Of Bright, Brand New Beginnings

WRITING HERE AGAIN AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR feels like coming back to an old lover. It feels familiar and soothing — with just the right amount of uncertainty and awkwardness to keep it intriguing. A homecoming of sorts. I took a personal hiatus because I shifted career paths, and as life eased back to [...]
Canggu: A Sacred Escape

Living in this pandemic-stricken period, I have been forced to introspect a little bit deeper than usual, which led to a need to declutter digitally. I had tons of photos from my phone (27,638 to be exact) that have spanned from 2018 until today. It is now 2021, and the digital declutter and organization has [...]
New Year Girl

I am a New Year’s kind of girl. I have always relished the idea of clean slates, blank canvases, the idea of cleansing, healing, a meaningful sweeping away of the past and the ushering of the new (present, future, etc.?). And, of course, I am never not found with my artillery of goals and resolutions. [...]
Kokuyo Jibun Techo: My Planner of Choice for 2021
For My Rocket, With Love
Singapore: Satay and Cendol at Bukit Timah Food Centre
Journaling in 2020
My Morning Routine aka How I Miraculously Became an A.M. Person

I never really considered myself to be a “morning person”. I’m the type of person who relishes sleep as much as she does sandwiches—so much that reading all these articles about successful people waking up at 5:00am nauseates me. Because I could never be that type of person who wakes up at 5:00am... ...or so [...]