Why I write

  • I started this page back in Jan/Feb 2021.
  • I wasn’t writing as diligent as I would have liked. It was just a year into Covid-19 and there were other things occupying my mind.
  • I think the idea of writing a blog came from listening/reading to Tim Ferris’s “Tools of Titans”.
  • Most of us who writes a blog have their own personal reason. Making a living out of it is definitely not top of the list.
  • With the exception of my teachers in primary & secondary school teaching and guiding us to write for exams (bless our teachers), I have not attended any formal writing classes before.
Even my youngest could write better than me.
  • Here and there I would pickup the do’s and dont’s, be it on Facebook/Instagram posts, audiobooks or books like Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.
  • A Malaysian writer I follow once mentioned that we should write down our own life story, so that one day, our kids or grandkids could enjoy reading.
  • I feel some truth in that. I was lucky to have a living grandparents when I was little, but the memories was scattered bits and pieces, here and there.
  • I asked around about my great grandfather but not much was known. And even the ones known were sketchy, sometimes conflicting.
  • Its been slightly over 3 weeks that I managed to blog daily and somehow it feels like forever! Wish me luck with the consistency 😀

Until then, stay hungry, stay sane.

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