Happy New Year 2026

Finally last day of 2025.... To be honest, this year really flew. A blink and we're already at the end of it. 

It was an uneventful year for me. I'd wish for it to be more excited and fun like last year, but uneventful year means nothing really bad happened. A boring year means all was good and manageable. And for that I'm grateful.

Work was busy but not overly busy. I actually felt this year was the best balanced year I've had in years. Work was busy, but not crazy. Home was stressful at times especially at the beginning of the year, but somehow i detached better later this year i think, so i could still keep my cool and not stressed out. I slept better too. And made peace with my diet progress, at least I'm not overly chubby, but I'm still watching what i eat, exercise and try not to stress. 

I became lazier though. So many diy projects i started but didn't finish. I only just finished the Sakura train yesterday coz my friend gave me that for bday and i felt obligated to finish it. It was easy too. 3 days done. 

I kept on learning Japanese with Duolingo. Currently on 384 days streak. I'm sure i still can't converse with Japanese, but at least I'm learning more vocabs and hopefully can catch up bits n pieces when i go there again. 

I watched lots of series, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and anime. The only hobby i keep on doing coz I'm too lazy to do anything else lol. 

In terms of friendships, there was an old colleague who reached out to me again after years. We met few times, but then her life got busy and i was tired to chase again and again. I'll let her decide what to do with it. But at this stage of my life, i really can't be bothered to put effort on relationships, coz it usually ends up to be a waste of time. 

When my boss told me i could bring a plus one to Xmas party, doesn't have to be husband or boyfriend, can also be sister or friends, I had The Business Proposal moment "I HAVE NO CHINGGUUUU" moment lol but it wasn't in the pity party mode, it was more like romantic comedy moment. So i guess I'm really okay with my situation now. I really don't understand why people like to post "I'm going to restaurant alone for dinner. That's okay right? ", man of course it's ok, why do you even need to ask? 

Threads was probably the number 1 app i used this year. I've always been annoyed with reels and shorts where i have to watch the whole thing slowly to get what it is all about. I really prefer to just skim the caption and see if it's relevant to me, but most reels don't have that. So threads is perfect for me. Lots of stories and i can skim to see if it's relevant to me before concentrating on it. 

I went to Indonesia again, with 1 of my sis. Jakarta and Bali. It was fun, tho Bali one was a bit disrupted due to my bestfriend's hubby sudden gallbladder. But it ended alright and well i got to stay in quite a few of different hotels in Bali. I pretty much booked hotel every other day back then due to the uncertainty lol but lots of interesting memories this time. 

We also went on a cruise to Moreton Island with our whole family and cousin's family. It was awful. I hated every minute of it and don't wanna get on it again. Prob until I'm damn old and just want to relax. But even then I'm not sure, sounds like going to Japan and just stay in hotel and go out to konbini appeals to me more than cruise. It was so boring. I didn't get the internet plan, expensive and i thought there's plenty to do, but no, there wasn't. Food was just pub quality and not that great. True i didn't pay extra. But i mean it was so underwhelming for me to the point i didn't wanna spend another cent coz i didn't believe it was gonna change it. 

Dad had small surgery. It was 1 night stay only, thank god it was only 1 day. It was already stressing me out. I couldn't fall asleep that night coz i worried of getting a phone call from hospital in the middle of the night like 3 years ago. Hope there's nothing like that ever again. 

I took a week off from work a month after cruise. It was supposed to be the original cruise date, but my cousin forgot she was going back to work that week. I didn't cancel the leave but instead went all over Sydney eating meals i usually can't go coz of work, and trying cakes at cafes. I thought it was gonna be boring, but actually it was fun. A week went by so quickly and i actually didn't get to eat all from my list. 

On my birthday i took a day off. I planned to go to the zoo ($2 bday ticket) but the weather was awful so i didn't end up going. My sis and I went to a cafe I've tried during my leave and i ordered the cakes i wanted to eat. Then went window shopping, used my bday vouchers and had Japanese BBQ lunch and shokupan Japanese/Thai desserts. Oh my IT colleagues actually called me on my mobile and sang me happy birthday. It was really sweet of them 😊

Lots of not so good things happened to people around me, be it money loss, or relationships issue or just too hectic of life. So I'm grateful for my non eventful year. 

Hopefully next year I'll be braver to face all challenges in life, more diligent. And hopefully life will be easy, peaceful but fun and enjoyable in 2026.

Happy New Year 2026.

It Was Not a Boring 2024 :)

So I skipped writing last year huh? Well 2023 was a very hard and tiring year for me. No wonder I didn't have the mood to write.

My wish for 2024 was to not have a boring year. I wanted to have a fun and exciting year. I also thought 2023 was such a boring and gloomy year, hence the wish for 2024.

And I did get a fun and exciting 2024 :)

Don't get me wrong, it was a busy and tiring year too. But at least there were some stories, new experiences, and few trips for me, to enjoy and spoil myself.

January, I was busy with work. I started having to do more work as a Team Leader - the tasks I have never done before and had to learn as I went. Plus the normal development. In this month also, 1 of the bathrooms in my house leaked, so I had to call plumbers/developers and discussed about repairs/ renovation. It was a very hectic month. To make it worse, my online friend who's been friends with me for the past 2 years was getting more and more suffocating. A little context here, I just quit my game as of 1 Jan, and got slammed into busy work straight away. Hence, I didn't chat with him as much as before. While he, I think worrying that we'd grow apart, kept bombarding me with texts and stalker behaviour. The whole month I was busy with life and work physically, and mentally busy dealing with this guy. Everyone told me to block him, but at the beginning I felt bad for ghosting (since I knew, I couldn't talk it through with this guy. He'd just pity party again). But towards the end of the month with all these things going on, and him creating another account just to test if I blocked him on discord, I exploded and finally blocked him everywhere. He still tried contacting me with other means until Feb I think. Oh I did have a meal with a guy my auntie introduced this month too. But nothing afterwards.

Feb, I still had to deal with that guy's attempts to reconnect. I even got a hand written letter through.... can you guess it? TRUCALLER!!!! I didn't know that app has got chat feature. NONE of the people I knew knew about it as well. Damn. Everytime I remember this, it pisses me off that I was actually the one who INTRODUCED this app to him. *bang head on the wall* 

Then, it was full of doctor appointments. I've noticed a lump for the past few months, but I didn't want to deal with it before Chinese New Year. So once it passed 15 days, I booked for doctor and started doing all those check ups.

Mar was full of doctor appointments and I had my surgery booked just 2 days before Easter. I planned it that way so I didn't have to take too many sick days to recuperate. And guess what, the renovation started the week before my surgery :) talk about bad timing. I was already busy and had to deal with this too. Mostly just phone calls, but I also needed to go to shop to choose tiles etc. Oh but I managed to get some tickets for &Juliet Musical. It was very enjoyable!!!

Apr we learnt how to paint :) the reno apparently doesn't include painting the ceiling -.- It was gonna cost $800-1200 to paint the ceiling. So, of course I, refused to pay and instead asked my friend to drive me to Bunnings and buy paints etc. Just bermodalkan watching videos + asking the staff, I, a week after surgery, with my sisters, painted the bathroom ceiling. Man... how painful were my shoulders and neck after that. I took 2 panadols that night. But then, painting skills unlocked! We also went to see a play, not musical, just a play. So it was our first play. And my online friend from Canberra came to visit at the end of the month.

May we went to see a solo musical performance. And I booked flight tickets to go to Indonesia alone!!!!!! And we booked our tickets for Japan in November yayyyyyyy ^^

Jun - The month I realised that I'm actually rich :| On a Saturday morning while I was sleeping in like a pig, my sister woke me up and asked me to book tickets for our parents to go back to Indo. My dad's depression was getting worse and he wanted to go see his doctor. So there I was searching for flight tickets literally a minute after I opened my eyes, and booked it within 10 minutes after waking up. For the next day. I'm not bragging, but seriously at that moment I realised, I was actually rich enough. And grateful that we had enough money to be able to do this.

I've been grateful for this more since Feb actually. Eventhough Australia has Medicare and I'm covered, but it doesn't actually cover for everything. Ultrasounds and biopsies are not 100% covered and sometimes, you need to pay first and claim after. If you don't have cash on hand, then how would you pay for all these? 1 scan is already hundreds of dollars. So yeah, this year I'm more aware on this, and really grateful that at least... despite all these problems, we have 1 less thing to worry about. It's true, money cannot buy happiness. But if you have money, at least you can focus more on the other things.

I also realised how great I am in sleuthing ;) 1 of our Sydney friends got married. We talked about him and then I googled the wife. Then... I found some interesting details... ho ho ho ho.... But yeah, I always know I'm good at investigating, but this year I realised that even more as my friend asked me to help find info hahaha...

Jul - Guess what. I got my first ever covid 1 week before my flight. Oh man, I got to frustrated. I so blaming my colleague for spreading it to me. And we only talked for few minutes once??? I guess my immune system was really low then. But in order to make sure I got well before the flight, I pumped up my vitamin c, drank coconut water and ATE A LOT. As the result I got well 2 days b4 the flight, but 2 kilo heavier :| Great. Just. Great.

Anyway, then I was off to Bali for a week. I was worried I'd somehow bump into him at the airport initially. But, once I saw the crowds of people trying to pick up..... Yep, there's no way either of us can recognise each other. There were so many people!!!! Even my BFF and I had trouble finding each other.

I stayed with my BFF in Bali and enjoyed that week with her, her hubby and also her cousin who flew to Bali to join me. It was really a nice time to just be me. We did Pandora Escape Room together too, the most difficult one, and we finished it 10 min before time was up (with plenty of hints hahahaha). But it's ok, we managed to get out is the important thing. There was 1 time when my bff thought she saw him, and I froze. Thank god it wasn't him phewwww

Then another week in Jakarta with my cousins and uncles/aunties. Oh I also tried the new fast train - Whoosh Whoosh to Bandung. It was really fast. Feel rugi paying expensive only for 20 min ride lolllllll That week was really just meeting friends and families and full on eating. I gained another 5 kilo in Indo *hopeless smile*

Aug - I went for coffee with the guy Denny's introduced. Nothing afterwards too. Then, Metro Sydenham - Tallawong Opened yayyayyyyyyy Now I have a lot of lunch options!!!!! Guang Liang's concert woohooooooooo!!!! It was such a great concert. He sang so well and very stable!!! I hope I can go to his concert again in the future. And Conan the Movie Million Dollar Pentagram was out in the cinema yayyyyy and we were going to the places featured in the movie hehehehehehe...

Sep - In the mood of sending food to my friends overseas. And started booking accommodation for Japan.

Oct - Can't remember much except we were super busy planning Japan trip + tax return. So many things I need to change for Aomori/Hakodate part as the trains and buses stop running from Nov. But so excitingggggggggg ^^

Nov - The TRIP IS HEREEEEEEE!!!! OMG the best part of my yearrrrrrr. We visited a lot of places, tried a lot of things, saw a lot, shopped a lot, it was just awesome!!! I think I really feel alive when i'm on this kind of trip. All the places we went to this time (except Asakusa), we haven't been to before. It's all new. It was hard planning and figuring things out, but it's so refreshing!! We tried a lot of new dishes too. I even didn't get to eat simple things I usually ate there, but other new things. Didn't even get the chance to eat Mos Burger lol. But we had anything else hahaha..

I spent my birthday in Sendai. Visited some historical places and then ended it with trip to the Aquarium xD My bff was laughing when I told her. She said, it's like 4th Birthday celebration. But I didn't care. I wanted to relax in the Aquarium ^^ The dolphin and seal show was so cute too!

We also visited quite a few places featured in my favorite anime Yuru Camp. Felt so blessed and grateful that I could see those places and experience it myself.

And finally we got to stay in the ryokan we always stay at in Asakusa. The owner as usual was very nice and helpful and even walked us to places we wanted to visit to (within the neighbourhood). He also walked us to the restaurant for dinner, sent us map to festival and walked us halfway to the station when we were going to airport. His wife also bought us apple pies *touched* It feels to me that we are more like friends now.

Dec - Back to reality. Straight busy to work but since it's almost Christmas, I only had 3 weeks work, then off 2 weeks for Xmas and New Year xD So nice huahahahahahaahaha I'm still relaxed from the holiday and admiring the cute useless stuffs I bought there, and reminiscing my time there.

I watched 34 Series this year which include 21 Anime, 9 Kdrama, 3 Cdrama, and 1 JDorama. My favourites are The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today, Marry My Husband, Wrong Carriage Right Groom, Queen of Tears,  Frieren, Yuru Camp, Bartender, Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori, No Love No Gain,  and Light Shop. 17 Movies (6 Animations, 4 Anime, 1Hollywood, 4 Indonesian, 2 Korean) - I think I missed some I watched on the plane though. And listened to many many horror podcasts.

I cut quite a few friends this year. No regrets there. I'm tired of people who don't put as much effort into the friendships as well. Relationships be it friendships or love, need both parties to reciprocate. I was too nice before and gave them too many excuses and benefits of the doubt, while they didn't even appreciate my existence. I guess that's it, I will just give them back what they give me.

Surprisingly this year I got really close to this Thai girl. Dunno how long this would last too. I actually thought our friendship would end last Dec as I was quitting the game. But we are still close till now.

Hopefully next year work is getting better and we get new clients. Honestly, work has been my happy place this year. Our department relationship is really great that I feel happy to come to work everyday. When someone said "Nobody likes to go to work", I actually got offended. Because I am happy to go to work. Yeah yeah I am always lazy to wake up, but I'm always happy when I get to the office (Unless I see the people I don't like he he). So I hope we get new clients and we can stay together longer.

I wish for a less mentally stressful year especially within our family. And I hope I get to travel twice next year too. And hope I can lose 5 kilo!!!!!! Ideally 7, but 5 is good enough *puppy eyes*

I wish for a for a healthy, happy, peaceful but fun and exciting 2025.

Bye 2022, You sucked. Hope 2023 will be Better.

 Hey,

 I didn't write anything this year, but I still want to keep a record of what I remember happened this year.

 2022 sucked. Really. It was damn boring and lonely and depressing for me for the first 9 months. NOTHING interesting or happy happened to me. Well.. at least from what I can remember.

 Well yeah, my cousin gave birth to a cute baby girl and that was exciting. I was happy for them. However, it's not really my happy moment right? I was soooooooooooo lonely and sluggish and depressed. I was bored, but didn't wanna move a finger. I forced myself to get out of bed and go to gym just because if I didn't, I'd just lay there in bed all day. I prefer weekdays to weekends and actually feel happy on Sunday night because I get to go to work the next day.

Work wise, it was a good year. I was awarded Best Employee of the Quarter twice this year. And I didn't even think that I'd get it. The other department's new employees were suck, and I unintentionally made 1 of them cry. And when she resigned, she said that 1 of the reasons is coz she still gotten over the issue with me @@

What else hmm... in Oct, my dad suddenly found out he had medical issue. We were supposed to fly home at the end of the month, but the medical issue was only confirmed until a week before departure date. So yeah.. lots of uncertainties, phone calls, changing reservations, doctor appointments and project deadlines. It was damn... tired...

Then, I flew home and it started the whole socialising that I practically didn't have for the whole 10 months. Felt like 10 months worth of socialising was dumped into Nov and Dec. I also flew to Malaysia to meet my game friends of 3 years. That was great. If I didn't go, I'd have what ifs. But now that I have gone, I still have another what if lol. Sometimes.. I think God can be real cruel... I feel like he hasn't listened to my prayers for years. But then.. when he finally answered, it was done... cruelly... I'm still hurt till now... I sometimes think maybe I should poof. But then, I think again... do I want to throw all those away? But I also think, how long can I stand it? Can I... last?

I also think that God is a procrastinator. All my social life and problems, and natural disasters were all dumped into the last 2 months of this year.

My dad had his surgery early December. Then it started a week long of tiredness. Hospital visits to keep him company in between of work and social life. Plus, we had to go to hospital in the middle of the night and stayed there. Which means, loss of sleep. My friend also visited from Canberra during that period, so I couldn't sleep in. Plus, office Christmas party within same period.

However, because of this, I realised how good my bosses are. I took planned and unplanned leaves because of my dad's surgery and they never complained. And the 2nd award I got? Turned out that it was for Q3, but I went on holiday after that quarter, and when I'm back, I kept taking leaves coz of my dad and they couldn't present it to me LOLLL My GM said "It's your fault that it's late". Turned out that it was literally my fault xD I don't have much things I'm grateful for this year (I probably should have more, but the first 9 months were so miserable), but my work is the number 1 thing I am grateful for this year. When that newbie cried, everyone took my side. Nobody blamed me or told me off. They all agreed that I didn't mean bad. It's just me being me. Impatient and blunt, straight to the point. I really didn't know if I should be happy or sad when they said, "It's just her being her. She's like that to me! She's like that to everyone!" LOL

My BFF flew here with her husband for Registry of Marriage. So finally we can hang out for a month here. That was really fun and I also enjoy hanging out with her husband. She flew back today, I'll be lonely... Because she was here, I also hung out a lot with friends we didn't get to meet often. It was so much fun. I think I really can be myself when I'm with them. I can laugh freely, I can act clingy, needy, fierce and shameless when I'm with them. I can't be like that with anybody else...

I dropped a long time friend this year. Such a shame. She's found new group of friends and doesn't have time/doesn't put effort into maintaining our friendships. I also have stopped putting effort in maintaining relationships with few friends I used to put effort into. I realised that it was always me reaching out to them. My cousin once said to me, she's also the type that doesn't do the reaching out. But, for me... I think I'm tired already. Why is it always me? If it's always only me, wouldn't that mean I don't worth that much to them? So, what's the point?

On the other hand, there's this game friend who really appreciates our friendships. He said to me today, "Thank you for keeping me company and cheering me up this year. If not because of you, there might not be me today. And I won't get this far". On the other hand, the other friends made me feel underappreciated, or like I was nothing lol You really don't get the things you want in life, but you get other things. Would be good if we can get both though, lol.

Anyway... I hope next year will be better. I'll try to keep myself busy, so I don't have time to overthink or feel lonely. I'll drink more water and try to prioritise myself more. Hopefully that way, I'll be happier.

 

Purple Lady.

31 Dec 2022 22:29

Bye 2020, Not Going to Miss You

 So I didn't write anything for the whole 2020 eh :/ 

2020 sucked, it was such a tiring, frustrating and depressing year for me. I blame it to Covid19. Of course, I'm still grateful that I still have my job, didn't get a paycut, even though my payrise was conveniently cancelled *rolling eyes*, talk about bad timing. I guess this year had a lot of bad timing for me *sigh....

I've always considered myself a more stay at home person. Going out tires me out. So, I was happy at the beginning of quarantine and wfh. I could stay up late to play games, and still had enough sleep and woke up in time for work a.k.a. open my eyes, walk 1.5m to my laptop and start working LOLLL But I wasn't happy when wfh those 3.5 months. The internet speed frustrated me (thanks to you damn Optus), 1 monitor wasn't enough, and I had a very bad back/neck/shoulder pain. The good thing that came out of wfh was that I lost a lot of weight and have now achieved my ideal weight. Strange, I know, people said to me that they all gained weight, but I on the other hand, lost quite a few kilos without even trying. The secret, you ask? SMALL DESK SPACE CANNOT ACCOMODATE SNACKS!!!! And I used to eat out a lot, but couped up at home, I couldn't eat out and my portion grew smaller.

Speaking about couped up at home, thanks to Covid, I realised that sunlight does make me happy. When I feel gloomy at home, I go out for a walk and I feel better with the warmth of the sun on my face. So yes people, sunlight DOES CHEER YOU UP! I never considered myself an outdoorsy person, but I still remember the first time I went out for bushwalking after so many months staying home, I was SO happy. Maybe it was the feeling of prisoners after they are released from jail. I felt so happy, so free, so relieved, like I could breathe again. So weird...

Compared to all years that have passed, I think I got to know myself more this year. And honestly, I do not like it hahaha... I've been very sensitive and moody this year. And guess what, I was so damn happy when I went back to the office to work. We started going back to the office way earlier than other people, and I would have thought that I'd be cursing my bosses for being so conservative and not let us wfh longer, but you know what? I was relieved. My first day back? I was cheerful and happy. I never realised that I enjoy those banters I have with my colleagues, the arguments I have with my colleagues, and them teasing me for any faults that happen eventhough they are not mine. I actually enjoy those social interactions! I said I got to know myself way better right? I did MBTI test and I was identified as ISFJ, which they say the most extroverted introvert, and the type that craves attention from their loved ones (not in an attention seeking or spotlight hugging way, just in a love and care, emotional support and conversation sort of way). I guess I enjoy social interactions but only with people I'm comfortable with?

This year was full of Covid related things. I lost 2 granduncles, 1 from Covid, 1 from other disease. There was also a distant relative that passed away due to Covid. My cousin and 1 of my close friends got married on the same day in Oct. Thank God, 1 got married on Zoom only, so I didn't have to choose which one to attend.

I cut my hair short. I haven't cut my hair short since I was in 2nd grade LOL I got tired of washing and hair drying my hair, and since I didn't have to meet people, I asked my sister to cut it short, and I actually love it hahahaha... I've been having it short most of 2020. This is 1 of the good things Covid gave me.

It's really hard to think what I did this year.... I played games most of the time, watched Netflix, anime, sleep, lazying and procrastinating. I really haven't done much this year...

In terms of friendships, I got closer to my gaming friends. They made me laugh a lot, though they also are the reason why I didn't get enough sleep, pissed or sulking till next day, however... it's been fun, real fun. And I'm scared of when this all ends. I also got closer to my uni friends here. I was surprised to know that apparently they don't have a lot of real life friends too... I've always thought I'm the one with least friends.

I haven't been a good person this year. I also realised that being a good person doesn't give you great return most of the time. You'll be used by other people. Of course I've known that, but I thought I'd be able to pick up the signs and stop it before it happened. Turned out that I was wrong. Who knows if karma actually exists.

What else did I do... I got addicted to reddit for a while, obsessed with MBTI for a while, and went on a phase of buying gifts for people, sent 1 to Spore, 2 to Indo, and 1 in Oz I think. I also treated my colleagues. Something I don't really do often.

I have been unlucky this year. I only won 1 competition for movie premiere, The Croods 2. But guess what, the premier happened on the same day of company Xmas party and I couldn't go. Asked my sis to go instead, and she fell ill on that day. I couldn't even get the goodie bag -.- And my drops in game? very scarce. A lot of annoying events...

So yeah, here's me wishing for a better year ahead. A luckier year, a happier, kinder year, a more exciting year, a more loving year, and people to be more understanding, value, spoil and appreciate me. Is that too much to ask?

And hope I'll be better in 2021, either for the sake of me, or for other people.

<3

Goodbye 2018, Helloooooo 2019!

Hi guys!

Just as I usually do on 31st Dec every year, I'm writing a reflection on what 2018 has been. I know I didn't write much this year, and it's to do with all the web novels I read when commuting XD but I still wanna write this one for a quick 2018 summary :)

2018 was full of TV series and web novels lol In total, I've finished 10 TV series this year. I think my mandarin should have improved a bit from watching all those :P I also attempted to sub last 15 min of Yanxi Palace on Youtube as I couldn't wait for someone else to sub it. After doing it, I now have respect to all those freee subbers out there. Even if English and Mandarin are their main languages, the translating, editing and timing takes A LOT OF TIME. So guys, please don't be a jerk and get mad when the subbers miss the schedule time. They have real life to do and it's good enough that they spare a lot of portion of their life to let you enjoy those dramas.

I think the drama that I liked this year was The Eternal Love. It's light and funny and made me feel happy and forget all my worries. It was low budget, but the crew did their best and it was very enjoyable. Another one would be Ode to Joy 2. I think it was comparable to the 1st season. It was realistic and kinda opened the can of worms of things that people kind know not to do, but still do anyway. Hopefully that show can touch the hearts of some of the people and make the world a little bit kinder place to live in. When a Snail Falls in Love was good too, I liked it better than Love Me If You Dare. It's good to see Wang Zi Wen play a role that's total opposite of Qu Xiao Xiao (eventhough I really wish I could be more like Qu Xiao Xiao). She's really an underrated actress. The King's Woman was so so, but Zhang Bin Bin was refreshing to my eyes lol Not that handsome, but still eye candy lol

None of the web novels I read was finished this year. I'm currently reading The Concubine's Daughter is Poisonous, Princess Medical Doctor and Rebirth of the Malicious Empress from Military Lineage. The Concubine's Daughter and Malicious Empress are GREAT! I really enjoy them. Malicious Empress is nearing the end, and I'd be sad when it ends :( The Concubine's Daughter translation is of very high quality. Again, respect to all those translators and editors :) Thank you.

We finally had our second trip to Japan this year :) We visited Tokyo, Nikko, Yokohama, Takayama, Shirakawago and Gokayama, Kanazawa, Tsumago and Magome, Kyoto and Osaka. I tried the Onsen too!!! And surprisingly I enjoyed it so much! If I go to Japan again, I'd like to go onsen again hehehehe... I also went all out in Disneyland and USJ. I didn't get on outdoor roller coasters, but I did ALL of their indoor dark roller coasters!!! I'm very proud of this hahahaha... And we got on almost all rides we wanted in Disneyland on a 50k visitors day (the red indicator day)!!! VERY, VERY proud of this achievement too hahaha... and we tried the night bus from Tokyo to Kanazawa. It was very comfortable :) This time in Japan, we splurged more. Afterall, we're all still single and we usually are thrifty anyway. So I let myself buy more cute stuffs, Conan stuffs, Sailormoon stuffs and tried more expensive snack food lol XD No regrets!

My cousin got married this year, and I got to help her set up the wedding hall. That's an achievement you know! From blank canvas, we transformed the hall into what my cousin had in mind. The end result was an on time really gorgeous wedding :)

Honestly I felt I was really lazy this year. We had a cold winter. Even it started getting really cold in Autumn. So I pretty much hibernated from Apr - beginnging of Nov :/ and that's how I managed to watch all those dramas XD Hope I won't hibernate that long in 2019!

Work.... a lot of drama in terms of the work itself, and in relationship department. It ended up in eruption just 2 weeks ago. I'm still a bit down if I remember it. Hopefully there's a way out for me next year. Someone please save me... I'm too scared to leave eventhough I know I should leave. So please save meeeeeeeee

I did help someone for a weekend for his website. So I kinda had a feel of freelancing. Man it was hardwork. I don't think I wanna go down that path. I like my weekend reserved for refreshing!!! A local bus driver mentioned that he wanted to have a website and may ask my help for it one day. Oh man, I was SO SCARED of bumping into him! I even went as far as to go earlier to gym, and walked home to avoid his bus! Unfortunately, all those exercises didn't do much help to my figure >>>>___<<<< My weight stays the sameeeeeee TT_______TT

This year I'm more lenient towards myself in terms of money and things I want to do. Some people I know, either personally or through someone else, were affected with cancer this year. They were all young, probably only few years older than me. It kinda shocked me that it can happen to anyone anytime. Therefore, don't always think about the future, of course future needs to be prepared, but don't always think about the future and not enjoying your present. We all hope there's a future for us, but at least if there isn't, you won't regret it at the end of your life...

Not much craft, not much language learning. As I said, the cold winter made me snuggle in bed for months, so forget about getting my fingers to do craft :P I did start listening to Audio books for language learning, and they actually work. It gets your brain to actively work even when you're walking on the street. I'll continue doing it.

I had the opportunity to experience the power of teenagers in social media. My 13 years old cousin, actually managed to make me one of the winners of photo competition by getting her friends to vote for me!!!! It's pretty astonishing how easy it it to get her friends to vote for me, someone who they don't know, for a photo that's just okay, to end up being in top 3! I'm still dumbfounded until now. But thanks my dearest cousin *muachhhh*

I met my cousin and his wife who I haven't seen since 10 years ago in Melbourne. It was not planned. We just happened to be in Melbourne at the same time and I checked in on Facebook. He saw it and arranged to meet up. We ended up meeting for breakfast and dinner and now talk to each other sometimes on whatsapp. What a great coincidence :) For that, I truly grateful...

And last memorable thing this year was the game I am recently hooked on, Royal Chaos. What started from just curiosity, ended up giving me headache and joy and refreshment when I need some distraction from real life. I've got into a great community that's fun and supportive. Most of them are youngsters though, that sometimes make me feel old. But they are all very nice people and we can just talk about random stuffs or bitch about our common enemy XD I remember there's this list about what people should do to enjoy their life, it's to spend time with the elderly and kids. But I think spending time with people a generation younger than you is great too. It makes you see life in lighter way and not to take things seriously ALL the time. But man, I also didn't think that game can have so much dramas and politics too!!!! Sometimes I'm wide awake at 1 in the morning because of the drama or fights we have with the other party -_- But I won't wish to not get involved in this game in the first place.

So that's it for 2018 reflection. I need to prep the dish for tonight's dinner!!!

Bring on 2019 and please be kind but exciting and memorable and HAPPY!!!!!

Happy New Year 2019 guys!!!!!!! *hug hug kiss kiss*