Thoughts and more thoughts
I write this in response to the recent protest against Ahok in Jakarta because it.is.freaking.absurd. I also write this because the incident reminded me of the Chinese-Indonesian Riot I experienced in 1998.
Apologize that it is in English but my Bahasa is really rusty now I can’t even….
Disclaimer: I do not mean to offend anyone by writing this post and explicit words + pictures are used here and there to express my dismay and thoughts of the incident and my reflection on the 1998 riot.
Feeling homesick recently and foremostly, missing hawker food… so here are the 5 things I miss most about the little red dot…
1. Fried Carrot cake
Needless to say, carrot cake is my favourite hawker food. The blacker, the better – I could hear myself say as I watch the hawker auntie or uncle fry my carrot cake…
A while ago, someone posed a question about my “all smiles” and “happy” behaviour. He asked me these three questions.
His questions further triggered my laughter and I ended up chuckling loudly – I think I found it amusing and somehow surprising that being happy has become a rarity and perhaps, you might say, an anomaly. This short conversation then probed me to question my own happiness Continue reading “My Pursuit of Happiness…”
(Scroll to the very bottom for my Fuck-It-All Theory or read my ramblings while you sit in your comfortable chair with your favourite drink.)
I think the hardest part for me, especially recently, is knowing my self-worth more than having the confidence to do what I love perfectly. I cannot deny that for the past few days, I question my own being, the person I am and wonder if my dream is actually too high. I thought perhaps I was trying to reach for the stars when I can barely see the sky. I thought maybe, I thought too highly of myself, thinking I am capable of being a somebody when I still am a nobody.
It took me a week of googling and reading people’s answers from Quora to realize this one very important thing – realizing my worth.
Realizing my worth then adds up to a lot of things but mainly the points below:
Being a foodie who is always on the hunt for good food, I thought I’d share my top 10 favourite eats in Vancouver! This is also for a good friend of mine who is visiting real soon… 😉
A few months ago, I was gifted a Fruit Infuser Water Bottle. The bottle came from Drop Bottle, an Australian Company whose bottles have been extremely popular on Instagram. They have 103k + followers (oops almost thought it was a million!) on Instagram and constantly appear on my newsfeed, making it really hard for me not to feel tempted.
And so I was really excited when Mel gave it to me!
Continue reading “Infused Water Bottle – My Drop Bottle Review”
