A personal blog that explores in-between places, languages, and states of being
An afternoon coffee at King’s Parade. Tourists were many. The chapel was big. The beggar sitting five meters away from me was a little too loud: Do you have any changes please? Excuse me do you hear me? Don’t say sorry don’t lie to me. You liar any changes please? The pigeon he scared off […]
Sometimes I feel I don’t need to live more lives. All there needs to be experienced has already been experienced. I don’t say this in a negative sense. What I mean is, what matters most is already there. It’s never gone. It might have been closer the moment we were born. Life, the societal life, […]
Today in our research methods seminar on designing experiments, when we were talking about choosing informants, the professor asked why a psychologist tends to choose participants from university students. Someone said it was meant to represent the general population. Yes, that’s the intention, but they fail at it. Psychology as a science, he said, is […]
It is a transformative thing to realize that this moment is this moment. Is not this moment, nor this moment. Each moment is distinct, continuous yet separate from the last and the next moment. When the mind realizes that, it becomes one with the one and only, which is this single moment. There’s nothing to […]
“Sensual love blinds us to heavenly love; by itself it could not do so, but since it contains the element of heavenly love unconsciously within it, it can.” I always remembered this phrase, which he showed me when we had lunch at that Mediterranean restaurant in Chapel Hill. We were friends, in between stages of […]
The wind will come when the wind will come. The flower will bloom when the flower will bloom. The life will be born when the life will be born. Death will come when death will come. We’ll talk again when we’ll talk again. Most likely, I can’t say for sure. We’ll talk again when we’ll […]
There’s a big tree right in front of my window. It takes my sunlight and gives me some green. There are these days so beautiful that you don’t know how to spend them. Spider webs sparkle across the air, connecting spaces, still and mysterious. I don’t know how much I understood from my phonetics lecture […]
今天是爷爷的生日。爷爷的生日是九月初七。[…]
Right before coming to Cambridge, I wondered if I needed to attend some kind of orientation for new international students. I in fact emailed the university international students’ office to ask about this, and the answer was no, as such events did not receive particularly positive feedback from students in the past years. I was […]
Beautiful landscapes are like a piece of art that’s fallen on earth. Among them there’s this place called Cambridge. Like a wooden sculpture carved straight out of a tree trunk, it’s exquisite and ancient, natural and full of life. I’ve lived at different places. From the metropolitan Shanghai, to the rolling hills painted by pads […]