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…
Strength In Being Vulnerable
2 min readAdulthood 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 readTimes 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 readJanuary 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…
My Nomadic Life and The Financial Choices I Make
4 min readI didn’t always like my accounting courses. In fact, business combination in fifth year literally caused me nightmares. My blockmates slash former dormmates can attest to that. But there was one subject I felt I was particularly good at – accounting for investments. It was part of the BA 114 series in third year. I…
New Dawn, New Day, New Life. And I’m Feeling Good.
4 min readDid you hear that? Yes that’s the sound of the collective sigh of relief breathed and heard all over the world as the wrathful year that was 2020 came to a close. One way or another, we are survivors of a dark chapter of this world’s history and we will have stories to tell when…
An Important Piece of Real Property
< 1 min readLast Saturday, my ever pragmatic Tita Lucil who’s always on the lookout for hot and cheap deals in the local real estate market has excitedly conveyed to me her interest in a prime piece of real property – a memorial lot. The development is only in the pre-selling stage therefore prices are still quite low….