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Oh, Five-Oh

Middle age came to me as an unwanted surprise, a thief in the night, a gnarly traffic jam I can’t get out of, this unwieldy beast I find so hard to tame. But also, it wasn’t like I hadn’t known it was coming. The telltale signs had appeared here and there: white hair so difficult…

Lil Hobbies

It’s been 92 weeks since I’ve last physically reported to work. That’s 19 months. It’s plenty of hours to rethink life, to rest and recharge, to laze away my downtime hours as I forget how crazy my schedules used to be. To sink into this slow, steady rhythm of being this homebuddy, this barefooted, chillaxed…

Happy birthday to me

I cannot recall when it hasn’t rained on our birthday, an occasion I’ve shared with my sister three years my junior. Year on year, it’s marked by cancelled schooldays or wet workdays as gloomy skies drench the earth at my side of the world. An unforgettable one would be a weekend when I was turning…

Hey there, how you’ve been

It’s the middle of June and under normal circumstances, it would have been a great time to look back at the year so far. See, at work, this month marks the end of our business year, and so, at this time, we would’ve been wrapping up projects, planning out new ones, finalizing yearend reports, celebrating…

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