i'm trying to set it up so i can take a video um
oh i'm taking a video
they're so cute
good morning friends it is currently noon i had a little bit of a late start today brand i actually
woke up late for a workout and completely missed it i'll post the story that my trainer posted in
his story it was super shady but today i'm actually getting a little bit of work done
i'm making some ramen for lunch i'll show you the way that i have been making it lately
because i actually get a lot of questions today is actually a busy work day i'm actually meeting
rachel for dinner later tonight it's been a while since i've seen her but this weekend
was super fun i got to hang out with some of my seattle friends i haven't seen in a
really long time sydney is actually a streamer on twitch and her and i have been best friends for
since i lived in seattle and she actually moved out here last november and she lives so far away
from me that we haven't been able to spend a lot of time together and on top of that she doesn't
have a car so it's been really difficult to hang out but recently we've been seeing a little bit
more of each other it's always kind of refreshing to reconnect with old friends so we spent all day
saturday at the beach we played monopoly deal which bran and i are now obsessed with is such
a fun card game we played some spike ball saw the sunset made dinner it was so nice and then
sunday yesterday we went to the flea market and that was actually the rose bowl the first time
that the rose bowl has opened up since lockdown so it's been over a year and a half since i have
last been there and it was huge it was almost like overwhelming that flea market is so big
but if you're ever in la the second sunday of every month is when the rose bowl happens it
only happens once a month so that was super fun i only picked up a hat and a pair of carhartt pants
so it's a smaller haul it was mainly just to spend time with the girls jenny followed along
as well and yeah so today i'm just catching up on work because i did absolutely no work during the
weekend which kind of felt great but now i'm like i need to work back to my ramen first cook the
noodles and then once that they are like 75 cooked i'm actually gonna go ahead and drain the water
then i filled it with fresh new water and now i'm adding all the sauces to it this is the ramen i'm
having today as well it kind of varies depending on what i'm feeling but i usually like shin ramen
and it's available hmr 99 range any asian market sometimes even like american grocery stores have
this so let it simmer for a little bit it's on low to medium heat but the secret sauce
is adding kimchi my girlfriend ginny taught me how to do this and i don't have very much
left so i'm just gonna add all of it and this just helps to add a little bit of extra flavor
it's a nice mix of veggies as well so we're going to go ahead and let that simmer once
it is simmering i'm going to go ahead and add an egg to it see if i can do this with one hand
nice then i'm going to turn down the heat to low and i'll just let it simmer for about
three minutes important to keep the lid on so the egg cooks
that egg is looking perfect so i'm gonna go ahead and turn it off
let it cool for a second and then we're gonna eat okay getting ready to eat
i always have seaweed this is one of my favorite brands this one's wasabi flavor
but i normally just get original dinner is served lunch what am i talking about
hot
yummy and this egg
is perfect
yeah this has been missing on the wagon whatever it's a girl set out okay so i just filmed a little
tick tock on this look it is a full face of rare beauty and i feel like it is so fresh
so pretty and then i'm wearing my girlfriend naomi boyer's hoops
that she did in collaboration with miranda frye these are super cute and then i'm also
wearing like her necklace i just like changing up the jewelry from time to time and i feel like
the chunky jewelry is kind of a vibe and i'm also currently getting ready to film a haul
this is what it looks like i actually got a lot of new shoes so i'm putting together
some outfits to style the shoes with this is my little setup so i am gonna go film
this is the aftermath filming a lookbook
activities hello i just did my skincare i also got my nails done look how cute they are
i wanted kind of like a frosty white i wanted it to be a little bit more like sheer and pinky
but now it just looks like a bright pearly white but i'm not opposed to it i just did my skincare
i actually need to put on my glasses today is a work day and my stomach hurts because last night
brent and i were in pasadena celebrating like a belated birthday dinner for his grandma as you
all may know brad and i live with his grandma we adore her her name is joan and she celebrated her
79th birthday i believe so we had a nice italian dinner but today i'm suffering the consequences
because my stomach hurts so bad anyways skincare is all done let me just show you really quick
what i used why not talked about this cleanser in my sephora vib recommendations video you already
know i love this best cleanser ever uber roy um this is a japanese skincare brand like ultra
gentle reminds me a lot of for say beauty but kind of like japanese beauty which i love so this is um
a toner that i have been using recently and i really enjoy it and then i went in with the glow
recipe redness relief serum this is actually new i've used a good amount of that i really
like that serum because it's really soothing and kind of hydrating as well so i kind of use that
as like a little buffer because i am using the different adaptaline adaptolene
a dappling gel acne treatment and this is actually a drugstore like retinoid retinol situation and
i've been testing out for the last few weeks and i actually really really like it it's really rough
on my skin i have pretty sensitive skin i also have oily acne prone skin i find that it works
really best when i have like something hydrating on my skin to begin with instead of just applying
it on my bare skin just because i feel like it kind of like acts as a light barrier so it's not
super super rough on my skin so i've been testing this out i really really like it so far especially
for a drugstore product it's pretty affordable really effective you just kind of have to see
if it works for your skin and what best like method works for you but definitely
planning on reviewing this soon because i've actually been very very impressed with it
and then i went in with this pharmacy honey halo moisturizer this actually came out like a year ago
and i just now started using it it's an ultra thick cream and what i love about pharmacy too
is i haven't talked about their brand in a really long time but they're one of my favorite like
og skincare brands but their packaging is so cute it has like a little metal spatula that
like is magnetic so it's just like a cute little design situation they actually have a lightweight
moisturizer called the honey drop that i've loved for years and years and this is what
brandon keeps in his little like bag eye cream i just started using the clarins total eye lift
i'm not sure if this has retinol in it or not i hate when brands don't list the ingredients
on their products it just says it's like a lift replenishing eye concentrate but it doesn't tell
me like what active ingredients so i actually use this once to two times a week but it's super
hydrating and makes my under eyes look really really good so my skin feels really plump and
primed i think i'm just gonna do some work in bed i'm actually going to work out with jenny tomorrow
and then we are going to shoot some photos brad and i played tennis today and today is the first
day that i actually beat him and we actually went and bought tennis rackets a couple of weeks back
so we have like these fancy schmancy rackets that we had customized to us today's the first
day that i actually beat him usually it's like pretty close and he ends up beating me or it's
like i win the practice round and then he wins at the end but today i just woke to zeus no it was a
close game but i barely beat him proud moment for me but anyways yeah i'm gonna do some work in bed
this is breakfast some toast prosciutto a little bit of olive oil this one has salami and avocado
and then bread and i had vietnamese food yesterday so these are egg rolls
um
crossing the line
oh
we can't pretend that we have changed
hello friends i am back home i'm actually about to go skating with jenny but today's saturday
so it has been a full week of vlogging but i hope you guys enjoyed this quick little vlog last few
days i didn't really vlog i actually hung out with sophia um and her sister actually recorded
a podcast with them earlier in the week and their podcast is called second thoughts podcast
and on that podcast we talked about like being asian-american being raised by asian-american
parents and kind of the struggles that we all went through as asian americans being raised by
such traditional parents wanting to pursue a more freelance career so that podcast episode would be
super interesting should be out in a couple of weeks so if it's up by the time this vlog
is live i'll go ahead and link it down below in the description box i've talked about it here and
there on my instagram as well and i just feel like it is so important to acknowledge some of
the struggles that we go through especially if you want to pursue a more like entrepreneurship career
something that's not a corporate nine-to-five job sometimes it's hard to get your family
to support you or understand what you want to do with your life sometimes it's better to ask for
forgiveness and it is to ask for permission and that's just the way that i live my life
i've talked about my story a couple of times on my channel so if you guys are more interested in how
i started as a youtuber and how i started making this a full-time career and how my parents kind of
took that when i first told them and when i told them i was first moving to la and all that stuff
i do have like a tea time get ready with me video all about this topic so i'll go ahead and link it
up in the corner if you haven't yet seen that but i'm going to conclude this week's vlog i hope you
guys enjoyed it please make sure you thumbs up this video if you do like it that lets me know
that you want to see more vlogs more like chill lifestyle videos but my skin also has been looking
really really good i have my makeup suitcase here and i am just gonna get ready so that when jenny
comes over we can go skating so anyways thanks for watching guys i will see you all next time bye you