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.

A thorough update of life since leaving grad school, including a brief period in NYC and my return to the Fremont, CA after a decade of...