Category: working holiday
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Origins and Identity
I’ve delayed writing this post for a few weeks now. Firstly, I’ve exhausted all my words. Secondly, I’ve been working hard on writing and editing my five short stories. They are close to the manuscript draft stage. However, it’s still only 1/3 of the entire manuscript. Thirdly, it feels too personal to share about my…
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Life Lately II. (in words)
Summer “I hate summer.” “Me, too.” “It’s so humid and hot.” “Yeah.” A conversation between two University students. It was not yet July. Soon, 26 degrees Celsius, light rain in the morning, then pouring for 10 minutes. Soaked, if crossing the street within these 10 minutes. More light rain until the sun broke through the…
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Family
Guangzhou When I was younger, I would go back to China to visit my extended relatives every few years. We would arrive like strangers but would leave like we had been living together for years. The big family dinners at the restaurants were filled with different emotions – joy from jokes and funny stories, annoyance…
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End of a Semester
It’s getting to the end of a semester and though I am not in school, the month of May was filled with squeezing in part time work, writing and field trips. The muggy, hot summer heat is impatient. Summer vacation cannot come sooner. Colleagues I met some other writers and remote workers. One in particular…
I. L. Chang 