As the year comes to an end I feel a weird nervousness that I am unable to fully explain. It feels like something important is slipping away from me that will never come back. When I think about the Christmas and New Year holidays that went by, I realize that I miss the comfort it brought me, the feeling that life had paused for a moment and everything felt a little safer and easier. Now that the holidays are over that feeling of comfort is gone and it makes me anxious becaus

On Sunday, December 21st, 2025, we headed out to see the Christmas light-up in Jarvis, Ontario. We left home around 6:30 pm, excited despite the cold and reached Jarvis in just about an hour. As soon as we entered the town, we found ourselves moving slowly through the bright and glowing lanes of Jarvis where cars crawled in both directions so everyone could enjoy the lights. This time of the year, Jarvis truly earns its name “Winter Wonderland.” For those who are not aware, d

In the year 2021, I came up with an idea for an app that I truly believed had great potential and could make a meaningful impact on many peoples lives. I thought the idea was new and valuable because it was meant to help people turn their everyday skill into real opportunity, especially the one that often went unnoticed or unutilized. Instead of starting quickly, I chose to spend a lot of time thinking, planning, and discussing the idea, believing that waiting for the perfect

Everyday we come across professionals and even common public coming up with expert weight loss advices, personally or through different channels. Fad diets trend every few months, gyms that sell transformation promises and supplement companies introducing miraculous shortcut molecules. Yet so many of us like me struggled because most of these methods ask us to overhaul our lives in ways that are neither practical nor sustainable. Earlier this year, I found myself stuck in tha

Someone recently shared an experience that stayed with me, not because of the water that her baby spilled at an event she attended, but because of what happened around it. The lady had been an attendee to a small community music show on invite from one of her friends who happened to be a performer at the show. At the show, her baby accidentally dropped a bottle and the water splashed onto the floor. Apparently not a major issue or rather just a normal thing that can happen to

Every time I go to Costco, I pass by the Sabatasso's pizza in the fridge section and it always looked so tempting, cheesy and delicious. I have resisted buying it several times, telling myself, no, not this time . But during my last visit, they were giving out samples to taste and honestly it tasted great when I tried. I finally gave in and picked up the box. As I stood in line to bill, I noticed a Health Canada label saying “High in sodium and saturated fat.” This warning hi

Today morning when I woke up, I felt so drowsy and my eyes were open, but my mind was still half asleep. I sat for some time, but I did not feel like starting my work or learning anything new. As a matter of fact, this is now happening to me almost daily. I have noticed that my mornings were starting to become unproductive and my contributions to early morning meetings are just satisfactory. Often I feel my brain gets foggy at the time when I need to think and come up with a

In clinical research, especially within CROs, two terms are used a lot these days- innovation and artificial intelligence (AI). These words carry weight and create a feeling of leap. But lately, they are being thrown around indiscriminately, often used to describe routine tasks or basic automation. When everything is labeled as "innovative" or "AI-powered," it becomes difficult to tell what's genuinely impactful. Innovation as Real Change and Not Just More Ideas A team member