Garlic Salt

I was two minutes away from being a gypsy's daughter. Let me explain. One cold Toronto winter, my mom sat huddled on the bus, her m...

Day One We sat around in bean bag circles, sort of like a benign underground brotherhood of nerds, and volleyed questions back and fort...

She kept tearing the piece of wrinkled scrap paper into smaller squares. Another tear. Another shape. Incredible. I made a conscious note...

Yesterday as I was performing my sisterly duties of straightening Jody's hair, I asked her about the dress she was getting tailored for...

On a whim, we took the morning flight into Bagan and biked around the mystical land of 4000 temples. We rented bikes and zig-zagged o...

He ran his fingers through his hair, shiny with grease, and brandished his practiced smile. Let me be your tour guide. Your bodyguard. Your...

Beneath the red plastic streamers hung from the yellow lamps in a cheerful effort to look festively Asian, we sat in silence, trying to figu...

Exactly 39 minutes after I posted my whiny blog post comparing wisdom teeth pains to period pains, I got this email: "Hi Sisi, Pls ...

The week after New Years is always filled with delicious determination, a little guilt, and a few shelved promises. I like hearing about oth...

There were a lot of pathetic apologies from my end (I wasn't sure what I was supposed to apologize for). There were a lot of swearing an...

I told a guy friend on skype today that I was thinking of growing out my hair. Without hesitation or the slightest reservation, he wrote ...

As I walked into the office bathroom this morning, the cleaning ayi stormed out. I asked her if everything was ok. She shook her head, dangl...

One unreasonably late night, around two months ago, I sent in my resume for a job to fold clothes. There were definite pros and cons in th...

The doctor said that I was way too stressed and that was why my body was freaking out. She nodded sympathetically at my mom and told her tha...

I shocked my team today. They felt so uncomfortable that none of them could look at me. Because I apologized in public. And Chinese leaders ...

Around a month ago, I whined my way through an application for the Ashoka Changemakers global competition. The topic was Financial Inclusion...

I purposely took out all the exclamation points here because I am at a risk of becoming one of those bloggers who is just so! excited! for! ...

"So what's the difference between Thai and Khmer (Cambodian) massage?" Pausing every two words in her pieced together English,...

On Friday, QQ was buzzing with posters that called for mass protests against the Japanese government's purchase of the disputed Diaoyu/ ...

When the bishop gives me an assignment to read church talks about the joys of marriage every single night, I'm like: And then, ...