Sometimes I feel a bit discouraged in this feeling that I haven't been doing anything or enough... so I thought to make myself this list of things I've done since my birthday in January. As I've been making an effort to integrate music into my art practice, I set a large intention to see more concerts. This list has a lot of concerts. It also has a lot of failed crushes. Somewhere in between the lines there's a lot of laughter, a lot of dreaming and reconfiguring of dreams in

Lately, I haven’t been so sure what in my life is mine anymore. Did I decide for myself where I’m at right now?—or did somebody else dictate my course of action this whole time? It’s a silly, remarkable thing that I have gone as far as I am now, not really knowing the answer to this question. To most of my friends, I have the most free life. I fell off the course of the good Asian kid during college, deciding to ‘be a dancer’. And I did — I went to become this idea of a ‘danc

A reflection on my 31st birthday from Santa Cruz, CA.