Meet Sapporo the Shiba Inu!

It's been a minute since i've posted here, my apologies, I guess life happened. This summer was quite hectic, with working a lot and a few trips here and there, I forgot about this blog somewhere in between. This past Summer, two big things happened. 1) I moved into my own apartment by myself ! first time living alone ever in my life and I'm so excited about it 2) I guess i'm not completely alone because I've acquired a new family member :) after waiting 2 months (or basically 10 years since Nintendogs came out) I am proud to say I own a Shiba Inu. I've always loved Shibas ever since i've owned one digitally on nintendogs, but I never thought I would actually own one in real life. I had my heart set on getting a puppy once I graduated college, I like to make little life goals towards happiness. I would look on craigslist classifieds under 'pets' every night  skimming through all the different dogs available. I thought I wanted to get a tea cup dog but honestly they're kind of useless.. Then I thought I would probably get a corgi or a Charles king spaniel. One day I was on Instagram and saw one someone I followed getting a shiba puppy. I then started to research about their personalities and was obsessed ever since. I did a ton of research about Shibas and learned that they are stubborn, aloof but so so smart and loyal to their owners. I was lucky enough to find a great breeder and the whole timing worked out with my old lease ending around the time I was able to take Sapporo home. When I found out that Sapporo was born, I literally went all the way to Woodinville to pick her out. She was a blind and deaf nugget at the time so I picked her out based on her coating lol I was so lucky to have picked out such a smart cute angel ;-; I've had her for about a month now, and she's about 12-13 weeks. She's learned tricks such as sit, lay down, give me her paw, crawl, high five, sit pretty, spin and play dead. pretty impressive in my opinion. My family back home has a 15 week old Pomeranian-chihuahua and they said all she knows how to do is lay down on every command haha. My life I feel like has improved drastically. I'm so happy now days, and i'm usually crying over boys but i've been okay :) I actually think Sapporo will somehow find me my future husband haha, very excited about that ;) Anyways, thanks for reading ! hopefully i'll post more in the near future :) here are some pictures of my bb 



Photo Diary: Japanese Garden [& on Happiness]


A lot is changing in my life, and I'm about to close a chapter in my book and start a next. 

Whenever I look at my old blog posts I always crave and want one thing, and it's happiness. I was always one to place my happiness in someone else's hands but I've learned lately that happiness is  your own personal choice. I find it so important to know what makes you happy and you go and do whatever that is. I would base my happiness on how my relationship is with my significant other, which is fine but it's not always efficient. As I get older, I'm learning about what makes me truly happy and realizing that no one is forcing me to do anything. As long as you're not hurting anyone in the process, do whatever it is that makes you happy. 

On a side note, I've been so inspired to start vlogging (as well as blogging)!! Especially since i'll be done with school soon and will have time to myself :) Any ideas on what to vlog about ? I wanna hear suggestions. 

Thanks for reading, xoxo Kaire


Photo Diary: Spring in Hawaii



A much over due blog post about Hawaii. If you don't already know, I'm from Honolulu, Hawaii. I moved to Seattle right after graduating high school when I was 18, and have been living in Seattle for about 4 years now. The last time I've been home prior this trip was 1 1/2 years ago. I never appreciated home more than I ever have now. I also never realized how much I missed everything about home. I usually get anxious about being in Hawaii for too long because the lifestyle is so repetitive for me. However this time around I think I could have stayed another week or so. I literally tried to cram seeing everyone within a span of a week while spending time with family too. I also crammed a lotttt of food while I could too, I would say I did a good job by not gaining 50lbs ! While being back home, I felt very appreciated. I have such genuine friends back home, a loving family and was in a comfortable environment ! There really is no place like home and i'm going to forever be grateful to call hawaii my home. I miss everyone so much and hope to go back sometime soon. Sometimes Seattle gets lonely, although I've adapted well to the city, I sometimes get homesick. Can't wait to go back after I graduate (which is in about a month ! finally..)

Started from the bottom, ended at the bottom.

Hello lovelies ! Happy Sunday to you all. Yesterday I attempted to hike Mount Pilchuck with one of my bestfriends Renee ! Unfortunately, we ended up taking the trail to Lake Heather instead. The end point was beautiful ! but definitely not where we expected to be. Mount Philchuck is a rather difficult hike (or so i've been told), and at the summit there's a 360 degree view of Washington, also a cool firehouse lookout, and Renee and I were both really excited to be there however, while we were hiking up slope for 75% of the way, we started going down on a decline, then we thought "Wait, why aren't we going up anymore.." So we asked two ladies on the same trail with their dog if we were on the trail to Mount Pilchuck, they kinda laughed then said we went on the wrong hike from the base of the trail.. It was the saddest moment ever cause it was already 2:20 and there was no way we could make it back to base then start a hike again, so we decided to just finish the trail to Lake Heather. The view was still really pretty though, and no regrets at all. It was really cold as well. Renee and I found a rock to eat food and take selfies at, but our hands started to get numb and my food was way too cold to even eat so we ended up walking back. On our walk back, we saw parts of the lake literally frozen ! The water was icing up, creating a really cool texture. It was so muddy throughout the hike too, my poor timberlands are kind of ruined haha. Overall, it was a nice hike ! and such a good day :) Hopefully next time we will go on the right trail to Pilchuck, but for now we'll just take this hike as our warm up ;)



(Photo Credit: Renee (baenee)


(Photo Credit: Renee (baenee)

(Photo Credit: Renee (baenee)

Cheers to a new (Lunar) Year ~





Hello ! Happy Lunar New Year !! The actual start of 2015 was not the best one for me haha, so I've decided to just go with Chinese new year. In all honesty, it's been a rough 2 months or so, especially these past 2 weeks (stupid boys, sigh.) but I woke up this morning feeling okay and not sad ! I think that's a good start :')

It's been a (long) while since I've last blogged. I took a 3 year hiatus from blogging, but I've decided to come back to doing it once again ! I used to blog a lot about beauty, tutorials, reviews, life and etc. Hopefully for this blog I can talk about the same things and even more ! Such as cooking, restaurants, adventures, advice, dieting/working out, fashion, music/concerts and etc ~  I'm very very excited to be doing this once again. I still need to work on an official logo/watermark for this blog, as well as organizing sections and tags so hopefully that'll come along soon ~ !!

So, why did I even stop blogging in the first place? Looking back now, 3 years ago I started to officially live with the boyfriend I was with at the time. I forgot what "me time" was and I spent most of my days and nights with him.  Prior moving in with him, I used to dorm and even before that I was back in Hawaii and literally had all the time in the world to myself, messing around on blogspot and tumblr. I guess I also got busy with juggling work and school as well, however now that I'm actually single (for the first time in 4 years), I decided to start blogging again since it was my main hobby years ago.

I truly hope to keep this blog updated as thoroughly as possible !! can't wait :)


Thanks for reading