The Role of Masculine and Feminine Energies in Relationships
If you are like me and love to spend hours scrolling through the endless pit that is social media there is a good chance that you may have stumbled across the concept of ‘masculine vs feminine’ energies and how they impact relationships. At first, I thought the concept was utter bullsh*t and was going to…
Dating Trends in 2023
The dating scene has been a hot mess for as long as I can remember. Everything from ‘situationships’ to ‘breadcrumbing’ has made people around the world want to lock their doors and cross their legs. But according to the stats by the popular dating app — Bumble. Dating in 2023 will hit differently. So what…
A Year From Now
It is currently midway through Jan 2023 as I type up this blog post, so it is in no way shape or form a new year’s resolutions list. However, this post is a gentle reminder. The reminder that, if we are intentional about our goals and our purpose, then a lot can change in a…
How to Maintain Your Sanity When Working Remote
It is almost the end of 2022, and we have successfully managed to make remote work a necessity as opposed to a luxury across a range of different industries. And whilst, this change in work ethic has allowed a lot of people to embrace their passions and spend time with loved ones. There is no…
Dating and Vulnerability
The past couple of years have felt like something out of a dystopian nightmare and the way we navigate through our wider world has changed dramatically with the dating landscape taking a big hit. Gone were the days when you could flirt with the waiter serving you for the night. Gone were the messy nights…
Writing and Exes
Writing and my ex-boyfriends have one thing in common. I have a love/hate relationship with both of them. When words find me – the feeling is almost orgasmic and nothing in the world can compare. But when they don’t and all I’m left with is a blank screen – the urge the hurl my laptop…
The Rise of ‘Buffet Like’ Dating
It is currently March 2022 and everyone around me is either married, getting married, trying to dip their toes in Australia’s f*cked up property market and/or about to have a baby. But let us focus on the weddings here. There are a number of characteristics that make a memorable wedding, ranging from the type of…
When They Are Certain You’ll Know
Modern day dating is no joke. Quite honetsly it can be quite vicious and in some instances feel like a literal cesspool, leaving the average human in 2022 feeling emotionally mentally and physically depleated. However to those of us who manage to navigate around the ghosting and breadcrumbing stages of modern day dating, sometimes find…
27 Harsh Truths
Here is a fun fact that no one teaches you in high school or in university. There are a lot of things that you will have to learn once you leave the comfort of university classes and binge drinking. Most of them (such as budgeting, time management, etc) you will learn when the reality of…
The Only Checklist You’ll Need to Navigate Through 2022
Since the beginning of 2020 nothing has felt certain. Everything from the job market to romantic relationships became unstable and for some of us — has been ever since. As we approach the end of 2021 there is still a lingering sense of uncertainty, which makes anxious people like myself even more anxious. So instead of creating…
Why Closure Is Overrated
According to the Cambridge dictionary closure ‘is the feeling or act of bringing an unpleasant situation, time or experience to an end, so that you are able to start new activities’. Heavy stuff. Although the term closure can be used in a business and operational context, it is safe to say that more often than…
How to Kill the Corporate Scene (The Way Cardi B Would)
She doesn’t even need an introduction. She entered 2018 like a reckless storm and one of the few rappers in the industry who could probably give Nicki Minaj a run for her money. JUST KIDDING. We all #barbie lovers out here. But Cardi is FIRE and there is no doubt that she has changed the…
How to Balance Blogging With Full-Time Work. A Collab With Blogger – Accidentally Adulting
This article was in collab with Terry-Ann, a kick-ass lawyer with a humble mindset and the amazing blogger behind Accidentally Adulting! So why did we decide to do this collab? Over the past few weeks I realised that social media is saturated with these beautiful photographs of people with these extravagant lifestyles, from full-time travelers…
The Art of Finding Creativity Within Your 9-5
Here is what no one tells you in university. You’re basically in a rat towards obtaining a rather stagnant 9 to 5 routine which will essentially take over a significant portion of your young adult life. Unless of course you get fired for going on too many toilet breaks because of your disturbing bowel movements.…
How to Deal With Post Holiday Blues. In a Healthy Manner.
Let’s face it. Returning to work after Christmas break brings out the worst in the most nicest of people. Even Lori from marketing will snap at you for accidentally breathing within a 1 km radius of her. Post holiday blues are real. Very real. You go from traveling to exotic places on a day to…
How to Embrace Your Femininity. When It Matters the Most.
Yesterday morning a good friend of mine and I went for a run. It was one of those good Saturday mornings. The one where the sun was out and the birds were chirping like a scene from a Disney movie. She was telling me about all the female related drama at her work within the…
The Day I Changed My Coffee Order
Change. It’s a daunting word and one that most people tend to forget to incorporate into their personal dictionary. And why would we? We spend such a significant part of our young adulthood trying to form a protective blanket against unforeseen changes that ripping that blanket off seems absurd. Preposterous even. Yet most of us…
Life Lessons From Phil Knight’s ‘Shoe Dog’
For the first time in a very long time I’ve fallen short of words around how to describe something. I’ve always known the power of words and their ability to transport you to a different universe. But I never imagined I’d feel this way about a business book. The way Phil Knight describes his journey…
Solo Travel – The Good, The Bad and Everything in Between
It’s that time of the year where your Insta feed is saturated with European travel picture with hash tags like #candid and #travelgram attached to almost every photograph. It is also that time of the year when Facebook decides to remind you that a year ago you were in Paris sipping a rosé in front…
ASMR – The Internet’s Silent Therapist
Take a look at that picture. Before I discovered ASMR I always assumed a powder brush had one purpose and that was for the sole purpose of powder foundation. Turns out we now live in a time where people have a whole bunch of interesting fetishes ranging from BDSM to standard role-playing because people are getting…
Grab a Glass of Wine and Let’s Talk About Mental Health
So the other day I was on YouTube, on a crowded peak hour train back home from work when I saw something that distracted me from the treacherous underarm odor radiating from the guy next to me. Lily Singh AKA IISuperwomanII was taking a break from YouTube to address her mental health. The reason why…
A List of This Year’s Somewhat Realistic New Year’s Resolutions
It’s that time of the year again. You know what I’m talking about. That time of the year when your news feed is saturated with the hash tag New Year new me crap. I’m not pointing fingers cause lord knows mine are dirty but after 24 or so years of setting unrealistic goals I decided…
How to Celebrate Australia Day. When You Have an Identity Crisis.
Here are three fun facts about Australia: Australia is home to 21 of the world’s 25 most venomous snakes;The Great Barrier Reef is the planet’s largest living structure;Aussies drink around 1.7 billion litres of beer per year, that’s about 680 bottles of beer for each adult. Australians are also obsessed with the beach and leaving…
Move Over the Birds and the Bees. Let’s Get Comfortable With This Dinner Topic.
Let’s face it. Neither parents nor kids enjoy the ‘sex talk’. Some parents try to avoid it like the plague. Especially immigrant parents and as an only child of two immigrant parents, I can confirm this. I learned about periods, sex and the inner mechanics of a vagina via picture books and sex ed classes…
How Establishing a Skincare Routine Helped Me in More Ways Than One
Skincare has become a modern day requirement as of late. It’s all about the hydrating face masks, snail creams and weird concoctions of avocado masks. If my mum saw avocado anywhere else other than a slice of bread she’d smack upside the head so hard my last two (somewhat sane) brain cells would be left…
Questions You’ll Undoubtedly Get Asked When You Travel to America. As a Foreigner.
If you know me. You know that I love America. I know people have always questioned my choices given their questionable presidency, gun laws and well to put it mildly. Shitty coffee (by Australian standards). Despite the cons stacked against the country I’ve always had a great time over there, met some loud and energetic…
What No One Tells You About Growing up a Tomboy
The other week as I jumped out of my friend’s ute ( yes you read right) I miscalculated the height of the vehicle and fell down on my palms and knees. Hard. However I was able to get back up and brush off the disturbing amount of the blood gushing out from the scratches, with…
How AOC Is Shattering That Glass Ceiling. One Tweet at a Time.
I don’t do politics. Although I’m well aware of the impact that judicial laws have on society as a whole. We’ve all heard about women breaking the glass ceiling in the most adventurous of ways, some end up getting cheered at for ‘acting like a man’ whilst others get frowned upon for not being feminine…
Type of Men That You’ll Encounter by Your Mid-Twenties
We all know dating is minefield. You think that you’ve landed something good with someone and that this relationship could finally be ‘it’. The one that’ll stop you from questioning if you’ve made the right decision, the one that will make you want to open up a joint bank account and start saving for that…
Why Adopting the Cuban Way of Life Is a More Soulful Approach
A few fun facts about Cuba: Baseball is the most popular sport in Cuba, to date;In a traditional Cuban meal the food is not served in courses, instead all the food is served at the same time;Cubans love to free pour their rum when creating some of the world’s most intoxicating cocktails. When I first…
4 Effective Ways to Schedule Creativity
Shows like Jane the Virgin always make it out to seem as though writing is the most magical and enchanting experience of your life. There is literally an episode in Season 2, Episode 10, where the younger version of Jane is seen typing away on her laptop. In the bus. When inspiration strikes. However, if…
How to Take a Purposeful Break from Your Corporate Hustle
We are creatures of habits. It’s just how we are designed. Our brains are wired in a manner that, no matter how much we dislike routine we subtly crave it too. Think about it. When you took a break from your 9-5, either because you’d been fired or simply because you decided to quit for…
The Thing About Creativity
The thing about creativity is that it will keep you up at night. It will wake you up at offbeat hours and demand your attention. It will demand that you write down the idea on a notepad, an app on your phone, and in some instances will force you to wake up from your slumber…
The Importance of Unlearning Ethnocentrism
Here is the fun part about growing up in a melting pot where your neighbor is English and your best-friend is Canadian. You quickly develop a wider view of the world around you. But here is the other thing. No matter how ‘worldly’ you consider yourself to be. We as humans have some inevitable bias…
How to Develop a Sense of Patience. When You Don’t Have Any.
If you happen to know me (and I mean really know me), there is a good chance that you also happen to know that I’m a very impatient person. Always was. As an impatient person who loves to create and work on projects outside of her 9-5. Unfortunately, 9/10 of these projects require patience. Lots…
How To Cope With 2021
It’s 6 am on a Friday morning as I’m writing this blog post and the world is quiet. But it has been that way for a while now. Quiet but chaotic. This pandemic officially started in March 2020. I use the term ‘officially’ because everyone knows that the virus was circulating in countries across the…
Thoughts That You’ll Inevitably Have as a Rookie Indoor Rock Climbing Enthusiast
Growing up little girls almost always fell into two categories: You’d have your ‘girly girls’ who loved nothing more than to play house-wife with their little kitchen set and chucky lookin babies.Next, you’d have the ‘tomboys’ who loved nothing more than to run around the building in their sneakers playing tag and wrestling other boys…
Thoughts That You’ll Inevitably Have During Your First f45 Training Session
Here is the thing about fitness. I love going to the gym in the morning but I love sleep a little bit more. Therefore my snooze button gets a lot of action on the side. Despite my strong urge to crawl under the covers and fall into a deep slumber I usually force my lazy…
Change of Lens: A Different View on the Under-Representation of Female Mentors in the Stem Field
According to a 2011 Forbes report only one in seven engineers are female with the ratio not likely to increase any time soon. In the past there have been various articles, research papers and debates arguing the reasoning behind the above statistic before ultimately posing the question that has been on everyone’s mind since day…
Hijacked- Five Ways to Recharge Before Exams
Let’s face it: we’ve all been greeted by exhaustion and frustration at some point during the semester. As students, we take to colourful pictures on Tumblr to help escape the issue at hand, and do we really need a Bachelor of Business when we’ve already got a Masters in Procrastination? To help ease your over-exhausted…
Coffee With Oprah
When I was in high school I developed a crush on Oprah, not in the creepy sorta way, but more woah when I get older I want to age like her, with a sense of calm and poise kinda way. I grew up with the Oprah Show being my secret afternoon indulgence as I’d sit…
Sydney’s Top 5 Spots For Creative Creatures
1. The Rabbit Hole Organic Tea Bar, 146 Abercrombie Street, Redfern, Sydney If you want an atmosphere that is peaceful, cozy, smells like citrus and has bursts of light illuminating the space. Then the Rabbit Hole is where it’s at. The soft summery colours combined with classic tunes act as the perfect backdrop for you to…
First Time
There is a first time for everything. Your first steps. Your first words. And then that exciting first-time when you get your article published on an online platform for the first time!!!! Click on the link below and enjoy:) http://thoughtcatalog.com/sana-desai/2016/05/our-love-was-an-exquisite-love/
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I believe there are three types of people in the world: Those who take calculated risks and will only arrive to a conclusion after they have completed multiple pros and cons lists to thoroughly evaluate a situation.Those who take risks with a stable mind and a confirmed opinion.Those who are just plain reckless and get…
24 Hours in London
As someone who loves to travel, last year I was given the opportunity to travel to England on an exchange program through my university. It was going to be my first ever solo travel, and for someone who can barely navigate her way through Sydney CBD I was nervous as hell. I would like to…
3 am Concerns
According to a very popular urban myth, if humans wake up at 3AM it is because there are spiritual beings out there that are trying very hard to reach out to you. For what reason, you may ask? Perhaps the ghost wants to seek vengeance against an ex-boyfriend? Or perhaps it realised that it left…
The Forbes Challenge
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2015/11/23/6-unusual-habits-of-exceptionally-creative-people/2/#26e39c559278 Move over the Ice Bucket challenge, the Forbes Creative People challenge is where it’s at. Unlike the ALS Ice Bucket challenge however, I made this one up, because I like to keep things interesting and possibly end up with health issues like sleep-depravation. Last week I decided to make a few lifestyle changes…
Meet Zoya D’Souza
As a kid I was always asked if I was privileged enough to have one super-power, what would it be? Most kids would say the ability to fly, be invisible and one rather disturbing boy wanted to be huge so that he could hold the universe in the palm of his little chubby hands and…
Fine Dining
Picture this. The perfect three course meal. A bowl of juicy salt and pepper squid with a side of your favourite dipping sauce followed by a plate of creamy gnocchi and topped off with a bowl of tiramisu so soft and moist you momentarily escape into your own personal nirvana. Now imagine if you were…
The Closest I Ever Got To A Frat Party
There I was, feeling fabulous as hell in my brand new outfit and heels as I bobbed my head in sync with the EDM that swept the dance floor. I remember closing my eyes and jumping up and down when the beat dropped, feeling absolutely amazing as I let the exhilarating energy around me sweep…
The Day I Became A Hillbilly
So there I was at 4 am in the morning shivering so hard you could hear my teeth create an unsynchronised orchestra, wearing two layers of socks(yes it can be done people, I have lived to tell the tale) to help avoid possible frost-bites as I struggled to take in the breathtaking view in front…
The Day I Jumped off a Freaking Plane
Do you know what it’s like to be so paralysed in fear and awe that you can’t comprehend which emotion over powers the other? It’s antagonising to an extent because it almost forces you to go back in time and reflect on your life in a matter of seconds. Almost like a short movie. And…
Putting On Your Big-Girl Pants
This is not going to be your average story about ‘what I discovered when I entered my twenties’ or anything along the lines of that. Well maybe to an extent but not completely. Let me elaborate. The other day I was at a cosy downtown café in Macarthur Square when it started pouring so hard…
Let’s Play
She walked into the room swiftly carrying herself with grace and poise, with her cashmere scarf draped elegantly across her delicate shoulders as her Manolo Blahnik’s created a soothing havoc against the marble floor. She walked to the table and jingled her bag full of plastic coins as her eyes sparkled mischievously because she knew…
Strategic Chaos 