Here I am, back again after a long time because I do miss blogging very much. I enjoy reading back on all the fun things I've done, and perhaps it is especially so because of this frustrating covid situation.
Honestly very much done with covid, as we all are. The sianness from looking at the increasing numbers, the anxiety coming from my family, the preventative and at times unnecessary measures at work... I don't think my expectations have been regulated this much ever in my life hahaha from hoping that we can travel, to waiting for badminton doubles to resume, to just being able to get out of the house to buy my own damn kopi.
I never thought WFH would take a toll on me actually. But the unproductiveness with the accompanying guilt... it's difficult for me. Looking forward to continuing with proper patient work, felt great to be working with patients again!
Anyway, it's not all dark and gloomy. I try to give myself something to look forward to everyday: Monday's running man, Tuesday's and Wednesday's body pump, Thursday's yoga or climbing and spending Fridays + weekends with Peihao again. Here are some snippets of fun stuff I've been up to recently!
Peihao and I registered for the Yellow Ribbon Virtual Run 2021 Challenge, where we have to cover a distance of 60km in maximum 5 entries within the month of September. When ex-offenders stay crime-free for 60 months (5 years), the chances of re-offending are then significantly reduced! Thus the standard of 60km within 5 tries is set for the run. But of course, we chose to walk/hike instead HAHAHA.
We managed to finish the 60km after 3 hikes. No more 5am Saturdays finally! Proud of us but it's no fun getting all those blisters and then playing badminton with them on the same day afterwards HAHAHA. Some photos of our adventures over here:
Just sharing tadpoles (both black and white) that we saw along our walk. It had been raining cats and dogs (super old school saying i know) and there were quite many tadpoles in the puddles on the walking path.
Left: First attempt in the west, clocked 18km | Right: Woke up at 5am for the hike and was treated to super good lighting at 6.30am along Punggol Waterway. Also covered 22km!
Always loved the mirroring effect on the surface of water bodies
Here's another one of those
Feels like a mythical forest in there
I think we planned a good route + timing that day
Us at Pandan Reservoir at 6am+, on our last 20km hike
Really love the clear open skies
Sunrise hues before the sun rose up a little more and blinded our eyes haha
Left: He asked for the photo HAHAHA | Right: Attempt at Artsy Fartsy shot at Jurong Lake Gardens
Well, since I'm talking about hiking, let me just pop in a couple more below. Thanks to the shirts that covered different portions of his neck, he now has a three-layer suntan at the back of his neck. He's almost a kueh lapis now.
Left: Him doing the recce before making me bash through the forest and climb over a little ditch with him to get into Chestnut Nature Park from the expressway | Right: On one of the trails in Chestnut Nature Park - untouched, rustic feel
We spotted a tortoise too! It looks a little lonely standing there all by himself. He was huge too, though it may not appear so in the photo.
Left: One of the towers at Chestnut Nature Park | Right: Changi Beach Boardwalk
Love how the clouds give the sky so much texture
We also completed the Push Up Challenge 2021 in June. It was 25 days this time instead of 21, and we did a total of 3318 push ups this year. It was also nice to see my form getting better as compared to the previous two years. We tried this tiger pushup but honestly I think we looked more like a pair of worms.
Anyway, we caught two pretty good movies too - Free Guy and Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings!
In the last two months, I also moved from inpatient to the forensic team and had to move offices as well. Good thing we still manage to have fun with each other during work despite not being in our usual departmental office! Or perhaps we were just behaving like kids HAHAHA it's a fine line. We were literally throwing our octopus at each other HAHAHA. Would have uploaded the videos here but it didn't seem to work.
It's been all Peihao's face here so let's have something different for a change HAHAHA. I have a new baby nephew and he was born on 7/11, which means he's about over 10 months now. My mum is helping to care for him while he continues to sit on the waiting list for a childcare centre, so now I have two babies at home.
Center parting on the right was styled by yours truly
And here is my second baby
Hopefully I will get back to my blogging habit again, but who am I kidding HAHAHA this post took like more than a week to finish because I got lazy multiple times during that time. More updates when I'm less lazy! :)