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It’s Okay Not To Be Okay_Blog #2
Yesterday I had a very personal conversation with someone very close to me about his depression. In the middle of our conversation he asked, ‘If I didn’t tell you that I had depression, would you know?’ I thought about it. No. ‘Many depressed people can go around laughing and smiling… and the next thing you […]
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To Love_Blog #1
Love is freedom, it makes each person feel more alive in their own skin. Love is when you ask someone how are you? and sincerely listening to their answer. Love is putting down your phone and giving the person in front of you full attention, making them feel important. To love is to be concerned about […]
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Today starts off with gratitude
tl;dr – a geeky list of companies + things that I’m thankful for It is probably true that there can never 100% perfection in all our relationships with people, or our relationship with the world; but I guess there are still things I am super grateful for. So today is the third Saturday of April […]
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10 Reasons I’m Happy Today
It hasn’t been an easy journey. Let’s go back to October 2016. I was in the middle of forming a new company until people who were supposed to partner with me decided to pull out, without telling me. I was devastated. I felt betrayed. I was annoyed. I felt sick to my stomach. I spent […]
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Life is Short
All of life is a dream walking, all of death is a going home. – Chinese Proverb Priorities are for people who have a limited amount of time left to live. In a way, that means all of us. Though we are not when, each of us are given a death sentence on the day […]
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A Pair of Shoes
In Chinese culture it is silly to give the girl you love a pair of shoes. It means you are equipping her to leave you. He gave me a pair of shoes for my birthday the first year we were together. I laughed at him. ‘This is really bad!’ I told him, punching his stomach. I […]
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The True Meaning of Life
His name was Hui Tian. He was the first person I felt a pure kindness radiate from. Actually, Hui Tian was his fa ming (法名), a name given to a monk on his entering monk hood. He had been a monk for over 30 years when I met him. Before that he was a military man […]
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Balance
The worst thing about bad experiences is that it teaches you to treat people who did nothing wrong to you the same way you would treat the ones who did. No matter how hard you try to shake it off, your mind wonders, ‘Will you do it too?’ It’s probably biological, your brain’s way of […]
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Finding Myself — 1
I have been in the process of finding myself all my life, beginning consciously at the age of nine. At nine, I asked myself why I didn’t enjoy playing with the other children. And then, why I couldn’t talk to them and enjoy fun conversations? Instead, I spent time by myself drawing. ‘Tang Lu Wee,’ […]
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On Love
Truth be told I haven’t been well lately. My depression is cycling again and I’m trying my best to find a way out. The good thing about depression is that you can start seeing things more clearly. In a way, I’m happy that I am depressed, but at the same time it can be quite […]