What should a student do when her two-week-long break from school extends to become five weeks long, you ask? Why, waste time, of course.
Things I've been up to during the break include catching up on K-dramas, reading books and (most productive of all) finally creating a blog! So here it is - my personal record of things I do, thoughts I entertain and places I've been. Stylised 'littleasianone'. What's with the name? Ah, the name, yes. The name that's kind of, almost, somewhat borderline-extra. Here goes. For starters, I'm short. And always have been. I can't exactly recall a time in my life when my line of sight was not at everyone else's shoulder height, and I have come to accept that it shall forever remain that way. But also, I'm extremely proud of my Asian, Chinese heritage. By 'extremely', I mean I would never ever choose to be of a different ethnicity. I hail from a little village in China where everyone shares the same surname - a village that my great-grandparents left behind in order to seek a better life for their children, as well as a town in Malaysia that my other set of grandparents grew up in. I've never known any of my great-grandparents personally, but I'm grateful to have both sets of grandparents in my life to this day. I guess a lot of my love for my heritage comes from the culture and values that I've associated with it - that of respect for elders, community before self and familial ties. Perhaps it's the way I've been brought up, but those aspects of my culture make my life all-the-more rich with meaning and value, strongly influencing who I am today. But I digress too much. Next - why did I choose to create this? Well, I've always wanted to have a place to capture my life on documentation, that's both easy to share with others as well as not just an unreadable page of scribbles (i.e. aesthetically pleasing, to a certain extent), and with this well-needed break from daily academics came the realisation that I've missed writing. Not writing in the sense of essays, reports and analyses (which are all too present in the IB), but writing for my own personal enjoyment, about things I truly care about (this is, of course, definitely not suggesting that I don't care about writing for academic purposes and believe that such writing is a waste of creative energy... right?). And so, on a whim, from midnight to four in the morning, I - with my technologically inept brain and hands - toiled at the 'editor' domain of Weebly to come up with some semblance of a blog, with results that, I must say, have turned out to be relatively satisfactory. Just kidding. I love my blog. Hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I've enjoyed writing thus far :) Love, Ashley x
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