I’ve always been sensitive to the judgments and questions around why I may have certain interests that have […]
Category: Personal Blog & Archive
A Reflection, Book Review of Asian Honor, and Further Reading Resources Caveat Lector I don’t know who you […]
As Water to Fish: Shame and Being Chinese
Highly Sensitive People may feel at the mercy of their environments. But let's use that for our own benefit.
The Sensitivity Toolbox
I dedicated so much energy and headspace in my life to anticipating the criticism of my parents and […]
Self-Acceptance as the Antidote to Criticism
This was live Thursday, July 30th 2020 at 8pm (Singapore time)! NRSC (Nuren Secret Club) is a FaceBook […]
Astrology for Self-Care and Understanding (Zoom)
My mother made it clear it was a curse to be born female. If I showed a differing opinion, she had life experience aplenty with which to beat me down.
Life After “Dead Inside” Part 3
I said I dated edgelord types. I was also one. (An Edgelady? Edgemiss? Edgewench? Edgefrau?) I didn't set out to be offensive, but I'd read so widely and critically that I stuck out for being darkly cynical and unapologetically atheist.
Life After “Dead Inside” Part 2
I don’t recognise this person, though her features are familiar. I have memories of the thoughts she had. She didn’t think herself ugly, but she also thought herself hideous.
Life after “Dead Inside”
It’s been like an extended drug trip, or time in our own padded cell. Lockdown forced us inside. […]
Lessons in Lockdown
1 “The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s […]
The Power of Unfinished Stories
Preface I haven’t found, online, many women (or mothers) writing on their Ayahuasca experiences. Here’s mine. It will […]
Mothers, Monsters and Music
2 More than one conversation that I had in the past week was about wearing masks. For some of […]
The Masks We Wear
2 Where to start? These few months have been strange. Astrological advice in mind, I had kept July and […]
Untangling Old Knots
3 Well, I can’t keep it to myself anymore. The second edition of the Self-Love Oracle is now here. […]
The Second Edition Self-Love Oracle
5 I watched this in the theatre with my 7-year-old when it was released. I never said this before: […]
Identity, purpose and destiny in Moana
The Festival du Féminin® links women from all over the world together to connect with each other. The […]
The Festival du Féminin in Singapore
Now shinier and more portable ;) When the oracle deck was begun in late 2015, a mobile app […]
The Self-Love Oracle App is here!
I don’t normally get sentimental over old stuff, but this has been with me since I was 14 […]
Throwing out the old Drawing Board (Literally)
Pangolin Spirit started as a “simple” watercolour sketch that I used to explore the painting of swirls and […]
New Painting Videos
Not all the paintings are new, but they’ve only just been uploaded to the site: There are narrated […]
New Paintings & Videos from March and April
So I’m no longer sure what happened to the rest of March. I know it was busy. I […]
March Madness & The Self-Love Oracle
This year, I’ve explored the making of videos, and the latest leg-up was getting a HD webcam, and […]
How to Paint Your Dragon (Sped up, 8x normal speed)
My rocking-horse restoration project, which took place two months ago, finally aired this past week! It is […]
Rocking Horse Restored on Okto’s Mission Restorable
Date: 7 August 2015, Friday (long weekend) Time: 6:45pm to 10pm Place: One Heart @ 37 Tembeling Road […]