movies

  • star wars
  • spiderman trilogies
  • iron man trilogy
  • dark knight trilogy
  • avatar movies
  • ford v ferrari
  • shutter island
  • titanic
  • inception
  • interstellar
  • shawshank redemption
  • goodwill hunting
  • rocky & creed movies
  • oppenheimer
  • prestige
  • topgun movies
  • dune movies
  • fast & furious movies
  • the greatest showman
  • forest gump
  • the big short
  • wolf of wall street
  • lion
  • three idiots
  • pk
  • kabir singh
  • zindagi na milegi dobara
  • hi nanna

quotes

  • "the night is darkest just before dawn" - harvey dent (the dark knight)
  • "follow excellence, success will chase you... pants down" - aamir khan (3 idiots)
  • "if you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice" - jim sullivan
  • "to lead the orchestra, you must turn your back to the crowd" - max lucado
  • "the measure of intelligence is the ability to change" - albert einstein
  • "comparison is the thief of joy" - theodore roosevelt
  • "the grass is greener on the other side because it’s fertilized with bullshit" - unknown
  • "theory will only take you so far" - j. robert oppenheimer
  • "the moment we stop thinking is when our happiness begins" - joseph nyugen (don't believe everything you think)
  • "life is suffering" - buddha
  • "in your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself" - miguel ruiz (the four agreements)
  • "real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them" - miguel ruiz (the four agreements)
  • "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" - muhammad ali
  • "the only place to go from failure is to win" - tom platz
  • "learn, earn, return" - alan loy mcginnis

books

  • the inheritance cycle - christopher paolini
  • harry potter - j.k. rowling
  • percy jackson - rick riordan
  • the heroes of olympus - rick riordan
  • kane chronicles - rick riordan
  • animal farm - george orwell
  • 1984 - george orwell
  • night - elie wiesel
  • atomic habits - james clear
  • how to win friends and influence people - dale carnegie
  • astrophysics for people in a hurry - neil degrasse tyson
  • beyonders - brandon mull
  • the power of habit - charles duhigg
  • the autobiography of frederick douglass - frederick douglass
  • steve jobs - walter isaacson
  • all quiet on the western front - erich maria remarque
  • how not to diet - michael greger
  • station eleven - emily st. john mandel
  • running with sherman - christopher mcdougall
  • the untethered soul - michael a. singer
  • the bhagavad gita
  • the alchemist - paulo coelho
  • frankenstein - mary shelley
  • the four agreements - don miguel ruiz
  • never split the difference - chris voss
  • sapiens - yuval noah harari
  • talking to strangers - malcolm gladwell
  • meditations - marcus aurelius
  • the power of scrum - jeff sutherland

restaurants

  • ping pong, london
  • mumokateki, kyoto
  • bloompb, chicago
  • planta queen, chicago
  • curry & more, oceanside
  • nightsong market, los angeles
  • heidelberg cafe, laguna beach
  • earth aloha eats, maui
  • my burma, davis
  • ramen nagi, san diego

cities visited

  • new york city
  • chicago
  • san francisco
  • london
  • paris
  • dubai
  • mumbai
  • bangalore
  • beijing
  • shanghai

tv shows

  • game of thrones
  • house of the dragon
  • avatar: the last airbender
  • attack on titan
  • cobra kai
  • the three-body problem
  • the boys
  • the lord of the rings: the rings of power
  • suits
  • the 100
  • grey's anatomy
  • squid game
  • designated survivor