Ever had those days when the sluggish lethargy follows you around like a shadow no matter how much sleep you clock? Nothing beats lethargy better than a kick-start to the system. So I got on the mat tonight. 30-min of ashtanga; a bucket of perspiration that calmed my beating pulse; my very breath breaking my [...]
Words are important. We can use them to connect as well as to disconnect, to understand and to confuse; to build camps of Us and Them; to bind in solidarity and to divide with disinterest. Indeed, we are gifted beings. Blessed with independent, creative thought and the gift of translating these into words. Yet when [...]
I’ve always kept late nights. All through life, it seemed the world was divided into those who kept late nights and those who had to sleep early (by this I mean before midnight). In school, I studied best through the early hours, the whiff of the thin night air, the ticking of the clock, sometimes [...]
I was asked recently, a question about my seeming success. The enquirer wanted to know if my husband struggled with the fact that “I make so much”. I was taken aback on a few counts. The first was being confronted by this rather archaic, provincial thought. The second being the assumption inherent in the question, [...]
The message at church today was about Letting Go. Of life, of goals, of dreams, of all the many things that we have to come to see as what defines us. The unknowing might think of Christians as a bunch of unenterprising lazy bums. But that just misses the entire understanding of the truth of [...]
I just came from a memorial service. Of a 20 year old girl who lost a 2-year long battle to cancer. I didn’t know her. But I know her aunt dearly. As I sat behind the family, silent tears streamed down my cheeks as I laid eyes on the beautiful portrait smiling back at us. [...]
The Cookie-Cutter Fashionista…is that me? I wondered as the words lay mockingly across this old issue of Vogue. You know that feeling? When you longingly admire a particular look on a celebrity and covet that same wave of envy you now feel, for yourself? If only you had the same bag, or get-up? Banal, but [...]
Ever wondered why things that attract us visually engage all our sensory nodes, slowly releasing a hormonal response mimicking at first delight, then desire to be close to and then a pride to be part of? When we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about making intellectual connections, about divine meaning, it is the [...]
I was asked at an interview once whom my superhero was. I took the question seriously, as people do, at interviews. I said Jesus Christ. I didn’t get the job. Anyway, this is an ode to the unlikely superheroes that we find in our lives all the time. If only we’d ask, or take time [...]
I took a long drive from Jurong (where I stay) to Pasir Ris (where church is) one Sunday morning with the baby in the car seat behind duly entertained by the high-pitched and eternally mirthful Remy; the ipod streams a wave of U2, trembling stars, Coldplay and a part of my youth reverberated within me. [...]
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