Hitting the rock bottom
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
Category Archives: Life
Don’t beat yourself up
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
Be you, be great
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
What is your First Principle of life?
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
When breath becomes air – what is a life well lived?
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
How do we touch life?
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
How to get lost in life
‘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
You have come this far
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
Hey life, let’s play
Like it or not, life is a game. Whoever denies the truth, refuses to play, gets left on the side line. – Phil Knight, Shoe Dog I was mesmerised by how life unfolds itself and presents us with its treasure. I swiped someone right on
5 Mental Antidotes for Broken Spirit
They squashed my confidence, my self esteem, my belief; made me feel so small and question what the hell am I doing. I was broken badly. I didn’t have clarity to back myself up. I was intimidated by the fact that they are more experienced
What I learn about love while watching a Bourne Movie
I was watching Jason Bourne with my boyfriend in the cinema. Head on his chest, our fingers wrapped around each other, I felt deeply connected with him in one moment. My heart was filled with surge of love and gratitude; tears gathered in my eyes
Every day is a new adventure
I am scared of life. ‘The further out we go, the more I find myself wondering what it is we are trying to accomplish. But if this universe is truly endless, then we are striving for something forever out of reach’. Captain Kirk, Star Trek.