Our Neighbours Upstairs

Passerelle du Bassin du Commerce. Le Harve, France. December 2019.

What types of relationships do you have with your neighbours? In this episode, I am going to talk about my neighbours. Our upstairs neighbours, have been a source of noise nuisance since last October, and the situation has gotten worse during the lockdown. How would you deal with this kind of neighbours?   Quels types de …

What I Think About When I Am Training On My Indoor Bike?

Ep 6 What do I think about when I am training on my bike?

In the last episode, I told you about a new routine that I have picked since the start of the lockdown in France. It’s indoor bike training. I am training 5 times a week on my bike, based on a 6-week training plan from Zwift, a virtual training application for runners and cyclists. In this episode, I …

Virtual Cycling Adventure With Zwift

Ep 5 Week Virtual Indoor Cycling Adventure With Zwift

What’s keeping you sane during the lockdown period? For me, it’s the 30 hours and 610km of virtual indoor bike training with Zwift, and of course, the buckets of sweat over the last six weeks.In this episode and the following one, I am sharing with you my virtual cycling adventure that I have embarked on. …

Food Ramblings Of A Singaporean

Ep 4 Gardens By The Bay, Singapore

In this episode, I want to speak about food. I want to gripe about the tons of food photos my friends from Singapore have been posting on Facebook in the past three weeks, since the lockdown in Singapore. I want to ramble on about the different dishes from Singapore. I want to tell you that …

Self-Reflection: Productivity Guilt

Ep 3 Ferme Viltane. Tulips. April 2019

In Episodes 1 and 2, I mentioned about my low productivity regarding the list of things I have planned to do during the first month of lockdown in France and that I have experienced feelings of guilt and failure. I shared with you two newspaper articles countering the fad of achieving productivity during these trying …

To Be Or Not To Be – Productive

Ep 2 St. Eynard, Parc Chartreuse, France. May 2016. Trail running.

Nowadays, “productive” seems to be a buzz word. Have a quick look at the social network, and you can see that the Internet is proliferating with ideas on how to stay productive during the lockdown. Are you one of those super productive people, or are you like me, after 31 days of lockdown, there is …

Lockdown Day 31, France

Ep 1 La Loire, France. July 2017. Sunflower.

My first podcast. 31 days have passed since the French government decided on the quasi complete lockdown of the nation. I have lots of goals set up to achieve during this period; yet, a month later, I don’t feel like I have achieved much. And you? Are you confined as well? Are you more productive …