Eat.Yoga.Love

JUNE CHAN

It sounds cliché but yoga is life changing as June always says. Graduated with a journalism degree in the UK, she started her career as an ambitious journalist. Her work overtook her health, which led her to the yoga mat in 2008 to balance the hustle and bustle of a city life.

 June spent over a year in the dog-eat-dog business world, and realised none meant to be hers. She left everything behind and escaped to India to map out the puzzle of life.

She lived in an ashram to chant, meditate and yoga to seek her own meaning of life, which led her to embark on a 200-hour Hatha Yoga teacher training course there.

Every day I see things or people that made me so sick of this city. One of which is my personal observation in my 20-minute MTR ride today that goes like this...

1. Two women. One dressed in a skirt that just covered her butt and the neckline that revealed her breasts. Her girlfriend elbowed the sexy woman to tell her the man next to them kept staring. The sexy bitch gave the man her stare of dislike. I was like WTF is your problem when you dressed like a whore, of course the man will eye you up and down like you belong on the streets of red light district!

2. A man. A short and skinny man who queued behind to board the MRT shared a moment of hatred with me. Our moment begins when passengers are trying to rush out, while he is trying to push me in. Once he got in, he laid right on the pole. I was like are you serious for not letting other passengers to hold on the pole? We shared one second of stare and I pushed him a few times with my big heavy yoga bag. When there was a vacant seat opposite him, I held on tight to the pole not letting him to go across for it. A silent fight is actually quite fun.

3. A woman with suitcase. What could possibility the woman in suitcase is thinking? She is wearing a low cut dress, matched with 4" heels and accessorised with a mid-size suitcase on the day of Typhoon 8. Saw her wheeled onto a man and then somehow she battled her journey to wherever she needs to be. Bravo!

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