Long-Distance Love

I have always been a closet romantic. Outwardly, I appeared like I do not hope for a life partner, yet inwardly, I know my life would be more joyous if I just let myself open to love.

Human relationships are a funny thing, I say. With human interactions, I open myself to many uncertainties, having to make adjustments and sacrifices. Every moment seems to be a decision-making process, knowing that with every decision and choice I made, I let myself into a world of possibilities and consequences, intended and unintended.

But after nearly being single for more than 10 years, where I spend most of my time on self-awareness and self-improvement, to learn and understand the elements of what makes an intimate relationship works best, unexpectedly, I find myself in a committed relationship over the last 10 months. …

Entrepreneurship | e-Commerce | Case study

Most typically understand drop-shipping as basically an order-fulfillment business model, meaning one is selling a product without holding any actual physical stocks.

When a buyer makes a purchase off your website, the manufacturer-supplier whom you worked with, will pack and ship the order to your buyer-customer. You pay the supplier, and the rest is yours to keep. Sounds simple?

Not quite.

They say, “the devil lies in the details”.

And it’s in these details many beginners may overlook which can overcast the glitz and glamor of these many successful stories of drop-shippers we all read about.

These are 10 reality checks when starting a drop-shipping business

One — Expect a low-profit margin.

We are talking about anywhere between 10–30% of your selling price. Most wholesalers make an average of 40–80%, and direct manufacturers/suppliers can make up to 90% profit. …

Entrepreneurship | e-Commerce | Business

The 2020 Pandemic has forced millions of people to stay at home more than ever, whether is it due to a loss of job or government order or just by choice out from pure civic duty for fellow citizens.

With so many hours spent indoors, many of us have also been forced to find alternative ways to kill time, maximize time, and to come up with creative methods of making a secondary source of income, all in hopes to replace our day jobs, so as to one day, finally escape the clutches of a bossman/woman or being slaves to corporate culture. …

Self-love is a big word and the concept probably began around 380B.C. with the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, and philautia. It has also been discussed much over centuries amongst philosophers, theologians, spiritual leaders, and psychologists. Its resurgence happened again recently, as we are going through a pretty extreme time of crisis, although not quite like an actual World War thankfully.

As an integrative health coach-in-training, we are often taught the concepts of self-love, its importance, and significance to a woman’s overall health. …

Health | Self-Improvement | Coaching

The modern culture we live in places a heavy emphasis on productivity, so much so, when we send in our resumes, nine out of ten recruiters will be interested to ask about what have you accomplished in your previous jobs.

Adding on to that, our media feeds are filled with achievers from top education institutes, businesses, and sports arena also influence us to want to appear better, stronger, and more qualified. Thus, some of us may go on a paper-chase of getting more certificates.

With the ongoing new norm of social distancing, the digital way of working and living, we are witnessing a rise of online learning. In fact, according to Globe Newswire, the online education industry is predicted to be worth a hefty US$319.167 …

Health | Fitness | Wellness

The traditional model of fat loss is “eat less and exercise more”, emphasizing the simple arithmetic of burn more calories than what you take in. While this is not entirely wrong, it also is too limited to provide both the needs of our changing body and our changing environment.

Our modern way of life is significantly different from that of our forefathers and ancestors — we don’t walk on feet to schools or workplaces, instead, we drive. Even now, we can order-in our groceries and ready-made food by mere clicks of a button on our Yelp or UberEats app. Adding onto that, most of our social activities are now reduced to technology-based apps — when was the last time we play board games like “old-times”? …

Fitness | Self-Improvement | Habits

I didn’t exactly grow up living an active lifestyle, it was a combination of factors of nature and nurture. None of my family members live an active lifestyle so I wasn’t influenced much. Throughout my teenage years, I mostly led a sedentary adolescence, as a result of my triple “concoction” of chronic mild asthmatic, candida, and skin allergies.

I will never forget the feeling of constant coughing (crying to my late grandma, “I would love to have my lungs changed please”) and constant refrain from scratching. Not to mention, the “religious” activity of visiting the old TCM doctor taking my pulse on both wrists, watching my grandma brewed the various Chinese medicinal herbs the old-fashioned way, the six long hours with a ceramic pot, into a perfect bowl of bitter dark-brown medicine every evening for me to drink. …

Health | Self | Lifestyle

Three years ago, I wrote an article “The other F word: TAF Club, Fat Shaming and Tackling the “Obesity Crisis” in Singapore” on Tangram Wellness, where I was a metabolic fat loss fitness trainer for women. I shared my personal experiences about how I, a 13-year old girl, got into my school’s TAF club, despite being a 105lbs, 4'10" girl, and categorized as overweight.

Back then, fat-shaming was something we don’t talk about openly. Until probably around 2011 with a book published by Amy Farrell’s — “Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture” where she wrote about the history of fat-shaming and how fat which was once seen as a sign of wealth and power, is now a subject of ridicule. …