{"id":1245,"date":"2009-11-14T18:33:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T18:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2009-11-14T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T18:33:54","slug":"best_birthday_present_ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Best Birthday Present Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3064\/3031742784_c5e986fc58.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"339\" alt=\"Chums\" \/><\/a><\/br><br \/>\nMy dearest sister (that&#8217;s us in the photo like eons ago) on the left gave me the best birthday present ever. On Thursday morning I was chatting online with her and saying how depressed I was at the thought of spending my 31st birthday alone in HK on Sat (i.e. today). She, bless her, then said she&#8217;d buy a ticket for me to go back. And she did it there and then.<br \/>\nAnd so I found myself on a Jetstar flight last night on my way back to Singapore. I touched down at 12.20am and got home at 1am. I was then up at 7am, and then found myself at Tanjong Beach at 9am paddling with my Singapore teammates.<br \/>\nAnyway, I&#8217;m having a swell time at home and enjoying my 1.5 hours day in Singapore. I fly back tomorrow! This is the most impromptu trip I&#8217;ve ever made.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s so nice to be home! And a big THANK YOU to my dearest sister &#8211; whom I&#8217;m not even getting to see &#8216;cos she lives in Sydney!<br \/>\nBig hugs to her!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dearest sister (that&#8217;s us in the photo like eons ago) on the left gave me the best birthday present ever. On Thursday morning I was chatting online with her and saying how depressed I was at the thought of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}