I took a job at the New York Times, so back to working life-- otherwise, I had been traveling around the world for several years. I love meeting people, especially creative and passionate people :) I've yet to find a place or culture I haven't absolutely fallen in love with.

I focus on art while I travel, photography and digital painting-- I love meeting local artists and learning about different styles and artistic cultures all over the world.

Whenever I'm asked where I'm going, I usually think, "I can go anywhere"

But the trick is: go somewhere, go anywhere; more than just realize that you can, but actually do it -- freedom is not an awareness of a possibility, it's seizing life and experiencing the actuality.

Life is fundamentally simple, the complexities of nature can be uncovered when we look beyond our own imagined complexities

Life is continuously changing, places and desires come and go, I believe we are wise to fully embrace each moment with grace, kindness, and love -- to breathe in reality, even the beautifully tragic moments -- there is a divine truth in every breath, free of the delusions of our anxious minds

Engage with awareness in the world, experience the bliss of being; feel it in your fingertips, it is an existential joy beyond any orgasmic pleasure.

If you're looking for purpose, the purpose of life is to live; follow your heart, follow your bliss, just be--

when there is no goal there is a spontaneous and uninhibited energy, an emergent freedom of being and the continuous discovery of life in each moment

--and with that awareness life is transformed into a joyous innocence of being.

Relaxing

Traveling without destination

Fine art (drawing, painting, photography)

Computational mathematics

Musing on silly topics over food and drinks

shy awesomeness

Joseph Campbell, Krishnamurti, Rumi, Nietzsche, Proust (only when I'm feeling vain), Oscar Wilde, and various science/nature writing-- I tend towards non-fiction.

I love movies, from terrible B-list cult classics like Buckaroo Banzai to the more mainstream classics like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Clockwork Orange, Amelie, The Big Lebowski, Into the Wild, Trainspotting, Twelve Monkeys, The Princess Bride, etc

I eat almost everything (no matter where on earth I find myself, if I see someone eating something, then it must be edible so I'll happily dig in), I especially love Korean and Vietnamese food, French desserts, delicious wines too complex for my limited understanding of wine, well-brewed beers without pretense, and most of all new foods I've yet to experience!

Life has an ironic sense of humor, everytime I think "I could never do without this", that thing will usually be lost.

So perhaps my current, soon to be lost, necessities includes:

1) relaxing into life
2) absolute and total freedom
3) loving kindness
4) awareness of beauty
5) the bliss of being
6) rationality and the limits of a rational mind

Everything! Often times I think about thinking; cognitive heuristics are one of my favorite subjects for thought experiments.

And while I think a lot, I find the process limiting and self-exhausting.

In the exhaustion of thought, there is a silence of mind and the experience of the inexhaustible, a blissful beautiful freedom, a choiceless awareness of the world as it truly exists. The experience seems similar to Mescaline or Salvia, but only in that it's impossible to describe articulately in words.

Wondering to myself: what day is it right now? And why is everyone out in the streets? I tend, purposefully, to forget the day of the week-- except only to remind myself when to avoid crowds and queues.

I guess my absolute favorite times of the week are the midday weekdays, say Tuesday around 11am to 2pm, you'll often find me at a cafe or diner, headphones on, sitting quietly reading and sipping on coffee. The joy of these moments I cannot fully express.

I strangely never cried during movies, but I cried a little during Lilo & Stitch-- that scene where he runs into the wilderness with the story book, without family or home he stares existentially into the stars and says, "I'm lost" -- I'm about to cry just thinking about it

You enjoy open and honest conversations? Or love inquiring into even the most silly topics, or just want to relax without any pretense and simply enjoy getting to know each other. Or maybe you just want to have a lovely conversation and enjoy the freedom of the moment-- let's do that!

I adore loving kind-hearted people; Strange people, normal people, smart people, silly people, people who love animals, people who love life -- I love being in your presence, feeling inspired, and knowing we are better people for having known each other