The ROI Year: 2023

Well mes chéries, nothing that happened in 2022 was on my bingo card. I asked a few of my close friends what their word for the year 2023 is. I got intention, maturation,…
View PostThe Beginning of the End: Turning Twenty-Seven

Bonjour mes chéries! Yours truly just completed another circle around the sun and turned twenty-seven last weekend. This was a birthday I’ve been dreading for quite some time for many reasons. To start,…
View PostTwenty-Six and in the Mix

Happy Aries season, mes chéries! The snow has melted, the temperature is rising, and pollen is annoyingly clogging up everyone’s sinuses. Spring is finally here. Now this would normally be the time that…
View Post20 Things From 2020

Bonjour, mes chéries! I can’t believe we are here again so soon. In a year that felt like it was three years long but also only like one long month, it’s hard to…
View PostHindsight 2020: New Year Resolutions

Bonjour mes chéries et bienvenue to a new year of Bouge & Rouge! How were all of your holiday breaks and New Year’s Eves? Mine was mellow and dare I say a little…
View Postthank u, next

Before you get all excited and think this post is a love/hate letter to all my exes, let me set one thing straight: I’ve already wasted my precious time on these idiots; I’m…
View PostThe First 365 New York Days

Mes chéries, I’m pinching myself. I cannot believe it’s been just over a year since I moved into the city with one of my best friends from high school in an overpriced shoebox…
View PostGrowing Up Asian-American

Bonjour, mes chéries! How are you all? I’m a little bit sad that I haven’t chatted with you as frequently as I want to, but I hope you know my absence on the…
View PostTwenty-Three Years Wiser

Mes chéries, this girl is turned one year older last Monday, April 2! This birthday was important to me since it was my Jordan year birthday and first birthday on my own as…
View PostNew Year, New Me?

Happy New Year, mes chéries! How were your New Year’s Eves? A few college friends and I hosted a party and spent it with our friends, old and new. It was definitely a…
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