Random Thoughts and Bookish Rambles

Today's art therapy shows I haven't really been painting or artsy for awhile now 😅 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5MqZlDPlT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters 😬 (at Hatley Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2U60SjwNW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters 😬 (at Hatley Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2U60SjwNW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

It's scary and quite unbelievable that now in a civilised society that is so advanced, we are arguing over facts versus conspiracies. Instead of arguing ways on how to better the world, we are stuck battling over lies and falsehood that were already proven wrong decades or even thousands of years ago. It became a global pandemic that we did not see coming when technological advances prospered. People from the other side calls it freedom of speech. But is it really freedom when it shackles us from moving forward into a more promising future? Two years ago, when I was redeployed to work in the biggest covid ICU in London, I was so angry and devastated seeing all the covid hoax everywhere especially on Facebook after working tirelessly. It made my mental health suffer and I decided to remove my facebook account. I thought I would miss out but it actually made my life better. The power of disinformation began to devastate the minds and transform the behaviour. Education determines the quality of governance. A nation's budget line item for education is an investment in its people. The ability to discern and question is also determined by education. As George Orwell said, ignorance is strength. A tyrannical government knows the power of manipulating ignorant members of society. Creating a more informed citizenry is necessary for a democracy to work. Good journalists lean on the side of evidence, on inconvertible facts. Journalists report facts because that creates a shared reality. What are we going to do if our reality were based on lies? Where is the outrage? Where is the resistance? We live in this terrifying dystopia: the suffocation of our minds by junk, a loss of clarity of thought and a lack of concentration, and the empowerment of individual over collective thinking. Silence is complicity. What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth? (at The Conduit London) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clwsu2ADqxx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The guy at the bookstore was right. It is a good book. 😊 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #reading #bookstagram #books https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj3ENtejW9w/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

at British Columbia, Canada https://www.instagram.com/p/Ciw1fh4jvL7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Greeeeeeen 💚 (at British Columbia, Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiKK6KoDepM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short a blink of an eye, as they say, then to be gorgeous even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly." Beautifully written and heartfelt. A letter of a son to his mother who cannot read. 💕 📚 #books #reading #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CiFr2V_jOCr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Best night! Love this band so much! 🍅🍅🍅🍅 Take the Sadness out of Saturday Night indeed!! 🙌 #bleachers (at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiESka6I63c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Taas yarn?! 😅 🏔 #mountain #nature (at Whistler, B.C) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-kNrLDZbz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

A great lecture on the universe. I love the crash course on the Theory of Relativity, Quantum entanglement, discussing the penrose diagram for Schwarzschild black hole and insights on the images released by the James Webb Space Telescope. My giddy nerd brain was happy. 😁 (at Royal Opera House) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg5g-k9DUy4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"What you’re trying to say is that it’s easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. No better, but easier. However, the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate. At some point, you must breathe." ~Caleb Azumah Nelson https://www.instagram.com/p/CgzAMDUDpg3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Loveliest wedding with the loveliest people 💕 (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgkxZjGDHWJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Google map may have been unreliable to us and many people when looking for this place but it was worth looking for. Haha. 🕺🎵🎶 #whatdoesmusicmeantoyou (at One Night Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd3ml6AjfFx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Art therapy at the seaside kinda vibes 👩‍🎨🎨 (at Seaford, East Sussex) https://www.instagram.com/p/CduPzNHo6do/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Mentally here for a stress-free brain! #ipanalona10to 🎀🌸 (at Seven Sisters Cliffs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdLwIdmDY1O/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Throwback to the time I was walking down the streets of Bath and incidentally found this independent bookshop that reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction, mostly by women writers and mostly mid-twentieth century. I had the sudden urge to buy more books. 🤦‍♀️ (at Persephone Books) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc3eVGqjmR6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=