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Remarkably, I hit the one-year mark in Australia earlier this month. It's been a crazy year - nothing anyone would have imagined - but still flew by. Throughout the year, I kept documenting small …
"No, really, where are you from?" (In Australia this has become "what is your background?") The number of times I've been asked this question is definitely more than the number of times i've been …
Every year, I've been trying to find an experience I've always wanted to have and cross it off the bucket list. For 2020, it was the Literature Festival, for 2019 it was going to …
A friend recently asked me for advice on how to arrange a new apartment. I've gotten similar sentiments from different friends over the years and thought I'd organize my thoughts a bit around the …
I grew up coming to India, almost every year ranging to every couple of years. And each time I came, it seemed consistent. We would stay at my Nani (grandmothers) house and visit a …
One silver lining of the quarantine is that you finally get around to doing the things you've been wanting to do for a while. For me, it's writing. This year, I had the chance …
A sense of home is tied to so many different things. From your cultural or ethnic origin to where you physically live to who you surround yourself with. My understanding of what "home" means …
I've hit the almost 6-month mark of living in Sydney. Insane. Recently, a friend asked me how has living in Sydney has changed me or anything significant I've learned. I thought I would take …
2019 was the year of acceptance for me. From accepting that I can't be everywhere all the time to accepting the bugs that may or may not crawl into my bed at night. It's …
The nature vs. nurture battle has been ongoing for centuries. I started thinking about this early last year after going to CNU26 (Congress for New Urbanism) in relationship to how humans can better construct …
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