사람들은 나이가 들수록 옛 친구들과 다시 연락하고 싶어 하나요?
Senior from hall reached out on Instagram and suggested meeting up. Second hall senior to do so in the past 4 months.
Initially felt a little unsure since I haven’t seen this senior since graduating! But then again, why not?
I’ve not dropped my phone since buying it in August last year but then once I dropped it at the airport this week, I suddenly dropped it another 2 times. Worst thing is, I don’t even know how it landed on the floor this morning!
Had a second session with Dr Alla this morning. Penning down my takeaways so I won’t forget…
• Comp – focus on the process and not the result.
• It’s the process of dance that’s fun. Not the result.
• Changing mental movie. Mental exercise first before physical exercise.
• Why do people do comps? It’s 2 similar levelled people co-creating something.
• Each dance just needs to be slightly better than the last one.
• My mental movie –> pin my bib – breath (4 counts in, 6 counts out) –> line up (say to myself: “it’s about the process, not the result”) –> on the floor, rotate partner (let’s just make this dance better than the last one).
Realisation:
• There is no “good” dance. It is not an absolute value.
• Slow down breathing – 4 counts in, 6 counts out.
• https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Other-Resources
21 March 2025. Milestone! Tried my first counselling session today. I really wanted to resolve my performance anxiety during JnJs and since no matter how hard I’ve tried I couldn’t “mind over matter” it, I decided to give counselling a try. It was a good 1 hr session even though it was supposed to be for 50 min. I like my doc, Dr Alla.
Biggest takeaway (and I’m writing it here because I’m afraid I’ll forget) is, dance doesn’t define me as a person. My person defines my dance.
Finally I think I can answer this question. I’m a graceful dancer but not as precise as ballerinas. I like the feeling of floating and going with the flow; perhaps reflective of how I am in life – I like peace with no big excitement or disappointments.
편하게 춤추기 좋겠다.
I think this is likely to be my last post of 2024. Would have liked to post more regularly but these days (compared to 20 years ago), I don’t use the laptop for personal reasons much… and I really hate writing long posts on the hp.
Just concluded my last Korea trip of the year! Visited Korea an unbelievable 6 times this year.
March – visited with global head. (Work)
April – Busan holiday + Korea Open (Personal)
June – Korea Language Immersion Programme (Personal)
Early September – visit with colleague from London (Work)
Late September – Westival (Personal)
December – Roy Kim’s concert (Personal)
To be fair, the trip in Dec wasn’t exactly planned and in Sep, I told my colleagues that I wouldn’t be back till next year. What I didn’t expect was that Roy Kim would launch an international fan club, which I joined, and that allowed me to buy a ticket to his year-end concert through the fan club pre-sale. I really wanted to go for his concert in 2023 but didn’t manage to get a ticket – they were sold out in 3 min. (The Interpark website is amazing for ticket sales. Way better than Sistic or Ticketmaster but that’s another story on its own).
So while I was in Seoul last week, I was wondering how did my favourite holiday destination change from Hong Kong to Seoul? I asked myself what did I like about HK that has changed? These were the thoughts that popped into my head:
People – I used to like the vibe and culture in HK. The people had this hunger and drive about them and I loved the energy.
Music – I used to love Cantopop. Well, I still like it but my favourite artistes aren’t as active as before… Sammi Cheng, Miriam Yeung, Hacken Lee, Andy Hui (well, I don’t really like him anymore after his affair). The newer singers don’t inspire me at all.
Movies – It’s shocking how the blockbusters are still headlined by the same actors that I watched 20 years ago. While I enjoy seeing my favourites on screen still (Louis Koo, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse)… it’s kind of sad that there’s no new blood that’s as big as these people?
I think if my salary allowed it 15-20 years ago, I would have visited HK 2-3 times a year as well. However, the circumstances didn’t allow it then and now HK just seems a little “lost” to me. I still have one thing on my bucket list though – I want to attend a Sammi Cheng concert in HK. Hopefully I’ll get to do this in 2025.
There are a lot of things I learnt this year and the one thing I want to work on (on myself) is to take time in doing things. A peer commented in my 360deg feedback that I tend to be anxious to get things done as efficiently and quickly as possible but taking a bit more time before responding to any issues would be better. I think that is good feedback so I’m forcing myself to slow down a little these days.
Ideally I would be able to post something once a week, if not at least once a month. But we’ll see. 🙂
Peace out and may the rest of 2024 bring peace and joy to all.
조금만 수정하면 더 자연스러워요:
“지난 2주 동안 한국에 있었어요. 왜냐하면 학원의 Cultural Immersion Program에 참여했어요. 매일 아침에 3시간 반 수업을 들었어요. 그리고 오후에 회사에 다녔어요. 너무 바빴지만 재미있었어요.”
아주 바쁜 시간을 보냈네요! 새로운 경험을 통해 많은 것을 배웠을 것 같아요.
At episode 19/24 of this K drama. Realised I like people who are considerate. Don’t think that’s a typical main trait people cite when asked about what sort of people they like? Well, that’s a main one for me. For sure.
사실 지난 주의 수업이 조금 이상했어요. 이유가 모르지만 선생님 ‘설날’의 발음 was [설날] instead of [설랄]. I think it was Joey who asked about it then 선생님 explained it’s [설랄]. 그런데 우리 같이 소리로 읽을때 선생님 still used [설날].
I’m fussy. ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Tobias had a seizure on Thu night. Spent 4 hours at The Animal Doctors before he was seen by Dr Chandi.
To summarise the findings at the vet:
1. Left ear has bacterial infection (which is unusual cos bunnies usually turn/scrunch towards the side that’s hurting but Tobias was scrunched to the right)
2. His heart has sounds of murmur which wasn’t audible 2 weeks ago.
3. He’s borderline anaemic.
5. Blood works show there’s an ongoing infection. The blood was sent to test for EC too… We’ll know in 2 weeks.
6. X-ray showed his there’s more “white veins” at the lungs but dunno what’s the cause.
Tobias ate about all of his usual dinner last night so that’s good. His right hind leg remains weak but he’s no longer scrunched to the right.
Overall, I think there’s improvement for sure! I’m glad I chose not to ward him because he refused to eat while at the vet. I think he’s happier at home. (Vet suggested warding him cos his breathing was harder than usual)
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