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A travel year in review (2024)
I spent $13,000 plus 304,800 miles on travel in 2024. I saved about $3,048 by using miles (which I earned since 2022 from travel hacking) to cover some of the flights I booked throughout the year. My two words to summarize this year for me were change and unseriousness. Hey Siri, play “Night Changes” by…
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Worldview and Workview
TW: potential mental health triggers A few months ago, I was talking with one of my best friends about how I became more and more aware of my existence. We’ll call it an existential crisis. I didn’t have any life threatening moments or brushes with death. I just realized that shit, I’m gonna die one…
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Solo in Seoul (Part 2)
Wassup homies! In this post, I am gonna talk about the surprises and lessons I learned from my 2 week trip to South Korea. First, I’ll share surprises: Smoking: I didn’t know there was a heavy smoking culture here. I went to a club in Hongdae and left with all my clothes and hair smelling…
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Solo in Seoul (Part 1)
I just got back from a 2 week solo trip to South Korea. I’m so sad writing this because I had an amazing time & I can’t believe it’s over. During my visit, I stayed in 2 neighborhoods in Seoul (Itaewon & Gangnam), Jeju City & Incheon. In my first 5 days, I stayed in…
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Tea at the park
It’s been 4 weeks since I quit my job. Why is time moving so quickly now that I have no job? In the past week, I came from an intensive conference in Washington, DC to prepare for b-school. It was the MLT Professional Development (PD) conference. I had an interview for an internship which was…
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Road trip to Southern California
Week 2 of summer vacation was a vibe. Total trip cost $510. I spent $165 on gas and the rest on food and experiences. Housing was $free.99 thanks to my brother and homies ❤ Day 1-2: Hollywood I drove about 4.5 hours to Los Angeles. That has been the longest drive I’ve ever done by…
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24 Bucket List – Final Update
Happiness accountability check-in! I turn 25 in a few days. I made this list of things I wanted to accomplish before I turned 25 for maximum joy purposes. Updates are bolded, and completed things are crossed off. You can find the original list here. So let’s see what I accomplished in my 24th year. Go…
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I quit my job
“There’s 104 days of summer vacation and school comes along just to end it!” Any Phineas and Ferb fans would get that. Well, today marks 104 days till my school starts. In more recent news, I’m officially funemployed. I left my job last Friday after almost 4 years. For my loyal readers, I manifested quitting…
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Travel hacking has affected my credit score!
With all my travel hacking from last year, I wanted to give an update on how my credit score is doing. I recently closed my Barclay American Airline Aviator Mastercard. I wrote about it here. It gave me 50,000 AA points after I made 1 purchase last year. It was the easiest card I’ve hacked.…
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4 Things I’m doing to prepare for unemployment
I’m a few weeks away from being unemployed. I officially put in my notice at work and I’m expecting 2 more paychecks before my 2 year sabbatical – which is a 3 month break plus 22 month full time graduate program. There are a lot of things that I’ve started stressing about. New anxieties that…
