And they sang carols in the distance

wow im back after only 3 months! 

cant believe its alr april. time works differently once you're adulting :'(

have had a bit more time on my hands since i've been on course for work. it was quite the whiplash getting back into the classroom setting after sooo many years, but i think now i've finally settled into it. first few days were definitely hard tho. but i've forgotten how learning can actlly be fun. have been so focused on doing work all these years. almost 8 years of working full-time in fact /shocked face

so i've been ending work earlier and trying to be productive with the extra time i have by preparing meals or spending more quality time with bern. lil fella is getting so big now (not physically tho, she is small to medium in that aspect haha) and trying to assert her independence more these days, while still demanding to be carried sometimes. she has figured out how door handles work which is quite scary..

anw today was a good day. usually on the last day of the week we have a few tests to sit for in the morning (shag but at least they are short tests) and then we can go off at around 12pm which is sooo nice cos you basically have the whole day ahead of you. so had lunch at our nearby food centre w sherwin, leisurely queued for generation coffee and then doomscrolled at home, and took out the recyling and restocked the groceries. my grocery bill came up to 30.02 and i used $30 of cdc vouchers and was pleasantly surprised when i didn't have to pay the remaining 2 cents. LOL rly cheap thrills. plus this weekend is a long weekend too bc of good friday. woohoo!! if only i could get off work every day at 12pm... life would actually be so good.

the year so far has been pretty decent, we have been spring cleaning the house a lil bit. altho neither of us are hoarders, somehow stuff tends to pile up esp since we have been living here for 3 years and have bern's things to clear as well. was rather bz at work for jan/feb cos everyone is usually kanchiong at the start of the year, altho managed to squeeze in a trip to bangkok w the rents, and another trip to japan - this time to nagoya - w just the 3 of us! and alr im thinking of booking another trip to bkk, and another trip to japan this year. but the question of where to get more annual leave is always there. haha

also the war is rly affecting flight prices... altho im thankful that's the brunt of it for me. isn't it crazy how we used to scrimp and save to travel with friends and now we fly away from sg multiple times a year? dont know if it's just me but kinda feels like having more disposable income cheapens the travel experience. damn i need to check my privilege

aside from this year's travels, my parents mentioned their travelling buddies (my dad's old classmates) are planning a trip to NZ in march 2027 and i totally did not just self-invite myself to the trip 🙊 just hoping now that the trip duration won't be too long for me - they are all retirees, so a lot of time on their hands - and airfare won't be too crazy. guess we will see how it goes. 

ok time to fetch bern from childcare! not sure when the next time i blog will be haha

BYE

Self-destruct

ITS FOUR DAYS TO CHRISTMAS!!

and i guess it took having a baby for me to blog only twice a year lol

i have rly been procrastinating on blogging, clearly. so much has happened this year! overall, i somehow feel the oldest i've ever felt. like me saying i felt old at 21? or 25? nothing compared to how it feels now. guess it's to do with turning 30 (omg), mothering a growing, lively toddler, hearing more about health scares than i ever have, and a sense of growing a bit more distant from my friends while spending more time with my parents who aren't getting any younger. and i guess the last bit definitely has a lot to do with the lively toddler.

highlights of the year: 

1. okay not rly a highlight, but fell sick so. much. like every other month at the minimum. i never thought i would use up all 14 days of my annual MC... the bug i had in october might have been the worst. in fact october this year was a whirlwind of a month. celebrated my birthday, but fell deathly ill soon after, but fortunately recovered in time to attend wq's wedding, and flew off to seoul that night for a 10-day trip with my parents! thanks sherwin for taking on the parenting responsibilities 💓

2. which brings me to my next highlight, took a trip with my parents to korea! it was my dad's first time in korea and unfortunately he was not impressed altho he was a good sport on the trip, i didn't even know he felt negatively about anyth lol after the trip he said he wouldn't revisit korea cos the food didn't wow him. i guess korea is more of a girls' holiday destination - k-beauty, cute cafes, shopping, photobooths, etc. but it was a good trip for me - 4th time in seoul but first time to busan which i enjoyed altho the food in busan wasn't my thing, and also i rly felt recharged after the trip. sometimes holidays make you feel even more tired after coming back. prolly had something to do with the cold weather which i love!! always wish sg was 10deg colder.

3. visited japan for the first time! this was with sherwin, bernice and sherwin's friends. the weather during this trip was almost sg-like, and this was in late sep, when i started feeling sick and had fever for 2 nights. didn't help that our room, like in most japanese hotels, was v small so bernice kept getting into everything which was v tiring, and the beds and pillows were soooo uncomfy. also, we went to osaka and kyoto. while i loved kyoto, osaka felt super crowded and like just another big city. the cleanliness and the amazing food everywhere are unparalleled though, so i will definitely be back to japan! oh in fact i've alr booked our next trip in march hahaha.

4. watched the cab live! i actually bought tickets for their first show on 10 dec. didn't know that sherwin wanted to help get us tickets (he doesn't listen to them, it's just me) but their first show sold out, so he got the tickets when they added a second show on 11 dec. he only told me like in october that he got us tickets haha. so i thought i was gonna see the cab 2 times, but i fell sick a few days before and had to miss my 10 dec show to sleep. so lucky he got the 11 dec tickets! had a blast at the concert :) but was pretty much alone cos funny guy just stood at the side the entire show cos he didn't wanna block ppl. he got VIP tickets too, but i was lazy and awkward to meet the band, so we left after the last encore song. overall it was great, except that they played the song i rly wanted them to play (vegas skies) but it was quite half-assed :( the rest were good tho.

5. not sure if rly worth mentioning but just saw n remembered while scrolling thru my photo gallery for inspo that i had my first tooth filling ever this year haha. hopefully the last. it started with pain in the right side of my jaw, and when i finally went to the dentist they said if i had delayed some more my cavity could have hit a nerve and i would have to do a root canal op omg. so rly thank goodness it was just a filling. 

6. most of my highlights this year are rly with bernice, watching her grow and explore the world - literally cos we travelled so many times this year with her - is like seeing everything through brand new eyes. looking forward to the trips we have planned for 2026! :) slowly training her for the long-haul journeys to US/europe someday hehe

oooo okay i guess it was not a v happening year, esp compared to 2025. but getting older means i rly appreciate the quiet moments when life is so hectic. 

looking forward to the christmas and end-year celebrations and festive spirit 💓 and soon it will be CNY again!

wishing everyone happy holidays and an amazing 2026!!! 

also if you are reading this, that is crazy, why are you still checking on this dead blog hahaha

Clairvoyant

 HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONEE

it's 2025! 

to be v honest i haven't looked forward to new years for a few years now. i think in place of growing up, now i just feel like im getting older. and it's pretty depressing but i tryy not to put too much thought into this one. haha

today was the first work day of the year, it was rather uneventful except for an unavoidable sense that everyone felt recharged and raring to go after the christmas/nye break, and unfortunately that included the bosses. had a bit of a headache at the end of the day haha but came home to sherwin and bernice and we had eat 3 bowls @ bendemeer for dinner, so all's g!

didn't do a recap for 2024 but since we had a baby i guess normal life had to take a backseat so there wasn't anyth major happening anyways. i gotta say the first month of bern's existence was insane, i rly felt in the trenches and like i was just surviving day to day. maybe the hardest time of my life after A levels?

it's really only gotten better from there on tho. although now we are dealing with her stranger/social anxiety and a surprisingly emerging feisty side of her. but NTH compares to newborn days. we just came back from a road trip up to KL and genting too! my mil tagged along and it was great having the extra pair of hands, especially on the last legs of long drives when bern decided she had slept enough and it was time to partyyy.

overall the trip was alright but too rushed for me, esp the KL part, i forgot how much shopping and eating is possible there. genting - not much to do with a baby in tow tbh, mostly walked around and chilled, and took a cable car down to the premium outlets but it was v crowded. made me miss the chill vibey outlet malls at US!! will defo be back to genting when she's done growing some more, so we can at least spend a day at the outdoor amusement park. i rmb it was quite fun! plus cold weather wew. can't wait to go on longer and further trips w bern next time :) miss big family trips with sherwin's fam to the US man.

for this year's travel plans so far, i only have tw in april and japan in sep. excited for the latter, cos it'll be sherwin, my and bern's first time in japan. i love korea but everyone says japan is better, so waiting to compare them myself haha. 

hoping to firm up more travel plans, maybe with my own fam, haven't travelled w them since... 2019 with my mum and cousin wow. 

okay thats all, abrupt end haha 

have an amazing 2025 everyone!

Heaven sent

 good day!!!!

can't believe i am back once more!!!

i guess alot has happened since my last post? to be concise lemme point form everything

1. i went back to work

nth much to say about this actlly, i went back, managed to clear the more impt emails in a day, and adjusted back to mundane office life. i definitely missed bernice and would spend time at lunch looking at her through our home cam. sad that i can't do that now that she's in ifc :( 

2. we finally moved back home with a baby in tow!

moving home was sort of chaotic, but also not? we managed to move back in 2 trips. kudos to sherwin for tanking all the heavy lifting! the painful part was probably unpacking everything until nighttime, after we put bernice to sleep. ended the night with prata and maggi goreng for supper.

it's been almost exactly 1 month since we moved back and it's been alright so far. the first week to maybe 2 weeks were definitely more tiring as we hadn't gotten down to a routine yet. but now everything is kind of clockwork. thankfully bernice adjusted well to ifc; i was so worried the first couple days that it was difficult to concentrate at work. cos it was her first time alone with all the unfamiliar faces.

3. we celebrated sherwin's birthday in sep, then my birthday in oct, then our anniversary in nov!!

turning a year older with a child now sure feels different. and can't believe i am 29 now haha SO OLDD. also bern is 7 months old now! her monthly "birthdays" definitely feel a lot more monumental than my own birthday, cos every month represents such significant developmental changes for babies. soon she'll be a year old omo!!

4. my mum retired!

it feels weird to me cos my mum used to be busy all the time especially growing up - she's worked all my life and she has an insane work ethic (unlike me?). i was never one of those kids that could call their super approachable mum during school hours to ask them to bring a forgotten file or homework to school, i think i would get a scolding if i tried such a thing. but now she's pretty much free all the time unless she wants to travel. that is.... a lot, of time. so many years of dedication to one thing and now it's all been replaced by nothingness. i guess it's kind of made me reflect on my own job/career and what it all means. still don't have the answer to this yet. and still wondering what to get her as a retirement gift!

5. also life these days has become very routine, with a baby there's always something to do plus the standard of cleanliness in our house needs to be higher now too. it feels like a second job and it's rough sometimes esp if bernice is not having a good day, but i definitely prefer it to DINK life. i think the one thing childrearing has provided that i needed/had been searching for for a while, is purpose. which is... a good thing i guess? haha. oh and with a baby now, the thing i worry most about is... what to FEED HER. i have been meal-prepping for myself but i don't think i make baby-appropriate food. now she's still on 2 meals a day but when she needs to start having dinners with us... man i will need to draw up meal plans. haha. oh well we will cross the bridge when we come to it.... 

okay i wanted to do an end-year recap as usual but i am super hungry now (and also lazy to continue typing) so i will end this post here

BYE 

and if you're reading this, HOW?? WHY are you still regularly checking up on this deadass blog?? haha

oh yeah and i wanted to say that today's weather/vibes is just amazing. it rained all day so the evening was super cool, there were bullfrogs croaking outside just now, and the stars were so visible and pretty today! rly reminded me of one stargazing night in canada. 

okay bye forreal!!

Like a river flows surely to the sea

 I AM BACKKK

my first blog post as a mother??? WILD

wow don't even know what to say about the past 4 months. yes, she turns 4 months in just 10 days! time kind of flies. i say kind of because i absolutely did not have fun the first month. but things got significantly better after she turned 2 months. 

my last day of work was... 26 Mar i think? decided to stay home after around 37 weeks so i didn't have to worry about popping at work. the last part of pregnancy was quite sian, woke up every day surprised i was still pregnant and not daring to venture outside too much in case i popped, and i was also physically perspiring buckets all the time even with the a/c on at night. 

i opted to get sliced open in the end as she went to 40 weeks with zero dilation or signs of labour. gynae mentioned her head was also in a suboptimal but still an okay position for labour. i appreciate that he still brought it to my attn cos he rly wanted me to get induced, but i was afraid of being in labour for hours and needing an emergency c-sec in the end, plus sherwin had a bz work week ahead and a c-sec would allow him to still be able to spend time with her before monday. 

checking in to tmc went quite smoothly, room was nice and big and clean. i wasn't really nervous until before the op when they got me dressed (or undressed?) and wheeled me in. op itself went quickly, and i fell asleep while they were stitching me up but started shivering from the anasthesia when i was back in my ward. 

so bb Bernice was finally born on 20.04.24 looking very nice and pink and screaming as she was forcefully evicted from her nice dark cozy home. coming in hot at 3.33kg and 51cm long, she was discharged after 2 days and fortunately only had mild jaundice which went away after less than 2 weeks. so far, she seems to have a nice calm temperament but she WILL scream for sleep...

my recovery went smoothly as it could. i was able to walk veryyy slowly carrying her out on my day of discharge and felt much better after 4 days, and probably around back to normal after 3-4 weeks. 

for lack of a better description i h8ed confinement. haha. altho my CN was chill about me leaving the house during confinement, i did not like the food, or having to live w a stranger. not to mention getting used to suddenly having and taking care of a fragile newborn baby. it's really round-the-clock care. 

fast forward to now and it's soooo much better. she's reacting and interacting with us and we can read her cries now. plus after they pack on the baby fat they don't look like aliens anymore, they're sooo cute and huggable!!! 

and it's true when you're in the thick of it that it feels like the end will never come. i felt like confinement passed soooooooo slowly, i was counting every single day and it felt like 4 weeks would never end. 

im also grateful to have had lots of help, after confinement we moved to my inlaws (i didn't want to, sherwin insisted, and anyway we had to move cos we don't have an infant care slot til november) and their helper has been quite a lifesaver with taking care of bern and i could leave house anytime i wanted without bringing bb along. mostly i stayed home tho, cos i miss her when im not with her and i know i won't be able to see her at all once i go back to work - and that's in less than 2 days omg. can't believe i'm going back to work..... 

there's definitely too many ppl in the hse tho haha although they play w her a lot sometimes i do think she looks like she could benefit from some alone time. and i as well 😬 now instead of counting confinement days i find myself counting the number of weeks til i'm back home. (currently it's 11 weeks hehe.)

okay gonna go back home (currently blogging from my old house) so i can see bb. and put her to sleep in like 3+ hours. babies go to sleep so early. gonna have like no time with her once i go back to work )):

next time i blog might be when i've moved back! haha BYE

Summer's never looked the same

 good day!!! 

currently 36 weeks preggie and feeling rather whale-ish. keep having to mind the tummy when im outside, especially in crowded places cos yknow how spatially unaware sgporeans can be. the other day i was at a hawker centre, walked past this man who was queueing at a stall and he suddenly decided to go get smth else, turned around with his arms resting on his hips (so his elbows were sticking out) and full out elbowed me and the belly... omg. walking in sg is like driving, i always need to slow down around ppl who look like they're not paying attention to their surroundings. 

anyways other than minor inconveniences, the pregnancy has been good so far. i wonder sometimes even i'll actually miss being pregnant :') it's just such a surreal and fascinating experience carrying your kid inside of you. seeing their little movements (not so little nowadays. abit painful sometimes LOL), watching your stomach grow, witnessing the growth every dr's appt. 

i was just thinking that there's rly a lot to be thankful for this pregnancy. 

1. The Husband

sherwin has been a real gem!! just doing all the things that real men do for their pregnant wives, like household chores, driving me around (hasn't missed a single appt so far :') ), and what he prolly does the most is making sure all my food cravings are satisfied. i don't rly have any strong food cravings but there are things i feel like having for dinner sometimes and he brings me there right away after work. so sweet la 

2. The Car

kinda brings me to my next point, so glad we got a car. since we got it early on in the pregnancy i've only taken public transport a handful of times. but only once has someone offered me their seat?? usually my rides are short so i don't need a seat and don't mind standing. but i always thought pregnant women have no problem being offered seats on the train. was so wrong... from what i observed people are mostly oblivious cos they're using their phones. not sure if im giving them the benefit of the doubt haha but that seems to be the case. anyway with the car we rly have the convenience of going anywhere we like, whether it's to run errands, shop for stuff, eat, or all of the above.

3. The Symptoms

okay not grateful for the symptoms. but grateful that they have been mild and allowed me to enjoy my pregnancy!! i think i mentioned in the prev post, had morning sickness but it subsided after week 10 and other than that i had swollen hands and feet, lower backache, some occasional bloating, etc. but so far i have slept well and have been enjoying a good appetite and general mood. none of the nasty stuff that potentially comes with any pregnancy, like migraines, mood swings, lethargy, prolonged morning sickness. 

4. The Timing

i'm going on ML at a rly good time in terms of work. it's right after i get my perf bonus, and there's restructuring going on right now so a lot of uncertainty. plus in terms of festive season, i was in the clear (after 3 months) to announce the pregnancy during christmas, so no morning sickness, i could enjoy the holidays, and no making up excuses to avoid drinking either (if i wasn't ready to announce it). and then i was already around 7 months along during CNY. great for feasting hehe 

4. The Parents

my parents have been showing alot of concern for me and it's nice cos everyone asks about the baby and gets them baby clothes and toys, but my parents have been talking about what to cook during my confinement, and they passed me red dates and longans to boil and have been generally more concerned for my welfare haha. not that they don't care bout the baby, but it's definitely nice to feel remembered and to be treated like a daughter and not just a soon-to-be mum :) 

5. Other Mums 

love the sense of togetherness that mums and soon-to-be mums have!! i have had colleagues at work come talk to me and offer encouraging words and postpartum tips. also gotten so many hand-me-downs from yy and wums that i don't even need to buy my own baby clothes haha. anw, i just unexpectedly like seeing how babies bring women together. 

ok that's it for now, the next time i blog may be after baby Bernice (whoa name reveal??) comes out!!

💓

Bright, cold silver moon

 new vlog! kind of a short one :)

https://youtu.be/e7W6-E4pRxk

Tongue tied

 good dayyy

it is 5 days to the end of 2023, can't believe another year just zoomed by like that :')

life updates 

i just wanna say pregnancy so far has been decent to me, thank heavens. 

best parts of pregnancy:

1. a great excuse to be fat. im not fat, just pregnant!

2. a great excuse to eat whatever you want

3. a great excuse to just be sitting around all day. ok no, i don't advocate not exercising at all if you can. but i do have low placenta so i need to avoid even moderate exercise. long walks for me are out too altho i love them, because my hands and feet have started to swell and standing or walking for too long is quite unbearable for me. i received house slippers at secret santa this year and they have been such a lifesaver because even standing up on the bare floors in the morning after not moving all night hurts my feet

4. no periods!!!! 

worst parts of pregnancy:

1. sometimes im more emotional than usual

2. the hurting feet. and im glad i don't use my hands for a living (other than to type on computers) cos they're also swollen and i can't even make a fist without feeling some pain now

3. the initial morning sickness was by far the worst. but thank God that's over now (fingers crossed it doesn't come back). it subsided around 10 weeks 

and without further ado, here's a 2023 recap! i expect that with a baby on the way, my blogging will be even less frequent than now (unbelievable right) not sure if i will even have time to post a 2024 recap next year ):

1. i got a puppy around cny. thought she could be my forever friend, but long story short i realised i was truly not ready for a puppy... she is in a wonderful, loving home now though with a lot more attention and puppy dates than i would have given her. and we still board or visit her every fortnight or so, v glad it all turned out well!

2. went to italy for our honeymoon! i think i was quite unlucky this holiday, and also unprepared for the fluctuating temperatures given we went between seasons. but still a great time nevertheless, especially in florence and cinque terre where i was very wowed by the sights and the amazing food. we definitely had most of our best meals and experiences in these two places. 

3. went to my first indian wedding! also in general there were so many weddings this year. pretty sure there will be even more next year. we are at that age now haha

4. visited bali for the second time! always a great time in bali 

5. came home from bali and found out i was preggie 😭💗

6. went to three concerts this year - the strokes, mayday parade (third time seeing them woohoo) and saosin. so glad concerts are back, and so lucky i got to see three of my fav bands this year. i can't even say what my favourite one was because they're all so different. the strokes pretty much played true to record, sounded just like the studio version, and everyone in the band has so much charisma/stage presence that i was in awe throughout. they also unexpectedly played my fav song from them (what ever happened) which they seldom play live. mayday parade is a classic sing-along band, feels trip all around, the guys are super down-to-earth and nice. saosin prolly took me by surprise the most, cos cove reber took the stage for their asia tour instead of anthony green, and he was AMAZING live. i was totally shookt to hear those vocals. also my first time going alone to a concert! my feet were hurting so i only came when they were about to start playing, and left an hour later once they ended their last song haha.

7. got covid again....

here's to 2024, hope it'll be a better year than 2023!

merry belated christmas everyone, and a very happy new year :)

When you are with me

 hello my friends!!!

if you are still here checking my blog after nearly five months of dead, awkward silence... what even are you doing with your life? hahaha 

it's quite sad actually that i've broken my streak of blogging at least once a month for the last... what, 14 years? from 2009 to 2023 i've rarely missed a month. look at me now!! i blame adulting!!

jk i haven't even really been that busy. just very lazy, even to film. my camera has been collecting dust for the past few months now, i think since coming back from Italy actually?? i've learnt that it's a lott more tedious to film, edit and post regularly than to upload pics and caption them. but then again, uploading pics is very tedious too. it takes forever and sometimes my com or laptop just crashes without finishing the upload, or my pictures are somehow not in chronological order and then it takes forever to find and sort pictures... all these years of blogging and i've not figured out an efficient way to mass-upload pictures!

anyway, Christmas is upon us and i'm so excited! i've always loved xmas season. the weather this year has been very festive too, it's been pouring every single afternoon which is a somewhat welcome change from the usual unbearable heat cos you get the cool air after a storm! i would know, cos i've been under home arrest for the past 5 days after contracting covid.. pretty sure there's a second wave going around right now cos lots of people are getting it. stay safe everybody!!

in other more exciting news... im preggy!!! woohoo!! it doesn't feel very real yet, i must say. although i'm almost 20 weeks along now. very excited but also scared for a newborn to come into our lives. i've no idea what to do, and also im the sort that needs at least 8 hours of sleep to function, so good luck to me.

been trying to take things easy, relax as much as i can (there will always be work to do, amirite) and just manifest all sorts of positive vibes. 

ok that's it for a quick update, the next time i'm back might be to do an end-year recap again LOL. feels like i just did the 2022 one... 

Merry Christmas in advance everybody!!! 💓🎄🎅

Fires

finally posting after a loooong while oops

https://youtu.be/d-APGSFo3Bg

The clock upon the wall

 Italy part 3!!!

https://youtu.be/aeWvN6N0fXg

Turn the page

 Italy part 2 lets gooo!!!

https://youtu.be/Y5KTa5VILbI

Innumerable ways

 Italy vlog part 1!!!!!

https://youtu.be/Uh3hPsDB9PQ

Til we're grey and old

 lezz gooo

https://youtu.be/7E908NCy6_c

The places we go

 new vloggg

https://youtu.be/GG3QthXl1cw

What a wonderful world

new vlog is up!!

https://youtu.be/fc5CRvGUwdg

As it was

new vlog up!! first one of the year hehe

https://youtu.be/oGLaw1XsJt0

Ask you just the same

new vlog is up frens :)

https://youtu.be/cN0_MPc9kIw

Because of you

g'day mates

i usually do an end of the year recap, so here goes nothing. off the top of my head:

1. got engaged/got married/held my kind of wedding :)

2. moved in with in-laws but our relationship did not break down woohoo

3. finally got my house!! 

4. moved in!!

5. finally left the country since 2019 albeit to malaysia

6. went to canada for the first time

7. went on my first work trip to the states 

8. got covid 

9. was a bridesmaid to two of my beautiful friends

10. booked our honeymoon to italy next year!

and for number 11... i got a camera! i wanted to try out vlogging but holy heck i feel like all the filming and editing takes up even more time. let's see if i have the patience to keep doing it. it's still quite fun for now haha

my videos are gonna be unlisted, so i'll post the links here.

and surprise, i alr posted my first one! check it out!! https://youtu.be/LoGgVMHMppg

pls feel free to comment and give feedback ahaha

With you by my side

g'day mates

im back because its day 5 of being stuck at home thanks to my weird sore throat. hope it goes away asap...

how nice that this ended up the first pic

lake moraine and lake louise are apparently famous for bear sightings but again, no such luck for us ):

in-laws celebrated my bday

cake courtesy of restaurant

this was breakfast at a supermarket in banff village. not one of those touristy markets either, more like a target or walmart. crazy scenic

we went kayaking at one of the lakes!

amazing waterfall. the sound alone was scary

climbing nearer and nearer to the fall was an experience in itself.

finding the right rocks, stopping to admire the everchanging view.. so therapeutic

one of my fav photos i took on the trip! looks like a midwest emo album cover

i was joking about how maybe this random puddle was the river we were trying to find.

took a photo of it and it turned out like this 😳

another of my fav photos because sherwin looks like an astronaut on a new planet

extremely red house that stood out from the greenery

emerald lake was rly emerald

we kept commenting that canadian crows were huge (literally the size of a small dog) and we later realised its cos they were ravens, not crows. haha

ice explorer bus that took us up to a glacier

glass bridge that a very brave sherwin conquered after many tries!!!

after hot hub, we wanted to stargaze, so sherwin drove SIL and i to the well-known stargazing spot which is apparently some lake. but we chickened out and drove back halfway because it was freaking dark and scary. we were driving deeper and deeper into the woods with no lake in sight. felt like anything could come out of the trees.

after outlet shopping we waited a long time before finally getting into uno beef noodles. super good noodle place that definitely satisfied our asian food craving

visited capilano river salmon hatchery

car washhh

last diner of the trip ):

fc was solid

the browning leaves were so pretty!

trying to look cool but...

inside vancouver departure

first meal back in sg!

one of our last times at sod

last meal at the airport before i left for florida for a week ): felt sad

transit in seoul

at least there was a coffee maker

we stayed in grand hyatt and there was nothing to do around the area cos we weren't near downtown. so we kinda holed up in the same place for 3 days and uber-ed our meals... it was quite sad

went to a macs on our first day which didn't feel all that safe

we wisened up and shared a meal on our last day of conference. good choice too

we then moved to aloft downtown which was very nice

pretty cool open air exhibit

shocked to see that baby seahorses could be so tiny

snapping turtles in the pond outside florida aquarium :o

aww

view from my bed haha

sad brunch

outlet shopping! didn't buy much tho

as you can see i rly liked the view

singapore noodles for our last dinner haha

very, very meh

heard that one before

at tampa airport

starting the 27 hour journey home...

bought a book for usd10. kept me quite entertained on my flights and transits. good buy

was damn happy when we got bibimbap on the plane! it's solid

i polished it up

and my favourite fruit for dessert? wow

finally waiting for my final flight home - seoul to sg

landed and instead of going home, went to hdl with sherwin and SIL

woohooo

got 2 hours of sleep and then woke up at 6am for tania's gatecrash

so happy for tania!!! 💕💕 it's always such a special feeling seeing your friends on their big day especially the ones you grew up with.

the orhnee was nice

another big meal the next day for my dad's bday

bye ahmaooo ):

we moved all our barang in the middle of the night, til like 6am...

mosanco cafe afters to reward ourselves. it was rly damn shag

woohoo but finally moved in 

wow never seen stick insects so active

decent ice-cream near our place but waffle was meh

i got a milk frother and made my milo like this LOL it tasted fine

tried some italian place nearby, not too bad too

rly like the bachormee nearby

attempted to make pasta in the rice cooker. was not too bad

jc friends waited for me to come back and celebrated my bday altho it was long over :')

first meal on our new dining table

wums and dt came over! my first hse guests huhu

went to a nursery w mum and eventually bought a snake plant

mum enjoying her wine after pizza

grow well plzz

okay-ish lor mee at food centre but they gave me a card for free coffee cos it was their anniverary or smth :o paid only 4 bucks for lor mee and a kopi

masterchef

my turn

attempted dan dan mian. it was okay

celebrated anni at jangwon as per his request. then went to emonite cos i had the feels

it was so-so. we were not dressed for it + the playlist could be better methinks. and they played whole songs instead of doing a medley

huhu im so ready for xmas

supposed to be a cute pic but he came right up and licked my toe

aigoo

sucha good boy koby!!!!!

oh wait, this is the time they came over. okay lazy to edit the other caption

treated fam to buffet at the edge to thank my dad for helping us out with the reno!

my dad knows the deal

oysters!!

wew finally done!