Tag: Growing-up

Waste or Wait

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I am at the bank.I hate the bank. The lines, the finding out you forgot a certain detail and have to come back next time... As I stand in line, I am a few people away from the service table. I could turn around, but I have been here for a while so I would… Continue reading Waste or Wait

Bits and Peace(s)

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Not everything goes our way. I understand that now. Something that can be planned to the TEE can fall apart as if you never paid any attention to even the most simplest of details. The hardest thing to do when stuck in between a rock and a hard place is acceptance. Ahh, acceptance. That is… Continue reading Bits and Peace(s)

The Treadmill

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A treadmill is a machine you find in a gym. You press a few buttons and this conveyor belt-like-thing rotates and you have to walk/jog/run so that you don’t fall. I recently got onto a treadmill. Not for the first time, but for the first time in a long time. It was moving, I was… Continue reading The Treadmill

Part 1: Bragging Rights, Your Brand

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"Porsche" is pronounced: POOR-SHA "Louis Vuitton" is pronounced: LOO-EE-VWEE-TAHN But you knew that right? So tell me this, if people can learn how to pronounce any of the above, then what’s stopping them from pronouncing your VERY ethnic name, correctly? If you carry yourself like a brand, you will be respected and recognized as such.… Continue reading Part 1: Bragging Rights, Your Brand

Bun in the Oven!: For Procrastinators

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A woman is pregnant for NINE MONTHS. In those months, she does not enter a hibernation period like a bear or something. Life goes on. It does not wait for her hormones to balance, for her feet to stop swelling, for her insecurity to wear off. Life will still give her deadlines. Remember in high… Continue reading Bun in the Oven!: For Procrastinators

The Honeymoon Phase: If and When

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I feel life is divided into two categories. When something happens and If something happens. Despite of this obvious fact, both chances bring forward uncertainty. Giving us anxiety. Now, I am very… not worrisome per se… but I seem to “dwell” on the outcomes of certain things. After the honeymoon phase, the stage where anything… Continue reading The Honeymoon Phase: If and When

Hustlerpreneur Diaries

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A little over 2 weeks ago, I learnt a new word. “Hustlerpreneur”. I just Googled it, looks like it was already really prominent before I actually knew about it. Anyway, my favourite definition (amongst the many) is that a Hustlerpreneur is an individual that: Never stops trying to figure something outNever makes excuses for not… Continue reading Hustlerpreneur Diaries

Love: A Second-Hand Emotion

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Colossians 3: 12-14 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is… Continue reading Love: A Second-Hand Emotion

BUILD YOUR RESILIENCE AND PREPARE FOR IMPACT!

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I have this thing where I am constantly ready for the worst. I imagine terrible situations to build my resistance towards them and I do a pretty good job at it if I do say so myself. Yes, maybe it is completely ridiculous and insane having me sob over stories I invented in my head,… Continue reading BUILD YOUR RESILIENCE AND PREPARE FOR IMPACT!