Brenda Wong | People, Culture, Books
Lately I've been waking up with a jolt at 4 in the morning. It's not quite horror movie-clockwork, but my eyes pop open - slowly adjusting to the room's gloom and the soft glow of London's light pollution through the gap in
Mum loved a simple butter cake. Fluffy sponge, orangey-brown on the outside, sunshine yellow in the middle. Come to think of it, she didn’t have much of a sweet tooth. “Not too sweet” was one of the higher of Samantha-Sia-sweet-thing-compliments. As
The dream I had about mum began with the two of us sitting amongst a group of hazy faces at an elaborate Chinese restaurant. Sucking in my stomach desperately attempting delicacy with my chopsticks, I watched her: she was gently admonishing the manager for bullying a younger server. Typical mum
Happy “Be-twixtmas” to you, dear reader. I love this season－the delicious limbo after Christmas where some of us lucky ones can collectively exhale. Brush dust off our clothes from the wreckage of the year, admire any ornaments of joy we’ve collected from the
Hey folks. Quick scene-set: Been at my role as a People Associate at Prolific for a year and a half. I’ve made a ton of lateral moves to get to this point. And I was sitting at my desk typing out notes on a diversity and inclusion
I’ve been thinking a lot about the version of me that existed in 2020. Last December was hard. I’d taken a month of sick leave for my fried brain and heart, and we were in the depths of a cancelled Christmas and a lockdown with no
Ten years ago, I got on a plane flying from Kuala Lumpur to London. It was a sunny afternoon when I landed at Heathrow Airport for the first time, reeling from the long-haul, trundling one big suitcase, one small. Groggily, I stumbled on the coach that would take me
A few months ago I cuddled up under my duvet with a cup of chamomile tea and my Remarkable 2 to draft a yearly tradition: another one of my “lessons I’ve learnt at Monzo” posts. ( Year one is here , and year two is here .) This is
Hello again, wonderful people. It’s about time for another one of these posts about Monzo, eh? Ever since I wrote about joining Monzo as part of their Customer Operations team , and my subsequent post about my first year at Monzo , I’ve had a metric ton of
It’s been a year since I started working for Monzo . Technically a year and five months, but ehhhhhh, time is wibbly wobbly. (Aside: I once said in an interview that Monzo time is like bullet time in the Matrix. Still can’t believe I got away with
Four months ago, I wrote a post detailing why I left my previous job , and how uncertain the future seemed to be. Well, life comes at you fast. As soon as that post left my drafts, a unique opportunity came my way. “Work for Monzo ?” I exclaimed. “
It’s been all quiet on the brendaisarebel.com front lately. Life has taken a real turn and I needed to take some time to reflect. Eventually I knew I had to come back and write about all this. After all, starting a blog requires you to open up