296 Time is short I am at LAX waiting to board my flight back to Vancouver Less than 72 hours later, I’ll be preparing to board my flight back to Philadelphia to start University. My classes start in less than a week. And so I’m the short two days I’ll have back home, I’ve tried Continue reading

295 When did UBER drivers become so interesting? Before, when using UBER, I always kept to myself and sat in the back in silence during my rides. But just these short 5 days in LA has taught me something very basic but true: UBER drivers are also people, and they all have their own story. Continue reading

294 It’s been over 25 years since Hollywood has seen a full-Asian cast like Crazy Rich Asians And since it’s release, CRA has seen many positive reviews about it’s lightheartedness yet perfect representation of the rom-com genre. Today I finally watched it and am more than pleased. Having lived in Singapore for 4-months and being Continue reading

292 As much as I love e-commerce and Amazon, I’ve always loved the idea of shopping in person Whether it be spontaneously finding books to buy Or browsing through shoes you’ve never seen before It’s just as easy to buy a book and ship it to your home with Amazon, but the more we do Continue reading

291 Can Asians get yellow fever? I think it’s a weird double standard If a white person gets has yellow fever and tells you they only like Asians, you look at them funny But if I tell you the same thing, does t warrant the same reaction? Double standards exist everywhere and I think it Continue reading

290 Tomorrow I get back on the road and fly to LA / Hollywood. It will be my first time traveling just with my sister and it’ll be very fun, hopefully. For me, it feels like a step into adulthood. For me, I feel like I need to travel as often as I can to Continue reading

289 Crazy Rich Asians, a book-inspired movie, will be released in theatres tomorrow. Not only is it a great push for Asian representation in the North American Movie Industry, but it also shows an authentic perspective of what it means to be Asian-American. Whenever you can see and relate with something that reflects a part Continue reading

288 Hi. Currently in commute from 🇨🇳 ✈️ 🇨🇦 This blog post will just be a quote. This quote is from my business professor’s daily blog (the professor that inspired me to start this blog!) He recently updated his blog layout and I read this great Emerson quote on his “About Me” page. I loved Continue reading

287 Some things that come unexpectedly are the best When you don’t have time to plan things out or premeditate an escape plan This way you can’t back out I didn’t plan to perform magic for the hosts of The View during my New York trip senior year of high school. I didn’t plan to Continue reading

286 Today I lost my passport in the morning Had a great day spent with my cousins (after a stressful afternoon of reporting lost passport) And retrieved the found passport at the airport after dinner. (My passport ended up being in the airplane as we had thought, but it flew to another city and back Continue reading