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Investigating Maternity Benefits in Germany

  • Post date August 18, 2024

I thought the maternity benefits In Germany is great, and was impressed that it has been already so 2 generations above me. I looked into how this came to be, but came to an anticlimatic conclusion, and reminded me that we all really only see things from a very limited perspective.

Training my pregnant body

  • Post date July 30, 2024

Training my body was one of the things that I did not expect to be so much fun during pregnancy.

Just shift your weight :)

  • Post date June 15, 2024

I often hear people telling me, “Oh, I can’t dance”. I would then have them on the dance floor and say, “Just shift your weight. The easiest is from side to side, and then you can try front and back.” That, to me is the start of dancing. Most of the time we dancers are […]

Let the music wash over me

  • Post date June 17, 2023

When I dance jazz – when I hit musical notes with a certain movement, when I move to the invisible beats, when I no longer count the counts, I let the music and joy wash over me.

Reading Mariana Leky with ChatGPT

  • Post date April 30, 2023

Reading unfamiliar German texts beyond one’s level can be frustrating, but I experimented with ChatGPT and it became an enjoyable activity instead.

A follow up on Pull Requests

  • Post date March 18, 2023

A year ago, I wrote a blog post “Some observations on preference for Pull Request”, with my clear preference against pull-requests (PR)-based coding practice. Fast forward a year, I am at a company practising exactly this, and here I note down some initial thoughts.

I was sold an office chair in German

  • Post date March 12, 2023

smarterGerman course works, and I had full on conversations in German in the last week – I am so excited!

How much German is enough?

  • Post date January 6, 2023

I am at B1 level, but I can’t speak. Why? Now what?

Zugspitze mountains

Surrounded by Mountains

  • Post date August 15, 2022

Snow slopes in the morning, dinner back home by the evening.

The Munich Series

  • Post date August 13, 2022

Munich is the third major city I lived in, having grown up in Kuala Lumpur until 17 years old, and lived my adulthood in London for 11 years. After almost a year of relocating here, I learnt something new about myself, which is that despite the love for London, especially its cultural industry and its […]

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