Jan 21, 2024

My sister and I went out early today so we can have our late birthday celebration for me. We were supposed to visit Tim Ho Wan and try out that hakaw (shrimp dumplings) I've been wanting to try, but remembering that she's a picky eater, I just asked her to look at the menu and she asked to visit Nanyang instead. We got to BGC High Street and went inside this Bread Talk shop which also housed another restaurant in it. I thought this was just a Bread Talk shop, but apparently it had Nanyang inside of it as well. We ate at Nanyang and I liked the dish I was served, to an extent. I had some noodles with chicken and cheese, and I wish I had more of the chicken. The noodles were okay. I also had some toast at the side with 2 poached eggs, all were good but I was expecting a heavier meal since it would be the only thing I would eat today. Oh well. After eating, we headed to Timezone and I couldn't transfer the incorrectly-purchased credits from my old card into my main one. But I still got them transferred into a new card and I played Wangan Midnight with my sister. I tried to teach her how to drive with manual transmission in the game and I accomplished a few story mode missions as well, upgrading my car. We got to sing some karaoke afterwards and then walked around Fully Booked before heading home. Some time later, I got into a call with my friends and I was explaining something to them, and they played Red Dead Redemption 2 eventually. I was having a somewhat-bad 2 days recently because I'm dealing with really heavy stuff that I'm trying to keep under wraps, but I just couldn't hold back and waterworks happened. I don't think they noticed, though, but they soon noticed that my mood was off and they asked me about it. In my head, I was thinking whether or not I should tell them the things I'm truly worried about, but I just gave them a fib and it wasn't really the crux of my problem. I tried my best to nurse my mood and pretty soon I was OK enough, so to speak. I still felt down, of course. Doomscrolling on Instagram didn't really help my mood either, but I realized that I was doomscrolling and stopped myself. All in all, I think I had a good day, despite everything. I had someone to listen to my problems, I went out with my sister, I had fun singing karaoke. Even though my mood is still shot, it's not that bad for me to call it a bad day. I really wish I was in a far future where I'm truly happy, but I guess days like this'll do.