28/12/24 Sat: I felt somewhat tired after three weeks overseas in Bhutan and Malaysia, so it felt like I did not have enough sleep last night even if I slept for nine hours or so already!
PotaTOHs cut hair at our usual salon before we had char siew and duck rice ($6 each) for lunch at Batok Central. Their peanut soup tasted good!
Potato cooked hot soba with crabsticks, chye sim, edamame, shrimps, marinated egg and spring onions for dinner. Felt nice to have home-cooked food after a while.
Finished watching “The Trunk” (트렁크) tonight.
Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun-jin had some wierd chemistry that I enjoyed in this mystery melodrama. The two were in a contractual marriage but fell in love for real, but had to struggle with getting rid of a psychopath harassing In-Ji (Seo Hyun-jin) and the “ex-wife” of Han Jeong-won (Gong Yoo).
I guess the leads healed each other in some ways. Jeong-won, who could not get past his childhood trauma seeing his dad abused his mum and Hyun-jin, who could not get over her ex-fiance that liked men too.
Enjoyed the way this drama was filmed too. Was suspenseful but not too complicated.
Rating: 4/5
29/12/24 Sun: Potato cooked sweet corn and carrot soup, as well as tom yum chicken with enoki shrooms and lady’s fingers for dinner. He added some fish sauce to the latter and it was great, but he went a bit heavy on the red dates and wolfberries in the soup, so it tasted way too sweet haha.
30/12/24 Mon: WZ and I treated Pat to lunch at PLQ’s Maccha House for her 36th bday. The mini tendon and chirashi don set I had ($16.8) was quite nice. Pat’s mini matcha pudding was a good sharing between us three too.
Had a chocolate cake and coffee set at Paris Baguette ($13.50) before the two ladies went to buy shoes at Skechers. Visited WZ’s new house and it looked comfortable. Came home to Potato’s handmade perfume for me from Scentopia~ 
PotaTOHs then headed out to meet farmily for Ian and Gwen’s bday dinner at Go K BBQ at Bukit Timah Plaza. The pork meat was so nicely grilled but much as I enjoyed them, BBQ is something I always get sick of towards the end haha.
31/12/24 Tues: Enjoyed mum’s black chicken soup for dinner before some sushi Potato bought for supper keke~
Caught《五月天2025线上跨年演唱会》at night. The transition was good! 2024's over in the blink of an eye. Time flies past without us knowing, really. It's probably the year of "mid-life" crisis for me. Retrenched from my first full-time job of 11 years in November and I have to look for a new one soon. In a way, it's forced me out of my comfort zone... not exactly a bad thing for someone who's reluctant to changes. Potato would always remind me about the "growth mindset", and I'm seeing the fact that计划永远赶不上变化. It also made me realised the important of constant learning and upskilling. I still like to plan for my life as much as I can, but I've also grown to be more flexible and not so upset when my plans are somehow disrupted. Who knows where life will bring me, but I wish for a less mentally-anxious year ahead. Other than that, I'm thankful to be able to spend 2024 with my love ones and keep in frequent contact with close friends. Also glad to be able to keep myself physically active with my exercise lessons often and go for regular TCM massages. Blessed that the wonderful trips to Yunnan, Iceland, Bhutan and Malaysia this year had been more fruitful than I wished for too.
Hope to maintain the frequent meet-ups with my love ones and close friends, my physically-active lifestyle and jump back into my daily meditation in 2025, enjoy my lyrics writing classes to the fullest and find jobs that complements my lifestyle! After years of chasing riches, I definitely felt the mental strain and physical ailments in some ways now. I should stop giving myself unnecessary stress over things I cannot control or have influence over and leave my doors open for "fluid growth". Ultimately, there's no "better path" to take... every decision made is a randomiser.
Most importantly, I want to continue to improve and grow wiser with Potato in our married life; be grateful for all the good things that happen to us ahead, live in the moment and leave no regrets, and also let lessons learnt serve as important reminders.
Here’s to a happy, healthy and fruitful 2025!
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