the more I read
It is ironic how much I’ve evolved when it comes to goals, routines and habits. I remember so much of myself having an “artist temperament”, which loosely translates to “do anything I…
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On writing a lot
Isaac Asimov wrote almost 500 books before he passed on at 72. He wrote his third hundred books in only 69 months. That’s an average of 16 books a year: “Writing is more…
death transforms
I flew back into San Francisco yesterday, and people have been asking me how I’m doing. I tell them I don’t know. All I know is that death inevitably changes us. Sometimes…
endings
My maternal grandmother passed away yesterday, and in a couple of hours, I will be on a plane back to Singapore for the funeral. She was 82. It is a strange time…
infinity
staring into your eyes I saw infinity feeling our souls brush against our destinies
transition
I’ve been having a weekly sunday publishing routine for probably more than a year now. Most of the time, it is my favorite time of the weekend. Sometimes, like today, I don’t…
writing for broken people
I just finished reading Patrick Rothfuss’s latest book: “The slow regard of silent things”. It was a strange book, but I liked it in a way that was strange too, and I…
growing up together
This trip back to Singapore I made a very deliberate effort to meet up with people I deeply care about. I packed in all the meetings I could while spending time with…
enforced travelling
I have come to a point in my life where I don’t actually look forward to travelling anymore. I feel like I haven’t gotten enough of SF even after two years, so…
out of breath
I feel like I can’t breathe in my own country. It has been two years since I had moved, and this time coming back was a lot harder than the previous. I…