This is a now page. I will update the page roughly once a month to share where I am, what I'm focusing on, and what I don't do.
From my new apartment room in Ottawa, ON, Canada, where I can see the beautiful autumn leaves falling and sense the beginning of winter.
Back from Malawi
After almost two years of beautiful time in Malawi, I returned to Canada with a great passion to keep building my life and career in the impact sector. To continuously expose myself to the complex issues our world embodies, I also moved to Ottawa, ON, the capital city of Canada, where many government agencies and non-profits are based. By immersing myself in the world's most urgent problems, I'd like to challenge today's societal, economic, and educational systems. I won't relocate again until I renew my Canadian permanent residency by at least 2027.
More reading and writing
It's been a lazy summer this year: spending three months in Japan catching up with families and friends, travelling across the country (though it was too hot), and enjoying a pile of my brother's old manga in our parents' house. Being fully recharged, it's time to activate my brain. To begin with, I will restart writing regularly, while rethinking the use of my tech-for-good newsletter.
Meanwhile, I'm recently reading about social design/entrepreneurship methodologies for my next project. I'm also thinking of investing my time in professional certificates in ICT (e.g., ITIL, CSPO); even though I tend to avoid them for the theory-practice gap, the structured knowledge seems to be an essential asset to work with(in) governments and international organizations worldwide.
Learning French
More than 35% of the population in Ottawa is bilingual, for its proximity to the French-speaking province of Quebec, as well as the Government of Canada itself. So, I would feel it's unjust if I didn't spend effort on acknowledging bilingualism and practicing French. Little by little, I'm learning the basics and vocabulary through apps and books.