Everything Is Alright Last week, I experienced some melancholy after being assailed with sudden homesickness. I received celebratory news from home and it ached that I couldn’t be there to revel in the joy and dance around madly in person with my nieces. …

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl This book gets me every single time. I listened to the audiobook a day after it was released and it just so happened I was in Seattle just a week before this. I loved it so much that I bought the book and and this…

A Safe Space For All Have you been in situation where someone was being vulnerable and you had the choice to make it a safe space for them or did you use it to your advantage? This is Freyja. On October 6th 2018, I found her when was she was…

This year, I was approached to read for someone who was recovering from a series of treatments. I was told that the patient was very practical in nature and enjoyed Eastern Philosophy and the afterlife. …

ONE RESOLUTION, 365 DAYS. I wrote my first New Year’s resolution list when I was 17. Let me not to mislead you into thinking that this was because I was conscientiously foresighted about my looming adulthood. If you are to return my writing, it must be done under no guises…

Trading Gratitude For Appreciation. A couple of weeks ago, I began struggling with saying “I’m grateful” after suddenly realizing that I was saying it more out of habit instead of feeling the emotion attached to it. The epiphany was this: that in the light of what has been a challenging…

Comfort From Grief My cat Daisy died suddenly on October 20th. She was six years old. I have had other pets cross over but in these cases, there was time, for want of a better word, to make the days count as they were either old and/or ill. Daisy’s passing…

It was a little after 9.30pm Malaysian Time on September 11th 2001 as I was leaving an assignment close to the Kuala Lumpur City Centre when my phone rang. It was my editor asking me if I was watching the news. I immediately thought something had happened at the Southeast…

I wrestled with procrastination and won this round. The prize? Writing again after 10 years. Today is the first day I wrote something for publication after not doing so for 10 years. I have also done almost everything I could to procrastinate the process. I’ve written before — was a journalist for 20 years and a features editor. …