Two critical aspects to creating realistic characters who deserves readers’ pity — Characters are the building blocks of a story — you would almost certainly never come across a story without character. Characters also make or break the story and it is very easy to mess up the character creation. …

One must learn to give up, intelligently — This current 21st century is filled with motivational advice; perhaps the most common (and cliché) being: No matter what, do not give up. Persevere! This staple advice is accurate. All successful people, never mind how all persevered. From huge corporations weathering storms to individuals winning some esteemed prize, they all…

And how the Rubik’s Cube might help parents decrease their children’s screen time — I don’t really understand why people think that those who know how to solve the Rubik’s Cube are genius. The truth is, cubers are no more geniuses than your average joe: we just follow a set of algorithms, practice them many, many times until it becomes muscle memory, and then…

They mean well, yet you know writing is all you want to do — It is very hard to be brave — especially in today’s pandemic plagued world. Money problems are actual problems, especially if you are a full-time writer, fresh from the oven. …

My experience in school and the importance of confidence — When I was younger I did not do so well in school. I went to one of the “better schools” for primary education. Everyone there was smart and hardworking. To make matters worse, I don’t know whether, by mistake, I was placed in a good class. …

I started to wonder if fiction was a waste of time — Literature is often the prime target of criticism — “How is fiction relevant? Would Macbeth help you find a decent job and pay off all your student debt?” And sometimes I wonder if it’s true, whether I’m wasting my time reading classics and other contemporary fiction. After all, I did…

Helping the youth understand the importance of education is urgent and consequential — In this day and age, the internet penetration rate is so high that “six of the world’s seven billion people have mobile phones — but only 4.5 billion have a toilet, according to a U.N. report” in Forbes magazine. A result of such innovation is that the speed at which…

Soft skills are what computers lack — Computers are widely seen as being disruptive to various industries, but in hindsight, perhaps the ripples of its impact land ashore to college graduates’ concerns — after all, many jobs are being readily replaced by computers and machines. Since the start of the 21st century, STEM subjects have seen skyrocketing…