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Cancer Diaries: Where I picked a fight with a church

Kuala Lampur, April 23 -- If someone had told me I would go to war with a church over Easter weekend, I would have laughed. It all started Friday morning when I went to the hospital again and had a r... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Please please please let me eat what I want

Kuala Lampur, April 9 -- I am going to put this out there because I am very tired of people who have never had cancer giving me this same piece of advice. If you guessed "avoid sugar", correct. The ... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Where I have a nasty fall and let pain be my relentless teacher

Kuala Lampur, April 2 -- Of course, the one time I go to a mall without my cane, I fall so spectacularly I can only remember rolling around and somehow cutting up both my knees. My mask was loose and... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Nosebleeds, hangnails and eye infections, oh joy

Kuala Lampur, March 26 -- There are so many little, annoying things you aren't truly prepared for when you're a cancer patient. Staring at my bedside table, full of tissues smeared with blood and clo... Read More


Cancer Diaries: On dangerous massages and the light at the end of the tunnel (of pain)

Kuala Lampur, March 19 -- Sometimes I have really bad ideas. My most recent one was thinking that I could relieve my back pain with massage machines. I found out the hard way that it wasn't my back ... Read More


iPhone 16e review: A bridge between nostalgia and promise

KUALA LUMPUR, March 18 -- What do you do with the iPhone 16e? If you review tech like I do (though not as much as before) you figure out its use case and what it is, but also, most importantly, what ... Read More


The Apple x Peanuts Cherry Blossom collab brings whimsy to your tech accessories

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 -- Ah, March. The season for cherry blossoms in Japan and also, apparently an Apple and Snoopy collaboration. The Snoopy franchise turns 75 in October this year and the merch h... Read More


Cancer Diaries: What older cancer survivors taught me

Kuala Lampur, March 12 -- Life is funny sometimes. I passed by a car workshop the other day and saw my neighbour's car - the same car that just missed running me over. While muttering to myself that... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Developing needle phobia and dealing with seven-hour-long treatments

Kuala Lampur, March 4 -- Most of my life I have been pretty stoic about getting injections or blood draws and even as a child I wasn't bothered by syringes or needles. Now the thought of getting my b... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Turning 47 and finding grace

Kuala Lampur, Feb. 26 -- I turned 47 last Saturday. Instead of the sadness I was expecting, all I felt was a calm gratitude for making it another year. For my birthday this time, all I wanted was a ... Read More