Thoughtful transparency
Yesterday, at Big Boy-O’s classmate’s birthday party, one of the dads asked casually in a conversation how we were. AJ …
Yesterday, at Big Boy-O’s classmate’s birthday party, one of the dads asked casually in a conversation how we were. AJ …
My reflection is that the human condition is a very lonely one. We all make our own mistakes, walk our …
Happy Chinese New Year of the (Water) Rabbit! (I didn’t even realise it was Water Rabbit, until a couple of …
On change… I really do my best to find the silver lining in every situation. Even in the bleakest and …
A new year, new beginnings. A fresh start. The boys had never heard of new year’s resolutions before. I suppose we never taught them the concept, until the end of 2022. It might have been on New Year’s Eve itself.
I’m not sure if I will make new year’s resolutions this year. I’ve always been mixed about making them, and also mixed about completing them. But maybe I shall.
One thing I resolve to do though, is to “take a snapshot” of life every day every day for the rest of the calendar year.
I recently finished watching Kaleidoscope on Netflix. A show ostensibly about a $7 billion bank heist, but experimentally and deliberately designed to enable watching in a randomised (‘choose your own’) order.
I was reflecting yesterday (9th Jan), probably because I’m exhausted, not having slept well recently – hence probably seeings all sorts of patterns and having random, scattered thoughts – that this seems to be good parallel to describe some parts of my life actually.
2022 has been a strange year. A year of highs and lows, transition and stagnation, introspection / soul-searching, an emotional roller coaster of a year.
Earlier this week, we moved into our temporary (post-flood) flat, more than 6 weeks after we were flooded on 12 …
I know I have a peculiar tendency to periodic bouts of monomania and depressiveness (not necessarily correlated / linked), and …
Finished reading both “Thinking, Fast and Slow” and “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, which I started in 2020, over …