3 min readThe avalanche of bad news this year has left a lot of us paralyzed with insurmountable fear that turned into hopeless rage. It’s easier to perhaps remain apolitical and instead, watch endless Tiktok videos but my temperamental millennial mind just won’t shut up. Someone in my Facebook network shared a post airing the supposed statement…
Category: La Vie Quotidien
Snippets of my daily life
Life Update and Whatnot
2 min readBecause I’ve committed to writing about the day to day when I started this blog a few weeks ago, I feel compelled to recap the events of the last few days despite being still pretty much locked in. On Friday, 12th of June, I closed yet another chapter of my life working in corporate. I…
New Look!
3 min readI know it hasn’t been that long since I launched this space so it couldn’t possibly have a makeover this early but a good friend of mine offered to make a customized header for my website and I wasn’t going to say no to that! Utter lack of skill prevented me from doing anything with…
Happy Birthday Budz!
2 min readDo you remember when we went full on WWE SmackDown at our grandparents’ living room in the farm while the adults were in the kitchen discussing adult things? I think I might have been 19 at the time and you were nine. I should have known better than to fight with a child but, meh,…
Taxman
2 min readNever has this Beatles song been more relevant. I received my tax bill this morning. It was a bill for too many thousands. I was perplexed. I didn’t think I was making that much money to warrant a high tax rate. I scrutinized the notice from IRAS, the tax authority in Singapore. Something did not…
Life in the Time of Covid-19
3 min readNobody in the world could have predicted the predicament we now find ourselves embroiled in. 2020 offered hope that it was going to be more promising than all the years passed. It seemed like it had the makings of an auspicious year anyway – repeating digits, turn of the decade, et cetera. Yet, the news…