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…
In Memory Of A Life Well Lived
3 min readI 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 readA 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 readEighteen 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 readThese 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…