End of the CNY holiday

hello dear, miss you 🤍 how are you spending the weekend? For me, I was actually super tired after that siumai sale at church on friday night, so I was mostly resting yesterday after going to a buffer brunch with my mother’s side relatives for bai nin.

Sharing back some photos of my hiking few days ago back on nin chor 3 :) As usual, I went on the same hiking trail from my home to big wave bay. While I was doing the hike that day, I actually noticed that the hike felts more manageable than I remembered it to be. I think this is actually a sign that my body and muscles have started to get more used to me exercising. I actually also started to notice similar feelings in the past month when I do my regular muscle training exercises at home. There were some movements that I wasnt able to do before, but gradually now I am able to do it as many times as the set requires me to.

Whenever I have moment like this, I feel quite touched deep inside. Even though I know I’m probably still kinda “weak” and not in the nicest shape compared to perhaps sporty people who enjoy fitness and training, I am really encouraged by noticing my progress, especially thinking about how I started from a place where I didn’t want to exercise because I was mentally strengthless, I’ve actually come a long way and I feel I should be proud of myself :’)

I also wanted to share, if you remember the guy Joao whom I briefly hung out with back in December last year and in the end I sent a long message to him saying that I think we’d be better off as friends. He never replied that message and even though I was a bit angry about it, I decided to let it be and thought that’d be an end to a short chapter. But recently, he started to message me again randomly asking what I’m up to. One time he asked if I’d like to meet for coffee. I found it really strange and I tried to reply him as minimal as I could, also rejected to go out for coffee with him. But on friday night when I did the siumai sale, he was there as well and he kept wandering around that area and did some small gestures near me trying to catch my attention. I was quite stressed and annoyed by it, especially because my care group friends were all there, I found it very embarrassed. I am not sure why he does all these suddenly again, as I thought my message was really clear. But this time, I am very certain that I want to keep my boundaries clear, so I hope he won’t bother me further again.

Miss you, dear. Today is the last day of this long cny holidy for me, I’ll resume work tomorrow. The break kinda feels just long enough, I guess because I wasn’t too busy, but I feel I still accomplished something each day while allowing myself to rest. I also had a bit more time to think about whether I have any big/small plans for the coming months in 2026, such as going on some trips, or joining some new activities at church etc. So far, I have some rough idea but I still want to think it through and pray about it. I’ll definitely share them with you once I thought through them a little bit more :)

Here is my outfit today going to church, I thought it’s abit warm today so I wore shorts, hehe