I’ve known my acupuncture doctor for two decades, ever since my former job’s founder brought her in for bi-weekly on-site acupuncture sessions, which were among the few company perks. It also helped that we shared the same hometown and attended college at the same time. She graduated from the top…

I didn’t. But I did it last night when I attended a replica banquet testing menu event that lasted until 1 am this morning. Another “I can’t believe this happened to me!” checkbox was ticked. “The Dream of the Red Chamber” (红楼梦) is unequivocally the most influential novel in the…

Las Vegas is full of beautiful service people — We were descending to the Las Vegas International Airport. The small talk stopped, and we all stared at the city landscape getting bigger and bigger from a bird’s eye view. The residential housing areas were spread out and sprouting to the end of the skyline like any other American city…

I have been very proud of myself for keeping the same stable weight for nearly two decades. I attribute it to my secret daily morning…

For as long as I can remember, I have been surrounded by close friends who usually have at least one master’s degree, if not two, and the majority have PhDs or even higher degrees. Ye is almost the only person who does not even have a college degree but has…

In an abandoned building With faded faces and half forgotten names, We were once here before, But now, we’re just a memory, a passing thought. Can the building still remember, That we were here, once upon a time? Or has it all faded away, like a dream in the night? …

It’s been a nine years long way home. Dad passed away in the the hospital when I was still in total denial emotion mode about his rapid vertical health decline started about nine month ago. …

It’s the air.

I’ve been in Chengdu for more than two weeks, after a long multi-hop one way journey of more than 27 hours. It used to take less than 14 hours direct flight before the pandemic. …