Happy New Year! May 2021 bring to you and your loved ones loads of happiness, abundance, prosperity and good health!

I decided to start this year with the week 0 because this week was split between 2020 and this year and so it’s week 0 according to me.

It was a fairly quiet week at home and Singapore had a very rainy start to 2021. With such a weather, a warm bed with a book and some hot beverage sounds so appealing, but this year because I have decided to finally take my health into my hands, I couldn’t just sit and chill, but had to make sure I walked my targeted steps for the day. I have also decided to read more this year because in 2020, social media and OTT shows took quite a bit of my time which I want to reclaim back. There are other resolutions for the year, but let me see if I can actually keep to them before I share it.

The world is reeling with more than 84 million positive cases and the United States leads the pack with more than 20 million cases and India following behind with 10 million cases and Brazil at number three with close to 8 million cases. But there is a silver lining because many countries have started vaccinations starting with their medical and frontline workers before moving on to their elderly and the vulnerable. In the past week, Singapore has gotten double digit cases more than once and though most of them are imported cases, we also now have at least two local community clusters which are most likely to be cases within a household. Hopefully this gets contained soon and we go back to single digit numbers. Currently there are about 150 active cases in the country.

This year, in my weekly updates, I have decided to spread some positivity and so here’s something I made. I hope to share a new positive thought each week which will brighten up our week. Have a wonderful 2021 and stay healthy!

The second last week of the year, though in the title it is the last week, but it is the last full week of 2020, a year we are all very happy to bid good bye to!

This was a very quiet week for us, with the children on their term break and S and me having a quiet week because the world pretty much shuts down these two weeks.

The new COVID-19 variants in the world have been worrying since some of the variants are supposed to more contagious. The world has hit 80 million cases which is slightly more than 1 percent of the world’s population as of December 2020.

I have been taking this slight downtime to start on a minimal journey. I am starting with my email accounts and deleting old mails so I can start the new year on a fresh note. Let’s take this last few days of 2020 to reflect on how this year has been and what we want to do and achieve in 2020 which is a year which is full of hope!

When I see you next in this update, it will be 2021, so Happy New Year everyone. It’s a new year and new beginings and may 2021 bring to fruitation all your hopes and wishes with the year being filled with success, happiness and prosperity!

We are in the second last week of the year and I have been thinking about how this year has been for me and my family. Since it turned out to be a longish post, I decided to publish it as a separate post, so look out for it soon.

Singapore had a piece of good news early in the week. We will be start phase three next week and this will mean some relief for businesses and people. Weddings and places of worship can now have live music and more people can attend celebrations. This is great news for S’ cousin who is getting married next month, so they can get more people to physically be there instead of watching it online.

Also, Singapore has ordered vaccines and the first batch of the Pzifer vaccines will be here end December. The first people to be vaccinated will be healthcare workers, people working in the frontline and the elderly. The others will follow and vaccinations are not compulsory, but they are encouraging all eligible residents to get themselves vaccinated. Only children under 16, pregnant women and immunocompromised people are not to get vaccinated for now as there is not enough evidence about the safety for these people. The timeline for everyone who wants to get vaccinated is Q3 so by the end of September, every long-term Singapore resident who wants a vaccine will get one free of cost. I for one, can’t wait for my turn to come and will sign up as soon as I am allowed to.

There’s really nothing else happening as we are all on holiday and winding down for the end of the year. Stay safe everyone!

The year is running out fast and though there are some glimmers of hope, it still looks like at least the first part of 2021 will be more or less like 2020.

The US is leading as usual, with the highest number of cases at and have daily reported cases of almost a quarter million. India is far behind with about 30 thousand cases reported on a daily basis. Singapore is still holding strong with zero to one or two community cases at the most on a daily basis and the bulk of our cases come from those who arrive into Singapore and are quarantined.

BB finished his mid-terms and started his three week term break yesterday. GG has some assignments to submit this week and then she also starts her term break. Both will go back to school in the new year. As usual, BB is spending all the time he has playing games with his friends and both have made plans to meet up with friends during this period also.

Take care people, especially since the festive season is upon us and make sure you are safe and your family and especially the elderly and the immunocompromised are safer!

We’re in the last few weeks of 2020 and everyone is praying that 2021 is a better year for all of us.

Many countries starting with the United Kingdom have started ordering COVID-19 vaccines for their citizens and residents and hopefully by the middle of next year, all of us are vaccinated against this disease. I wonder when countries start vaccinations, who gets priority? And will they vaccinate not just their own citizens, but also those living and working in those countries, both legally and illegally? Afterall, it would take just one person with the virus to start a new wave in these countries. These are questions what probably will be answered sooner or later.

The children are busy with school and BB has exam week this week which is his mid-semester exams. According to him, it has a 20% value to his final semester grade and over the weekend, he got a big round of scolding from everyone, including his sister on playing games instead of studying. He is someone who does not really give importance to exams and tests in the middle of the term, and instead likes to focus on the big final exam. But poly is different from school as here every single test, quiz and project counts, not just the final exam, so the nagging and explanations continue.

Life is pretty quiet, so I am taking this opportunity to go through each room in my house and see how best I can clear clutter. As I go older, I am realising I am a minimalist at heart. This discarding things that doesn’t appeal to me now is so cathartic, I am thinking I should be on an annual basis.

Have a wonderful week people!