Traveling, learning about different cultures, languages, indie music & films (I love watching live music especially outdoors!), museums, cooking & feeding my friends & fam (I cook a mean Japanese meal), eating (total foodie), the beach (I love the water!), swimming (was on the swim team in HS), kayaking in Newport Beach back bay (so sad I can't do this anymore), kickboxing, spending time with friends & family, laughing, talking, drinking
Adventurous people who like to travel off the beaten path, concert goers, dorky, funny people who will make me laugh... guys with nice pecs =) ...Californians, Hawaiians & Nihonjin living in NYC...Active people in the city...
Broken Social Scene, Feist, Ride, Snow Patrol, The Walkmen, Air, Coldplay, The Killers, Muse, Tahiti80, The Cure, Sigur Ros, Mum, Deathcab for cutie, Postal Service, The Decemberists, The Doves, Flaming Lips, The Verve, Travis, Janes Addiction, Linkin Park, Miguel Migs, Brazilian Girls, Bebel Gilberto other bossa nova and lots more!
Donnie Darko, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Poltergeist, Indiana Jones movies, Star Wars, Whale Rider, Salom Bombay, Spirited Away, Shall We Dance (Japanese Version), The Incredibles, Meet the Parents, Old School, Napolean Dynamite, foreign films and documentaries...
Lost, Food Network, Grey's Anatomy, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Friends, Will & Grace
Murakami novels, Tuesdays with Morrie, Angelas Ashes, Memoirs of a Geisha, Bridget Jones diary, The Da Vinci Code
My mom of course! She was a young single mother who raised my sister and I by herself while running her own business and now is going back to school at age 65!