Hiya! I am Chai.

I keep this blog to enjoy writing, sharing, and reflecting on my life experiences, both for my future self and anyone who is curious.

I hope you discover something on my blog that resonates with you.
Nice to see you here. Thanks for stopping by!

Besides the posts below, I occasionally write weekly notes.

  • Just this afternoon, I shared an anecdote about how, in 2021, it is still painful to generally access customer support across the board. As fate…

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  • I am just reading the print edition of the August/September issue of the Rural Living magazine (online edition here). The following editorial piqued my interest…

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  • A few cool Mac apps I use

    It’s been a few years since I wrote about the Itsycal calendar app that I use on my Mac. It still is the default time…

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  • iPhone upgrade

    I woke up to the new iPhone dubbed as iPhone 13. It is as gorgeous and amazing as every other iPhone before it. I’d love…

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  • Today, on the tenth day of the current lockdown, I got my first vaccination jab done! We just walked into the local vaccination centre, and…

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  • With a community case detected this afternoon in Auckland, the Level 4 rush begins, for which I’m contributing as well. The roads and supermarket aisles…

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  • My blogging friend and coworker Nick shared this list of 100 Simple Truths in a recent post on his blog. I love reading such lists…

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  • The Quotes page on this blog is one of my favorites. On it, I list some principles that resonate with me. I just reordered the…

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  • I exercised 25 of the 28 weeks so far this year. Overall, I skipped ten workouts and exerted myself 70 times at three workouts per…

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  • Today I got some interesting prompts when I opened the Twitter app. But first, you can disable these prompts for all apps by toggling off…

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