2016,

Spring into Life

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Hi everyone!!

First and foremost, I want to say that this week has been so good I can't help but share my appreciation. Last week, it was all about cloudy skies and rainy days, now it's back to the usually sunny and bright LA weather. My all-time favorite season will always be fall. But I have a deep appreciation for spring.

I was looking through my old blog posts and I forgot how much I love sharing music with people. When I started this blog, I always shared the playlists I published on my Spotify. Today's post, I wanted to do just that. I've been obsessed with my spring playlist so I wanted to share it with all of you.

Here's my "Spring into Life" playlist for Spring 2016:





I like them all, but the ones I find myself listening to more than the others are:
  • Kamikaze - MO
  • Until We Can't (Let's Go) - Passion Pit
  • Colors - Halsey
  • Show me Love - Hundred Waters, Chance the Rapper, Moses Sumney, Robin Hannibal, Skrillex
  • Suitcases - Lily Elise
  • What We Live For - American Authors

This playlist consists of songs that I put together that makes me happy and feel good. Winter has come to pass and it's no longer cold, so these songs make me appreciate the beautiful weather (since it's not blazing hot yet). Give the songs a chance and listen to them. I hope they make you feel good, make you dance, or inspire you.

"You can take me anywhere the wind blows
Right into the great unknown
We can throw our hands up out the window
This is what we live for"

Much love,

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2016,

April Showers

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Hey everyone!

I feel like I haven't posted one of these in a long time. Last week, I was having one of those off-week.  That's correct, not an off-day but an off-week. My schedule for my last quarter of college was a mess and everything was incorrect. Luckily for me, after work on Wednesday, my friend Erika asked if we could meet for brunch the next day (Thursday). Considering I didn't have class until 4:00 pm, I said yes. Especially since having brunch with people are my one of favorite ways to spend time with people. 

We chose to go to Alcove for brunch (my favorite place for brunch). If you've never been, I suggest you go and try any of their Eggs Benedict under the Big Ben section of the menu. After eating and talking, we decided to have a mini adventure in taking photos. Since I was wearing my standard uniform (all black), we headed to the beautiful motel that was painted all white. 

Thanks to my friend Erika for taking all the photos! 






















The main reasons I started this blog was to share my love for fashion, music, and traveling with people. At the beginning of the year, I promised myself I'd get back to blogging again. I'll humbly admit, I am in no way trying to model. It makes me happy to take pictures and share them with other people. I hope you all enjoyed looking through these photos as much as we had fun taking them (it started raining as soon as we decided to wrap things up). I hope you are all having a good week. xx

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”  ― Marc Riboud


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2016,

New York, I Love You!

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Hey everyone!

In the beginning of the year, I told myself that I want to be more spontaneous this year and try new things. In January, while I was in my performance studies class, I was randomly looking up plane tickets when I felt the urge to book some. So I did. I decided I wanted to spend my whole spring break in New York. I messaged my cousin if I could crash with her, and when she said she was gonna be in town, nothing held me back.

A week before finals week, my friends asked if we could plan things to do during spring break. I somehow kind of forgot about my trip until I looked at my calendar and remembered that I was leaving that Sunday. When Sunday came around, I hopped on a plane and prepared myself for a week of adventure.

 I'm just going to let the picture tell you what I did while I was there... here you go!

Can't go to NY without watching a Broadway show





Time Square


 

Washington Square Park
Central Park 



 


 

Lake of Central Park, UWS





Favorite stop


Grand Central Station






MoMa

Chelsea, NY aka my favorite place


























Chelsea Market

South Ferry


Staten Island

TriBeCa

Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY



Brooklyn Bridge
View of Williamsburg Bridge







Lunch at the Russian Tea Room
Empire State Building












I want to say a HUGE thank you to my cousin, Carol, and her friend, Erika, for letting me stay with them. Shout out to my cousin Amy who went on random adventures. Thank you to the random strangers that took pictures of me on my first day in New York since I spent the day alone running around wherever my feet and intuition led me.

Here are a few of my personal favorites of NY:
  • The view from the Empire State Building
  • Chelsea, NY - Chelsea Market, the Highline
  • Bibble and Sip on 51st & 8th Ave
  • Kahve on 52nd & 9th
  • Anything on Bedford Ave = Williamsburg area - Artist & Fleas, any restaurant/cafe
  • Il Forno in Hell's Kitchen (try the mushroom risotto, it's delicious!)
  • Washington Square Park - anyone who performs is worth watching/listening to = you just might see my cousin busking
  • Union Square stop - get out the subway, go upstairs and take in everyone connecting to different trains. It's a beautiful scene

 The week I spent in New York, I learned a few things:


  • I can read a map, well, a subway map at least
  • I'm bad at following my own plans because I end up going wherever my gut tells me
  • I can walk, but I didn't know I could walk over 20 blocks and still consider it easy 
  • How to walk fast so people don't shove you
  • How to swipe a metro card at the right speed 
  • How to run to catch a train
  • New Yorkers taught me how to cross the street without waiting for the walk light to tell me when to cross
  • How to look on both sides of the street to let you know when to walk (if there are no cars or if they are all stopped, you can cross)
  • If there's smoke coming out of the ground, stay away from it... or else you'll end up smelling like garbage
  • It's very important to read and remember the street signs- for example, don't expect a 6th ave cause the street is called Ave of the Americas or how the street, Broadway, cuts diagonally between avenues
  • Read the subway headings so you don't go uptown when your you're supposed to go downtown, or that you don't get on the wrong train 
  • There are men who actually dress well
  • Go all out and do the whole 3 tapas experience at the Spot Dessert Bar, you won't regret it
  • Find beauty even when there's a million people around you and trash everywhere
  • I learned how function after 4 hours of sleep every night, for a whole week straight
  • The hustle and bustle is worth it, you can do more things throughout that day

Since I'll be graduating college in June, this was my last Spring Break. Thank you New York for an incredible time. Can't wait to go back!!






















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