"Tell me about your day"

hello dear, how are you? miss yooou. My jet lag hit me hard yesterday evening, I took a melatonin so I was able to fall asleep physically, but my mind is so awake throughout the whole night, as if like I wasn’t asleep. I feel like I was even more tired when I woke up. It’s Sunday so I had to go to church, and at first I planned to get there a bit earlier today to pass some souvenirs to Vienna and other two friends from the Vietnam trip, but I really just couldn’t get up on ti

hello dear, how are you? miss you 🤍 After trying to stay up for the whole day yesterday in order to adjust my jetlag, I slept 12 hours from 10:30 to 10:30, haha. After waking up I went to have brunch with my brother at one of my favourite fishball noodles place in shau kei wan, then we went grocery shopping like we always do on Saturdays. I have been feeling better than I thought I would be so far mentally. As I shared in my previous post, I felt a bit nervous about having t

hello dear, how are you? writing this on my flight as I think of you. Usually I am pretty good at sleeping through a night time flight, but because the CX flight from Amsterdam is in the afternoon (land at 6am), I haven’t really been able to sleep much. I guess partly because I have quite a lot in my mind too, thinking about all the things and routines I have to catch up on once I’m back - work, all the household chores etc. But aside from that, I guess I am also a bit nervou

hello dear, how are you? I miss you a lot 🤍 After the unpleasant experience I had in Amsterdam for the last two days, I feel a bit uninterested to explore the city anymore, so I decided to make a day trip to The Hague - turns out it didn’t disappoint! It’s a lot cleaner, with so much less smell of weed, and friendly neighbourhood too! I also went to a car museum that was really cool. went on a mini adventure into this park in order to get to the car museum. I was a bit worri

hello dear, miss you 🤍 Today is my second day in Amsterdam. The weather is slightly better and the sun is out. I feel like I pretty much finished the Amsterdam city centre, so I went to the windmill village in Zaanse Schans. I actually have been here many years with my friends during my exchange semester in Paris. It feels kinda interesting to come back, the memories are quite vague even though I recognize the place. However, I had another unpleasant experience again there.

hello dear, how are you? miss you 🤍 Today is my first full day in Amsterdam. The weather was slightly better even though it’s still cloudy and rained for a bit. I slept in for a bit and went for brunch in a cafe that turned out to be a slightly unpleasant experience towards the end. The waiter who served me was a mid aged man, and he started chatting with me when I asked for the bill. I thought he was trying to be nice and I also didn’t want to be impolite, so I did respond

hello dear, how are you? miss you 🤍 After a long journey (not too long actually but felt a bit long), I finally got to Amsterdam last evening. It was raining quite a bit so it’s a bit messy for me with a big luggage. Hopefully the weather will get better gradually. I am feeling quite a lot and still adjusting to parting with my parents to continue on my solo journey. Yesterday as I was doing my final packing after breakfast, my dad came up to my bedroom and asked if I can ch

hello dear, how was your Saturday? miss you 🤍 Today is my last full day here in Manchester/the UK, I will be departing for Amsterdam tomorrow afternoon - the last stop of my 4-week journey. I am starting to feel a bit emotional for leaving, also a bit anxious. After all it’s been really relaxing staying here, my parents take care of all of the chores and cooking for me. Even when we go out, it’s mainly my dad who drives. I feel like my brain has kinda shut down for a bit for

hello dear, how are you? I miss you 🤍 Today was a suprising day for me, because I went out to an instrument shop with my parents, and my dad ended up getting a baby guitar! 😍 Obviously the guitar is mainly for him to play, but he let me pick what I want that is within the budget (£200). I think this is actually his tactic of bribing me to come visit them more often hahaha. I chose this baby guitar (TW2) from Tanglewood in the end that is £199. Both my dad and I prefer a bab

hello my dear, how are you? I miss you a lot 🤍 This week is my last week here, and I have been spending the past few days at home and nearby rather than travelling far around. And this evening, my parents invited a family of neighbours to come over and barbecue at our backyard. It’s my first time trying barbecue here in the UK, I guess it also feels a bit more interesting to be doing it at home. I feel like my 3 weeks here in Manchester has been really fruitful with a lot of

hello dear, miss you 🤍 sharing this cover that I did yesterday with you, this song is from Terrence Lam (Lam Ka Him). I am not a die hard fan of him like many people are, but I really felt a lot with the lyrics of this song for the past few days. It talks about how there are change of seasons in life that we can’t avoid as life goes on, just like how there are four seasons a year. But we can always remember and hold on to the good times - those people, those warmth and love

hello dear, how are you doing? miss you 🤍 After visiting Llandudno on Saturday, I had trouble sleeping again that night that I think I only fell asleep at 4am. But thankfully the next day was Sunday, so I get to be more relaxed. After listening to the online Sunday service replay from my church in the morning, I went out to the city centre of Manchester while my parents attended church nearby. I went for a coffee and did some shopping, then my parents picked me up to go back

hello dear, how was your Saturday? miss you ❤️‍🩹 Yesterday was a slightly difficult day for me because I had morning meetings with Vincent that started at 8am. Even though I was able to be awake for that, but because I didn’t have enough time to regulate my mental state first before I got up, I started feeling like crying half way through the meetings. It was very difficult for me mentally to get through the meetings even though the discussions were actually relatively chill

hello dear, how are you? After a day of feeling like my emotions are out of control, I am feeling slightly better today. I had a relatively good night of sleep too last night. I think it’s because I really was very exhausted after all the crying yesterday. I still cried for a few time today, but it was definitely more manageable than yesterday. The sun was out today here, and I went out with my parents to do some grocery shopping in the late afternoon. I do think that being o

hello dear, miss you. Writing here again in less than 24 hours because I’ve been experiencing a really hard mental breakdown episode again. After crying so hard while I journaled here last night, I couldn’t fall asleep at all even though I stopped crying and thought I had calmed down eventually. I ended up crying on and off throughout the night till 5am. It was such a long, dark night. I was supposed to get up at 7:30am to head to our UK office at Liverpool today to visit my

hello dear, how was your day? Today I went on a day trip to Leeds and Yorkshire. The weather was really pleasant, not too cold or windy, with the sun out but not too warm. We drove pass a lot of grassland lanscapes, with sheeps and cows and horses. We even got to see some really nice sunset colors on the way back home. It was so serene. In the middle of the road trip, I suddenly felt a lot again. It reminds me that back when I went to the UK for my masters three years ago, tr