I ramble…
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
The alternative title for this was “Reading slow does not mean reading better”, but I don’t have anything against ‘slow readers’ (how do you even categorise reading speeds anyway?) and I thought that the title above was a bit more unwieldy but accurate. The inspiration for this post came from this BookRiot post titled “Why… Read More Your Reading Speed is NOT Related to Your Reading Quality
It’s been slightly over my month since my last update, so I thought it would be a good time to check-in. This month has had slightly unusual phone usage habits because I had to depend on my phone quite a bit in Japan and I was worried that I would continue the high usage after… Read More Breaking the Smartphone Habit: One Month Update
When one of my friends sent me a link to this conference, I immediately signed up. I’ve talked about my feelings towards mental health and Christianity before, so I wanted to continue that conversation by recapping the conference and sharing some of my thoughts. Mental Wholeness and the Church is a three-day conference organised by… Read More Recap: Mental Wholeness and the Church Conference
My recent read of Soul Mountain got me thinking: what is the value of reading difficult books? But before I even begin thinking about the value of difficult books, I had to ask: What is a difficult book? The way I see it, difficult books can fall into three categories: Emotionally difficult to read: these… Read More What is the Value of Reading Difficult Books?