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The Good Fight- Where does Democracy Go

When I started the first episode of the Good Fight that my colleagues introduced me to, I could not stop. I binged watched all six seasons, however, the original excitement and dopamine I derived from earlier seasons gradually become agony, chaos, and even depression. When I finished the last episode of season six, I’ve only left with one sentence: the Democrats are fucked. And no one is there to…

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Convenience store

Convenience stores are essentially Asian in my opinion. There are only 40 7-Eleven in Manhattan, yet there are over 1,000 7-Eleven in Taipei, literally, you can find one at every corner of the street. There’s not really 7-Eleven’s equivalent in Europe, the closest is Carrefour city or Franprix. But whether 7-Eleven in Times Square or Franprix in Saint Sulpice wouldn’t give me the same welcome…

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The night when the lockdown lifted

The night when the lockdown lifted

I always cry for silly things.  A protester’s photo in Hong Kong, I thought of how they risk their life and future for democracy, only for the little chance they had, then I couldn’t help crying, like Prometheus’s fire, these people light up the dark, where millions of mainlanders long gave up fighting.  The day Shanghai lifted the lockdown after 2 and half months, I took a neighborhood walk…

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Bandit Mentality 

This brutal lockdown was purely political, and whatever was left of liberalists in China are lost badly.  (more…)

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Symposium- What is love

Symposium- What is love

What is love and why do we need to be loved? That was a question posed on a French magazine called Philosophie. I happened to crossed it one summer at a Parisian public library, and it immediately caught my attention. Inside the magazine, there was an extract of Plato’s Symposium (le Banquet). The essay was long and I didn’t remember it well (could be my imperfect French didn’t allow the ideas to…

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Boredom

I’m fucking bored. (more…)

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Why some patriots get on my nerves

Why some patriots get on my nerves

第一次对“爱国”这个词产生厌恶是那时在美国念书的时候。当时我们在宾夕法尼亚的小乡村里，国际学生中除了我只有另外一个中国男生。因为我之前在台湾念书，加上口语很好，他一直变着法对我冷嘲热讽。有一次我拒绝说Mao is our great…

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How does the Foreign Experience Apply to the Chinese Market?

How does the Foreign Experience Apply to the Chinese Market?

A short answer: no, it does not apply economically.  (more…)

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Not A Loser

1 Laurence woke up soaked in sweat. His phone was still ringing with alarm tones, his current practice “Lascia ch’io pianga,” a basic for soprano, but he could never reach the part “e che sospiri.” As he was trying to put DiDonato into silence, the fluorescent light from his phone made him sweat again. He had to leave it. 2 minutes later, his roommate was yelling at the bathroom door, “Laurence!…

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Undecided

My biggest problem in life is that I’m always undecided. If you look at my resume, you’d have a sense. Of course, on interviews, I’d like to say that it’s multi-cultural education and background. I’ve studied in the United States, Taiwan, Japan, and France, yet still, I don’t know where to continue my life. I’ve tried to be a journalist. I’ve loved writing and reading since forever. But I…

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On Break-up II

It turns out that the peaceful painless break-up almost does not exist. A month ago, when I said the final words to Panda, I thought I could just be graceful and walk away quietly from his life. In the first few days, tears have washed me away. But I’ve expected that. I literally cried to daylight when Maxime and I broke up. I…

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Summer Reading Plan

I’ve started joining a volunteer program in American library in Paris, then also became their readership member. The library is located in the fancy 7th arrondisement in Paris, very close to the Seine and the Champs de Mars. I loved staying in the library, and with the pandemic going on, feel the urge more than ever to contribute to the whole and to be kinder to one another.

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On Break-up

Panda and I have been on and off for almost a year now. He is not my “usual type”, which is 180cm+, fit and handsome. He’s chubby and cute, and that’s how I call him Panda. The first time we met, when I touched his cheeks as the French style, he became totally red. I found that irresistibly adorable. It was not a “falling in love at first sight,” actually I thought it was just a one-night-stand.…

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Turandot

Metropolitan’s recent production of Turandot was just epic. The costumes, the props and the settings are well-suited classical Chinese, nothing would fall in to cultural appropriation even to a Chinese’s eye. (more…)

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On depression

Marianne: You’d never hit a woman, would you?

Connell: God, no. Why would you ask that?

Marianne: I don’t know. My dad used to hit my mum.

Connell: Jesus, I’m sorry. Did he ever hit you?

Marianne: no. (She started crying)

Connell: Look I’d never hurt you ok? You made me really happy. I love you. I do. I’m not just saying that, Marianne. I really do.

That’s the moment I shut down my computer, and…

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Art is a Remedy

Art is a Remedy

I’ve been struggling with depression for almost all my life. It probably started from early childhood, that when my parents wouldn’t stop fighting (physically) each other, and my mom kept having affairs and beating me whenever she wanted. (more…)

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Paris Life

Paris has been a synonym for many things, arts, romance and love. It’s the most dreamt city in the world. Normally, every girl/ woman wants to come to Paris. I was no exception. I would set up Eiffel Tower as background picture on the phone,  picturing the scenes from Sunset in the evening. Especially after diving into the 20th century literature, Paris was really the art centre for me. (more…)