Privilege, a reflection from my trip
I landed in SFO yesterday noon with a uncontainable smile on my face, despite the 17-hour flight. In all honesty, with all the logical reasons I can name for my love for…
Reconciling paradoxes
I could get used to this. Sitting at some remote location (alright, Phuket is not that remote) typing some words, having woken up at the break of dawn. This was the life…
Distance and darkness
It has been almost a year since I was last back in Singapore, or any part of Asia. If left to my own devices, I might have never consciously chosen to leave…
The courage to let go of something precious, to truly live
I have a one post per weekend writing habit going on, and for the past 3 weeks I’ve written on Medium. For a long while I thought I was never going to…
The beauty of being human
Imagine for a moment, if you had super powers, an eternal life, and you lived in paradise. Everything is perfect. Sounds beautiful? Try to imagine that vision for a while much longer,…
Finding a reason to exist
apparently I am not the only person looking for one
Being the change you want to see
What it means to live the way you want the world to be
The power of 8 minutes
I have begun to instill a new habit for myself – which is to bring my kindle on my very short commute to work everyday. The BART ride is 8 minutes and…
Focus and starting my own snowball
I finished reading Snowball a few days ago, one of the quotes that struck me was, “What factor did people feel was the most important in getting to where they’d gotten in…
Rhythm of my heart
for the song that was never going to be written