Seaweed, Lions & Vouchers

It’s finally the 70th post of this blog! Honestly, I never thought I’d keep up this blogging habit for this long. But here we are—because apparently, my brain just has too much to spill, and I need a record of my life. You know, for future me. In 10 years, I’ll be rereading all of this, probably laughing at my own nonsense. Because let’s be real—my memory is terrible. I can’t even remember what I had for lunch today. I had to scroll through my gallery just to find out.

Speaking of discoveries, I just realized something very tragic… I have an ulcer on the side of my tongue. The culprit? Too much fried seaweed. I absolutely love the fried seaweed my mum makes during Chinese New Year, so I brought two boxes back to Singapore—one for me and one for my brother. Guess what? I devoured about 30% of mine in one evening, and now my throat is already feeling a bit dry. I’m currently chugging water like a dehydrated camel, hoping to prevent tomorrow’s inevitable consequence: waking up with a rough, sexy voice. If my mum finds out, she’ll definitely call me just to say, “I told you not to eat too much fried food!”

By the way, my company had a lion dance performance today! Apparently, if you want the lions to dance in your department, you have to fork out 500 SGD—plus, you even have to prepare all the "ingredients" for them to "play" with during their performance. I never really understood the whole thing, but my colleagues explained that it’s mainly for attracting more money and ensuring everything runs smoothly. So basically, it’s just a more exciting (and expensive) version of praying.

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Oh, and I almost forgot to say this—but how is it already the second month of 2025?! I swear I just stepped into 2025 a few days ago. Is this even legit?? Why does time speed up as you get older? No wonder when my grandma tells stories from her youth, she always says “a few years ago”—only for us to realize she’s actually talking about something that happened 50+ years ago... Grandma, are you sure time works the same for you as it does for the rest of us??

And my company also gave us ang pao today! But not cash—NTUC gift vouchers. The value is actually enough to cover my dinners for two whole weeks. At this point, I’m really starting to feel like an aunty because getting vouchers makes me unreasonably happy.

Now, just imagine if they gave us a 500 SGD NTUC voucher—my god, that would be life-changing! I could literally buy anything in NTUC, no joke. Groceries? Check. Snacks? Check. Enough instant noodles to survive an apocalypse? Check.