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07 Feb 2021
I could go on and on about how us Asian-Americans have never really felt like we belong anywhere. How we’re “too foreign-looking” for America yet “too culturally removed” from Asia. How we get bombarded with unwelcome comments like “Where are you really from?” from our neighbors or “You don’t act…
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Tokyo
19 Nov 2019
Alright alright alright
Tokyo is a whole lot of things. Head to Shibuya for designer shopping. Wander into the vast Meiji Jingu shrine for an amazingly intricate historical landmark. Look anywhere on your Instagram feed and find thousands of IG photographers beating their long dead Japan photo horse to a…
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NYC
21 Jun 2019
New York. Los Angeles. London. Paris. Shanghai. Tokyo
What do all these places have in common? Not sure really.
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I split my time catching up with old friends and wandering around parts of the city by myself, from the industrial areas of Brooklyn to the busy streets of Soho…
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Mount Rainier
17 Nov 2018
I recently had the chance to climb a part of Paradise at Mount Rainier with some good company on a spontaneous early Saturday morning trip. Fun stuff
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While we were tremendously under prepared with our low top sneakers and didn’t expect to reach the summit of Panorama…
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San Francisco
03 Oct 2018
Recently, a lot has changed in my life. I’ll spare the details but what this boils down to is a) much more free time to pursue what I want in a career and b) a lot of uncertainty in the future. Though the waters ahead look unsteady, I’m just happy…
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Honolulu
11 Jul 2018
Hawaii was good. Ohana and loads ono kine grindz.
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Shanghai/Hangzhou
27 May 2018
Even though I’ve been told “go back to China” several times throughout my life, this trip was actually the first time I’ve been to China. Jokes on them, I wouldn’t mind going back again
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To sum up the two cities I visited:
Shanghai: Busy, modern architecture, air…
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Los Angeles
20 Mar 2018
For some reason or another, I had never been able to get around visiting LA until this past weekend. As it was pretty much the last major US city that hadn’t been blessed by my presence (I’ll get around to Miami and Atlanta soon enough), I thought it’d be good…
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Higher Brothers
01 Mar 2018
If you told 8 year old me that a group of 4 Chinese rappers were touring the United States performing sold out shows, 8 year old Aaron probably would have wondered what was wrong with you and went back to playing Pokemon Ruby
As a kid, I was always embarrassed…
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Oregon and the New Year
01 Jan 2018
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you’re all staying warm and doing okay out there
Although the concept of time is almost a constant force in our universe, I’ve always thought it to be paradoxical depending on how you look at it. For example, 1 minute passes in the blink…