i was (and still am) lucky to have grown up in an asian american centric culture. stories i hear about not seeing any asians in the media or being the token “asian kid” in school never applied to me. i grew up watching kristi yamaguchi skate in the olympics, seeing brenda song in the suite […]
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Kimchi Soup with Seaweed and Fresh Mochi
are you afraid of spending a lot of time with one person? ie, if you hang out with them too much, you od on them, and you will never be as good of friends as you once were. because no matter how close you are, you over saturate yourself with that person. it’s why i’m […]
Caramelized White Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream
i was on spring break for the last week. it started with one of my high school friends visiting me in socal (did i pick her up at midnight from the airport even though i had an 8am final the next day? maybe), and then i flew to florida to hang out with my favorite […]
Creamed Kale and Kimchi Pasta
i don’t know how many lectures i’ve gone to. i’ve gone to ones on south east asian religion, ones on databases, ones that aren’t really lectures at all (i had a business class where our main task was to take bs quizzes featuring questions like, what’s the name of a bosnian croat convicted of war crimes […]
Honey Toast
we react to words in different ways. for instance, “interesting” to some people could mean what it was originally meant to be. “interesting” to my mom implies unusual, and not in a complementary way. in some of my friendships, i filter myself and how i phrase my words more. i can be a blunt, possibly […]
Spam Kimbap
last weekend, spent at a retreat for my business + technology club, was full of firsts. some of those firsts are probably best left unsaid, in that hush hush what happens here stays here manner. (there were interesting bits that i felt compelled to share with friends not there, however). others included driving in san diego (surprisingly […]