February 2019

2nd month of using my beautiful Moomin schedule book. February saw me doing nothing for 5 days during the Chinese New Year except cooking good food at home. My mother in law cooked her usual mee-sue during 1st day of Chinese New Year, and for some reason, she decided to use ginger oil this year. After eating it, I was bloated the whole day and hence got the excuse to not go out further for Chinese New Year visiting and socialising. But it was the weekend after Chinese New Year that was the highlight of my February.

As you may have already known if you follow my blog, I went on a Business Trip to Sao Paulo Brazil. And since it was such a long way, I got to flew Business Class, which was awesome. Not only that, the transit at Ethiopia was also one of the highlight. I guess you can read all about Brazil at this link here. It was an unforgettable trip!

Since I was also keeping track of my daily budget, there was no excuse to stop just because I was away on business trip. I diligently tracked my personal expenses in Brazil as well. In total, I spend only SGD130 on myself. Round it up with the 12USD I spend on Ethiopian coffee, its around SGD150 for a one week trip. The jet leg helped a lot in terms of cutting down on my food expenses. I was more eager to sleep than to eat. It also helps that there was a grocery shop just next door to the hotel I was staying at that supplied me with all the fruits and snacks that I need. I mainly survived on hotel breakfast and free canteen lunch at the workplace. 

After tracking my first month's expenses, some lesson learned was, I needed a new category to track celebration money which ends up to be quite a huge amount. These includes Chinese New Year Ang Pow, Wedding Ang Pow, House Warming gifts, Bday. Basically socialising and having friends and family is expensive :P

As for gym usage wise, I only managed to go for 6 hours. I could have stretch it to 8 hours if it weren't for the jet leg I had when I came back as well. But overall, I did exercise much with walks at East Coast Park (1.5hours), and a 5 hour walk alone in Sao Paula exploring their parks, museums, getting lost finding my way home, and exploring the malls nearby. I did managed to lose weight while I was working in Brazil due to the awesome diet there of mainly 100g of meat a day and vegetables and protein(eggs) all the way. But once I was back in Singapore, I kinda loaded up on the carbo again and boom! Weight is back to usual :(   

Although the next news is more appropriate for March's post, my Zumba instructor called me up one day and ask me to join his backup dancer for a dance party at Orchard Road. So I will be doing a few intensive dance session before the actual event. I am pretty sure that is gonna be one of the highlight of my March, so stay tune!