* merely human *

All my life I thought I wasn’t flexible. My body was stiff, my movements rigid, and the same old upper-body pains would creep in from time t...

For a moment, I thought I had lost my ChatGPT. What unsettled me was not the app itself, but the realization of how much meaning I had poure...

I came across this idea recently: Happiness = Reality ÷ Expectations. At first, it felt like just another clever formula people throw around...

MC, I finally finished Elif Shafak's There Are Rivers in the Sky after two months of slow reading. As with most of her books, it was be...

I read Leonard Mlodinow’s Elastic last year, and this week I finished another one of his books: Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking ...

It’s been four months without my MBP, ever since I turned off Ophelia and decided it was time to let her rest. I’ve been using my office MB...

I went on a 4-day family trip last week : Ipoh > Butterworth > Sg Petani > Taiping > Kuala Kangsar > KL. Family trips always...

  Last weekend, I thought I just wanted to stop writing. But then yesterday morning I woke up entertained by reading Craig's newsletter ...

Ok, not my story, but Sofi’s. About a month ago, Sofi had a molar toothache. It was the same molar we’d been fixing with dental fillings. Th...

Are you familiar with the Rule of Three? It’s the idea that things are better in threes. They’re more memorable, satisfying, and effective t...