Q17. What is your most treasured memory?
I can’t pinpoint one particular memory but some treasured highlights would be:
- Travelling with my parents and sis when we were younger. I think we haven’t travelled as a family in more than 25 years.
- My first day in London when I went there on a working holiday visa. It was scary and exciting at the same time. I think that marked the turning point in my life where I knew I could spread my wings beyond Singapore.
- My first day upon relocating to Hong Kong. Again, scared shitless yet was exhilarated. Hong Kong turned out to be the city I would thrive in. I now have a lifelong love affair with the city.
- Crossing the line at the Oxfam Trailwalker in Hong Kong. I had trained for six months for this 100km event.
- Seeing the sakuras (cherry blossoms) in Kyushu with my mum. The beauty of thousands of pale pink petals raining down as the wind blew through the trees was breathtaking.
- Watching what must have been more than 100 hot air balloons go up in the air, with me and a good friend in one of them, at sunrise in Cappadocia, Turkey.
- Enjoying the solitude and quiet in the vast, open plains of Mongolia with two friends I was travelling with.
