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DECOR, HOLIDAYS, LIVING

Make your own Magic!

We all go through phases when life gets tough and looking for bright spots or silver linings feels harder than usual. If I am feeling particularly lost and exhausted, and nothing seems to help, I abandon all efforts to make massive changes in my life and instead pour my attention into the tiniest of activities that make me happy. Moon gazing, watching reruns of FRIENDS on TV, hot coffee and cake for breakfast, reading in my garden, rearranging my room or just cuddling with my puppy! You don’t always have to take a trip, make an expensive purchase or initiate…

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LIVING

Finding Joy in an Ever Changing World

I am so happy to bid adieu to 2021. It was a difficult and unmemorable year. I wrote a whole blog post at the start of the year on how I was optimistic that this year would be filled with joy and light. Turns out, I was going to experience the true meaning of joy, albeit not in the way I was expecting.  Spring brought with it a terrible wave of Covid which affected my entire family and lasted all the way up till summer. Accidents and illnesses followed our recovery into fall, and winter was particularly harsh as I…

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HOLIDAYS

Joyful and Bright Days Ahead!

Aloha friends and I hope you have all had a wonderful start to 2021! I wasn’t up to the pressure of publishing a new year’s post in January, so I decided to debut the first 2021 post on the blog on the day of the Chinese Lunar Year instead!  I have written about lunar year celebrations on the blog before as well. I like exploring and learning about different regions and cultures, and Chinese traditions and stories have always fascinated me. Last year, I had the chance to be in Singapore around this time, and I was blown away by…

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Default, Featured, LIVING

You Are Enough!

Hello all you sparkly people and warm wishes for a wonderful 2019 filled with much love and light! I am already getting good vibes from this year, specially because am starting it on such a positive note – coming back to writing and my blog! For those of you who follow me religiously and for those who stumbled upon this space by chance, you would have noticed that I took a break from writing around 2 years ago. The last couple of months have been packed with action – lots of soul searching, losing and finding myself, professional and personal…

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