- Jan: Spent NYE at Epcot, partying in the outdoor DJ booth. Watched fireworks with family
- Feb: Went to NYC, performed at Carnegie Hall. Met Ally!(tumblr mutual for 5 years)
- Feb: Attended Hyuna’s North American Tour in Toronto. Made her a present, shook her hand. Cried.
- May: Moved apartments (include the pains of manual moving, recruiting new roommate, setting up everything, etc)
- June-August: Went to Hong Kong for research program. Made two very very good friends (Karen and Kirsten). Won best poster/presentation award.
- July: Observed excision surgery for the first time. (went through the whole process of scrubbing, going through airlocked doors, watching the doctors bark their orders, hear the whirring of the EKG machine, everything!)
- July: got coordinate tattoos in hong kong
- August: Went to Taiwan for vacation.
- September-October: Worked 2 part-time jobs simultaneously (makes for 1 full-time schedule)
- September: Met Fareha! (tumblr mutual for 4 years) Watched Alien Cov together.
- October-December: Came to Thailand by myself. Completed both TEFL and TESOL training. Won Sunshine award (???). Met people from all over the world (and made some friends too). Had some half-assed fling with a guy, realized how impulsive and non-committal i am when it came to relationships (or something along the lines of that idk).
- December: Taught Kindergarten for the first time. Rode a motorbike for the first time (fell off the motorbike for the first time).
- December: Went to Singapore.
- December: Spend NYE in Singapore on the beach. Danced for 8hours, walked home at 4am in the morning. Destroyed my passport, lost my shoes, soaked my phone. Almost had my NYE kiss from the cute stranger boy (who studies rock music in Oregon (who said he was “ high on cocaine” (and danced like it))(whos name i never asked)(he claimed he was in a gang in burma)(he showed me a cool cigarette trick)(said he use to be addicted to heroine, but he’s been clean for 2 years)(has a tattoo that says “family is more than blood”)(says he wants to get a half wing on his back)(his favorite music genre is trance) THIS SOUNDS SO SURREAL WHEN I TYPE IT OUT WHAT THE SHIT but honestly i cant even make this shit up.
- Started watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (feb)
- Started learning Thai.
- In Thailand: touched/fed a real elephant. Had monkeys climb on my shoulder. Went to a sunflower farm. Learned about Buddhism. Attended an open air music performance (even befriending a musician). Befriended hotel owner and got to stay at their resort.
- Read Elon Musk biography (thus started the lunatic worshipping of the guy)
- Read Steve Jobs biography (and realized he’s nothing amazing, just some asshole).
- Had wild ideas about some projects but never started on them.
- Had the most terrible anxiety breakdown in my life in March. Cried the most during that month. Hit rock bottom. (shameful row with my roommate, thoroughly disgusted with myself).
- Picked myself back up slowly in May/June. Opened up to parents a bit more. Kept self busy as coping mechanism.
- Ended the year with a pretty positive mindset, but still feel like I could do better.
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