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Everyday joys.

These days the only other humans I see regularly apart from my partner are our postal delivery persons. Some days it’s the Chinese-Australian man in his 30s, other days it’s […]

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we all live in different times.

we all live in different times. our bodies and minds are processing time differently. a person waits 2 seconds before refreshing their messages on loop like a glitching robot in […]

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Every Place At Once.

I am sitting at a memorial service in a church snug in the east end of Singapore. The master of ceremony goes up to the pulpit. He tells us that […]

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Traveling academics and the guilt from crises at home.

It is 2203hrs and I have urgent tasks to complete […]

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First touches.

handshake NOUN 1 An act of shaking a person’s hand with one’s own, used as a greeting or to finalize an agreement. – Oxford Dictionaries

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Reprogramming my body out of grief.

Between January and February this year, I ate Japanese food for 35 consecutive days in Singapore. Using food, place, and other materialities as placeholders for my sister, I was trying […]

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Stimuli.

I’ve been thinking about how bodies react to stressful situations or fall into PTSD, and how private and public struggles compound each other. There are many challenging and difficult things […]

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Things a Singaporean appreciates about the US Presidential Elections.

I am a Singaporean woman in my late 20s. To date, […]

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Global politics is micropolitics.

I’ve just spent ten minutes waiting for a bus on campus in Singapore and overheard students say these things with respect to the election results: 1) “It’s not gonna affect […]

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Parochial anxiety.

Many world leaders have issued official congratulations to the new president dude on social media, as has the Prime Minister of Singapore – a tiny country of 5 million that […]

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Grammar.

Today, I am 28 years 7 months and 23 days old. Today, my sister would have been 23 years 10 months and 23 days old. Instead, she will always be […]

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Grief and deep-liking on Facebook.

It is now 0017hrs and I am typing in this space while weeping like shit because I feel so full of sad. But I know I will be okay in […]

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Grief and the “distance” of decluttering.

I’ve had a super emotionally heavy day.

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what holding space really looks like.

This is not a manual. This is not a thank you list. This is catharsis. This is what holding space really looks like before, during, and after the death of […]

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have yourself a merry little christmas;

Today is my first day back at work. “Work” as in academic work work, “work” as in boy am I supposed to be churning out some pretty amazing and mind-blowing […]

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Processing grief, in five chapters.

I feel a lot of pressure to make quick decisions, to anticipate the future, to placate angry people, to console grieving people, to emote more, to emote less, to hurry, […]

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0146hrs Tuesday in ten Tweets.

Work-talk aside, this is 0146hrs wishcrys declaring I’ve survived a personal crisis day. However, I’m baffled by my commitment to my work:

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On the value of public grieving, in 22 Tweets.

It is 0203hrs. I got up to take an hourlong […]

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Notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction.

Some notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction as I […]

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Translations, care, and paralanguages.

It is 0212hrs on a Tuesday morning in Singapore. I am typing away in a dark room in Chinatown while my two best friends are asleep beside me.

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“Inexpressible Love to write – Enticements, arguments, and impasses generated by the desire to “express” amorous feeling in a “creation” (particularly of writing). Two powerful myths have persuaded us that […]

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I am collecting beautiful objects.

I am collecting beautiful objects. A pair of shoes. Some glasses. Telephone. Typewriter. They are made from wool and felt. With apparent stitches. Their delicate, unfinished appearance is friendly. And […]

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Care is a system.

“To care about something is more than just happening to believe that something is valuable or to want or to desire something to be the case. Believing, wanting and desiring […]

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Grief, words, and heart medicine.

It is 0227hrs. I have been awake for 42 hours straight. I have x01 articles overdue + x01 articles, x03 revise-and-resubmits, and x03 reviews due this week. But I sit here with a […]

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Better static than stasis.

“On distance swims between two islands, I would sometimes stop mid-course to look around. To find myself equidistant between two points gave me the funniest feeling. To think that back […]

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9 Murakami in 9 weeks.

I have a Murakami problem. I cannot stop consuming his words and immersing in his life worlds. It all began nine weeks ago when I decided that I could no […]

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force majeure.

This view to this earworm. I feel the need to take ten minutes away from coding and writing to catalogue some precious weekend memories before they seep out of my […]

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When you travel alone through foreign cities as a young woman,

I think I might have developed some muscle memory from […]

Academica Dramatica

I don’t want to be an armchair anthropologist.

I keep meeting people who think any one can be/is […]

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Everyday joys.

we all live in different times.

Every Place At Once.

Traveling academics and the guilt from crises at home.

First touches.

Reprogramming my body out of grief.

Stimuli.

Things a Singaporean appreciates about the US Presidential Elections.

Global politics is micropolitics.

Parochial anxiety.

Grammar.

Grief and deep-liking on Facebook.

Grief and the “distance” of decluttering.

what holding space really looks like.

have yourself a merry little christmas;

Processing grief, in five chapters.

0146hrs Tuesday in ten Tweets.

On the value of public grieving, in 22 Tweets.

Notes on Goffman’s theories of strategic interaction.

Translations, care, and paralanguages.

Of wordless wordsmiths.

I am collecting beautiful objects.

Care is a system.

Grief, words, and heart medicine.

Better static than stasis.

9 Murakami in 9 weeks.

force majeure.

When you travel alone through foreign cities as a young woman,

I don’t want to be an armchair anthropologist.

累类的泪