I've taken out my Invisalign and this is
the elbow minor part of makeover I
started with 16 hours of footage for
just the makeover part so it's been
taking a really long time but I finally
finished it last night this is the first
time in my life I have edited a video
with like this much of a gap between the
filming and the ending I started filming
my roommate over when I was 20 I filmed
it starting 11 months ago when I first
moved into this apartment and it has
really like made me reflect on how much
I've changed over the past year it was
so weird looting me from a year ago
because I was trying to be this like a
very punchy version of myself I got this
phone Cal hydro yes it is faux so vegans
don't unsubscribe I think I was just so
terrified of ever being boring so I
would do like 50 takes at the same
[ __ ] line like trying to get it to be
a little bit funnier than it was before
and took me absolutely forever to film
anything okay there's a saying in comedy
writing that you're supposed to have
three jokes per page and a page is about
a minute of the young so I would think
of like literally me talking as like I
should have at least three jokes per
minute which is sometimes a hard quota
to hit when you don't have a script and
a whole team of writers behind you I
feel like having a sibling degree has
been very useful in terms of like
editing and how I think about logs but
it has also been a little bit
detrimental when the way that you think
about your own personality on camera and
when life is in terms of like a
screenplay and as might be able to tell
this video because I literally opened it
the most boring way possible and just
talking about myself for like five
minutes straight in the same location I
am free to let go of that a little bit
and just be like it's okay to be your
normal self on camera people will
tolerate your regular personality
sometimes I feel dumb talking about
these like very you can Burnie problems
but if you like maybe they're
interesting to you guys anyways I'm
trying to relax a little bit I feel like
for the past two years I've just been
like building and building and building
my YouTube channel and I used to look at
my statistics so much and be like if I'm
not gaining 3,000 subscribers in the day
than I am failing and I just don't look
at that [ __ ] anymore because honestly
like I am so [ __ ] happy with the
number of subscribers I have like I am
more than honored to have 2.4 million of
you guys so now I'm just trying to focus
on like making really bad [ __ ] that I'm
proud of or just having fun and like
being myself okay let's go pick out an
outfit I've been trying to like actually
get dressed at the beginning of every
single day because for a while I would
just like be in my giant pajama shirt
all day and you work from home and buy
yourself a lot if somebody's just have
to take those like extra steps to make
himself feel like a real person and not
just like editing potato so here's my
outfit these jeans are the Levi's
ribcage jeans and they're so good I
cannot stand high-rise jeans that are
like 9 inches now I need 12 inches like
my necklace is from honored jewelry and
then my earrings are from my collection
we launder jewelry okay before I get too
distracted I am gonna break down my
to-do list for today in my good old
bullet journal first up apartment
thumbnail
I finished the entire edit on my
apartment makeover but I don't have a
thumbnail yet it's been taking me
forever to get because it will be bright
outside for [ __ ] like five hours of
the day because it's winter so if the
Sun keeps setting before I have a chance
to dress up and get a thumbnail because
I
editing the entire time Christmas cards
plus gifts yes it is the 22nd I am
basket we behind on my Christmas cards
in case but again I've been editing for
like three weeks straight I've just been
on a work bender that's what I call them
it's like a regular bender but mine is
the alcohol and plus or Dave this is my
first year putting money into my
retirement fund I'm very very excited
but I have to text my accounting back
about that we apartment okay here is my
to do this he's cleaning out my
apartment I swear no matter how hard I
tried my apartment default state is just
one of pure chaos so I'm just trying to
fight it the best idea
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look at all the leaves falling it's so
pretty so here I have my camera set out
and I'm gonna start shooting my
thumbnail I figured I'd walk you guys
through the process and I feel like I
never showed you guys this type of
behind-the-scenes let's bring this baby
yep
I should we don't get like really
nervous about thumbnails right it it was
because I feel like nowadays this
thumbnail makes or breaks the video you
have to market your video in a way that
is the right buy artsy and friendly but
like a little bit funny but also like
aesthetic and it's so hard to fade like
this tiny tiny little picture the entire
mood of like a 42 minute video so I do
have this weird nostalgia for the days
of YouTube when they would just pick the
thumbnail for you and all of the
thumbnails are just people who are like
there it's like big way for conversation
and it must have seen people so much
time because they didn't have to do this
[ __ ]
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I'm also gonna try a version with this
outfit this composition is very and
white and brown so I feel like having a
pop of color could kind of help make it
look more interesting this composition
looks a little sparse okay here I have
imported all of the footage of me posing
I have created a marker at all of like
my potential thumbnails also when I'm
doing this I'll normally go to view
12.5% and it makes the thumbnail about
the same size that you'd actually see it
on YouTube so I can play around with
like font and composition and see what
is actually readable at a thumbnail size
share save current frame and then save
to my desktop then over on procreate on
my iPad I add some handwriting deutz and
liner color correction add a couple of
doodles and here is how the final
thumbnail turned out not bad if I say so
myself
hi I am taking a quick introduction to
make brownies
I want to eat them I don't have a mixing
bowl so I think I'm just gonna mix it
inside this hand and then bake it in the
pan so it doesn't stick everywhere I had
some people ask me like what my diet is
and stuff like that and I wanna make a
whole video talking about this but I'm
gonna be like don't diet at all I know
things work differently for everybody
but like I did the whole journey for a
while I counted all my calories on the
app for a while and for me that was just
like Madonna healthy relationship to
have with food it made me feel like
guilty every time I ate but then also I
was like constantly thinking about the
next time that I could actually have
dessert or actually have like yummy food
that I wanted and now I feel like it's
all about balance for me like sometimes
I'll want you something healthy
sometimes I'm just in the mood for
brownies and that's totally fine either
way I feel like sometimes Fitness
culture it's just like thinly veiled old
school values of telling people that
they should lose weight or look thinner
to like look more attractive like when I
was dieting and doing the whole journey
and stuff like I genuinely just told
myself it was because I wanted to be
healthier but I think deep down my own
motivation was just that I wanted to
lose weight and I really like hated how
my body looked so I think those have
always been entangled for me which is
why I kind of like avoid in this culture
as a whole I just hate that like overall
women are told that food and how much
you weigh is such a central part of your
life oh I actually read a good thing
from Hitomi I was on her Instagram that
was like food is a way of showing
yourself you're worthy of love which I
thought was really cool way of putting
it because I feel like I had always used
food as like a punishment or as
something that I felt guilty about but I
think at the end of the day it's just
another part of life that you can enjoy
I know this is a controversial opinion
please don't unsubscribe but I hate the
corners of brownies and I only like the
edge pieces are the middle because I
like it gooey Wow
retirement I feel like a real adult now
I've literally made so many jokes about
like not being a real adult with a 401k
and my [ __ ] together but now I do have a
401k not sure if I have my [ __ ] together
but we're getting there save your
retirement kids because the boomers
would probably destroy Social Security
for us although maybe just like the
earth will implode before we ever
retired and I'll never get to use that
money so hmm place your bets now kids
which one will come first so growing up
my mom would always have me draw all of
my cards I would hand draw Christmas
cards birthday cards for everybody in my
very extended Asian family thank-you
cards
Get Well cards the whole shebang I
remember around the holidays I would
actually get so stressful because I
would have to turn out like 20 Christmas
cards right after I finished my finals
so I always kind of resented the fact
that my mom made me handle all of these
cards but now I think it's a really good
skill to have because I don't know
nobody actually like takes time to
physically make and send stuff anymore
so I feel I can draw a card your
extra-special
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okay I'm not gonna lie this is probably
one of the worst Christmas cards I've
ever made
it's very off-center but um I don't know
mr. Santa's kind of cute okay let's try
again these gold pins by the way
absolutely come to suck through even if
you just draw out a simple Merry
Christmas the fact that it's metallic
makes it seem like you put in a lot of
effort
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um okay now the actual hard part is
writing in these because I just like I
never quite know what to say to my
relatives I know that sounds awful um
and you know I love them and [ __ ] but I
like literally see them once every two
years so I'm always like Merry Christmas
I hope you're doing well hope to see you
soon and that's it let me know if you
guys have a similar problem but my like
family is just super spread out like my
dad is something Glynn so my grandfather
lives in like North London my mom's eye
is originally from Burma but she grew up
in Minnesota when they immigrated my
grandparents and my aunt uncle are in
Northern California and my other uncle
are in war ended oh and I grew up in
Maryland of course so we're just like
incredibly spread out it's always been
interesting to me like people who grow
up with their grandparents and their
cousins like down the street from them
that's kind of cool that's something I
never really experienced but I also am
kind of grateful that my family's so
spread out because I never felt like I
was tied down to my hometown because
like my mom and dad both just like
heated the hell out of where they grew
up and they never made me feel guilty
for doing the same thing which is nice
because like for something like film I
just wouldn't have been able to do that
if I want to stay in Maryland okay turns
out I only own birthday wrapping paper
and it's very squished birthday wrapping
paper at that so I am going to make my
own wrapping paper out of printer paper
that is I'm just gonna draw some little
hearts on it my mom used to wrap gifts
and like comics or recipes from the
newspaper so I feel like it's all it's
all fair game
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it always gets stuck look what came in
the mail it is my jewelry sample it's
from on route I talked about in pretty
much every single video but I designed a
jewelry collection and everything was in
gold it was mostly like gold and pearl
details I wanted it to be very vintage
inspired but a lot of you guys have been
asking for a silver version because if
it's your skin tone better and we have
been silver version of the safety pin
earrings so actually let me see if I can
find it is almost impossible to see the
difference on camera so you guys are
gonna think I'm crazy when I'm talking
about this but this was the original
sample that I received for the silver
version at the safety pin earring and
the wire was a little bit thinner I
think it was probably like point two
millimeters thinner than the gold one so
I had them remake it with a wire that's
exactly the same width as the gold one
because I really wanted the same
proportions on the same kind of level of
tension in the safety pin otherwise it
might feel a little bit flimsy when you
close it if the wire isn't thick enough
and second of all this color was a
little bit too light for me and I wanted
a silver option that was a little bit
darker you can like nearly see the color
difference if I open like this
it's literally like not even half a
shade darker but little stuff like that
makes a big difference to me
I'm gonna take off this endless because
it's gold and it's distracting they're
so cute I'm gonna get in touch with
honor team and we're gonna talk launch
timeline and stuff like that we were
originally hoping to get them out before
Christmas so that you guys could get
them as Christmas gifts but like I
mentioned before I had a couple notes
about the original round and I wanted to
make sure that they were perfect so but
yeah hopefully these will be coming out
in the next few weeks I will keep you
guys updated hi okay it is very rainy
and dark out so you can't really see me
but I'm going to move my car right now
because I don't have a parking spot so
we have street cleaning on Monday and
Tuesday so on Sunday night I have to
move my car into a Tuesday street
cleaning spot so that I don't get a $75
ticket which is a fun little just like
la trappe hot take but I feel like it is
all just a labyrinth way to get people
to pay $75 in parking ticket cuz I see
our streets don't need to be cleaned
every single week
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okay folks at this point it is around
7:30 and I'm probably gonna spend the
rest of the night editing I'm also still
waiting on this damn apartment makeover
to upload we have an hour and 40 minutes
left because it's a 40-minute loan video
oh also later tonight if I have time for
like fun activities I might watch
marriage story on Netflix my friend told
me that the acting was like absolutely
insane in it 64 and have a dead gay
husband I managed to get up every day
live my life and feel pretty good about
myself so maybe your mom knows that
there too I also feel like this is a
weird new development in my life that I
actually am willing to watch like a sad
movie about divorce in my free time like
those are always the movies that my mom
wanted to watch and I was like why would
we do that for fun but now that I feel
like I've experienced sad things in my
own life now I like it relate to all of
these sad adult dramas so yeah that's
what growing up is kids just wanting to
like cry to movies in your free time
anyways thank you so much for watching
this vlog I hope it wasn't too boring I
hope you got to uh get to know me a
little bit better catch up this is kind
of a weird part in my life because I'm
leaving for New York in a couple weeks
so I'm just kind of like wrapping up
everything in LA anyways I hope you guys
are having a good time with your
families this holiday or with your
friends I hope you're not fighting too
much about Trump's and Pietschmann I'll
see you guys next week bye
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