All posts in: California

11 Apr 2021

Blog Roundup

  • In A Role Reversal, Asian Americans Aim to Protect Their Parents From Hate [NY Times]
  • Michelin-Starred Ju-Ni Opens An Outdoor Omakase Counter [SF Eater]
  • 13 Sports Films You’ll Love Even If You Don’t Like Sports [Life Hacker]
  • Where to Stream the 2021 Oscar Films [W Magazine]
  • “We Already Belong”: A Conversation with R.O. Kwon [NPR]
  • America Ruined My Name For Me [The New Yorker]
  • After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love A Job Again [NY Times]
  • These Are the 5 Deadliest National Parks [Outside]
  • How Do People Even Find Drug Dealers? [VICE]
  • Why the First Thing You Drink In the Morning Absolutely Shouldn’t Be Coffee [Well + Good]
  • The 10 Most Crowded Cities in America – and the 10 Least Crowded [Mental Floss]
  • The 26 Coolest Airbnbs in California [Green Wedding Shoes]

21 Aug 2020

Late Friday Evening Thoughts

Last weekend, the Bay Area was hit with both a heat wave and an obscene amount of lightening strikes one morning. To be honest, I didn’t think anything of it at the time and thought this week would be business as usual, but the aftermath resulted in a number of fires that have lit up both the northern and southern parts of the Bay Area. It seems as if we can’t catch a break this year. With everything going on and this piled on top of it, it has made this week an extremely challenging one.

Part of what has made shelter-in-place easier on me was a few things I’ve come to appreciate about my home. When I want to get some sunlight and a stretch, I can step out onto my balcony. At all times of the day, my windows are all open for fresh air. Since the air quality from the fires have been so terrible, we can’t do those things. And for the first time in 6 months, I’ve felt a little trapped. I suppose this is what it would have looked like if the US had actually gone into a true lockdown.

I recognize that while I’m indoors, those not too far from me are dealing with the bigger concern of losing their homes entirely. With many of experiencing loss in different forms this year already, a home – the most sacred of places shouldn’t be one of them. I’ve heard that this weekend’s climate might play a role in making things worse, but am hoping for the best so that we can move onwards to recovery.

07 Feb 2015

Lightning In A Bottle 2015

Odesza! AlunaGeorge! Pillowtalk! Les Sins!

If only I weren’t going to be in San Diego for Memorial Day Weekend… (actually I’m really excited about this trip!) California has such good music festivals.

24 Aug 2014

The Bay Area Rattled

I experienced my first California earthquake in the middle of the night! When I lived in Seattle, I remembered how those earthquakes felt and none were ever at the level of this one. Going through it, it felt a lot more powerful than I had realized. The earthquake affected all of the Bay Area hitting Napa and Sonoma the hardest and registering at a 6.1 magnitude level. This was the strongest earthquake to shake the Bay Area in the last 25 years.

We’re all safe here in the South Bay and I hope everyone else is doing the same!

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01 Jun 2014

Happy June!

Happy happy month of June readers! I feel like I’ve been waiting for this day to come for such a long time because it finally means that we’ve officially hit summer. Granted, we’re in California and it’s summer 11/12 months pretty much (highly exaggerated) but it just means that I don’t have to worry about the rain that I am used to holding my breath about back in Seattle at this time of the year.

It’s amazing to me how much has changed in just 365 days. Around this time last year I was in Seattle and wondering what my next adventure would be. Applying to jobs and interviewing for them is a full-time job in itself. I am so grateful that I have landed one that I love coming into work to every day. As a kid, I never wanted to move from Seattle, but here I am. Best decision I’ve ever made.

I hope all of you have an amazing and sunny month! I’m very much looking forward to summer parties, my best friend moving to the Bay Area for the summer and plenty of time spent outdoors.

15 Mar 2014

Visit California!

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It has been 6 months since I moved to California from Washington. WHOA! How is it going, exactly? I’m having fun. I’m having fun – literally every day. I don’t hate it here – not even in the slightest. As a kid, I remember being a brat and telling everyone that I would never leave Seattle because I just loved it too much. In all honestly, moving here was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Moving for a job is one of the best life-changing experiences I’ll ever have.

California is beautiful. The air isn’t as clean as it is in Seattle. The water definitely isn’t as clean as it is in Seattle. And no way is the sushi better here in any way shape or form.

The sunset, however, are gorgeous. The sunny days every day are what motivate me to get up every morning. California is lovely.

That was a long way to preface this video actually, but basically this guy from Boston was asked to make a video about his trip to  California and on his four days he covered both the Northern and Southern areas even meeting individuals along the way to help enhance the video.

17 Jan 2014

Take Me There:

It’s odd how much it is starting to feel like spring in California. It is January and already it is appropriate to sit outside for lunch here in the Bay and I can’t say that I hate it! I’ve only been to Santa Cruz once before, but I’m itching to make another trip and yes, I definitely want to ride on the gondola. Does anyone know how? If so, I’d like to know. Santa Cruz is such a majestic city to me. I’m not sure why I wanted to use that word to describe it, but I find it to be really very pretty. The last time I went there, I watched a bunch of surfers which wasn’t all that exciting to me because I don’t surf, myself, but it’s a cute little beach town and you wouldn’t find anything like it in the Pacific Northwest.

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09 Jan 2014

Coachella Lineup 2014

I feel like I’ve let everyone down by being nearly a day late on posting this, but better late than never. Coachella’s lineup is amazing, isn’t it always? Kevin asked me if I had thought about going this year and the answer I gave him was “Well, I always think about going to Coachella every year, but it’s a matter of whether or not I think I have the money for it.” Yes, going to Coachella is probably an amazing experience says everyone that I know that goes every year, but sometimes I think I’m just happy watching it on a stream as well.

Someday, I might just change my tune. I haven’t forgotten that it was my dream goal to make it to every single major music festival in the US for one year yet.

03 Jan 2014

Take Me There:

When I returned to the Bay Area from Seattle over the holidays, a co-worker had told me that it had been warm all week long while I was gone. It was in the 70’s to be exact and knowing me, I kind of took that idea and ran with it by wearing wedges upon returning back to work. It still isn’t quite summer yet, but that doesn’t mean I’m not getting excited for it to arrive here! I’m already penning a list of things that I can’t wait to do and while I have never been HUGE on national parks, I’ve heard such great things about Yosemite. Yes, it’s a tourist spot, but I’m used to it by now because in Seattle I was surrounded by them. How gorgeous is this view? It’s the perfect distance away from the city, but still close enough to drive to. Let’s see if I’ll get there this summer.

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