Life is a roller coaster and if you let it, it can take you on so many exciting adventures. A long time ago I told myself I wanted to learn Spanish and live in Madrid. Life happened and somehow that wasn’t a priority enough. Last year when I decided I wanted to apply to graduate program focusing on entrepreneurship my
I am so high… high on life, high from food, high from opportunities that haven’t even happened and most certainly high on laughter. These past weeks have been nothing other than a laughter feast where my housemate Carol and I are addicted to life’s cheapest, most contagious and effective stress reliever. To make things better, I once heard of a
History is being shaped in Egypt and the Middle East and I’m inspired. During my last trip home in 2009 I left feeling that there was nothing I could do for my country. Hagga, my best friends Nazly’s grandma advised for your own sanity we should all to leave, as there was no hope for Egypt. But over the past
This year had so many exciting challenges, met incredible people, reconnected with old friends, and constantly putting myself in my un”comfort” zone. I started an appreciation diary, this year where several times a week I wrote down what I am grateful for. Initially it was focused on things that I had… but eventually it became all the small interactions with
Leaving Timor after Gone Cyclin’ first project Tour de Timor; the race, the history, the intensity of the experience left me quite in “awe” of a beautiful country and its people. I sat at the airport enjoying the freshly baked turkish bread and prata, looking at the small crowded-infested airport thinking that it would be a long time before I
Before writing this post I asked my eighteen year old twins cousin, to define the role of a women, one of them said they are powerful persuaders and the other mentioned that they are their to make him sandwiches. There is no right or wrong answer but it just goes to show there are so many ways that women are
Some of you may be are familiar with the story of the tortoise and the hare, but for those who don’t its about a tortoise who challenges a hare to the race. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know who is faster and more likely to win. The hare was in the lead, but instead of finishing he took
Youth are the leaders of tomorrow, and sometimes people forget that. Yesterday, I spent the afternoon hearing some amazing young individuals share their impression, success, failures and philosophies of the world at Singapore TedxYouth. I gained insights from a young entrepreneur who is now setting up his third business to a young lady who is six share her definition of
Benjamin Franklin says it best when he said “I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong”. We are the fire that spark our potential as well as the limiting factor that puts it out. Explore your passions, set goals and go after them. The journey will one full of rich experiences and every road
Yesterday was a beautiful milestone for both myself and Gone Cyclin’. Like reaching most milestones, it brought me back to a place which now seem so foreign, an older version of me. A place where I was unaware of how capable my body is. Life is really accidental, two years ago I decided to climb South East Asia tallest summit,