Recover
Mention outdoor and all things positive comes to mind. I am to this day in gratitude to my wife who brings me to relax in countryside whenever I have a much-needed weekend break.
There's no better place to relax and recharge our mind than Mother Nature. Today, I came across a South China Morning Post article in which a certified forest therapy guide rhapsodized about being in nature as "incredibly healing," which indeed it is.
I have been stretching my capacity to work longer and be awake longer
Hare
Library is closed. Dining out isn't allowed after six. Swimming pools and sports facilities have been suspended. The coronavirus outbreak has more or less put everything on pause, except the work in a hospital. Taking a break has been the wish of many doctors, much as it did for me last month after I had broken my leg.
I was finding solace in the slower pace of myself, when things are supposed to move slowly. I didn't want to admit that working and walking with one leg
Outworn
Now that my daughter is halfway from child to teenager, Jasmine starts to post WhatsApp Status update. Unsurprisingly, I'm beyond grateful and privileged to be allowed access to her interesting ideas and thoughts. It turns out to be a window into the new generation of lexicon.
I'll give you an example, which happened this week.
Soon after my daughter posted a picture with the caption "This Lego store is sick", I texted her and asked why it's sick. Obviously I was nonplussed.
Heads Up
Let me introduce you to a social party game that will test your generation gap from your kids within minutes: Heads Up.
It's a classic word game popularized by Ellen DeGeneres. I learned to play this game today when my daughter had a play day with her classmates at the end of school term. In short, you're supposed to hold a phone to your forehead that displays a term. You can't see the term but the game requires you to guess the term from your teammates' witty
Shut
From the emotional anguish caused by social distancing to the ache of public libraries closing their doors, the coronavirus outbreak runs the gamut in ways we can't imagine.
I could never have predicted that our public libraries remained shut for four months. At times, I feel like Robinson Crusoe who forgets to bring enough books from the wrecked ship since being marooned. And bereft it was.
As we are all adjusting to new way of living, we are supposed to reinvent ourselves. An obvious option, after library closure,
Withdrawal
There are times in life when we encounter a setback that puts the kibosh on our habits. For me, a broken leg is one such hiccup to stop my running.
If my interruption in running is a crossword clue, the answer would be "cranky".
Withdrawal symptom isn't uncommon when we have to give up or quit something important. On the other hand - or other leg, I should say - running is a positive addiction which should never be mixed up with tobacco, cocaine or gambling.
But
Sunim
Not too long ago I was checking stats on my Fitbit: number of steps and my pace dashboard. Before my foot injury, it was hard to imagine my life reclaimed from slowing down.
The elbow crutches or leg crutch made me profoundly mindful of how to slow down.
Every single step is about being slow, the way we should take coffee in small sips to get the most of the aroma. And the speed of Earth's rotation seems to be no exception. Everything is slow. And, I’
Dog
Life is unfair, as we all know, and a good thing too.
This is how the novel A Dog's Life opens with. And that statement, nine times out of ten, is true. Always. Heaven knows why, but we can't always ask for fairness.
To this day, after a traumatic evening, I still believe we should find the silver lining even when life has dealt us a bad hand. If you had asked me one month ago how I felt about running home after
This is how the novel A Dog's Life opens with. And that statement, nine times out of ten, is true. Always. Heaven knows why, but we can't always ask for fairness.
To this day, after a traumatic evening, I still believe we should find the silver lining even when life has dealt us a bad hand. If you had asked me one month ago how I felt about running home after
LED
Unplugging before bedtime, as I have learned from Matthew Walker, has hefty benefit on the release of melatonin, a powerful messenger to signal "time to sleep". How much can reading on an iPad suppress melatonin release compared to reading on a printed book? A lot, it turns out. By over 50 percent. It's a good idea, obviously, to unplug before hitting the pillow.
That is easier said than done.
Knowingly or not, we might stare at blue LED lights from laptop screens
That is easier said than done.
Knowingly or not, we might stare at blue LED lights from laptop screens
Classroom
While the classroom will resume for many local students soon, their life won't return to normalcy. Even the simple act of meeting classmates or hanging out with friends seems a pipe dream for them.
Before my daughter could return to campus, she has been "attending" interactive class via Google Classroom or Google Meet. What does it mean, specifically, to go to Google Meet? As my daughter told me, the key is to meet the teacher and learn. One hour or so in the morning. Work
Before my daughter could return to campus, she has been "attending" interactive class via Google Classroom or Google Meet. What does it mean, specifically, to go to Google Meet? As my daughter told me, the key is to meet the teacher and learn. One hour or so in the morning. Work