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Helen Chong

Hello! Welcome to my personal blog! I am Helen Chong, a Millennial queer, autistic and visually impaired Malaysian Chinese person who goes by they/them or she/her pronouns. This blog is available in the following languages: English, 简体中文

September 2026

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My Student Showcase Presentation Permalink to section 'My Student Showcase Presentation' # My school, 42 Malaysia, just held a roadshow event on Tuesday and Wednesday. Two weeks ago, I and two other classmates were invited by my school's campus staff to take part in a student showcase during the roadshow event, then...
Preparing for Student Showcase Presentation Permalink to section 'Preparing for Student Showcase Presentation' # I mentioned in my previous weekly recap post that I and two other classmates were invited by the campus staff of my school, a Malaysian campus of 42 the computer science school to take part in a student...
Inspired by the weekly and monthly recap posts by other bloggers, I decided to start writing such form of blog posts myself as a way to share what I have been up to, and interesting things I have discovered. Quarterly School Gathering and Open Day Permalink to section 'Quarterly School Gathering and Open Day' # This...
2025 is coming to an end. I do not typically plan new year resolutions, because the older I got, the more aware I am of how unpredictable the future can be, and unexpected things that can disrupt our plan can happen anytime. That does not mean that I do not have anything to look forward to in 2026, however....
Having to endure an unscheduled water supply cut that lasted more than a day was not in my 2025 bingo card, let alone having to experience it twice in the same year. In late May, my house experienced the longest unexpected water supply disruption in my life — an unexpected breakdown of the main pumps that channel...
On 6 October 2025, I returned to school by officially attending the core programme of my local campus of 42 the computer science school, after having passed the school's 26-day bootcamp named the Piscine in May. On 16 October 2025, I completed Milestone 0, the very first milestone of the core programme, by...
19 September 2025 marks the first anniversary of my membership of omg.lol, a web platform consists of various services. Happy omg.lol Birthday to me! 🥳 On this day in 2024, I joined omg.lol after successfully bidding a lifetime membership during omg.lol's fundraising campaign for St. Jude, then a month later, I...
Ever since I met my uncle's dog, Bak Baan, for the first time in late January 2025 during Lunar New Year, seeing Bak Baan has become what I look forward to most when we visit our family's durian plantation, for which my uncle is the main caretaker, in my parents' hometown. In early April, during the Qingming...
On August 1st afternoon, I finally watched the Hong Kong film "The Way We Talk" (看我今天怎麼說) in the cinema. "The Way We Talk" was a film I had been wanting to see for months. I had heard of the film since the late 2024, including the news about the leading actress, Chung Suet Ying, won Best Leading Actress in the 61st...
July is the birth month of both my father and I. We both had nice birthday celebration at home in this July. In my case, I got to enjoy roti canai as lunch in a local café, buy a cute banana plushie as my birthday present this year, and then enjoy tiramisu as my birthday cake at home. In early July, I bought myself...
This post is my contribution to the June 2025 IndieWeb Carnival, themed "Take Two" and hosted by Nick Simson. Throughout my over three decades of life, I have had various interests。 However, there is an interest that was technically lifelong, but I did not explore as much as I could in the early days, so it took a...
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 June 2025 marked the first Pride Month since Galaxy Garden was officially launched in October 2024, so I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate my queerness in the context of personal blogging. When I blogged for the first time in the later half of the 2000s as a teenager and...

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