I leapt across this hill so many times so my mom

could get this shot.
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"It's definitely not the same here without you.
Every time I'm in Seattle,

Everywhere I go I am reminded of you"

-what Vanessa said to me today :)

with these new glasses, i feel like i'm seeing

the world for the first time all over again!

i love when photos have rays of light.

MY TRI-COLORED BEANS, THEY GREW.

golden sunsets at golden gardens

after doing this for an hour, our feet got

so numb and red that we had to stop. a group of people
noticed our self-timer photographing and dancing skillz
and asked us to take their photo.

This time last year, Ashley and I went hiking and

unexpectedly found ourselves at this hidden frozen lake

surrounded by evergreens and dozens of waterfalls

dripping from snowy misty cliffs.

the most dizzying stair experience

most of my meals today consisted of raw fish.

#fish  #mastersdegreeroomies

Ashley and I are co-creating a website

on Intersectionality & Microaggressions.

We will be working 2,300 miles away

from each other, so this will be interesting/exciting!!

Stay tuned for updates! :D

burgers by the beach :)

sugar, flour, white chocolate, eggs, oil,

buttermilk, rainbow sprinkles, butter, shortening,

light brown sugar, vanilla extract, milk,

baking powder, salt.

b o o k s * g l a l o r e

You know it's spring when you see a rainbow

of produce at the farmer's market.

VEGETABLES ARE SO BEAUTIFUL.

 "Wait, why don't we just get pizza AND mcdonalds?"

-Michelle

We ate it all with wine and chocolate
while watching Mind of a Chef.

Michelle and I went on a hike & ended up at a farm

where a baby sheep had just born moments ago.

It was so small, but much bigger than one would expect

a newborn sheep to be.

thank you Maggie for this photo and

going on hikes, eating and cooking with me! :)

NYC IS A FOOD WONDERLAND.

1. Cheeseburgers & cheese fries @ Shake Shack

2. Lobster, crab, shrimp rolls @ Luke's Lobster

3. Tianjing baozi @ an unlabeled tiny family
restaurant in Chinatown that my cousins took me to.

4. Pizza @ Joe's (Spiderman pizza delivery scenes

were filmed here!)

Momofuku Milkbar: the real reason I came to New York.

 i ate some crack pie.

V E G A N  F O O D

@ P E A C E F O O D.

Cynthia lives in a super diverse part of Brooklyn and

showed me around her neighborhood

& introduced me to the local shop keepers and

grocers. We got sandwiches and ate them in a snowy park.

We also went to yoga in the city with Kevin

and his friend Dominique, wandered around Grand Central,

ate Caribbean chicken & plantains with peach beer,

and got interviewed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Met may integrate our interview to

this new performance project they are working on.

Spent the afternoon wandering around

the Museum of Natural History!
(the 2nd best place to get lost in NYC)

I learned about deep sea phosphorescence,
wolf hunts, and stared at a Neander boy resting
in a grave cradled by elk horns.

Then, in the Hall of "Asian Peoples," I became

startled when I saw a North Asia mountain girl

who looked like me inside a diorama. The boundary
between exhibit and reflection became blurred...

i love my new dino shirt.

new york city is a winter wonderland

From New Zealand to Singapore
to Malaysia to NYC!

Nick and I reunited over chocolate cookies,

speakeasies, and a powerful documentary screening

about prison systems and the narratives of

inmates serving life sentences.