2 min read Not long after I decided it’s time to move on from this apartment at Lor 32 Geylang I’ve called home for the past six years, I found my new place. It’s a stone’s throw away from East Coast Park and stands adjacent to the newly built Katong Park MRT opening in June. It will take…
Category: La Vie Quotidien
Snippets of my daily life
Quiet Weekend
3 min read My company’s Step Challenge commenced yesterday. The goal is to beat last year’s record of walking 61 millions steps collectively in the next three weeks. I thought I was off to a good start, running 14km yesterday afternoon and walking extra kilometers around the neighbourhood. When I refreshed the app at end of day, I…
Full Circle Moment
< 1 min read This afternoon, my boss sent me a photo that made me ruminate for a second – a name card from what seems like a lifetime ago. Eight years since I left Halifax for Hong Kong, I’m reminded of how far I’ve come. So much has already happened in between then and now. So many stories…
One Year of Running
2 min read Come 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,…
Dry July
2 min read For 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….
In Hope Of Finding Time
2 min read Second 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…
Perpetual Gratitude State of Mind
3 min read “Now that everything is going well in your life, don’t you feel bored?” I chuckled over this question my friend Ramz posed the other day. No I am not bored. I am grateful. There is an underrated joy in having a period of uninterrupted peace in one’s life, which is where I find myself of…
Life Interrupted
6 min read I have a huge backlog in my writing. I haven’t been successful at holding myself accountable to dedicating time into this craft. It’s a shame because I also have to pay to maintain this domain. In my defence (defence from whom girl?!), you could say I have been doing more happy and mindful living than…
The Many Meanings of Love
2 min read A year ago, my friend Rachel asked me to write a personal note to read on her wedding day originally scheduled in September of 2020. I was happy to do so but the pandemic hit and derailed some plans. A year later, her fiancé, now husband, sent me a message asking if I’d still be…
To Lead A Meaningful Life
3 min read These days, more so than ever, we seem to be constantly confronted by death, not only by its certainty but also by its nearness. Yesterday, a friend messaged me in disbelief over the death of her former colleague, a woman in her thirties who purportedly died from a ruptured aneurysm. It was sudden and patently…