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What it is Like to be Mentally Ill

On the final episode of the TV series, The Newsroom, the character Gary Cooper poised that it would be fun to teach kids something wrong, such as wood coming from birds, and keep it up as long as possible. When they’re all… Continue Reading →

Writing: One Moment

Writing, like all arts, takes hours of practice, stretched out over the course of years. Like many of my generation, my first foray into writing was fanfiction. And like many teenagers back then, I was terrible at it. I was… Continue Reading →

139: In Evening – Afterword

As a teenager, I was part of my school’s scout troop. There was this weekend where we had a training camp. And I know, the idea of a scouts camp are stereotypically associated with warm campfires and roasted marshmallow, but… Continue Reading →

Mental Health: I Don’t Have OCD

The title is misleading. Because I do have an obsessive-compulsive behaviour as part of the bipolar package. In fact, I’m having an episode right now as of writing this, which is the main reason why I’m writing this. I needed… Continue Reading →

Mental Health: Suicide Survivor

(This is the longest blog post I’ve ever written. So fair warning, it is 3118 words long. The length of two standard chapters in my novels.) I had a friend. Actually, we were more of classmates and rivals than anything. To… Continue Reading →

Mental Health: The Rest and the Period

Forgive me in advance but this post will seem a little random around the edges. When I write about mental health, I usually let what I feel run more freely, to better express life with it. And right now, I… Continue Reading →

Writing: The Loser’s Journey

139: In Evening, is my very first original publication. After over eight years of crafting the art of writing, it was the first work that I felt was worthy of going all the way. And it is one that I… Continue Reading →

I Don’t Know the Title

I don’t know a lot of things. Like right now, I don’t know what to do. Or where to go. I’m sure many people had been on this road before, where they had to decide their paths in life. What… Continue Reading →

Suicide, Selfish, Beliefs

Selfishness is a topic that comes up often when people talk about suicide. It’s much talked about that if you Google the subject, you’d find a plethora of articles about it, pro or otherwise. Especially ever since Robin William’s death… Continue Reading →

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