It was a tir­ing and tough climb. And to make mat­ters worse, I had an injured ankle I had sus­tained play­ing bad­minton last week­end, which slowed me down con­sid­er­ably. Thank­fully, I had com­pany in this really sweet young (but some­times frus­trat­ing) thing called Carielle and we kept moti­vat­ing each other in turns till we reached […]

We joke about death and dying. But it’s hard to accept when it actu­ally strikes. It hap­pened ear­lier in the year when a close friend lost her hus­band. He was in his 30s. Two young chil­dren. She’s never worked in her life. One day, he had a stroke and he was gone. He was traveling […]