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2024: A Slow-Paced Reflection
Ladies and gents, what I’m about to tell you is something my past self would never have believed I'd say. With that said, please prepare yourselves for the inevitable chorus of me saying, “2024 m…
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Wrap-Up
How to Be Popular (in the Pages of a Meg Cabot Book!)
After months of being a bad, bad reader, I finally managed to finish a book today. How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot became the twelfth book I closed this year with (reading-wise), and this cute, teen-i…
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Personal
A Whimsical December Reverie
I hope you understand when I admit that there's something oddly specific about the way December’s air pricks my skin. It radiates almost a biting cold—that massive, festive energy in harmony with…
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Random Newsletter
When Blogging Feels Like a Double Life—Come See the Stories I Recommend!
Juggling a full-time corporate job and two blogs turns out to be quite a challenge. For this blog, I'm usually more laid-back. I don't really plan ahead what I write, nor do I make an outline…
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Personal
A Haunting Legacy
The soft glow from my laptop screen brings me back to more than a decade ago when my sister and I used to take turns using our dad’s old computer. I’m a corporate gal now, excelling in Excel and putt…
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Personal
Resisting Physics, Embracing Truths
Research and daily experiences show that magnetic fields often defy common sense. This is known as the Law of Magnetism for a reason: like poles repel one another, while unlike poles attract each oth…
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Reading
Breaking Up with Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: A Reader's Journey
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen was supposed to be the last book in her published works that I would finish. The novel follows the story of a young girl named Fanny Price in a coming-of-age tale about …
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Personal
Wishes for Some Distant Souls
I heard the news about some people I knew before deciding whether I was all ears. The information flashed like a comet, growing faster as it approached the sun. I hadn’t seen them in so long that the…
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Personal
A Daydreamer on a Whim
I’ve been imagining myself adrift in the ocean lately. It isn’t exactly dark, but the sky is grey, adorned with playful thunder. The rain seems to beckon me to come undone, while the wind tousles my …
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Travel
A Whirlwind Weekend in Semarang (and a Small Glimpse of Yogyakarta)
By logic, I should be visiting Semarang regularly. If that's too ambitious for a corporate person, let me revise that: I should be visiting Semarang at least once in a while. My dad was born and …
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