- photo taken in Chiangmai, Thailand, March 2024
Here’s a wrap for 2024 that I’ve been postponing for too long.
It was a year of transition, a prolonged transition from my beloved sunny and beach-y part of Asia to the long overdue European Girlie Era of mine. It was a year of connection, numerous new serendipitous connections and precious re-connections with old pals despite a few heartbreaking disconnections with important people and places.
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I spent the first half of the year saying goodbye to my Home: Thailand. I never experienced a harder goodbye than this, and the thought of this event and my most wonderful 2.5 years would still get me very emotional now. I don’t know why. Or actually I know why. But at the same time, I felt it very strongly in my gut that it was time to go, to see the world. Home is not a perfect place, nor a place where you have to forever stay. Home is a place that you will always come back to, in reality or in thoughts and dreams.
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And then I found myself stuck in the KVIS-universe. Despite some disheartening interactions with the school authorities, I’ve earned way too many precious friendships from these past couple years. They have accompanied me through ups and downs (special shoutout to the Whatever Group It Is, who were there in many of my core memories in 2024) and brought me to see numerous new things. Most importantly, I feel safe and loved and willing to give all my love and support to these people.
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A crazy fact I happened to notice: the number of my followers on instagram (new friends and acquaintances) increased by 100+ over the year. Each symbolizes a new inspiration and sparkle into my life. I’m lucky to have built stronger connections with some of them throughout the year. And I’m eternally grateful for my dear friends who have sheltered me both physically and mentally, and for the new members into the family who care for me more than one could ask for.
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While thanking the universe for treating this lucky little blob so well, I also thank myself for being a go-getter who makes dreams come true: from Doolaylay to Krabi (absolute highlights), from the Lombok surf camp to the Bali trip with Andre to Oktoberfest to Cigarettes After Sex (the major pegs I put down for the shaping of 2024). Now the new chapter has officially started, so the theme for 2025 is: 
Tammy Yu-Ting Chiang 