Posts published by “Jonathan Lai”

So this week I was planning to write about food, but that was last night at 2 a.m.. Since then I have reached the new amazing idea of what I recently discovered.

As a first-generation Malaysian Chinese American with a college-educated parent, a big part of my upbringing was preparing for college. Or, at the very least, instilling the idea that a successful life starts with a four-year college degree and any other degree after that.

I first smelt it on my way to the Chinese Student Association meeting. Cruising down campus on my booster board to Burchard Hall with the wind rushing past me, I was enjoying the pleasant smell of the campus until my dream world got interrupted by something foul.

There comes a point in everyone’s life where you need to say enough is enough. While for some, that might be because of an annoyingly strict professor or an overbearing parent, for me, it is none of those things.