by Nadya Books | Nov 9, 2025 | In English, Memoir / Journal
“Life is about who you live it with. If you meet the right companion, every destination will be bearable, even hell.” That’s what a 64 years old street hawker told me.The words stabbed me right in the chest. Because through tears and shouting rage, you told me hell...
by Nadya Books | Oct 9, 2025 | In English, Poetry, Zahratur R.
I am sick. This body breaks again and again, not what it once was, not what it should be. But my sickness is not mine alone, it belongs to a world poisoned and bleeding. How could I not be sick when everything around me ails? Yet the strangest thing, the world...
by Nadya Books | Oct 9, 2025 | In English, Religion / Philosophy
Everyone in this world is unique. Sometimes they are different in the way they see the world, in the way they act, in the way they interact with other people, in the way they behave, in the way they feel about something. You can look at two people standing side by...
by Nadya Books | Sep 24, 2025 | In English, Memoir / Journal, Nadia H., Religion / Philosophy
I met a lady recently who is single and is afraid of marriage. It’s not that she has no potential, in fact, she has plenty. She’s attractive, with a high-flying career in the education sector, lots of free time for her hobbies and passions and she volunteers a lot...
by Nadya Books | Sep 18, 2025 | In English, Memoir / Journal, Nadia H., Religion / Philosophy
“I have realised that sometimes the most profound life lessons come from random strangers.” One day, I was running late for a meeting and hopped into a Grab. The driver, an elderly Malay uncle, seemed a little reserved at first. But after a few minutes of...
by Nadya Books | Sep 3, 2025 | In English, Memoir / Journal
Sometimes, I sit back and wonder… how did I even survive all that? I was 9 when my parents divorced. That was the day I carried my first trauma seeing my mum being beaten brutally by my father. Until now, the memory still cuts me deep. School was hard. I was...
