tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67566894274848414962011-11-27T15:36:36.614-08:00starryeyedsoulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01938640749372339015noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6756689427484841496.post-49184221877611318632010-07-29T14:39:00.000-07:002010-07-29T14:39:42.120-07:00

life has been crazy crazy crazy lately. and by lately i mean the past 13 or so years of my life... i dont know if i'm more lucky to be doing what i do for a living or lucky that i love this kind of lifestyle in order to do what i do for a living traveling never gets old for me even when i was with Mtv Asia and i was flying out up to 3 times a week (i mean seriously people, there were months when

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*note: i wrote this on april 26th, but didn't have time to post it before my little adventure so here it is, now. a chapter of my life will be closing very soon. no wait, i take that back... not a chapter, a BOOK. a book that opened when i was 12 will be closing very soon and although a part of me has been anticipating this moment for the past few months, i see now that nothing could have

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When's the last time you did something good for YOU? If it takes you more than 5 seconds to think of something then you're not living right my friend. I firmly believe that everyone should do at least one thing a day that makes them, and maybe even them alone, happy. That one thing can be almost anything- eat a bowl of ice cream, turn your phone off for an hour, dance around the house in

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I was txt-talking with a friend today and he said, "Life is fun." And that's such a simple statement, nothing deep or difficult about it but it may be the most beautiful and poetic thing i've heard all week. There's more truth in those 3 words than in the entire newspaper i read on set yesterday. I woke up yesterday around 9am and leisurely laid in bed a while longer before getting up and ready

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I'm a pretty stubborn girl. My mom says i get that from my dad and she's probably right. He and i met up for lunch today and as i get older it is more and more amusing to see what qualities i've inherited from either of my parents. I get my patience from my mom, my stubbornness from my dad, my optimism from my mom; i can thank my dad for my sense of humor, my mom for my determination, my dad for

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Wow. Has it really been almost a year since i last posted? Shame on me. Please excuse me while i scold myself momentarily...How is it that i haven't found the time to post when there are many other people out there, far busier than i and far more in demand (i.e. Mr. Jason Mraz) who have not hesitated to update their blogs on a regular basis?! If i could, i would fire myself. Alright, now to

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okay okay i know i'm over due againif this were a class i'd be earning a F--------then again if this were a class i'd be updating this everyday since*ahem* i'm quite the nerd/ goody two shoes/ workaholic/ suck up.yeah that's right i am and i'm not ashamed to admit it.anywaylife has been good to this little girl lately minus being sicker than sick for a week and minus 2 very important people in my

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If I could tivo anything, I’d tivo my dreams…I have the most insanely wickedly vivid dreams most nightsThe kind where I wake up unsure of what world I’ve been living, breathing, and loving inOr sometimes, fighting for my life...Speaking languages I don’t remember ever hearing for the record, I’d just like to say it is entirely possible to be optimistic without being naïvei’m not sure most artists

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i'm not feeling so great today.sluggish, sore throat, tired, achy- like i'm coming down with somethingso i'm holed up in my apartment drinking tea, watching movies, and now finally trying to get some work done online.ideally i'd be sitting in my sunsoaked living room in californiastaring out at the beach, salty breeze ruffling my hairand that california scent filtering through my bodywith

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isn't it funny how life dangles time before you like a teasing master before a puppy? and like puppies sometimes we want that time more than anything in the world... other times, we're too distracted by the butterflies or the scent of something curious in the air, we could care less about the time and would rather it pass us by unnoticed... i've gotten into the habit of underlining my books

starryeyedsoulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01938640749372339015noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6756689427484841496.post-27743319236042097672008-12-22T00:35:00.000-08:002010-03-02T21:13:03.197-08:00

... that has to be THE most overplayed christmas song EVERRRR. well ladies and gents, the holidays are here and there's some sort of cheer around every corner- singapore is DECKED OUT in christmas decor and there's all sorts of nonsense going on around orchard road- pretty ridic if you ask me i mean who's ever heard of christmas in the asian tropics?! haha not that i'm really complaining, i've

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MABUHAY! hahaha okay okay so i have to admit... i saw it everywhere in the philippines, i've always heard my filipino friends say it... and yet i have no idea what it means...? any clue?SO 2 days after my european whirlwind of London, Paris, and Take That, i flew off from Singapore to Manila to Caticlan then hopped on a ferry to Boracay! Boracay is BEAUTIFUL- it looks just like the southern

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BONJOUR!so this is weeks late buuuut i had 2 days between London and Paris before heading to Boracay, Philippines for a week and since i've been back i've been catching up on regular MTV work along with other stuffs- trying to clean the house (my apartment is complete shambles right now, some sort of swirl of laundry, travel clothing, christmas presents, and the random accumulation of the past

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i found this old journal entry. thought it was kinda interesting to read back through so i thought i'd post it here. i wrote it back in may 2007 a few days before graduation from loyola marymount university.... They keep telling me that this is a pivotal moment in my life; that this is the beginning of a new chapter... but I feel like I'm beginning a whole new book. Life is about to become

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Yup that's right. MEXICAN food. MMMMMmmmm.... i miss mexican food SO much- being california born and mostly raised, mexican food is eaten just about as often as western/ thai/ japanese in my family and good mexican food is SO hard to find in asia! My mom was in town visiting for the weekend so we organized a game night saturday night at my friends house- AWESOMEST IDEA OF THE MONTH.  My mom and i

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i have that song stuck in my head."myyy love do you ever dreeeaamm of candy coated raiiindrops?"do you know what i'm talking about?soul for real circa 1995listen. love. let go.

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today i woke up, stared at my ceiling for a few minutes before feeling around the bed for my blackberry and beginning my technological tie to the day. At some point in the fingertips-on-bedspread shuffle, i kinda paused and thought.... "why bother?" so i laid there a while longer before really shutting SNOOZE off once again and checking my phone0- getting up to start the random day ahead of me...

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Aloha loves!i just got back from a weekend in KL, Malaysia where i hosted the U.O.X Play event (thanks to the people at XPAX) and as long as the event was (11hours ish) and although not too many people showed up (since it hasnt been well promoted just yet) - the performances were AWESOME. I really admire UOX for pulling together so many local artists to showcase their work at all these events (

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*san diego, CA, sometime before summer 2005when i was six my teacher asked me what i wanted to be when i grew upi told her i wanted to be a mermaid.fast forward seventeen years and i would still love to be a mermaid... but i'm on my way to becoming many other things i'd love to be too... ontheverge.i never pictured myself being here right now in this chair at this moment thinking this let alone

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i took this picture in bali a few years ago... a little local boy on the beach made me completely jealous as he stood there in his natural skin completely absorbed in the world and the ocean before him. i'd give anything to be him, there, right now.today was just one of those days. you know the ones.where nothing goes your way, everything is fraying a little at the edges-not quite falling apart

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"There is a candle in your heart,ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul,ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?"- Rumii feel it.so i made cupcakes today.chocolate cupcakes with rainbow chip vanilla frosting.(and yes i drew pink stars on them).they saved the day.*shirt courtesy of miss jilly meyerssmile smile smile that's all i'm asking for.

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it is raining all kinds of ridiculous zoo animals in singapore today and i finished work sooooo early today that i managed to finish errands and everything before noon and so i've been HERE on my couch back in my pjs and hoodie with the air-conditioning on full blast before my roomie gets home and shuts them all down (cuz she gets cold super easy)... i've been GLUED to my laptop for the past 5

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i would do unholy things for a cupcake right now.see that chocolate frosted one at the back with rainbow sprinkles? it's got my name all over it.speaking of cupcakes, a few weeks ago i got a lovely lil package from a beautiful girl named jillian meyers who is as in love with frosted treats as i am- in the package was a shirt from:www.johnnycupcakes.comjillian sent me the shirt that says "make

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When i was a little watered-down asian girl who looked nothing like either of my parents (oh wait, i still am...).... i used to want to be a ballerina. In fact i insisted on wearing my ballet clothes ALL THE TIME. Then this one halloween, i finally wanted to be something a little more gutsy than a ballerina, i wanted to be SUPERGIRL. Yeah, well my bff at the time beat me to the store and got the

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one of my fave people, one of the dopest up and coming photographers, new in new york, old as old skool, HAHAHA nah nah jussssst playin... but for reals. check out his shots & his blogsucka duce! get with it son.www.buddhabong.comlovelovelove

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remember when i told you all that i was in japan for 4 days of work?welllll here it is :)thoughts?

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i just got home from watching puppets cuss, have loud sex, sing, and find purpose in life.if you havent already, go watch AVENUE Q whether you're in Boston, New York, or here in Singapore where they're performing at the Esplanade from now til Nov 16. Take the whole family for some dirty fun (unless someone in the family is under 16... THEY will have to wait in the car).  You'll think twice the

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i check the POST SECRET blog religiously to see what secrets anonymous strangers are sharing with the world.... here are my two most impressionable/ memorable/ heart tugging from this sunday:i always try to think of what i would send in... what secret do i have deep down inside that i could release out into the world... then again some of the secrets aren't really secrets at all... just people

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my life changed today. i'm thanking him:check out his blog.you'll thank him too.www.martinsays.com

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get snap happy every now and then. you never know what faces you'll make. magical. purely magical. your face will thank you.then i will when you send me the pix ;) 

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put on your dancing shoes and start a revolution. paint the town pink and forget every insult you've ever heard. find the time to bask in the compliments and the humility to acknowledge that you are only as amazing as the people you surround yourself with. life changes with every breath and even though it gets hard to breathe sometimes, you have to remember the little things that make life worth

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so here i amlazying around for the daybecause for once i have the day off SO you better believe i didnt set my alarm and i let myself get a full 10 hours of sleepwaking up just around 12 all achy and alone(my roomie was already out and in class)so i stretched the sleep away and kicked around under the covers for another hour or sobefore inspiring some sort of hope for the daygeographically i am

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there are these momentsthese brief windows of open reflectionopportunities to look out into the world and yet back into yourselfdeeper than you usually wouldand suddenly you see it all so clearlywhere you arewhere you wish you werewho is aroundand who is missingi am not where i want to be.in so many ways i'm not doing what i want to donot surrounded by the people i wish i had nearnot living the

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life's been hitting me from all kinds of angles latelyin all sorts of ways too.not that the hits are fully painful (besides sometimes we find the pleasure in the pain)sick and twisted isn't it?so to start off, i should apologize for missing in blogging action latelymy internet has been wishy washy with me and like a bratty child, it only seems to want to comply long enough for me to exhale then

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Well, it's happened again; time has completely snuck past me leaving me breathless and anxious to figure out how to put into words, everything that's happened since i last wrote.... where to start, what to say... and what time is it?Gotta keep an eye on the clock because as i type this delicious blog i am baking even more delicious cheesecake bars. Yup thats right, I bake. Not only do i bake, i

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WOW. Time has crept by all too quickly... there's so much to say, where should i start....?!I'll start with laughter- laughter's always a good place to begin. So Aug 31st was the big NIKE HUMAN RACE 10K here in singapore... 25 countries worldwide racing on the same day- 1 million runners; 11,000 runners in singapore... in short it was INCREDIBLE. You can't even begin to imagine what it's like to

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So next to writing and photography, i LOVE reading. Yeah, that's right, i'm a geeky bookworm and i'm SO not ashamed to admit it! I was raised on books more than television and even now, in my 20s and done with school, i read every chance i get- and i'm one of those addicts who CANT PUT DOWN A BOOK ONCE I START READING. My mom always says i'm going to get hit by a car one of these days because i

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In my last blog i took cheesiness to a whole new level and stated the obvious. I'm a happy girl, i have a million reasons to be happy, i'm loved and i love, and the world is my playground, happiness mine for the realizing. I'm not going to point out all the devastation in the world. The point of my last blog was to remind the equally fortunate out there how fortunate we all are and how to ALLOW

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There was a moment, at the recent MTV Asia Awards after-party when i was deeply engaged in a shallow conversation with several people (whose names would be all too familiar, so let's just avoid mentioning names altogether) and the topic at hand revolved around teasing me. The topic was: "Why DOES taya smile so much?"I couldnt help but laugh at my expectant audience and their amused looks, i'm

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hope resonates through hours like movement through watersimply impossible to ignoreeven in my deepest pools of thoughtthe darkest corners of this oceani am swimming in the ripples of light-hearted hope.

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morning is barely morning anymore and i'm shaken from my sleep by the reminder of what happened before i tossed and turned my final hours of yesterday away. flashbacks and instant replay stealing my covers like a greedy lover who has forgotten that i'm even there... and i'm awake listening to the lullabies of what was said and what i wish you would have saidbut what's done is done and there's no

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this little girl's got a lot on her mind tonight...thoughts dancing across my walls, singing through my head like a cacophany of finely tuned memories that wont seem to let me sleep.another night wide awake.brainstorming like pinky and the brain... except i'd rather SAVE the world than TAKE over.besides, it's not like the world needs anymore political influence let alone another tug-of-war for

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* some of you may have already read this....sometimes i have troubledeciding between who i amand who i want to be i get caught up in the rushof being true to the momenti lose sight of the consequencesof my actions and my inactionsi forget to look to my pastto avoid future repeats in mistakesand some days i find myself looking aroundwondering how i ended up here again.they say today is a giftand

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Whenever i think of that greeting, "Hello Stranger," i immediately picture Natalie Portman in CLOSER... when she's crossing the street in that bright pink wig and she meets Jude Law's character for the first time...? Such a beautifully odd moment when she's hit by the cab and he comes to her rescue... "Hello Stranger," she says it with such a big sense of familiarity... as if she knows him,

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