The first meal of the day to break your fast from the night. I don’t give much thought to breakfast. It’s actually a meal I typically skip or I eat something small like a fruit and have some tea. I don’t typically enjoy so many breakfast food like cereal, eggs, bacon, hash browns etc. it…
Category: Cultural enlightenment
What to wear to an Indian wedding?
I went to a South Indian Tamil wedding in Mumbai in 2020. It was 3.5 days long. My friend, the bride wore 7 dresses in 3 days! I don’t know how she managed it, because those dresses are time consuming to put on. Luckily for me, I’m just a lady guest, but I still need…
What does being Vietnamese American mean to me?
I decided to take a holiday to Vietnam because my cousin was going at the same time. I didn’t think much of it, except that I’m going to go somewhere relaxing and warm. I’m of Vietnamese origin but being born and raised in California, my cultural identity was tied to being a proud American. As…
Prepping for Indian traditional garments before wearing
You got an invitation to an Indian wedding? Congrats! It’s quite the party, lasting a between 2-7 days. Guess what, you can’t wear the same outfit everyday, not even a similar color. This is my first time attending an Indian wedding and I’m gonna discuss two tradtional Indian garments for the ladies to wear during…
Vegetarianism
After hearing my uncle had heart surgery, among other co-workers and family members getting illnesses related to cholesterol, cancer, diabetes et-cetera, I decided I wanted to try going ‘clean eating’ vegetarian for a month in January. I’ve realized thrown myself into a new world that I’ve dismissed as a nuisance before. I’ve learned that vegetarianism…
Cha vs Tea
I just got back from São Paulo 🇧🇷 Portuguese is their preferred language but there was one word they used that was not of European origin: Cha which is the universal word for tea in the Eastern world. For a European language like Portuguese, I expected them to say call it tea too. I was…
My 1 year recap living in Silicon Valley
It’s almost my one year anniversary of moving to the bay area, getting out of small town Santa Barbara where everything moves too slow while you’re watching the coastline. That’s one thing I really missed about SB, nothing was ever stressful and you can take long walks on the beach to feel at peace. Life…
2014, what a year
So it’s January 2015, a lot of things happened last year and it was… amazing! I was looking through my photos, and I was just wow, did that really happen to me? So here’s a year in review I went to Death Valley twice once in March and another time in November Went to San…
Bison, Waterfalls, hotspings, and stinky sulfur
Sums up my short 2 day trip to Yellowstone National Park… (and a short day trip to the Grand Tetons) My friend was in Montana for business during this month, and she asked me whether or not if I wanted to join her to stop by Yellow Stone National Park. Life’s too short to think…
Time just seems to fly, but the memories remain.
April is speeding by me. I thought the month has just started, but the next thing I know, we’re all getting ready for May. I spent the last weekend in March in San Luis Obispo at a Salsa dancing event at Cal Poly SLO, Easter weekend on a road trip to the Grand Canyon in…
Darkaqua Chronicles 