
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.)
- Morning walks at the Botanic Gardens
- Oatmilk Lattes at Bearded Bella after yoga or before Crucycle
- Turning off all push notifications on my phone
- Taking the bus everywhere!
- Claiming $10 each week from AIA Vitality (as well as HPB vouchers for walking 10K steps a day)
- When a freaking egg managed to get 1M followers on Instagram – World Record Egg
- Discovering that I could have unlimited sauna sessions at Fitness First outlets for ~$130 a month
- Getting my Oura Ring after a 3 month wait
- Winning a Twitter Gumroad contest for $100
- Winning a Twitter Ahref contest for a $800 blogging course
- Speaking at EConsultancy’s Digital Outlook 2019 on AI in Marketing
- Discovering Peter Attia’s podcast
- 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)
- Reading book Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Barber
- Trying Impossible Burger for the first time at Potato Head
- Queueing up for 90 minutes at the Tiong Bahru Yi Sheng Fried Hokkien Prawn Mee Stall for Hokkien Mee
- Wagyu Beef Kway Teow at Straits Clan for Jeanne’s birthday
- @msjolyn’s class at Crucycle (also with Yuka and Charisse)
- Binding in Mari D and Supta Kurmasana in Mysore class after a 5 year lapse
- My first ever kick up into a handstand
- Wim Hof Ice baths with Chun
- When the Fiji Water girl photo bombed the Golden Globe awards
- New Haircut by Leong!
- Learning how to install Google Tag Manager, track events and drop first party cookies from Matthew Miao
- Seeing the black swans hatch a cygnet at Botanic Gardens
- Going from size 8 to size 4 Lululemons
- Fitting into my old cheong sams
- Buying super cheap workout gear from AliExpress (and getting June’s hand-me-downs. Thanks June!)
- Natalie moving back to Singapore
- Friday night dinners at Japanese restaurant Ryuu on Tanglin Road, with unlimited refills of Miso soup (Parents Anniversary)
- Omakase for Mom’s birthday at Fat Cow
- Walks with my sister at Botanic Gardens (with Jeanne in April, and again)
- Dad’s 72th Birthday and the best Wagyu Beef at Korean BBQ
- My dad’s tweets (Follow him on Twitter here)
- Road Trip to Johor Bahru with Dad
- Matthew saying “this is the BEST ever…” everywhere he went
- Birthday Lunch at Bearded Bella with parents and Edmund
- Birthday Dinner with Girls organised by Jeanne
- Truffle Pizza at Nassim Hill Bakery
- Trying new Eatigo restaurants with parents (Jin Fine Dining, Biseryu, Stirling Steaks, Fat Belly)
- Work out then pig out weekends with Eileen (Crucycle, Potato Head, Straits Clan, PS Cafe Dempsey, unicorn latte)
- Weekly Friday evening drinks with Geraldine at Culina
- Watching Sweenee’s play with Yenny who came back to visit from Singapore
- Reunion with Des and Geraldine at Gardens by the Bay and Botanic Gardens
- Celebrating Edmund’s return from his crazy road trip at Wine Company
- Symphony in the park with Edmund and Louisa
- Louisa’s Birthday at Humpback, Kilo Lounge, Jigger and Pony
- Cheeky afternoon drinks with Edmund and Louisa
- Website building + Graphic Design with Zac
- Bainee Meet Ups (Spin and Sin with Hak, Jennie Tung, Gim Loh, Monish at Bain Alumni Drinks, Richard’s Birthday, Satish’s Party)
- Catching up with the Phoas: meeting Han and Justine’s three kids and Yan Phoa at Millenia Walk
- Catching up with WG04 crew: Jackie and Marco at Atlas and Sharmila, Nick and kids for lunch at Pollen
- Catching up with Brad for dinner at Koma, then Marquee and Avenue after waaaaay too long
- 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)
- Yin Yin’s Kim Chi
- 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
- Finally meeting Jason How in person– catch up at Straits Clan with Sharon
- Wine and cheese with Jessica
- Running into Nas Daily and crew at Straits Clan
- First business class flight to London in a few years!
- Feeding the ducks with Matthew and Daniel in Richmond
- Guinness and G&Ts at a pub lunch with Ros Goei
- Roast Duck at Gold Mine, London
- Celebrating Daniel’s birthday in London
- Jamon and cheese cone at Casa Manolo, Chelsea
- Freaking delicious oatmeal at Jamie’s Kitchen at Gatwick Airport
- First Gelato in Sicily with Shamayn and Tobi
- Best Italian lunch at Ristorante Maffei’s in Toarmina with Shamayn and Tobi
- Baking bread with Shamayn on the boat then eating it with Italian kaya (pistachio cream)
- Seafood shopping and Cooking spaghetti vongole with Shamayn
- Sailing from Italy to Greece with Shamayn and Tobi (goodbye Italy, hello Greece, here comes the champagne!)
- Chasing sunrise on a boat with Shamayn
- Getting invited to the Pencils of Promise Impact trip in Laos
- Seeing the schools that we built with Pencils of Promise (as well as the ones dedicated to Mr Jamie Reeves, Fr Ponnadurai)
- Watching the kids wash their hands under Pencils of Promise’s WASH programme
- Morning walks and coffee runs in Luang Prabang with my dad
- Morning walk with my dad along the river at Nong Khiaw, Luang Prabang
- Climbing to the top of PhuoSi Hill with my dad for sunrise
- Climbing to the top of the Kuang Si Waterfall with my crazy parents
- Lunch on the Khop fa river cruise with parents
- Breakfast at the Victoria Xiengthong Palace with parents
- Client offered to pre-pay my consulting fees for 2020