One of My Life Goals Is to Be the First Search Result When You Google My Name
About Me
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Are you stalking me online? Good news: I’ve written a list of my personal information here. Bad news: 90 percent of it is behind a paywall. Pay up, suckers.
Basic Information
Name: Shirley Lee
Age: 24
What I have been doing for fun: Being addicted to a mobile game called Shop Titans (playing it overnight, skipping sleep kind of addicted), reading, watching TV shows, napping, cooking (but was actually just blanching vegetables and freezing them), writing / making stuff online, general attention-seeking and rambling nonsense on the Internet
Recent word and content diet: anything related to Killing Eve series 3, most things related to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Atlanta, all Outdoor Chef Life videos, Daily Dose of Internet videos, videos by the Toe Bro, some Special Books by Special Kids videos, tons of other cooking videos; anything related to three recent Hong Kong movies (yes, I’ve bought the movie-based novel) and a recent Hong Kong TV show
Languages: Cantonese (mother tongue), English (hopefully fluent), Mandarin (It’s worse than ever. I haven’t used the language in ages), Japanese…? (I am on a 150-day Duolingo streak, but I can’t even recognize half of the alphabet)
A song written about me: https://youtu.be/7kitKTKStOM
Updates / FAQs
So, what’ve you been up to?
Passed the second quality control test of my job. Having an uncomfortable amount of free time. Having the time of my life while the entire world is crumbling down. Doing what I can to help.
COVID-19 sucks. Are you affected?
Due to an obscene amount of privilege and luck, I think things have gotten better for me (I am trying to be grateful and not jinxing anything). I have written about fantasizing about being locked in a room with a laptop with a steady internet connection, and now that’s basically my life. This month, whenever I feel like meh, I can just lie down on the bed for as long as I like. Obviously bit of a luxury for people my age. One of the worst parts of my job is having to commute every single day when the sun isn’t even out, and now I get to work from home. Before every holiday, my friends and colleagues would ask me if I am traveling somewhere, and I will never have an answer. Now no one is going anywhere. Joke’s on them now.
What does your daily routine look like now?
Days and nights blur into each other. I go to bed at 11 p.m. but I can only fall asleep at any time between 2 to 4 a.m. in the morning, then wake up at any time between 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. This schedule is identical to the one during my uni years, and I used to be ashamed of having such an erratic schedule, but now I am enjoying every second of it. The seconds in question involve a fuckton of phone usage.
So you updated Chinese Thought Pills again. And then you stopped.
Yes, I wrote one because I think my writing skills are getting rusty. Then I got addicted to a mobile phone game and lost a week. I also have other stuff to do, you know. Just follow the publication and you will get an email when I write up a new post, ok?
You know, your name, Shirley Lee? You can just shorten it and call yourself Shir-Lee, you know.
It’s getting old.
What the hell are you doing in your room? Stop being in there all day!
Mom, I have a job now. I can do whatever I want.
Can you leave the house with me, for once? We can have lunch at a restaurant together.
A whole pandemic is going on out there, Mom! The fact that I am letting you leave the house once a day is already audacious. Can you just leave me be for a second!
Can you just leave the house and… take a walk or have a run? Just move a bit. You can’t live like this forever.
STOP IT, MOM!
Shameless Self-Promo Time
I went to a weird therapy dog session and made a comic about the whole situation:
Similar comic thing, but about my second therapy session:
Less interesting posts where I just wrote about what I know:
Chinese Thought Pills, a publication where I show and tell you about ancient Chinese idioms and stories:
Niche Hong Kong stuff:
Further proof that I am delusional:
Shirley Lee wants to learn everything and create, so it sucks that the only thing she’s ever gonna get better at is writing her bios. She is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Medium as @thatshirleylee. You can also check out her YouTube. Her previous bios were funnier. Follow her for more content to come.
