Ziyi

I'd say I miss life as it was... but isn't this part n parcel of it all too? the sweet n sour, exhilations and despondence... a melting pot of it all

Until tomorrow, we'll still be kids playing pranks like this

Hearts full, getting back on track for exciting times ahead @ Bưu điện trung tâm Sài Gòn

book of changes

precious everyday moments... 17203km away

may we never allow the apparent depravity of reality shrivel our wonder and our love for mother Earth and all her creations

4th August |

I've never been much of a celebratory or festive kinda person, and own birthday has never been much of a special occasion to me, but being a ridiculously sentimental human bean I still gotta write a lil chunk here.

The clock is ticking, people constantly cross paths, move on from phase to phase, but through the laughters and the tears, the achievements and the struggles, the heartfelt conversations and the superficial exchanges - the memories, growth and lessons learnt stay in an abstract space deep down in one's soul.

The past 13 months living abroad has been an incredible period of exponential x everything, growing so so much through this whole time and being so friking blessed to have met so many wonderful souls that has made me felt like home everywhere I went.

So thank you for being part of one another's journey, I'm so excited for all that's yet to come

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Momento mori - "remember you must die": with the universal inescapable commonality from the beginning of time to the end, it doesn't mean to strike morbid fear. Death does not make life pointless but rather purposeful, it is indeed a reminder to continue living a life of virtue from every moment on.

Seneca urged in his Moral Letters to Lucilius, “Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day… The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”

w my enviro-conscious grandma :)

D-15 to home

it's been such a wonderful two months w Philanthropy in Motion 💓 indeed a period of exponential growth, exposure and threading out the path I'm gonna take moving forward

so much to reflect upon and talk about but shall just keep it short here

will sure be back sooner than I expect

真的好爱大家
感恩此次缘分
期待下次相遇 @ Beijing, China

real Yale students don't even take photos like this ......