she strives to do it all
Motivated by Awosika’s recent article, I can’t help but feeling guilty for not punching the damn keys frequent enough. I am with him, agree that I may be suffering from the Hemingway syndrome, someone who has an illusion that he or she will one day release their work to the world and audience will praise…
April has been one of the most chaotic month by far. You can tell just by my absence. Settled little one into nursery, it didn’t just end there. Little one was down with a variety of sickness every other week. Juggling my new role as a working mother, time always seems to run thin. My…
Came from a small town name Klang in Malaysia, it was easy for others to overlook one’s existence especially in larger towns. Opportunities were limited unless one was cash rich. From which school I went to to which part of Klang area I lived in, people judged based on those. The girl from Klang, which…
“Green calm below, blue quietness above.” John Greenleaf Whittier, ‘The Pennsylvania Pilgrim’
“Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.” MJ Korvan
Migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is more complicated than I thought. It costed me two weeks of writing downtime and even more, juggling with temporary and permanent domains, familiarising with new features and tools, and running back and forth with support teams to rebuilding the site. Disheartened with the absence of plugin option in basic…
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves…” — Virginia Woolf
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” —Kobayashi Issa
Since this morning, creative illustrations with #internationalwomensday and #IWD2021 flooded all over social media, appreciating women from all walks of life. I turned to my partner and asked: “Why is there a dedicated day just for women?” International Women’s Day has always been there. It wasn’t until recently when this special day catches even more…
“I’m fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.” — Matt Lanter