I’m at this weird age where some friends, family members and acquaintances are still working, close to retirement or just decided to retire early (like myself) brought on earlier than planned due to various factors in their lives such as “post pandemic life rethink”, ageing parents or career transition. I’ve got various groups of friends […]
What Day is It?
I’ve reached that stage where weekdays and weekends run into each other. “What day is it?” I ask my husband. “Unfortunately not the weekend,” he groans getting out of bed to get ready for work (He’s on the countdown towards retirement and cannot wait for that day he stops work). Guess I shouldn’t be complaining […]
Lazy Days
Now that I have so much time on my hands, one of the things I love to do on sunny days is sit out in our back garden for the entire day. After a morning walk, I come home to breakfast and take it outside. I move everything out there, my yarns, my craft projects, […]
Reflections Of The Year Post-Work: What I’d Like to Do Next
It’s been a little over a year now of not working. At the time of resigning from my previous employer, Rapid Circle, I had been planning to take the year off and then decide what it is I wanted to do. However, truth be told, the plan was never to return to the kind of […]
A Year Since I Last Worked
I can’t believe that a year has already passed since I resigned from my last role as a community manager in a tech company. Around the same time, I also gave up and deleted all my social media accounts and felt that I had walked away from another part of my life to start afresh […]
Decluttering My Book Shelves
I guess there’s a point in everyone’s life when they do a major decluttering of the things in their life to mark transition points. I realised that my home office study will need an overhaul with all the text books and reference books that I have collected over the years. As I try and figure […]
A New About Me Page
Today I did a few things to update my old “brand” (is that the dreaded word we use now?). Now that I’m not working and unlikely to ever go back into the corporate world doing what I did before, I realise that I have no formal “occupation” as such. I have described myself as “semi […]
Returning to the Ukulele
About 8 years ago, I started playing the ukulele and even took lessons from a teacher. I practised every day and got myself to the point where he asked me to consider learning the guitar next however, I wasn’t interested in that back then. After all, I had to fit it all in with life […]
Is Your Life Today What You Pictured a Year Ago?
I use the Jetpack app for all my blogging on my mobile to tap out a post and it has some daily prompts to help people to start blogging. Every day I look at the questions but just write my own thing. Today was different. Let’s give this a go. So here’s the question on […]
The Tower of Babel
It’s hard to believe that I’ve spent a majority of my working life trying to help organisations and people see the value of peer learning and community building and at times, I feel I’m constantly banging on the same old drum without having achieved anything. To be fair, that’s only the way I think. If […]