Author: Lian

My friend recently found this 15-minute quiz on Tiktok that asks you questions relating to stress, burnout, anxiety, and depression. We both completed the quiz separately, and it was surprising how different our results were. While my friend’s levels were in the yellow or orange zones, my results were in the orange and red zones….

This hit hard ?

I posted a story on my WhatsApp status asking my friends to send me images of what they thought my aesthetic was. Here are the images!  

I absolutely love music. It’s basically my life – how I express myself, how I breathe, how I’m able to survive all the ups and downs. Here are some of my favourite lyrics : As long as we keep this low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low-key (Lowkey – NIKI) I’m paralyzed, I’m scared…

It’s the last week of Term 1, and oh my god, the term has gone by so fast! It feels like yesterday that I just started Year 8, let alone Year 9. I wanted to take sit down today, take a breath, and just reflect back upon my day. First Period – Science Test Last…

In his blog post, Two Reasons Why Everyone Needs to Write Clearly, Darius Foroux discusses that credibility and time are two of the biggest reasons why everyone needs to write clearly. 1. Clear writing improves your credibility Whenever writing, we must always have a clear purpose in mind. For example, this is the main idea…

Sometimes success is just about avoiding failure. Avoiding bad decisions is just as important as making good ones. Knowing the warning signs and following these rules will limit your bad-decision making skills. A blog post by Shane Parrish discussed five of the biggest reasons why we make bad decisions : We’re unintentionally stupid – We…

I’ll have those types of days once in a while. The days where I say I’m fine, but I’m really not. And the only reason I don’t tell you is because I don’t want you to see me like this. Like… a problem. I don’t want you to see me at my weakest; my most…

Some days, I feel like I’m not in control. I feel like I’m not in control of my body, or of my mind, or of my feelings. And it really hurts. So I keep questioning, ‘What am I in control of?’

For HB – ‘Confidence is not “They will like me”. Confidence is “I’ll be fine if they don’t”‘. I know you don’t feel the most confident with your physical appearances, but don’t be so doubtful of yourself. You are so smart, funny, and trustworthy, and you should be confident in yourself. Even if you don’t…