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Oct 29, 2002
I am saddened to hear about the passing away of Ashley from Mental Health @ Home. I hope she finds peace where she is now. 🧡
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Oct 4, 2022
I don’t remember exactly when I started to prefer to work from my local cafe than home. Sometimes I forced myself to work in the cafe because I would otherwise succumb to my fatigue and take naps at home. Another reason is that increasingly, my cat likes to occupy my desk while I work, which…
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Oct 2, 2022 (II)
In addition to looking forward to see my parents, I also look forward to catch up with a friend whom I have known since young. We went to the same primary (elementary) school and took the same school bus together. She is the only friend from the school I stayed in touch with. We could…
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Oct 2, 2022
When it was announced a week ago that hotel quarantine will be scrapped, I immediately planned and booked a ticket for my trip home. I didn’t care that I was falling behind schedule of everything. I haven’t met my parents for nearly 3 years. Everything else could wait. All of a sudden, the anguish, the…
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Aug 7, 2022
In my last meeting with my boss, he had a childhood friend visiting from the UK who happened to have an autistic grown-up child. We chatted briefly about the level of autism awareness in the UK compared to HK as well as gender identity. She told us that her child identified as non-binary and preferred…
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Jul 28, 2022
I have a friend who would send me videos of cute cats she saw online occasionally. She sent me one this morning to which I responded with an emoji of a smiling cat with heart-shaped eyes. Then I wondered if it would be impolite to only respond with an emoji? The last time we spoke…
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Jul 27, 2022
Three years ago in Melbourne today, I made a birthday wish to return in a year. Three years passed, that birthday wish never came true.
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Jul 26, 2022
The heat is unbearable, it’s suffocating me. It’s impossible to work or even think when my body is burning. I could work in the university but chose to work in the cafe instead, to keep a distance away from the institution’s shackles and ableism where my worth is judged by my productivity. Thirty nine years…