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Me and those things that I haven’t made as my career (yet)

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.

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 […]

Chinese New Year

  • Post date February 8, 2022

What Chinese New Year means to a diaspora in Malaysia.

Paradigm shifts

  • Post date July 27, 2021

From Climate to Home

From Inequality to Dignity

From Online to Onlife

From Representation to Power

Why is tree planting bad?

  • Post date January 2, 2021

There is no dispute amongst scienctists that more trees are better than fewer trees. Tree planting is bad when… However, tree planting is bad under certain conditions: When trees are planted for “rapid timber production or carbon capture”, including monoculture tree plantations When we plant trees just to replace existing ecosystems, such as peatlands. When […]

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