100 Things That Made My Year 2019

This post is inspired by Austin Kleon who creates this list annually.

(Each hyperlink links to a photo memory.)

1. Morning walks at the Botanic Gardens
2. Oatmilk Lattes at Bearded Bella after yoga or before Crucycle
3. Turning off all push notifications on my phone
4. Taking the bus everywhere!
5. Work outs with Benny
6. Claiming $10 each week from AIA Vitality (as well as HPB vouchers for walking 10K steps a day)
7. When a freaking egg managed to get 1M followers on Instagram – World Record Egg
8. Discovering that I could have unlimited sauna sessions at Fitness First outlets for ~$130 a month
9. Getting my Oura Ring after a 3 month wait
10. Winning a Twitter Gumroad contest for $100
11. Winning a Twitter Ahref contest for a $800 blogging course
12. Speaking at EConsultancy’s Digital Outlook 2019 on AI in Marketing
13. Discovering Peter Attia’s podcast
14. Listening to hundreds of other podcast episodes (Tim Ferriss, Rhoda Patrick, Kevin Rose, The Genius Life, Ben Greenfield, Making Sense by Sam Harris, Rich Roll, The Minimalists)
15. Reading book Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Barber
16. Trying Impossible Burger for the first time at Potato Head
17. Queueing up for 90 minutes at the Tiong Bahru Yi Sheng Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee Stall for Hokkien Mee
18. Wagyu Beef Kway Teow at Straits Clan for Jeanne’s birthday
19. @msjolyn’s class at Crucycle (also with Yuka and Charisse)
20. Binding in Mari D and Supta Kurmasana in Mysore class after a 5 year lapse
21. My first ever kick up into a handstand
22. Wim Hof Ice baths with Chun
23. Bot demo to DPM Heng Swee Kiat
24. When the Fiji Water girl photo bombed the Golden Globe awards
25. New Haircut by Leong!
26. Learning how to install Google Tag Manager, track events and drop first party cookies from Matthew Miao
27. Seeing the black swans hatch a cygnet at Botanic Gardens
28. Going from size 8 to size 4 Lululemons
29. Fitting into my old cheong sams
30. Buying super cheap workout gear from AliExpress (and getting June’s hand-me-downs. Thanks June!)
31. Natalie moving back to Singapore
32. Friday night dinners at Japanese restaurant Ryuu on Tanglin Road, with unlimited refills of Miso soup (Parents Anniversary)
33. Omakase for Mom’s birthday at Fat Cow
34. Walks with my dad at Botanic Gardens (Feb, March, with mom)
35. Walks with my sister at Botanic Gardens (with Jeanne in April, and again)
36. Dad’s 72th Birthday and the best Wagyu Beef at Korean BBQ
37. My dad’s tweets (Follow him on Twitter here)
38. Road Trip to Johor Bahru with Dad
39. Jeanne and nephews visiting Singapore in April
40. Matthew saying “this is the BEST ever…” everywhere he went
41. Birthday Lunch at Bearded Bella with parents and Edmund
42. Birthday Dinner with Girls organised by Jeanne
43. Truffle Pizza at Nassim Hill Bakery
44. Trying new Eatigo restaurants with parents (Jin Fine Dining, Biseryu, Stirling Steaks, Fat Belly)
45. Spin Class at Crucycle with my OG spin partner Louisa (May, May, May, June, August, October)
46. Work out then pig out weekends with Eileen (Crucycle, Potato Head, Straits Clan, PS Cafe Dempsey, unicorn latte)
47. Work outs with Jeanne (Momentum, Still Boxing, Upper Cut, Level)
48. Crubox with Eileen and Jeanne (here and here)
49. Pilates with Lydia
50. Training sessions with Geraldine and Benny
51. Weekly Friday evening drinks with Geraldine at Culina
52. Watching Sweenee’s play with Yenny who came back to visit from Singapore
53. Reunion with Des and Geraldine at Gardens by the Bay and Botanic Gardens
54. Celebrating Edmund’s return from his crazy road trip at Wine Company
55. Symphony in the park with Edmund and Louisa
56. Louisa’s Birthday at Humpback, Kilo Lounge, Jigger and Pony
57. Cheeky afternoon drinks with Edmund and Louisa
58. Planking and Sit Ups with Louisa’s Kids
59. Website building + Graphic Design with Zac
60. G&R Lunches (Como Dempsey, Jan 2019, Common Man Roasters, Culina for Edmund’s Birthday, Akira Back)
61. Bainee Meet Ups (Spin and Sin with Hak, Jennie Tung, Gim Loh, Monish at Bain Alumni Drinks, Richard’s Birthday, Satish’s Party)
62. Catching up with the Phoas: meeting Han and Justine’s three kids and Yan Phoa at Millenia Walk
63. Catching up with WG04 crew: Jackie and Marco at Atlas and Sharmila, Nick and kids for lunch at Pollen
64. Catching up with Brad for dinner at Koma, then Marquee and Avenue after waaaaay too long
65. Catching up with sailors Cheryl at Venue, Spin with Amanda, Skill and Salad with Amanda) and Samantha Yom (also working with Samantha on writing for Level, Impossible Burgers and brunch with Lena at PS Cafe East Coast)
66. Yin Yin’s Kim Chi
67. Other catch ups with old friends (Celine, Zai at Crucycle, Uen-Li, Su Yee, Coffee with Selina at St Katherine’s Docks, Cocktails with Nigel at Nobu, Shoreditch, Pho with Casper, Elaine, Hong Yi and Ewan in Hoxton, London
68. Finally meeting Jason How in person– catch up at Straits Clan with Sharon
69. Wine and cheese with Jessica
70. Wine and cheese with June and Jo
71. Running into Nas Daily and crew at Straits Clan
72. First business class flight to London in a few years!
73. Feeding the ducks with Matthew and Daniel in Richmond
74. Guinness and G&Ts at a pub lunch with Ros Goei
75. Roast Duck at Gold Mine, London
76. Celebrating Daniel’s birthday in London
77. Jamon and cheese cone at Casa Manolo, Chelsea
78. Freaking delicious oatmeal at Jamie’s Kitchen at Gatwick Airport
79. First Gelato in Sicily with Shamayn and Tobi
80. Best Italian lunch at Ristorante Maffei’s in Toarmina with Shamayn and Tobi
81. Workouts on the boat and here
82. Baking bread with Shamayn on the boat then eating it with Italian kaya (pistachio cream)
83. Twiggy!
84. Seafood shopping and Cooking spaghetti vongole with Shamayn
85. Seeing dolphins while sailing with Shamayn and Tobi (here, here, here and here)
86. Sailing from Italy to Greece with Shamayn and Tobi (goodbye Italy, hello Greece, here comes the champagne!)
87. Chasing sunrise on a boat with Shamayn
88. Making reverse jumping videos on the catamaran (Tobi, me, Shamayn, Tobi Shamayn Steph)
89. Swimming in the aquamarine Corfu sea 
90. Getting invited to the Pencils of Promise Impact trip in Laos
91. Seeing the schools that we built with Pencils of Promise (as well as the ones dedicated to Mr Jamie Reeves, Fr Ponnadurai)
92. Watching the kids wash their hands under Pencils of Promise’s WASH programme
93. Morning walks and coffee runs in Luang Prabang with my dad
94. Morning walk with my dad along the river at Nong Khiaw, Luang Prabang
95. Climbing to the top of PhuoSi Hill with my dad for sunrise
96. Climbing to the top of the Kuang Si Waterfall with my crazy parents
97. Lunch on the Khop fa river cruise with parents
98. Breakfast at the Victoria Xiengthong Palace with parents
99. Client offered to pre-pay my consulting fees for 2020
100. Netflix Viral Tweet “What is one thing you can say during sex but also when you manage a brand Twitter account?”