{"id":4596,"date":"2021-08-07T20:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T12:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2021-08-08T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T23:36:23","slug":"drawing-on-the-memory-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=4596","title":{"rendered":"Drawing on the memory bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sydney&#8217;s Covid numbers hit a new high of 319 new cases today. Sigh. When can we see the light of the tunnel? When can I get on a plane again? I miss Singapore, Hong Kong and seeing new places. Ah, that feeling of curiosity when one arrives in a new place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These days I look back at the &#8216;Memories&#8217; on my Facebook account to look back at old photos and reminisce about the times I was hiking in Hong Kong and other places I had travelled to. Drawing on that memory bank brings some comfort and joy. Three years ago this time, I was on a hiking trip in Krygyzstan with friends from Hong Kong. On that trip, I also stopped by Hong Kong for several days before heading back to Singapore and then back to Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps this is what it will feel like when I&#8217;m really old and can no longer do the things I love. Like money, I believe building a huge reserve of experiences in your memory bank is important for old age and times like these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think international travel will take awhile to return to what it was pre-covid. I&#8217;d still be wary of going to less developed countries and would probably be avoiding those for awhile. But that&#8217;s thinking a bit far &#8211; I&#8217;d be happy to just be able to fly back to Singapore!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney&#8217;s Covid numbers hit a new high of 319 new cases today. Sigh. When can we see the light of the tunnel? When can I get on a plane again? I miss Singapore, Hong Kong and seeing new places. Ah, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=4596\">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-4596","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\/4596","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=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}