by Melanie Tan | Embrace life
Addiction is a topic very close to my heart. I wrote this piece shortly after my 37th birthday in 2014… A few weeks ago, a couple of new girlfriends and I were chatting about us changing our lives for the better. I say ‘new’ because we only recently got to know...
by Melanie Tan | Embrace life
No you won’t be reading about Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice today. Something closer to the heart perhaps. A couple of friends and I were discussing prejudice the other day and one of them was shocked when I said, “Yeah, Singaporeans are all racist.” He...
by Melanie Tan | Empower body, Healthy Body, Injury, Performance
Forget about running. People are dropping dead while running. Running does not need much skill. It’s just so one dimensional. If you are like me and don’t like to run, you should try skipping. Ever since I got kicked off my secondary school’s track team, I...
by Melanie Tan | Self Actualisation
An accident is always unexpected. And in life, many unexpected things happen. Life happens. When unexpected things happen in your life, how do you deal with them? The Accident I was riding my Vespa along the Marina Coastal Expressway when I got into an accident....
by Melanie Tan | Self Actualisation
When I was a teenager, I always had this conversation with myself… Should I listen to my heart or my head? This was my greatest struggle. We live in a world that is becoming increasingly full of distractions and opinions. Everything around us seems to aim to...
by Melanie Tan | Health, Lifestyle, Motivation, Self Actualisation, Sports
I felt it the moment he said, ‘Wow! Sounds like wakeboarding saved your life.’ I had never thought about it that way before. As I pondered my friend’s statement, my pre wakeboarding life flashed before me… ‘I guess you can say that’, I replied. The more I...
by Melanie Tan | Healthy Body
“Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.” – Hippocrates About 3 years into wakeboarding, my brother who was also my wakeboarding coach advised me that I should start seeing a Chiropractor. Advice I did not heed as I...
by Melanie Tan | Healthy Body, Motivation
Since the body takes you everywhere, a good start is if the body can move with ease. All organs, joints and muscles perform well on a daily basis. A healthy body feels light and energetic; it does not tire easily. Often, a healthy body has a glow. A healthy body does...
by Melanie Tan | Self Actualisation
When I read this poem, I fell in love with it and became inspired. A mindset worth adopting. YOUTH by Samuel Ullman Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality...
by Melanie Tan | Enable Mind
I first heard the term ‘Equanimous Mind’ in a 10 day Vipassana course. It is explained thoroughly with many analogies in the course. As simply as I can put it – an equanimous mind is a mind that remains balanced in all situations, negative or...
