When Silence Is No Longer Golden

So here goes the long overdue mid-year reflection (follow-up to the new year resolution post ). 1. To go for most opportunities available Not sure how I can answer this. There are not that many things that came up in the first half of the year since I am on my final semester in NUS. However, I would say I kinda failed in this aspect because I didn't go to a meditation retreat (which is something I wanted to do during the break before work started) when I had the chance. There was no other opportunities of much significance afterwards; just some incidental opportunities such as networking with certain people (like my friend's mentor on Indo2SV programme, other people in my team from a different office) and some others. 2. To improve my communication skills (especially in Chinese and with girls) This is kinda hard to tell too. I went to Hong Kong so technically I practiced a little bit of Chinese... And I have been trying to speak a little Chinese here and there

Hi readers! Did not expect me to write so soon after only 1 month? Actually it felt much longer than 1 month since the last time I wrote. So much has happened in the last 1 month compared to like the whole semester last semester that it felt like I shouldn't have done so much in such a short amount of time. About a week after I wrote the last post, I attended my graduation ceremony, spending time with family in Singapore and stuff. The following week I went back to Indonesia just so that I could celebrate my birthday with my family (after 3 years celebrating it somewhere else). Then I went to Singapore to start working. The first week of work was orientation, meeting a lot of people doing a lot of stuff I don't usually do previously (such as socializing and networking lol) and the following week I flew to the US for my second part of orientation! I was (still am) here for 2 weeks, and because of various reasons, I didn't attend some of the orientation classes and inste