I know I haven’t been updating this blog because I’m too lazy. Years 2 and 3 have been an exciting flurry of business (both work and busy-ness). I constantly spew bite-sized thoughts that stream into my mind on Instagram Stories anyway, and I am remarkably easily bored and excitable, so longer, more considered pieces on Blogger aren’t sustainable. I digress. Many exciting life updates! I’m now officially done with my undergraduate PPE programme at King’s College London. I loved every bit of it: the depth, rigour and intellectual intensity of the course, the international student community, the bustling city of London and all the travel opportunities around Europe. Words can’t do justice to the profundity of the experience. In typical Quincean fashion, I milked everything I could out of the three years: went to Cumberland Lodge (for free) as a photographer with the Philosophy Department in Years 1 and 3, clinched the Principal’s Global Leadership Award (PGLA) in my second year (spending
As you may know, I started researching Hokkien in 2013 together with one of my closest friends, Lee Xuan Jin , when I was in Secondary One. We started Hok Heng — The Revival in 2014 for the HCI Projects Competition. Our Penang counterparts at Speak Hokkien Campaign have been posting flashcards for a few years now, trying to find Chinese-character transliterations of Penang Hokkien terms, especially Malay loanwords. For fun, I decided to invent a new Chinese character for “bus”, for which no existing character fits the bill due to phonological and morphological disparities. ∎