To say that my life was hectic for the past couple of months is a little bit of an understatement. Hi, hello, it’s me from 2026. It feels so good to be able to write on here when every bit of my life has fallen into place and I’m in the right headspace to write. To readers who check on my blog regularly for new posts, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I feel like I owe this blog (and you!) a recap of my life since September 2025–where I suddenly vanished from the face of this blog and only existing on Instagram stories and a couple Threads here and there. So here goes… September ’25 2nd // My son turned 5 years old! We celebrated his birthday after school with dinner at Secret Recipe, buying him (and our daughter) a slice of cake of their choice. 5th // My in-laws held a surprise birthday party for my kids. Just a small celebration with families and my kids loved it so much. Today …

Dropping by to say hello—I AM BACK. I MISSMISSMISS MY BLOG. Life has been hectic, so to speak. I’m checking in to say that I miss this space and I miss my blogger friends ever so dearly. This blog lingered in the back of my mind for the many months I left it bare of new posts. I kept logging in, checking on comments and trashing spammy ones but was not quite at that headspace to form words into post, you know? And so I ‘X’ed out of my blog. For five months and a half. Time flew by and suddenly we’re in the month of June, almost halfway through the year 2025. I must say that the first half of the year was fun and I’m deeply grateful and blessed for everything thus far which explains my absence here on my blog. I usually have things going on every week and most of them I must say are impromptu which made it a whole lot exciting. I WENT TO HAT YAI, THAILAND WITH MY …

The sweater weather is quite cosy at my home, with YouTube videos playing on background while I’m nestling with a blanket and my MacBook in the living room. It’s one of those perfect days where nothing could go wrong – the one thing that can make this situation even more perfect is if I had a cup of coffee (or iced!) on hand. I’m not leaving this space for anything. I’ve been quite busy this past month. I feel like I’m just trying to survive adulting and managing my home. 2024 is like a gap year that I didn’t know I needed to find myself which had been buried deep years ago during the pandemic. It’s the year where I wasn’t achieving much if you measure success in money and career currency, but I achieved so much personal and mental wise. I spent a lot of time on my own, resetting everything I thought I believed in. I listened to myself better, I talk to people even less so in a way I kinda deviate …

Very well, thank you for asking. There might have been days where I’m bored out of my wits but I’d rather be bored than be under work-related stress, if I do say so myself. Hi, hello, I’m Erin. The scarcity of new posts here is all due to the fact that I have gotten into reading, again. Reading has always been my favourite pastime ever since I was little but I grew up; I stopped buying books (can we just talk about how expensive books are in Malaysia?) and I stopped doing activities that take more than 5 minutes of my attention. I have lost so many years of not immersing myself with books and I think that’s a total loss on my part. I have been unemployed for a good month now. I should have gotten at least a couple of posts up on my blog as I have planned for January (I have an editorial calendar in my digital planner) which I did not follow through because of reason mentioned earlier. I read …

It has been a while on this space! I doubt I have anymore loyal readers knowing that I have left this blog untouched since the last post here, five months ago. Well, life got in the way and my nine-to-five sucked all my energy leaving nothing left to spare for the blog. It’s sad, I know. I long too much to get back into writing more contents for this blog but my kids and my job take precedent over everything else. My toddlers are now three and two years old, both are very active and always want to jump on mummy when they see me on my MacBook. They make a mess of the house, they eat way too much for their age, they talk too much and fight non-stop with each other. Sometimes when they get a little too much for me to handle, I take a step back and reflect that there are married, trying-to-conceive couples out there who would kill to have their little ones running around the house making a mess out …

If someone asks me if I could turn back time and change one thing in my life, what would it be? I would have answered with I would drag my dad to the hospital and get medical checkup, CT scan, MRI scan, you name it, I’d force him to do it, years and years ago. Because on 22nd of August, at 10:06 am, my dad passed away. It was a shock to all of us because we didn’t expect the sickness to get so severe that it took his life. We didn’t expect it at all. He passed away 6 days shy of his 58th birthday. I wish I could write a eulogy for him but I’m at the weakest point of my life right now and I don’t have the energy to reminisce his whole life without me breaking into tears. To be honest, I am not okay. One day I know I can remember him and it won’t make me cry anymore but for now, I just want to drown in my endless …