Not $500, not $50, not even $10. FIVE dollars. Be nice. — I stared at the numbers in disbelief. I refreshed the page repeatedly, hoping it was just some glitch, that the earning was just not calculated yet. With a heavy heart, I had to accepted what was to be my new reality. The rule changed and I suffered some losses as…

Do you choose this life? — Do people plan to be nomads, or it just happens? That is the question I find myself asking when I look back at my life. Do we, the nomads, choose this life? Or does this life choose us? It must have started with England. I stepped into the gigantic airport, seemingly transported into a whole new…

What does it mean to be a certain ethnicity? — What comes to your mind when someone says “Chinese woman”? Perhaps a woman with milky white skin, slightly slanted eyes, with ebony dark hair? I am none of those. I have completely tanned sun-kissed skin, slightly bigger than average Chinese slanted eyes (if I may say so myself), and I…

Here’s the thing, you don’t have to have consistency to succeed. — 2023 — this year will be the year of discovery and self-evolution. The thought had just occurred to me a few minutes ago and I have made the decision to incorporate that thought into most of the content I will be sharing here this year. …

What has kept me sane last year. — We are almost 2 weeks into 2023. Happy New Year to all my friends here on Medium! I hope you’ve had a wonderful great start of the year, and I hope you’re still hanging on to your new year resolutions, whatever they may be. Last year has been a great…

I am buried in ideas and things I want to do. Help! — Dear FROM LEMON, It is currently 11.24AM as I am writing this. If it wasn’t for the Harry Potter classical soundtrack playing in my ears, I would still be experiencing a rapid heartbeat paired with an inability to concentrate on words I was reading from my book, a book I…

How to be immortal. — I miss my mother. I have never quite thought about death. Until my mother passed away. The most important person in my life, gone in a blink of an eye. It’s supposed to be something that only happens to other people. …

What the end goal of the firing process should be. — ‘Crying CEO’ says he loves his employees, even those he laid off’ the headline of a news article read. Underneath the headline, a close-up picture of a blue-eyed man, tears running down his cheeks, presumably the aforementioned ‘crying CEO’. Will he be praised or criticized in the news piece? …