These are posts from the years 2004 to 2022. If you’re looking for my latest posts, go to the front page.

Online platforms

• Google’s Helpful Content Update isn’t kind to nicheless blogs
• Why I quit Twitter
• Why you should stop watching the news
• Is your information diet affecting your mental health?
• 3 big reasons why solopreneurs should not use WordPress
• 7 simple ways you can secure your WordPress site
• Five things I wish I knew before I built my website
• I took a break from social media and blogging. Here’s what happened
• How I use social media (tips for ordinary folks)
• I hate what blogging has become: Reflections after a blogging break
• My blog identity crisis
• My Blogging Evolution: Reflecting on 14+ years of blogging. Yes, 14.
• My favourite author blogs
• My favourite nicheless blogs
• Slow blogging: The anti-hustle method of writing for the web
• Tweaking my blog’s content strategy
• Why I created a Youtube channel
• Why I moved from WordPress to Squarespace
• Yes, you can blog without a niche!
• Email’s hottest trend: The Substack newsletter

Personal Finance

• 10 best personal finance Youtube channels (international)
• 10 steps to paying off all your debts
• 5 money tips for college grads
• 5 reasons I prefer to rent a home
• A conversation about money, privilege and contentment
• Being frugal in Malaysia and Singapore (Money & Minimalism Monthly Roundup #3 )
• Don’t be a Scrooge with your home
• Emergency budget: Design one that can sustain you in a crisis
• Guide to robo advisors
• How to become debt free in 7 steps
• How to overcome your fear of investing
• How to track expenses … when you hate tracking expenses
• I embraced “lifestyle creep” and upgraded my lifestyle – here’s what I learned0
• I lost something in my pursuit for financial independence
• I’m moving away from roboadvisors. Here’s why.
• Kenanga Digital Investing (2022 honest review)
• Kicking off my Monthly Money Diaries: 2020 financial year in review
• List of Personal Finance Youtubers in Malaysia
• Managing uncertain times (Money & Minimalism Monthly Roundup #1)
• Monthly Money Diary and Reflections (January 2021)
• Monthly money diary and reflections: February 2021
• My biggest financial mistake
• My experience with a financial planner
• My experience with EPF’s Retirement Advisory Service (Part I)
• My favourite personal finance articles & videos (April 2019)
• My rocky adventures in investing
• Recommended Personal Finance blogs in Malaysia
• Saving and investing in pre-apocalyptic times
• Saving money tips: 10 things I cut from my budget
• Should you use a robo advisor?
• Stashaway Malaysia (very honest review 2022)
• Suicide isn’t the answer to your debt or money problems
• The role of privilege in personal finances
• The time when I was struggling with credit card debt [flashback post]
• Wahed Invest review (2022)

COVID-19 Diaries

• Lockdown diaries, March 2020
• Lockdown diaries, April 2020
• A pandemic, a lockdown and how nothing will ever be the same
• Is minimalism practical in the age of COVID-19?
• No, you don’t have to be productive during a global pandemic
• Saving and investing in pre-apocalyptic times

Life in Adelaide

• Favourite posts from my Aussie blog: Malaysia to Adelaide
• Why I quit my job to move to Australia
• First days in Adelaide
• Yin’s vegetable garden
• I will be a guest of ABC’s 891Book Club
• Appearing on 891 Book Club
• My life as an Aged Care student
• Life has taken me over
• Adelaide libraries are the best
• My year of writing dangerously
• 10 things I learned from working as a carer in Australia
• Homeless in Melbourne
• Why I left Australia and returned to Malaysia

Interviews

• Alwyn Lau on writing your first novel
• The second life of stuff: An interview with journalist Adam Minter
• Can Christians write erotic romance? Yes, says Zena Wynn
• From laid off IT worker to businesswoman: Sharnila’s journey
• How Bella Zamri wrote a hit novel on Wattpad
• How Elizabeth Spann Craig used Wattpad to gain new readers
• Interview with Amanda Hocking
• Interview with fantasy author Carol Berg
• Interview with Jodi Picoult
• Interview with Nina Amir
• Interview with Tim Harford
• Interview with Victoria Aveyard: From Book to Big Screen (Part 2)
• Interview with Victoria Aveyard: Writing the Red Queen (Part I)
• Interviews with Danny Choo and James Sturm 
• Speaking to Margaret Stohl
• Interview with Talent Corp about returning to Malaysia

Musings

• Let’s have a Depth Year
• 2022: The year of disasters and discoveries
• Goodbye, 2021. We won’t miss you
• Lessons from 2020: A year of resilience, recovery and reflection
• 10 habits I want to implement in 2020
• My year in review – 2019: Change is worth it
• Is it time for Malaysians abroad to come home?
• 2018: The Year of Change
• 10 things that made me happier in 2017
• It’s a new Malaysia: Post #GE14 reflections
• 5 things I love about Malaysia
• Can faith be simple?
• Chasing your dreams when life comes undone
• Confessions of a morning lark
• The blessings of singlehood
• Don’t let shame ruin your life
• My “Live My Best Life Now” Bucket List
• On being childfree
• One superpower you need to have: Being grateful
• Things I don’t miss about office life
• We don’t have as much time as we think
• What I learned from my month of hell
• Write what you love
• Writing when you’re sick
• Stop dreaming and start writing
• Remembering the Asian Tsunami

Travel

• 8 places to eat yummy food in Melbourne
• Co-living experience: Komune Living
• My first AirBnb experience
• When neighbours hate Airbnb
• Out and about in Geogetown, Penang
• My experience using Uber: A review
• Hostel review: Melbourne Central YHA
• Hotel Review: Avilion Port Dickson – a perfect place to have a reading vacation
• Hotel review: Avenue J, Kuala Lumpur
• Hotel review: Campbell House in Georgetown, Penang
• Hotel Review: Cyberview Resort & Spa
• Hotel review: Ibis Styles Kingsgate, Melbourne
• Hotel review: Richmond Hotel, Adelaide
• KLoé Hotel Kuala Lumpur (hotel review)
• 10 things I learned from working as a carer in Australia
• Pavilion Kuala Lumpur – a foodie’s guide
• Tokyo Memories
• What to do during a solo writing retreat
• Why I love staycations
• Why I left Australia and returned to Malaysia
• Why I quit my job to move to Australia
• Adventures in Beijing
• Hotel Review: Sekeping Kong Heng in Ipoh
• Hotel Review: Avilion Port Dickson – a perfect place to have a reading vacation
• River of Life – turning the Klang River into a viable waterfront
• Seoul’s Oil Tank Culture Park
• Seoullo 7017: How to recycle old motorways
• The guide to being a digital nomad in Penang
• Visiting the Life of Pi movie set in Taiwan
• Visiting Kyoto circa 2005

Books & TV

• A Reader’s Manifesto: Literary darlings actually suck at writing?
• How to catalogue books with the Goodreads app
• Joining a book club made me a happier person
• Batman v Superman – Why you should ignore the critics and watch it (spoiler free)
• Book Mania: Billion Dollar Whale & Sarawak Report
• Books I read in April
• Favourite romance reads of 2016
• Fanfiction: Wacky, Weird, and never boring
• Joining a book club made me a happier person
• Justice League, the dumbing down of Thor and the sad sameness of superhero movies
• Kebaya Tales: Peranakan Party
• Lessons from Come Alive: Live a life with more meaning and joy
• Lessons from Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Lessons from Die with Zero: Getting all you can from your money
• Lessons from The Psychology of money
• Dangerous Books for Girls by Maya Rodale
• Reading Xian Xia novels
• Review of Get up! by James A. Levine
• Review of Love Sick by Cory Martin
• Review: A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
• Review: A Thousand Naked Strangers
• Review: Happy City
• Review: Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms
• Review: Tiger Babies Strike Back
• Scribd: A Review (2015)
• Scribd: Is it worth it? (2020 review updated)
• Stranger To Myself: Diary Of A Bangladeshi In Singapore by Md Sharif Uddin
• Su Tong’s allure
• Subang Jaya Book Exchange (Permanently Closed)
• The Chicken Chronicles by Alice Walker
• The inconvenience of books
• TBR stress – why I want a minimalist library
• The Minimalists: Less is Now … when minimalism becomes a brand
• The Raja Tun Uda Library in Shah Alam: A review
• What I read in July
• Why do people look down on romance novels?
• Why I DNF books

Simple Living

• 25 things I no longer buy as an environmentally-conscious minimalist
• How I went from ‘I hate cooking’ to cooking all my meals
• How I lost weight with intermittent fasting
• How minimalism changed me
• I got rid of bad PMS with Chinese medicine. Here’s what happened.
• I lived without a car for a year. Here’s what I learned
• I started using a standing desk. Here’s what I learned
• Minimalism and the art of meaningful relationships
• On the necessity of becoming a health detective
• Simple living hack: The benefits of growing an edible garden
• TBR stress – why I want a minimalist library
• What’s a work uniform and should you wear one?
• What to do with your food scraps (even if you live in an apartment)
• Why I became a minimalist
• Why I moved closer to work

Productivity

• Why I switched from the bullet journal to Obsidian
• Answer these 5 questions before you choose a productivity tool
• How I achieve Inbox Zero (Outlook tips)
• My struggle with work/life balance
• No, you don’t have to be productive during a global pandemic
• What is burnout and why it’s more than “being tired”
•  How I’m structuring my life for more Deep Work

Writing

• How I made writing fun again
• How to blog a book
• New Year resolutions for writers
• The 10,000 hour rule for writers
• The power of unnecessary creating
• What I learned from Nanowrimo 2017
• 7 podcasts for creative entrepreneurs (without hustle culture)
• Confessions of an extrovert writer
• Don’t listen to that inner critic!
• Fanfiction: Wacky, Weird, and never boring

My Shifting Faith series

• Blog series: My Shifting Faith
• Believing: The Accidental Christian
• Learning: The war on culture, family and tradition
• Doing: Being Miss Good Christian
• Unravelling: when faith falls apart
• Shifting: When it hurts to attend church
• Returning: Holding out for hope
• Rebuilding: Resignation, joy, acceptance and sadness