Lu Wee's Blog

1999 The first game I played on a computer was The Prince of Persia. The blood looked fake but everything else felt real. I tried my best not to be killed by closing doors or from falling. Left, right. Left, right, up, down. UP! Oh gosh, I felt like I was the Prince of Persia […]

When I was 9 years old all I wanted was to be happy. I failed, then decided to hate people instead. I hated many people for many years until I flipped open a book called, ‘How to love’, written by a monk. I was 15 and hadn’t spoken to my parents, siblings or friends like […]

Everybody has an opinion about what you should do with your life. Parents tell you to pick the most professional sounding job title. They think you will be happy that way. They don’t know that sometimes the most professional sounding job title carries with it the shittiest job description.   But you stick with it […]

Hard things are the things that make you feel uncomfortable – so uncomfortable you would rather not do them if you could. The only reason you do do them is because they are the things that ultimately make your life worth living. People who don’t do enough hard things often die with a head full of […]

I don’t know how to be strong. When I feel weak, I just break down in front of everyone I know. Though I still make sure I don’t cry in front of strangers, the ones closest to me always know. I don’t know how to be strong. I only know how to talk to people […]

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” C.S. Lewis I think this is true. Today, I want to remind myself how to be positive. HOW TO BE POSITIVE 1. Look on the bright side. There’s always a bright side. Don’t have money for a cab ride? Walking is great […]

Give people what they want, not what you think they would want. Some months ago my sister Lu See called me to ask if I wanted a new bottle. ‘There’s a promotion now. We can get two bottles for RM34.’ ‘Sure,’ I said, ‘There are already moulds growing in my old one!’ She came home […]

Why do we think of life in binary – 0 or 1? Life is not binary. Life is shades. In between black and white are thousands and thousands of shades of gray. If you take even one dimension of life and fit it into the shade model, life gets complex. What more that we are […]

I was supposed to die at 21. I decided that when I was 16. At 16, I was the fat, nerdy kid who hated my dad. I hated him for wasting his days playing pool in a smokey room above a kopitiam in town. I hated him for forgetting to pick me up from school […]