I have a tattoo on my lower back. It was given to me by the grandson of a tribal village chief. I grimaced for hours on the floor as he used the primitive tools and ingredients that had tattooed his Iban people for centuries, on me, a girl from a big city. I’d always wanted [...]
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series ListsFive Places I Visited and Loved in the Past 12 Months Helsinki Copenhagen San Francisco New York City Stockholm Five Things I Learned in the Past 3 Months Diving Swimming* Git Ruby Still looking for the fifth big thing. For now it looks like it’s [...]
This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Portraits of Lovein hindsight Some songs I cannot hear again. Some songs make me think of you. Not of you in the general sense one does of missing one another. Not even in the way one thinks of losing a loved one or saying goodbye. [...]
This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Lists63 random things from the past 3 months (inspired by Michael Ruby’s “Fleeting Memories“) Arriving in Budapest knowing absolutely nothing about Hungary Drinking palinka for the first time, feeling the flush The Hungarian energy drinks I drank while wearing funny hats Walking with team Photogotchi [...]
National Day came and went. I haven’t written any of those essays I promised to. Sheepish. I will write them, I just need a little bit more time. I did, however, contribute a piece to the Straits Times after PM Lee’s National Day Rally speech, which I streamed from a house by the lake in… [...]
1. I must watch too many scifi movies. I’d rarely been convinced of the malleability of time, but these days I measure out everything in two-week units. Time seems to race ahead of me. It always has, now more than before. 2. When I say these days, I don’t mean it facetiously. Yes, I turn [...]
Cow on Limestone Kiln, Meghalaya, 2006 Five years ago, I said: “Ask me again a year, three, or five from now and all I will remember is driving up, around, up, around, up, around, in the swirling clouds as the rain lashed at my windows and I feared for my life, balanced so daintily in [...]
My lor sor answer on Quora to a question about Singapore.
A girl. A bike. A panda.
I go off to be one with nature, and all that jazz.
Helsinki, Tallinn, Stockholm, Skinnskatteberg, Malmö, Copenhagen. Once in a while, I enjoy diving deep into places I know nothing about. I have a good feeling about this trip. (Also, is this the start of real-time travel blogging for me?)
Or how I am not dealing with hyperthyroidism Ever since I had a vague inkling of ambition, it’s been go, go and go. Occasionally go even further, at top speed. Once I learned to catch the wind, I wanted to fly. I was the weird kid who climbed and used my stroller as a skateboard, [...]