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		<title>A Photo Diary From March to May</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2024/06/photo-diary-march-may.html" title="A Photo Diary From March to May" rel="nofollow"><img width="1800" height="2400" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/london_sunset_trafalgar_square.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Trafalgar square london sunset" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" /></a><p>Do people still read blogs or has the focus shifted over to TikTok and Instagram for those quick videos permanently? I keep logging in and out of this blog, drafting a paragraph here and there but never finishing an actual post. If only you could see the amount of unfinished draft posts I have accumulated [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>What No One Tells You About London</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 22:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2024/02/what-no-one-tells-you-about-london.html" title="What No One Tells You About London" rel="nofollow"><img width="1013" height="1800" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/london.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>Being a born and bred northerner and in my little northern bubble, the capital is like a different world. I see a lot of things there that I&#8217;ve never seen before, experienced things I&#8217;ve never experienced before. I&#8217;ve read the typical London problems people face but these are the things no one tells you about [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Monthly Musings: January 2024</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 22:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2024/01/monthly-musings-january-2024.html" title="Monthly Musings: January 2024" rel="nofollow"><img width="1350" height="1800" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/honey_toast_new_malden.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>Am I the only one who thinks January is a slow, long month? We&#8217;re recovering from the holidays and making sure this month&#8217;s budgeting doesn&#8217;t go over and reaches its final stretch until payday. On top of this, there was an unwelcoming bug that&#8217;s been doing the rounds. My body has just about recovered and [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Monthly Musings: December 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2024/01/monthly-musings-december-2023.html" title="Monthly Musings: December 2023" rel="nofollow"><img width="1050" height="1400" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/delight_exhibition2_borough.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>Is this a Christmas tree made out of Pokemon plushes? Oh hell yes! Can you see your favourite in there? 2024 has just appeared out of nowhere. Does anyone else feel like each year passes slightly quicker than the previous year? Or maybe I&#8217;ve become more aware as I&#8217;ve gotten older. Sometimes I wish for [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Monthly Musings: November 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2023/12/monthly-musings-november-2023.html" title="Monthly Musings: November 2023" rel="nofollow"><img width="1050" height="1400" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/carnaby_street_london_2023.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like&#8230; Ah, the temperature has dropped and we welcome the crisp, cold air, breezing past your face yet biting at it at the same time. The lights, markets, displays and trees are my favourite things to look forward to at this time of year, walking and breathing in a [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>A Photo Diary From the Last 9 Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2023/11/photo-diary-last-9-months.html" title="A Photo Diary From the Last 9 Months" rel="nofollow"><img width="1350" height="1800" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cherry_blossom.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>Being consumed with so much stress where you don&#8217;t even know how to handle it, takes away the joy from a lot of things. It even affects your day-to-day and the people around you. This is exactly what has been happening to me over the last 9 months. Stress and all of the negative emotions [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The Realities of Working Remotely</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2023/03/the-realities-of-working-remotely.html" title="The Realities of Working Remotely" rel="nofollow"><img width="1200" height="1800" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/20230322_175008_mh16795082330931.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>There seems to be the notion that working remotely means sitting on your arse all day watching Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, YouTube etc during work hours and your productivity drops. While this would be the dream, but in reality, you&#8217;d be fired for it. This so-called notion isn&#8217;t true nor speaks for everyone. This [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Monthly Musings: January 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2023/02/monthly-musings-january-2023.html" title="Monthly Musings: January 2023" rel="nofollow"><img width="1200" height="1800" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/china-town-london-lunar-year-2023.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>Happy 2023! For me, new years resolution is a thing of the past; I can&#8217;t even remember the last time I made some. I can definitely say, it was repeated every year yet I didn&#8217;t stick to them whatsover back then. The more I&#8217;ve gorwn and matured, the more I&#8217;ve learnt to accept and understand [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Monthly Musings: December 2022</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2022/12/monthly-musings-december-2022.html" title="Monthly Musings: December 2022" rel="nofollow"><img width="1200" height="1800" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/infinity_rooms_yayoi_kasuma.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>I&#8217;ve spent the final two weeks of the year ill with whatever bug that&#8217;s been doing the rounds, not a good way to end the year but thankfully it wasn&#8217;t covid otherwise I would probably cry! Doesn&#8217;t it feel like this year has flown by a lot quicker than the previous? I can&#8217;t remember much [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Monthly Musings: November 2022</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.nicolwong.com/2022/12/monthly-musings-november-2022.html" title="Monthly Musings: November 2022" rel="nofollow"><img width="1200" height="1800" src="https://www.nicolwong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/christmas_at_kew1.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" /></a><p>It&#8217;s December right now and all I can say is happy advent calendar month! I&#8217;m enjoying my Hotel Chocolate advent calendar. I wish I could say the chocolate gives me the motivation to get out of bed in the cold mornings but I&#8217;d be lying. It&#8217;s a nice treat though. Anyways, here is November&#8217;s monthly [&#8230;]</p>
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