Medium Delirium

With these lines I tether myself to the fact of my existence.

  • kaya toast, konbini, and the kindness of strangers

    I’m currently reading The Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Michida and am enjoying it far more than I expected to. I knew I would like it, because I find Japanese slice-of-life content…

  • packing, pacing

    One of the things I’ve learnt since becoming a mother is that leaving the house with a baby is a muscle that must be built and exercised. The first time we took the bubs…

  • hell hath no fury like a pelvis torn

    Two weeks ago I experienced one of the more humbling moments of my life thus far. Against my better instinct (and breaking a promise I’d made to myself while pregnant to never run again),…

  • 8 friends and a funeral

    A couple of months ago I was added into a Telegram chat containing everyone in my 8-person group of college pals, minus YM. ‘Hey. Have you seen YM’s story?’ I darted into Instagram and…

  • the wind blows across the years and rustles the leaves in the trees

    At 3:45am last night I stumbled out of bed and headed, bleary-eyed, to the storeroom to gather the logistics for a dead-of-the-night pump session. I tapped the switch for the overhead light in the…

  • intersections

    To pass the time in my one month of post-birth confinement, I’m rewatching Sex and the City. I have a love-hate (but mostly love) relationship with the series; I think the script is TV…

  • little thing

    ‘How does it feel to be a parent?’ ‘Not very different, for now. It feels like a truncated experience because the nanny is doing so much.’ ‘Chores and duties aside, do you feel fundamentally…

  • death by flatpack

    The contents of a $600 IKEA order are strewn around the house, waiting for a corner or a shelf in which to settle and belong. J and I (more him than me, I was…

  • taking stock

    I am writing to you today from none other than one of Singapore’s best hotels, the Ritz! My heavy, whale-like body is comfortably nestled in a very softly padded desk chair, and behind my…