December 10, 2011 – 7:42 am
2011, more than any other year, was a year of contradictions for me. This was the year I turned a quarter of a century, and when I was younger I assumed all 25-year-olds know everything and have their lives sorted… How wrong I was! When I’ll look back at this year, my memories at first [...]
Dan Buettnor’s TED talk How To Live To Be 100+ explains some of the common dominators in the world’s ‘Blue Zones’, areas where people are living to age 100 at rates up to 10 times greater than Americans are and where the life expectancy is an extra dozen years. Below is a diagram of what [...]
November 3, 2010 – 5:32 pm
Although many years have passed since I was first introduced to Philip Larkin’s fantastically down-to-earth and relatable poems at high school, BBC Radio 4′s readings of Letters to Monica instantly sparked my interest. I found this (fairly long) passage from Telegraph.co.uk, which really captures the intensity of his admiration for D.H. Lawrence: I get the [...]
I’m so ashamed at my lack of posting anything for so long! When I was unemployed I had all the time in the world to write and to post whatever came into my mind, but as soon as I started full-time work I kind of let it all drop. Here’s a round-up of some great [...]
When debating dying my bleached blonde hair red, I did some searching online and couldn’t find much information or help. I went into a hairdressers and they offered to charge silly amounts to dye my hair a semi-permanent colour that would fade after a few weeks… so I decided to just go for it and [...]
This might sound crazy, seeing as a lot of my friends live in London AND I survived moving to Shanghai by myself, but finally fulfilling my long-term plan of moving to the big smoke hasn’t been as smooth as I thought it would be. Firstly, arranging a catch-up with a fellow Londoner friend gets complicated [...]
October 15, 2009 – 10:32 am
Sometimes I wonder what the point of everything is. My life is barely worth living at the moment. I have no job, no money, no-one who really truly completely cares for me, and it just seems that my life is a void. I think feeling depressed is not, as many people might think, a loathing [...]
