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As I'm typing up this post on 3rd of August 2021, there are 17,105 new recorded cases today. Close encounters with the virus Since the world was taken over by Covid-19, my family, my relatives, the people around me and I have been very fortunate to not get infected with the virus. (touch wood) However, I had a few close calls with the possibility of getting the virus. For the few times I could go to my company's office in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, I had a two scares and had to get tested once. I did the PCR test and it was unpleasant experience to say the least. However, knowing that I am healthy and not a danger to my family was worth the few seconds of feeling something getting stuck in my nose. Since then I haven't really stepped out of the house a lot. I could get sunlight but I usually only get it during the weekends. My family made it a point to avoid getting out unless it's absolutely necessary. Getting vaccinated When the government started running vaccination ...

I have never been this light drifting, floating, flowing The more time passes The rarer it is to find my feet connected to the floor At some point it's easy to forget that you were ever on ground Sometimes I do find myself landing either through witnessing people harvesting their fruits of labour or taking the train after a hard day or ironically in a tipsy daze But these are fleeting moments Then as quickly as I come crashing down, I drift off slowly once again I am aware of my circumstances I know time isn't on my side I do realise the lightness shouldn't be mistaken as comfort And to have my feet on the ground it will be a never ending fight Till next time when I find courage to speak my thoughts this moment will be proof that I'm grounded today.

This is the last post of my three-part series talking about menstruation and menstrual cup! In my first post, I talked about the menstruation in general and how the society I'm in views it. The second post talks about how I discovered menstrual cups . And this post talks about my experience using one. That said, I'm going to describe my experience in detail, which means I will be talking a lot about menstruation and inserting cups into my vagina. If you feel uncomfortable reading about that, I say close the tab, but just think about how ridiculous it is to feel awkward and disgusted by vaginas and menstruation. I deal with this literally every month and it is what I have to do to to get through my period for the rest of my life. Why do I even have to ask people to try to understand a natural body process that has been happening since forever. Okay, I'm done being angry. Here's my experience with menstrual cups. --- I wish I could say that using a menstrual cup i...

With the 14th anniversary of Audition coming up, Audition Next Level, the successor of AuditionSEA has come up with a bunch of events to celebrate its birthday. One of them is to share our Audition journey and I thought it will be great to share how I feel about the game. If you didn't know, I wrote my SEA journey when they closed down the SGMY server. You can read it here . But before I go any further, Happy 14th Birthday to Audition! The Return to Audition I believe I created my account right when they were migrating to ANL, but I didn't truly started playing the game until the world was hit by the pandemic. With more free time at home, I've heard lots of friends jumping back into the game. Thanks to nostalgia, I did too. Did I pass?   Getting back into Audition was like meeting an old friend. Since the SGMY server closed down, I thought I had completely given up on the music game, but somehow it came back into my life in unexpected ways. And the return to it felt right, ...

I almost never talk about games on my blog, but TLOU's story has a special place in my heart. There are some games where I refuse to watch because I'm hoping I'll experience it myself one day (Half Life: Alyx, Death Stranding) but I couldn't wait for TLOU. I'll start by saying that I never played the first TLOU or TLOU2. I have, however, watched the game plays mostly uncut by players on YouTube. Does that make my review or how I think about the game irrelevant? Probably. But I just wanted to share my feelings after experiencing TLOU2 as an audience of a let's play. Since I never actually played both of these games, I will be focusing on the story, the world and the characters of TLOU. I would also like to mention that I'm not a professional game reviewer, just a random person from Malaysia that likes storytelling in games. I just wanted to share my feelings about the game. Sorry if my thoughts are all over the place. The First Last of Us Like many oth...

When I heard of the news of a virus from China, I honestly didn’t think it could affect someone like me all the way in Malaysia. I’ve been through the times when the world was facing epidemics like H1N1, Ebola, and Zika, and it never changed my life in any way. Even when the SARS outbreak was happening, the most I did was stay at home because they had schools closed down. But the news of the coronavirus slowly became more frequent. It wasn’t long until cases started popping in other states of China, and then in other countries. In just a month or two, Malaysia wasn’t spared too. When the number of cases was well below 100 in Malaysia, I still wasn’t that worried. While others are wearing surgical masks in panic, I thought people were overreacting. They weren’t even that effective in protecting yourself against the virus. But while I was still going about my daily routine, I could see the subtle panic taking over my country. It wasn’t until I heard of people around the KL area be...