I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

Yet part of me also thinks the whole idea makes perfect sense. The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East.

God, life changes faster than you think.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me. -Lindo