It’s now November 2025, we are getting closer to the end of Year 2025. Although the year 2025 is reaching its finishing line soon, I am not exactly slowing down, continuing with my status quo as much as possible, while preparing some reflections and review of 2025, as well as strategising for Year 2026. Start of a new month, back to sharing my technology/business/personal themes and plans for November 2025.
Technology
For the month of November 2025, I would be working on clearing key backlog enterprise/business technology media news coverage, interview articles, and consumer technology media news coverage.
Not promising anything for the month of November 2025 (and probably December 2025 too), I just want to clear my key backlogs and work on my interview articles.
Business
It’s the final quarter of 2025, while it’s not time to do the year 2025 in review, I would be using this final quarter to consolidate and work towards finishing year 2025 on a good note, taking into considerations the difficult and challenging economic conditions in the past three quarters.
Photography Business
On my TGH Photography and Travel portal/blog writing about my photography / visual storytelling / content creation themes and plans, I am keeping it more personal and on the areas of creativity, and personal works instead of my photography business side of things.
Keeping my fingers crossed that I would be get more photography assignments and shoots leading up to the end of year 2025, ending the year on a good note, considering the slow and difficult period especially in the earlier part of the year.
Content Creation / Social Media Marketing
On content creation, it’s an ongoing presence, whilst getting slower at times due to workloads and commitments. Just as competitive as the photography, videography and creative industries, keeping fingers crossed for future opportunities and projects, combining content creation, photography, videography and social media marketing.
Social media marketing side of things, working towards building new partnerships and working relationships when there are opportunities. The local content creators / key opinion leader (KOL) industry has its own quirks and expectations from both sides of the demand and supply side of things.
Personal
I also share my photography / visual storytelling / content creation themes and plans (more on personal and creative side of things) for the month of November 2025, do visit my TGH Photography and Travel portal/blog and have a read!
I won a lucky draw prize during AAS 70th Gala Dinner
It’s been quite a long time since I attended a gala dinner event, during the recent Australian Alumni Singapore (AAS) 70th Gala Dinner, I attended together with fellow alumnus from my University of Queensland (UQ) alumni association of Singapore and UQ Business, Economics and Law (BEL) Council.
Made new friends, caught up with old UQ alumni friends, and I won a lucky draw prize! Winning a lucky draw prize is like a blessing since I don’t have much with lucky draws, and maybe a small reward for my years of alumni networking, support and organisation with UQAAS and UQ BEL Council.
Stress, Pressure and Mental Exhaustion
The struggles are real, society is under a lot of pressure with costs of living and job security, the amount of tense up pressures can be seen in our daily life and what’s happening in our society. Taking on a caregiver role also adds a lot of stress and pressure, the heavy burdens on the shoulders of caregivers as society ages in greater numbers, our very own family members and relatives.
Many a times, we don’t know what others might be going through, our relatives and friends also might not know what we are going through, the challenges and pressures we are facing.
There were many times the screams, anger, cries, it’s all internal, or behind closed doors, people outside don’t see or know what I am going through.
Writing my articles in my areas of technology, business, photography, travel and content creation had been significantly affected. I am trying my best, most articles content are of personal interest, it’s taking much longer than I would like. Hopefully, I hope those PR folks that I am working closely with, they can empathise, the struggles that I can’t talk about openly affecting my writing.
Repeating myself like a broken recorder again: Everyone of us has our own battles, family matters, personal matters, on top of work or business related battles to fight. Let’s be more kind, understanding, and not judge without the stories behind them.