Hi all! I wanted to take a break from all of the wedding blog posts and to welcome newer readers with some fun facts about me/answer questions that I get quite frequently via DM!
- I’m full Asian – my mom is Chinese and my dad is Cantonese. I always get Thai, Filipino, Hawaiian, or Asian/Caucasian mix when people try to guess what I am.
- I can speak a good amount of Chinese. I can understand most canto but cannot speak it fluently.
- My mom had me at age 42. I was a very high-risk baby and the doctors told her that, because I had an 85% chance of being born with disabilities, she should probably have an abortion. Well ya’ll, LOOK AT ME NOW. #THRIVIN.
- I have lived in the same city & house for the last 21 years of my life, except for college of course.
- I played piano for over 10 years, drums for 6, and guitar for like.. 8 months. The callous life just wasn’t for me. However, I do want to pick it back up and give it another try sometime down the line.
- I consider myself an extroverted-introvert. For the most part, I have no issue being around strangers and striking up conversation, however when I’m in my introverted mood, I literally do not want to speak to any human at all. Like, don’t even look at me.
- I was on the tennis and swim team in high school.
- I love watching, playing, everything sports, especially baseball. Tyler is lucky that I can & enjoy sitting on the couch all day watching nothing but sports. We don’t fight over the remote. However, don’t get me wrong, I do need my weekly fix of Very Cavallari too.
- I am the only child. It is both a blessing and curse.
- I have a blind West Highland Terrier. Her name is Nollie – named after a skateboard trick (nose front ollie). She went blind a few months ago.
- I hiked an active volcano in Costa Rica when I was 13 (yes, totally safe, legal, and normal there). It was the coolest thing I’d ever done! It smells like straight eggs (sulfur) when you get to the top. The lava is a creamy yellow color with swirls of green. It’s weird.
- I love country music. I use to hate it and made fun of all my friends for listening to it – what sad days those were.
- I grew up on alternative rock/indie/emo music. Tell All Your Friends by Taking Back Sunday… greatest album ever.
- Aside from fashion, my passion growing up was architecture and interior design. I took tons of courses in high school and even spent a summer at USC taking pre-college arch courses. I applied to college as an arch major but suddenly had a change of heart during orientation and switched to business, LOL. I do still love anything interior design related. However I wish I would’ve still practiced and continued to delve into it.
- I didn’t grow confident or into my own until late 24 and all of 25 years old. Before then, I was an incredibly insecure person. A big portion of it did have to do with past relationships. Now, I am completely in love with who I am and rarely ever get rocked by others/comparison.
- Tyler and I don’t plan on having kids for 2-3 years. Ideally, I would like to conceive my first at age 29. We would love to have two boys and one girl. And yes, we already have names picked out.
- I love snowboarding. A dream vacation would be getting a cabin right off the slopes for a couple weeks.
- I have been highlighting my hair since the 2nd grade.
- My favorite current tv show is Animal Kingdom. Team Jay & Pope.
- When I was a baby, I looked like a boy… so much that my mom would dress me in dresses and bows and people would still ask if I were a boy or girl.
- I was involved in the music/EDM industry in college. I was VP of Admin & writer for a music website/record label, Techibeats. Those years were amongst some of my favorite and most fun years getting all the access I did to shows and music festivals. One of the tents at Snow Globe back in 2013 was even named after us!
- I used to hate cats simply because I was insanely, deathly allergic to them – I’m talking hospitalization status. Well, my cat allergies suddenly vanished last year and now, cats are super cute.
- I have been ‘influencing’ since August 2017 and blogging since November 2017.
- My favorite movies of all time: The Parent Trap, Remember the Titans, Mean Girls
- I am short, sitting just under 5’2″.