My brother is a master of keeping in touch. Really, he stays connected with everyone. His friends, classmates, relatives…Sometimes he asks me if I know Person X who was asking after me or he gives me details of his meet-up with that cousin to the brother of the niece of our great-grandmother and I am…
As a teenager, I would write letters to my mum whenever I felt like I needed to communicate to her about something that was bothering me. It was the best way for me to fully and comfortable express myself. She would always write back, pushing her responses under my bedroom door or just leaving them…
Have you watched Black Mirror? If you haven’t, you need to. YOU ? HAVE ? TO! The series paints the perfect picture of how social media and the internet in general, has taken over our lives, as we wake up every day to log into our phones and computers and seek validation from strangers on…
I have been unsuccessfully trying to blog for a while. For months, my mind has just been an empty goo of blank. I’d blame it on writer’s block but that wouldn’t entirely be true. The truth is, I have just been lazy. And busy with my 9 to 5. In addition, my hosting expired, sometime…
I am on the commuter train heading to work. Another long day of building someone’s dreams. Another long day of emails, meetings, calls, chats, documents, sign offs, and a tonne of plastic smiles. I have since mastered the art of plastic smiling. Flashing my teeth someone’s way and pretending to be genuinely amused, when I…
I must admit, I haven’t read in a while. Which is bad because a good writer is a good reader. Maybe this is the reason why I lost my mojo and couldn’t write for months. The last book I read was one I have always wanted to read after my friend (thanks, Wilcky) shared an…