Category: Deep Breaths
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First Conference Attendance!
Hi everyone! This is another big update on my part. I can only hope that my words do well enough to show you how awesome my time has been so far. I should start off by saying I have had many opportunities given to me by my professors/supervisors to share my MA thesis work to…
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Now a Freelance Research Assistant! (I guess?)
It has been 3 months in my new Teaching Assistant position and all I can say is I am grateful. Of course, there are so many other words I can use! Exhausted, lost, and frustrated are some negative ones. Fortunate, happy, and confident are some positive ones. The first term has proven to be a…
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Ending my 2021 Summer Vacation!
The date is 29/8/2021 as I’m writing this. Today marks the last day of a very special circumstance. By resigning from and leaving my previous job at the end of June and having my next secured job starting at the end of August, that gave me 2 months with no obligations, no deadlines, and no…
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My first ever (mini-)conference!
Hi there! It’s been a while since I posted anything on my blog (let alone touch the darn thing, haha!). Let me first start by saying that: I’ve had 2 jobs since my last post (both being teachers in a tutorial centre and a playgroup centre). I am going to start being a TA for…
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5, 6, 7, 8
I only started taking dancing classes about 4 years ago, but my love for dance kindled its first spark as early as six years old. The obsession that ignited this flaming passion started, in fact, not by choice. I was forced to join a dancing competition during my secondary school days. I had so much…
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Building up Self-confidence
Everyone I know would say that I am incredibly approachable and some have even said that I had a special charisma and a trusting aura. The closest few admitted to being in persistent surprise, having said I was “multi-talented and inspiring”. However, in spite of my sociable persona, my easy success in making new friends,…
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‘Many’ Me / ‘很多’的我
(中文版本詳見下方) Growing up as an ethnic minority in Hong Kong does things to you. Hong Kong likes to say it’s international – and within reason it is very international at face value – but it does it in a way like how a mixed-race person will yell at you that they’re 1/18th Scottish when they’re…
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First Breath
I take in everything the world has to offer – good or bad – and my thoughts come out. Metaphorically, I could say: humans take in oxygen, respiration occurs, carbon dioxide comes out. Hence the theme. I’ve decided to write these thoughts down and share them with readers like I have done with my peers.…
Carleon Mendoza 