626 Night Market + Crepes

A Saturday night out with some friends is shrimply fantastic. I got to hang out with my bestie from elementary school, meet up with her friend from San Francisco who came down to Los Angeles for vacation with family, and tried new foods.

We went to the 626 Night Market, a yearly event held in the summer for family and friends to come out, have fun, and make new memories together. Crimson Apple was playing on the main stage and they were fantastic to say the least. Great music and amazing talented people. We tried two drinks from the Sweet Honey Dessert vendor: mango sago and coconut juice with sago and grass jelly. The mango one was really sweet but it balanced out with the more plain and simple flavor of the coconut drink. It took a while for us to find Shrimp Daddy, but we did! I got to see my friend from college and meet the co-founder of it, June Quan! It was a little bit of a starstruck moment for me and my bestie saw the whole thing. A moment I will never forget. We got the boat, which consisted of the Hawaiian style garlic butter shrimp, a scoop of rice with Furikake, mac salad, and Li-Hing pineapple pieces on the side. It was really good! The shrimp was crispy and very flavorful. Definitely recommend eating it with the rice and a drink. The mac salad was amazing, very delicious and light. The pineapple pieces were really sweet. Overall a great choice. 

After meeting up with her SF friend, we got a late night snack at Crepe Luv. I got a ham, cheese, and egg crepe, a savory crepe. It included ham, cheese, egg, spinach, corn, mayo, and tomatoes. I really liked how I was able to combine savory and sweet together in my choice. As for my friend, she got a customized crepe that had vanilla ice cream, banana and strawberry toppings and whip cream and nutella for the final touch. It was really good, not too sweet at all. Definitely coming back here again.

Happy Fourth of July

Happy 4th of July everyone! Grateful to our Founding Fathers for our independence everyday since 1776. Thank you! Always will remember how far we came over the years, from the very start of freedom. Never forget. Hope everyone has a wonderful day with family and friends.

Peace Out Junior Year

It's been more than a month since I finished my junior year and started my summer. This third year has been a huge reflection of lessons resulting from many failures and discovering a little more about myself along the way.

As mentioned in a previous post, it took me six weeks to get use to my first semester of junior year in Fall 2018. I had a really bad case of anxiety and I am not afraid to admit it. It is a problem. I was also taking five classes, one class more than the previous two semesters (internship class doesn't count in my opinion) and they were all upper division courses. I felt I did not have enough time to study and understand all the material I was given. To add to it, cooking on my own. That I cannot do and I am not afraid to admit that too. Cooking is not my forte and all I could think of was cooking and washing dishes would cut into my study time. It takes me a lot of time to understand the curriculum and I knew that. As a result, health and relationships were put to the back burner. It was me and my books all the time, barely any free time, just working on school stuff the minute I get up or I will be thinking about schoolwork already.

The take away was... I totally failed to adult, needed to ask for some help from my family, specifically from my mom (so grateful) to help make food for me. I realized after my fall semester that I had to make goals for 2019 to improve A LOT of things. For starters, focus on my health, to do exercise and work on my relationships with people by meeting up with them. I managed to maintain exercising once a week. I felt mentally and physically great. I was able to catch up with friends who I did not get to the previous semester and continue working on all my relationships with people I interacted with.

One of the biggest lessons I learned and discovered was there are so many things out of one's control but things always have a way of working themselves out. Towards the end of the semester, I was feeling defeated on internship hunting and a little bit overwhelmed with various events that came up that I had to work my schedule around. For the former, I just kept persisting and going without giving up. For the latter, I took a step back, breathe, and did what I could do, one step at a time. Add the changes and blend them into my schedule by adjusting and rearranging. In addition to that, for my spring semester, I worked part-time at school, first job ever. Totally new to me and was a bit scared, but learned a lot and became a stronger and communicative person for it. Five classes that turned to four classes after five weeks with a job was not easy for me, but it made me find out that I was able to handle more than I thought. I did not get all the results that I wanted for my courses but I learned to accept that I can't control the outcome, only what I can do, which was work hard. As long as I know I tried my best, whatever the outcome did not matter. One can only control so much and let the unknown take its own course.

Here to a wonderful life lesson school year and more to come senior before I enter the real world.

Bold Pas 2019

Weekends call for... art! Every year, for the past two years, my family and I attend the BoldPas event in Pasadena. It is a full day where art takes over Old Pasadena for a single Saturday. This year, it fell on June 8. Before attending the event, we headed to Fig Sprout for lunch. I ordered 1/4 Chicken Dark and Ratatouille as my side. The chicken was juicy and tender. The ratatouille was hot and delicious with a variety of veggies. Then off we went to see art in Old Pasadena. I saw my previous boss, Bobbie from Pasadena Media too! It was nice to see her and catch up a bit. I even saw a community producer I worked with and did an episode with on a show. Always great to see my Pasadena Media family again. Some of the art exhibits are below including one art exhibition, Space. Enjoy!

Fig Sprout

The Constance of Glory by Olga Lah

Higher Ground by Alycia Cornelius and Laura Kapp

Above the Fold by Patricia Diefenderfer

Coming Up Roses by Hilda Rios 

Pink is the new kinda lingo by Chelsea Boxwell

A Street Art Mural by Gary Pappani and Santos Cortes 

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! Thank you Dad for being one of the biggest influences in my life. Because of all the bedtime stories you told me as a kid, I am pursuing a career in storytelling. You support me in everything I do even the crazy things I do. Thank you for being the logical person I go to for advice when I need it the most. I can always count on you to cheer me up when I'm at my lowest. Thank you for being the best dad a girl can ask for.

Hope all of you spent the day with your dad and/or father figures in your lives!