How To Battle Negativity In Freelancing

One day you are on a high note with pouring projects that you couldn’t keep up replying, let alone rejecting. On another day, you are faced with nobody wants your service, your existing clients think the work you have submitted is crap, you just had an argument with one of your biggest clients because of…

Is A Degree A Must In This Time And Age?

Recently, my husband panicked over the rising cost of university education in Singapore. Partly because he has been reading unsolicited advice by insurance companies, trying to scare him into parting a portion of his salary to invest in some kind of long-term investment plan. Partly because he loves our 1-year-old daughter and want to be…

Oh Wow, How Time Flies!

Many of you have become more than just mere readers and side audience but friends and inspirational role models to me. Two weeks ago, I celebrated my daughter’s first birthday when it strikes me that you have been following MiddleMe since I started freelancing 2 and a half years ago. You have been with me…

10 Ways To Destroy Your Reputation At Work

When you are not careful in protecting your image, you will find yourself having to do damage control to protect your career life. Everyone has a reputation that goes with you in all places you got to.

Skype No Longer Accept Facebook Logins And The Crap Its Impacting Me

As of 10 January 2018, Skype by Microsoft doesn’t accept Facebook logins and poses a problem for me. You see, when they launched the collaboration between Skype and Facebook, the unique selling point is that you can use one login for both the accounts and for someone like me, it is convenient not to have…

A Letter To A Working Mom

Dear Working Mommy, Thank you for splitting yourself so you can feed the family financially and physically. I know it is tough to juggle two roles at the same time. So much so sometimes you think you might have split personalities.

Whisper: Blinded By The Obsession To Climb

*As told to Kally from someone who wishes to be anonymous I came from nothing. My father is a failed farmer and a drunkard. My mother passed away after giving birth to my third sister. We were lucky enough to have a rich relative that saw through all of our education but I was the…