Today, scrolling through Instagram, I was surprised to see a schoolmate who had started a fund for migrant workers. She was the same age, had engaged in initiatives to help migrant workers, especially Bangladeshi workers in...
Category - Life Updates
Recently, I have had conversations with my friends(both online and offline friends so you, reading this online, feel free to say hi!) regarding their health. I have never portrayed myself as a very caring person, a warm sunshine...
We were already late so I turned down the offer to stand in a queue to get popcorn so that I wouldn’t miss more of it. I don’t remember watching a movie in 2020 even before the Covid outbreak, did I catch a movie in...
Have I overshared? Have I been stupid to be vulnerable with my classmates, I wondered as I hurried through my presentation, wanting to end it asap. You see, we had to give a short presentation to our classmates about ourselves or...
I hear of childhood friends who have known each other since kindergarten. On Instagram, I see people out on Fridays, trying new food and new things with their friends, a burst of colours and noise in the background. They say in...
Here’s something extremely personal that I have not written here before. Oh well, let me get into it without wasting more seconds. I have never been called cute. Never. I have been called strong, mature, intelligent, friendly...
Every birthday, I reflect on the past year so this 24th birthday post is actually a reflection of how my 23rd year went. If you’d like to read what happened 2 years ago, here’s my 23rd birthday post which had a good writing...
“The biggest hurdle is getting into med school and you’ve passed it,” I heard this congratulatory message repeated during orientation from those over 40 years of age behind their zoom screens. This is the beginning of a...