words, images, life
Sometimes mom is very weird in an amusing way, and sometimes, I benefit from it.
The story goes like this. She travels between Taiwan and the U.S. a lot, and no matter where she is, she has the habit of taking afternoon walks. While taking a walk in our neighborhood in Taitung, Taiwan, she discovered that [...]
I’ve been receiving an unusual number of spam comments recently. While mass deleting them, several treasured comments from wonderful folks have mysteriously disappeared.
This has happened before, and a few people have asked me “why was my comment deleted?”. Answer is, I did not do that.
If you’ve left me comments before and [...]
One big area of my life that I never wrote much about on this blog is the political activities and the community services that I do. It started with attending Taiwanese Independence events (I am strongly pro Taiwanese Independence), then it lead to volunteering at those events, to joining a few grass root organizations, to participating [...]
Honestly, only about 1/10 of what goes on in my life gets recorded in this blog, because I am too busy to sit and write well. I know it has been six weeks now since John and I returned from our honeymoon trip, but the travelogueisn’t completed yet. I have other incomplet projects too, plus [...]
I have a grand uncle who, honestly, I didn’t enjoy hanging out with all that much when he was little. I thought he talked loud, dressed funny, walked with a wobble, behaved like a peasant, and was just overall too countryside-ish. He owned a bookstore, and sold middle school study materials as a side job. [...]
It has been a while since the last time I wrote about my paintings, but the fact is that despite all the wedding activities, I did not slow down on painting at all. I’ve finished several nice paintings, and been in two art shows so far this year. I am quite a harsh critic on [...]
As I write this post, I look at the picture on the right, and I can’t help to smile.
The beautiful lady next to me is my long-time, great friend, Erin.
She and I go way back, to our carefree years in junior high school. We were classmates and good friends. After I moved to the U.S., [...]