Sharon Chau
Valentine’s Day in Oxford: $$$ Edition
This article was published in Cherwell as part of my food column on 14 Feb 2023. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and whether...
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Oxford Date Nights Restaurants
This article was published in Cherwell as part of my food column on 16 Jan 2023. A perennial head-scratcher: where should I take my date...
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Labour, Get Off Your Moral High Horse
Keir Starmer’s tweet on 19 February 2021 reads, ‘Harold Wilson said the Labour Party is “a moral crusade or it is nothing”’. This...
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daily espresso XII: bullshit jobs
One of my favourite books of all time is by David Graeber, provocatively named Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. As the self-explanatory title...
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daily espresso XI: the French are rude?
One of my bosses was in a meeting where I was taking the minutes - and he’s a big potato, so I was sat all prim and proper, afraid even...
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daily espresso X: meta espresso
For my tenth (finally after much procrastination!) daily espresso, I wanted to do some meta investigative work. One very cool feature of...
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daily espresso IX: tiger parenting vs DINK
At work, my team asked me who I had had lunch with. I replied that my sister Helen was opening a new American bank account at HSBC, which...
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daily espresso VIII: long d
Today marks Hari and my 'one month long-distance anniversary'. When I announced that at family dinner, my mom remarked, 'Kids these days...
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daily espresso VII: snow white skin
I was having breakfast with my dad this morning, before we took the MTR (the tube) to work together. It’s become a really nice routine,...
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daily espresso VI: beach please
Today was family beach day, which Helen and I had been looking forward to for a while. We were going with our family friends, who owned a...
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daily espresso V: book fair and Hong Kong politics
Last night, I went to the Hong Kong Book Fair with one of my besties and fellow book lover, Gwyneth. The fair is a massive event hosted...
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daily espresso IV: bamboo ceiling and racism
Yesterday, I had a nice chat with one of my best friends, Trevor, an incredibly clever economist who has an equally clever blog (check it...
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daily espresso III: working hard vs hardly working from home
I was sent home from work a couple of days ago because someone from the office had caught Covid, and my manager was unfortunately a close...
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daily espresso II: why my family data plan disproves the collective action problem
My family shares a data plan, where we have 20GB per month between the four of us. There is some control over the distribution of data...
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daily espresso I: porn vs erotica
I’ve made a summer resolution to post on my blog every day. The reason behind this is simple: I’m currently paying for a website which...
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Review: The Right To Sex By Amia Srinivasan
Coined by Judith Butler as a ‘major new work of feminist philosophy’ that ‘opens up debates about sex, pornography, justice and liberty’,...
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Review: 2021 Laundry List of Books
This article was also published on The Oxford Student. Link: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2022/01/09/review-2021-laundry-list-of-books/....
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Why I dreamt of becoming a housewife
When I was 16, my life aspirations were pretty simple. I wanted to be a housewife. I wanted to graduate from a good uni, get a good job...
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Voter ID: Detrimental to democracy?
This article was co-authored with Ciara Garcha and published as a debate piece in The Oxford Student on 30th May 2021. Link:...
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Should feminists advocate for men’s issues?
This article was co-authored with Uri Shine and published as a debate piece in The Oxford Student on 26th May 2021. Link:...
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