Sapu Lidi

The Layover

Written on some time around January 2018 and Mar 15th 2019.

On being naive

I used to be naive.

I used to believe that my understanding of complex issues of the world: distribution of wealth, climate change, immigration, race etc is sufficient to the point that I can make a useful and true judgment of the issue.

What if?

This isn’t going to be a super long one. It might not be the most structured either. Fair warning, I’m not ending this on a happy note, and I’m not going to provide a solution. I want to save it for a later post because I am tired.

A Thank You Note

Hi. First of all, sorry for being MIA. My parents were here and since I won’t be spending Christmas with them, I basically crammed all quality time we could have. So let’s get right to it.

When you write a thesis for your degree completion, you’re supposed to write an…

Dissecting belief: Purpose

This week’s prompt (or to be exact last week’s prompt) was a freestyle writing, meaning that there is no set topic that we set to write about this week, each of us can write anything.

Love

It’s hard to imagine a love greater than the love of your parents.

Imagine a person you would wake up at 5am to break it to them that they have to wake up too. Every morning, dealing with anger because you woke them up (even though they are suppose to wake up). Making them breakfast, making…

Free write

No, I did not choose this as a title because this week’s prompt was freestyle writing.

In 9th grade, my English teacher made us get a writing notebook. This notebook was not for notes or homeworks, but for us to just write.

Home this Christmas

This is the title of a song in Justin Bieber’s 2011 Christmas Album. Low-key really loved that song when it first came out. But anyways, the chorus read:

I’ll be waiting under the mistletoe
While you’re driving here through the winter snow
Baby think of me if it helps…

Home for the holiday

(This story is going to be very short and I won’t put too much thought since I am practically brain dead. I have been in 8 hours run of almost nonstop coding, finishing an interview assignment from a startup here in Austin. I promised initially to the team that I will write no matter how…