Kobo: Meet the Bookstagrammer
I had the opportunity to be on the other side of the blog interview, with this feature about my blog Hot Pepper Latte from Rakuten Kobo. In case you couldn’t tell, I love reading. So I was thrilled to participate in Kobo’s series of features on bookstragrammers — Instagram users who focus on sharing book…
Hush, Nevermind
My short story “Hush, Nevermind” was published in Living Hyphen’s Issue 2.1 Resistance Across Generations anthology. This was a fictional story inspired by the life of my grandmother Ruby Chung and her immigration story from China at the age of 18 to Jamaica, where she was originally born, and eventually on to Canada in the…
Young Women in Business Toronto
I first became active with Young Women in Business Toronto in 2016 when I was early in my career and looking to connect with like-minded young women. I found their networking events and workshops so helpful that I went on to volunteer with them, ultimately becoming the Vice President, of Community & People before sitting…
Patois, Soon Come
Patois, Soon Come is a personal essay I wrote for LooseLeaf Magazine Volume 4. This issue focused on food as “a way for us to make place and community for ourselves.” In the essay, I examine my relationship to food growing up as a person of Chinese-Jamaican descent and recount my first dining experience at Patois Toronto, a hybrid Asian-Caribbean…
Don’t worry, your career will start soon
Everything I learned from the University of WaterlooThe leaves haven’t changed colour yet, so I didn’t see fall creeping up behind me until we were on the precipice of Thanksgiving. I have a lot to be thankful for, 6 months out of a university degree that I loved I have a good job in the…
Valedictorian: We know about humanity
I had the honour of speaking as the morning Valedictorian for the 2016 graduating class from the University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts. You can watch my address above at the 23:22 mark. A small excerpt of my speech was featured on the Faculty of Arts page and I’ve reproduced some more of my speech below.
Zine Workshops
It started as a hobby to take my mind off school and spend some time with my friends. As of 2020, I’ve made 15 volumes of zines. Many of them I produced myself from the attic of my rental house before going on to teach zine-making workshops in living rooms across the GTA. Monsignor Doyle…
The Performative of Branding
The Performative of Branding is a work term report I wrote for the Department of English at the University of Waterloo as part of their co-op program. The purpose of the report was to connect my studies to my experiences during my internship at the Union Pearson Express during its launch. In this paper, I explore…
Catherine Vendryes 