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New Snack: Strawberry Chocolate Coated Strawberry from Muji
This looked very enticing and it tasted refreshing. I do love the freeze dried strawberry within, making this a healthier snack, am I right?
Posted in Japanese, Lovely Ideas, Singapore Living, snack
Tagged Food, happiness, japanese, Life, Living, Muji, new, photos, Singapore, snack
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Can I Go Back to the Nineties Please?
I must be missing out I think, as I watch people get ecstatic on social media, posting jubilant memes in response to Singapore lifting some covid restrictions. Alcohol consumption will soon be allowed after 10.30 pm and live music. You … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Culture & Society, Midlife Musings, Singapore Living, When Work Sucks
Tagged culture, happiness, health, Life, Living, memories, Nostalgia, personal, Singapore, thoughts, work
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How the Society you live in Determines Happiness
Warning: this is yet another rambling, meandering post. Stream of consciousness? At first listening to the French Duolingo podcasts was inspiring but after a while I found a common theme. The protagonist surmounted all the odds to win a contest … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Wellness, Midlife Musings, Singapore Living, When Work Sucks
Tagged children, culture, happiness, Life, Living, Singapore, values
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It’s a Lonelier Place with Devices
I know that devices have given us so many conveniences. In an emergency, when a lorry knocked down my eldest cousin, my mum had to rush to a neighbour’s house to use the telephone to call his mum, her elder … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Midlife Musings
Tagged culture, devices, happiness, Life, Living, personal, smart phones
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Things I’m Looking Forward to After I’m Done with Chemo & Radiation
I know I’ll never quite be done as I previously imagined (there is no cure for cancer) and will have to be very vigilant with regular scans and blood tests, but being done with chemo and radiation will be great. … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer, Midlife Musings
Tagged cancer, cheerful, chemo, Chemo brain, chemotherapy, endometrial cancer, happiness, Immunity, ovarian cancer
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#96. Changing Your Perspective at the Art Science Museum
I love that we now have the Art Science Museum at Marina Bay Sands. It may be commercialized but I’ve enjoyed every exhibit I’ve visited here. They have changed my perspective and allowed me to view the world in a … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Reasons to be Happy in Singapore
Tagged Art Science Museum, beauty, education, happiness
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The Little Things in Life & Happiness
I find that when I write I tend to appreciate the little things in life more. When you don’t record things down they tend to get lost and you don’t appreciate them as fully. Well for me at least. I … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing, Health & Wellness
Tagged gratitude, happiness, journal, music, writing
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Preserving Memories
Time seems to be more sparse than usual but the original purpose of my blog was to preserve memories. Glad I wrote this recently.
#95. Don’t Miss Out on the Little Ones Growing Up
I guess this one only applies if you have little ones in your family in Singapore. If you lived anywhere else or had to be posted overseas for work it would be such a downer. You’d miss out on their … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Reasons to be Happy in Singapore
Tagged cousins, family, happiness, joy, little ones, love, personal
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Happiness Gift that Banishes Negativity for a While
I need an off switch for my mind. Here I am, awake at 4am and unable to go back to sleep due to worry. What better to do than to compose a blog post. Haven’t been updating the blog lately … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings, Singapore Living
Tagged anxiety, babies, children, happiness, joy, kids, Life, worry
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10 Happy Things: My Idea of a Good Life
Didn’t feel like writing resolutions even though it’s New Year’s eve tomorrow. I just want to be healthy and happy, so I decided to write about my idea of the good life instead: 1. Being with children and looking at … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings
Tagged 10 happy things, 2013, good life, happiness, mid life, New Year, personal, thoughts
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#95. A Quiet Place Near Town
Feels like I’ve quite abandoned my 100 Reasons to Be Happy in Singapore List, but perhaps it’s because I don’t want it to come to an end. It was so much fun to put it together. So I want to … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Reasons to be Happy in Singapore
Tagged area, happiness, peaceful, quiet, Singapore, Tanglin, Tanglin Mall, tudor court
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Wishing My Uncle A Very Happy Birthday
It was my dear uncle A’s birthday this October and it was nice to see him with his two favourite little people in the world. His adorable grandchildren. Love to see how he lights up whenever they are around. I … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings
Tagged birthday, family, grandchildren, grandfather, grandpa, happiness, love, uncle
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Botanic Gardens: Don’t Squish the Millipedes
Thought the blog needed a bit more green and perhaps a little break from the all food posts. This is another long overdue post – a trip with D to Botanic Gardens. We did make a food stop at the … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Singapore Living
Tagged Botanic Gardens, Cousin, green, happiness, millipedes, nature, Singapore
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Memories of Hong Kong & Trip Planning, from My Old Journal Entries
It’s strange how details go missing as time passes. Two days ago I blogged about the Hong Kong Trip I took back in June 2007, but I came across old journal entries just after the trip and I thought I’d … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged 2007, diary, happiness, Hong Kong, hotel, Langham Place, mall, memories, old journal, personal, thoughts, travel, trip
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#10. Crunchy Hard Bread
Had a relatively healthy dinner at home. I can’t exist without bread. I used to only like soft bread but I recently discovered that hard grainy bread is so much more satisfying.
Posted in Healthy Food I Like
Tagged bread, dinner, happiness, hard bread, healthy, home, salad
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4 Things: Finding Happiness in the Supposedly Mundane
I was thinking about happiness and how I could find it without spending any money or leaving my house. 1. Well one thing I know for sure that would make me happy is if I successfully organize all my stuff … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings, Music
Tagged clutter, exercise, Firehouse, free, happiness, joy, Love of a Lifetime, mundane, music, ordinary, organize
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#93. Our Beautiful Shade Providing Trees
We have some really pretty stretches of roads. I love all our trees and especially these pretty ones with yellow leaves somewhere near Chijmes. We didn’t use to have trees like this in the past and I wonder where they … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Reasons to be Happy in Singapore
Tagged happiness, nature, pretty, road, Singapore, trees, yellow leaves
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Toffee Cider at The Pigeonhole (Duxton Hill)
My second time at the Pigeon Hole and it won’t be my last. Loved the gracious welcome we get here and the delicious toffee cider. It’s a haven when it’s packed to the gills everywhere else. Felt so at ease … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Food in Singapore
Tagged books, cafe, Cider, coffee joint, Duxton Hill, favourite, happiness, lovely, relax, Singapore, The Pigeonhole, Toffee Cider
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