Tag: life
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Managing my expectations
I expect myself to not succeed sometimes. I think that there are many other people who have worked harder than me, and they’ve produced a lot better than mine. But at the same time, I’ve gotten access through friends and other social networks. Other times, I’ve been told that my work is good, and I…
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Growing older
One of the perks of growing older is deciding to say no to a lot more things than before. I’ve said yes to many opportunities in my twenties. I’ve tried and tested out many things, joined many committees and working groups, talked with people of different ages, backgrounds, and professions. And my take away is…
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Why 35
My sleep deprived brain decided to write this post about why I chose this year to start doing this. I have a range of answers. First, I think it was Casey Neistat who started doing his vlog when he hit 35. I did actually think about vlogging, but then I thought about all the editing…
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The Woes of Preparing for New Work
Making new work is always the most fun, and also the most scary part of doing artwork. Like I know that my watercolor work is pretty good to go. I know how people take to it, and how it could be received. But I get bored of it, and I want to try something new.…
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A February Update
It’s such an interesting time to come Chinese New Year every year. I think everyone knows what to expect, but at the same time, we’re all trying to find ways to survive the arduous journey of it. There’s a mix of feelings. You haven’t seen some of your family for the whole year, but it…
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Life updates: Third week of 2024
It’s such a mind boggling thing sometimes, when life turns out in a direction you’ve never expected. Somewhere last year, I told Clarice that I was so sure I have something wrong with my thyroids, and that’s why I have a lump under my chin. Clarice laughed, and I searched and it seems like it…
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End of the Year
It’s coming. I don’t think I expected the year to end this quickly. I feel that there were way too many things I wished I had done, and I am still regretting not done more. The scene of Schindler’s List pops into my mind, but definitely in a very different context. I will be aiming…
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Options and Choices: an overload of gaming options.
I’ve been really stuck deciding where I should publish my thoughts, and if they should even be published at all. But I find this as my safest place, because it is, after all, my blog. I don’t have to worry about the theme, or the direction, or anything else in specific because I have total…
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Misinformed Opinions and Choices.
Today I went to a mall in an attempt to get some new art materials. I actually looked up the store online, and I checked Google Maps to make sure I got all the timings right. But lo and behold, the entire mall was under construction. Worst part is that I was just at this…
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Understanding myself: Moving past anger
A range of things I have been wanting to figure out is who I am as a whole, and what makes me “me”. There’s a lot of ways of figuring this out, but most of the time, I just enjoy writing a journal, or keeping track of myself somewhere, somehow. A few years ago, I…
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An Old Routine: A Keyboard A Day
Today I woke up and remembered something that I had forgotten quite some time back. There was a time where I would put a new keyboard together before I started work. At that time, I think I was going through many things mentally, and this past week, I felt some of that old anxiety creeping…
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Learning from Sadness and Pain
Today I spent some time with my friend, and just listening to him and how he is working through a really rough patch in life. I won’t share about his problems for sure, but I will share about what I learnt when I went through my own times of grieving and sadness. There is always…
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The Woes of Writing Daily
Every time I write daily, I realise a few things. One: I struggle to put work up everyday. Two: I struggle with what kind of work I put up everyday. When I’m writing daily like this current time again, I find myself pausing through the day to think what is worth writing about. I know…
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Dealing with my collecting self
I collect a lot of things, I’m careful not to say hoard, cause I do throw things away. I have collections of books, shoes, pens, games, inks, all sorts of things. Collecting too many of the same thing has become something I watch out for, so currently, I’ve stopped collecting black t-shirts. I had written…
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Busy Busy Busy
I don’t think I’ve ever thought I would have gotten this busy this year. I’m in the middle of setting up three collab zine groups, and maybe even getting a fourth. I think at the start of the year, I didn’t even expect one to exist. And all this development was definitely not because I…
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Biographies and Legacy
I spent the weekend watching two documentary/biography pieces. One was Anthony Bourdain’s Roadrunner, and the other was Bohemian Rhapsody, covering Queen’s rise to fame. The Queen one definitely had Freddie Mercury as the main character. Both shows had some very interesting themes about the human condition and where one finds themselves as a creative. The…
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Too many feelings
There’s a lot that I think about during the day, but I found out in my teenage years that I feel a lot too. There’s good and bad things to feel about. A good thing to feel would be the sympathy for stories in the news. Something goes wrong and an accident occurs, and I…
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The Turn of a Day
Some days start off real bad. Like today, I had left my earphones at home. I took a really crowded bus to the train station, and then a really close encounter with a couple who had no sense of personal space. It got me kinda flustered, but it just piled on that the day felt…
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Protect ya hands
I injured my hands after a trip to the grocery store the other day. I had done some climbing before that so my hands were already quite strained. Then I decided to go and try carry back some groceries. Quite very unnecessary, but I’m glad I had food nonetheless. But unnecessary because of the pain…
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Setting Boundaries
Clarice mentioned the word Boundaries to me today, and I’m reminded of the space of boundaries, and margins. I learnt during a seminar of sorts a few years back, that I need to set margins in my life. The margins keep space for you to handle urgent last minute things in life. I’ve not really…
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Back to Basics
I’m typing on a mechanical keyboard once again. It took some time, but finally, finally, back to some 3-4mm travel. No more flat laptop keyboards to survive through the day. I was wondering why this matters so much to me, and I think it comes down to some basic things that I tend to live…
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First Update for the Year 2023
It’s been some time since I’ve posted anything, and this might be my first post for the year, across all platforms. Here’s a rough of what’s been up so far: Moving Currently, my apartment is coming to fruition! It’s been a five year wait since putting a down payment, and finally now, our renovations are…
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The Tragedy of Happiness
There was a man who sought joy and happiness. He searched high and low. He painted himself with attractive bright colors to appear happy and joyful. Then he started to seek thrills, sought success, sought money, power, and fame. He tried everything and anything. As he sat down one day, exhausted in his search, he…
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Connections
I always wonder who comes to this site, and how you found me. If you’ve read this, just comment and let me know. I’ve been thinking about it because I think on this site, on this page, I’ve got such a wide range of interests and thoughts, and I have no idea what draws people…
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Old Routines
It’s been a really long time since I’ve used a fully split keyboard to type with. They’ve been blank, without keycaps, switches and just left alone. But I decided to restart some hobbies that I haven’t done for a long time for the sake of retraining my brain again. It’s not easy typing on full…
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Updates from Down Under!
It’s been some time since the last update, but basically I was trying to clear things so that I could prepare well for my trip to Melbourne. I also think that I had over estimated the things I wanted to do, and I planned a few too many things over each other. Had even double…
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Dealing with Separation
It’s been a very emotional past few days for me. I’m finally at a point where I think I’m ready with my feelings, and I can actually say something that makes sense. If you’ve been following my Instagram, or read a few posts back, I’ve said briefly that I’ve been fostering two kittens. It’s been…
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Update Mid May
It feels like I’m preparing to fulfill a group buy (feels like this https://rama.works/updates). These updates are a bunch of Keyboard ones, and also some life ones here and there. Some major updates: I’ve been using my GMK Noire for the past few weeks, and it’s been a dream. I understand the hype of the…
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Update April May
Hi Blog, it’s been some time. A good full month to be precise. Jumping straight into it, I’ve been really into rock climbing since I’ve last updated. It was really quite expected, especially after the IPPT and the injury thereafter. I got so into it, that I’ve went back at least three times or four…
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Second Last Day of March
Did you know that it’s already the end of March? The year has really moved so quickly and now we’re crossing over into the second quarter of the year. It’s really rushing and coming fast. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do at the start of the year. But at the…
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Cool Days for Cool People
I keep thinking if I should have a better scheme, or a better content plan for my blog. My own answers to myself are: No, it is a blog, and the spontaneity is part of who I am. Secondly, I do have some specific content that I want people to read, and that’s on my…
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Just when you thought yesterday was hot…
I literally felt the sweat bead up on my chest, underneath my T-Shirt as I put it on after showering. Literally. I questioned all sense of what hygiene was about during my entire journey to meet my wife for lunch. The sun bore down directly on me, all the day long. The worst part was…
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Two Tired
Does one ever feel too stretched in too many place? I’m watching through Formula 1 on Netflix, and whenever I watch this series, I always feel as if I’m living the driver’s life metaphorically, or in an another parallel. I feel the pressure of performance, the pressures of watching to get things done well for…
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Back to Work Blues
Usually most people would complain about Mondays in some way, but being away for the past three weeks, it was a real challenge to even just stay awake at some parts. My calendar dates were changed and there were things that I really had to tweak last minute to fit into time properly. I think…
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Birds of a Feather
I have this idea that we will always meet the people that we enjoy meeting. Not because we’re actively looking out for them, but our lifestyles will make the world spin in a similar direction. The paths would cross, and we would find ourselves filtered through the different times and places. It would be a…
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Sunshine and Rainbows
Sunshine is really hot. Rainbows come after some seriously heavy or constant rain, and then the sun shines after that, then you get rainbows and tonnes of humidity in the air. Today is one of those days when everything is just so darn heavy, and just beats consistently on you. Like a rattly spacebar on…
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Two too?
There were way too many good memes for today’s 22 Feb 22, so I will leave that for everyone to dissect in their own time. But today I did a lot of Filthy Frank catch up, that I never knew I would like this much. It’s the Jackass of the YouTube era, and just the…
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A Day in the Life of a Distracted Young Adult
Or whichever label society decides to place on who I am today. Today was one of those days that I just didn’t really feel like doing anything. It also led to me not doing much, and yet a little bit more than I thought. I managed to rearrange some keyboards, and put a couple of…
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Unfinished Business
Finish the task at hand before starting a new one. I think this is the line I have the most trouble with sometimes. I have a million things on hand, and I keep having to find separate times to finish different bits of it. I hate it, and I find that sometimes one of the…
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4 Minute Post
Time has been really tight today, and I would say it is by choice. I was slow in the morning, and it felt like the day really snowballed in many ways. One of the most surprising things today was that a cat came into our house, and was stuck under our chest of drawers. Then…
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Relative Time
It feels like today passed really quickly, and even more than that, we’re already into the second month of the year. Every day passes as if I’m on a skateboard rolling downhill. It doesn’t help that the days are filled with different types of meetings, and I’m just in the capsule of my room or…
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Getting over blocks
I think today is one of those days, where I’m trying to vault over all the issues that I’ve been mentally dealing with. Over the weekend, I gathered a really long list of things that I needed to clear today. I cleared through about 80-90% of them, and tomorrow I will clear through the rest…
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A HOT day out
Today was so hot. I felt my skin burning under the sun, and the moment I hit the shade, it really felt so cool. The only time I’ve felt sun this hot and scorching was when I was in Australia. It was a dry heat too, so maybe that’s why I thought of Australia too.…
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Anti Me
There are days that are good, and I feel at ease, But right now, my days are off by quite a tangent, and I am not me. There seems to be a different version, Something maybe broken, but probably, its just me being anti me. As much as I’ve been able to write some of…
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Directions
Where is this going? Is there a need for it to go a certain way? What are the benefits? Am I enjoying the present? These are some of the questions that I was asking myself at the start of the day, and surprisingly enough, I think I was forced to answer these questions for myself…
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Unique
What makes me special? What makes anything different? Are we even different? Or is everything the same? From my youth, I understood that people always viewed being special as something important. At the same time, people also viewed people who didn’t fit in as weird. Special and weird were sometimes correlated, but self perceptions were…
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Weekly Roundup 31 Oct – 6 Nov 2021
How fast time flies especially when I’m not blogging! I was thinking about how I should jump back onto updates here, especially because there’s actually a lot that goes on. I mean, I did manage to daily blog for at least 50 days in a row. I really have a lot of random things going…
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Personal Pressure
Talk about worse things in the world to happen. Just as I was starting to write this post, I spilled all my freshly made ice coffee all over me. If there’s any clearer a sign for being under personal pressure, I think it would have a director yelling “Action!”, as the coffee was about to…
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Off Day Post Day
Still writing without my pinky. Honestly it’s really not that easy, because I do use my left pinky to hit a lot of the letters. I’m trying to make up for it by using my right pinky to type more instead. Today is a pretty good day to try different things. Clarice and I have…
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Time adjustments
I’ve been writing these in the afternoon or evenings, and it feels a bit weird. I do prefer writing these blog posts in the mornings, it really feels good to have some thoughts like these out nicely in the morning. It also feels better to know that I’ve cleared some daily to-do’s that I personally…
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Success
I think if I define my blog into different areas, and start to build specifically on some topics, it’ll become one of those really typical self help blogs that I honestly don’t always agree with. But I can’t help myself, I really do think about these topics, and they do mean a lot to me.…
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A Short Story about Mosquitos
A small mosquito flew around the room. It sensed the heat of a human being, and flew around, and landed on the person. Phew, the person didn’t feel the needle piercing through his skin. The mosquito got a bit of a blood snack, and with a slightly bloated belly, flew towards a ledge within the…
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Intentionally Old
A lot of the hobbies I have are hobbies that get better with age. The items might be new, but a lot of them would work better when worn in, when weathered out and tested over time and time. One of these things is the somewhat silly addiction to Raw Denim. I really enjoy raw…
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Blast from the Past
If you didn’t realise by now, there’s actually tweaked paragraph spacing between the paragraphs in this site’s reading. It’s because I was going through it the other day, and I saw how close everything was and I really didn’t like it. It was too tight, and I know too much about typography to leave it…
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Old T Shirt: Ctrl + Z
This one is one of the oldest T-Shirts I have that is still in good state. It was one of the first few that I had gotten in that whole Threadless era of T-shirts. There was a shop I used to visit at Far East Plaza that sold other Threadless Tees, but by the time…
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Keep trying
I’ve been following this app called Stoic, because my daily disciplines have been out of sync. This probably sounds really weird, considering I write a post up every day. But this post is the only thing that I’ve really been doing consistently. Prior to this, I was on a Notion template, to try and get…
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Another Hot Day
There are days like today, where I just sit there and feel the heat pour over me. I just showered to get myself going, and to just feel a bit more fresh. But I just feel damp after. It just feels like the sun is covering me with a thick hot wet blanket, sucking away…
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Day to Day
I had really bad sleep again last night. I was rudely awakened by the clock in the hall falling down and basically breaking into a few parts. It crashed, and I jolted awake, and basically looked at the mess that laid outside. Then I decided to just leave it and go back to sleep. But…
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Hot Day
Sun shines bright on me No words, just light; no control Eternal summer. Nice to form a haiku every now and then, I wonder if these would be appreciated. In other news, my neighbours next door have gotten COVID. A little shocked and surprised to say the least. I keep checking to see if I’ve…
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A Regular Disclaimer
Just in case! I thought it would be good to put some general guidelines and disclaimers to what I write about here. All of these posts are my own. They’re my thoughts, they’re a blog I mean. I feel like sometimes we forget what a blog or what a vlog is. It’s not meant to…
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1989
It’s my birthday, and it’s been 32 years since. There’s many ways to think about it, but one of the things I’m really most thankful for today and this time is really how much I’ve been seeing myself grow in the past few years. It’s been extremely reflective this past two years, and I’ve been…
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The Life I Choose to Live
I’m in constant dilemma in my life. I’m really enjoy watching videos about single bag trips, or a guy living out of a bag for years, or about minimalism and being able to live with nothing or very little things. But at the same time, I really love having the things that I have, and…
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The Apple Generation
Steve Jobs who designed Apple for the current generation Reviewing the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. Another draft post from 2017. I honestly had loaded up quite a few draft posts then, thinking that I was going to be blogging often and all that. If I’m right, it was because I had come back from…
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Childish thoughts
It was good sleep for both Clarice and myself last night. We sang ourselves to sleep on a whole range of songs, and now we’re up and awake on a bright hot Sunday afternoon, listening to the songs that we were singing to last night. It’s fun to just not have to care about anyone…
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The Relaxed Position
Today was a day that I really wanted to try something new: I wanted to try to be as relaxed as I possibly could. I wanted to just be a teenager again, and watch TV shows as I ate leftovers from the fridge. I wanted to just chill and take naps where I felt like…
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Mango’s on an Apple Tree
There’s always this saying that you can’t expect an apple tree to grow mangos, and in that same way, we shouldn’t not expect something unnatural out of someone. As much as we think that, we also keep asking people to get out of their comfort zones. Isn’t that similar, or at least asking an apple…
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What happens after?
I think one of the most frightful things that we’ve put ourselves through is making something end. I think that’s the main reason why TV shows last forever, we enjoy that stability, that continuation of everything, and maintaining things. Sometimes that’s the reason why we like to just get stuck in many things, and take…
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The daily grind
Apparently it was something to note that I had written a blog post every day for three days in a row. WordPress gave me a little achievement award that I had done that. And I think that the three day streak is gone now, but at least I have something in mind that I can…
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How do you combine interests?
I’ve been thinking for a long time, how do I make sense of the many interests that I have? There’s so many things to do, and so little time in a day. How do I decide what to do each day, and how do I decide which one takes more priority over the other? One…
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Free
There was a time when I was considering writing as a side gig, like maybe a possible thing that I could get into. Not so much income, but just another skillet to develop for possible business? Like for fun, the same way I do drawings and things like that. That thought was put through the…
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Produced Productivity
I find myself always thinking about what I should be doing, and how much more of it. It stems from the idea of being as productive as possible, and how I wish I could maximize my time in the best ways possible. We should be doing as much as we can, as often as we…
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General Updates #1
I think it would be good to do a certain sense of consistency back again in these thoughts that I place here on this side of things. And this might mean coming up with somewhat of a template to go along. So I’ll begin by introducing some of the things that I’ve been watching, or…
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Hello?
Does anyone even read these posts anymore? I think one of the worst things that I have installed into my site is the back end stats management. It just sits there telling me that no one is coming in. But I’m not really looking for people to come in right? I’m trying to make my…
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Typing in Bed
This sounds absolutely ludicrous, but after years, I am finally typing in bed again. It’s a thing because when I was much younger, say about 17, 18 years old, I used to love typing in bed, and just spilling my thoughts out. I would write an email newsletter to a range of friends and acquaintances.…
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After Some Time…
After some time, we get used to things. We become familiar, and we understand how or why something goes a certain way. After some time, emotions and excitement fades. We take things for granted, and we take that as the norm, how things should be. After some time, it’s good to take a moment to…
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Decompressing Time
I’ve been picking up running again, and it’s really been some time since I’ve done any long runs. I’ve been doing runs every now and then, but nothing consistently, and the past two weeks have been me trying my best to get these runs in. Because of that, my heels are just dead. I’ve got…
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Constantly Communicating
I feel it, deep inside. This constant communication that we are linked to in the modern day. Can you imagine years ago, when the Telephone was first being invented? At that time, the ability to call into your friend’s home must have seemed like a huge invention. And over time, it became a hassle when…
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My 2nd Anniversary
In case you did not know, I am married. Married for two years at that. It’s something that I am extremely proud about, because I think making a marriage work for two years is a lot of effort. There were many times when I feel like just throwing everything away and just calling it quits.…
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The Haunting Past
Every now and then, I sit down and look through the things that I have done before. I don’t usually plan these sessions. I don’t think anyone intentionally goes through a heart wrenching time to reflect on the things that are totally shameful internally. I might be cleaning my room, and I stumble on a…
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Missing the Thrill
When I started looking at keyboard videos, I was really keen on watching this guy: I mean Japanese, with really aesthetic videos, and that sweet keyboard sound? What’s not to like? And every time I watched his videos, I imagined that would be me some day, getting to type on a really nice keyboard, and…
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Internalized Thoughts
There’s different layers that I think we often hide behind as humans. There’s a certain front that I hope people would perceive from interacting with me, there’s a facade of sorts. It’s not bad, but the facade’s usually there because there’s other things that we’re thinking about. Maybe it’s the food we ate that we…
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Feedback
The last post had a bunch of typos, and sounds so weird, but I only knew that with feedback from my wife. Thanks to her, I now know that it sounds like I wrote it drunk. And I think that’s something I wish more people told me more often. Do I sound drunk all the…
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A Piece of My Mind
What should be the medium of things on YouTube? The other day I had watched a video on the way cinematography is done on YouTube, and there’s this idea of having things done in presentation style. I thought it was really interesting, because I’ve always liked Casey Neistat videos, and I never really knew or…
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A Bit of a Break
When someone does something like Pomodoro Timers, or one of the productivity hacks, there’s always this encouragement to take a break as you need it. I like that idea, but I find it so hard to do that. It’s not easy to stop when you’re in the Zone. It’s also not easy to stop when…
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The Daily Grind
Everyday, just waking up, being alive, and being a human being that breathes. Unlike human beings that don’t of course. Everyday, the work load to clear, or to think through, or just to be responsible about so that the people around me can live life too. I live life too of course, just that I…
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Thirty-Two Year Old Soldier
In Singapore, we have to serve National Service. That’s for about two years, my own time of service was about a year and ten months. It’s part of Singapore’s conscription, because of our really small population. All boys at the age of eighteen are required to serve our National Service to our country, and after…
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What is control?
This is something I personally need to discuss. Control is something that I find really hard to define, and really hard to express. Is it the idea that I can do something? Wouldn’t that be competence? What about the idea of making someone do something that I want them to do? That would sound more…
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For the sake of it
I used to write on my old blog years ago because I love the sound of the typing I made on the laptop. It sounds stupid then, but wow, what an opposite end of that I have now reached. I’m literally typing now just for the sound of what I’m feeling. I’m doing this for…
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Keyboard Thoughts: Why Type?
I think that there’s a lot to say about this. But maybe I’ll put it forward in a way that I think makes sense to me. I’ve been on this whole keyboard tirade for the past few months. It’s slowing down now purely because I’m really maxing out my budget. I also only have one…
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Starting out 2021 with a Clack
So! Here we are, at the start of another year. I think I wrote a lot more this year than in previous years, and it’s pretty nice. They even have some fancy updates for the WordPress stock templates, which is So Much Easier for me. I don’t like to think through these things about websites…
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Miscommunication
How do you talk to someone who doesn’t understand where you’re coming from? Is the point that you need to push across that important? Maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t but I think many times, miscommunication is really a matter of pride and ego. Thank the stoics for their high objectivity, and their reminders…
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A Weekly Dose of Whachamacallit
Some days start off real good. Some days get really funky, and you have no idea why. I think its because everyone has days when they just need a bit of that. You know? That… fizz? That… sense of excitement? It’s just unknown and yet every one knows that days can get really long and…
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Isaiah 6 and Kanye West
I have recently been learning about hermeneutics. I learnt about understanding the original message and how it translates to us today, in our modern understanding. During my classes, I was given a chance to explore a passage of my own choice, and I chose Isaiah 6 to look at. There is a parallel drawn between…
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The Rush to Wait
Christmas rushing is always a thing for the year end. It’s so exciting running around shops, hunting for the best discounts that match your friend or family the best. I lose myself at the shelf of red tags stating a large cut from the original price, picking and repicking the items that I was looking…
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Creative Dilemmas
24 hours in a day is too little. Yes, wildly known fact. But the hardest part I find is that my passion level in each interest grows or wanes everyday. For example, last week I really wanted to run. And I still kinda do. But today, I awoke and hey, there’s time for a run…
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A daily –
Something. Anything. After the daily challenges, of lettering and of sketching/inking, I’m feeling the laziness hit me. It’s like when I stopped running, I could feel myself still able to do a 12k run easy, but the physical toll after would be some effort recovering. I can draw okay, I just really need to focus.…
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The NEXT generation
One question I don’t always ask myself is, who will continue what I’m going to do. How will it continue to the people after me, and be the next thing that people do, or pick up? It’s been a question in my mind after spending time listening to the range of entreprenuer audio books, like…
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why?
Having had a few blogs before and the usual attempts of trying to record my life in different ways, I find myself asking, why another blog and now on trisected.com of all places? And so these answers are for myself, more so, than for you, the reader. What does trisected mean to me? At random,…