jessa

Reflections on becoming

  • Letter no. 45

    Dear reader from the future, Can you imagine a place filled with life-sized puppets to imitate a place filled with people? I just turned 30 and am already at a point in my life where I am considering raising my own family. I have even started to miss the children my husband and I still Read more


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  • Our tendency to procrastinate on meaningful activities

    How much information can I still absorb before becoming saturated? Or is procrastination an indicator that I have been consuming trivial matters? Because if I have been taking in information that are valuable and beneficial, shouldn’t they move me to take action for a cause? How many miles could my fingers still scroll before I Read more


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  • Climate action: from the individual to the corporate

    Looking back, I remember how we were to live by the reuse, reduce, and recycle campaign as a kid. However, as I grew up, I learned many untold stories about how not all plastics are created equal so not all plastics can be recycled. After reading a seven-year-old article as part of my Learning for Read more


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  • Try things out

    What’s the antidote for “I don’t know what to do?” Try things out. Staying in a place of not knowing what to do is indeed a dark place to be. One memory I had was when I had a hint of where I should be going for my research idea, but I didn’t know how Read more


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  • Late-night musings #22

    When my husband agreed to let the stray cat—who chose us as his furr-ever home two weeks ago—live with us, our daily routine changed. Instead of feeling transient since I lived in the metro, having a cat in our marriage home made me feel grounded—the same feeling I have towards my childhood home. And I Read more


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Reflections on becoming

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