Silk.

First, a little bit of background: I borrowed a copy of ‘No One Cares What You Had For Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog’ from the local library about a week ago. It’s written by one of my favourite bloggers, Maggie, and I’d been meaning to check it out for ages. The following is inspired [...]

Blindsided.

Life can be such a little bitch sometimes. You’re floating along, feeling really good about life, looking forward to the week ahead, and then – BAM. Life sucker-punches you. You are left reeling. You are left pondering the miracle and fragility of life. And it hits you with stunning clarity that there is a very [...]

Getting my financial shit together.

One of my goals for this year is to get my financial shit together. This is proving trickier than I originally thought, largely because I (still) have no willpower when it comes to books, and I also apparently have a social life now. I am obviously not complaining about the latter: one of my other [...]

I Have Thoughts That Need To Be Shared (a series)

– I don’t travel light. I feel like that’s a personal flaw – why am I incapable of leaving the apartment without taking a million things with me? Also, I’ve clearly jumped on the Le Pliage bandwagon, and I sort of hate myself for it. Every girl and her damn grandmother owns one of these [...]

What I Like.

I like where I live. It’s close to the city, but not in the city. It’s close enough to work (well, The Firm’s office, at least) that I can go home for lunch, if I want to. I like going home at lunch: this generally only happens on the rare occasions when I’m working at [...]

Time to ‘fess up.

Here is my confession (or one of them, at least). Sometimes, late at night – when the lights, music and laptop have all been switched off – I’ll lie in bed and think to myself, “This is it. This is all there will ever be. Just me, alone in a bed too big for one [...]

In which I give up my right to complain, and declare that sleep is overrated. Sort of.

I’d like to think that one day, I’ll be making a living by writing about whatever I want. Travel, the myriad frustrations of having to rely on public transportation, a passionate plea for all of society to please pile on the deodorant during the heat of summer, life as a Malaysian expatriate in San Francisco [...]

In which I abuse the Shift key a lot and complain about the heat. Also, making like I’m a model and doing the windblown hair thing.

Hi, Melbourne. I’m back at home, bitches. Back home and melting in this godawful Melbourne heat and ALL OF THE TRAMS WITH NO AIR-CONDITIONING. All together now: “I MISS SAN FRANCISCO, DAMMIT.” Having said that, it’s nice to be back in my apartment. It’s nice to know that I’m going to be sleeping in my [...]

Hong Kong: Halfway home.

“Heavy heart, joyful heart”. I’ve been repeating these words in my head for days now. I’m writing this from Alex’s bed in Hong Kong, but Alex isn’t here – work forced him to Jakarta at the last minute, which negates the entire point of this two-day transit in Hong Kong. It was a little bit [...]

San Francisco: Where all the food lives.

Bite I am really very glad that I found Holly Burn’s blog, and I am really very glad that she put together a handy little guide to San Francisco that is, shall we say, very much skewed towards all of the food and all of the booze. I went to Bite for lunch today, after [...]