Photo by Kelli McClintock on Unsplash In conjunction with Father’s Day this month, let your dad know that he is loved each and every single day Father’s Day in 2014 was a totally new thing for me. It was the first year of my life that my dad wasn’t around to celebrate it anymore. He had passed … Continue reading Remembering Dads All Over
Final Fantasy VII Remake. Source: Square Enix How the game helped me to believe in the creative possibilities of the world I was no stranger to fantasy games when I first played Final Fantasy VII back in 1998. I was 12 and had already played other fantasy games like the Shining Force series on the SEGA Genesis. … Continue reading Final Fantasy VII Opened Up My Eyes To The Vast World Of Fantasy
Photo by Tegan Mierle on Unsplash It should be made fun and easy Whenever I have conversations with other gym-goers, I always like to ask them about their fitness journey — how they started, why they started, and what keeps them going. In a way, it helps me to understand them better and gets me thinking about why I’m … Continue reading Let’s Get Started On Your Fitness Journey — And Maintaining It
Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash It really IS a new kind of normal that we all need to get used to Today marks the start of my second week back working in the office. With the cases of new infections slowly dropping in my country, the government has implemented the recovery phase of the country where … Continue reading Office Work In The ‘New’ Normal
Photo by Stephen Radford on Unsplash When you can have so much hatred for your own kind, it just won’t end well As if the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t enough, we’ve been seeing a lot of protests, riots, and looting over the last week as well. Having started in the US, other countries in Europe such as France … Continue reading Racism And Religious Extremism Will Be The Cause Of Human Extinction
Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash If you don’t strive for something, you will achieve nothing In February 2020, I gave myself a 60 days fitness challenge to get my weight down as much as I possibly can to my ‘ideal’ weight which is between 65kg to 70kg for my height (I’m 5’7 or 171cm). Right now, … Continue reading Setting Goals Is Important For Your Fitness Journey
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash It doesn’t matter what colour you are to support a good cause I live in Malaysia, a country that’s pretty far away from the US where the current riots and looting started. As the rioting and protesting spread across the Western continent, people in the East are slowly joining in as … Continue reading I’m A Brown Person Supporting The BLM Movement
Photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash Despite my bank account balance showing close to zero by the end of every month So this week is the week where I finally went back to the office. After more than 2 months of working from home, I received instructions from my company that all employees were to return to … Continue reading I Feel Like The Richest Man Alive
Photo by Callum Shaw on Unsplash CURATION MATTERS Before publishing anything, make sure your draft has gone through a few rounds of editing A while back, I published an article about how I went through a whole month without being curated for the very first time. That happened in April when for the first time in 9 … Continue reading Good Editing Does Wonders!
Streets of Rage 4 delivers the throwback goods More than twenty five years have passed since Streets of Rage 3 was released. I played the first three games on the original Sega Genesis, and I re-played them more recently on the Sega Genesis Collection for Nintendo Switch. A fourth iteration in the franchise seems long … Continue reading Punch-Drunk Nostalgia
I Am Benny Lim 