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Transformation

July 5, 2025

After neglecting the garden and letting it grow wild since before the divorce, I finally got gardeners in to cut …

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Thoughtful transparency

April 23, 2023

Yesterday, at Big Boy-O’s classmate’s birthday party, one of the dads asked casually in a conversation how we were. AJ …

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Reflections

April 13, 2023

My reflection is that the human condition is a very lonely one. We all make our own mistakes, walk our …

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Happy Chinese New of the (Water) Rabbit!

January 22, 2023

Happy Chinese New Year of the (Water) Rabbit! (I didn’t even realise it was Water Rabbit, until a couple of …

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Silver lining

January 21, 2023

On change… I really do my best to find the silver lining in every situation. Even in the bleakest and …

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A micro 2023 resolution

January 11, 2023

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.

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Kaleidoscope

January 10, 2023

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.

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2022 review

January 9, 2023

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.

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Fast forward

September 5, 2021

Earlier this week, we moved into our temporary (post-flood) flat, more than 6 weeks after we were flooded on 12 …

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Arabian nights

April 9, 2021

I know I have a peculiar tendency to periodic bouts of monomania and depressiveness (not necessarily correlated / linked), and …

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