Wow, I can’t believe this account still exists..  fast forward to 2023, I am currently on the SJ Nord train heading towards Oslo, from Trondheim. The Nordic winter landscape is beautiful, wisps of white snow and snow covered mountains. Houses with a whipped cream layer of snow on roofs and warm cosy lights in the windows..  feeling very contented and amazed and how I managed to travel so far in the cold winter season. 

Am here with a new friend and partner that I met just in November 2022. Did a lot of things since Mum passed in May 2022. I still experience intense flashbacks of the moments of suffering, interspersed with a tinge of regret that she isn’t around to check on me anymore or to see this magical wintry landscape. 

Often, I think about how my perspective of life has changed since then. I’m able to do things that usually scare me, or that I over worry about.. such as travelling like this. Also thanks to Ed for pushing me to walk and trudge on in the snow, in extremely cold weather and condition that I would have never been able to convince myself to do. 

I’m glad I’ve moved past the stage where I am afraid to do things.. I still am, but I do it anyway. Applying for jobs was not easy, I had a short stint with ST Engineering, and another period of frantic submitting of resumes and letters and applications. Failed attempts.. and finally one unexpected offer from GovTech. 

Managed to do a long travel in the Scandinavia-Nordic arctic circle region, PLUS have a job when I get back.. I am grateful and contented. 

Cheers to life and living. All is well. All in good time.