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…
One Night
< 1 min read A microstory. “You were gone when I woke up, did I just dream it?” Twenty hours earlier, she would be tiptoeing around his hotel room, picking up pieces of her clothing scattered all over the place, careful not to make any noise. She opted to take off before sunrise with barely any sleep, to attempt…
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…
In Memory Of A Life Well Lived
3 min read I remember that fateful Sunday morning clearly in my head, three years to this day. I was woken up from deep slumber by a familiar ringtone, a call from Tita Lucille via Facebook’s messenger. I had an inkling it was a call to be dreaded. I never get phone calls from family not preceded by…
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…
Window of Opportunity
2 min read Eighteen months after not having set foot in an airport, let alone an aircraft, I find myself inside a desolate Changi Terminal 3 waiting to board the plane that will take me to Munich. I am a mix of raw nerves and excitement. Singapore has opened a travel lane with Germany that will not require…
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…
Strength In Being Vulnerable
2 min read Adulthood somehow carries with it its own set of struggles. Yesterday morning, I woke up less than refreshed on account of my ailing refrigerator. Every few hours for the past week, it emits a beeping sound loud enough to wake me up from deep slumber at three in the morning. The freezer component of this…
Sports As Entertainment In The Time of Covid
3 min read Times have been extraordinarily hard and we all have different ways of coping. For the last couple of months, sports had been one of the redeeming arcs in the ordinariness of my life inside lockdown-not-lockdown. My favourite out of recent sporting events was the European Championship. Partly because it was on for a month, enough…
An Audit of the Last Five Months
3 min read January feels like a lifetime ago. My hope for an imminent end to the predicament we are all in has somewhat turned into weariness. Singapore is just coming out of a fresh set of restrictions introduced over a month ago. Dining in is allowed again albeit in minuscule groups of two. I suppose two is…