I consider myself a good planner, but, my travel itinerary over the past few months has me wondering if I really am. The boy and I had only just arrived from the UK when we set off a few days later to spend a week with his friends in British Columbia. I had never been…
What’s that joke about the girls’ trip that never leaves the WhatsApp group? Does not apply here. It was a cold April morning. My girlfriends, Meg, Tan and Na, and I were in the drawing room of one of Cambridge’s colleges, groaning over numerous datasets, trying to establish correlations and associations. “I don’t have it…
A few years ago, if you had told me you were headed to Bath, I would have assumed you were going on an Eat-Pray-Love quest to find yourself in the countryside. I don’t know why I had that impression of Bath. Was it something in the name? or the way it sounded so far from…
The last time I was in the same room with both of my parents, it was 2018 – two years before the onset of the pandemic. We were at a wedding ceremony that already showed signs of a doomed marriage. Everyone hoped the marriage would survive against all odds, but we all learnt shortly after…