wrote about how my ageing body made me realise that I have to be creatively flexible about my routines, how over-optimising can be suboptimal, and how age has made me more close-minded and yet more open minded in other ways (guess my autistic brain cannot help meandering):

Winnie Lim

ageing, uncertainty, and creative flexibility

The past few weeks I haven't been recovering well from my exercise. I thought it was perimenopause or something, but upon examining my journal...

#writing #blogging

wondering how am i going to survive perimenopause

i know it is hard to believe, but there used to be many great stories on Medium, like this one on how video games saved their life: https://videoda.me/video-games-saved-my-life-probably-ad19ec08aa88 now they are probably buried somewhere. #blogging

I wrote about the huge role exercise has in my life, and how it contributes to an increased baseline capacity to cope with the daily demands of life. I used to always feel tired and burnt out. Made some illustrations with my eink tablet to go along with it, hopefully they help. (also acknowledged the predicament of chronic illness sufferers who can't exercise)

Winnie Lim

preserving and growing our energy capacity

Everyone seems to know that exercise makes us healthier but I think it is still an abstract concept to most people. It is still being associated wi...

#writing #blogging #exercise

stumbled upon a post i wrote 11 years ago today so i wrote a short note about it:

Winnie Lim

recollection

I was chatting with one of my co-workers and someone asked her how she got into tech. She said she was inspired as a user of livejournal, and memor...

#blogging #onthisday

guess this quote from my tweet on this day in 2019 is still pretty apt today: "In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness." – David Foster Wallace #onthisday

once in a while i write a post that has no particular topic but is a meditation on my thoughts at the moment. this is one of those, prompted by my partner suddenly falling sick, and how it reminds me of the impermanence in life:

Winnie Lim

there is only now

This past week my partner fell sick — not covid as far as we know (we tested) but it seems like a more severe flareup of her MCAS. She hasn'...

#blogging #writing

was discussing with @npub1z9h9...dmew about possible doomsday scenarios, and the first things she said we should stock up on are colour pencils and a sewing machine 😂

i’m quite delayed in reading your mastodon posts, i try to like them but it tells me they are no longer on the server etc, so please assume i’ve ghost-liked them already