While selecting photos from the archives for my portfolio, I found a 7-months pregnant me looking large and in charge in Hawaii, and my sweetie, looking thin and overworked from the long hours he had been pulling at his start-up. Hawaii was a dream, one of the happiest times in our lives, and these photos …
He'd board at Canal and watch the train fill and empty at each stop with an ever-shifting mix of different peoples and ethnicities...the only thing uniting them being their newness to America and their identical expressions of exhaustion, that blend of determination and resignation that only the immigrant possesses. The other aspect of those weekday-evening …
Hello October. School was probably as big of an adjustment for me as it was for Ellie. Suddenly our house got a lot quieter and feels a bit lonelier with Ellie gone most of the day. I feel a new urgency to work and create, yet somehow the hours slip away and before I know …
I've braced myself for the Terrible Twos, but no one ever told me about the Wonderful Twos. Now just shy of 2.5 years old, Ellie has reached an explosion in language. At first it started with "What's that sound mama?", which she starts asking from the moment she wakes up until she falls asleep. Soon …
It somehow became a tradition for me to snap a few portraits of Ellie after a fresh DIY bang trim. I know that the years are numbered where she would let me give her an ugly home haircut even though I think she can rock an ugly haircut like no other. These trims also happen …
I admit Hong Kong has always been a bit over-romanticized in my head thanks to watching all those Wong Kar-Wai movies in my 20s. I’ve seen Chungking Express at least 3 times. I was going through an art phase. When I arrived the first day at my Airbnb inside a building named The Chungking Mansions, …
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