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291 Can Asians get yellow fever? I think it’s a weird double standard If a white person gets has yellow fever and tells you they only like Asians, you look at them funny But if I tell you the same thing, does t warrant the same reaction? Double standards exist everywhere and I think it… Continue reading

290 Tomorrow I get back on the road and fly to LA / Hollywood. It will be my first time traveling just with my sister and it’ll be very fun, hopefully. For me, it feels like a step into adulthood. For me, I feel like I need to travel as often as I can to… Continue reading

289 Crazy Rich Asians, a book-inspired movie, will be released in theatres tomorrow. Not only is it a great push for Asian representation in the North American Movie Industry, but it also shows an authentic perspective of what it means to be Asian-American. Whenever you can see and relate with something that reflects a part… Continue reading

288 Hi. Currently in commute from 🇨🇳 ✈️ 🇨🇦 This blog post will just be a quote. This quote is from my business professor’s daily blog (the professor that inspired me to start this blog!) He recently updated his blog layout and I read this great Emerson quote on his “About Me” page. I loved… Continue reading

287 Some things that come unexpectedly are the best When you don’t have time to plan things out or premeditate an escape plan This way you can’t back out I didn’t plan to perform magic for the hosts of The View during my New York trip senior year of high school. I didn’t plan to… Continue reading

286 Today I lost my passport in the morning Had a great day spent with my cousins (after a stressful afternoon of reporting lost passport) And retrieved the found passport at the airport after dinner. (My passport ended up being in the airplane as we had thought, but it flew to another city and back… Continue reading

Today I am flying from Beijing to Gui Zhou province. Gui Zhou is where my biological father grew up and I will be meeting my grandmother and grandfather for the first time (granted they say me when I was little but I don’t count that because I don’t remember) I don’t know what to expect.… Continue reading

284 school starts in two weeks but the two weeks leading up to classes is when you need to snap back to reality when you need to get back into the zone work hard play hard, no more just playing it’s time to get back on the grind Continue reading

283 Drake writes & sings songs His lyrics are an expression of his life, metaphors and allusions that represent the world, seen through Drake’s eyes. What’s amazing is how one person’s perspective can also be translated to so many other people’s perspectives. I’ve been so caught up in this China trip that I’ve lost my… Continue reading

Hi Guys. A few days ago I wrote a daily blog post about why everyone should share their writing. It’s like opening a part of your heart and exposing the most vulnerable parts of your soul, yet it is so refreshing. This is Daily Blog post number 282. But this isn’t written by me. This… Continue reading