About

the girl.     the site.     the art.

Hello! My name is Cindy, and I was born on the twenty-first day of the year 1989, which makes me an Aquarian in the year of the Dragon. (I’m also Type 4 and an INFP, if you’re into that sort of thing.) I’m more glad than sad or mad, more introverted than extroverted, more of a lover than a hater, and more optimistic than pessimistic. My last name isn’t Pepper, though honestly, how great would life be if that were true?

I grew up in the sleepy Midwest suburbs until my family moved to Shanghai in 2007, and I headed off to NY to study at Columbia. I currently study Industrial Engineering with two minors in Economics and East Asian Languages & Cultures. I’m usually in New York living the college student life for most of the year, but I can also be found at home in Shanghai and other places around the globe.

Two of my favorite things include traveling and eating. I seriously think the NY Times wrote this article just for me, because I’m totally that crazy person who brings her camera to a restaurant and proceeds to take pictures of the food she eats. I love drawing, fashion, mathematics (when it’s not kicking my ass), art history, baking cookies, photography, waking up at stupid o’clock to watch football games, playing the piano & viola, and exploring. And blogging, of course! Some other random things I like include Harry Potter, things that are green, snail mail, Nutella, the Bundesliga, lambic beer, cilantro, Sporcle games, Moleskines, museums, weird ice-cream flavors, animated films, tigers, and figs.

If you have the time, feel free to drop a line. I don’t bite.