qCvi9G3RRmY4_a00/w300-h400/IMG_2247.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">another one of my favorite Christmas gifts. RYAN. AHH. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy3RiKUyRauAcvKnY87E0wq2VJYfieI6vn00OVCCt7oecltI67tjlXVeUl1U6pUwFaRPcMs5Vbp-97UovD3FA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">cheers to Phase 3!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZcZffaZtN1yKu_dsWUeQwxpxPyxgiZFDAkVxPbel6Cup66ilZAl6kjqO0hcX69bUu_nxME-Qh39wNiRTLCt8WOBxGanBBC0-h8W-xTmGuJTsphwAWvlAB_Z87EUrHV1_S_2FAYMGcP8w/s3088/IMG_2254.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZcZffaZtN1yKu_dsWUeQwxpxPyxgiZFDAkVxPbel6Cup66ilZAl6kjqO0hcX69bUu_nxME-Qh39wNiRTLCt8WOBxGanBBC0-h8W-xTmGuJTsphwAWvlAB_Z87EUrHV1_S_2FAYMGcP8w/w300-h400/IMG_2254.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">we can finally gather in groups of 8! the very first day of Phase 3 we got together for kbbq and somehow ended up at NTUC for grocery shopping after dinner haha.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfc-k6I2POJW8GNjvz5PMwqBQqQp6dAcNjr7EkagzFAU56xDhsY8frVOMI2Nhyphenhyphenujb6PFa0-smJ2Mgimty-Z0R9mijo52wzGO4I3K_omC1ol7PZ4I2HGn3cSuS9HO3RCWu9hhZWazmEK5o/s4032/IMG_2272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfc-k6I2POJW8GNjvz5PMwqBQqQp6dAcNjr7EkagzFAU56xDhsY8frVOMI2Nhyphenhyphenujb6PFa0-smJ2Mgimty-Z0R9mijo52wzGO4I3K_omC1ol7PZ4I2HGn3cSuS9HO3RCWu9hhZWazmEK5o/w640-h480/IMG_2272.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">ending the year with a bang with shu's housewarming party! loved the way she did her new home - a lot of personality :) i can't believe we stayed up till 4am when we all had to wake up for work the next day. what a good session. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #38761d; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuE9kaHCaFSkP9TOsb-oLF5JQxtBIH9_Q0EDswTOZpq6Xh8odF57GIZgnrsStVVotFsN_Jq0-y9vY2FXnyWLJV7sNLIkErRfDUgLdQXM83NSVBmttdXhTf5vodpm25AqO6uV1ruZm75Q/s4032/IMG_2257.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuE9kaHCaFSkP9TOsb-oLF5JQxtBIH9_Q0EDswTOZpq6Xh8odF57GIZgnrsStVVotFsN_Jq0-y9vY2FXnyWLJV7sNLIkErRfDUgLdQXM83NSVBmttdXhTf5vodpm25AqO6uV1ruZm75Q/w300-h400/IMG_2257.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;">featuring shu's yummy homecooked mushroom soup!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #38761d; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TMRFuKIzD65_JPwlOhpC9Qd4PJsP1tIpsCGJ9_C4ufR4zt2_Tf45eHqcfQlovpim60qvLYa-sPvQjA8JfgnBSoyLUlLn1Ht9c98FDa0u4o2J1ZHBY1vMAJNI4BKSAgFgmnLlPcg8sh8/s4032/IMG_2270.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TMRFuKIzD65_JPwlOhpC9Qd4PJsP1tIpsCGJ9_C4ufR4zt2_Tf45eHqcfQlovpim60qvLYa-sPvQjA8JfgnBSoyLUlLn1Ht9c98FDa0u4o2J1ZHBY1vMAJNI4BKSAgFgmnLlPcg8sh8/w640-h480/IMG_2270.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;">and then we all died laughing playing just dance</div><div style="color: #38761d; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000;">and there you have it, 2020 wrapped. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000;">wishing everyone a happy new year - hope everyone is staying safe indoors in small groups.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo, C</span></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-21031978230301791952020-11-08T06:26:00.002-08:002020-12-19T21:59:02.224-08:00Q3 and more 2020; <p><span style="color: #351c75;">am really loving this faux winter that we're having in Singapore - that cold air, me under my blanket watching Christmas movies, etc. has really helped me really get in the holiday mood.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">this year is just such a weird year because there's like nothing to look forward to so it's been hard to feel the holiday spirit even though it's the end of the year.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">but i've been starting to schedule out my different Christmas/end of the year gatherings and am slowly getting excited.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">now i just need my Disney Christmas cards to get here so i can start my yearly holiday tradition!</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">i don't know if it's the cold weather or the U.S. presidential elections or the miserable work days but i've been missing my U.S. days haha and so i decided it's time to update my friends on my life - so i'm finally getting down to blogging since that's my way of keeping people across the world updated haha.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">well, i have four months worth of content so where shall i start haha.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">looking through my photos, i realised that life has actually been quite quiet haha.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">there's a certain pattern comprising of birthday celebrations, a new monthly mental health day with a few of my coworkers, and the small gatherings with my favorite groups of friends.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">it's simple, stable and steady - good for my soul that likes predictability and plans. </span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">i haven't been baking as much but i still do make my go-to pandan cake every few weeks haha.</span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">i've started reading a lot again - there were weeks when i was finishing a book a day and then i had to make myself slow down cause my books weren't getting delivered fast enough haha. </span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">my favorite so far has definitely been "before the coffee gets cold" - it's about a cafe that allows people to travel back to the past one time for a short amount of time (they have to drink the coffee to return to the present, before it gets cold). one thing though, nothing they do in the past will change what happens in the present - so you can't go back to necessarily fix something you regret/don't like in the present. it's super interesting to read though how each trip changes the attitude of each person - that although the present day challenges they have to face when they return don't change, they find this renewed strength/perspective to face them. it's a really good read and a great reminder for us that our attitude in life can hold such power. i highly recommend it if you're looking for something to read. </span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">i've also found new motivation to start editing all my GoPro footage from like trips and events last year haha. and it's been fun! i realised that for those from like a weekend of events, they are really quick to edit - takes about 2-3 hours. the travel ones take a little longer cause there's a week or more of footage to sieve through and plan out the storyline. but it's been nice to relive the memories. </span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">i also looked through my photo bank from 2013-2018 recently (was looking for photos for my little sister's birthday post) and it was so good to look back at some of my favorite moments over the years - i should look through my photos more often. it's like we take the photos and we forget about them after. but i'm so glad they exist. it reminded me that despite frigid cold winters and being so far away from home, i still had lots of fun doing things on the weekends, enjoying Black Friday shopping, Christmas lights, hanging with friends, long weekend trips, etc. </span></p><p><span style="color: #351c75;">aren't i just a sappy little person this weekend haha. well, let's look at the photos from the past few months. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1uSkVOd1PZHiVdwUhDLaFVYIA-OlT-Z5CzCU-R1hNN0FKWCdn3Y-bNttjGHMMmpp6OKiRs5ctZ-6jVh2XKIwbsUXobACJLclpOtA1Y4cwh177RGQt5nXn2MBmMlRUfaxax0gljGfs2A/s3088/IMG_0144.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo1uSkVOd1PZHiVdwUhDLaFVYIA-OlT-Z5CzCU-R1hNN0FKWCdn3Y-bNttjGHMMmpp6OKiRs5ctZ-6jVh2XKIwbsUXobACJLclpOtA1Y4cwh177RGQt5nXn2MBmMlRUfaxax0gljGfs2A/w300-h400/IMG_0144.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; text-align: left;">first movie theatre experience after the circuit breaker/lockdown and we had the whole theatre to ourselves - also the start of our monthly mental health days</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigo_HkutWS4F7wwN0_Pfg2o5_dMh34pVtEGK7uwb_66z24FUHdWMYG98FNTLh1DD4x1y1E4lBF0EEBdjWVJAKBxUTIWizoGhIqFj75Y1o2XgKDl7j8qho_jDjSu3q1rCoOTG6U5y3QJac/s4032/IMG_0121.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigo_HkutWS4F7wwN0_Pfg2o5_dMh34pVtEGK7uwb_66z24FUHdWMYG98FNTLh1DD4x1y1E4lBF0EEBdjWVJAKBxUTIWizoGhIqFj75Y1o2XgKDl7j8qho_jDjSu3q1rCoOTG6U5y3QJac/w300-h400/IMG_0121.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">loved baking this in july - buttery garlic milk bread rolls that were so soft and fragrant</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFJEXyNkUwYtn8RDst56h1zXZydsHtweOW1yFksmijNpsNgjj_VUhlMO7gFQJdHdpaCkUfMLppEo-vtWP5qJ1KYOQkkVkyaNzr5-sKf1Fzskjw8nThlKBKleU91mn_PIuSNQM2hD791pw/s4032/IMG_0414.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFJEXyNkUwYtn8RDst56h1zXZydsHtweOW1yFksmijNpsNgjj_VUhlMO7gFQJdHdpaCkUfMLppEo-vtWP5qJ1KYOQkkVkyaNzr5-sKf1Fzskjw8nThlKBKleU91mn_PIuSNQM2hD791pw/w640-h480/IMG_0414.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">finally got to visit wai's new house and check out that beautiful view</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDccK2wkNnIQzV-xMMHtgT9jSgZczhrPtVB6hruO-_BJ8Y0EOyS__0j6YLjmlkFkjyqVfPfFJC4qzjmrzy-7_zXSSmDXO4fhqU01CW7WcpQRca1wC-HkeRvChs_VOm4M2H6ot3RgQnYw/s3840/16CFE06B-58F6-4452-9C4E-A96B409127D8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDccK2wkNnIQzV-xMMHtgT9jSgZczhrPtVB6hruO-_BJ8Y0EOyS__0j6YLjmlkFkjyqVfPfFJC4qzjmrzy-7_zXSSmDXO4fhqU01CW7WcpQRca1wC-HkeRvChs_VOm4M2H6ot3RgQnYw/w400-h225/16CFE06B-58F6-4452-9C4E-A96B409127D8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">bought a new mattress for my bed!! another 10 years more before i have to buy another one haha. this means that if i get married in the next 10 years, my husband will need to bring his own single mattress and we will combine two mattresses into one bed for our married home haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIQAoYt93bGZ7rjdn2lFTrXwoNceXEyfxJIgl5LqC5SPpuiNXBgsJWdydF5dKfrCvSEt9b8gCDZnbz9RWtribRXAGQkinP-WjgSeKiPEQnTNI-HI4FDz-lr9_UzpZJye31GzuldOj_I0/s4032/IMG_0485.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijIQAoYt93bGZ7rjdn2lFTrXwoNceXEyfxJIgl5LqC5SPpuiNXBgsJWdydF5dKfrCvSEt9b8gCDZnbz9RWtribRXAGQkinP-WjgSeKiPEQnTNI-HI4FDz-lr9_UzpZJye31GzuldOj_I0/w400-h300/IMG_0485.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">celebrated national day with a buffet at shangri-la</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQh8aU8qx1YBy1Nzl1010MMg8IEcCNVVcWhHtLJGmgziKykiYki3_7kvXVUEJoV9Wbb-anbWQFy3BJ4zisj5oK7OGa5u1H_NysiNOwo7R0btgS_fwNO92C7qln0eGfqWhyk_5y20Bu5d8/s4032/IMG_0508.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQh8aU8qx1YBy1Nzl1010MMg8IEcCNVVcWhHtLJGmgziKykiYki3_7kvXVUEJoV9Wbb-anbWQFy3BJ4zisj5oK7OGa5u1H_NysiNOwo7R0btgS_fwNO92C7qln0eGfqWhyk_5y20Bu5d8/w640-h480/IMG_0508.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">was a nice long national day weekend with many gatherings packed in - here we are being patriotic, decked out in Singapore colors and with our Singapore masks haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01MarrXnNioaH7nJaNb9_QkuSQAMhY2sXwQeHUeurP7aVBAuYcNYyQV18Pp2crHlXCxWhU-nbBSSFDrWGhpMKlYFwi5xz2hmwvNDjwkEF1QrwtVs6I25l_NIVN3XMT5L9mqsI5ZhiN_E/s4032/IMG_0432.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg01MarrXnNioaH7nJaNb9_QkuSQAMhY2sXwQeHUeurP7aVBAuYcNYyQV18Pp2crHlXCxWhU-nbBSSFDrWGhpMKlYFwi5xz2hmwvNDjwkEF1QrwtVs6I25l_NIVN3XMT5L9mqsI5ZhiN_E/w300-h400/IMG_0432.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">had to include this photo cause of the back story behind it - we arranged for a gathering to talk about how we're all feeling really burned out at work and guess what happened, we ended up working omg haha. by the time we actually started the real conversation about the action plan for tackling the work fatigue, it was like 11pm boo haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo-azyhU_IA2D6J4P4ieZZjqkEco6c9npaGNaTAUoZBk1-9bPdZOOtf0CZrswaFrNx106ZehyAMksUN44_cj1BW_MTy0Rs7znzKnFdyQuf8MNDswB-GEEdo7nQU2OOtKXRVfHT_fYvPp0/w300-h400/IMG_0470.JPG" width="300" /></a></div></div></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">a random saturday fulfilling our Genki sushi cravings haha</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhATwPSEM885cXH71qFaKJhGLIbz26-OxgDNCsSId6VE8q5OJfjJu5u2uEyzk9mX7vSJSzoVRDrDoPMkW56mvAOAM05gwWWxXtZsoUcwNqPhtfgATIgp3gLnS0z3onlhFkc10XEXy9nW-I/w300-h400/IMG_0526.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi398qYRaNGUOfmuVIPIidQkux_lT47S0uPpjGJBTH5qkLawIUo1a7wnQTxcqcr01IBRAAUbX3Vm3N5ll2KYPSq9hPnXg9nBBEBr1b8Lyi6DQXsxkB0w1odWXe2ID6ObXG2bQAUtnU518/s4032/IMG_1347.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">cooked tteokbokki and kimchi pancake to fulfill a random craving</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJVIvq-OY6fT1aI7AoJNOEp5E3-vctEuR-45yuYGcPseVRHNOF0DMnu5zzhVADK3RLFY7rQYuQtx9ru_FGzhXeO7VadxReFhaWuOPysdT5GDano6CHoHiaQOsfg1TJXgeBqc1f4w6iZQ/s3088/IMG_0905.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJVIvq-OY6fT1aI7AoJNOEp5E3-vctEuR-45yuYGcPseVRHNOF0DMnu5zzhVADK3RLFY7rQYuQtx9ru_FGzhXeO7VadxReFhaWuOPysdT5GDano6CHoHiaQOsfg1TJXgeBqc1f4w6iZQ/w300-h400/IMG_0905.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">watched Mulan and loved it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrNMH6iJYUOeWVZl7txdp0Q5PrprByGFohA0hhB91XjO45wMdlZIakQsJQ4uEljkEqx-2oWpek0xbxYppYCrFZBLAck7zthg7_ZxmyGxytvnBHs9CdEMIegSeSoReoeFbEaTsnIhyVMg/s4032/IMG_0961.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIrNMH6iJYUOeWVZl7txdp0Q5PrprByGFohA0hhB91XjO45wMdlZIakQsJQ4uEljkEqx-2oWpek0xbxYppYCrFZBLAck7zthg7_ZxmyGxytvnBHs9CdEMIegSeSoReoeFbEaTsnIhyVMg/w640-h480/IMG_0961.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">celebrated wan ping's birthday</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOR7TQUZH8jHv0ODmpPl-muxIwhOwXBHNXKbRh-WJefG3kd9d4BjENVfQVqcidxLP6vD0hvKq_48HE-aVyVKst0IF6VEcSFY-ewAYjnm4YvGulMLwbh9vj3zkSFF83cb9Ves0a3MUMPo/w300-h400/IMG_0969.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjEFCL4B4upHVtr3qA_V6yTfg2480Nh4gNDSaKcK882egMDuYcYWI7xwjB2H3JWK9mGRaM_3CSF5oxPg1aeYTPLwwk02lYv7V89lEK7ARBiMkByBsIsbg3RYPhWOwnbrH1h7LgfF2WJYw/s4032/IMG_0970.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWQWEpK4n05LMmJ1_-dZX06m7cFo6loi7sarSjt_231G-TIbPbtNabzOur_qHQzNfRt58et6fUp_TMR6ImSHWWmH0xhtobVSmNUY9EQReWvegut_iygk-rglgTn-N_i-jIUUL3Xtdx_o/s1600/IMG_1226.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWQWEpK4n05LMmJ1_-dZX06m7cFo6loi7sarSjt_231G-TIbPbtNabzOur_qHQzNfRt58et6fUp_TMR6ImSHWWmH0xhtobVSmNUY9EQReWvegut_iygk-rglgTn-N_i-jIUUL3Xtdx_o/w480-h640/IMG_1226.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">the boys and their birthday presents - they turned 4 and 7. kids grow up so fast!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhjEFHPm73TOAnnuLJ5cSPCA8SKM2eXyWKAWdaXfR7OZ7wCfy25Hv7ugSQg8l2OI83mCvl3K1ngTiYZD72tO2qu_tsRlNSu14kIYMCkQk07cMRU-2vmECdF1qoLk7eRA_ZIhuEWCFqg4/w300-h400/IMG_1326.JPG" width="300" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheI9JfWcN1N1VCgmac9NliPYPc9q9dlo-A8DxxYg43AVVvzFWnQJmUI_FAsRoySx7_RiOCwhMudZOINVoFjLlK8Q8jZNSA2P9VUsogQVgrrxY9dfImH0I1C9LTc5hd3lxBe8PCS8p5bXM/s4032/IMG_1327.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGUefkxXgGUC6Mv60B34pFYvp8TqnbYA1AcubMVs6eeuWJObe-JR30gNhTVd9K6_7SDa223YP2mYBjOZZLE8bX1CWQ46hE_kAl8I0dKDII8wbssnqntvY7odWpLGYsQnJRE0Zc8rFz88/s4032/IMG_1330.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGUefkxXgGUC6Mv60B34pFYvp8TqnbYA1AcubMVs6eeuWJObe-JR30gNhTVd9K6_7SDa223YP2mYBjOZZLE8bX1CWQ46hE_kAl8I0dKDII8wbssnqntvY7odWpLGYsQnJRE0Zc8rFz88/w640-h480/IMG_1330.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79;">16 years of celebrating each other's birthdays :)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxx5hL2QT28klwWPIVL79-lb17K4ThDb9cjUm5rtRoPA5uJ7nM7_ao29k4Hsatnf3Gockuk2IVyXcGw4uLqN6fsR0xMHHjQd0GxtNHlBbo-6zGD2KFoBL9Tyn-rTBSGGEwEEr3OkHFQwk/s4032/IMG_1336.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><span style="color: #351c75;">at least i will get to have a real Christmas this year (refer to my <a href="https://charlotte-chen.blogspot.com/2019/12/q4-2019.html" target="_blank">end of year blog post last year</a> for how sad i was about my Christmas season cause i was so tied up at work) and hopefully things slow down in december. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #351c75;">till then, you can find me writing my holiday cards, editing videos, reading books, celebrating more birthdays, putting up my Christmas tree, listening to Christmas music and hoping the cool weather stays for a bit more.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">xoxo,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">C</span></div></div>charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-44003971861503927102020-07-07T09:12:00.000-07:002020-07-07T09:12:19.189-07:00Q2 2020;<span style="color: purple;">work, exercise, watch shows, dream of the weekend repeat.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i feel like that's become my life now. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and then on the weekends it's yay it's the weekend, let's bake, roll around and then the next thing you know it's sunday night and you feel depressed haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">don't get me wrong, i'm loving not having to commute, having time to go outside for a run while it's still light out, having time to bake everything i want to try, etc.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">but a little part of me just feels trapped and gloomy - like there's nothing really to look forward to this year. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">work is still just as busy and with the whole wfh situation, there are no distinct boundaries between work and home and also, suddenly it's like oh we just keep working late into the night cause there's no need to stop to go home. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and then after the weekends where you've spent a lot of time just lazing around at home, you wake up on monday morning and your brain associates your room with more lazing around and your body doesn't want to move to actually start work.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i've found that i have a much harder time getting up for work now even though i sleep more, can wake up later and my commute is literally less than 5 steps to my desk haha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">i guess now that we're in phase 2, things are definitely much better cause we get to eat out and also have small social gatherings with friends.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i'm still being super cautious but it seems like the rest of Singapore isn't, seeing that there's been a rise in the community cases sigh.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">why are people so selfish and why do they never learn? boo</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">anyway, apologies for the lack of an update even though i've literally had lots of time on my hands haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">you know, i feel like after moving back to Singapore and since being in this job, i've had less confidence to write. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">in my previous job, i had a lot of freedom and a lot of times my work didn't even have to clear my boss and i would just send it to my client.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i worked very independently on certain things and very cohesively with the other teams (creative team, media planning/content team, PR team) when doing our campaigns for our clients. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i was confident in bringing up my ideas and thoughts, and always felt confident about my work. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">but ever since moving back to Singapore, the work culture is very different and in my current job one piece of work i do has to go through at least two levels of clearance and sometimes has to go through at least 5 levels of clearance.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and at the end of it, it might have changed so much that i don't recognise the piece of work anymore. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and i think sometimes the thought of it all makes me less confident about my work/writing and for certain things, i've even developed a phobia of having to do them cause i know it will be thrown back many times and i have to redo and redo and redo. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">yes, i do recognise that sometimes it may not be me and that it may be several other reasons but i've got to say that it is a very different environment from what i'm used to. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">but anyway, i've decided that i need to separate work writing feelings and outside of work writing feelings. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">with my blog, it's meant to be a safe space for me to just word vomit and not worry about everything being perfectly written haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">so let's see, what do photos during a lockdown look like?</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">well, a lot of video call screenshots, photos of baking adventures and multiple captures of how far i ran hahahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">introducing my WFH set-up. for those of you who don't know, government-issued laptops have no access to the internet (except for emails) and so i have my work laptop, a monitor, and then my personal laptop (that is SUPER old cause i've had it since i was in college). and then sometimes you'll see my iPad on there too if i feel like taking my Zoom calls on there</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">my first ever Zoom call right when everything started - catching up with Eeli</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">first ever run at the beginning of circuit breaker // my furthest run ever</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">and now i'm so sick of this route haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">first Zoom home workout session with the coworkers</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">first virtual games night with the U.S. friends</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Zoom home workout with the coworkers with the best attendance - after this, they all kept missing sessions such that now i do my tues and thurs home workouts on my own now haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">first virtual codenames session with this group that was so fun we had two codenames sessions that day - one in the afternoon and one at night hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">video call with the ahjummas - omg how was this almost 3 months ago now. ahjummas, we've got to do this again soon</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">codenames game night with the coworkers</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">bunch games night with the cousins - maine even joined us from texas!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">had new people (dearest kristy and edmond) join our U.S. games night</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">first Zoom call with the JC friends</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Zoom call with friday clique - can i just say that i was particularly proud of this hangout cause we had to coordinate across a few different time zones with jess in the US and sam in finland. but we did it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">so as you can see, lots of screen time with friends cause of the whole social distancing haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">but i actually liked that friends across different time zones made a better effort to actually connect since we were all stuck inside anyway haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">also had many baking and cooking adventures.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">at one point i was planning my baking list for each weekend cause i had so many things i wanted to try making haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">melt-in-your-mouth butter cookies</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">sausage pizza bread</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">biscoff swirl banana bread</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">molten chocolate lava cake</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">pandan cake</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">fried sweet potato balls</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">my famous cinnamon rolls haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">red lobster cheddar bay biscuits</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">egg bacon potato spinach cheese breakfast muffins</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">kimchi pork buns</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">milk buns - probably my favorite thing to make cause they're so easy and fluffy and yummy</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">ham mushroom spinach puffs</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">otah puffs</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">one food photo with people in it. all of us were up-ing our cooking skills and sending food photos over our group chat during the circuit breaker period so i was like we have to do a potluck for our first in-person meetup after. thankfully this group was easily persuaded (my friends always insist on ordering in, no one ever wants to potluck unlike the U.S. haha)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">spread from that night - everything was delicious!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">it's also been nice to enjoy pretty skies on my runs and just taking the extra time to enjoy our surroundings</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">apparently we're experiencing prettier skies cause of the better air quality</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">our resident neighborhood cat</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">view from my window on a sunny day</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">changed up my run route one of the nights</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">and now we're in phase 2 and i'm grateful that phase 2 started right before my birthday and i was able to at least enjoy a day out for my birthday:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">dim sum brunch</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">beautiful dried flowers and the sweetest handwritten card from the sweetest coworker</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">grateful that everyone in Singapore wears a mask without fussing</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">seafood feast for my birthday dinner </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">grateful that everyone had the day off and we could celebrate together</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">basque cheesecake from my favorite jc friends</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">bought mahjong tiles and table on my birthday hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">presents from the siblings</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">this is how you practice social distancing when eating in a group of more than 5</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">am i getting old if i'm loving these kinds of gifts haha. the prettiest plates from my group of friends below</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">special shoutout to this group of friends who i feel have absolutely kept me alive during the circuit breaker period with our random daily texts in the group chat, Zoom video calls, game nights, etc. so glad we could finally meet in person last weekend <3</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">and there you go, we're done with the first half of the year omg. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">i can only pray that the next half of the year doesn't get worse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">till then, everyone stay safe and healthy!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">xoxo,</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-87851577082759844922020-03-28T09:57:00.003-07:002020-03-28T09:57:46.232-07:00Q1 2020;<span style="color: #274e13;">i feel like my life went from crazy fast paced in the first two months of the year to life on hold/someone hit the pause button.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">was just re-reading my last two blog posts cause I wanted to reminisce on my travels again and two phrases stuck out to me "i can't wait for march" (cause my big events were both in february) and "who knows what's in store in 2020."</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">omg, well, COVID-19 is what's up and 2020 has been cancelled. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">the news is really quite depressing everyday and i feel like we all fear for our lives everyday. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">but it's quite interesting to see how technology has evolved the way we communicate and has made it possible for life to still go on. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">the only super sian part is not being able to have gatherings and what not of more than 10 people.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">and not being able to see some of your coworkers for at least a month.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">it's funny but we're such a close knit group at work/such a needy division that when they announced the segregation plan (we're split into two teams - one works from home and one works from the office any given week and then we rotate the next), we were like omg we need to have a farewell lunch today haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">and we also had to cancel our next gathering (outside of work) plans cause we're not to mingle with members of the other team even after working hours or on weekends haha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">was planning a staycation with friends and the two of us who are the main people planning were trying to decide who to invite cause of the 10 people limit and it was such a headache cause it's like choosing your favourites out of your friend group - so awkward haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">and then with the slower pace of life now, wanted to take the chance to hang out with my cousins for games night or something but then they came up with the 10 people rule and it's like okayyy nvm then haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">i guess we all just stay home and netflix and catch up on our dramas haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">i've honestly been doing that and now i'm like what else should i watch haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">i've even gone back to watch some of the shows i've watched before and liked previously haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">that's saying a lot cause i'm not really the type to rewatch shows in general hahaha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">well, i guess with all the extra time i have, i decided that i should blog about the first quarter of the year even if i haven't been out much haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">was going through old blog posts cause i was looking for a particular post for reference for a taste test thing i want to do with friends at our staycation.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">i had to go through quite a lot of blog posts cause the blog post i was looking for is all the way back in 2012.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">while doing that i reread a lot of my old blog posts and was reminded of how important it is to record things down. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">i've always been taught since young to record my thoughts and what not by keeping a journal.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">before technology, i was pretty good at keeping physical journals.</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">but over the years i've definitely gotten worse at writing in my physical journal - i still do it from time to time but am definitely not as consistent. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">so blogging has been actually quite good for me cause it's allowed me to capture the memories and thoughts through the years (i first started this blog in jan 2011 - that's like 9 years ago!).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">the year has been flying by so far and as mentioned, the first two months of the year were a real blur cause i was working nonstop and just going crazy. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">but thank goodness for photos to help jog my memory haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">first bakes of the year. i just added a #CHARteraise highlights series on my IG and i realised that a lot of them were cinnamon rolls haha. the #1 request from my coworkers for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">first games night of the year with the jc friends where we played the slowest game ever man haha - have played off track a few times and i think i really don't like it haha. it's not that fun and it just takes forever haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">quickly moved on to our favourite game of all time - telestrations!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">we all died of laughter when this was wai's answer to the above hahahaha - she said she thought it was a cheetah/leopard until she saw the sun and thought that perhaps zhi rong was trying to explain hotdog by drawing the sun hahahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">thanks to sj and ahmad for hosting!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">first enaq meal of the year after gym haha. this looks so good right now haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">finally went to a jay chou concert! loved that he sang so many old songs</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">spent many months working on a couple of videos with these people. coincidentally matched their colour scheme on the day they were filming their department portion for one of the videos haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">how we felt on most of our shoot days under the blazing hot sun haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">5-star service haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">took the day off to hang out with sam while she was in town - it was during my busy months so i was super sad i couldn't hang out with her as much. brought her to eat this yummy goodness at amoy st</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">playing tourist at the airport and introducing my fellow goguma lover to my favourite don don donki goguma milkshake </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">first family dinner of the year - treated the family to yummy peking duck at imperial treasure</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">went to chinatown for our annual CNY walk and it was surprisingly not very crowded at all. didn't feel as festive as i thought it would</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"> this year's reunion dinner spread was much more controlled than previous years so it was just nice with not a lot of leftovers thankfully</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">standard reunion dinner cousins photo</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">introduced my cousins to telestrations and hahahaha there were many funny drawings haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">CNY day one family photo</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">chen sisters reunited</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">annual chen extended family photo</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">chen cousins</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">day two family photo and i was outnumbered by the red packets</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">day three chen extended family photo with ah ber present for bonus. he's the third one from the left at the very back - funny story, he insisted on sitting right at the back cause he said he wants to look smaller. right after the photo was taken and he saw the photo, he was like 'sit at the back still look so big omg' hahahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">we had some hilarious conversations and set up a CMB account for one of my cousins, which was very entertaining as well hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">sam's virgin mala experience! // our first time at heytea!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">even though it was a crazy time, i'm glad we made time to have family dinners and all while sam was in town</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">sisters forever</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">managed to see sam lee and meet her second baby for a bit while she was in town</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">my new fa cai mao flats</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">my blood, sweat and tears</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">family dinner on the last day of CNY</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Airshow prep/taking vitamin C drinks so we don't collapse haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">sam's last sunday in Singapore :(</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">faces of relief after we were done with Airshow haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">the number of photogs we had snapping away at our signing ceremonies was intense haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">rehearsing and rehearsing and rehearsing before the actual ceremony</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">randomly matching with HJ on a casual friday haha - the photo on the left represents our real relationship with each other hahahaha j/k she's the best</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">with church cancelled indefinitely, we decided to take the opportunity to gather together on a sunday for an afternoon of games. before cheryl left for the U.S.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">more hilarious drawings haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">finally tried beauty in a pot and it was quite good! love the yuzu ice that they give you at the end of the meal - we did a fun little cheers haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">went to the disney animation exhibit at the artscience museum and absolutely loved it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">went to gardens by the bay to check out the sakura matsuri</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">checked out the new floral fantasy area while we were there as well</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">was working from home the whole of last week and am back to the baking hehe</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">HJ & i went to the SQ office to cancel our upcoming holidays // i was supposed to go to London in May but that has since been cancelled so since i can't go to the HP studio, i resorted to going to a HP cafe on friday on my day off hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">and that about wraps up the last three months. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">i'm quite impressed at how much i managed to do on a social basis considering that work was so crazy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">i'm really glad that work is a little slower now/back to normal and am really grateful that i have a govt job cause it's really a stable job especially during times like these. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">really sad that there will probably no trips out of the country this year but hopefully we all find joy in the little things we have and figure out how to have fun still amidst the new norm. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">was planning the staycation and we were all getting so excited over the taste test that one of my friends was like, 'can we do this earlier? i'm getting so excited' haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">guess we can still find excitement in the small things and make our own fun. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">hoping my next update here will be less dreary and that the situation will be much better then.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">xoxo,</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-83097109145888776352019-12-29T07:45:00.000-08:002019-12-29T07:51:23.826-08:00Q4 2019;<span style="color: purple;">two blog posts in two days.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">even i want to clap for myself haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">guess i just didn't want to leave things unblogged about going into the new year haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">can i just say that the last quarter of the year has been really challenging.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">what happened to good luck this year for dragon babies?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">the end of the year is usually our busy season with lots of events and i remember working many long nights leading up to my Nov event last year but this year feels different. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">this year i'm still slogging away cause my big events are both in Feb.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and so there goes my holiday season. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i went last minute Christmas shopping the last Saturday before Christmas and as i was walking through Orchard Road and soaking in the festive spirit, i felt a tinge of sadness come over me because i had the whole Dec to soak it all in but i was busy working and didn't even have time to take it all in.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and then it's over now and i have to wait till next year now.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i just find it sad that sometimes in life we get caught up with the busy things in life that are very much temporal and don't put our focus on the more important things in life.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">but at the same time, work needs to be done but maybe a job that works you to the core is not the right job? i don't know. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and sometimes you put in 150% and your work is not even appreciated.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">or you lose your focus at work and can't seem to be strategic about your work. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">then what is the point?</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">anyway, decided that i needed some balance in my life so i've been trying to take it easy at work the past two weeks.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">instead of working till super late, i decided to leave work on time so i could meet up with friends before the year is over or catch up on movies that i'm behind on.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and it's amazing how it recharges the soul. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">a few more days to kind of take it easy and then the new year will be here and somehow i feel like i will have to get back into intense mode sigh. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i've never felt this depressed going into the new year haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">sam is coming home in Jan and there's chinese new year in Jan.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">but all i can think of is how much i'll be drowning at work in Jan prepping for my events.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i can't wait till March!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">anyway, looking back at my photos, November was a pretty good month and i even got to take a trip out of Singapore!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">went to Korea with my mom and sister and man, Korea is always a good idea!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">hadn't been back since 2017 so it was nice to be back.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and this time, i finally made it there in the fall so i was super excited!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">now i can say that i've experienced Korea in all four seasons and honestly, autumn is the best. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">always the first drink i drink after landing in Korea haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">isaac toast in Korea tastes so much better</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">made our own name stamps at Insadong</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">final products!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">really loved walking around Ssamzigil and shopping at all the local shops - this is what Design Orchard in Singapore should be like</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">our favorite mandoo from Bukchon Sonmandu</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">ate our way through Myeongdong</span> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">my favorite injeolmi bingsoo from sulbing</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">best buy my whole Korea trip haha - this is so fluffy and warm haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">pancake overload at our favorite jeon alley</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">i always make it a point to do one of the free guided walking tours by Visit Seoul cause there's so much to learn about Korea's history</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">with our lovely tour guide</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">fall in all its glory from the jeondong observatory (it's free to go up!) where you can view a mix of modern and historic buildings</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">seasonal milk flavor that i fell in love with - sweet potato pumpkin!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">if you know me well, you'll know that i'm a huge running man fan so when i heard that they opened a running man thematic experience, i had to go!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">they give you an electronic wristband that you have to scan at different stations and complete missions to collect points. it was actually quite the workout but really fun too!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">inside the maze - the whole thing was actually pretty well done for such a small space</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">i had fun and would totally do it again!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">so pretty!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">this mission was really hard - you have to hang in this position for a minute</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">love this show so much haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">we always make sure to make a trip to gwangjang market cause there's so much to eat</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">one of the highlights of our trip was definitely meeting up with Bishop Yoo!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">we always visit Namsan Tower almost every trip and every time i go there i wonder why hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">sunset to night is always my favorite time of the day</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">went for the hello kitty island thing at Namsan this time and it was underwhelming haha but it was pretty - especially this wall of flowers</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">N Seoul Tower in Christmas colors</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">love adding cheese to my ramyun</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">went to the seoul lantern festival and from far my sister was like, "is that bananas in pyjamas?" haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">pretty lighted signs on the walls as you walk along the stream where the lanterns were</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">joined the locals to make our own wish boats</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">i wished for good health, awesome bonus and many vacations hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">it was a fun experience and there were a lot of couples on dates there since it was 11.11.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">took a day trip to Jeonju where the fall leaves were beautiful!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Jeonju is famous for their bibimbap!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">made my sister wear hanboks with me haha - i just love how pretty they are</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">had to go visit ryan while we were in Korea haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">was looking through my Korea photos and laughed out loud when i saw this - why am i so dramatic?</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">was so tempted to buy this but the thing came as a set, together with the comforter</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">our amazing feast with the Yoos - the table was constantly full and the waitress kept telling us to eat up so she could bring more food in hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Bishop Yoo was so swift and was already in the car waiting for us so we only got to take a photo with Kristy hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">took another day trip out of the city - this time to Gangneung. the leaves along the way were so pretty!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">always eating haha - had the yummiest sweet potato croquette from one of the markets in gangneung</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">the beach was really pretty! albeit super cold</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">super windy!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">famous spot at jumunjin beach where they filmed a scene for goblin - i stood there for awhile for the first photo cause my mother insisted we should wait for the water to come up (i could have gotten wet! have to say though that the photo looks great) to take the photo. and then when it was her turn (second photo), look what she did when the water started coming in hahahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">it's this scene - for your reference</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">also went to some famous bus-stop where they filmed some BTS MV</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">driving back into the city</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">it actually rained quite a bit while we were there so one of the days we just hid at the coex mall where they have this beautiful library</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">this egg toast from egg drop is super yum</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">my mom's must eat from namdaemun each time we go to Korea. also, namdaemun has changed quite a bit and there's actually quite a lot of shopping to do there now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">met up with joon while we were in Korea too - what a coincidence that he had just moved there around the time we were there </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">went to the ewha area to shop and the leaves around the campus were gorgeous!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">that contrast of the changing leaves <3</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">hands down my favorite meal in Korea always</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">was talking to BJ recently and he was like 'you seem to have a lot of weddings to attend'</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">and actually, i haven't attended a lot this year but there are lots of hen's nights and what not looped in so i guess it just looks like a lot of wedding-related stuff haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">this team here (including the bride hahaha) did all the decorations haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">we had wayyy too much food for 8 people</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">bride tribe</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">if you ever book a suite for a hen's night, don't ever book hotel jen tanglin cause the room walls are so thin and it was very painful trying to keep the volume down. i highly recommend the suites at andaz instead. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">SJ's pretty wedding at Hort Park - with the jc friends</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">after party at a wine bar at duxton - with the coworkers</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">one of my favorite moments of the after party haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">at the ward Christmas party with this monkey boy</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">cute Cassius' 100-day celebration</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">sooo cute!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">friday clique Christmas gathering with many people missing haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Christmas gathering at SJ's with the coworkers - random photo props courtesy of Pei Yong</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">start of the intense secret santa game haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">many funny moments hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">always so much fun with these coworkers of mine</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">congrats wai & zhi rong!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Christmas dinner with the dancers</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">anything for the presents hahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Christmas Eve family gathering</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">gift exchange with my favorite cousins</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">everyone super entertained by the toilet flush game haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">unwrap the presents with the oven mitts game that was good for all ages</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">Christmas log cake from Flor Patisserie that was soooo yummy!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">visiting ah po on Christmas Day!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">our super full Christmas tree :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">and just like that, we're done fot the year. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">here's hoping 2020 and the next decade will be kind to me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">in the meantime, i'll be planning my vacations for next year (finally have new destinations on my list - london and bhutan) to tide me through the upcoming busy months!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">happy new year everyone!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">xoxo,</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-83019129134646137392019-12-27T22:16:00.000-08:002019-12-27T23:48:19.722-08:00familiarity; <span style="color: blue;">i've been meaning to blog for months...</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">but you know, life haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">my coworkers and i were talking the other day and one of my coworkers was like "char, don't you have a blog?" </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">and i was like "err yes but i haven't updated it in a long time"</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">so here i am, trying to catch up before the year is over. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">have been meaning to blog about my U.S. trip in September for awhile now. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">that marked my first trip back to the U.S. since moving home last May.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">we spent most of the trip in NYC and DC, and then just a few days in Utah to see old friends. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">as we were vacationing in NYC and DC, we were having so much fun and as the days came nearer to the time to go to Utah, i started thinking "oh man, i wish we planned for more time to play elsewhere outside of Utah" and i wasn't really looking forward to going to Utah.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">but i'm so glad we did cause Utah was everything i needed. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">in Utah, i didn't feel like we had to have a strict agenda everyday (cause we didn't need to rush to see things) so it was more relaxing.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">it was also very familiar and we got to hang out with some of our favorite people.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">and i got to sleep on my old bed and hang out in my old apt hahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">it was such a good trip and i was really really sad at the end when we had to come home.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">in fact, i seriously contemplated not coming home hahahaha. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i realized that when i'm in the U.S., i feel a lot more in control. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">maybe it's cause i lived there without my parents and so i had to figure things out on my own - where to buy a car, where to do my grocery shopping, where to get my heels repaired, where to get this and where to get that, etc. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i knew exactly where to go to get things or get things done.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">as sad as it sounds, in Singapore, i feel like we're spoiled and more reliant on our parents to help us get things done or tell us where to go for things, etc. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">now that i'm back in Singapore, if i don't know something, i just ask my parents instead of trying to figure it out on my own.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">there's something about that independence while away from home that makes me feel like i know what i'm doing in my life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">anyway, enough of that cause that time of my life is past now haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">on to sharing happy photos from the trip that i've stored for months waiting to blog and share haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">travelled in premium economy on the nonstop flight to NYC and i highly recommend the single seaters cause you get your own storage compartment all to yourself and it's super spacious!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">doughnut plant!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">tried this new korean place (new to us cause we usually just go to the same few korean restaurants we're familiar with) called Yoon Haeundae Galbi (8 W 36th St) and that pancake you see in the photo? looks super normal but omg it was amazing! all the other dishes we ordered were really yummy too! if you ever get the chance to try it, go at lunchtime cause they have really good lunch specials!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">a set like this only cost $18. you get your meat and then also a stew!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">pam & ko invited us over for a homecooked meal and look at everything they prepared!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">we were so spoiled to have Ko 오빠 cook his famous 부대찌개 for us! it was soooo yummy. in fact, all the other dishes were amazing too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">we are so blessed to have this cute family as our friends (thankful to catch up with Kristy too!) and i love hanging out with them in NYC every time we're in town! big bonus that we finally got to meet Ethan this trip too! he's sooooo cute and smart!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">watched the most amazing Broadway show ever while we were there - Harry Potter & the Cursed Child! i was excited cause i'm a Potterhead but they really really exceeded my expectations. it was sooooo good! i would totally watch it again! definitely one of my top 3 all time favorite musicals</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">reunited as a family of five after two days with just us three playing. ate at maison pickle and omg the portions are hugeeee hahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">the bread with honey butter was super yum!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">my mom never knows where to look when we're taking photos hahahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">had our annual family photos taken at a new park (domino park) in brooklyn built on the site of a former sugar refinery</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">finally got to try veselka (144 2nd Ave) and it was yummm</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">can't go to NYC and not eat my favorite waffle from wafels and dinges! there was a kiosk right outside the subway on our way home anyway haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the color factory was by far my favorite family activity that we did in NYC cause the different exhibits were just fun and the interactivity of everything was just amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">free macaron at the beginning, after the free mochi haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">went and checked out the vessel at hudson yards since it's one of the latest additions to the city and it was cool but kind of a useless structure in my opinion haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">us in front of the structure</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">i've walked the high line many times but i never get sick of this view</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">i've been to the top of the rock so many times but i still really love the view from up there as well</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">2015 versus 2019</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">i've been wanting to try the row boats at central park for yearssss and we finally did it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">favorite park in the world</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">loved jumping around in my favorite city haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">favorite cookie!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">brought the fam around the financial district</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the famous fearless girl statue</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">this trump lookalike was really good haha - his sign says mexican wall fund if you can't see</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">hanging around brooklyn bridge park</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">favorite city skyline viewed from the brooklyn bridge!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">happened to be in town the same time that Blair was back home so we got to get cupcakes together!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">headed to eastern market our first morning in DC cause i heard lots about the blueberry buckwheat pancakes at market lunch</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and omg, don't let the normal looking pancakes fool you, these were amazing! when we were ordering the guy tried to get us to get a full stack instead of a short stack cause he was confident that his pancakes are that good. but we saw the size of the pancakes and were like no i think we're good cause we ordered a crab cake and grits and eggs too. and omg i regret that decision so much to this day. i loved every single bite of that pancake!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">so many cute dogs everywhere</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">back to just the three of us. my parents headed to the US earlier and were on a one-week Alaska cruise before meeting up with us in NYC so they headed home after NYC </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">my favorite burger place in the US. people are always choosing between shake shack and in and out, but for me, i choose good stuff eatery haha. that toasted marshmallow milkshake... yummm. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the Washington national cathedral was gorgeous!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">luke's lobster is always a must for me</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">we stayed at the Mayflower Hotel while we were there and it's really pretty! it has a lot of history behind it as well as it was where many presidents' inaugural balls were held.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Utah</span></h2>
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<span style="color: blue;">our second night in Utah was probably my favorite because of these people. i didn't tell the Dodge brothers we were going to be in town cause i wanted to surprise them. and so along with our accomplices Tracy and Sam, we managed to get both the brothers at the same restaurant and then we appeared! and at first i thought they would have guessed it/suspected but the moment i saw the look on their faces, i knew we had succeeded hahaha. my only regret is not capturing it on camera haha. we had dinner and caught up and then headed back to sam's apt for games and dessert from our favorite dessert place Gourmandise</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">special shout-out to Jason cause he drove 4 hours to and fro (that's 8 hours total!) just so we could hang out for the night - it was a work night so he had to drive back early in the morning for work. true friend right there!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">caught up with my favorite ahjummas over korean food and man, these girls are really the best and i was so sad we only had a few hours to catch up over dinner. ahjummas trip next year okay?</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">stopped by my old workplace to say hi to my favorite boss of all time. and man, parking in that carpark and walking in those doors... all the feels! it felt so familiar! and it was hilarious cause one of the first few people i saw when i walked in was our digital tech guy Tyson and he was like 'what' and then was like 'i'll be up in a minute to set up your computer' hahahaha. just love the people there soooo much! it was fun to go around the office and see everyone's shocked faces hahaha. so great! some of their reactions were so funny haha. Brent was like 'are you back to work? if not, never mind i don't want to talk to you' hahahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">got to catch up with wendy for about an hour ish after she was done with her meeting and man, she's really the best! mental note to make sure to plan lunch with everyone the next time i'm back</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">these girls <3 somehow we all ended up working at P2 at some point in our lives and we formed such a great friendship! we still have an iMessage group chat that we keep going to update each other from time to time and i love it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">there you go, my U.S. trip in a nutshell.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">now when can i go back again?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">sometimes i want to just quit my job or take no pay leave and travel for months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">maybe i'll do that next year haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">who knows what 2020 has in store.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">xoxo,</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-22905755320782221452019-10-30T07:35:00.000-07:002019-10-30T07:35:57.512-07:00thailand travels;<span style="color: #38761d;">err where was i again with my blogging?</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">ugh i'm sooo behind haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">doesn't help that i've just been travelling nonstop and also working nonstop haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">haven't been able to go to the gym after work these few days cause i just did a facial last sat and my beautician usually doesn't let me gym for a week after cause she said the sweat is bad for the open wounds or whatever haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">have also been sick so all the more no gymming.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">speaking of which, i've noticed that i've fallen sick a lot more since moving home to Singapore!</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">i used to only fall sick once a year but this year itself i've been sick at least 3 or 4 times sigh. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">anyway, so i've had a little more extra time after work these days and so i had blogging on my agenda tonight.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">then i came home early since i had an external meeting and ended up working from home till late.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">sigh i either get stuck at the office or i get stuck at home finishing up work - why is work never ending?</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">anyway, i still have about one more hour till bedtime so i'm going to hurry hurry hurry hahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">decided to blog about my thailand trips first since i somehow managed to go to bangkok twice in just a matter of 3 months haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">in august i went with my family for the national day long weekend - we took an extra day off so we had a total of 5 days to enjoy. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">and then just a few weeks ago i went with my jc friends for a hen's trip. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">you know, that's definitely one thing i love about being back in Singapore - popping away to thailand for the long weekend cause it's so close by and just so chill cause you eat, shop and get massages.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">really, what else do you need for a short getaway haha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">looking at our photos, i just realised that it's nonstop food hahaha. the lobster tom yum at pe aor</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">siam pandan that my cousins rave about constantly - i like all things pandan // always eating haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">mango sticky rice! seriously can't get over how sweet the mangoes in thailand are</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">went for a cooking class and it was super fun! learned to cook a lot of the dishes we love to eat</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">the cooking school was a little far off and hard to find but it was worth it</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">with our cooking teacher</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">took the water taxi back into town and it was quite the experience cause it started pouring halfway and the water would come in a little haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">went to Artbox since it was literally right by our hotel and saw cute doggies there!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">it was way small so not a lot to see but i did get a pretty watch from there haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">headed over to talad neon instead where we did more shopping</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">did so much shopping hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">must eat coconut ice cream at chatukchak market</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">taking the hotel shuttle</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">waiting for our massage</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">we got a massage like almost every day for 2 hours each time and it was soooo shiok!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">the oyster omelette on the right from terminal 21's food court is so good!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><b>OCTOBER</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">flight ready faces haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">didn't do much on the first day after we landed besides go straight to get a massage, walked around a little and then ate the night away. this was dessert time at after you cafe.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">the yummy banana crumble that i still need to attempt to make. funny story, we were waiting in line for a table and were all just watching the tv while waiting. they were introducing different desserts on the screen and each one that came up we were like omg that looks so good we should get that. and that's how we chose our two desserts for the night haha. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">our nightly activity before bed - card games haha. we had two interconnecting rooms so it was nice cause we could walk in and out of each other rooms freely</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">day two free hotel breakfast</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">them playing tsum tsum while waiting for the grab - all trying to learn from master yan yan who is really good at it haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">we were adventurous and took some boat to cross the chao phraya river</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">went to some local market across the river which was quite interesting but it was pouring so we couldn't explore much. we did stop to buy some yummy fresh bread from a store that had a long line haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">ended up heading over to icon siam to hide from the rain and eat some yummy boat noodles haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">some of us researching for a nail salon while others napped hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">my SGD$13 gel manicure</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">ended our night shopping for snacks at Big C</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">guilty people overbuying hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">we were more adventurous on day three and had some yummy street food! look at that fried chicken!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">eating tomyum noodles at some roadside stall</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">went to a doggie cafe where we had quite the workout chasing down the dogs for photos haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">always there for that coconut ice cream haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">squeezed in more street food on our last morning there</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">plus more tomyum noodles haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">which was super yummy by the way - we ended up ordering another huge bowl haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">spared them from the embarrassment the whole hen's trip but made them wear the veil and sash, etc. on the last day cause i brought it all the way from Singapore haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">last photo at our super instagramworthy hotel - N.A.P (need a pillow) hotel</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">both trips were so so fun and such a good break each time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">now when's my next thailand trip again? hahaha need that massage bad.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">other august happenings:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">dinner with the dinner and dance committee people</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">national day preview show</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">and there you go, one hour is up so i need to go to sleep haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">will leave the sept and rest of oct blogging to another day after i'm actually done sorting through my photos from my U.S. trip haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">maybe after i get back from korea haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">till then...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">xoxo,</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-17786060274558164282019-08-17T07:31:00.000-07:002019-08-17T07:31:43.188-07:00six seven; <span style="color: purple;">i feel like i need to do a blog update so my U.S. friends can keep up with what's going on in my life haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i used to blog so my Singapore friends can keep up and now it's the other way around. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i try my best to keep up with everyone through text or what not but sometimes it's really hard to keep track, especially when there's so many things to attend to/prioritize.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">sometimes i just shut down altogether when i feel like there's too much to deal with - i end up just laying on my bed and doing things that don't require too much brain power. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">which is probably why i have procrastinated blogging also cause i need to think back on what has happened in the past few months.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i have a lot of travelling coming up so i figured that it would be good to at least blog about june and july.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>JUNE</b></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">june was filled with A LOT of eating cause there was my dad's birthday, father's day, and then multiple birthday celebrations for my birthday that felt like it went on for a week straight haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i was very very grateful for everyone who took the time out to celebrate my birthday with me though cause i was totally planning on being super low key this year. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">as the years pass, i start to dislike birthdays cause it means i'm one year older *sob.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">but i guess life goes on and if you don't celebrate your birthday, you are still one year older so might as well make the day worth celebrating? haha</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">june was fun cause i also got to meet up with a few friends who were back in Singapore for vacation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">daddy's birthday dinner part one at fat belly - we had the 7-course meal which was not bad but not all the dishes were great. i loveddd the lava cake and the slider but other than that, everything else was kind of meh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">daddy's birthday dinner part two at tasty loong - literally went to the exact same restaurant last year and got his birthday cake from the exact same place last year haha. i guess we'll make it a tradition. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">checked out the bicentennial experience at fort canning which had different rooms that you go through for the whole experience. i was quite impressed at some of the different interactive experiences but the work side in me was just imagining what a nightmare it was to plan for this haha. this was the rain room where they had the rain coming down as they narrated how it was pouring heavily during the first ever national day parade.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">met up with kim and charles (and met baby tori for the first time!) while they were back in Singapore and it's always always fun to hang out with them, especially since i think the last time i met up with them was pre-pre-tori and so that was like at least two years ago for sure. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">father's day lunch at full of luck restaurant - i really love the moonlight truffle hor fun there. they're also famous for their char siew, which you have to pre-order when you make your dining reservation, but it's honey glazed so a little too sweet for my liking and i can only eat like one or two pieces. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">love it when maine is back in town cause we actually make it a point to gather together as cousins haha. here's us stopping midway through playing singaporean dream to make sure to get a group photo haha. we used to always spend at least half an hour getting photos in after everyone decides it's time to go home haha. but now with the little ones, we don't really have that much time to dilly dally at the end of the night cause the little ones are cranky and need to go home like right then haha. but i'm still grateful for game nights like these. cousins are like your forever best friends from young and so i'm grateful i have amazing ones. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">since it was father's day weekend, we turned the cake i bought for dessert into a happy father's day cake hahahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">two of my cousins and i decided to go try a barre class. it was hilarious cause three of us all did ballet for many many years growing up and yet we were dyinggg during the class. barre and ballet are really not that similar we concluded. the only things in common were really the ballet positions and the barre. we all concluded after the first lesson that we would all much rather go for a ballet class haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">met up with Dr. Woo after hmm almost six months for an early birthday celebration - which reminds me that i should schedule our next meet-up cause i always have to book a few months in advance (seriously like having to book an appt with a specialist doctor tsk hahaha)</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">met up with more Woos for dessert at fabulous baker boy (the cakes were super yummy but i forgot to take a photo cause time was precious and we had a lot to catch up on haha). so good to see them cause they were literally in town for two full days only hahaha. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">farewell for our favorite director (okay she's still in the same company but has moved on to a new role) - we made her a calendar with love and shamelessly included all our birthdays in the calendar so she would remember us somehow haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">another early birthday celebration with my favorite 1st three months jc friend who's always drowning with school and work so i'm grateful when we get to meet. we were talking about how we used to have a tradition of watching movies together but haven't done that in years. and then we were talking about toy story 4 and decided to watch it together like the next tuesday hahaha. it was so spontaneous but so fun that we made that work. time to think of what our next movie should be haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">june games night also included celebrating the june babies and it's funny cause i bought cheesecake and pei yong bought this $20 lychee bread so those two things became our birthday cakes haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">celebrating with the same person (2018 versus 2019) even though she no longer works in the same company anymore</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">the best work family <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">birthday celebration with the jc friends - ate the yummiest peking duck at imperial peking duck</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">my constants - the lighting is too bright here but we got the cute little chinese peach buns for a birthday cake to blow out the candle on hahahaha. so asian</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">spent the rest of my birthday weekend at MBS with a staycay - loved the view from the infinity pool. we could even see the national day rehearsals happening at the padang.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">family birthday celebration at yardbird with the yummiest chicken and waffles</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: purple;">JULY</span></b><br />
<span style="color: purple;">july was actually pretty low key with a nostalgic trip back to the alma mater and lots of family time.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">we had quite a few farewells in the month of july so that was sad sad sad :(</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">finally found a time to do a chen-soh sisters meet-up - so fun to catch up and we just kept talking and talking even though we needed to go home early to sleep haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">cute plates that rachel bought to welcome us to her house haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">july games night/rachel & leslie's housewarming!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">truffle beef yum</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">july meet-up with the jc friends with jojo's snoring imitations that had us almost rolling on the floor</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">went for the sc homecoming and i just realised that i haven't been back since i graduated. wow it's been a long time and some parts have changed so much</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">had another cousins gathering to make full use of maine's time back in Singapore and we celebrated cayson's 2nd birthday as well! // the kids are so full of poses hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">games games games</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">farewell to our favorite security guards</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">farewell to our interns</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">managed to take my birthday leave before it expired - spent a day with the sisters just running errands and eating a bunch of things i've been wanting to try for months haha. it was such a good recharge day!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">met up with the SA dancers for dinner - almost didn't make it there cause i was stuck at a site recce until like 7.30pm! but i'm glad i made it afterall - was soooo fun to catch up. the last time we all caught up together like that was probably 10 years ago haha. but it feels like NOTHING changed at all - felt like we were still babies spending our days in the dance studio repeating the cycle of eat.sleep.dance.repeat haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">okay wow that turned out to be a really long post because of all the birthday celebrations and what not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">(i say this every single month but once again) i can't believe we're already in the middle of august and the year is almost over. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">looking forward to many more moments of laughter and new memories for the rest of the month and year. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">shall end off with my bakes for the last two months haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">my coworkers now have a name for my bakes - CHARteraise hahahaha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">scotcheroos // cranberry oatmeal cookies</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">apple cinnamon cake</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">strawberry jelly hearts // apple crumble shortcake bars</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">cinnamon rolls</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">happy august to everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">enjoy what's left of summer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">can't believe fall is almost here (although in Singapore, it's summer all year round haha).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">xoxo,</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-33836160759139271362019-05-29T08:18:00.000-07:002019-05-29T08:18:01.515-07:00ONE YEAR;<span style="color: purple;">i have been such a slacker and haven't been updating my blog at all. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">every weekend i would tell myself okay i need to blog and then every weekend i would feel lazy and not do it. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">weeks went by and then months went by...</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and now here i am, three months behind, with my chinese new year blog post as the latest one on my blog homepage haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">epic fail. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">and just like that, i celebrated my one year anniversary of my move home and of my new (now not so new anymore) job. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i just want to say that i've never been happier!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">the first 6 months were so hard and i thought i would never adapt but now i never want to leave.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">yes, there are still times when i miss living in the U.S. (1. when i bake and i can't find certain ingredients/when i have to pay $5 for a block of cream cheese, 2. when the weather is unbearably hot and i feel like i'm melting, 3. when i want to go to Disneyland and i can't just get in my car and drive there cause it's no longer just a 2-hour flight away - these first 3 things come to mind but i'm sure there are more), but overall, i wouldn't trade my home for anything!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">when i was living in the U.S., i used to constantly get this feeling where i'm surrounded by people but yet felt so empty and alone at times. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and on public holidays, i always felt like i needed to find somewhere to get away to or do something. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">but here in Singapore, i can spend my whole public holiday just sleeping or resting and feel perfectly happy about it. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">there is just no place like home. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">when i first moved home, i was honestly quite worried about getting along with my new coworkers as well as making new friends.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">you wouldn't have guessed it but for the first few weeks and maybe even months, i couldn't figure my new coworkers out - the conversations they had, the things they like, etc.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i felt like i didn't fit in and was constantly wary of whether they even liked me or were genuine in their actions. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">well, needless to say, that is all in the past and i'm glad that they turned into my biggest support group and a group of amazing new friends as well, beyond just coworkers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">of course living at home does have its challenges cause you're no longer just living independently - you can't just leave your stuff lying around or stay out late and not tell others your schedule.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">you also don't have a place you can offer to host your friends or have dinner parties as and when you want.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">but you do have people who will worry about your dinner for you as well as people to vent to when you've had a hard day of work. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">overall, all i want to say is, BEST DECISION I'VE MADE in a long time. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">lots has happened in the past few months and i'm not confident i can remember everything but i will make a feeble attempt to do an update based on my photos haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">key things i remember from the last few months - games night (as usual), a hen's party staycation, a super fun wedding, my shanghai trip (and falling sick after for like two weeks!), D&D, and lots of baking. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">march games night</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">april games night</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">may games night</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">SO FUN to FaceTime my favorite ahjummas while they were hanging out</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">celebrating amanda's and akina's birthdays</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">finally got to catch up with this cute pregnant lady haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span id="goog_385971893"></span><span id="goog_385971894"></span>caught up with my work orientation friends <3</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">found a yummy taiwanese place at yishun - feng food </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">april meet-up with the jc class clique</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">may meet-up with the jc class clique (missing jojo)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">a visit to the jewel - basically what every singaporean did in april</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">pulled off organising the D&D and then executing it all the night before flying to Shanghai</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">wish i could have dressed up with them. next year. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">rach's last day booooo</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">pretty sunsets at work</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">this is what happens when you put all of us together at a conference haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">seng's last day boooo</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">mother's day <3</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">found a yummy restaurant with the best crab fried rice - uncle kiisu</span><br />
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<b>RACH'S HEN'S NIGHT</b><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">prepping the room</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">the gorgeous living room area</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">with the bride-to-be</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">pre-dinner swimming and games</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">post-dinner games</span><br />
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<b>SHANGHAI TRIP SNAPS</b><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">visiting one of the old water towns</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">there were still some cherry blossoms left when we were there</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">did you really go to Shanghai if you didn't eat pan fried buns haha</span> <br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">daytripped to Hangzhou and the West Lake was honestly a little underwhelming (though overwhelming in size)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">best thing i ate the whole china trip - some sort of spring onion pancake with stuff inside</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i actually really loved the Yuyuan area with the blend of old and new</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">when in China haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">honestly the main reason for my whole trip haha</span><br />
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<b>RACH AND LESLIE'S WEDDING</b></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">we were one of the noisiest tables but we had so much fun - rach specifically invited us up on stage for the yum seng, with her family and bridemaids and groomsmen, cause she knows we're loud hahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">forcing the groom to down that whiskey</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">cinnamon rolls</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">these are worth baking only cause you can't find any good ones in Singapore</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">bread pudding, specially requested by amanda. we didn't take a photo of the full bread pudding before we dug in</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">banana bread/cake - made twice within the course of two weeks and a hot favorite</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">apple crumble cause they put apples in our pantry to encourage healthy living and no one was eating the apples...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">to be fair, the apples on their own were really sweet and had a good crunch. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">more bakes to come... tell me if you recommend any recipes tot try!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">and it's 11:11 p.m. and i should go to bed.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">hopefully next month i will actually be diligent in blogging and not wait to do a quarterly update again :)</span><br />
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-30074602460258822502019-03-17T07:21:00.000-07:002019-03-17T07:25:42.787-07:00why can't it always be chinese new year;<span style="color: #660000;">chinese new year came and went by so quickly.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">and now we're already headed into the third week of march.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">this year is going by so quickly and i just want it to stop haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i feel like i still haven't figured out what i want to accomplish this year and it's just zooming by like that.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i haven't planned my vacations for the year (besides shanghai next month) and everything feels so not planned in my life - and you know that drives me crazy haha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">it was soooo good to have sam home for the chinese new year but the two weeks seriously went by so fast and i was so sad when she had to go :(</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">it was hard to leave her behind when i moved home to Singapore last year and i still miss living with her and doing everything together.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">time to start planning a trip back to U.S. this year. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">chinese new year was lots of family time as usual.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i always appreciate that time of the year cause we're all always so busy the rest of the year so it's nice to take time out for traditions and bonding time. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">this chinese new year was sooo hot and i felt like we were melting in the heat.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">also someone hit our car from behind on day one of chinese new year - suay to the max. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">dragon is supposed to have really good luck this year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">but both goat and ox are the last two in ranking for good luck this year and we have 3 of those in my family hahahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">this was my first chinese new year back home since moving back.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">and i have to say that it felt weird having to go to work after the first two days of visiting since i'm used to past years when chinese new year in Singapore was my break time haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">time to get used to my new reality haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">thankfully i was able to take a few days off work to spend some quality time with sammie. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">matchy matchy in polka dots // sam wearing the shoes i bought her from bkk</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">we went and got our nails done together for the chinese new year - as per our tradition</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">a brilliant idea to catch all the yusheng that ends up on the table hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">we included the nephews in the lohei this year and they loved it. start them young haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">not too messy this year</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">we leveled up this year and had a whole suckling pig - especially appropriate since it's the year of the pig</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">our reunion dinner spread was really intense this year</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">missing maine this year</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">annual chen family reunion dinner photo</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">being silly with the cousins</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">CNY day one morning going to all the columbariums and what not. bumped into a lot of people that morning. what a coincidence. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">our regular photo with ah po during CNY</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">tate tate was such a cutie doing all the greeting this year. so cute haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">day one same set-up for lohei</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">tate tate all ready to lohei</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">look at tate tate waiting for his turn haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">day one feast</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">feeding the nephew</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">day one cousins photo</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">day one chen family photo</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">year of the pig</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">day two chen sisters photo</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">CNY gathering with the jc friends at xiao ya tou - the food was really good!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">spending yet another CNY with my favorite jc friends</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">CNY day five popiah party</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">make your own popiah </span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">all of us made really ugly popiahs (if you were wondering)</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">jun bought a yummy cake for dessert so we took the opportunity to celebrate cay's birthday in advance and of course the nephews loved blowing out the candles hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">regular spot for family photos</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">missing akina and maine</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">christine's housewarming party - which happened during the CNY period as well</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">christine fed us so well :)</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">loved the view from her balcony</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">mahjong people</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">gambling people haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">when there's a big group of us we always have to play deception haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">indian food date as usual with my daddy when my mom was busy (she doesn't enjoy indian food so we always go without her haha)</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">early chap gor meh dinner before sam left</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">annual photo at the airport - except this year, i wasn't flying back </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">so there you go, all the gatherings and food during the chinese new year period haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">never a lack of food during chinese new year. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">and i just love having a reason to gather with family and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">since sam was back, we also took the opportunity to take some family photos.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">we didn't get a professional photographer this year but hopefully we can all make it to the U.S. to visit sam later this year and maybe get our photos taken with the beautiful fall leaves instead cause that would be gorgeous.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">in the meantime, here are some that we took using a tripod and self-timer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">not too bad in my opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">testing out the timer // my dad's phone takes really pretty photos</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">with the singapore flyer</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">love it when we're reunited</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">with the super trees</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">a rare occasion where we're not being siao char bos hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">love our friends of the gardens membership cause we can go there any time</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">CNY flowers in full bloom</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">other happenings:</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">random reunion with the SAJC dancers. thanks to amelia for organizing!</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">first day back to work after the chinese new year break and it started with out filming for the day</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">our beautiful career booth this year - made all the work and discussions worth it</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">how many screens does a person need to write a speech haha. i blame the internet separation at work. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">yet another visit to zai shun and apparently everyone had the same idea to go to zai shun the weekend after CNY ended haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">watched Mathilda - the first act was kind of boring cause they changed it quite a bit but the second act made up for it. i miss watching Broadway shows in the U.S. sigh</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">one of our family dinners at a random zi char place in toa payoh</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">loved that this post contains so much family time <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">it really doesn't get any better than that :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">xoxo,</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-54204155951346158062019-01-27T06:14:00.000-08:002019-01-27T06:14:12.558-08:00new beginnings;<span style="color: blue;">2019.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">january seriously passed by so quickly.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">but i'm kind of glad cause there were a few work events to worry about in january and now i'm ready for chinese new year hahaha. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">plus. sammie chen is coming home this weeeeeekkkkk!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i'm so excited! it's been almost nine months since i last saw my little sista!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">just need to get through a few work days and a few more nights of sleep and she will be home! PARTY TIME! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">recently i've been having all the feels.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i don't know if it's from starting the new year, or attending my first close friend's wedding in singapore since moving back, or spring cleaning and seeing old photos or what it is, but i've just been feeling sentimental and all sorts of grateful.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">every single time i think about my friendships in life, i'm always filled with so much gratitude, especially as the years pass.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i'm a firm believer that people don't just come into your life for no reason.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">each friendship you make and each friendship you manage to keep through the years has been placed in your life for a reason. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">and i'm ever so grateful for the ones that i still have and the ones that i've been making since i moved back to singapore. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">the other day i was going through the new york times 36 questions with a friend and Q9 is "For what in your life do you feel most grateful?" </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i thought about it and realized, i'm most grateful for the people who are in my life (family and friends) and bother to stay in my life. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">relationships between people are not easy so i'm grateful for the ones i've been so blessed to keep.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">my friends in the U.S. used to joke about how no matter which city i went to in the U.S., i seemed to always have a friend there.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">and honestly, they weren't wrong. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">that's just how much God has blessed me in that aspect of life and i just have to be so grateful because i'm a person who loves having many solid friends, to inspire me and help me to be a better person always. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">2019 has been off to a good start so far.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i looked at my photos and realized that i spent a lot of my time with my coworkers and i'm totally not complaining.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">without my coworkers, i wouldn't survive work and life in singapore.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">it's so amazing to have coworkers who are friends too - who you can hang out with on the weekends and not feel sick of them haha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">kicked off the first friday of the year with haidilao team lunch. it was my first time at haidilao (i know, super backdated but come on, it's been less than a year since i moved home) and it was quite the experience. now i know why people go to haidilao, i mean come on, they change your phone screen protector, there's a sauce bar with every ingredient you could possibly want, you get a free gel manicure. plus, the service is really good. but of course, the price is also up there haha. but overall, i really liked the whole experience. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">after lunch team building activity saw us at holey moley. i had quite low expectations for the place because honestly, after mini golfing in the U.S., how can the ones in singapore compare in terms of size, etc. holey moley surprised me though and won on the themed mini golf front. we split up into teams of 4 or 5 and had a blast. here's a shot of my team at the one hole where we all got a hole in one haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">we booked part of the place and the package came with several 1m long pizza tables hahaha. we almost died cause we were all SO full from lunch. and so all of us had to take a box of pizza home haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">we spent the rest of the afternoon playing games. this was a screenshot taken from when we played psych haha. the game room code was "Chad Here" and my coworker put in "Chathere" when she was supposed to enter her name. we all almost died laughing haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"> third friday of january spent with the coworkers as well. our regular steamboat and games at pei yong's. here's the ever gracious host with our farewell gift for her (yes the gift is like 2 months late and yes, she no longer works with us but still lets us crash her house hahaha. she's just awesome like that.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">we have new interns and of course we have to introduce them to codenames. also, can i add that their way of thinking is soooo different from us haha. i'm glad we weren't on the same team as them hahaha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">spent the last friday of january checking out this super aesthetic bar inside parkview square (aka the gotham looking building). we've been wanting to check it out for a little bit and finally did. it was soooo pretty! i loved the tall shelves of alcohol - it reminded me of a really pretty library! and the drinks were great too. granted, i only had the pineapple juice haha. but even the pineapple juice was freshly squeezed and legit haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">the bar is not normally this bright. we took these photos after the lights came on at 2am or so and they were trying to chase us out hahaha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">ever grateful for these girls. really hit the jackpot in the coworkers category. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">other work-related photos - setting up for an event. comms is not always glam hahaha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">wrote my first speech for the year</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">january saw me spending lots of time with friday clique as well with jess back in town, aiwen's bachelorette party and then wedding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">it was really nice cause we're all always so busy and over the years we've always had one or more of us living overseas, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">it was great to have us altogether (minus sam) back in the same country. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">our dearest bride</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">#TEAMBRIDE</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">three different groups of friends but we all had so much fun together</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">we decided to relive the good old slumber party days with a staycation</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">special deco for the bride to be</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">we had 3 hours or so of sleep before heading out for church hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">dinner with friday clique 2 days before aiwen's wedding</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">so happy for these two!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">#TEAMBRIDE was in charge of the indoor decorations</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">the venue was nice and cosy for an intimate affair</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">i've always wanted a big wedding but after attending aiwen's wedding, i totally see why people like small weddings! and a wedding not at a hotel too. creates a totally different vibe! loved it! and i think that the people you invite to your wedding should be people who know the both of you as a couple and have seen you through your relationship. that makes it more meaningful. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">i've never had a bridal party get along as well as this #TEAMBRIDE. totally loved getting to know these girls!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">trying to create big and small hearts. the top one looks like a diamond huh haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">the couple giving their thank you speeches. i loved how since it was an intimate affair with close friends, they were able to name almost everyone in the room. it was really sweet. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">this was the first thing i ate on the first day of the new year and omg it was so good! fried peng kueh and soon kueh altogether in a carrot cake kind of sauce. can't wait to go back and eat this when sam is back in singapore. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">tried a new shrimp noodles place at paragon and it was pretty good. preferred the soup version over the dry version.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">got hooked on this sweet potato milkshake from don don donki made with hokkaido milk</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">sundays with this cutie</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">received snail mail from vicki, kenzie, wendy, P2, jason & becka. i definitely felt loved - cause if you know me, you know how much i love snail mail</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and just like that, january is almost done.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">plus, this blog post is technically pretty early for my monthly updates haha - starting the new year right haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">let's see how long i can keep it up haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">xoxo.</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-36977033348106776452018-12-29T09:45:00.000-08:002018-12-29T09:45:08.233-08:00goodbye 2018;<span style="color: #660000;">woohoo i'm keeping my word to do my december/end of the year blog post before the year is up haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">can't believe it's already saturday and that my week away from work is going to be over soon.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i feel like i still need another week of break hahaha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">the past couple of days have been so relaxing!</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i didn't actually do anything too special haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i pretty much just lazed around and stayed up way too late each night hahahaha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i'm going to have such a hard time waking up for work on monday.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">thank goodness it's only going to be a half day.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">hopefully there are not too many emails to clear after a week of being away though. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">spent my first Christmas back in Singapore and honestly it was hmm weirdly normal hahahaha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i think i expected it to be a lot more awesome after being away for Christmas for so many years but it was really just kind of... normal.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">maybe cause we didn't have a big extended family gathering this year so it was just kind of a quiet Christmas. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">didn't feel too drastically different from other Christmases spent abroad - which actually is kind of sad haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">one difference for sure, i didn't dread the holiday season like i normally would when i was living overseas. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i started listening to Christmas songs at the beginning of the month and i started to think back on past Christmases abroad and i realized that when i was overseas, i avoided listening to Christmas songs cause it would put me right in the holiday mood and make me feel homesick. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">feels like such a sad thing now that i think about it. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i'm glad i can actually listen to Christmas songs once again haha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">it was my first Christmas experiencing Christmas in Singapore as a working adult in Singapore.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">and wow, people in Singapore are really into the Christmas gifts for everyone as well as secret santas and what not. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">it was quite an eye opener for me. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">i've never really been a Christmas gift giver kind of person so i was like AHH working hard on the gifts in addition to making sure i was getting all my annual Christmas cards out on time haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">there were definitely quite a few late nights of Christmas card writing haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">but i love sending out Christmas cards each year.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">it's my one time in a year to reflect on my blessings of the wonderful friendships i enjoy around the world. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">first trip to the post office (one place i always dread going to during the holiday season haha) // Disney Christmas cards for the Disney girls</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">baked cookies for the office coworkers since the presents i ordered didn't come in time hahaha // Christmas cards for the coworkers - i'm seriously such a long-winded person. i can't write short notes haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">December was full of Christmas gatherings and celebrations - definitely not complaining about that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">work didn't slow down till about the third week of December which was kind of late but i'm still glad it did slow down. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">we have a Gardens by the Bay annual membership so we randomly went on a Friday night to see the lights and also to see the Disney special display!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">felt so happy after the visit - there is just something special and magical about Disney. i also booked my next Disneyland trip for next year that same day hahaha. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">how cute and magical do these characters look!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">grateful for my mother who is always up for my random suggestions/adventures haha</span> // <span style="color: #0b5394;">the stacked tsum tsums were so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">super early church Christmas party</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">rissa was sick so she didn't join us</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Neo Garden's Christmas catering was really pretty good and they even set up some decorations for you on the buffet table // us being silly after taking down the Christmas decorations haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">teaching the kids about the nativity story with my makeshift manger</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Christmas lunch with my team was so so fun! we ate really good zi char, had our secret santa Christmas gift exchange. And then we spent the rest of the afternoon playing games at our director's place haha. Super grateful for these people who i see the most out of each weekday - they keep me alive during those crazy busy work days and through frustrating situations. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">red red with my secret santee // them showing off their crazy Christmas earrings - although you can't really see them in this picture haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Christmas gathering with the jc friends/belated birthday celebration for jo and sj</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">go kbbq is like my new favorite kbbq restaurant</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">stuffing our faces with yummy meat</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><3 // 13 years of friendship</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">birthday girls making their wishes</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Christmas chocolates as big as the size of our hands</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Friday Clique Christmas gathering - it's been years since we've been able to gather for Christmas cause literally all of us in this photo studied overseas. Glad that Jess is back in town this Christmas so we could get together!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">work presents at my desk on Christmas eve</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">played santa to my nephews on Christmas eve - when you have presents. you can ask for anything you want. from asking them to tell you the nativity story to asking for a kiss haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">we went to yum cha for dim sum on Christmas morning. i love dim sum. i would rather Chinese food over Christmas turkey and ham any day haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">random Christmas colors matching with my sister // Christmas tree earrings from sj</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">looking back at the photos from all the different Christmas gatherings, i realized that my Christmas this year was actually pretty good.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">even if the actual day was pretty quiet and normal, the whole month was filled with Christmas cheer and time spent with loved ones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">i love the holiday season at the end of the year for that cause it's the time when we make time to meet up with people who we maybe have not had a chance to meet with during the rest of the year. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">can't believe it's the last weekend of 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">where did the year go?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">spent my last friday of the year eating kbbq and playing games with my coworkers as part of their random staycation plan haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">ended up with too little sleep as i had to wake up this morning for a funeral service.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">and then i spent basically my afternoon sleeping hahaha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">what a way to finish off the year haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">this meal again cause it was so good haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">other December happenings amidst the hustle and bustle of the season:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">dinner meet-up with Shu Hui</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">a friday night dinner at Siam Village - the food was meh</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Loo's hainanese curry rice was amazing!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">random saturday hangout with the SAJC dancers</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">finally got to meet up with ling and just laugh our heads off the whole night</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">claypot rice at sembawang</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">a pleasant surprise visitor at church - amanda and i went to the same ward when we both lived in provo</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">learned some new games in December - sushi go party (like regular sushi go but better!) plus unstable unicorns</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">upgraded my workspace to look like my P2 workspace haha - yay for eye level typing now hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">a friday night dinner at Mata Thai - i actually quite like this place and it's near our house so yay haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">dragged my family to thomson plaza on a random saturday to see pikachu and eevee hahaha - we had to go get groceries anyway haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">on one of the days i was off from work, Candice and i went and had lunch at Spago at Marina Bay Sands. we had their 3-course lunch and the food was really good! highly recommend!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">the iberico pork main and the pistachio panna cotta were my favorites. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">happy belated birthday before the year ends hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">finally had the time to try out omote (previously sushiro) at thomson plaza and it was not bad but not worth the long wait omg haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">we literally just got done with Christmas and already everyone is getting ready with all the Chinese New Year stuff haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">a family lunch at wong chiew restaurant - loved the spinach with trio eggs!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">as the year comes to a close, i thought about it and the things that i'm most grateful for are:</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: purple;">family - no matter how annoying they can be at times, you know that they will be the ones there for you no matter what. no matter what a brat i am or how naggy my parents can be, i'm still grateful to be their daughter and am thankful for the little things they do for me that i often take for granted - like my dad preparing my breakfast for me each morning or my mother catching the cockroach/lizard for me (woes of living in a tropical country). and my sisters are the best - they're my #1 companions for adventures (even though they would rather never leave the house haha) and the #1 listeners when i want to rant about things. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;">the abundance of good food everywhere in Singapore - also the reason why it's impossible to lose weight but one thing i'm so grateful for in Singapore is the availability of good food at every corner. and cheap, good food too. it's really the best and you can always choose not to cook cause of that too. so great. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;">Asian things - haha this is super broad and weird but i love living back in Singapore again cause i no longer have to make trips to the Asian store on top of getting my regular groceries at the local Walmart. also, all the super Asian things that i need to make my Asian food, such as ingredients or equipment, can be easily found.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;">a pretty good work environment (for Singapore) - my coworkers and i were discussing this over dinner last night and as we discussed nightmare stories from years back, we started to count our blessings for the great bosses we have now and the culture that they have created within our division because of that - a safe environment where you don't have to go to work feeling stressed everyday because of the unpredictability or worry about being scolded and crying in the toilet or something. also grateful for great coworkers who have become my friends that i hang out with even outside of work, and people who are always up to play games with me!</span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;">good friends - i realized that after moving home, people don't really prioritize you as much (as compared to when you only came home once a year while living overseas haha) because they know that you're here long-term and so they can meet you any other time. it kind of makes me feel sad but it's also made me appreciate the ones who actually still make time for you on a regular monthly or weekly basis. you know those friendships are golden. it's also been really cool for me to see who are my U.S. friends who still make the effort to keep in touch. it's been much better than i expected haha. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: purple;">good health - my coworkers fall sick <u>very</u> often and my coworker who sits next to me commented that i don't really fall sick and said that it could be because i workout on a regular basis, and i realized that she was probably right. that made me grateful for my health and that my perseverance in working out daily is actually helpful haha. </span></li>
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<span style="color: purple;">the list could go on but i guess i shall stop here. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">2018 was not the easiest year but there were many things to be grateful for in the year as well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">i'm looking forward to the adventures 2019 has in place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">can't wait to travel more with my Singapore friends and hopefully make a trip back to U.S. next year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">in the new year, i want to start dance classes again - although i feel so out of touch and not as flexible now haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">we'll see what happens haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">what are some of your wishes for the new year?</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">xoxo,</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-29558380490521910362018-12-24T08:45:00.000-08:002018-12-24T08:45:36.628-08:00when the months just all start to blend together;<span style="color: blue;">last month i ended my blog post with, "hopefully next month's update will be on time... "<br />it's christmas eve and i'm doing my november blog update so... haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i can barely even remember what happened in november now, except that i had my big event and then i escaped to bangkok for a short weekend trip to eat, shop, massage and relax. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">it's during times like these that i'm super grateful that i remember to take photos for the most part.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">november started with my big event - which went super well! </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">we got media coverage from all the major news outlets, which made all the late nights so worthwhile!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">and as i look back on the timing of everything and the help and tender mercies i received throughout, there is no doubt in my mind that God is ever aware of us and our needs. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i especially needed that reminder amidst the transition to working in Singapore and all that. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">event day was madness and soooo tiring, especially cause we were setting up and doing rehearsals the day before and then we had to settle some last minute stuff the night before and then wake up super early event day morning. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i really really wouldn't have made it without my coworker Shu who kept me sane throughout and helped me so much!</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">by the time it came to the end of the day on event day, after we finished social media posts, board updates, etc., both our heads were seriously throbbing haha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">i flew off to bangkok the very next morning haha - i wasted no time at all.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">was such a rush packing the night before and i was super sleep-deprived when the morning came cause we had a super early flight.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">and then our flight got delayed - how frustrating.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">but we finally made it to bangkok by lunchtime!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">we stayed at the Marriott Vacation Club at The Empire Place and the place was fabulous and the service was superb! the location is not super close to all the shopping but still pretty central.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">started with lunch at prachak roasted duck which was yummy! not quite like the singapore roast duck rice but still good! plus, we were famished.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">and then there are not many photos to document the rest of our first day cause we just shopped a ton haha. i seriously bought like 3 or 4 pairs of shoes by the first two hours after lunch haha. at night, we did our snacks shopping at Big C super center and then headed back to the hotel to cook up dinner at home and then rest for the night</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">day two started with a two-hour thai massage (no photo documentation) and then four seasons duck for lunch - the duck is boneless and so good!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">random photo with the harrods bear cause he was wearing a green suit!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">we spent the rest of the day going through all the malls and didn't really even get through most of the malls cause we got stuck at naraya and kinokuniya for a long long time hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">ended the night with a late dinner at thip samai with the best orange juice and pad thai!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">kicked off day three with a visit to the nail salon in the morning </span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">followed by chatukchak market where we ate our way through the market hahahaha. the coconut ice cream is seriously so good! so were the thai fish cakes!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">and then we went for another round of two-hour thai massage before we continued shopping and eating our way through rot fai ratchada night market hahaha. are you starting to see the theme?</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">day four was spent eating before we had to go to the airport - we left pretty early because we were worried about traffic and in the end we got to the airport with lots of time to spare</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">overall, it was such a great trip and i found myself thinking that 4 days was too short cause i didn't have enough time to eat everything i wanted as well as shop and do more massages haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">looking forward to the next bangkok trip already haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">oh how i've missed asia haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">back in singapore, during the month of november, we tried a few new restaurants as well as made a trip back to our favorite zai shun - which has now become my grandmother's favorite restaurant as well (she had two bowls of porridge our last trip there and that's super rare).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">tried nipong naepong with my FP friends and i must say it's pretty good!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">finally got to try dumpling darlings and yummm. here we have five different types of dumplings - original dumplings, fried pierogi, smoked duck dumplings, momo curry and veggie dumplings. i must say that the fried pierogis and the original were my favorites. we also got some mushroom noodles which were pretty good!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">ZAI SHUN</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">tried hwa seafood from our list of zi char places and it was meh. wouldn't go back there again. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">looking at the rest of my november photos, it looks like i didn't really meet up with my friends that much haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">guess i was too drained from the event plus travelling haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">nevertheless, it was a pretty good month and i can't believe it's already almost 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">i really can't believe it but this year was a big year with the move home and all so i guess time moved by extra quick while i was still trying to steady myself. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">i'm glad it's the christmas season and that i'm off the rest of the week - which means that i will try my best to do my december/close of the year blog post in the next few days haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">till then, here are the rest of my november photos. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">friday night games night at my coworker's where we played deception (the game jason and becka bought me for my farewell). it was my first time playing a game with like 12 people. it was intense but good too!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">cousins gathering before maine went back to texas // children feeding through the gate haha/keeping them out of our games area haha // games night - limpeh says</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">these cuties posing so cutely by the christmas tree and then they started to wobble</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">and then they toppled... haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">forever grateful for my girl cousins <3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">finally got to meet up with eeli and here we are unintentionally matching. every time i say i'm meeting my 1st three months jc friend, everyone is always like, you still keep in touch with your friends from 1st three months? haha. i'm glad that it's been like 13 years and we're still going strong!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">ended the month with a monthly meet-up with my lovely jc friends</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">we had the yummiest dim sum at imperial treasure - here's a photo of our yummy red bean porcupine bun. if you're curious about the taste, it tastes like a fried mantou (the kind you dip in your chili crab sauce) with red bean in it. super yummy!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and there you have it, november in a nutshell.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">M</span><span style="color: #274e13;">e</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">r</span><span style="color: #38761d;">r</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">y </span><span style="color: #38761d;">C</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">h</span><span style="color: #38761d;">r</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">i</span><span style="color: #38761d;">s</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">t</span><span style="color: #38761d;">m</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">a</span><span style="color: #38761d;">s</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">!</span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-9276420224348935532018-11-03T10:20:00.000-07:002018-11-03T10:20:46.386-07:00i'm alive... sort of<span style="color: purple;">i've been meaning to blog about september for a long time but i've just been soooo busy!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and so here's a september and october update just to de-stress for a little and feel like i'm keeping up with life.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">it's been a long long LONG week working till 1 or 2 a.m. daily until i feel like i'm losing my mind.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">it's a daily routine for my coworker and i who are working on a media briefing and a big event next week.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">we would work in the office until like 8 or so, go home, eat, shower, etc. and then log on again to continue working.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">the nice thing is there's two of us so we offer moral support to each other and try to keep each other alive.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">but omg, we both really need a break after this.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">today is a saturday and i still had a bunch of work-related things to do so i feel so not rested.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">in fact, i'm slowly losing it haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">today i opened my pen to use it and after i was done, i couldn't for the life of me find the pen cap. i looked high and low and in the end, i found it in the bag that i had taken the pen out of - after searching for at least 15 mins.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and then just now, i was frantically working on my computer and my coworker was like 'okay i sent you a screenshot via Whatsapp' and so i turned to look for my phone but couldn't find it when i could have sworn i saw it just a moment ago.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">so then i had to go outside and look for it and well, it was outside haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i don't know how i thought i had just seen it. oh well. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i seriously have no idea how asians do this all the time.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">like seriously, work culture in Singapore is just like that - always on the go with lots of things to do, long working hours and no rest on the weekends.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">OMG/</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">anyway, i can see the light at the end of the tunnel and i will survive!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">have a short vacation planned right after and i'm semi panicking about that too cause i have not had any time to plan at all.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and you know how much i have to plan haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">we'll see how it goes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">looking at my photos from september and october, i think i can divide it up into food, friends, work, church, family adventures, birthdays and games!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">all good things. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">the only thing missing: travel hahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;">the best pan fried buns evcr from shanghai ren jia. need to go back there again soon. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">zai shun yummyness on a saturday late morning. need to go back there again soon too haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">homemade korean food</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">we had a few other dishes not pictured here. the salted egg calamari was super yummy!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">i would go back to atlas coffeehouse just to eat this again - the atlas super-bowl was filled with toasted quinoa, baby spinach, sundried tomato, oven roasted squash & parmesan zucchini, shimeiji mushroom and roasted sesame pulled chicken. SO good!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">we also had the atlas butterscotch banana pancake which was more like a thick hotcake. it was yummy but definitely a little too sweet to finish it all. we couldn't even finish among two of us. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">indian food date with my daddy. we usually go to muthu's curry for indian food but decided to try gayatri for a change. good move cause gayatri's food was fantastic!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">zhi char has got to be one of my favorite local food. we have a list of good zhi char places to try. this one (chui xiang kitchen) is located near our place and we would definitely go there again. the fried fish was so good!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">my family is definitely one that enjoys good congee and we're the type of family that would rather have porridge with dishes than rice with dishes haha, tried the congee at ah chiang's and it was worth the trip. the congee was smooth and tasty, and the side dishes were yummy too. for the drink, definitely get the ice jelly drink.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">september meet-up with these girls. we decided to try another escape room (after our failed attempt in february) and i happily chose the wrong room. i had it in my mind to book the harry potter room and so i booked the chamber of secrets room. but guess what, the upside down room is actually the harry potter room. so in the end we didn't even get to do the harry potter room and we failed to escape again - we were much closer to escaping this time though haha. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">honeymoon dessert to end our night</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">ever since moving back to singapore, i think the one person i meet the most consistently is this girl. we try to go out for dinner every other week or so and it's always good to catch up on our lives (even if it's only been a week or two) and rant about life, etc. so grateful to have her around. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">FINALLY got to hang out with Dr. Woo after like 5 months. it's so hard to schedule something with this busy doctor but i'm oh so grateful for any time we get together - when we're together we literally can talk forever and time always feel insufficient.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">the day i spent 7 hours straight with my jc/high school friends. we sang karaoke. had sushi and had dessert together. it was honestly so much fun and it didn't feel like 7 hours had passed. i miss the days when we were in school and would spend that many hours each day together with each other in school. now that we're not in school anymore, it's much harder to find that many hours in a day to be together for so long. </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">how did we get here so fast? as we all left to go to our separate cars at the end of the night, it dawned on me that we've really grown up and we're no longer the naive young kids we were at 17 years of age. we no longer talk about silly, insignificant things. instead, we discuss about marriage, houses, etc. hahaha. grateful to have these girls to grow old with.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">we got our photos from our work orientation team bonding day and wow we all look so carefree and fresh in these photos haha. needless to say, i think some of us have already aged significantly cause of all the work we need to do hahaha.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">i work with our HR folks for comms-related materials for talent attraction and so i decided to join them at one of their career fairs to see what it's like. there was a lot of nonstop talking all night and i was exhausted by the time we wrapped up at 9.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">our pop-up cafe at NUS</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">it's pretty fun to meet new people from different divisions at these events that we organise</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">stake conference - the two people you see with their heads down are 1. my dad, 2. my uncle, his brother hahahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">my mother with my little nephews on sunday - she's waiting for the grandkids hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">yes i still teach these kiddos and each week is a challenge to keep them engaged haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">brought my niffler to help me teach the lesson and keep their attention</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">when you're busy catching up and chatting with friends but still need to try to catch the nephew on the loose with a missing shoe hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">sunday nephew feeding time hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">i love watching these girls at church - here the older sister is helping the youngest sister with her scripture reading assignment</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">the flower dome was having a special sunflower exhibition and so i made my family go with me hahaha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">these super trees never get old. this was the first time we were there at night during the lights show at night and it was pretty! they played broadway songs to go along with the lights and i loved it!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">the zoo has this new rainforest lumina thing at night and we got tickets as part of my mom's company family day. the lights were really pretty!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">a pig and a panda video calling on a random night haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">now with kids around, we can't have cake cutting and blowing of candles without them wanting to participate hahaha // i love how tate is closing his eyes in the second photo to make a wish. so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">happy birthday rissa!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">with the cousins</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">a buffet dinner at hotel jen (with the best baby lobsters) and dinner at grub to celebrate the birthday girl</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">september babies birthday celebration at work</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">october babies birthday celebration at work - we have SO many october babies!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>GAMES</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">remember how i said one of the things i miss the most about america is game nights with friends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">well, i've been so fortunate cause over the last two months i've had several game nights so i need to count my blessings!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">and guess what, my coworkers are so great and always want to play games too so i keep introducing them to my games one by one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">we try to play games every friday and it's so much fun!</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">games at one of my coworker's houses on a friday night where we ended up playing till like 1am haha // i got my coworkers hooked on codenames haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">playing sushi go at home with my family // finally learned how to play secret hitler</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">felicia, who i used to have games night with in provo all the time, was back in singapore for a bit and so we got together on a sunday afternoon to play games together and it was so much fun! jesmine was in town too and it felt like a mini utah reunion haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><b>OTHERS</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">sunset spotted walking to my car on one of the days after work</span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">this happened</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">mooncake festival made me miss celebrating mooncake festival with my friends in utah haha. the irony of it all cause i missed celebrations in singapore so i would throw my own mooncake festival parties overseas. and then the first mooncake festival i'm back in singapore was so low key i missed the parties i used to organise haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">took my first sick day from work. but still had to work cause deadlines. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">love living in an actual city again cause skyscrapers. </span> </div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">my father looking like he 被打入冷宫 hahaha. he wss coughing so he was trying to sleep away from my mother haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;">sarah sent me a photo of baby liam wearing the adorable panda suit i got him and OMG!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">and that's all i have for the last two months.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">hopefully next month's update will be on time and that november will slow down after i'm done with my events!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and then it'll be december already.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">time seriously is just zooming by. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and i don't even realize it cause the weather in singapore is summer all year round haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">i didn't realize how much i've grown to rely on the different seasons and change in weather to recognize the change in months.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">for me october and november are usually when it starts to get cold.</span><br />
<span style="color: purple;">and since it's always hot in singapore, my brain seriously still thinks its july/august haha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">time to sleep so i can wake up in time for church in a few hours.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>xoxo,</i></span></div>
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charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-40430953764435145782018-09-22T05:11:00.002-07:002018-09-22T05:11:21.921-07:00overseas me vs singapore me<span style="color: #134f5c;">it's already almost the end of the month!</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">when i first started this post it was mid-sept but now we're almost at the end of the month oops. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">so i guess i better quickly blog about august, before it's time to blog about september already haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">finally had a chance to take a short trip out of Singapore in august!</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">it was a nice break after busy and long days at work during my work orientation. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">it was also my mom's birthday so it was nice to take a trip to celebrate. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">people who know me know that i travel a lot - lots of little trips here and there and so it's amazing how i've been able to keep still for so many months without a trip haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">but i guess if you just started a new job, you don't really have much of a choice haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">anyway, glad to be back in Asia cause the short trips now will be Bali, Bangkok, etc.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">it's been years since i've been back to some of those places, plus there are lots more to explore. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">definite perk of being back in Singapore.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">and not to mention, yay closer to korea and hk and all the good asian food haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">the one place i still miss a lot though is Disneyland haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">but i guess i'll just have to make do with HK Disneyland as well as shanghai Disneyland.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">shanghai Disneyland is definitely on my list cause that's one i haven't been to yet. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">our hk trip in august was good, despite the fact that it was super hot and super rainy as well.</span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">and even when it was raining it was hot omg. </span><br />
<span style="color: #134f5c;">summer in asia haha. the humidity is really no joke.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">started with some signature food at kam wah - bolo bun, egg tart and pork chop bun</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">on the super long mid-levels escalator (although you can't see much here)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">thankfully we visited tai kwun on the only day it didn't rain while we were there</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">the aesthetics at this place was amazing</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">a lot of people there were literally just there for the instaworthy shots i'm sure of that</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">this room was pretty cool - they have people in there who would measure your height and then mark your name and the date on the wall</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">all of us with some red clothing since it was national day</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">these two got bored exploring and decided to entertain themselves hahahahaha</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">met up with bryden for dinner at kau kee since he was in town as well</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">view of Fa Yuen night market from the bridge walking back from Mong Kok station</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">started day two with a trip to the temple </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">us with the birthday girl </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">it was good to go for a session and i even bumped into iris inside the temple (she was back in hk for the summer) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">lunch at house of canton with the yummiest egg tarts! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">dim sum in hk is a must </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">the view from our hotel room on the gloomy second day we were there </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">we lazed around in the hotel for a bit to hide from the rain and then finally headed out to get some dessert at kai kai </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">headed to the peak at night cause we already pre-booked tickets but it was so foggy and rainy we couldn't see anything. seriously such a waste of time. so we ended up just exploring the free trick eye place. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">financial district </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">day three was still very rainy so we spent most of it just eating and walking around the tsim sha tsui area. we always go to this congee shop when we go to hk - love it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">streets of hk </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">the portable fans were the first things we bought upon arrival in hk and these things were a lifesaver haha </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">a random store selling totoro stuff haha </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">finally a clear view of the hk skyline that i didn't get to see from the peak </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">family <3 </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">went up the sky 100 observatory deck because we had already pre-booked tickets again (literally the one trip it didn't pay off to plan and pre-book sigh) and it was raining so we couldn't see much but we still could see something/more than what we saw from the peak </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">pork chop and vegetable rice for dinner followed by snack buying before heading back to the hotel since it was our last night in hk</span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i think we still managed to do quite a lot of things (as i look through those photos now) despite the fact that it was a short trip and it rained a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i just wished we could have gone to a few more night markets but the rain ruined that haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">and because of the weather, we didn't even attempt to go to disneyland haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">so oh well, next trip now that hk is only a 4-hour flight away hehe. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">that was the highlight of august and then here are the other photos from the month:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">this is what sundays look like for me at church</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">i love how all of us girls have our legs crossed the same way in this meeting haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">national day attire with some of my colleagues that adhered to the red and white dress code haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">love the different flavors you get at mcdonalds in asia</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">photo shoots always remind me of penna powers</span> <br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">when you don't have an iron on hand to solve your wardrobe issues haha</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">$10 shoes from hk</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">chimaek with the coworkers - i only had the chi portion of it haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">love that i can play games with my coworkers! avalon in session haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">can't believe it's already been 4 months since i moved back and started working in singapore. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">time passes way too quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">work has really picked up and i was super stressed this past week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">and i think i'm just going to continue being stressed all the way until my event in early november haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i'm super looking forward to 9 november cause then i can breathe a little hahaha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">and maybe take a short trip to bkk or bali or something. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">but that also means that it will be november and we will be one month away from the last month of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">so so scary how time flies so quickly. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i think i'm getting more used to things here but still kind of trying to figure out who i am here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">it's almost like there's an overseas version of me that i got used to while living overseas and now i have to kind of mold the living back home in singapore version of me. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">it's hard to explain but that's literally how i feel haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">people always ask me if i miss living back in the states and they never believe me when i say not really.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">yes there are things i miss for sure like driving on wider roads (haha), getting things for much cheaper, good shopping, game nights, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">but when i'm in singapore, i've found that i no longer have that super empty feeling that i felt a lot in the states.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">like in the states i always felt that the fact that i lived so far away from family and close friends caused me to always feel hollow inside. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">but in singapore, i've never once felt that.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i find it hard to navigate the social scene in singapore again but i've never felt the hollow feeling i would sometimes feel randomly at night after work or during the winters when i was in the U.S., and i'm super thankful for that. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i guess for me, my family for my support system close to me is the most important.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">speaking of an overseas version of myself, i realized that i developed a huge love for playing games when i lived overseas haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">all those nights playing games with our group of friends are much missed!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i always want to play games here in singapore but don't have a core group of friends/enough people to play with and it makes me feel sad and like a part of me is missing haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">plus in the U.S. it was easy to host game nights especially since we all drove too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">in singapore, i'm happy to host game nights but my friends live so far away from me and we take public transportation so it's just not as convenient haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">one thing i definitely miss a lot too is working at P2 haha.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">the culture, the people, the way things worked, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i seriously took it all for granted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">not to complain about my current work cause the people are great but i'm not used to certain things for sure - definitely not used to having to create a lot of things myself instead of having the creative team provide amazing design work sigh haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i've also found myself changing to match the work culture here - responding to work-related messages at night after work, doing work on the weekends, thinking about work too much (you know you think about work a lot when you always start your morning prayers praying about work-related things), etc. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">it's so so sad and i miss the days at P2 where people literally would not contact you at all outside of work hours and i could really check out and rest. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">anyway, back to trying to write the speech for my guest of honor for my november event haha. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">wish me luck!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">it makes me feel extra sad that i'm actually supposed to be in hawaii right now (booked tickets back in february before i decided to move home and ended up having to cancel my ticket sigh).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;">i'll just live vicariously through my sister's photos of the trip :(</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">xoxo,</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000;">C</span></div>
charchenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07063802111400766647noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6427778160436937902.post-88204328841887919512018-08-04T07:49:00.001-07:002018-08-04T07:49:44.850-07:00no, nothing's ever perfect, but i still call you mine;<span style="color: blue;">time for a 3-months-since-i've-moved-home check in haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i still feel like a banana (yellow on the outside and white on the inside) or as Branon would say, a lemon (yellow in and out with a thin layer of white in between) haha.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i still feel a stronger connection to my friends in the U.S. and love to stalk their IG/chat with them haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">but i'm getting there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">i just had my 3 weeks long foundation program (aka orientation) at work (yes, 2 months overdue haha) and so i've made some great new friends and won't feel as lost working with different divisions at work anymore.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">more familiar faces to wave to around the office building and more lunch kakis hehe. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">although it was tough trying to juggle my work each day and working till midnight trying to catch up after a full day of orientation stuff, it was all worth it in the end.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">first day awkwardness haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">on one of our site visits</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">at gardens by the bay</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">my favorites</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">when we go out for dinner, it's quite an ordeal getting everyone together and finding a place big enough to accommodate us all</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">dinner conversations when we're out of office are always more natural and chill</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">besides work, there's been lots going on as well and thankfully there are photos to remind me amidst the hustle and bustle of life. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">because honestly the days just start to become a blur to me when i follow my daily routine of work.gym.eat.sleep.repeat haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">- World Cup madness: World Cup time was so fun following all the different teams and their matches! it's too bad the World Cup is only once every 4 years. i loved being back in Singapore for the World Cup again cause people in Singapore are more into it than people in the U.S. are haha. My colleagues and i would talk about the different matches and players each day, and we even got together on a friday night to watch one of the matches together so it was just so fun. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">it's also our daddy-daughter bonding tradition for my sister and i with our dad - something we've done since we were young. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">my colleagues and their bets haha - i don't know how many times i heard them say they were going to quit hahaha // England letting me down sigh and my poor dad not getting much sleep that night cause they went into 30 mins extra time sigh haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">- celebrated my birthday with my closest friends and family</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">the backdrop that i painstakingly worked on but it just couldn't stay up the whole night sad sad sad // TATE TATE was the star of the night walking all around and socializing with my friends haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">my greatest support in life (sam missing from this photo)</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">my lovely birthday cake from zee x elle // blowing the candles out with the help of my little nephews</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">MY SQUAD</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">- visits from friends from the U.S. - looking forward to many more visits from more people. that's what i love about having friends from all over the world.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">my favorite twins from HK!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">so fun to have Wendy in town so we could go eat good food!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">- amazing sunsets</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">especially love the pink sunsets</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">- weekend visit to River Safari to see my favorite pandas</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">red panda <3</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">my favorite panda bao!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">- visited the local fishery port early one morning: it was pretty fascinating to see an old school side of singapore which comes alive in the early hours of the morning. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">our guide from hai sia seafood</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">loved the creative sign // they cooked salmon for us to sample</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">scallops too! the scallops were really sweet</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">- attended the NDP preview show. i think the last time i watched NDP live was like 15 years ago. it was quite a good experience (you can definitely feel the Singapore pride!) albeit the heat hahaha. also, side note: i really really love the NDP song this year! my favorite line from the song: "<i><b>No, nothing's ever perfect, but i still call you mine</b></i>." that literally sums up how i feel about my whole transition - it's not perfect but ultimately Singapore's still my home, my #1. <3</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">melting in the heat</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">perfect view of MBS</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">fly that flag high</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">- started teaching the 3 and 4 year olds at church: seriously such a challenge for me because i'm not a children person and they test my patience every week hahaha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">- my nephew is seriously entertaining every sunday because he likes to run up to the podium area and always get quickly removed haha</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">getting dragged down // sulking haha</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">- some of my favorite food adventures</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">my favorite mini pineapples // geylang claypot rice</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">amazing (and cheap!) stingray and lalas // jajangmyun!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: purple;">claypot yong tau foo // economy bee hoon!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">sorry for the massive photo overload but i'm too tired to function and think of what to write so this will have to suffice for an update for now haha. </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">my sister just asked me if i'm blogging or writing my life story hahaha.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">i'll try to go back to blogging once a month so i can actually blog properly and not just do a massive photo dump haha.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">happy to call this little island my home</span></div>
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