Musings

Last night, I went climbing.  I was already a comfortable 3-pie lead climber, but I wanted to push for a harder, 4-pie route.  The middle of the route was the crux for me – full of tiny, awkward footholds, which were my biggest weakness. The real challenge wasn’t just the physical difficulty, but the knowledge…

I headed to JB over the weekends. Here’s what my journey looked like from my house in the east:  My house to Tampines interchange: 20 minutes (Bus 291). Tampines interchange to Woodlands interchange: 45 minutes (Bus 168). Woodlands interchange to Singapore customs: 10 minutes wait plus a 10-minute ride (Bus 950). Singapore customs clearance: 5…

Insurance.  It’s a word that rarely sparks excitement. More often, it conjures images of complex jargon, endless paperwork, and a necessary evil we reluctantly pay for.  Just last week, my friend and I got onto the topic and she felt paralysed by the sheer number of choices out there. I’m sharing my own plans here…

My big weakness? I have a tendency to ramble.  Give me an article and I can write it out concisely for you after a few revisions, but ask me to speak spontaneously? I can’t edit words in mid-air like I do on a Word doc. My coherent ideas and content simply dissolve into a verbal…

I’m currently in the midst of a Korean variety show. The premise of the show is simple: a team of celebrities plays games to win prizes for a guest who applied to be on the show. Three stages, with the prizes getting progressively better from a nice coffee maker all the way up to air…

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. Does anyone love scrolling through their past?  I do.  I can spend hours poring over my old photos and videos – I scroll through my past Instagram Stories, re-binge my favourite dramas I watched at least 5x, re-read my favourite Harry Potter series,…

The weight I didn’t know I was carrying. “What do you mean you have 10,000 unread emails!” My horrified friend exclaimed when she chanced upon the notifications on my phone. Her comment was subsequently forgotten, but the notifications stuck around and slowly ballooned to 12,000.  Thousands of unread emails from four different accounts. Subscriptions from…

Efficiency is celebrated in business and in life.  We’re taught at work to streamline, optimise, and cut out anything that doesn’t contribute directly to the bottom line.  For a short period of time at my previous workplace, we had to jot down every task we completed, the number of words we had written, and the…

In the past, I had many dream jobs that I envisioned myself to be in. I wanted to be a gynaecologist on the vague assumptions that I’m good at biology, get to interact with women and babies, and that being a doctor is a prestigious occupation. This dream of mine was shattered pretty quickly when…