Explore Beijing with me!

Hey all! 你们好！

If you’ve been wondering why I’ve been AWOL over the past few months, it’s because I’ve been a little busy. Oh, and I’m in Beijing now. No big deal.

I figured I’d better discover my own cultural heritage before immersing myself in other various continents, getting lost out in the big wide world.

I’ll be here for a year til mid-late February 2015 so I have plenty of time to explore everything Beijing (and beyond!) has to offer. I’m actually supposed to be here to study Chinese, as my year abroad is part of my degree – but of course, I’m loving the process of settling into a new culture… and reaping the benefits of being a hungry journalism student in a foreign city on the lookout for internships and authentic experiences.

So if you want to keep updated on my travels (I’ll talk Chinese food, sights, language, culture, fashion, etiquette, even travel advice), head on over to Beijing on a Bike! Vroom vroommm…

The Beijing Egg.. er, National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院)

#AustraliaNeedsPoliticalPropaganda

The Sunday Telegraph (September 1, 2013)

Would you like some propaganda with that?

Time to rant.

This hair, uh, girl, is on fire: Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue

Jennifer Lawrence for VOGUE September 2013

“She’s just a girl and she’s on fire…”

Okay, no, I didn’t just listen to that song (thanks, Ms Keys!) and think of Jennifer. Absolutely not.

But on a Wednesday in a cafe… I met My Korean Husband

What a nice! Photo: Peter Phan

Why do people become journalists? To tell stories? Meet famous people? Because they love having to live on a budget for the rest of their lives while they satisfy their creative tendencies?

Film review: “Despicable Me 2”

Photo: Universal Pictures

UTS Journalism covers the 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival with ‘At the Festival’

At the Festival

To celebrate the return of the Sydney Writers’ Festival in 2013, the Graduate School of Journalism, UTS provided extensive coverage on the various events, author talks and highlights of the popular Australian literary festival in a publication called At the Festival.

Today, I leave my teenage years behind. Farewell, Care Bear. Farewell, Mr Potter.*

My 19th birthday cake yeryeryer | Kelli Ng

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling… old.

Note, 12am 24/05/13: I wrote this post at 3:50am on 23/05/13. Everything you’re about to read is actually completely irrelevant since I unknowingly set my b’day on viewable to ‘only me’ on Facebook, LOL. I’m not even TRYING to be uncool. It just happens *shrugs* See more under the T Swizzle video.

Could you Live Below the Line? #Goodwill

Photo: Live Below the Line via Eventfinder

Hey everyone!

This post is dedicated to a cause that’s really important to me, because it’s extremely unjust that many people in the world go without food, water and shelter, which are essential survival basics, especially compared to more the tangible stuff like iPads and Jeffrey Campbells.

Film review: “Warm Bodies”

Photo: Summit Entertainment

Harper’s Bazaar Australia collabs with Karen Walker, I die of happiness

Harper’s Bazaar Australia April 2013

Hold up, hold up… yes, this is another magazine-related post.

Sorry, but there’s really nothing better than damn good magazine covers. Except… damn good free gifts that come with magazines.