Gratitude Journal for 8th Oct 2022 (Saturday)

Our mookata dinner

 

Things I'm grateful for:

• P was actually craving for mookata yesterday but I had an early dinner as I was strangely craving for mee sua in the cold weather and I had Grab sending it to me at 5pm. The grand plan was to have mookata on Sat and then go ECP for our walk, so we kept to it.
• Weather was still very cooling and cloudy today, though very very light drizzle fell on us every now and then when we were out and about in the evening.
• We actually walked a total of 21km this week and it was at 3 different places, 7+ km at GBTB, 6+km at our homeground PCN and tonight we walk 8km+ at ECP. I'm actually motivated to go back ECP for my long runs in the weeks to come as I'm going to complete my 10th marathon at Nagoya next year March.

Things I'm looking forward to:

• We're have some family time tomorrow as I'm picking up the folks at 1pm and sending them back to our old place at Sembawang to talk to the tenants.
• Next week is our last full week of lessons, complete with remedial and CCA and stuff. Cant say I'm looking forward to it but I'm looking forward to it to be over. Anyway, October payday is coming up and we're getting a 5% pay raise! 

Gratitude Journal for 8th October 2022 (Friday)

Our playground now

 What I'm grateful for:

• P is at the second stage of visa application, as we are going to the schengen region + UK so the two visas have to be done separately. We met some hiccups as UK visa is having a lot of backlog and the waiting time is 5-7 weeks instead of the usual two weeks! Luckily we can pay extra to solve this issue and did not have to leave his passport with the embassy as he is planning to go home before our trip.
• I really appreciate our red passport now as I had no idea travelling can be so troublesome for other nationalities, we can get to almost everywhere in the world visa free. So far I only applied for visas when going to US and Australia and those can be done online/ immediately. 
• Very cooling weather today, it rained most of today once it was noon. We finally went out for a walk again and usually there's a lot of cyclists on the PCN during weekend but it was so quiet tonight as the sky was still overcasted. 

What I'm looking forward to:

• Nice that I've hit my marking target for today and there's still the weekend to look forward to.
• We are less than 50 days to the grand trip! 

Gratitude Journal for 6th October 2022 (Thursday)

Last Sunday where we watched F1 with a view

Complimentary gift as it's F1, cute exquisite dessert spoons

Things I'm grateful for:

1. I love cooling weather more than the sun and the cooling weather has persisted the whole of this week, since last weekend.
2. Everything went well today, I actually enjoyed myself with the Children's Day celebration, the kids and I had fun. For the first time this year, it actually occured to me that I’ll miss them. 
3. It's the long weekend! It feels good that it's just Thursday and I have a long weekend ahead, though I have lots of marking to clear this weekend.
4. Last two Thursdays been very tiring for me and today is much much better as I was just doing Zoom for torta. 

Things I'm looking forward to:

1. Making good use of this long weekend for my physical and general well-being, and time for my loved ones. 
2. Next week we are officially crossing into the mid term. Woohoo...

Gratitude Journal for 5th October 2022 (Wednesday)

 

We took a series of group photos

Things I'm grateful for:

1. My close friend of almost 30 years Wen is now on her way to new life in Texas, US. Our farewell dinner yesterday had some hiccups as we changed location from town to Sembawang (friend's place). I was back at MBS for last night of staycation before the change of plans, honestly there was resistance to traveling back and fro but I'm glad I did, simple dinner but no regrets. 
2. Tomorrow is just Children's Day celebration and we're off for the weekend.

Things I'm looking forward to:

1. The long weekend!
2. Just 7 teaching days before we get to EYE, not a thing to look forward to but I'm glad we're winding down for the end of the year soon. 

Gratitude Journal for 3rd October 2022 (Monday)

Nice view during our walk

Calories load again, oh well…

 Things I’m grateful for:

1. It’s already T4W4, and it’s a short week with a long weekend to look forward to.
2. We are still in the middle of our very nice staycation.
3. I managed to get off work earlier as our meeting ended 30min early. 
4. After a nap, I took a nice long walk of 7.3km around the marina barrage and GBTB area. 

Things I’m looking forward to:

1. Our farewell dinner for Wen tomorrow evening.
2. The grand trip of the year 53 days later! 

Gratitude Journal for 2nd October 2022 (Sunday)

 

Our nice walk last night

Things I’m grateful for:

1. We are having a very nice staycation at MBS while the F1 race is going on. This is the first time we get a good view of all the action, including fireworks and drone display as our city view hotel room over look the race site and Padang.
2. I was surprised when we were unpacking and P suddenly mentioned that we are going to be here for 3 nights, checking out on Wednesday. I had packed clothes for just two nights stay but I guess P will be dropping by at our place the next two days as he’s not working and just enjoying the staycation. 
3. Despite the family dinner and the staycation, I managed to finish most of the work I wanted to do this weekend. Yay!

Things I’m looking forward to:

1. Coming weekend is long weekend for us!

Gratitude Journal for 1st October 2022 (Saturday)

 Things I'm grateful for:

• Enjoyed my day today, rented GetGo again to have a nice family dinner, and we finally drove to ECP for a nice walk after dinner. Life is great!
• Met the girls for a really good traditional Korean dinner after work yesterday, its only 1km from my place and they came over for 'house warming' after that. Took many tries to arrange that.
• Having the girls over reignite how good I feel about my cosy home. I almost forgot the 'wow factor' after staying here for more than 9 months.

Things I'm looking forward to:

• The staycation tomorrow! It's our 4xth stay but we have not got tired of it.
• Next week is a very short week at school as I'm only having two proper teaching days. Yay!