TEN. YEARS. I’ve actually been blogging online on citygirlcitystories.com for a decade!! Believe me, no one is more surprised by this than myself. 

When I started in late 2014 (see my very first blog post here haha), I told myself I’ll give myself a year or two, see how things goes. If I lose interest or have nothing else to share, or perhaps get discouraged if nobody finds or reads my one little blog of the millions out there, I’ll just close it, at least I tried something I really wanted to do. Well, that turned into three years, then five, then eight and I kept going and here we are now, 10 years! :) 

At 10 years, I don’t feel like I have to go into detail about all the incredible adventures I’ve been so lucky to experience, the many city stories and sometimes personal stories I have shared here, these are all in my archives. 

At this milestone, I just feel an incredible amount of gratitude. When I started, I don’t think I ever expected my passion project to go on for 10 years and within these 10 years, to take me on such interesting adventures and stories. :)

✨ If you’re reading this, thank you for being here, thank you for taking time from your day to read what I have to share, thank you for taking my recommendations, for reaching out to me via social media or emails to share something with me or to offer to collaborate. For the times you have written to me or sent me a message to tell me something positive about my blog or my posts, and for listing me in your blog roll/pages as your favourite blog, or for saving and sharing my Instagram posts, please know it means the world to me. Every time it happens, I’m thankful and delighted, thanks for making my day! :) ✨

A whole decade on the internet in this rapidly changing technology space means I’m pretty much a dinosaur, I realise that! While I enjoy consuming some video content and waste more time than I should on Youtube, personally speaking, I simply don’t have the time to experiment with any form of video content (work keeps me too busy) and this year, due to work demands, I had to take an unintended hiatus from my blog. I promise to come back ASAP!

In such an exciting internet and social media world, the fact that you have chosen some of your scrolling time on my sort of old school style blog, what can I say? Just thank you, truly. 💕
P.S. If you have emailed me and I have not replied, please know it’s never intentional and the most likely reason is because my energy is spent maintaining my work inbox!!

I started City Girl, City Stories in Hong Kong 10 years ago, when I graduated from university, with some ideas in my mind and time on my hands haha. It’s pretty crazy to reflect now, 10 years later, about who I was and where I was 10 years ago and how far I’ve come! This goes beyond blogging, as I think about the incredible journey that I’ve been on from then to now. It’s a real blessing to be able to say that I’ve grown and developed in so many ways in a decade. I like to think that City Girl, City Stories has also grown along with me!

Wrapping things up, if you’ve been here from the beginning (ahhh thank you so much!!) or dropped in by chance 10 days ago (welcome!) or anything else in between, this is me sending you kind wishes and a sprinkling of sunshine, I hope you’ll continue to pop by. :) Take care and talk soon! :)

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