Happy Lunar New Year 2023!

Greetings! Today is Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year). Being Chinese-American myself, I'm celebrating the new year with my family with good food and good company. I passed the time with a simple, but nice lunch with my extended relatives at home and then also out to eat this weekend. May the Year of …

12 Months, 12 Photos (2022 Edition)

Hello! Happy New Year. 🙂 2023 is off to a good start, and as we usher in another year of change and growth, I'd also like to reflect on what had occurred in the past 12 months. Overall, 2022 was a more-eventful year for me compared to 2021 (which had been sleepier in comparison), with …

Happy New Year 2023!

Greetings! Happy 2023! Wow, what a wild ride it's been. As we're continuing full-steam ahead through the 2020's, there's still a lot to be said about COVID and the end(?) of the pandemic. Honestly, it hasn't ended, but now it's become more-or-less the new normal as we continue to see new variants and spikes throughout …

Lunar New Year 2022

Photo by Checan27_ on Pexels.com Greetings! Today is Lunar New Year, a holiday that is celebrate not only in Chinese culture, but also in Vietnamese, Thai, Filipino, and other East/Southeast Asian countries in the world. The date falls on February 1st this year, but it changes every year depending on the Lunar calendar. I already …

I Got COVID

Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n on Pexels.com Late last month, I got COVID. With the explosion of Omicron cases during the holiday season in the US, I figured I was bound to get it at some point. But never would I've thought it would happen that soon, and especially as I rang in the new …

My Goals for 2022

Hey, folks! Several weeks ago, Paul from The Captain's Speech nominated me (thanks, man!) for this 2022 goals/resolutions type of tag, and I thought about participating in it. It's funny, because I had wrote about my goals in my New Year's post earlier this month (which I'd actually wrote prior to Paul publishing his post). …

12 Photos for 12 Months (2021 Review)

Happy New Year, folks! As I'd done the previous year, this post is my review of 2021-- in photo form. In general, my 2021 year was more-or-less similar to 2020, as the pandemic was still going on. However, I will say that 2021 was slightly more-exciting, as I got to travel a bit more within …

Happy Lunar New Year 2021!

Source: Pinterest. PS I'd written this post the weekend prior to the news that'd occurred over the weekend, i.e. hate crime against Asian-Americans in the US, particularly the elderly. I find myself both repulsed and fearful, especially as I'm also part of the APA community. The perpetrators who'd committed such acts are despicable and cowardly, …

12 Photos for 12 Months (2020 Review)

Hey, folks! 2021 is well underway, and time will tell just what will happen for the rest of this year. But as it's still early in the year, I'd like to share some photos I took in 2020, as means of reflecting on the crazy year it was and putting it away in my memories …

Happy New Year 2021!

Source: Refinery29. Happy New Year, folks! Whew. To say that 2020 was "interesting" is an understatement. In fact, it was wild. Unexpected, even unpredictable. Who would have thought that we would face a global pandemic, let alone rising tensions in racism/Black Lives Matter and the 2020 presidential elections...all in one year? It's crazy to realize …