Ichi-go ichi-e

Ichi-go ichi-e (Japanese) ~ "One time, one meeting"

January has been nice.

24th January, Friday - Farewell dinner with volunteers

Finally, the volunteer programme under PSM has been sunsetted. Due to the restructuring of NHB, a few of the programmes under PSM got brought over to another division. To be honest, the outreach numbers weren't that great and it was obvious that they were looking for reason to end it. The intention of the programme is excellent but managing it, is a different story. When I took over back, I was able to grow the numbers by a little bit, then COVID-19 happened, it became hard to let the monuments to allow the members of the public in. Then more and more monuments decided to do their renovation and restoration works which will take years. Then I quit and I found out that one of my ex-colleague, Jermaine, is on a 1-year sabbatical leave, with no one to manage the programme. So pretty much that was the final blow to shut down the programme.

It was nice to meet up with the volunteers after so long. And it was really nice to catch up with my ex-colleagues, Stella, Yong Jun and John, and my ex-director, Melissa. And to hear all the gossips, well, it's not really gossip, it is sharing of information. After I left the company back in January 2024, around 10 people in the cluster have resigned as well.

25th January, Saturday - Seventeen Concert

My first time going to a concert at the Singapore National Stadium after more than 15 years, I guess. The concert itself was excellent. I had such a blast singing to their songs and just wiggling in my seat. The experience was a tad let down since I didn't know that we were not allow to dance on our seats except for certain part of the concert. And also, I should have gone with my cousin, knowing fully well that we will have gone crazy over the boys. I bought their lightstick like the fangirl that I am. Overall, I had loads of fun.

Because of this, I feel that I might have gain the confidence of going to my next concert alone. The next Jeff Satur concert in Singapore, I will definitely go. I need to go. It helps that he just posted an announcement hinting at an upcoming concert - it only started that tickets sales will start in March. I'm excited for this. And lastly, Daania and me have decided to go to the next Stray Kids concert together, another thing to look forward to.

29th January, Wednesday - CNY lunch & dinner

We had a get-together at Kak Lenny's house. It has been quite some time since we all had gotten together. It was nice to hangout, have stupid conversations and eat good food with excellent company. And it was surprisingly easy for all of us to unanimously agree to meet up again for Raya. We decided to just skipped iftar.

And it's Ramadan next month. 

In Shaa' Allah, everything will be fine and moving along smoothly.