Sometimes, I get anxious because I see people not replying to my messages, and the anxiety that used to come with that used to be a lot more severe—to the point where I would even text one of my best friends Vickey, about it, and she had to comfort me with the advice of “people are busy”. I understand that people are busy, but because we have grown to possess the expectation of things appearing in our lives at an instant, our patience grow thin and we don’t leave room for peo

I was talking to my math teacher about what he did before becoming a teacher and I was stunned. I did not expect someone could have the perseverance and discipline to change their fate so quickly. My math teacher dropped out of school at 15, because he left hoe at 15. He then realized that he needed to improve his grades and diploma so he self-taught IGCSE and A Levels, and then went to college all by himself, and then started to teach students in college as a “part-time job”

Today, when I was eating lunch, I realized that life is just like the food that is on our plate, and the food that is in front of us. Some people will be able to eat all they can from the variety of food that is in front of them, and it is all theirs, and that is the type of person that may be seen as the “wealthy”. Some other people might not be so fortunate, they only have so much food on their plate, and they only have so much time to finish it, and when they do finish the

I guess it is not the first time we talked about over-consumption on this blog before, but now, I guess it is time for us to talk about this again, as when my friend and I were talking about our favorite brands and things we would love to buy for ourselves, we realized that we are being over consumed by overconsumption. We have realized that our brains are being fed by all the information that we are given everyday through social media and that we have not yet had time to pro

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People are always so judgmental to Gen-Zs about the fact that they not only buy things for function and need, for also being a victim to...

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I know. I have came up with yet another meaning of life again. This is not a new topics on this blog anymore, but I think showing my...

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Why do I keep going back to Beijing? Two reasons— Model United Nations and the food . Model United Nations is something that I started...

My trip to Beijing this time was amazing—I met so many amazing people who truly shows what it means to be elite. I learned a valuable...

Why do I care so much about the past? This is something that has been troubling me this summer, because I keep thinking about the...

I came across a Red Note post today which was a video of a girl telling the camera how happy and satisfied she feels about her own life....

Its the summer, and somehow I have been updating here less frequently, or at least I feel this way because what happens during the...

Yesterday, I took part in the China High School Students Social Impact Fund (CHSSI) competition, and even though I have not received the...

Recently, the results for the Chinese National College Entrance exams (GaoKao) have been released. Students who achieve a score above...