Every day counts. I usually count the days ahead to look forward to something I planned that I subconsciously forgo living today to catch that magical tomorrow. In the bid to constantly look into the future, opportunities can pass us by, and it’s very rarely we get a second chance. I got that second chance, [...]
Read moreI’ve been recently told that I have an unfinished smile. What’s that you ask? Basically a forced smile to a certain extent. I blame it on my weight that has added more fats around the face making it heavier to smile. Really. Nevertheless, it hasn’t stopped me from smiling – and by that I don’t [...]
Read moreSomething I never thought was possible last year – for me to make peace and mend friendships of the past. There were some friendships I had to set aside as part of a sacrifice for a bigger picture, but after it went pear shape, I yearned for repairing some of the damages caused by my [...]
Read moreI read a saying today, “People will question all the good things they hear about you but believe all the bad things without a second thought.” How true? Why is that so? As humans, I think generally we’re prone to scrutinize a person’s flaws instead of focusing on their strengths. Just like animals, it’s a [...]
Read moreI have become a part of an undesirable statistics of life. I realize that you can only look at it one way or the other – with negativity to dishearten your positivity in life, or with positivity to quash negative energy. I simply chose the latter. 2013 started in a way I never expected, the [...]
Read moreHow to carry on with life as a singleton when you’re at the threshold of a breakup? Let me sum it up; You let yourself grieve, keep a diary or blog to reconnect with yourself, lean on close friends for support and cut off toxic friendships, reinvent yourself (like I did in December 2005 when [...]
Read moreArmed with memories of a week in Kota Kinabalu, a few books in my hand and my own songs being hummed in my mind, I boarded the flight to Perth with family members despite not how I thought it would be. I was at the cusp of an inevitable life-changing decision. The thought of it [...]
Read moreIncompatibility, as humans, longing to love and be loved is the way of the world, but we shun incompatibility in search for compromise. We learn to accept each other’s flaws although sometimes it is against what we stand for, but we look at the bigger picture in life when it comes to the matters of [...]
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