There are sometimes small voices in my head that tells me, don’t let it win.

I’ve always been the kind-of person that when something or someone liked me, I would run away automatically. The pressure would be too large and too intense. It reminded me of what it was like to grow up in a Chinese Chinese family. I think it is possible to separate those into different categories. Just Chinese is definitely a category, and then Overseas Chinese, which can be separated into Chinese-American, Chinese-British, Chinese-Malay. But what also seems wonderful is the separation of the Chinese identities into their own diasporas: Hong Kong is one, as is Singapore. I think they’d have a lot to say if you tried to tell the folks from that diaspora that they’re not their own separate entity. They’d hate that.