Rants and Rambles

The sheer delight of waking up to snow and the parallel terror of realizing you haven't turned your heat on before going to bed Having been snowed (ha!) under so many assignments and applications, I haven't published on this blog for quite a while. Thankfully, the last of the two weeks of winter break gave me a long-yearned rest from all the work piling up. And here I am, sitting in an overly-heated room with the rhythmic tapping of the rain ahead lulling me into sleep, furiously typing the last blog of 2022.  The last day of school in the year signed off with one of the most memorable school days I've had: Breakfast with Santa, a school-wide breakfast that has been an integral tradition of my school. We gathered around tables stretching the vast expanse of the main hallway festooned with decorations, from Santa inflatables to reindeer string lights illuminating the school beyond the lead-cast dawn. Surrounded by the festive tunes of the school jazz band, I ducked into a fu...

  Originally published in ink  Volume V (2022), Vancouver Public Library Cheers to 3 years of contributing to  ink As a high school student living with parents in an old suburb of Vancouver, there aren’t many options for having fun at night, except convincing myself to either get enough sleep or finishing my homework.   At 9:30 pm, I should either be preparing for tomorrow’s notes or bundled up in a warm blanket with a TV show on hand. But one Friday night, I didn’t do either of those things. I had already finished my History assignment at school, and there was really nothing else to do. A thought popped into my head: “Oh dear, I would die for some bánh mì loaded with ham and topped with chock-full of veggies and pickles.” My pocket money didn’t allow for an extravaganza meal at a dimly lit Vietnamese restaurant on the east side of the city, so I begged my dad to drive me to the nearest… Subway. After some mouth-drying persuasions, here I was, buckled at the front...