Hey gang! So this has been on my radar recently and it’s something that I am going through myself I thought to share it with everyone here. I used to think, “Come on, you can see the laundry basket is full right? Why do you need me to tell you?” And I started thinking to myself: Why do I have t

hey guys! this post started because i was trying to prove a friend wrong 😭 so i fell into this rabbit hole of trying to prove my friends wrong that his ex definitely still has a thing for him. there’s something very human about finding out that some of the things people say about love are not

I recently discovered the “Clutterbug” organising styles and suddenly our entire home made sense. Apparently people organise differently: 🐝 some need visual systems 🐞 some need hidden storage 🦋 some like simple organisation 🦗 some need detailed structure And honestly… this explained

Did I keep to my 20K BTO reno budget? No. My original reno-only target was $20,000, but my actual reno-only spend came up to $23,200 — and that excludes lighting, fixtures, furniture, and decor. What pushed the budget up wasn’t styling. It was the actual renovation work: * carpentry *

Hey gang, We all know that familiar feeling of dread when we reach home and there is a whole list of household chores waiting for you after a long day at work. But after planning my home, I realised practicality is really about reducing the number of things that make daily life tiring. So

I used to choose furniture based on whether it looked nice and if it’s cheap. Now I ask: will my cats destroy this? I realised cat-friendly furniture is not just about buying a scratching post after owning my own place. It is also about avoiding materials that attract claws, trap fur, or make

Definitely not an AI expert, just someone who uses ChatGPT a lot and slowly figured out what works. When I first started using ChatGPT, I realised I was mainly using it for a few things: drafting, rewriting, brainstorming, organising my thoughts, planning content, and making everyday tasks feel

I knew from the start that if I wanted to stay within our 20k reno budget, getting an ID probably wasn’t the route for me. That also meant I had to accept something quite early on: if I wasn’t outsourcing the planning, then I had to be willing to think through the decisions myself. At first,

One of the biggest things we had to figure out during our BTO reno was this: For me, staying within budget was the top priority. For my husband, design and aesthetics mattered a little more. So a lot of our decisions came down to finding that middle ground: what was truly worth spending on,

One of the most underestimated parts of our BTO reno was electrical planning. When you’re renovating without an ID, it’s easy to focus on the visible stuff first — carpentry, laminate, tiles, lighting, colours. But honestly? Bad socket placement will annoy you a lot more than the wrong decor cho

hey gang! 🍋 when i first started using pinduoduo, i realise i can't use it like Taobao or Amazon. Simply because they do not have 'shopping cart' 🛒 Taobao feels easier and more beginner-friendly because it is more straightforward to browse, compare, and add things normally. Pinduo

My honest no-spoiler take: I liked both, but I actually preferred the movie. I know the book is probably the “better” answer because it gives you more detail, more logic, and more of the problem-solving process. But for me, sci-fi is such a visual genre that the movie just hit harder. The sca

When we decided not to go with an interior designer, I realised very quickly that this did not mean I could just collect a few Pinterest photos and hope for the best. It meant I had to figure out 5 things first: - how I wanted the home to feel - what my actual style direction was - how we wou

I am back with Part 2 of unhinged research papers! Except this time it’s not weird research, it’s research actually testing suspiciously specific beliefs people keep repeating. Peer review continues to be the most expensive way to check whether the belief was right! Some caught me by surpris

hey gang! it’s summer now for most of us doing a PhD, and I’ve been trying to post here more regularly, so I thought I’d share one of the thoughts that’s been sitting with me from the past 2 years. Over these 2 years, people have said all sorts of things to me as a PhD student. Most of it isn’t

As someone who has raised 2 kittens from 1 month old, these are the things I genuinely wish more first-time kitten owners knew earlier ❤️ 1. The kitten you see online may not be the one you get The most common thing people tell me is how different real kitten life feels from what they saw onl

One thing that completely changed how I approached PhD interviews was this: every question has an objective. I used to focus so much on finding the “perfect answer,” but over time I realised the panel don’t really pay attention to what you are saying. They are trying to understand something dee

I always believe that dating doesn’t end after marriage, if anything, it becomes more important. With life getting busy for us, we make an effort to pick one new thing or event to explore or go to without breaking the bank. This week’s case: Singapore Art Book Festival. So I missed last