About Me

  • About Me: "Don't worry about who thinks what. Over a period of time, what you do will work or it won't. If it works it has durability; if it does not, you move on to the next thing."

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Kite Runner, A Thousand Slended Suns, The Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Bill Clinton: My Life, The Stranger, The World is a Safe Place, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Favorite Authors: Jhumpa Lahiri, Khaled Housseini, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Henry David Thoreau
  • Favorite Genres: literature, architecture, photography, business
  • Recent Reads: A Thousand Splended Suns

More About Me

  • Heroes: my grandfathers
  • Interests: architecture, photography, design, fine arts, philosophy, economics
  • Occupation: Grad Student, Designer
  • Industry: Architecture & Design

Music

  • Favorite Genre: jazz, indie, rock, ambient
  • Favorite Lyrics: it's not always rainbows and butterflies it's compromise that moves us along
  • Guilty Pleasure: Atreyu, Eminem
  • Songs I repeat the most: Around the World by Daft Punk
  • Band I wish I was in: OK GO

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: mediterranean
  • Favorite Dishes: falafel wrap, sour & spicy noodle, kimchi & rice
  • Favorite Desserts: cheesecake, fruit tart
  • Favorite Drinks: gin & tonic, mojito
  • Favorite Junk Foods: cheesecake, white chocolate, crème brûlée, Häagen-Daz's dulce de leche, cashews
  • My Original Recipes: oatmeal raisin cookie dough, new york cheesecake
  • Favorite Restaurants: Pita Pita, Villa Nova, Radhika's, Mediterranean Cafe, Zankou Chicken, Bistro 45, Mi Piace, The Gypsy Den, Myong Dong Tofu House,
  • Foods I hate: calamari, jelly fish, squid

Travel

  • Places I love: Shanghai, Turpan, Kuala Lumpur, San Francisco
  • Places I've been: Ürümqi, Turpan, Shanghai, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Edmonton, Taipei, Vancouver, Tijuana, Encinata, Rosarito, San Francisco, Las Vegas
  • Places to see before I die: Athens, Calcutta, Seoul, Dubai, Astana, Hunan, Dalien, Xi'an, Ulaanbaatar, New York, Vatican City, Istanbul, Normandy, Venice, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Prague

College

  • School Name: Southern California Institute Of Architecture
  • Status: Grad
  • Class of: 2010
  • Degree type: Masters

Style

  • Where I shop: anywhere with eye-catching threads
  • Brands I love: Diesel, John Varvatos, American Apparel, Lacoste
  • I like to wear: denim, carefully color selected t-shirts, plain white v-necks, button-down shirts, polos
  • Can't live without: summer flip flops, socks, belts, ray-ban aviators
  • Guilty Pleasure: cowboy boots, cardigans