Hello again ( Read more... )

Time and time again, regardless of whatever I tell myself about finding more personal time / more self-reflection, nothing really seems to beat the medium of typing out a post from the comfort of my room. And over the past few months, I'm beginning to feel that these pockets of timespace have begun to seem absolutely necessary given the pace of ( Read more... )

It's been a rather long while (again ( Read more... )

Whenever I come back to my blog, I feel that so much has happened, and I haven't had enough time to digest it all. I've met different people. I've screwed up. I've felt overwhelmed. And I'm still learning at each and every step of the way.

***I've seen how one strata of the society work hard ( Read more... )

Hello world. I know this is my first update in months, which makes me wonder why I have not felt the urge to post anything / if this blogging thingy has been substituted by another means / replaced by something of a higher priority. I was well aware of the neglect of this journal; but it didn't strike me enough until I thought about the last time I ( Read more... )

"If you can't be anything, be professional."

That's one of my personal mantras that I still abide by, even though it has been more than a decade since I first came up with it.

Sometimes I wonder why other people can't follow it as well. But then again, I don't have much time recently to wonder about idiots. Cheers.

I'm not sure when exactly it happened, but at a certain point, we realised that we had been swimming (or partly drowning) in the waters of adulthood for a fair amount of time now. The floats seem to be in the other pool. The wading pool, back on that resort on that island which is now a mere speck on the horizon ( Read more... )

I had sworn to myself that I would never join mass public events ever again, after attempting to join the celebrations on new year’s eve a few years ago. This place is already crowded on regular occasions, let alone one where everyone is gathered in the central business district ( Read more... )

The golden rule states that you should do unto others and you would want them to do unto you.

If you live by the principle of reciprocity, is it right to expect the other party to do the same?

Time flies when you're having fun. And it still does, even if you aren't ( Read more... )