Life
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Tiny living spaces (how homes affect the way we live)
Have you seen the “coffin homes” of Hong Kong? If you haven’t yet, you might want to take a look here. I have heard about these homes before. But seeing the photos from the article makes me wonder what it really means to have a home. I can remember the struggle of finding a place Read more
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Urgent Optimists: an invitation
Hello, everyone! If you’ve been here for some time, perhaps you’ve read in one of my blog posts how I am part of a community, Urgent Optimists. If you have missed it, here’s what the Urgent Optimists community does: We’re bringing together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are Read more
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Letter no. 21
Dear reader from the future, Would you believe that I am still writing this in the time of a pandemic? But things are starting to shift, from isolation back to openness, and yes, mobility! Can you imagine how lonely places are without kids running around? And as restrictions are being lifted across cities in our Read more
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Do you want to rekindle friendships today?
Don’t wait for them to reach out to you. Take the initiative instead. You’d be surprised how they’d respond, and you’ll feel like you’ve never really stopped caring about each other after all. Read more
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Chapter 6 from Station Eleven
After watching a replay of a book reading at the Urgent Optimists, I really find the book Station Eleven riveting. It even hits differently now that I am reading it two years into the pandemic. Though the pandemic in the novel is much worse that what we went through, I still find Chapter 6 (An Read more
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