7 min read🎶 Pagbibigyan na lang silangMagkandarapa na manligaw sayoIdadaan na lang kita sa awitin kong itoSabay ang tugtog ng gitara 🎶 Parokya ni Edgar’s Gitara played on the car stereo as we drove through the winding roads of Bohol. It was from a Spotify playlist curated by my cousins who are on average 10 years my…
Warm Fuzzy Feeling
< 1 min readThere’s something about rainy days that bring about warm fuzzy feelings. You wake up to a barely illuminated bedroom seeing as the sun hasn’t shone. You decide to lie in bed just a little longer hoping to hang on to the lingering dreamy languor of the previous night’s sleep. To no avail because you’ve already…
La Dolce Vita
12 min readI arrive on an autumn afternoon typical of the city of London – overcast, rainy and cold. I will find this kind of weather depressing any other day but my favourite people coming to greet me with usual fanfare as I take my exit from Paddington station is all the sunshine I need. We exchange…
Full Circle Moment
< 1 min readThis 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 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,…
Dry July
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….
In Hope Of Finding Time
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…
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…
One Night
< 1 min readA 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 readI 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…