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elegant narcissist

December 11th, 2018 | No Comments

I wonder if we all have some form of narcissism in us. Narcissism in its very crude sense self-grandioso.

I sat next to a young girl on the way back from Shanghai. Her fingers in my peripheral vision bothered me, because it kept swiping and tapping on the phone like no tomorrow. I glanced over and got sucked into looking at what she was doing. She was going between apps, checking out others’ photos, and checking out comments on her own page.

I recognized her as being part of the group of young girls parading the airport as I checked-in. They had photographers and video-recording people swarming them. I could not understand if they were famous or what, but I did notice they all had similar make up and hair styling on. And it was as if every lift of a hair was worth shooting. Keep Reading…

On doing nothing for World Mental Health Day

October 10th, 2018 |

I feel I am always playing catch up, and when I do have the calendar space to do so, I tend to fall sick. And a bad cold I have been fighting with for the last two weeks – not serious enough to be debilitating, but bad enough to strip me of energy. I feel…
love actually

September 19th, 2018 |

Been in the half-sinking mud cycle of inertia. Feeling forgotten because all these people who do events that ties into my speaking topics do not think of me. Because haven’t done much lately. Because there is a list of proposals to write. Because there is some business development to do and I am procrastinating. I’m…
On Serendipity & World Suicide Prevention Day

September 10th, 2018 |

Last week, one of my good friends shared with me a life challenge she was facing. It broke my heart to hear of the pain she was going through. What pierced my heart the most was when she showed me the messages she received from other family members and friends. They told her, “Be tough!”…

about Noch Noch

Enoch Li, (pen name: Noch Noch) was born and raised in Hong Kong and Australia. She has also studied / worked / lived in the US, France, UK, Japan, The Netherlands, China, and has travelled to more than 40 countries. She loves travelling and her curiosity in foreign cultures and languages has led her to enjoy her life as an international executive in the banking & finance industry. However, she was forced to take time off work in 2010 due to her illnesses and after spending time in recovery, cooking, practising Chinese calligraphy, reading and writing – in short, learning to take care of herself and letting out the residual work stress, she has transitioned into a Social Entrepreneur and founded BEARAPY to help corporates make workplaces mentally healthy, and support executives to become more resilient.