So, my job had required me to drive all the way to the North East – or to the state of Kelantan to be exact – which would be my very last road trip out of KL before I moved back to Sabah. Instead of taking the easy way out by taking a flight, I decided to go by road which would take me across four different states, excluding Kuala Lumpur which is considered a state in itself and where…
Everybody who knows me personally must have known by now that I have moved from KL to KK (and I have announced it on Twitter so I assume some of those who know are strangers – who may don’t give a damn about where I am in this wide wide world anyway). It was supposed to be an easy decision, but it was seriously not. I loved my life back in KL, and I loved the job and all. I…
The story of Telegraph Cottage should remind us that even people in very high-stakes jobs need to set aside time for recovery. It’s easy to forget that we need to build rest into our schedule. It’s easy to convince ourselves that detaching from work is impossible. We live in an era when we’re urged to be passionate about our work, to regard the boudary between work and life as an obolete relic of the industrial age. Mobile technologies keep us…