May 2026

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The holiday is over… And now, it’s May!

Things are about to get interesting. Though I hate to admit that I still need to “borrow”, maybe, one more day. Today.

May 4

Let’s try to wrap up what’s on the plate today. If I can handle it, let’s travel this afternoon. Otherwise, tomorrow morning.

Starting tomorrow, I’m gonna embark on an intensive 3-week journey. I hope I can make it and emerge triumphant in the end. Cause otherwise… no, there’s no “otherwise”. Let’s smash it!

(07:48 AM GMT+7 – May 4, 2026)

May 5

And so… it begins!

Let’s count down. 30 days left!

I probably need an accountability partner to ensure results at the end of the tunnel. Though not the type of partner one would normally expect.

Anw, let’s just smash it!

(08:35 AM GMT+7 – May 5, 2026)

May 7

28 days left…

For now, not much to say. Overall things seem to be progressing as planned.

So, let’s just keep going!

(08:56 AM GMT+7 – May 7, 2026)

May 8

27 days left…

Let’s keep going! It’s not time to slack off, yet.

(08:55 AM GMT+7 – May 8, 2026)

May 11

24 days left…

(08:50 AM GMT+7 – May 11, 2026)

May 13

22 days left…

Yesterday was a busy day, so busy that I had to rush in the end to make sure I did not fall behind the daily target I set for myself.

Am I a little… old now?

Once, there was this youth eager to learn, eager to absorb information, eager to “conquer” the world. Now there’s this guy who has become somehow… less eager.

Not because the “fire” has died out, but because he has seen a lot, met a lot, thought a lot, felt a lot. Hence, his posture now is a contemplative one.

To look back… to see time flies… to realize how far one has gone…

And yet, to also remember how it felt in the beginning. How his beginner’s spirit was.

To recall it. To feel the nostalgia. And to look back at reality.

To see how people are so caught up in themselves that most have forgotten how to live.

If only people could let go of greed, fear. All of these things.

(09:12 AM GMT+7 – May 13, 2026)

May 14

21 days left…

It’s moving fast. Though I suppose I should slow down a little bit and be more mindful; otherwise, it’s very easy for me to get lost in the grind.

(08:47 AM GMT+7 – May 14, 2026)

May 15

20 days left…

Many days, I wake up feeling existential. (like I am right now) I cannot help but recall the time I decided to quit the corporate world. Now it has been more than 2.5 years, almost 3 years!

There are times when I think of coming back. Luckily, it normally doesn’t take much time for me to remember why I am here, right now. To realize how the decision to turn away from the noises of the corporate ladder, despite how absurd and irrational it seems, has brought me here. How it has turned me into a whole new person.

Once that person has seen the “light”, he is not going to come back.

And he looks at the people who are caught up in their own daily grind, so caught up within themselves that they cannot see the truth. (or refuse to see it) And he somehow pities them.

(09:01 AM GMT+7 – May 15, 2026)

May 18

17 days left…

Today started out a little… messy. I overslept a little (probably due to the work & travel yesterday). Then the coffee machine at the coffee shop broke, so I had to find another shop. And I got a little “adventurous” and decided to find a shop I have never been to.

Well, I almost got lost. And the way the coffee was prepared did not quite align with my expectation…

Still, at least I made it here.

Still, I’m right here. Right now.

So, I’d better keep it going. Only 2 weeks left. There’s no time for loafing around.

(09:17 AM GMT+7 – May 18, 2026)