Recollections of a 20-year-old

Achievement unlocked: Congratulations Loewe Chan! You are now Level 2.

So it finally happened. I finally hit the big two-oh.

I am twenty-years old! I can’t believe it. I mean… I believe it, of course. I saw it coming as my age grew closer and closer to that number. But nevertheless, it still somehow managed to catch me off guard. I mean really… twenty! It feels like I’m already hitting the mid-life crisis. Is twenty the new fifty, perhaps?

And so I sat down and I tried to comprehend in my head how I got to where I am today. And I completely got immersed into memories of my own childhood.

To Mama Chan

People say I look like my mother. Every time I go back to visit relatives or meet my parents’ friends in Hong Kong, they always bring up our resemblance. Even my mother herself agrees that we look alike. She was especially surprised when she saw my new passport photo that was retaken this year. When she saw it, she exclaimed, “You look exactly like my old passport photo!”

That’s not all. People say I sound like my mother too- especially when I speak in Chinese. That I can kind of understand since my biggest source of Chinese influence comes from my parents and what they say.

And what do I think? 

DIY: Home Fondue

April passed by in a blur with exams, post-exam retail therapy, and beautiful spring weather! Everybody around me is trying to fully utilize our 2-week break before the summer semester starts (this is my excuse for only blogging once in all of April!)

Yesterday my two friends and I met up and attempted a home chocolate fondue party!

The Smartest Guys in the Room

As a Business student, I hear a lot of references to Enron- the main corporation involved in one of the biggest business scandals in American history. Even though I had gotten a gist of what generally happened to the downfall of this company and the stock market, I never really got the chance to learn about the details or the people associated with it. Surprisingly enough, it was through my first-year criminology course (elective choice) that I was able to understand exactly how all these events unfolded. In learning about corporate crime, my professor showed us a documentary directed by Alex Gibney titled “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” (2005).

To Papa Chan for his Birthday

March has been pretty darn busy between midterms and final papers. But I guess that isn’t a good enough excuse to forget my dad’s birthday.

I didn’t forget this year! But my family has forgotten my dad’s birthday more than once. And now it has become one of those funny stories we bring up every time March rolls around. It is also one of those things that resurfaces if my father is losing his side in an argument.

The sad thing is that my mother, sister, and I all know the date of my dad’s birthday. But on the day of, we forget.