Category: 4. Live Less Bad
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All You Have Is Money.
“You’re so poor. All you have is money.” – Kara Swisher These days my focus is less sharp. Most of the time I am spending time driving my kids to school, getting our home set up, and cooking meals. Every now and then I supported our school. Compared to when I was working for Casetify…
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UK – 37 Days
I don’t want to reread this and re-experience all the internal whining. True to how reality always unfolds, things are moving forward. We’re in our new place now. It’s nice, spacious, comfortable, and quiet. I enjoy spending time in the kitchen. The rest of the space still feels wasted, though. There’s so much room, and…
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UK – Day 19
We finally got our place. It’s well taken care of, though a bit far from civilization. I don’t love the location, but I do like the place, and Sharon likes it too. We’ll need to furnish it. I used to love that process. Not anymore. A lot of that has to do with accepting that…
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UK – Week 1.8
It’s been 12 days since we left Hong Kong. The way we moved was far from ideal. We didn’t pack up our home, we just left it. Four suitcases, ten boxes, and Honey, that was all we brought. I wish we had done it differently. I wish we had gone through our things, emptied the…
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Same Shit, Repeated.
Sometimes I think we just go through life reminding ourselves of the same shit over and over again. Call your mom. Eat your veggies. Don’t steal. But our brains and souls are so scattered, we need to be reminded of the same shit over and over again. And how things resonate with us, when and…
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49
My reflections @ age 48. I have already written a lot about how the world has completely changed for us. I quitted CASETiFY in January. I spent all my time at the school, hoping to get it ready for us to hand it over to the team. Then the church bought our place, and we…
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Weaknesses
I still wish I don’t have these flaws. I am pretty sure they are indeed flaws. 1. Zero Poker Face I lack composure and wear every emotion on my face. Back at CASETiFY, there were too many times when my fully expressed reactions drove Wes crazy. Just this week, in a meeting with the funders,…
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Diary, Dramatized by AI
My colleague Flora shared that she would ask AI to tell stories about her own life. It’s like a diary on steroids. She feeds it random notes about life events and asks it to turn them into an exciting story. She says it’s fantastic because the writing helps her appreciate her own life more. I…
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What I Think About When I Eat An Apple
I sometimes eat an apple as a snack in the afternoon. Every time I am at the supermarket, I want a big Envy apple. But then I also know all I need is a big red apple. I don’t need the Envy apple. A big red apple would suffice. I know this because I have…
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Class of 2025 Graduation
Jing has graduated. The school survived 8 years. nor cried so hard with Maggie. And I stood on the side, witnessing everything. It’s emotional, magical, and hard. I feel lonely and anti-climatic. If every graduation is going to feel like this damn this job is going to be hard. The bad news is, these feelings…