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2022: the journey of my hair

December 31, 2022January 1, 202314 Comments

Hola babies, here’s the mad last-minute rush to write my year-in-review on Dec. 31 (I swear some things never change), but honestly this has always been one of my favorite things to write. These past few months I've been thinking about how blogging fits into my new adult life, especially when I already write so … Continue reading 2022: the journey of my hair

December in Japan: Vignettes

December 29, 2022January 1, 20235 Comments

(Idk why I wrote this in third person. But it’s more fun that way.) * No one talks on the Shinkansen. She eats her colorful little bento and hears not a cough, not a beep of anyone’s ringtone. Quieter than every 7am subway she’s been on around the world. Outside the oval window, the countryside … Continue reading December in Japan: Vignettes

No more ‘lying flat’ (tangping)

November 30, 2022January 16, 20232 Comments

On Monday I was blithely eating a hard-boiled egg for breakfast and occasionally eyeballing my Twitter feed when I saw some anomalous words in headlines: China, protests, riots, demonstrations. I sat up straight. These were words that rarely appear in the same sentence, at least not in the past decade. For the last few months, … Continue reading No more ‘lying flat’ (tangping)

Sunday island adventure: trash-picking on a kayak 🏝

October 31, 2022October 31, 20222 Comments

On Sunday morning, a shuttle pulled up outside the ferry terminal at the very eastern tip of Singapore. Out spilled an expedition led by the World Wildlife Fund. Twenty minutes later, sea waves spraying on my dangling fingertips, salt and sunshine in each breath, we bobbed along the coastline on a ferry to Pulau Ubin. … Continue reading Sunday island adventure: trash-picking on a kayak 🏝

Bloomberg NYC

September 30, 2022September 30, 20225 Comments

Last week I bid farewell to NYC, wrapping up a few months at 731 Lex, the Bloomberg office on 59th and Lexington. These past few months have been a surreal yet gentle initiation into adult life. Waking up at 6am, walking to the 77th station in the dark, the city stirring awake, the empty-wide boulevards … Continue reading Bloomberg NYC

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