Category: Musings

  • On midnight snacks

    Are you really “hungry” or did you just see appetizing and now have nothing else better to do so you think about food? If you had to wait for a while without thinking about food, would you still go for it? Is it the same with sleep: that when one ignores the initial calls for…

  • Write like you talk

    …no one gets talker’s block. Seth Godin, in Problogger It’s easy to get carried away with all these “writing tips” especially when you start getting serious. You start out writing because you love the process and then the next thing you know, you’re trying to strictly follow a standard that they said you should do.…

  • “I’m not ready.”

    6:36 AM okay, some blog stuff It’s right on time for the next routine on schedule. Writing with the birds chirping on the background and the sun slowly showing the day’s colours sound perfect, and yet there’s that same voice that says Hold up. We’re not that ready. On another folder of the same computer…

  • Being In Place

    I took a nap right before dinner and life had felt strangely… picturesque since. Admittedly, I had only realized the sensation while on my post-dinner walk. It may simply be because of the said walk (a most powerful of all human abilities, to walk) or a combination of that and the simple yet hearty family…

  • Snip-Its #4: The Very Act of Living

    Snip-Its #4: The Very Act of Living

  • Snip-Its #3: All the World’s a Stage

    Snip-Its #3: All the World’s a Stage

  • Snip-Its #2: The Paradox of Graphs

    Snip-Its #2: The Paradox of Graphs

    Paradox of Graphs

  • Snip-Its #1: You’re more creative when you’re tired

    Snip-Its #1: You’re more creative when you’re tired

    You’re more creative when you’re tired.

  • Redefining solitude, and an alternative to walking

    Redefining solitude, and an alternative to walking

    It reminds me of this seemingly paradoxical result when, as accounted in posts related to the topic, creatives who leave social media, despite initially having those applications as a space for inspiration, end up being more creative and able to produce more authentically artful works after leaving.

  • Assuming familiarity as knowledge

    Do you really know something? Or are you simply familiar with it? Familiar, as in you’ve encountered it before, perhaps many times prior; it can now trigger a memory or two or more. Maybe you have lived with it, been exposed to it like nitrogen in the air, had it like breakfast for dinner. Spent…