Tien's.

Decided to visit Cambodia as soon I realized I had a couple of free days during the Bangkok shoot. Had a total of one hour of preparation and research on Siem Reap. What could go wrong?  Sure I wanted to visit Angkor Wat. Take some good shots of the old tree and check another country off my list. Talk to strange men and children, walk to hidden alley ways for a bowl of soup made of unknown animal parts. I study the history, keep a list of what I do, and of course, my job allows me to work with local videographers. So forget about all the tourist traps and online reviews. I’m not your hey let’s ride an elephants traveler, I connect.  But all of that better travel stuff went out the window when the greatest thunderstorm I’ve ever seen hit Bayon temple when I arrived. I was stuck in the tuk tuk with my driver Kim Yin. Got tired of waiting, bought a pair of sandals and a thin yellow rain coat for three dollars and went into the temple alone. The deep moving water washed a...

At some point all the coffee shops near Tokyo station has morphed into an endless space in my head -- You can walk into any of them and enjoy an afternoon of quietness and some superb sandwiches.  I was here last Spring, about to meet my friend Ciera in Sensō-Ji for some sightseeing but somehow found myself in a coffee shop in Kyobashi jotting down notes for a screenplay. At the time the thought of stopping everything video production related and drain all that’s left of me into a script seemed unrealistic (still is.) But I needed to know whether I still have a desire to express some BS and see where that would lead me. I was less obsessed with a new career path, but more into the actual grinding process of writing something no one would care to read.  Here I am (was) in Nihonbashi, a few blocks north of where I was last year. About to meet a friend from college in Shinjuku but needed a moment to process the past thirteen months.  The process.  “A...