a new relationship with myself
I don’t know how to make myself tick. The word, concept and definition of the “self” is very complex to me. I am my self, and you would think this means I...
Winnie Lim
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learning to listen to classical music, and personal micro-sites
Following up on yesterday’s note about Lim Yunchan, I watched a video today about the transformative power of classical music. I also found a neocities website on “how to listen to and...
watch musicians react to Lim Yunchan
If you play the world’s greatest classical music rendition to me I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between that and any good-enough pianist. I can’t tell what makes certain versions...
what I appreciate about singapore after having left it once
Today happens to be our national day and it is a sunday, so i thought it’ll be a good time to write an appreciation post. Feelings and opinions about singapore can be...
Daniel Levitin, and the age of distraction
…is the author of “This is your brain on music“, a book I started re-reading recently because of my rekindled interest in music. He’s also a musician – he plays multiple instruments...
123 months: everything is perimenopause
as we're both women in our mid 40s we're inevitably entering the dreaded phase in our lives when our hormones go out of whack and we start experiencing disturbing symptoms...these days one can search any medical symptom on google and it is definitely a possible perimenopause symptom. declining dental health? perimenopause. insomnia? perimenopause. acid reflux? perimenopause. frozen shoulder?…
why am I writing more (notes)
I’ve been trying to write and publish more notes recently. The trigger was thinking more about my mortality – how every mundane day can seem so frivolous like time bestowed upon us...
takumi
I watched this youtube video about a factory in japan making high-end audio products. What was the most surprising part of the video is that there was just this one woman assembling...
lateral thinking with withered technology
Recently I read Range by David Epstein and half-expected it to be boring somewhat but it is full of interesting stories. One that stood out to me was the story of Gunpei...
scenes from langkawi
We went to langkawi, malaysia to celebrate my partner’s birthday. It is just an hour’s flight from singapore. South-east asia has a plethora of sunny beaches, so in a way langkawi is...