I feel much more successful after a day of ticking off concrete tasks, than a day of working hard with my students. I know that most of my concrete tasks wouldn’t exist without my students, but they still seem to be a stumbling block to my feeling organised and accomplished. In this way, I enjoy lo...
I had a really productive day today. I’m much less melancholy when I’m busy. Good to reflect, healthy, but I have way too much reflection time. Overthink things. I can’t wait to get stuck into tomorrow...
*translator’s note: reckoning means cleaning It’s been exactly a month since the fire. Today, Mom and I went on a reconnaissance mission upstate to check out the condition of the apartment. We weren’t sure what to expect. Rotting corpse juices soaking the carpet? A mess of machinery left by...
I fear today is not shaping up to be the best. Despite health, wealth and a job that I love, I feel flat and defeated. Why is that? It’s a beautiful day and I’m cooped up inside by my own volition. Maybe that is why happiness is out of reach today. Carpé diem!
I write a lot about success, so what. I'm a bit obsessed with it, every question like what is it (for each of us), what you need to get it, how to get it (and whom you have to become to get it), how you'll feel when getting it and what's the next thing after that. But today, we will focus o...
Will I be Overwhelmed? Will I have another opportunity? Can I Focus on the important? Those are the questions for this week. This was the movies and distraction week. Every time we reach a bottom it's just like bottoming in the market, you spend some time there wallowing in your defeat and failure...
You can do better than that How are you going to start again, how to overcome this Resistance. Life is running and you are staying behind, making excuses, and not moving towards your goal and to fulfill what you are here to do. It's as hard as it can get, and I haven't really do something with all ...
After a night of insomnia and anxiety, at dawn I cancelled all my plans for today. I felt terribly guilty for letting my friend down. And I was angry at myself because I did not pay attention to the anxiety buildup, I just kept shutting it down until it became too loud to ignore. It made me mute, m...
Ok, today I lost my 10th tooth by eating a curry puff. No regrets! (Except maybe the bloody part where I had to bite the tissue to stop the bleeding) Ok, the curry puff is delicious (and although that is not my main point, you all should still eat curry puffs, I recommend from Old Chang Kee if you h...
I am a tourist guide candidate who is confused about career. Today I spent my almost all time for my internship project. This year, the students have been doing their internship as a homework project. So I sit in front of the computer screen and write everyday... But while I have been doing this, I ...
I miss home. But in the spirit of gratitude, here’s a list of things that are great about my parents’ house. My bedroom has air conditioning. (At home, my bedroom air conditioning broke in late summer 2020, but I didn’t want to call maintenance because of the pandemic. I finally got around to makin...
Just now during breakfast, I was eating apricots and I kind of have a habit of opening them up. So, on my 5th or 6th one, I literally saw a worm. Alive! Okay, so maybe some of you aren't so scared of them, but I am terrified of pests like worms, cockroaches, and basically every creepy-crawly you can...