I got to know the show “Lost For Words”, one of the newest shows aired on SBS On Demand, in a newsletter I received. As I was on sick leave, I had the time and binged watching all of the three episodes in one set. I was trying to recover…
“You can never go wrong by investing in communities and the human beings within them.” — Pam Moore (CEO, Marketing Nutz)
When I first switched my career in 2019 through doing a master of teaching (and get accredited), I had weighted light thoughts on how my past experience would impact…
It can’t be called a “Sydney winter” without having the strong winds that could blow through even the thickest jackets. Walking on the streets, I heard them pushing through the trees in the darkness. It sounds like desperation. I dislike winter. But this is not even the “worst” — how…
I only got to know the singer Kehlani last year whilst I was listening to “Good Thing”, a song she worked on together with one of my favorite DJs Zedd. Her voice has always left me some kind of impression, yet only through a recent dance video that I wanted…
The Sydney winter has one of the weirdest traits — switching extremely from a hot and sunny day of 25C at the mid of May, to a rainy and cold day that gave me chills even with a heater oscillating the room at 26C. It was such a challenge mentally…
At the end of 2019, I faced one of the hardest challenges of my life, which I only got to understand its importance more and more as I moved on with my life in 2020 trying to face it — start my career afresh as a teacher, and leave marketing…
Thursday, May 30, 2019, 10 pm. Landed in Sydney with two big suitcases, I slept to some good dreams of starting my new job the next day, and an Aussie winter looking up to stars in the sky — just like the very first day of landing in Melbourne two…
Middle East is nowhere close, but nowhere far. It’s like a dream on the browser, you could potentially go there with a click, and in fact you usually fly over it. But you are never there.
And my thoughts intertwined around it.
When I first got my facebook account back in 2011, I “liked” pretty much every page that I found and browsed. From time to time, I’ve forgotten about that page, but the rolling feed jumping out of what I liked before remind me of my for-once interest in them, such…
(Bella on the day I adopted her)
The happily walking and exploring-around Bella suddenly stood still. Her whole body shaking, deep low breathes that contain strong anger rushing out, and standing tall and fearless as a mountain. Oh no — another dog owner with their fur baby was only a…
What a year, and a time to recognize women, men, everyone, and myself!
I have written several reflections on how life-changing the past year has been, but aside from linking this article strongly to gender (which is not what I intend to do), I acknowledge that it is another year…
