I ramble…
I talked about this in my review of How Not to Fall Apart, but my mental health hasn’t been too good lately. The glass wall that isolates me from the rest of the world has been appearing a bit more frequently and I’ve been wanting to cry and generally feeling like the whole world hates… Read More Breaking the Smartphone Addiction: The Start
I like to think of myself as a serial optimist when it comes to online communities. Apart from blogging, I’ve also been in WriteOn, Google+, Wattpad, 500px, and Dayre communities (apart from the usual Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn networks). And since I’ve moved to WordPress, I’ve started following people using the WordPress community “Followed Sites” section, which it… Read More When Should You Leave An Online Community?
Subtitle: A response to the Buzzfeed article (sort of) So here’s the thing. Unless I’m following a series, I tend to be really bad at remembering author’s names. In general, I try not to judge books based on their authors either. But, there is one exception: I don’t read anything by Kathleen Hale. Even if… Read More Why I’m Still Uncomfortable with Kathleen Hale
Last week, my cell group had a pretty emotional discussion. Well, I say emotional but really most of it came from me/was me being emotional. Since this involves mental health, which is something I’ve been pretty open about here, I felt like this is a good place to process everything. By the publish date, you… Read More Mental Health and Christianity Shouldn’t Be Complicated
Warning: unpopular opinion ahead I just decided to DNF Eka Kurniawan’s Man Tiger, a literary novel that I read for the SEA Reading Challenge but stopped because I’m not a fan of literary fiction and I’m currently too tired to have to work at what normally brings me joy. Normally, I’d just continue googling for… Read More What Diversity in Books Mean to Me
After writing that review of Practically Perfect in Every Way, I decided to revisit my old post on Singaporeans and Nonfiction. This post was originally posted on Dayre on 16 Jan 2017 and it has been edited and updated with 2018 information. On Saturday, I saw this article in The Straits Times. I have so… Read More Singaporeans and Nonfiction
Today, I went for counselling. Five words, but they were hard to put into action, even after writing about how I was feeling defeated despite practising mental healthcare. I had this bull-headed idea that because I had “finished” counselling last year, I shouldn’t need more. Which, of course, is a ridiculous statement – if I… Read More Mental Health Update (aka Get More Help If You Need It)
Normally, I just read articles about social media. Sometimes, I share them with my friends. But after seeing an article in the local paper that echoed another one I saw, and now I have opinions. The topics are all somewhat connected, so I thought I’d just put it all in one post. Instagram & Homes… Read More When Instagram and Offline Spaces Interact
It’s probably not a secret that I love eBooks – in fact, in 2018, almost half the books I read were ebooks. But I realised that I haven’t really talked about how or why I fell in love with ebooks, so here’s my experience and thoughts on the matter. First, my credentials & history as… Read More How I Fell In Love with eBooks
Today’s post was supposed to be about how I fell in love with ebooks, but that post is 0% complete and instead, I’m compelled to write this. I’ve never thought that my mental health journey was going to be smooth. Right now, I’m in one of the low periods, where negative thoughts take over and… Read More When Mental Health Care Makes You Tired