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Exciting Life Updates

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

Quangang, China: Language, Music, Geography, Religion and Diasporic Influence

This article first appeared in  Daojia: Revista Eletrônica de Taoismo e Cultura Chinesa in April 2021.

As Year 1 Semester 2 Ends

It’s 9 pm. Earlier this evening, I tapau-ed a macchiato in my trusty SPF hot water flask (it was an ORD gift!) from Pret St Martin’s Lane — my favourite late-night (i.e., open till 11 pm every day) Pret in London. I’ve now settled into a cosy chair in the Round Reading Room of the Maughan Library. Love the wooden tables here; compared to the plastic and metal ones elsewhere in the library, they feel storied and amiable. What a Sunday on which to write this short piece! I just submitted my 4SSPP103 Comparing Political Systems essay (40% of overall grade) on Thursday afternoon. The essay question was on the relationship between globalisation and voting behaviour. After analysing longitudinal data from 18 Asia-Pacific countries, I concluded that globalisation causes voters to swing rightwards because vulnerability is the flip side of connectivity. I spent Friday and Saturday tying up as many stressful loose ends (STRAND magazine and Photovoice SG) as I could. 😩 Thankfully, today has been