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“My PhD is on health tech innovation, looking at how current advances in healthcare have changed the doctor-patient relationship, and how the health system views the body.”

“As immigrants in California, my family and I cook a lot of Filipino food at home. My favourites are adobo, which is a flavourful chicken or pork stew, and dinuguan, a pork blood stew also known as chocolate meat.”

“I’m a Bartender at Night Hawks, a new bar that just opened in mid-2022. I’ll usually go for any drink, especially if it’s free, since it’s part of my job to try everything out there, but baijiu (Chinese liquor) is a no for me—it tastes like vomit!”

“My first tattoos are the ones on my fingers. I wanted to test my threshold of pain, so I got my first ones on my fingers, and my next ones on my leg, near my ankle. Back then, not many artists were willing to tattoo fingers because there are so many nerves there, so I really had to go around asking different artists and studios if they could do it for me. But now, it’s a lot more common.”

“One piece of advice I live by is to not take life too seriously, because life is really short. I’m a practicing yogi, so I believe that we are not our bodies. Our bodies are just machines that we’ll use for a little while in this life, before we drop it off and pick up new bodies again and again in our subsequent lives.”