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Home is Where the Wifi is

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I also bought my dream vanity table for many years now – the Linnmon and Alex table combo from Ikea. It pairs really well with the Tossberg chair, which is soft and comfy enough to make do as an office chair. I’m really glad I bought these because when the number of Covid-19 cases rose […]

Farewell, Singapore

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This is a picture of my first day in Singapore – August 23, 2008. Everyone in this picture has since left to move on to different countries. I am the last woman standing, and today, I will take my leave as well, at around 8pm tonight. Coming here was the riskiest yet best decision of […]

Interview with a COVID-19 Survivor

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It was bound to happen in the current global pandemic scenario – someone close to me caught the dreaded Covid-19 virus. I had a lot of questions when I found out, and so did a lot of people, so I thought it would be helpful to share this information so we are all better prepared against […]

A Circuit Breaker Story

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Last Friday at 4pm, Singapore’s prime minister made an announcement about Covid-19.  We have decided that instead of tightening incrementally over the next few weeks, we should make a decisive move now to pre-empt escalating infections. We will therefore impose significantly stricter measures. This is like a circuit breaker. It will help reduce the risk of a big […]

Some Good Things

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In these trying times, it’s easy to slip into what Harvard Business Review has classified as grief. Yes, we’re also feeling anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is that feeling we get about what the future holds when we’re uncertain. Usually it centers on death. We feel it when someone gets a dire diagnosis or when we […]

15th Blogiversary: 2020 Updates

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My blog is 15 years old today.  So I thought I should do an update post about what the year has been like so far. So. 2020. You have been such a rollercoaster so far! New Year’s Eve I decided that I wanted something new for the new decade, so I got my hair dyed […]