Month: July 2023

2 min readCome on, keep going, one more kilometer. You’ve done it before, you can do it again. Said my inner voice when I felt like giving up and walking the rest of my ten kilometer run this evening. But as dark clouds overhead threatened torrential downpour, I sprinted through the last kilometer to avoid being drenched,…

2 min readFor the first time in 15 months, I’m spending a full month in Singapore without the prospect of clearing any automated gates or answering any bizarre questions from immigration officers in whichever nearby country I’m visiting. The last most notable one in Yogyakarta being “What’s your name?”. Yes that’s right I was just as baffled….

2 min readSecond half of 2023 has arrived. The actual passage of time not entirely relevant to the actual amount of time spent doing meaningful things. But what qualifies as meaningful anyway? I have neither brokered world peace nor found cure for cancer. Nor am I raising children who will one day broker world peace or find…