Have I register for a whole pile of Conqueror Virtual Challenges? Yes, undoubtably. I don’t know how many, I can’t remember which ones and which are still on my wishlist, which ones I want to do before others. Every now and then, they have a bulk discount and the ones I gather on my wishlist…
Category: Geeky
With a lot of biology and computer science in my background, I revel in the geekier side of life.
Lifehacks – Summer 2023 edition
Another summer and I have more energy and there’s more daylight to Get Things Done. Here’s what’s been going on around the house lately. Pouches storage system Unexpected.Blessings posted a reel when she was preparing to move from MI to TX and I got those pouches quickly. Half a year later, I still have only…
Side hustles & passive income & entrepreneurship
I tell you, I know how my mother would react if I told her I wanted to start a business. “You don’t have the education for that. How will you succeed?” Or did I just internalize a lot of stuff. I sure as 1,000% don’t want to own a bricks & mortar business, have employees…
Year in review: 2022 in books
I did away with the emojis and then I brought them back. I thought I would end up writing just one-liners but over holiday break, I wrote down what I remembered in some big chunks of late nights. I am still locked out of my Catch Star Girl blog so I started an Instagram account…
Back to BuJo with Hubman & Chubgirl
Several things in my life need to change and for me, change requires tracking to make it a habit. I recall how I purchased an army green Leuchtturm 1917, the recommended notebook for bullet journalling (“BuJo”) to start in January 2021 and abandoned it by June 2021. I was rubbish at noting the day’s events…
Lifehacks lately (Summer 2022)
What’s life these day but problem-solving and trying to come up with the most elegant solutions? Here is a round-up of problems lately around the house and the resolution. Problem: This actually isn’t lately at all. Last summer was the first for extended heat waves, “heat domes” and – mostly – parents of two working…
Crafting lately: Conqueror heavy medal honeycomb display
What’s not to admire about the gorgeous Conqueror Virtual Challenge medals and and official wooden honeycomb display sold on their website? Of course I want the medal display, after so many years and so many in-person marathon (half-marathon) medals that I’ve been challenged to display. Turns out that there are plenty of Etsy options, too:…
Crafting lately: Yoto card binder
My sister can be so thoughtful when it comes to gifts. She’s also more like my mother in practically sparing no expense when it comes to educational tools for her kid(s). My mum got us all sorts of gadgets for learning spelling and reading. We had the classic 1980s Speak & Spell game, several electronic…
Discovering Encanto in Cantonese
A few things for background: I like to remind NPY that I “discovered” Lin-Manuel Miranda first. That in addition to listening to Hamilton so many times, I also read Hamilton: The Revolution. Whereas he only consumes information as videos. When I ripped my entire Hong Kong pop collection to MP3, I got rid of the…
My YouTube channel
It was like a “Christmas gift” where I was notified on December 24 last year that I had reached 100 subscribers to my nothing YouTube channel. 99% of my videos are private, a searchable platform for my to upload videos of the kids (also uploaded to OneDrive) and where I can create playlists by age…