Southern Islands Hopping

To my name twin yx, I am going to miss you so, so, so much. Go forth and slay where you belong, I can't wait to see what the next few years has in store for you.

2017

10 PM on the last day before 2018 and I wish I can make my life sound cooler by saying that I'm at Bang Bang on my third cup of long island iced tea and laughing way too much at everything, and when it strikes 12 I will stand on a chair and scream happy new year bitches!!!! but really I am just at home because I find it meaningless to view fireworks through people's iPhones and then queue forever to get on the MRT back at 2am. Or, that I actually thought I wanted to study but clearly I wrote this post instead, and really, whats with rum, vodka, bacardi, soju and gin? They all taste like whiteboard marker?

So back at it, a series of funny coincidences led me to have telegram chat with Zhuo Hui (who happens to be one of the closer friends I've found in law school and Tembusu) about AuditionSEA. This made me smile because audi is really one of the stories I will use to think about how much has changed over the years.  I used to be so obsessed with that game. Pretty sure there were times when I thought about it during all the afternoon supplementary classes just to rush home to log onto it after school. In fact, I was so gung ho that I actually met up with my audi fam (kinda a clan system) in real life - yes, one of them was actually working at the dessert counter at Hougang macs, and a mix of us from secondary school to poly just sat at macs eating ice cream - and I even got married and all. Virtually, of course. Zhuo and I dug out old screenshots of our in-game characters and talked about a lot of the game functions. I mused that it was such an apt conversation to have leading into 2018, my life has changed so much in such profound ways since those days, haha.

I thought I'd take a break from mugging for "finals" and take stock of what has happened in the past year.

I tried yoga (kinda, like a hybrid with aerobics) and decided it was not for me. In an attempt to be healthy, my mum and I signed up for some aerobics class offered by our community club. It made me understand that work-life balance is a concept that sounded better in theory than in actuality. It was a night class that was designed for people to head to after work, but really, it is nearly impossible to make it on time unless you really made sure you knocked off on time from work, which - culturally speaking, doesn't really cut it across most industries in Singapore. I experienced it first hand as I realised it is difficult to knock off on time for a consistent day per week. No wonder these programmes are not gaining traction, and I (for the times that I did turn up of course - my mum didn't even bother after a while) often found myself caught in the middle of aunty dynamics at the class. Well, it might not be for me but I did sweat a bunch and became slightly more flexible, I guess. Overall it is a commendable ground-up effort from the community club to hold interesting classes at very lucrative prices...