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Nov 11, 2021

Heading Towards Memories

Death in video games is nothing new. The majority of games are designed for the player to enact death onto enemies, bosses, and other players in order to progress and/or while trying to avoid death themselves. Thunder Lotus Games’ Spiritfarer approaches death through a different lens. It asks the player…

Video Games

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Heading Towards Memories
Heading Towards Memories
Video Games

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Dec 31, 2020

My Ten Favourite Anime Episodes I Watched This Year

My Ten Favourite Anime Episodes I Watched This Year For the past few years now, I have written a list of my favourite songs of the year. However, this year I haven’t listened to enough new music to justify a new list. To be honest, I have found it very…

Anime

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Anime

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Jun 29, 2020

The Three Games That Have Left Their Mark on Me During Quarantine

Soothing Islands The first game want to talk about today is a game I didn’t have much interest in. I had never played an Animal Crossing game before New Horizons. People play games for a multitude of reasons, whether it’s competition and a challenge, to be immersed in a world…

Videogames

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The Three Games That Have Left Their Mark on Me During Quarantine
The Three Games That Have Left Their Mark on Me During Quarantine
Videogames

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Dec 9, 2019

All Decade: My Favourites in Music

So since it’s the end of the decade instead of simply listing my favourite songs of the year, I decided to make things way more difficult for myself and make a list of all my favourite songs of the decade. Why 55 and not 50, because I gave myself those…

Music

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Music

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Published in The Asian Canadian

·Nov 28, 2019

Have You Eaten Yet?

You have tattoos and others have piercings, but for me, there’s nothing that says more about me than the food I choose to carry every single day. As a kid trying to maintain my identity in America, my Chinese was passable, my history was shaky, but I could taste something…

Canada

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Canada

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Nov 2, 2019

The Things Our Roots Hold Onto

In the second grade, we learned about why our salvation was tied to the grace and mercy of god. To illustrate this point our teacher shared with the class a fable in picture book form. The fable used seeds as a metaphor for people and focused on all the tragedies…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Published in The Asian Canadian

·Oct 9, 2019

The State of Xinjiang

I wrote this paper last April. I was never going to publish it because I was worried about the consequences to it. However, as the summer has moved into the fall and the protests in Hong Kong have not died down and as the PRC escalates the violence and as…

China

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The State of Xinjiang
The State of Xinjiang
China

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Jul 31, 2019

What a School Means

“Why do people fight for schools like Dyett? Why did the Coalition continue to fight even after those in power assured them of their own victory? Because it was never just about Dyett. A fight for a school is never just about a school. A school means the potential for…

Education

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What a School Means
What a School Means
Education

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Published in The Asian Canadian

·Apr 1, 2019

For the Culture

The first conversation I ever had about race was during a parent-teacher interview when I was in the first grade. Growing up in the 90’s as many other kids, I idolized Michael Jordan. The only problem was I grew up in Calgary, Alberta and no one else in my school…

Race

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Race

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Published in The Asian Canadian

·Jan 27, 2019

What does it feel like to assimilate?

Assimilation feels like discovering new ways to bend myself into a question mark / to fit an answer to the question no but where are you really from

Poetry

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Poetry

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