i want to travel!

today, i found a fortune cookie in our kitchen.
i ate it.
it wasn’t as good as i had imagined it to be.
fortune cookies aren’t really chinese, anyway.
inside, it said:
You will travel far and wide, both pleasure and business.
nevermind that the fortune wasn’t grammatically correct. but i want to travel!
does anyone want to go to [...]

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going back to old haunts.

last week, had the chance to go back to philadelphia for the 137th annual American Public Health Association conference. The conference was exhausting, but at least I had time for some of my favorite philly spots! Of course, I had to go back to Eastern State Penitentiary — the prison that set the [...]

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withdrawal

i miss my grandma already. look at that giant pearl ring! woo. baller.

almost didn’t make it to phoenix last night. super long flight to LA resulted in being delayed… landed in LAX with only 1 hour until my connecting flight!! took forever to get through customs and even longer [...]

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hong kong and beyond

its been a relatively uneventful week… save a couple earthquakes and a small typhoon. ha. not quite sure how i slept through a pretty big earthquake but i did.
last night, my awesome coworkers and i went to 鼎王 for 麻辣火鍋。 good stuff. it was the first time i had 大腸頭，which is [...]

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a weekend full of winnie’s.

it has been a weekend full of winnie’s. winnie tang came to visit me in taipei! we celebrated our birthdays together by eating ourselves silly and sweating it all out in taipei’s night markets and mountains.
first stop, the Shilin Night Market. 士林夜市. we had stinky tofu. fried, fermented tofu. [...]

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goats and children

went down to the Italian market on saturday with DJ and Jess. If you don’t know, Philly’s Italian market is where they filmed Rocky…. it’s Rocky Balboa’s hood.
In Rocky’s hood, if you want goat meat for dinner — this is how you buy it.

i was quite appalled to see that the teeth [...]

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the northeast loves me and i love the northeast

I spent Thursday is New York City. Had lunch with Helena … how the heck did i forget to take a picture with you?! sigh. Then I headed to brooklyn to see Tiffany. Who can say that they’ve been best friends with someone since they were three?? well I can [...]

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Serenbe Farms day trip

after a busy spring break full of studying, i decided to take a day trip with Steph and Kim to Serenbe, a quaint little sustainable community that’s about 40 minutes outside of atlanta. this cute little enclave is dedicated to the culinary and visual arts, and the streets are occupied by wealthy, casual-chic weekenders [...]

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The South

Today, as a part of my internship with the Red Cross, had to travel to Pike County, which is about one hour south of Atlanta. let me tell you, just going one hour south puts you in rural rural Georgia. Like, the TRUE south. cows. gun stores next to bible stores. hunters in camouflage who [...]

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almost getting arrested for the sake of art.

so. last weekend my buddy brad and i decided to go take pictures at a abandoned government prison in south Atlanta. It is the former “Atlanta Prison Farm”, a prison in which inmates were given jobs to work on the farm, do cannery work, and livestock care. It is now abandoned in [...]

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