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…
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…
Ice Cream Parlour
< 1 min readThis is a micro story, a story of no more than 100 words. What about all these years? I don’t know. What are we doing here then? I don’t know. It’s complicated. We don’t need to decide now. Let’s take a couple of weeks to clear our heads. She remained quiet. Steadfast in her resolve….
Love Game
2 min readIt was summer of ’02 when, bored out of our wits at home, my uncle commissioned one of his friends to train me and two other cousins to play tennis. I cannot remember exactly what gave him the push, maybe he was secretly hoping to make Federers and Williamses out of us, to no avail….
I am Not a Terrorist
2 min readOn my bi-weekly quiz night with friends prepared this time by a lawyer classmate, one of the rounds was about half-witted statements made by certain government officials whose unquestioning support for the president of the republic is preposterous at best and alarming at worst. I felt overcome with and debilitated by rage, blood rushing to…
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…
The King in the North
6 min readThis tiny Nordic island nation of about 364,000 strong inhabitants rule the north Atlantic with its dramatic landscapes and progressive political views. Iceland is small compared to its other Scandinavian counterparts but, just as David took down Goliath, this nation proves itself to be a tough competitor. Notably, it is the smallest nation to qualify…
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,…
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object.
2 min readAn exhibition. A visual story. Filed: Extraordinary
Goodbye, Things
3 min readMy life up to this point can be characterized as a series of small and big moves. From the time my grandparents retired to their farm house about half an hour drive from downtown before the roads were paved, I had been moving homes. Waking up at five in the morning just to be in…