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Movie Review: The Kingmaker

by joyce

I love the Philippines. But I know so little about the turbulent history of the Marcos era until I watched The Kingmaker. The film by Lauren Greenfield presents a caricature of Imelda Marcos, ex-First Lady of Philippines, wife of Ferdinand Marcos who was President from 1965-86. The last 8 years of his rule were marred with violence and oppression under martial law. Imelda Marcos...

August 2, 2020
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Book Notes

April 3, 2019

Book Notes: The Gifts of Imperfection

After much prodding by my friend Val to read this book, I finally got down to it. She recommended...

by joyce
February 27, 2019

Book Notes: The Life Changing Magic of Tidying

Marie Kondo is a polarizing figure. Like many, I binge-watched her series on Netflix and soon found myself folding shirts...

by joyce
March 4, 2018

Book Notes: The ones who walked away from Omelas

A short story about a utopian city whose happiness depends on the suffering of a single child locked in...

by joyce
May 23, 2017

Book Notes: Switch, the best book on change I’ve read so far

I’ve been feeling like i’m stuck in a rut and decided to read this book “Switch”. I like how...

by joyce

Musings about life

How Slow Motion Multi-tasking Can Be Good For Us

by joyce

I have a serious problem with multi-tasking. But maybe its not so bad. I came across a talk today and this economist, Tim Harford,  talks about the benefits of “Slow Motion Multi-tasking”. He argues that working on multiple projects at once, can do more good for our creativity than we realise. I’m constantly working on multiple projects and then feeling overwhelmed, gave up and felt too guilty to get back into it because “What is the point?”. Yes, throughout my life, I’ve started and stopped learning multiple things. It started with the guitar when I was 12, then different types of sports (netball, basketball, handball, running and yoga), picking up different languages with varying levels of proficiency since university (German – semi fluent, Spanish – can order in a restaurant, Korean – can read hangeul and Japanese – N5 or the most basic level). Oh did I mention, baking, drawing and ukelele classes too? Clearly I have a lot of interests and I love all of them. But I hate the way I feel when I feel stuck and...

January 28, 2019
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October 8, 2017

Why we desperately need to change the way we travel

My worst travel nightmare is to get on a plane, travel 35000km across the world and find the exact...

by joyce
February 3, 2017

Grand Canyon and Valley of Fire State Park

Finally posting all my travel pics! Grand Canyon was a long and tiring 4 hour drive from Vegas, with strong winds...

by joyce
February 3, 2017

Hello, CES!

It’s 2017! January’s over but here’s a little look into the crazy ride that was CES. Was interesting to have breakfast...

by joyce
February 11, 2016

What you should know about travel

In a world that increasingly preaches for you to travel, to spend on experiences, quit your job, leave your...

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