Unknowingly eating slagroom truffels,

which have 0.8% alcohol. Re: Albert Heijn, which doesn't take YouTrip cards, is far from the city centre, opens till late, and had the nicest counter staff that evening. - [This post is also available in audio form at this link.] - Today, over my pot of vanilla room dessert / in contrast to the...

Group-travelling in Leiden

- [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - I spent 6 days in Leiden with my moot team and I'll be staying in Leiden for another six days on my own. As a team, we ate ramen, Chinese food, Thai fried rice and pizza/pasta + one dinner of Indonesian that I...

Six days in Leiden

- [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - Day 2: The first full day in Leiden It's really strange to be writing this now, over a slice of apple pie that is good, looking out at a train station, an industrial complex and trees. not because it was a strange look...

The thought that if we didn’t say something

that I would regret it. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - That emotion rests heavily in my chest. Should I say something? Shall I not? If I don't say so now, will it be too late? Will it be too late when they finally make a decision? How much...

If I could convert into pixels,

the emotion that beats inside my chest, I would. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - This emotion, of fondness - that I am afraid to call longing - that I must recognise as attachment. I want to convert these into pixels and frame in the digital universe so that...

When I was six,

I wonder what I wondered about. [We're also commemorating a 100th post on the Internet on this blog - but that's not really related.] - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - Today, that question that I received, full of innocence which asked me, "Why [is X not married]?" To which...

For a long while I had thought

that balancing was something I did particularly well. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - What is this emotion that chokes up my chestlike luggage straps choking a down jacket that I only used at home? - As we have come to learn and write, balancing is something we do...

“Let us not suffer.”

Oh love, when I wrote you those words, why did you accept them without qualification? - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - On a non-conscious level, I knew that he was also taking the same module. On a conscious level, I was caught by surprise when I went up the...

At 4 am in the morning in London,

I sat in the face of a three hour class on three hours of sleep, grateful and humbled by my teammates and friends who supported us thousands of kilometers away. - [This post is available in audio form at this link.] - I'm starting to feel a little homesick, despite being in an apartment with...

A bundle of contradictions

like the emotions in my chest that well up at a simple check-in. -[This post is available in audio form at this link.] - The things I really want to say, but I know I will not say. That feeling like panic that wells up inside us, that if I was sane I would be...