strength in vulnerabililty.
I envy people who have their heart out on their sleeve. As much as I’ve struggled with opening up to people, I also struggle a lot with showing emotions that aren’t positive. I see other people, who show their unhappiness, annoyance, anger, disappointment and sadness […]
I’ve just finished reading this book called ‘Tales of a Financial Hot Mess‘ by Frances Cook and it is SO GOOD. She’s a Kiwi millennial journalist, and so I found the book SOOOO RELEVANT. All the tips were for real options in NZ, and the […]
It’s my pet peeve to read ‘Chinese eating etiquette’ articles that are aimed at tourists or people going to meet their partner’s Chinese parents for this first time, and yet written by white people for clickbait. They always regurgitate (regurgitate – and this article is […]
I never thought I’d become that kind of woman who cared about what she weighed. Magazines like Creme and Dolly were still really popular when I was a teenager, and I was lucky enough to grow up in the start of the ‘self love’ phase, […]
“I love learning,” is my go-to line that I trot out in job interviews and conversations where I have to impress someone. And it is true. I do really enjoy learning. I like understanding new things, and I love that there is no pressure for […]
It’s been about two months since New Zealand came out of lockdown now- caarraazzyy! If I was smarter I would’ve written a diary entry everyday of lockdown in case a museum or kid in the future has to do a history project and then they […]
Before we all went into lockdown and travel became impossible, I had a major case of the post travel blues. However, not because I desperately wished I was in another country- in fact, the opposite. Daniel Sloss is this comedian that has a Netflix special […]
I was very lucky in that I went on holiday juuusstt as coronavirus was spreading worldwide. I went to Singapore and Malaysia in the last two weeks of February, when there were around 50 cases in Singapore and Malaysia, Italy wasn’t that crazy yet, and […]
Two worst weeks in self isolation.
With the coronavirus up and spreading, I’ve been seeing that a lot of people have heard some casual racism coming out. Personally I haven’t, mostly because I’m lucky enough to work at a very respectful workplace with a lot of professional people and have friends […]