by Calista | Jan 7, 2019 | Everyday, Life Lessons, Personal Growth, Photography, Self-Love
About six years ago, I had a brief partnership with Zespri that didn’t quite materialize. The photography materials I developed wasn’t up to par. One day, I stopped hearing back from them. I was rendered in a state of confusion. In my bulky camera bag, I...
by Calista | Jan 4, 2019 | #LearnByDoing, Life Lessons, Personal Growth
it’s been one of the homiest and most challenging years of my life. i learned everything is always evolving. knowledge. relationship. people. technology. though some remain. i learned to love. that compromise comes after effort. arguments. they make you...
by Calista | Nov 23, 2018 | Life Lessons, Personal Growth, Recommendations
Published on Her Campus @ UC Davis . . . I’ve been binge watching some of the best “Golden Buzzer” moments on America’s and Britain’s Got Talent, where participants arrived on the big stage with untold stories they wished to unfold. Some were more emotional than the...
by Calista | Jul 5, 2018 | Books, Personal Growth, Recommendations
We all fall into a rut. Sometimes, we need all the help we can get to crawl out of the black hole. But the main determinant of your outcome is the next step you’d take to deal with it. Last week, I felt all sorts of dejection typically experienced by a college...
by Calista | May 9, 2018 | #LearnByDoing, Personal Growth
A little over a month ago, I applied for a scholarship offered by the Sequoia Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). They highlighted the importance of applicants to have demonstrated passions in education, community service, civil rights, and cultural plurality. I...
by Calista | Feb 3, 2018 | Life Lessons, Personal Growth, San Francisco
My bean and I were crossing the streets in Berkeley as anyone would, except we were gasping at how wide the streets are here compared to downtown SF, how it’s so nice to take a breather in a different city, and how the city looked so quirky! Yeap, definitely quirky....
