The Academy Awards are coming up on Sunday, and regrettably I have not seen any of the movies nominated for Best Picture this year. However, I did have the esteemed pleasure of joining a few friends to watch the short films (live action and animated) that were nominated in their respective categorie...

It’s hard to believe that I’ve never been to Mexico, especially when you consider how much I love Mexican food. Whenever I’m given a food genre choice I tend to go with Mexican food since it’s the right amount of healthy and indulgent. However, I should note that my passion for spicy food actually c...

My Euro trip back in May 2008 concluded with a day trip to Bratislava, Slovakia with three of my Austrian friends from Vienna. Bratislava is not a city usually visited by the average traveler, but it should be as Czechoslovakia was divided into two unique and separate countries following the war. Th...

For those who go through life as an introvert, it can feel like the rest of the world was designed by extroverts and you can never fully relax. To be clear, being an introvert is not the same thing as being shy; I'm actually very outgoing and I have no problem being the center of attention from time...

Yup, that’s right! If you happen to see my dad today make sure you wish him a happy 66th birthday!

As the title suggests, my dad is definitely my hero. During the standardized tests we were required to take in elementary and high school, my dad was often the subject of choice for me, mostly because...

I'm one strange cookie. 

We all know this, and hopefully that's why you keep coming back to this blog. Along with this quirk comes a strange fascination with subjects that most people don't know a lot about, or simply don't want to know about. After watching a few World War II documentaries on the...

My first and only visit to Italy so far, was to visit my friend Michaela ("Miky") from Milan. We met when we were both studying abroad in the business school at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul. I think we synced so well on a cultural level since I am a quarter Italian myself, and grew up with a lo...

On Wednesday afternoons in France, school would let out around noon and all the students, and most workers, would go home for the day and just relax during the middle of the week. Therefore, my Wednesdays were usually spent having lunch at someone's house, and most of the time it was my friend's m...

As most of you already know, C is from Germany, and this transcends a whole new level of understanding and cultural habits. Fortunately for me, I tend to align myself with a lot of the same

cultural habits of German people and I've spent a lot of time in Europe so this made our relationship pretty ea...

As someone who has spent the majority of their adult life single, I totally get the plight of singletons - sometimes, it really sucks. It's so damn hard to cook when all recipes are measured out to "Serve 2" and it was absolutely nerve wrecking going to a fancy restaurant to ask for a "table for on...