Drug Facts Written in English Marketing what I know as Pak Fah Yeow As “White Flower Analgesic Balm” For the temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain To a Westernized audience Mom never reads these drug facts She knows from aa3 po4 that Pak Fah Yeow Is…
On most mornings, while walking to campus, I come across a million smartphones carrying a million people. Bent heads and screensavers, a connectedly disconnected universe. A place where you would rather put on earphones than talk to the stranger nearby or fiddle with your phone gallery than create…
You, the woman who brought me into this world, and carried me in your love and fear, the one who did it all alone with no one by your hospital side, the daughter of parents who left you in poverty. You bring…
Don’t Trust the Mind of a Laotian girl especially if she’s a gemini like me, for the na presented is entirely different from the na you don’t see. so don’t be surprised when she responds in cold texts because she’ll expect you to know she’s not…
ni meiyou bing (you’re not sick) I came to UCLA with a dream that I’d be somehow new. That the real me would just appear. Maybe a day after moving in, my first panic attack. I run away from the dining hall. Between striding and rushing deep into campus, I…