Yuusha Nikki

Welcome to my online scrapbook and diary! I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and on here I chronicle my life, events that happen around town, and any travels that I do to other places.

Click here for the Table of Contents. Besides weekly posts and travel diaries, my site also contains document/photo scans and writings. Nearly every page on the site is linked off of here.
Click here to jump to my dream diary. (under construction)
Click here to learn about this blog in general. Or use the navigation bar up top!
If you are looking to contact me, try jesskitten at gmail.com.

Right now, my focus is to keep my weekly blog posts going. The format of the blog posts has shifted over time as I’ve experimented with it and learned to write quicker. It takes about 4-6 hours to write each weekly post, sometimes longer. Many of the earlier blog posts have weekly sections that got culled at some point as I adjusted the focus of the blog.

The ultimate goal of the blog is to have a place where I talk about my life’s journey and how each individual part — my migration from Singapore to Canada and growing up as a Canadian-Chinese, my depression, gender transition, and subsequent happiness, my jobs, games I’ve played, anime I’ve watched, friends I’ve had, and everything else — influences each other and ties up into one big package.

In the interim, I also hope to scan lots of random documents that I’ve collected over the ages as a digital archive of things, for future historians to come across. My intended audience for the blog are readers 100-500 years from now or even beyond. Diaries are valuable windows to the past, and this desire to preserve the present and speak to the future is my life goal that drives me.

There is no AI content on this blog except for tiny labelled sections where I played with a couple of tools for a couple of weeks very early on in the AI boom. None of the inane rambling every week or travel writing while I’m on vacation is chatbot-generated — I love writing and that would defeat the purpose. There are no current paid advertisements or affiliate links or anything of that sort on the site either. It would be nice to try some sponsorship stuff in the future, on my own terms, but I don’t think I’m quite there yet.