City Girl, City Stories

Year in Review

2023

21 January 2024 in DIARY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE

Hello 2024! Is anyone still saying “Happy New Year”? Because I was still wishing my friend that yesterday. :) I have always shared my “year in review” post on New Year’s Eve, but couldn’t make it in 2023, so decided to just let it...

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2022

31 December 2022 in DIARY, SINGAPORE

2022 was… actually pretty wonderful. :) Not in any particularly dramatic and exciting way where I went skydiving, met the love of my life or even travelled (I haven’t left Singapore for 5 years), but in the quiet everyday ways.  In 2022, for the...

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2021

31 December 2021 in DIARY, SINGAPORE

2021… phew you were a crazy rollercoaster ride! I was so expectant and excited for 2021, I had my arms wide open to welcome everything there was to come. Then 2021 arrived, barely said hello and off we went! So fast, so crazy, up...

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2020

31 December 2020 in DIARY, SINGAPORE

2020! What. A. Year. Personally, this has been a long year and I’m really glad to be done with it. Most of 2020 was challenging, although I’ve been very fortunate in my job, salary and health and I’m very thankful for that. For a...

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2019

31 December 2019 in DIARY, SINGAPORE

You’ve been a challenging one, 2019. A year filled with detours and raised hopes combined with rejections I didn’t really expect to face. It was a year of trying again and again and again. It was a year where I got no as an...

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2018

31 December 2018 in DIARY, SINGAPORE

Just about this close to saying goodbye to 2018! Overall, it’s been a pretty good year. :) 2018 brought along with it a new start, as I settled down into life in Singapore and happily welcomed a new job, finally took it upon myself...

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2017

31 December 2017 in DIARY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE

It’s time to say goodbye to you, 2017! What a year it has been! I usually feel quite wistful at the end of every year, because to me, it’s the end of another chapter and 2017 has been a wonderful chapter. However, saying goodbye...

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