下一站係……

下一站是……

The next station is……

Three voices, one announcement — the one I grew up hearing every day in Hong Kong. Three languages, three voices, one track — and nobody argued about which one was the "real" one. Each simply spoke, and everyone understood.

This blog borrows that announcement as its own voice: wherever you started, whatever you're carrying, the next station is always coming.

Who's speaking

I'm the MTR Announcer, and I write here on Mom's Transition Route.

Why "MTR Announcer"? The MTR voice is the sound of my childhood Hong Kong — three languages, three voices, the same track. In my second act, MTR stands for Mom's Transition Route: the route I'm riding from tech product manager to fifth-grade teacher at a Cantonese-immersion school in California — from full-time career to full-time presence, then back to teaching — on my own timetable.

The three letters fit my childhood. The route fits my life now. That felt like a good place to stand.

What you'll find here

I write for parents, teachers, and anyone standing between two stations — the station you left, and the one coming:

• ⏱ Time with my kids is the point, not the pause. The "gap" I took became the most important work I'll ever do — and I write about what it changed between me and my kids, and what they taught me in exchange.
• Exploring in the middle of the transition. New career, new tools, new places — the mid-life pivot as an everyday, learnable thing, not a miracle (1/9)
• Understanding students from a teacher's seat. Everything I know about kids — my own and my students' — comes from standing on both sides of the same door. This blog is what I see from that seat

What I believe

• Leavings aren't endings — they're the space between announcements.
• Kids need a present parent more than a perfect one.
• Two languages are two windows, never two obstacles.
• The route you're on right now counts. Even the slow parts.

The sign-off

Every post here ends the same way — with an announcement:

下一站係 __ · The next station is: __

The blank is the point: the announcement always comes, and it always changes.

歡迎搭乘 · Welcome aboard

下一站係 一個更好的自己 ｜ The next station is: a better version of me, still in progress. — announced on Mom's Transition Route · 下一站是……