Begining of an Ending : My Health
I guess I’ll start here: I haven’t been doing well, health-wise. That’s essentially why I decided to write all of this, and why I started...
Why Not Start? Building a Business While Becoming a Doctor
Balancing Medicine, Business, and Self-Belief Recently, I’ve started something I’ve always dreamed about but never had the time, or...
Maps, Moments, and the Making of Me
This past month, I did something I had always dreamed of—I let myself wander. I found myself hopping across countries I’d longed to see...
The Red String Theory
The Beauty of Meeting People and the Way We Are Interconnected We hear it often, that everything happens for a reason, that the people we...
The Value of Time
Time is the most valuable currency we have—far more expensive than anything money can buy. You can’t put a price on it. And yet, it’s...
Multicultural Identity
Me and My Cultures: Japanese, Bangladeshi, American I’m often asked, "What are you?"—obviously referring to my ethnicity, not my...
This is my Dream/Goal
Someone told me, "You have no idea what you want to do with your life, so I don't want you in my life anymore." That sentence wasn’t...
Miss Universe Journey
What It Was Like Becoming Miss Universe Japan I feel like this is the question I get asked the most: “How was it? How did it feel to...
Personality, Opinions and Rambles
Let’s be honest — answering the question “what personality do I have?” feels like the psychological equivalent of staring into a mirror...