the short wanderer

Very much overdue that I actually thought I would never end up publishing this anyway, but why not? There's probably gonna be a time where I'd want to go back and look at this again in the future anyway - Dear 2021, It has been an absolute adventure to have met you, experienced things with you, and learnt so much along your side. Now that you are leaving, it just feels that I am doing injustice to not bid you proper goodbye.  In all honesty, it does really feel like it was only yesterday I stepped into a Popular bookstore in town, bought a notebook for my 2021 journal and wrote down my 2021's 'New Year Resolutions' in one of the first few pages. Now that I am looking at it, I have to say, I wasn't being ambitious enough on the day I had came up with these resolutions. In fact, I had only written a list of three things I want to achieve in 2021 in particular! Let me just try to backtrack where was I - mentally and physically - when I had written these down. Oh! H

Period pain sucks. Oh well, any kind of pain sucks I guess. But as it is notoriously known/perceived (please don't quote me on this isk isk), women get extra 'sensitive' during their menstruation period so here's a random note from an annoyed version of me as I went through the so-called period of hormonal imbalance last month lol - I had literally just put the rice on the stove, when my stomach had a random muscle cramp attack. "Well, forget about cooking then" I said to myself in frustration while waiting in the kitchen for my rice to cook and the pain to (hopefully) subside. It did went away after a while, but I couldn't risk another cramp in the kitchen so I went back to my room after putting the rice in a container. When I was back in the room, and low-key wishing someone can cook for me instead, my heart suddenly whispered, "It must be hard to struggle with an illness (especially a chronic one) and having to get someone else to take care of you.