I never thought I would read the Communist Manifesto. Growing up in Hong Kong, capitalism seemed as normal as the sun. This changed after visiting Singapore’s hawker center. Good food at cheap prices for hard working people who provide for themselves and their families. It did not seem that much…

Foreword: I highly recommend reading my article on Hong Kong: More than just a ‘SAR’ in order to gain more context Singapore is a city-state situated at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula. Onlookers would marvel at the country’s miraculous growth over the past decades. …

Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of People’s Republic of China. SAR is an administrative division of China, a singular, centralised state. Behind that sentence, Hong Kong hides its true self of being a quasi-state. …

A hugely controversial company that aims to transform the future of transportation, and our world by introducing an electricity revolution, Tesla has been in the media spotlight for years. …

Chinese culture places heavy value on one’s academic successes, stemming partly from the country’s long history around education, and this is one of the underlying factors that makes Gaokao (the college entrance exam) so notoriously difficult. Similar situations can be seen across different societies with affinities to Chinese culture. In…

With the pandemic, the world is shifting into a changing new reality that we are experiencing, and seeing in front of our eyes. One of the biggest change for me personally, is attending Zoom University. My college is located in New York City, but I am currently residing in China…

I have recently been given a car from my dad to drive around. It is a car 10 years old and it has done 150k miles/240k kilometers but still in surprisingly good condition thanks to my dad having done good maintenance on it. But as I drive around, I can’t…

Until recently, international students have been granted the permission to take online classes while remaining in the US. This all changes on July 6th 2020, when the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) modifies temporary exemptions for foreign students. Nonimmigrant F-1 and M-1 students attending schools operating entirely online may not…

With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, it would be foolish to keep thinking that things will go back to ‘normal’. The truth is, the world has been fundamentally altered. In this essay, I will make and explain my predictions for the world until around 2030. Theme 1: The pandemic The pandemic will be over in…