Melissa in the Blue
Bio
hold my hand and we can jump straight into the cold unloving sea
Stories (78/0)
one single fish
one fish swims alone his friends and family caught the sea is silent Trawling is an incredibly damaging way to fish, not only catching far too much fish and damaging food chains within the ocean but also damaging the ocean floor and all the ecosystems it contains. Read more about it here.
By Melissa in the Blueabout a year ago in Poets
Eco Friendly Christmas Shopping Guide
Ever since the pandemic hit time has been warped which means somehow, we are yet again nearly at Christmas. So how do we turn a holiday that has been commercialised into the most materialistic holiday of the year into a greener holiday?
By Melissa in the Blueabout a year ago in Earth
on the ethics of time travel
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. Here's the thing though, space doesn't exist. Space is just time. Some people say it's time visualised, or maybe it's just an easier concept for us to understand. But all we know is that once you leave the stratosphere, we're just travelling through time.
By Melissa in the Blue2 years ago in Fiction
The Path Home
When you ask where home is, I can give you a variety of answers. I was born in Hong Kong, but I grew up in Shanghai. I’m not deeply familiar with either of these cultures as I went to an American school, understanding enough of each culture to relate to my peers but not enough that I would fully fit into any particular city. Of course I now live in London, and have since picked up a strange mix of an American-British accent as well as a combination of random phrases and slang from both cultures. I speak enough Mandarin and Cantonese to get by and hold conversations, but not to a degree that would be useful for any job. Effectively, my mother tongue, the language of my ancestors, is being lost to me and unless I move back to Hong Kong, will likely be lost to any future children I may have.
By Melissa in the Blue2 years ago in Humans
Lotus Paste Mooncakes
In China, one of the most important festivals each year is Mid-Autumn Festival. It falls on the moon closest to the autumn equinox. To celebrate, we eat mooncakes. Although there are many variations, the one that I grew up eating was a lotus-paste mooncake with a salted egg yolk inside but other variations include savoury ones, such as pork filled, or sweet ones like read bean. In recent years, new variations have also developed, but I am a stickler for tradition. I have always disliked the salted egg yolk, so this is a fully vegan recipe! This mooncake is a bit savoury but mostly sweet-ish.
By Melissa in the Blue3 years ago in Feast