When Silence Is No Longer Golden

 Hi readers! Didn't expect to have been writing for 8 years now (or is it only that I've been writing this new year post 8 times?). I long for the day when I will never update this blog again because my life finally goes the way I want it to be (if you all notice, I usually write about the times when life goes against me). That being said, I have not updated the blog for more than half a year, but that didn't mean my life went swimmingly in those 7 months. In fact, I think it was quite a turbulent one (though obviously not as turbulent as, you know, 2-3 years ago...) Last I posted here was "Of Squandering My Blessings...", which I'm sure is about how I messed up my relationship with the girl where I hit it off right off the bat (in the chat, not even in the first meet up!) And now I'm in the juncture where I might be doing the same, though the situation is much different. Well, similar in some ways but different in others. It's similar as last time in

 Hi readers, it's been a while, as usual. And of course, I didn't (or haven't) finish my supposed multi-part story of my Thailand trip! I want to say I apologize, but then I'm not even sure if anyone is still reading this nowadays (even I don't read things in here after I posted it) so maybe there's no point to apologize since I'd be apologizing to no one lol. But anyway, another post, another melancholic(-ish) story! But don't worry, I try not to pity myself too much (I'm not in that mental state anyway, or so I think). Not sure if I shared this in my Thailand story post, but I kinda made a "wish", an "intention", to have a fruitful retreat, which happened and more, but unfortunately I'm too lazy to write it down to share here. But anyway (and also unfortunately), this post is not about that. Even though I did wish to have a fruitful retreat, not gonna lie that it took me a while to make up my mind on that wish - and one thin

 Hi readers! Finally another post! I promise this time is not going to be melancholic! This post will be about a trip that I recently undertook, a trip of a lifetime (so far). I travelled solo in Thailand for a week! I learned so much from this trip, I hope I woud at least be able to write half of it, because I know I will lose some of them on the course of writing it, simply because the writing won't flow if I try to stuff all the learnings in, not to mention me forgetting it since it's been a week... This trip was initiated by a friend, a colleague who used to work in the same office, but she moved to Germany recently. I don't really recall how it went exactly, but she just kinda spontaneously asked a few of us (a small group of friends she hung out with when she's still in Singapore) if we're free in December to travel around Thailand. I was like, doh! I'll make the time! When else would you be able to get to travel to a country in which you don't speak t