Part I: My Takeaways In the past four years, I’ve enrolled in four universities as a student on three continents and as far as group projects go there are at least four types of people present when a group is larger than five: Freerider: this goes without saying Leader: the Read more…
In my book Another Place, there’s a chapter titled Typical People. In that chapter, I highlight how other typical foreign students in Berlin spend their time on drinking, expensive coffees, and dress in high-fashion just to impress their peers. I don’t call them my peers because that would imply that Read more…
Compared to some of the other people I’ve written about in this section, I haven’t known Seth for too long. We got to know each other through a Christian Fellowship group in out first year of university then we discovered that we had the same love of adventure and same Read more…
Growing up ISBN: 978-131-01221-2-5 This was my second book, but first to publish in 2015. It was written as a wedding gift for my cousin who got married in 2016, you should’ve seen her face! Anyways, I shared very few but very deep memories during my childhood days in Canada and Read more…
Adventures at the office ISBN 978-988-14890-0-5 This was my first ever book written in 2011 and published in 2016. It was an experiment into my own writing style and a journey of discovery on my passion for the written word. The story revolves around my short placement in an accounting Read more…
Being a citizen of a country must grant you certain rights and freedoms right? But Canada begs to differ. I’ve tried to apply for an ID card and a driver’s license only to be turned away by ICBC in Vancouver because I wasn’t resident in Canada. I mean sure, I Read more…
The first class was a little slow as the Professor was just trying to get to know the students and get acquainted with our lacking level of engagement. The real “first class” was the second class, where we were asked to bring in recent stories and discuss the definition of Read more…
I was flying to Vancouver for the VSP in late May when I was seated next to a very kind stranger – Ocean. He is an expert application developer from Victoria (the capital of B.C.) and the proud owner of rolia.net. Rolia is a website connecting the Asian minority community Read more…
If where I live in the eastern end of East Berlin is the deep east, Westphalia is the deep west of Germany. It is in fact, so far west, that although the mainstream culture and foods are generally the same as in the east, a lot of the special events Read more…
The valley of the River Wupper, that’s what its name means. The little town is very narrow and stretches along both banks of the river. Once an industrial and mining powerhouse it is now a quiet town of less than half a million people. There are plenty of neo-classical buildings Read more…