My Blonde Twinsy.
FAIL. hahaha.
Cause I jump all over the world!




Whoooops, hehehe I'm not 21.
DAMN GOOD PIZZA.

Suspended ....


Roschenburg's bed.
Jackson Pollock.
Alexander Partaking in the art piece.
Me and Alex went to the moma!

Me and Mitsuo's hotel room.
Oh hey sleepy head.

Me & Mitsuo being our adventures together in Williamsburg.

Blackbird Parlour.
I wrote this for him the night before so we could go to it the next day and laugh, hehehe.


My friend from Berkeley (whose family I visited in Japan) came out to Nyc to meet up with me and see Animal Collective. This was his first day here. We ate breakfast at the Blackbird Parlour, shopped around Williamsburg, and finally settled down at our hotel (which was 2 blocks away from Times Square!) BADASS. Then I went with Alexander to the Moma, which was also fun.

Ps- the night before I went to Blackbird and sat at the bar, and then I made friends with the bartender. But the story of this will unfold more in my other posts.

Back in NYC.

Kristy's dorm, I missed her :(
A man with a cat on his head. Self explanatory.

The subway stop I frequented at Ariellas.
The Hills, nyc style.
Sexy ladies only dinner.
Me & Ari.
Puffy goes in a bag.

Oh hi lil pufflekins.
Playing dress up.



MY FIRST TIME EVER HAVING PINKBERRY. It was good, but I still like red mango, papamingos, and yogurtland better.


So, my first few days back in America were pretty relaxing. I spent most of my time with Ariella just enjoying the last few bits of summer. These pics are lil stills of the mini-adventures we went on.

The Traveling Part of Traveling.

I've seen this baggage pick up so many times, its nice to come back to something familiar. Delta baggage claim Nyc JFK babyyy.
I was graciously welcomed back to my country in LAX! wooooot!

Traveling is good and all, and I absolutely loved my experience backpacking across Asia by myself, but my least favorite part of doing it would have to be the actual traveling part. What I mean by that is, I HATE SITTING ON PLANES FOR LIKE 12 HOURS STRAIGHT. phew, well I'm glad its over with though. Anywho, I flew out of Narita and I damn near missed my flight, I was freaking out in the airport and I got pretty hysterical. Actually I used this story recently in my philosophy essay to explain a phenomenon in language, here is the relevant excerpt from my essay:

Yet even granting that Grice’s theory is applicable in most verbal communication, given that we usually want our audience to understand what we say, the second step in his argument that ‘the speaker intends that the hearer understands that they are trying to communicate something’ (which is usually the case) becomes problematized in the following situation: I was in Japan this summer, late for my plane and becoming frantic. Because it felt good, I began to exclaim obscenities in English as I made my way to customs. And, for example, when I said to the person in front of me (who was a non-English speaking Japanese person), “Hurry the f**k up!”, I meant what I said and I wanted them to hurry up, yet I did not intend that they(the hearer) understand me, for surely that would have made for a very embarrassing situation had they known what I was saying.

So I began my long journey back to America when I boarded my plane in Narita which then flew for 12 hours to LAX. Then I was in Los Angeles for 6 hours and I caught my next plane to New York City. I was so dead when I finally got there. But luckily my friend Alexander came to the airport and escorted me home for the night. It felt good to be back in a place where English is the default language.

Anywho, I should end this post on a conclusive note being that my asia trip was officialy over. So what did I think about it all?

It was all too beautiful to explain. I lost myself, and yet I found myself all the same. Being alone in so many new places forced me to be more receptive to my experiences. I'm glad many challenges presented themselves along the way, it made for a more interesting trip. Although I won't divulge the details, my romantic life had some funny turns, but it makes life all the more interesting huh? I'm happy with the outcome of my trip and it makes me excited about the many adventures I've yet to have. =)


Asia= BEEN THERE DONE THAT.

My last night in Japan.

Eating and drinking in public under some awning on the side of a bank.
I didn't win :(

Purikura! (again for the 30 millionth time) hahaha.

Fake tats!
She looks good with long blonde hair.

Random promo involving a large climbing wall and a huge crowd.
Can I be Lady Gaga now?

A festival celebrating some latino country.
Fashionable umbrellas (of course).
So many skyscrapers!
Oh hey Japanese Military. How ya doing today?
PANCAKES.

My favorite pic of us together.
Apparently, while we were there, Vitamin Water was just being introduced in Japan.

The impressive homeless people dwellings.


So this was my last full day & night that I would spend in Japan. We crammed in a lot of stuff and we went again to Shibuya and Shinjuku. We just wandered and came upon lots of random adventures. It started to rain, but it was okay cause we had our fashionable umbrellas.