The Life of a Writer’s Block
Versão em Português aqui. I visited This is Taylor Swift: a Spotify Playlist Experience by Spotify in Seoul the day before I turned 30. I went alone, to bid my girlhood goodbye, then I met my friends afterwards, to celebrate properly. I was wearing the friendship bracelet I got at…
mikrokosmos // daydream (2019)
Written in June 2019, published with minor edits. Inspired by the song Mikrokosmos. I had a dream yesterday, I was climbing up the stairs of a lighthouse. It was dark, but it wasn’t cold. I couldn’t tell at first if it was real, or just a delusion, but, still, I…
useless mess (sappy sallows)
Originally published on sappy sallows (12 Dec 2023). My friend Cyan and I met as we both experienced a personal loss. We decided to get together to produce some work that would help us find some sense of purpose in the haze of feeling like a loser. Not an autobiographical…
madness and sorrow
Versão em Português. …”I am not mad; too well, too well I feel”The different plague of each calamity”— Constance in King John, Act III, Scene 4 My paternal grandmother passed away last year, on the first of July. My father’s mother, my last grandparent. She took to her grave whatever…
reduce, reuse, recycle: how to be disposable (sappy sallows)
Originally published sappy sallows (22 Dec 2023). I was reading “Switchings under uncertainty: The coming and becoming of meanings” (Godart & White, 2010) to write something for my manuscript and then I decided to write something else. My greatest existential terror is insufficiency. I’ve always felt like I had the…
how to be a loser — Center for Ambitious Failure, Essay contest
This essay won the Excellence Award in the Category “Lesson” of the 2024 KAISTian Failure Story Essay Contest, by the Center for Ambitious Failure (CAF), a research centre of KAIST that is very dear to me. 2 March 2023. It’s my 28th birthday, the first one I celebrated in Korea…
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