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the luxury of lying on my back

June 23rd, 2017 | No Comments

The best thing about being not pregnant anymore, is that I can lay flat on my back again to sleep. The second thing is that I do not have to lug around a fortress of pillows, whether on swivel chairs or on my bed. For the last 10 months, I have had to sleep on my side. Those who have been pregnant would understand. It does not work well for someone like me who has had hip sprains.

So, the little thing in life, as being able to sleep on the back – or on the tummy for that matter – became such a prominent and significant luxury.

A simple change in perspective, something I had taken for granted pre-pregnant experience. Keep Reading…

Missed connections

May 30th, 2017 | 2 Comments

My dreams recently bring me nostalgia. I see people from old days: ex-colleagues, romances, school mates. In my dreams, I was frequently on a boat or ferry, bombarded with people. I wake up feeling a sense of pity, not quite regret, but definitely wondering how many opportunities I had lost in building connections and relationships with…
Happy Mother’s Day Rant that never got published

May 17th, 2017 |

I was going to write about the stupidity of Mothers’ Day, pitch it to Huffington Post, let it get rejected, and then grudgingly post it on my own blog so it would not get read. It never got written in time. I chose to nap instead of storming on my keyboard – until now. My…
throwing my old life away

April 23rd, 2017 | 2 Comments

My old corporate life was packed in boxes, and stored in the balcony outside the kitchen. For 7 years they lurked there. A few weeks ago, finally I went through them all and threw them out. There were hundreds of business cards from offices all over the world. There were training material, my assessment reports,…

about Noch Noch

Enoch Li, (pen name: Noch Noch) is 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 Play Consultant for corporates interested in creative change management and employee well-being using the psychology of playfulness.