Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The House of Flying Daggers. Curse of the Golden Flower. Memoirs of a Geisha. M Butterfly. These are just...

SWCJ Closing Ceremony Star Wars Celebration Japan was an out of this world experience! It's an honor to be in the closing ceremony video...

Why does the current social media turmoil feel like grieving the loss of someone we love? Because humans are inherently social beings. We...

Back in the late 1900s (aka the 90s), life was very different. We barely had cell phones, and social media simply didn’t exist. My first...

Last December, I had the honor of serving as a judge for the Miss International Queen USA Pageant —one of the official preliminaries for...

Visiting Puerto Rico had long been on my list, but life seemed to have a knack for getting in the way. Personal plans derailed, and work...

And now I’m back home, sitting on my yellow lounge chair facing the eastern morning sun in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. I had my Kona...

I’m writing this blog while on a train to Durham, to visit my cousin and her family. Brick houses of different shapes and sizes as well...

March 14-17, 2020 “When I was in Singapore …” I laugh at myself when I start telling someone about my travels even when they didn’t ask...

Boracay, Philippines

For reference, I took a train from Narita to Tokyo: https://goo.gl/maps/BAYHVwon3ipEjU1z6 . I did get lost midway because I took the...

Japan in 3 days - Narita

I didn't expect that a global lockdown would happen and yet it did. Something you'll keep seeing me write about is that I'm so grateful....