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My 20s were definitely some of best years of my life. C’mon 30s, catch up, will ya?
(Taylor Swift is a gifted songwriter. Just read the lyrics of her songs without the music - try it!)

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Lately, I’ve been more than a little obsessed with pesto of every kind. I even have a Pinterest board dedicated to it, on which I pin all the different pesto recipes I’d like to try. It helps that pesto is such an easy sauce/condiment to make, is super freezeable and allows me to ( Read more... )

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Recently, I had this conversation with a colleague who is close to a decade younger than me. She volunteers with an animal shelter and co-ordinates their fundraising calendar each year.

She: I’m not sure if I want to take on the project again this year.

Me: If you don’t feel it, ( Read more... )

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So, I have decided that my word this year will be FEARLESS.

I’m tired of being afraid, tired of the what-ifs, pissed off with detractors and deep down, I miss the girl I used to be.

On the final day of 2012, I put on my Facebook page that instead of my usual fashion of making no ( Read more... )

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I’m still into prettying up my nails, but as you can see, I’m not super consistent about it. My hands have been bare for weeks, perhaps even months. My toes on the other hand are almost always varnished - partly because I feel a bit naked if they’re not, particularly when I’m at ( Read more... )

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Here’s a piece on Christmas I did for work:

I have lived in Singapore for 17 years but have only stayed in town for Christmas twice - I had to work.

Christmas is a big thing for my family. That’s why every year, I would make the four to five-hour drive back to my grandmother’s ( Read more... )

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J’s cousin’s wedding was coming up (likely the last in the family for a long while) and we had nothing to put C in. Went to the shops and although we did see the cutest formal ensemble (long-sleeved white shirt, dress pants, vest and bow tie), we thought it wasn’t very good value ( Read more... )

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We got a tree last year partly because we were expecting C. Thankfully, he loved it when we broke it out a few days ago. It’s starting to feel like Christmas in our home.
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The little boy is growing up fast! Seems like it was just yesterday we brought him home, in all his littleness.

He’s about a week away from the nine-month mark, and this past weekend, learned to stand on his own (holding on to something).


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Motherhood is hard. Very hard.

Many of us know this but no one really tells you how very hard it is. Barring one or two people, almost everyone told me - when I was preggers - that motherhood would be an amazing journey and that it would be awesome. Of course, they did warn me of ( Read more... )