An invitation Early one evening, V texted me a poster of a race: 50km or 100km. “Would you like to try 50k?” You got to be kidding I thought. Or you must think I can do it (which she does.) I’ve not even done anything past 30km. (Protesting.) Train. (Matter-of-factly). I did 50k…

If you look closely at this photo, you’ll notice the red Daruma doll’s eyes have been filled out. And the little one up top still to be unveiled has eyes yet to be filled out. Roughly a fortnight ago, a few of us joined the celebrations of a Chado senpai’s…

Some two years ago, I woke up like any other morning, but found my left hand’s fourth and pinky finger collapsed. Limp, ugly, non responsive. I went to bed placing my hands on my torso, thinking I’d send some healing energy. To my surprise, I woke up in the same…

Mali Mali Home! Abracadabra! As the door to my friend’s studio-office opened, I was like WOW, so nice! It’s been maybe 8 months since I last visited. Over the last couple of years, this friend has been making steady upgrades to her. The rug, the storage units for all the…

Inspired by @kimonomom ‘s husband who fluidly whipped up a layered strawberry fresh cream cake for her, I grabbed a tray of Japanese strawberries to go with a chocolate hazelnut cake I’d ordered for a birthday. Japanese strawberries are easily double or triple the price of regular US ones you’d…

My original chat with Jacqueline focused on her art career. Two years on, her adventure has taken new developments. What piqued my interest was what she said “The destination is the excuse to take the journey.” …

An entrepreneur’s journey Jump to section New video game degrees and back at school as an older student Creative juices flowing + lesson from the first launch Modus operandi: What we want in a game. How to scale. New video game degrees and back to school as an older student So what was the first job you applied for? So I actually…

Conquering 100K Rebel Walker She set her sights to run Hong Kong’s toughest 100km Rebel Walker. An annual event where teams run over 20 hours straight through mountainous, earthy terrain. Why? Some people love coming through the other end, of having endured, grown and conquered. To familiarise herself with the routes and prepare for…

Four or five of us gathered around some chocolates. No labels on the chocolate. We have no idea what brand, what flavour. The facilitator led us to “taste” the chocolates in air — meaning we didn’t ingest, but we connected to the energy of the chocolate. For the first piece…