The relentless Tiger Moms and Dads of Taiwan pretty much have one goal for their high-school bound kids: JG High (for the boys) and TF High (for the girls.) I’m not explicitly naming them because if you’ve heard of them you already know exactly which schools I’m talking about. …

Close your eyes and picture the coronavirus. What does it look like? An indistinct blob covered with little Shrek ears? For every adult Taiwanese, the picture that comes to mind is Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital (和平醫院) in 2003. We fucked up. We fucked up to a degree that is unimaginable…

XNXPs have the reputation of being some of the messiest bitches of the MBTI. So much idea generation, so little output. As perceivers, we revel in exploring possibilities. As intuitives, we do not feel the need to be constrained by this “reality” you speak of. The result, more often than…

My mother was, and is, a hoarder. I grew up amidst her stream of accumulation. I was oppressed by stuff. Suffocated by stuff. Whenever I tried to get her to purge, she always repeated like a broken record, I just need to organize everything better. It’s no surprise that I…

Since its release in 1966, critics and viewers alike have puzzled over Ingmar Bergman’s psychological masterpiece Persona. It’s naive to think it possible to pin a great work of art like Persona down to one interpretation. Yet it is possible to go shockingly far in explicating the film’s many mysteries…

Students of film knows how profoundly the works of Freud influenced the greats in cinema…look no further than Hitchcock. However, I would argue that these days Hollywood is more influenced by the ideas of Jung. Archetype abound, and it seems every hackneyed wannabe screenwriter have a copy of Joseph Campbell’s…

I grew up thinking of conformity as a dirty word. If there is something that is a universal value for my generations (I am either the youngest Gen X’er or the oldest Millennial), it is that there is nothing that is more important than being authentic to yourself. The very…

(Photo by Walid Ahmad on Pexels) On the other side of eternity, there is a small cafe. In it you will find everybody out of all the people you ever knew who were actually real. Your real monkeys. The ones you time-traveled with throughout the millennia as you put on…