When I was young, when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would tell them 4 answers
Category: Reflections
A Step Into Normalcy – Covid opening up
The last 2.5 years have been weird, disruptive, and depressing. One doesn’t realise how precious air is, until the haze comes. Or how fortunate to have drinking water until prices become exorbitant. I’ve been taking my freedom, to walk and breathe unhindered, to travel whenever possible, to see loved ones in a matter of days…
Unlocking Childhood Trauma
As part of my recent journey into meditation and mindfulness, I’ve started reading books written by Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, such as Work, How To Eat, and How To Sit. Today, as I was trying out a new sitting meditation, I literally entered an experience where I think I unlocked one of…
Entering Vegetarianism
People who know me also know I consume a lot of meat products, and less carbs, to balance my protein needs and reduce refined sugar intake. However, many don’t know that at certain points of my life, I regularly ate vegetarian food. Such as in my first job, vegetarian food for lunch was more often…
Dealing with Grief
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged what I feel. I’ve been dealing with grief for almost 2 years, why I say so is because it just started 2 years ago and has just been increasing. Two years ago, an aunt passed away after progressively losing her muscle activity. I last saw her when…
Introverted Women – Coping Strategies
Introverted women, beautiful as we are, sometimes get overwhelmed by life. This month, even as I was coming up with coping strategies for introverted women, I’ve experienced a big wave due to a major change in my job. I struggled with feeling lousy about myself, being discouraged, wondering whether I’m a useless person, and apprehensive…
The Optimist Creed
The Optimist Creed Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To…
Watercolours
Through the intervention of a friend, I mustered up the courage to venture into art in 2020. Teenage trauma in Sec 2 was a huge reason why I refused to draw, paint or consider art as a hobby. Confronted with a large canvas and zero knowledge of acrylic painting, I turned to the trusty YouTube…
Julesofsingapore.com is back!
Hi everyone, my julesofsingapore.com blog is back! And there have been several interesting developments in the last couple of years that my blog was down. I started a travel-focused blog at julesthetraveller.com where you can read about my travels, explorations with food and reviews, with the occasional muse. I’ve also started a fiction blog at…
What Do You Think of Lucky-Unlucky Situations?
Something happened tonight. While we were on the road, we suddenly saw a taxi e-brake about a hundred metres away, because a motorbike in front of it had skidded and crashed into the kerb on the left. We saw a man tumbling off the bike onto the grass patch. The taxi had gone off, presumably…