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.

the history of nature
 *
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 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Happy Lunar New Year!

That moment when the cashier hands you forks

instead of chopsticks and you wonder

just how americanized you must look to others.

....

Chelsea Market

is a lovely indoor food wonderland

housing little bakeries, boutiques, 

bookshops, ramen + taco bars, and all the

seafood (and crab legs) you could want.

Oreos were invented in this building!

*~the borough of Brooklyn~*

i approve of this kind of consumerism advertising:

a hipster dog/cat creature

#bumperstickerseverywhere    #gentrification

i was inspired by my belgium hot chocolate

to draw a picture.

Thanks to NYC's public transit system,

I was able to embark on a 1.5 hour journey 
to find an Ellen in the Big Apple!

made a friend in the city (pablo)

udon with japanese mountain vegetables

(bracken, flowering fern & dropwort)

I finished knitting my scarf! I am pretty
happy with it/would actually wear it in public.

it's okay, next year Seahawks, next year.

i watched through an entire football game
for the first time! i'm proud of myself.

out on the open road

we got some stunning views on our roadtrip.

this picture cracks me up.

(zoom in and you will see...)