This is me in office attire during military service. I would hang a pair of civilian clothes in my file-store and change into them lightning fast so that I could sneak off for lunch in town when the coast was clear!

This is a NACRA 5.8, the meanest, fastest catamaran I've sailed. At 1.6 wind factor, the boat has the potential to travel at 1.6 times the speed of wind blowing. I have blasted close to 30kts in a storm blowing 20kts with this boat. My friend Iu-Jin and I named her "Rocket Science".

Meet "TK", a Tokay Gecko commonly found around South East Asia. An American Missionary in Chiang Rai Thailand found him for me. I named it TK after my dad Thuan Kok because of its laid back personality. TK's belly is soft and fun to tickle. TK got me into trouble one night at a bar when I asked (quite innocently) a bunch of new girl friends if they'd like to come home with me to check out my lizard...

This is a cock fight in Chatuchak--the weekend market in Bangkok, Thailand. The arena is choked with hot stifling humidity, the stench of chicken poop and sweaty humans is overwhelming, and the gore of the two cockerels tearing at each other almost too much to bear. It's hard to believe my father was so into these events that he once kept his own cockerels!

This was Val. She was my best friend while she was alive. Despite being old enough to have been my grandma, she chose to follow me to the beach at 5am in the mornings to go fishing with me. I will never forget the lesson of unconditional love she demonstrated to me.