and affected me mentally and physically — The first half-year of 2022 feels like a whole year already. So many events, good and bad, have fluctuated my perception regarding the world I live in. I thought pandemic trained me well to be adaptive. But not so much. …

My grandpa was the coolest. When I was still young probably five or six, I used to picture him as a king of a dynasty. He walked slowly with dignity. He typed work documents with a fifty-kilogram typing machine. He used the calligraphy brush to write Chinese proverbs on a…

by doing the actual running as an exercise — I have heard this phrase hundreds of times. Every time someone said it, I imagined a runner running on a straight flat track with a constant pace from starting point until the finish line. Once I got into the actual running exercise, I grasped the message of this phrase differently…

A story about me and lovely people in Nagorno-Karabakh — In 2019, I traveled to Armenia with two friends. I like to travel, but imagining myself traveling to not-so-touristy places makes me worried in terms of safety. I am a fan of solo traveling, but I have to be more logical than being impulsive as a woman. When they asked…

The question which drives me crazy but also positively pushes me to think about it seriously. — I am still stuck in the paradigm that it would be cool to climb the career ladder, introduce myself some time in the future as manager of … or even better as vice president of … . I am still far away from there. Switching from a full-time engineering role…

With actions? Words? I understand how they love me : ) — In the Instagram posts shared by @ourgrandfatherstory, Auntie Mui Lan said, “In our culture, we don’t really say I love you (to our family members). … actions speak louder than words.” Honestly, I don’t remember ever saying that to my family. I used to tell my parents, “Papa, Mama, sehat-sehat…

I don’t remember exactly; probably, I was ten years old. My mother noticed that I was always skinny though I ate a lot. She took me to swimming lessons to increase my appetite and fed me well after that, even in good restaurants. No matter what, I was still skinny…

To dream, create joy, discover our truth, and become a content soul — reflection from a song — It has been 13 years since I learned this contemporary song by Eric Whitacre with the university choir. In the beginning, I saw the score; I thought this was the weirdest…

It will change us for the better — In engineering —and in my own version, communication is a process of transmitting any form of information from the sender to the receiver. The receiver has its own processing methodology to interpret the information it receives. Then, the receiver sends the ‘acknowledgment’ status back to the sender, whether the information…