“they are soooo in love! look at how they look at each other!” – tk he is such a romantic. i occassionally ask tk for his critical four eyes to review a final gallery before i deliver to my couples. […]
san francisco california
dirty, sweaty and jet-lagged. i landed in california. with the help of my personal mentor, espresso, and the accompaniment of natural adrenaline, my luggage and i arrived by walk-metro-walk-uber-walk to dana and brad’s front door. […]
newport beach california
i was pretty honored when jessica first contacted me about her wedding. we had met yearssss ago while working at the house of blues during college. eight years later, she was getting married to christian […]
the world | apulit island philippines
part one of our philippines trip [note: manila and palawan countryside was not photographed due to tiredness and car sickness…] our first impression of the philippines swept in with the nostalgia of mexico. other similarities, […]
expats | shanghai china | tanja
spoiler alert: i want to be tanja’s friend and i don’t think she knows it. yet. so here i go… tanja i want to be your friend. and although germans would laugh at such a […]
expats | shanghai china | christina
christina and i met online. my first [and only] official internet relationship to date. wait, that’s wrong. first came my junior high boyfriend that i would spend hours IM’ing from my parent’s dial-up computer. but […]
jw marriott | shanghai china
its been about a bazillion degrees here…and we magically had an afternoon off together. so we hit up a hotel pool in shanghai and made love to the sun. even without sun lotion, we still […]
trends kill everything beautiful.
“artist by trade. wanderlust by birth.” my instagram bio character limit states this proudly, without shame and with full understanding of the words. it was what i could efficiently describe myself as. now with the […]
expats | shanghai china | xavi and qiawen
i first met xavi in his restaurant during happy hour. my friend and i overheard two cute guys speak spanish to one another a few tables behind us. excitedly and a bit jalapeno-margarita-induced, i said […]
expats | shanghai china | lin and dom
changshou lu. i exited the steepest metro staircase. that’s where i first met dom. she escorted me back to her apartment behind the metro stop. i stubbornly inconveniently forgot my umbrella. i detest lulling it […]
thirty.
all month i thought about my approaching birthday. not the actual birthday. but the number. not the actual number. but the numbers passed. not the actual numbers. but the events those numbers represented. i welcomed […]
Beijing: The Great Wall Marathon
I hated this feeling I had. Apathy. The mutual blend of lethargy and blah. “Wait, why am i not overwhelmed with excitement or nerves about tomorrow’s race?” I started to feel this way as I […]
puerto vallarta, mexico
geographical disclaimer: i have been to mexico multiple times. from the poor villages without electricity or running water to the beauty of seaside along the pacific. this particular blog features the affluent resort-side of mexico […]
shanghai | our tallest staycation
last weekend was tomb-sweeping day here in china. this means two things: 1) the chinese take a holiday to visit the graves of their ancestors to clean their grave as well as bring them food and partake […]
how fear almost beat out my wanderlust
Puddles everywhere. Lightning everywhere. Raindrops pelting my frizzy mane. And I wore flip flops today. Great. Each step I took, no matter how careful, splashes of wet hit my toes, my ankle, my pants. Puddles […]