Burnout. Terrifying? The danger of burnout is that you are likely not aware that you are suffering from it. That’s when burnout gets you. I felt down. Physically and emotionally. Every second of every day. Losing sleep, losing interest in other things, feeling like a walking corpse. There was only…

I’ve never been a person who’d stand in front of a mirror and inspecting her face often. It was not just because I was not 100% satisfied with how I look. (“How stupid is that? I know… but it’s the problem for another time…) Plus, I was raised that way. …

“Cooking dumplings in a tea kettle” is what the Chinese say when they want to describe someone who has much to say but unable to express it. You must have had that feeling. …

“Does it worth it?” A good friend of mine asked me when I said that I was very tired from taking care of my baby. It’s not easy to answer this question. Of course the answer is “yes”. But the question needs an elaborated answer. How do I know it’s…

I dreamt to be a dreamer, when I was a kid. A dreamer is someone who creates stuff in her mind, and tells others about them. The things in her dream make her happy, and others hopeful. She sees the world around her, and discusses the truth and the disguise with philosophers. The things she creates in her dreams come from the inspirations she gathered from everything in the universe, from dust to galaxies.

When I first realised I was going to be a mother, the question with which I struggled the most was “how do I be a good mother and at the same time be myself and have freedom?” Yes, Freedom. The thing that drove me 7500km away from my parents and my…

From my doula, I learnt that newborn babies can have “womb-sick” (homesick for womb) for a short period of time after they were born. I don’t know if my baby girl had that. If she did, that wasn’t a long one. She seems to be loving her time out here. …

My mother used to say: “Don’t learn how to cook. You’d be serving others your whole life.” She was the best cook I knew. I’m not pressured to cook like my mother was. She had to cook for my father and me, and for the big family, because she’s better…

Dear 2022 Clear, It has been an exciting year for us. A lot of new things happened that opened our eyes to the world of pregnancy, mothers and parenthood. We have grown so much in terms of creative skills and even expanded our interest to the graphic designing world. But…