I am so happy to bid adieu to 2021. It was a difficult and unmemorable year. I wrote a whole blog post at the start of the year on how I was optimistic that this year would be filled with joy and light. Turns out, I was going to experience the true meaning of joy, albeit not in the way I was expecting. Spring brought with it a terrible wave of Covid which affected my entire family and lasted all the way up till summer. Accidents and illnesses followed our recovery into fall, and winter was particularly harsh as I…
Aloha friends and I hope you have all had a wonderful start to 2021! I wasn’t up to the pressure of publishing a new year’s post in January, so I decided to debut the first 2021 post on the blog on the day of the Chinese Lunar Year instead! I have written about lunar year celebrations on the blog before as well. I like exploring and learning about different regions and cultures, and Chinese traditions and stories have always fascinated me. Last year, I had the chance to be in Singapore around this time, and I was blown away by…
