It has been three months since I started journaling. I write a morning page and a diary almost every day. Although I did keep a diary years ago, I restarted this practice because I saw so many Medium articles recommending it. …

Whenever I read anything about my ex-boyfriend on Facebook, I would try to ignore them painfully. It had been 1.5 years since I broke up with my boyfriend. We did not break up peacefully because I found him cheated on me. We had an intense fight. …

In the time of the highest unemployment rate ever, I, fortunately, got a job offer from a local NGO in Hong Kong. After thinking twice, however, I decided to turn down the offer. Let me first give a brief context of my job hunting and the employer. I was initially…

Since I relocated back to Hong Kong from the Netherlands after the orientation year, I have been unemployed for two months. …

I just joined the Medium paid membership only because I needed to get access to one particular article. And because of the extra fee paid, I now somehow force myself to read more on Medium in order to compensate for the cost I paid. Initially, I found the Medium stories…

It is a confession of a holder of the Dutch Orientation Year Visa. Although we are not the same as the refugees, we are all ultimately pursuing the dreams we want in the journey of life. As my friend said, a passport determines everything. It is true. When I came…

A break-up is not easy. It’s not easy not because you live without him but life must go on with his existence. An ex can no longer merely be a passenger 過客 in your life but someone who once hurt you tremendously. Your past and future must coexist with him. …

during my fieldwork period my emotion went up and down, same as the people surrounding me: we are here we looked for a place to live, to carry on with our lives, if not merely sleeping. there are empty buildings monitored by anti-squat companies; these companies rent out the buildings to only a…

As requested by friends long time ago, this piece is about my sharing of personal encounters in Amsterdam during the exchange study between 2015 and 2016, with some updates from the short trip in summer 2017 . …