Asia

Academically, it felt like going from a bustling city to a sparsely populated town.

“The Wall” — local people like to address it this way. To locals, the mere length or the grandeur of it does not ring any bells.

I was petrified of volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, high winds, lightning, and even--when I was very young--the sound of the ocean.

My field site was adorned with loads and loads of herps and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Failure in research is essential. If you fear failure it could distort the way you choose projects and ultimately impede science progress.

"As you are about to graduate from college and go into society, we’d like to give you some suggestions."

當我孓然一身喺太平洋嘅另一邊做六個禮拜義工，用我非常有限嘅西班牙話為氣候行動出一分力嘅時候，我實在估唔到，我竟然搵到屬於我嘅家。

As I would spend six weeks on the other side of the Pacific alone, I couldn't believe that I could find my true home — for now.

I recalled that I too had faced the heat of racism but I had conveniently kept this hidden away in some corner of my mind.

"Distress as we may be in, we should hold more firmly to our integrity and never abandon our lofty aspiration."