As I hit the ‘send’ button, I let out a small cry – what have I done?! After an hour of struggling, justifying, and switching between tabs, I finally sent an email titled ‘Can I work with you’ to a mentor whom I’ve never spoken
For the past few months, I had been writing day in and day out. Writing becomes my job, my career, my passion, my life. There were moments I felt contented to be able to do what I do; I questioned myself why I was doing
When I left the company I started end of last year, I knew I was following a path that felt like my path. Even though I was not sure where it would lead, I was ready to find out. I was scared of a blank
Every time you overcome a big challenge, you feel so invincible that nothing can beat you anymore; you’ve cried your heart out and you thought you’ll never shed tears again. The thing is, there are always challenges yet to come, until you learn to accept
I would laugh if somebody told me that I’ll be a writer the day I left business school. After four years of wandering, hitting roadblocks and exploring, I gathered enough confidence to make another pivot in life. The first day I transitioned from café industry
So, here I am again. I heaved a silent relief on my 27th birthday. Back to figuring out, back to carving my own path, back to creating life. Looking at the post I wrote to commemorate 26 years of life, a sense of amusement surged
As I got to the end of the book, I started to weep softly. Words conjunct with memories, I had a grand tour of death. I felt like spending the whole book getting to know Paul, only to lose him in the epilogue penned by
I wasn’t in a good place last month. I lived in doubts and incongruence. It was a good experiment nevertheless; I learned so much about me and about life when I was managing a café. Even with a wealth of experience setting up new coffee
‘I like this place, I like the people, but what I am doing is not aligned with who I want to be. I tried to adapt and I struggled, I became a negative person that I couldn’t recognised.’ He said, ‘I guess you will leave
I was introduced to a friend’s friend on a random night two years ago. They talked about lucid dreaming, meditation and spiritual topics all night. I couldn’t comprehend it, but I listened and stayed with them for the next 3 hours. Maybe I was stressed
‘I’m going home, home.’ This is a line in ‘La La Land’ when Emma Stone felt humiliated after a poor received play and decided to retreat back to her parents’ home. I felt it. That was my life too. Back home, I told family and
Matt looked at his dish intensely and choked up. ‘I can’t believe how far I’ve come,’ he said. This is a scene from Australia Masterchef 2016 finale when the judges asked Matt, the finalist, how he felt about his dish. I choked up too. I