another year has passed and we're still living in a pandemic, with variants popping up and some uncertainty ahead but i'd say things are different now - vaccinations are made available for us, and we're slowly but surely, living with COVID-19. even so the past two years felt like such a blur, as with this past year. and as we start on yet another year, it's time for reflections again..! or at least i attempt to reflect about how the year has been because honestly... i can't quite remember what happened in 2021. 

2021 marked my last year in uni and it was surreal just to think about. even in 2022, i can't believe that i've graduated from uni and am now living what we call "the adult life". in 2017 when i entered uni, everything felt so new, i felt so lost in a sea of people, i questioned my decision on pursuing a major in communications at one of the best comms school in singapore - and even in asia i might say! i would say i got to experience a lot of things when i was in uni, but there were some regrets cos i felt like i didn't make full use of the opportunities given to me. anyways!!! the last sem of school was hectic, to say the least. i was taking two language mods - korean 5 and spanish 1 - just because i wanted to learn more korean but i wasn't confident in scoring well for that so i took spanish as a back up so that i could fulfil my requirements of having a minor in modern languages. and also our team wrapped up our fyp! it was one roller coaster ride, this thing called fyp. sooo many zoom meetings, interviews, filming, logistics, planning, writing, back and forth emails which led up to our activations, written report and presentation. our school got us mr coconut on the day we submitted our written report, and tbh oral presentation felt like an underwhelming end to my undergraduate life. but i did it! went through four years of wee kim wee! oh and on top of schooling in my last semester, i was also committed to mj... and working part time... i don't even know how i managed all that. 

random suppers with the easties. no i do not stay in the east of singapore but because my part time work was at jewel, i would be at the east of singapore if i wasn't in school nor at home. and this allowed me to have random suppers with the easties group, or go to justin's temporary house just chilling, talking about hall days and hall people, laughing till i cry when i'm with them and all... and it was also because i started hanging out with the easties that i started watching anime... started off with haikyu ;) 

i participated in my second and very last mj event - sptc. it was a platform for me to learn different genres of dance from a bunch of very talented people that i honestly was quite intimidated off, i did house for the first time and even a dolphin!! i had always been an mj ghost so this allowed me to meet more people in the dance club as well and for the first time... i think i danced for like seven days straight - felt like death to me but it was good exercise, just that i was always so tired and muscles were aching everyday. it was a good experience nonetheless! 

after the semester ended in april, i started working in may - a little bit early but yeah. i worked at local pr agency and met a bunch of really nice colleagues that made work days better! :) i got to experience more of the pr life, actually work with the media and clients, in addition to what i experienced back when i was interning at weber. and honestly my life isn't that exciting anymore since i started work... i literally spend a bulk of my days looking at the screen.... but yes i started working so at the point of writing, i'm closeee!!! to one year of stepping into the working world! 

thanks to covid, i got to meet some of my favourite kpop groups through video call fansigns! i limited myself ok so the number of days and times i met them were very limited but nonetheless!! those were really really happy days! i got to 1) say what i wanted to say to them 2) practice my korean!! those were good good days! time for a comeback yall!! 

but also because of covid, grad trip plans had to be cancelled... we were planning for a grad trip in early 2020 for 2021 after we all graduated, but the travel industry was affected, and even though vaccinated travel lanes are open, we don't wanna risk it yet... so our group decided to just book a staycation! honestly felt like hall but more atas :'-) and also we all agreed that we have aged because... we couldn't stay up all night like we used to. by the time we get to travel together, would it even be considered a grad trip anymore? 

experiences. for the first time in 2021, i witnessed my friend's marriage - it was such a happy occasion and we were all so happy for this friend. unfortunately due to covid measures, we weren't able to have a meal together and catch up after the church ceremony - because the last time we met was during the staycation. it was also last year that i experienced the loss of a friend of mine. we weren't the closest in school, but she was one of the few whom i would say hi and talk to instead of just passing by when we were in school, she was my only friend in a semester i felt lonely in, and my regret is that i never got to thank her for that. 

and that was 2021 for me. it's now 22 days into 2022 and... life's been pretty mundane so far... i'm just trying my best working every day... having a couple of dance pracs for a new amethyx dance cover... and i also want to try writing in my diary how my everyday life is - though it might not be the most interesting, i just want to be able to document the small things that happen every day so far. for example, a rather impromptu dinner with peishi on tuesday before dance prac, and coincidentally seeing melvin when i went to buy my lunch on thursday this week. :) 

i have no idea what this year holds for me so i'm just gonna go with the flow~ that's old follks - i really don't know how to end this. here's to 2022, the year of the tiger! dang, i've really lived two cycles already, huh. 

all the love and till next time x