Author Archives: Joanne Lam

Just a quick post before I read a little bit of the news and head to bed. I can’t believe we’re already heading towards mid July, which means I have about 6 weeks left in Hong Kong before I head back to Boston. What do I have to prepare? I don’t really want to thinkContinue reading “Hold me!”

This past weekend, I went out into the woods and went rock climbing. The last time I went “rock climbing” was in middle school with a man made climbing wall, if that makes sense. A friend of mine invited me and I said yes in a heart beat. I have never rock climbed out inContinue reading “Hanging by a thread: Rock climbing”

It’s been a week and a half since I’ve been back in Hong Kong, but I haven’t updated much from my last few weeks in Canada. During my month in Toronto, my relatives and I took a trip to Veradero, Cuba. We went to a nice resort with all you can eat and all youContinue reading “A little delayed but Veradero, CUBA”

It’s something we all strive for, some more than others. We all want to be known, to have our names be mentioned, to be acknowledged for whatever we worked for but that doesn’t happen as much as we wish for it to happen. As I was helping my cousin paint her new house today, IContinue reading “The constant desire to leave our mark”

Just the last few weeks, I’ve had the chance to read “Humanity” by Jonathan Glover. It’s quite a dense book, lots of history, lots of philosophy and requires a good amount of reflection nearly after every paragraph. This afternoon as I was sitting in my grandmother’s house, I picked up the book, opened to aContinue reading “Our self-created narratives…”