The People Keeping Me Sane (For Now)
Daily writing promptWho are your current most favorite people?View all responses Let me set a scene. Life is already loud enough — alarms, inboxes, people who think “quick question” is a personality trait. Add travel to the mix and suddenly every human around you becomes either a …
Two and a Half Meters of Grace
Daily writing promptWhat's something you believe everyone should know.View all responses Intro The rain had that fine, misty stubbornness that never really falls — it just hangs there, waiting for you to walk into it. The kind that slicks your hair to your neck and turns the …
Thailand mourning period Queen Sirikit
Bangkok feels quieter this week — not silent, just softer. The chatter on the BTS Skytrain hums lower, temples seem to breathe a little slower, and the flags lining Ratchadamnoen Avenue sway at half-mast in the heavy October air. Even the city’s usual chaos seems to have …
Beauty Erased, Silence Amplified: A Red Flag You Shouldn’t Ignore
Intro Let me set a scene.A young actor, barely thirty, disappears from the spotlight — not because the audience got bored, but because the system decided he should vanish. His name? Doesn’t even matter for this piece. What matters is the pattern: talent erased, mediocrity inflated, and …
Cantonese Clean vs. Sichuan Burn: Can’t We Just Taste the Food?
Daily writing promptInterview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses.View all responses Tastebuds Don’t Lie It’s 37°C in Guangzhou, and someone nearby is drowning tofu in chili oil like it’s a sport. Me? I’m clutching …
Pretend Travel: The Weibo Trend That Roasted Travel Influencers
Daily writing promptWhat was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?View all responses The last thing I searched?“Fake travel trend China.”Not because I wanted to roast it (yet), but because a Bilibili clip popped up of a girl “boarding” a plane …
Dogs or Cat? The Chaos Queen
Daily writing promptDogs or cats?View all responses Her Royal Nakedness She enters every room like she owns it.Correction—she enters every room because she does own it.The air shifts. Your coffee trembles. Your socks mysteriously vanish. She’s pinkish and warm. She’s 90% attitude and 10% oddly satisfying wrinkles.Her …
If My Blog Could Change One Thing
Daily writing promptWhat change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?View all responses The Heat Beneath the Words If you could sit beside me in a hawker stall in Singapore at 2:47 PM, here’s what you’d notice first:The plastic chair is …
The “Authentic” Obsession
Daily writing promptWhat is a word you feel that too many people use?View all responses You scroll for five minutes.Blog post, caption, vlog, caption again—and there it is. Authentic. That moment, that salad, that lantern-lit noodle stall someone queued 40 minutes for after seeing it on TikTok. …
10 Things Absolutely Certain About Travel to Asia
Daily writing promptList 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.View all responses Let’s set the scene: you’ve just landed in Hanoi, or maybe Seoul, or Bangkok—the air’s thick with humidity and spice, and your phone’s already at 19% from over-Googling “how spicy is too spicy?” Welcome …