My learning system, demonstrated on the RHCSA: the exam I passed with one mistake. There's a version of this story where I'm simply good at exams. This is not that version. This one has a system, and the system is the point: I've used
Hi, I'm Abigail
I build and fix the systems and networks companies run on, the invisible layer nobody notices until it breaks. Away from the terminal I’m a solo traveller and a woman of unembarrassed faith. I spent a long time surviving before I worked out how to actually live, and now I’m doing the living part out loud. This is my home base on the web. Longform on systems, travel, and faith. The reels and quick moments live on Instagram, the work talk on LinkedIn, and everything circles back here, where I break out of every box. Professionally.
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A statement of faith. This year, somewhere between watching the New Year's Eve fireworks at Tanjong Rhu and Vision Sunday at New Creation Church, I decided to live uninhibited. I was still in a relationship then, though the pull to move forward on my own was already strong.
There is a Celine Dion song I keep for heartbreak. A New Day Has Come, the remixed version, the one with the beat running underneath it. I have played it for every breakup I have ever had. Both of them. I can't tell you the exact details of
Seven countries, two suitcases, and one prayer I kept repeating. Three weeks before I left for Europe, I ended the seven-year relationship that had been my one anchor through cutting off my family (a toxic family relationship, but that is a story for another post). Then I packed two
I sold a $9,500 gaming setup for $1,450 and felt absolutely nothing. No grief. No second-guessing. No one last look at the Secretlab Magnus Pro XL desk I had spent months researching before buying. The man who came to collect it was very happy. He should be.
The irony isn't lost on me. I live in Singapore and it is one of the most conducive environments on earth to learn Mandarin. Resources are everywhere. Opportunities everywhere. It's practical. It's logical. It makes perfect sense. And yet somehow, my brain just wouldn&
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