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My Christmas tree story

This Christmas tree does not stand straight, no matter how hard we have tried to adjust its base that was secured by a ready-made tree…

Dec 23, 2021

Dec 23, 2021

Talking about suicide prevention

In November 2020, a friend exited. I cannot say I was close to him, we have met several times — he had dinner with us when he came to town…

Sep 10, 2021

Talking about suicide prevention

Sep 10, 2021

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To sing or not to sing?

What is your memory of your national anthem? Mine is singing my national anthem (My Country) every morning with my schoolmates at the…

Apr 28, 2021

To sing or not to sing?

Apr 28, 2021

The old foe that still kills

Here’s something about tuberculosis (TB): it is widely (and mistakenly) considered as a disease of the past even though it kills about…

Mar 26, 2021

The old foe that still kills

Mar 26, 2021

Did you write today?

That is a question my husband asks me. Every day.

Mar 12, 2021

Did you write today?

Mar 12, 2021

What’s your family heirloom?

Mine is a set of stone mortar and pestle or lesong batu as we call it back home.

Feb 27, 2021

What’s your family heirloom?

Feb 27, 2021

Ending Tuberculosis

For more than 20 years we have been commemorating World TB Day on 24 March. Sometimes I think we are only paying lip service to ending TB…

Feb 19, 2021

Ending Tuberculosis

Feb 19, 2021

Vaccine Equity = Economic sense

Feb 2, 2021

Vaccine Equity = Economic sense

Feb 2, 2021

MODERNA — I don’t get you

Something is not quite right. It has to do with the Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna. I cannot pin down exactly the missing piece of the…

Jan 28, 2021

MODERNA — I don’t get you

Jan 28, 2021

Mrs X

Recently I attended a course on children, adolescents and maternal health. What struck me most throughout the entire course was a film…

Jan 23, 2021

Mrs X

Jan 23, 2021

First They Came…

“It’s ok, I am just a small fly, I am not famous, I have nothing to hide,” I said to my husband a year ago when discussing the…

Jan 22, 2021

First They Came…

Jan 22, 2021

Chin Heimerl

Chin Heimerl

That girl from Borneo … mother, wife, ex-journo, global health worker, big dreamer. https://chinheimerl.wordpress.com

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