Organized chaos ideations documented in written form
- 2020 Woke me up… well if 2020 was a wake up call then I guess it’s time to finish my coffee and tackle my 2021 To-Do list.
- How self-portraits helped me live.I am not too fond of my own face, despite what my selfie folder might lead you to think. I like it enough in some flattering angles, but I won’t drown myself just to get a closer look of my own reflection. I am also by no means a talented artist. I have long struggled with my drawing abilities, whether it’s for landscape, still life or portraits. I would love to achieve a higher degree of accuracy or realism, but alas I fail even at maintaining the consistency between the left part and right part of a drawing. Fortunately, after… Read more: How self-portraits helped me live.
- Lifetime Greeting Cards will either make you laugh or question your emotional health.Foreword: I first encountered these greetings cards while browsing through a book store back in high school. Like any typical teenager, I was struggling with personal insecurities, teetering between the urge to express and the fear of embarrassment. Admittedly, these cards resonated with adolescent-me, they were hard-copy expressions of things I would really like to say to some people. Many years later I stumbled upon these cards as an adult and realized how tacky they are. The graphics left much to be desired and the contents of the cards baffled me. I decided to buy one of each to show… Read more: Lifetime Greeting Cards will either make you laugh or question your emotional health.
- Broadway Ke Java 2016 Producer’s Note (uncut)I was asked to write a producer’s note for the program book of Broadway ke Java 2016 (more about that in a later post, hopefully). Thanks to insomnia and overall restlessness I stayed up till the break of dawn to compose a rather lengthy note. Alas, as all former journalists should have anticipated, our words are limited by the available space in the layout, only a third of the text got to be printed. I decided to publish the note in its complete form here, just because… Jack of many things, master of mediocre management, I have made peace with… Read more: Broadway Ke Java 2016 Producer’s Note (uncut)
- The secret to everything in life: Quality IngredientI have just recently begun learning to cook, and I am bad at cooking. My technique is sloppy (overcooked most of the time), I tend to mess up seasonings (either bland or too salty), and my biggest cause of failure actually lies on my “creativity”. One such example goes, a soup was going alright, until I decided to make it a “fusion” and added last minute ingredients. Good thing I’m not too picky when it comes to eating, I’d rather eat my own bad cooking than starve. But I won’t lie that there is a way to increase the chance… Read more: The secret to everything in life: Quality Ingredient