favourite books (and inspired works) 
- The Fall; Albert camus
- Animal Liberation; Peter Singer
- Mortality; Christopher Hitchens
- Why Orwell Matters; Christopher Hitchens
- The Sickness Unto Death; Søren Kierkegaard
- The Interpretation of Dreams; Sigmund Freud
- Parerga and Paralipomena; Arthur Schopenhauer
- Modernist Cuisine; Nathan Myhrvold
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius; Ray Monk
- Notes from Underground; Fyodor Dostoevsky
admired websites that inspired me
foods i'm probably thinking about now
- tomato sandwich
- pasta pomodoro with pecorino
- grilled peaches
- fermented beans in any form
- bánh mì
- Hunan style perilla cucumber
- Chaoshan oyster omelette
- Fesenjan
special places
- Bayland Nature Preserve; Palo Alto
- Waverley Street 7-11; Palo Alto
- Seventeen Mile Drive; Pebble Beach
- My Cup of Tea; Hong Kong
- Smithfield Road McDonald's; Hong Kong
favourite movies about love
- La La Land
- 500 Days of Summer
- Crazy Rich Asians
- No Reservations
- Interstellar
- Everything Everywhere all at Once
- Be With You (2004) (2018)
lovely people