I ramble…
I hope everyone’s been doing okay obeying the circuit breaker/quarantine/shelter-in-place/movement control orders! It’s pretty amazing how many names can be given to the instruction “don’t leave your house.” While I have been reading (and have quite a few book review drafts waiting to be posted), I find that the most calming things I can do… Read More Mental Health Monday #5: Calming Hobbies
Singapore will be starting a one-month circuit breaker (in other words, a lockdown) and as I prepare to stay in, I found these three posts/articles to be helpful. Boundaries at Home (@SitWithWhit – Instagram) For my family, staying at home comes with a heavily reduced workload since our work is tied to a factory. So… Read More Mental Health Monday #4: Stay Home Edition
Three things I noted this past week: 1. Do Migraines Mean Anything? Last Thursday, I started having sharp pains in my head (imagine an ice-pick hammering into your skull) every few hours. When the pain did not disappear by Friday, and in fact was joined by a low-grade headache when I woke up, I decided… Read More Mental Health Monday #2: Taking Breaks
As I continue pondering the role of technology and social media in my life (basically something I do whenever I have nothing else on my mind), I realised something: The book blogging community works extremely hard. Like, I’m not even joking. I see daily posts from so many book bloggers, I see readathons, I see… Read More You’re Not Lazy, You’re Tired and That’s Okay
Warning: Extremely long post I meant to post this at the three month mark but I lost track of time (and kept procrastinating on updating the weekly stats for over a month) so this is coming to you about four months since my last update. It’s going to be a very long post, starting with… Read More Breaking the Smartphone Habit: The Four Month Mark
I was halfway through my New Year Text Messages (which are A Thing if a good number of your friends are overseas) when my mum shouted. “Hong Kong Yeye is dead!” The entire car burst into chatter and tears. My brother, normally the type that refuses to deviate from a plan, especially one that involves… Read More Grief and Gratefulness
I was making goals for 2020 when I realised that most of what I want to achieve belong to two keywords: consume and create. To elaborate a little more, it would be “consume thoughtfully” and “create intentionally”. Okay, I should probably elaborate a lot more but first: Why I’m focusing on keywords instead of goals… Read More Keywords for 2020
It probably says a lot that I wrote tomorrow’s post first, or that I was more excited to look forward to 2020 than to look through 2019. It’s not that I had a bad year (definitely not!) but December has been crazy and I haven’t had much time to comb through the books, podcasts, and… Read More Looking back at 2019
Sometimes, I drink tea to learn about its nuance and to get excited about the complexities it can hold. Other times, I drink tea for comfort. I’ve got quite a few teas like that in my cupboard, straightforward teas and tisanes that I go to whenever I need something comforting. Recently, I realised that I… Read More Comfort Tea
So one thing my counsellor pointed out early this year was that I have the tendency to create certain false narratives. I’ll believe things about myself that, when examined, aren’t really based in reality. Now that I know about this, I’ve been ‘catching’ my thoughts and trying to stop myself. But my brain still fights… Read More Lies My Brain Tells Me