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18 vs 28 years old: 10 things I know now that I didn’t 10 years ago

At my late twenties, age seems to be everyone’s favourite topic. People like to say things like “Oh, you don’t look your age” or “Better get married soon. You’re not getting younger!”. When I say things like “We’re almost thirty!” to my peers, it be violently rebutted with “Not yet. Two years more!”. I don’t deny …

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Courage and Clinginess

After seeing the bust of Brutus at the Capitoline Museum in Rome (Read: 10 things I did In Rome and Vatican), I was inspired to read The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. The Boyfan adores Shakespeare and read all of his work. I’ve only read Romeo and Juliet (Oh, how cliche!) and the abridged …

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Living a bold and colorful life

What I hope will be apt for my epitaph: “Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.” Excerpt From: Shakespeare, William. “Julius Caesar.” Not being morbid, just too much foresight

EXPERIMENT: what happens when you read books instead of Facebook for a year?

In the car on the way to Christmas dinner, I read on iBooks and chuckled to what the Cobbler in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar said (to procure more work, he makes men walk about the town to dull their soles). Upon hearing my amusement with my phone he asked “Are you on Facebook?” No. This year …

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