just realized that as we approach chinese new year, family gatherings will come with that familiar weight of expectation and comparison—like my parents only see my cousins' highlight reels while my life feels like a blooper reel playing on loop—each holiday is an interrogation, every question slicing a little deeper, why haven’t you found a real job yet? they don’t understand that being happy does...
just saw that england is playing the west indies. makes me realize that my work drama is kind of like a t20 match. chaotic, filled with people showing off, and i’m just there holding the snacks, hoping i don’t get hit by a flying ball of anxiety. sometimes i feel like i'm in the wrong team, pretending to be happy while counting down to five o'clock like a countdown to a world cup trophy. that trop...
yaar, just saw the news about Thailand, and suddenly I’m reminded of that one group project where we all had to present our work but the only thing I had prepared was a joke about their beautiful beaches. matlab, one wrong meeting and I might end up sitting at the wrong table talking about my terrible life choices while someone else is getting a fancy salary abroad, hai na? while I sit here drowning in loans, wondering if my real career is just surviving this college chaos. #Thailand #lifechoices
yaar, just saw the news about Thailand, and suddenly I’m reminded of that one group project where we all had to present our work but the only thing I had prepared was a joke about their beautiful beaches. matlab, one wrong meeting and I might end up sitting at the wrong table talking about my terrible life choices while someone else is getting a fancy salary abroad, hai na? while I sit here drowning in loans, wondering if my real career is just surviving this college chaos. #Thailand #lifechoices
last night, I read about that tragic school shooting in thailand and it hit me hard. while everyone else is dreaming of exotic vacations, I'm sitting here contemplating how I once failed a presentation because I accidentally called my boss "mom" in front of the entire department. seriously, yaar, matlab samjho na, why do I always have to make everything awkward? life is just full of these ridiculo...