I spent this past week just walking around. Not with a clipboard, not really with an agenda, just showing up where the work happens and paying attention. Sitting in on conversations. Watching people do the same thing they do every day, except this time I was actually there to see…
Category: Personal & Family
Personal life, family, and milestone reflections
Personal & Family
A Building of Two Chapters
This building brings back a lot of memories for me. Some really good ones, and some I’d rather forget. For months now I’ve driven past it nearly every day, on my way to and from Print Plus, watching the refurbishment come along quietly in the background of my daily routine….
Brunei Darussalam
AB Rewind: Catching Up With Ihsan, 16 Years Later
Back in 2010, I interviewed a young Bruneian PhD student studying Genetics in the UK. At the time, Ihsan spoke about her passion for science, cancer research, scientific literacy and her hopes of contributing to Brunei’s development one day. She was curious, driven and excited about the future. A lot…
Brunei Darussalam
The Ones Who Built the Buttons
The older we get, the more we realise a difficult truth: The people who annoy us the most are often the people who love us the hardest. Our parents know exactly which buttons to press because, in many ways, they helped build those buttons. They were there when we were…
Personal & Family
As I get older…
As I get older, I realise how much of life is really about restraint. What I say. What I react to. What I allow to take up space in my head. I no longer feel the need to explain myself to everyone, or to correct every misunderstanding. Peace is not…
Brunei Darussalam
25 Years of AnakBrunei: From Pixels to Perspectives
Twenty-five years is a long time in any medium. In the digital world, it is several lifetimes. When this blog first appeared on the nascent internet, in an era when a dial-up connection was the only gateway to the World Wide Web, when “blogger” was not yet a word, and…