• Takamatsu, Shikoku, Japan
• Doha, Qatar
• Lyons, France
• Monte Carlo, Monaco
• Harbin, China
• Okinawa Island, Japan
• Bogota, Colombia
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• Hanoi, Vietnam
• Bangkok, Thailand
• Geneva, Switzerland
• Moscow, Russia
• Prague, Czech Republic
• Munich, Germany
• Zabljak, Montenegro
• Belgrade, Serbia
• São Paulo, Brazil
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Montevideo, Uruguay
• Cologne, Germany

1. Graduate with a B.A. in International Relations (Security studies) and a minor in Psychology.
2. Finish reading Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, cover to cover.
3. Live briefly in Europe
4. Spend the majority of my life in Korea and Japan
5. Speak French and Japanese as fluently as possible
6. Own a personal library in my home
7. Collect beautiful and expensive bottles of alcohol
8. Get a motorcycle lic...

• "This is love, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?" - Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
• "Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher." - Terre des Hommes, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
• "Have you ever been in love? Horri...

• BMW M3 (just a few (many) more years..)
• Marc Jacobs' Daisy (perfume)
• Black Christian Louboutin Ron Ron pumps
• Balenciaga top handle bag
• Miu Miu Nappa bowling bag
• More Nikkor lenses
• Polaroid Spectra film
• OPI "Argenteeny Pinkini" Lacquer
• iPod Nano
• clothes!
• new undergarments
• new contact lenses
• new glasses
• new books
• more DVDs to add to my collection
• a plane ticket somewhere
• Wii Fit
• renew my gym membership

1. indecisiveness, need answers, promptly.
2. mess and germs, everything has to be aligned, clean, even fresh-scented.
3. anything orange and related to oranges, they're vile.
4. carrots in my food, won't eat them, ever.
5. soybean sprouts in my food, won't even touch them.
6. waiting, pondering, worrying in that order
7. when expectations don't match up with reality
8. inconsistent friendship, if you're going to talk to me one...

• the feeling of a new toothbrush
• taking a shower with such hot water, the bathroom turns into a sauna
• late night/early morning hours when it's a little cloudy and is illuminating the night sky and the air smells a little bit like rain
• drizzling rain at night in the city
• the smell of candles when you blow them out.
• pointing out constellations and planets
• watching home movies; the grainy quality, shaky cam...

The frustrations:

• I am extremely picky with food.
• I am very clumsy.
• I act very distant at first, not because I hate you, I'm just nervous.
• I have a very hard time opening myself up.
• My dancing skills are embarrassing.
• Flirting? Being sexy? I am inept.
• I am very frightened by skinship.
• I get lost in thought sometimes.
• Sometimes, I laugh when it's not appropriate.
• I have trouble balancing priorities, so somet...

• Language in Thought and Action, S.I. Hayakawa
• Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
• The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
• Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
• The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami
• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
• In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway
• Ea...

• Vegetable lasagna (extremely simplified)
• Vegetable soups
• Chili
• Oven-baked sweet potatoes
• Brown rice (I recently kicked my white rice habit)
• Modified bibimbap
• Vegetable dumplings
• Somen
• Soba
• Tofu + Vegetable + Sauce/Seasoning
• Veggie patties (Boca burgers are alright)
• Vegan green bean casserole (to be honest I only make this twice a year)
• Quinoa
• Salads
• Fruit salads
• Mashed potatoes
• Inari sushi
• Smoothies
• Hummus
• Curry
• Fren...

• In the Mood for Love
• 2046
• Chungking Express
• Akira Kurosawa's Dream
• ワンダフルライフ (After Life)
• Everything is Illuminated
• Oldboy
• Spirited Away
• My Own Private Idaho
• American Beauty
• Attack of the Gas Station! (주유소 습격 사건)
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
• Paris, Je T'aime
• Eureka
• Happiness
• Holy Mountain
• The Bicycle Thief
• Children of Heaven
• Daisy (데이지)
• All About Lily Chou-Chou (リリイ�...