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...

Balancing Medicine, Business, and Self-Belief Recently, I’ve started something I’ve always dreamed about but never had the time, or...

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 Beauty of Meeting People and the Way We Are Interconnected We hear it often, that everything happens for a reason, that the people we...

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...

Me and My Cultures: Japanese, Bangladeshi, American I’m often asked, "What are you?"—obviously referring to my ethnicity, not my...

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...

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...

Let’s be honest — answering the question “what personality do I have?”  feels like the psychological equivalent of staring into a mirror...

I’ve always been a firm believer in trying everything that even remotely interests you — and I don’t mean just sampling a new dish or...

My Incredible Parents The Beginning I’ve decided to start this blog to record pieces of my life — in as much detail as I can — so that if...