Month: December 2020
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How It’s Like to Travel During This Pandemic
Sharing my new video project about people, advocacy, and current events. In this first monthly episode, I speak with four people who recently travelled overseas during this pandemic. Each person narrates their experiences at the airport, on the plane, and in quarantine at their destination. Plus, we hear how it’s like to get tested and […]
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Christmas, 2020
This year’s Christmas celebration was a simple but meaningful gathering here at our home in Pasir Ris. Our housemates prepared a noche buena spread of some classic Filipino dishes like lumpia, extra tender Bistek Tagalog, slices of Christmas ham, menudo, and juicy Bellychon (with lemongrass filling). PJ has a video demonstration of how housemate D […]
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Songs of this year: Baby – Madison Beer
Author’s note: This post is part of a mini-series about songs I enjoyed listening to this year. Music has played a very special part in keeping sane during this pandemic. Let me know in the comments what music helped you get through. Would you believe this was part of my running playlist? Here’s the slowed down […]
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Songs of this year: No Time To Die – Billie Eilish
Author’s note: This post is part of a mini-series about songs I enjoyed listening to this year. Music has played a very special part in keeping sane during this pandemic. Let me know in the comments what music helped you get through. I remember exactly where I was when I first listened to the newest […]
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Mornings, scents
It’s 8:29 am on a Monday. As I gently open my eyes, I hear the door close. Tired, I rest my eyelids by shutting them and then I flip the position of my head so the other side of my face is resting on the pillow. It’s warm. I shift my head to rest on […]
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Songs That Made 2020 Better: Play – CHUNG HA
I’m kicking off a short series of blog posts about music I enjoyed listening to in 2020. The year is one of the toughest and most traumatising on record for billions of people. At the surface, we’re looking at almost 70 million people having been infected by the virus with over 1.5 million deaths as […]
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So, we’ve reached the end of the year
The coronavirus will not expire on 31st December. But I bet we wish it could. I’m comfortable. I’m working from home. I can exercise from home. I can order lunch and dinner to be brought to my doorstep. I can press a few buttons to have groceries delivered. I can chat with friends and loved […]
George in Singapore 