IG: @mantoueatstoes  Do you love dogs? Have you ever wondered what it is like to raise one? Let me be the one to show you what it looks like. My family recently started raising a little Pomeranian last October, and it has been a crazy experience. Before Mantou came into our lives, having a dog always felt like one of those sweet ideas people talk about—extremely fun, adorable in photos, and probably chaotic in real life. You imagine fluffy fur, happy barking, little paws runn

During my O- and A- levels, I had a strange study ritual. While most people revised with quiet music in the background, I studied in a dark room with crime podcasts playing in my headphones. Stories about disappearances, serial killers, strange investigations—voices calmly narrating events that were anything but calm. It was probably not the healthiest study environment. In hindsight, writing essays while listening to murder investigations was a strange study habit. Some nigh

I often think of how it is a very desolate, awful world we have found ourselves inhabiting. With an ingrained cynicism of the skeptical 13-year-old in me who never really left, I find myself feeling rather hopeless about anything and everything all at once. This world feels a little too heavy and my shoulders feel just shy of strong enough to carry this burden. There is a strange sense of grief that seems to wash over me; an anticipatory grief. A grief that seems to arrive be