Sandra Cao
Creative Corner: Baking in a new country
May 25, 2024When I was eight years old, I moved to Canada from India. Everything felt new and foreign, but the one constant in my life these first few years after moving was my affinity for cakes. As a child, cakes were only available to me on special occasions, like birthdays. These cakes came in multiple flavours and always had flowery designs. Back in my country, I didn’t have an oven, so the process of baking was always unknown to me. Because of my interest in cakes, my mom watched a recipe on TV and tried to make me a cake in…
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Food for Thought: The transformations of adobo
May 12, 2024As a second-generation Filipino Canadian, I grew up eating adobo. My favourite version of adobo is my mom’s “adobong manok,” or “chicken adobo,” which consists of chicken and chicken liver simmered in a savoury and tangy mixture of soy sauce…
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Video games that helped me cope with health anxiety
March 13, 2024Content warning: mentions of illness and death. Illness anxiety, previously called hypochondria, is a type of anxiety where the affected person constantly believes they have a serious medical problem. For me, every new freckle signals cancer, and the common cold…
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Ms. Valentine Presents: SFU Hookup Locations
February 12, 2024Hello, all you SFU lovebirds! I, Ms. Valentine, have wisdom to bestow on all couples, from those who met in class last week to the high school sweethearts (congrats on making it this far). Think of me as the older…
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