Upon reviewing my 2022 song selects, I can’t help but think to myself that the majority of these songs contributed to my personal restoration and growth. This year was without a doubt my most stressful year in this past decade – one where I was constantly in my head and spending a lot of unnecessary time and valuable time on superficial things. It’s an unbearable and indescribable feeling…
今天就是我在全球疫情的時候跑到世界另一端的一週年。感覺就像是昨天我才有點感傷地，剛搭了一趟單程的飛機到台灣，前往一個未定的未來。 Today officially marks a full year since I officially made my great escape journey to the other side of the world in the midst of a global pandemic. It still feels like only yesterday when I was hit with a flood of sentimental feelings and underlying guilt boarding a one-way flight to Taiwan towards an undetermined future.…
And without even so much as a heads up, three years has flown by just like that. I’ve commonly heard the phrase「光陰似箭」”Time flies like an arrow” but could never fully apprehend it until now. As I’m sitting here in ponderment, I can’t help but think just how smooth, linear and on target the trajectory of that arrow I shot three years ago has felt. 1) What was your…
In my junior year of high school, I enrolled in a honors creative writing course called ‘Search for Self.’ The class helped students discover personal identity, meaning and purpose through a series of creative writing prompts and literature. A few solid reads that I recall from this class include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Pearl. My favorite assignment that came out of…
Taipei: A Reservoir is a site-specific publication that transcribes and documents the mnemonic associations I’ve accrued with my annual trips back to Taiwan. Surprisingly, these infrequent trips have played a major role in my personal development and better understanding of my lineal heritage. Through a series of short form stories with illustrations, this project documents the remnants of my childhood memories that are somewhat salvageable and accessible in…
In my junior year of high school, I enrolled in a honors creative writing course called ‘Search for Self.’ The class helped students discover personal identity, meaning and purpose through a series of creative writing prompts and literature. A few solid reads that I recall from this class include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Pearl. My favorite assignment that came out of…
“Home by Definition” is a personal photojournalistic narrative that explores the definition of a “home” and death’s effect on it. This was written and published during a journalism workshop in school called “Writing with Your Feet,” taught by master birdwatcher Mike Fink. When I first laid eyes on her standing next to the corroding doorway of our house in Taipei, I barely recognized her. Who I remember so vividly…