Pei Pals with Pei

<p>I met Giang when I was in Vietnam for a friend's wedding. In fact, I ended up being this friend’s best man at his wedding, which I discovered only 1-2 days beforehand. Thank you my Finnish brother.</p><p>I remember...

<p>Darren was my Chinese tutor when I was living in Taipei. But that means that it was a bit one-sided, in that he would ask me questions, and I would do the bulk of the talking because it was about me practicing. Here...

<p>Jesse is not only my neighbor in bangkok, whenever he actually decides to live here, but he was one of the most influential people in my life last year. </p><p>The way I met him is quite unique: I got sent a youtube...

<p>My pal Mark returns, this time with a baby in tow!</p><p>It’s pretty great to be able to have a snapshot in time of someone’s life, before and after having a baby. You're welcome, Mark. </p><p>I’m realizing that is...

<p>Once upon a time, I went to a co-working space in Taipei called the Hive, and that's where I met Jeff. It became immediately apparent that we had a lot in common, and we quickly built a ritual of talking about our...

<p>Jonathan is an unassuming guy, but hs is also impossible to not notice.</p><p>A 6’3 handsome MFer in Bangkok tends to turn heads. But also, I noticed his shirts and hats. I figured out that they were about his own...

<p>Juan is one of my pals from Taiwan, and I knew of him before I met him because I had been using his website for months beforehand! He's the founder of taiwannutrition.com, and in more recent years, the founder of...

<p>Mel is what I would call a boomerang. The way I define it is growing up somewhere, going somewhere else, and then ultimately returning to that first place for… reasons. Perhaps belonging, or a lack of belonging...

<p>The picture doesn't match the name, does it?</p><p>Reina is a pal that, when we first met, we didn’t talk at all. That's because she is a dance friend from Tokyo, and we met on the dance floor at a of the Latin dance...

<p>In this episode, I interview my pal Lisa. I also occasionally just call her hair; just take a look at the picture.</p><p>I met Lisa at a dance festival in Chiang Mai, but it wasn’t until I moved to Bangkok that we...

<p>In this episode, I interview my pal Henry. </p><p>Henry is actually a childhood friend. There’s something about people who you have known for 30 years, give or take. I guess they become a sort of family as well. We...

<p>In this episode, I interview my pal Daniel. Our friendship actually spans a few years and a few countries. I believe we were based in Budapest around the same time years ago, and then we met and became close when we...

<p>In this episode, I talked with my pal Aaron. He's not only a cool guy, but he's also my Bangkok shepherd because. I'll often have the experience of telling him “so this weird thing just happened…” and he will confirm...

<p>In this episode, I interviewed my pal Jaszmine. She's a new friend, but you wouldn't know it from the deep and private things that we talk about for everyone to hear. </p><p>And that's because with most people...

<p>In this episode, I interview my pal Yu-Jiang. I've known him for about 10 years, back from when we were both living in SF. We've both since moved on - him to Seattle, and me abroad since 2016. </p><p>What fascinates...