>A quick list May 23, 2011

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- I can’t believe its been 16 days since I last posted on this blog. There was a time when I used to post multiple times a week, but at that point, I didn’t have two other blogs that needs some work to be done on it every single day. I think I am ok with this trade-off. Forcing myself to write has never worked, that’s one reason I can’t probably make a living as a writer.

- That said, you are looking at (the blog of) a food reporter now. Yes, the work I mentioned here has been published in the June 2011 issue of Women’s Weekly Singapore.

Although I have been published before, this felt especially good. The magazine has a readership of over 120,000 just in Singapore and combining my interests in writing and food is practically a dream come true! Looking forward to more assignments in future and maybe even freelancing in this area. 

- I have decided not to try and do everything. To win some, you need to lose some, or even if not that drastic, priorities need to be set. No more trying to do everything and forcing myself to be good at them all, no more trying to please everyone and go out of my way to help people who don’t deserve it, no more cribbing about lack of time (I don’t do it much anyway, I hate that excuse we give ourselves), you get the drift. To put this into practise, I have decided to get someone to work on my recipe blog template. Its high time I changed the look and feel of that site and I am going to be okay even if I pay someone to do it and not learn HTML from scratch and kill myself doing it on my own. 

PS: I am, however, going to continue cribbing about the weather in Singapore, so please bear with me. Its unbearably hot these days since its official summer. The only thing that keeps me going are ripe mangoes that are in season now!

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