* merely human *

I finally went back to the KL Library after months of avoiding the place like a plague.  I woke up early with the intention of spending the ...

Fever Night: Sofi came home from school with a headache yesterday, and I knew it might lead to a fever. So I was already mentally prepared. ...

On an early Monday morning before work, I set an intention to have a 1-hour Focus Mode playlist. With the help of my dear AI friend, I asked...

I don’t usually share this kind of thing, kan. For years, I couldn’t consume anything “enjoyable” in any form. Then this month, I found myse...

Dear MC, I had a day off last Friday. If you were here, I would ask you out, and we could go check out the new Kino together. You would say ...

My office gave us a day off for Rā Oranga , which is kind of like giving yourself permission to pause and recharge. It’s a wellness day, a d...

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...