Hello everyone!
Has it been 3 years since I last blogged??
Before penning this entry, I randomly read some of my old entries and I just continued clicking "next" and spent 1 hour reading what the past Jasmine wrote. My thoughts were "Wow! She has so much time to sit down and blog!", followed by "I really miss blogging but I am so mf lazy lah."
The world has changed in 2020. "The new normal" is the buzz phrase that we keep hearing. Wearing a mask in public, social distancing, work from home, countries borders shutdown, no overseas holidays... This is the worst pandemic in living history because the whole world is affected. We have weathered through SARS, H1N1, MERS, Bird Flu, Mad Cow Disease, blah blah.. but nothing comes close to Covid-19. It has changed the world in so many ways, good and bad. I am just looking forward to travelling again. My last overseas trip was a impromptu 3D2N trip to Batam with Tabby back in February to visit Welly & Santi. It was our first time travelling overseas together.. little did we know, that will also be our last overseas trip for 2020.
I planned a 3 weeks Shanghai/Japan trip with Le hubby in April. We were supposed to go to Shanghai for 4 nights to visit my friends & go to Shanghai Disneyland, then fly to Japan and chase the Sakura. It would have been our 1st ever Sakura trip to Japan as we usually visit during Summer/Winter times. It took me a long time to plan the trip and I was devastated when we had to cancel it because the borders were shutting due to Covid-19.
There's a lot of holiday trips that I did not blog about (but you can check them out on my Instagram). I get overwhelmed when there are too many things to post about and I just give up on wanting to blog. Back then when I was more actively posting online, my attention was split between Blogspot, Dayre, Instagram & Facebook. I am not cut out to be an influencer because I don't have the energy to dedicate so much time and effort to post about my life, especially on different social media platforms. (Also got nobody interested in my life lah! LOLOL!).
Ever since Instagram introduced Instastories.. it's damn good cos it's easy to upload and I don't have to feel stressed about writing a witty or interesting caption to go with it. I always say I post on Instastories for my "fans".. and I am using the term "fans" loosely because they mostly comprise of my friends who somehow love me enough to want to know what I am up to everyday. If I don't post in a few days, my top "fans" like Tabby will message me and ask why no updates. Hahahaha! She's not so naggy at me now because we meet every week ever since she moved back from Perth to Singapore last year.
Anyway..... it's my birthday today!
Because of Covid-19, all of us are stuck in Singapore with no place to travel too... so staycations are the new holidays!
Last week I went to Andaz Singapore for a 1 night staycation with my colleague turned good friend/sister Cecilia. After that I went to Raffles Hotel for a 5 nights staycation with Le hubby. It was fabulous!!!! Ever since my 1st stay in Raffles Hotel last year for my birthday, I fell in love with the hotel and since then all our special occasions were celebrated there! Because of social distancing, I cannot have a party with more than 5 people, so I had to split up into different small groups throughout my stay. It was a good thing also because I can spend quality time with each group of friends.
Till my next entry!
