Secrets
The Stalker I Used to Be: A Confession and a Reckoning
So, when I was in my early teenage years, I liked this girl who was one year older than me. She was damn pretty. Her eyes were different from others. I wanted to talk to her, but as she was older than me, I didn't have any topic to start even a small conversation. The only real-life interaction that happened between us was one time she collided with me, and as I was a bit shorter than her, my face hit her chest. That was it. That was the total of our real-world connection.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in Confessions
The Lunchbox Swap: A Confession of Workplace Insecurity
Okay, this is such a stupid thing to feel guilty about, but it's been bugging me for weeks. The Setup At my office, we have a shared fridge, and everyone writes their name on their lunch containers with tape and a marker. It's a small thing, a system that works, a way to avoid the chaos of stolen leftovers. There's this coworker, let's call him D, who brings the most incredible lunches every single day. Actual restaurant-quality food in these matching glass containers. Meanwhile, I'm the guy microwaving frozen meals in a plastic tub that's been through the dishwasher two hundred times.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in Confessions
The Glitch, the Gold, and the Guilt: A Teenager's Financial Confession
I'm 17 years old. For the last 2.5 years, I've been obsessed with trading and financial markets, specifically forex and commodities. It started as curiosity, then became a passion, and eventually, an addiction.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in Confessions
I Stole a Bottle of Imported Honey From Brandi Carlile
I don't go around stealing things as a general rule. I'm not a thief. I don't shoplift; I don't take things that don't belong to me, and I certainly don't make a habit of pocketing items from celebrities. But every rule has its exception, and mine came in the form of an 8.8-ounce bottle of imported Manuka honey valued at roughly $45 sitting there like a dare, and I succumbed to temptation.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in Confessions
The Secret I Carry: How My Cousin's Wife Cheated and My Cousin's Friendship Shattered
On New Year's Eve 2023, my cousin's wife, barely a month into her marriage, grinded against another man at a party while I stood frozen in the doorway. She saw me. She knew I saw her. And then she tried to act like nothing had happened.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in Confessions
The Pokémon Card Thief of Third Grade
Back in third grade, Pokémon cards were the currency of my elementary school. Every kid wanted them, everyone traded them, and some kids had binders full of holographic Charizards and Blastoises that made the rest of us green with envy. I had a small collection of about fifty cards, nothing spectacular, nothing that would make anyone jealous. I was a casual, a background player in the great Pokémon card economy of 2004.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in Confessions
Every Time I Started Cooking, My Dog Ran Out of the Kitchen. Here is How I Finally Uncovered His Secret
Yet, for months, we had a bizarre routine. The moment I walked into the kitchen and decided to cook a proper meal, Max would panicking, sprint out of the room, and disappear to some unknown corner of the apartment. He would only return when the cooking noise stopped and I was ready to serve the food on the table.
By Lenka Čihařová2 months ago in Confessions
The Weight of a Mistake I Can't Let Go
Around six to eight years ago, I was in junior college. I had gotten really close to this guy, let's call him A. I developed a small crush on him, and before I knew it, we had exchanged Instagram IDs. It felt like something was happening between us. But then I realized he was using me to get closer to one of my classmates. He liked her, not me.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in Confessions
Am I Supposed To Change The Story?
To whoever this may concern, Yes, you are right. I did speak up about those things you did to me; even when the world went against me, and took everything from me because you chose to deny responsibility for your actions, and victimise me by making me out to be a liar.
By Carol Ann Townend2 months ago in Confessions
