almost half a year since my last update.. these days my time is spent thinking about or doing work... I even dream about it and it drives me crazy.
I'm thinking about reviving my design hobby. I realized that for quite sometime now I've been telling people I like doing computer graphics design and I haven't put time and effort to build a portfolio. So I've been working on putting together a website. In that process, I found deep down in my harddrive, old projects I've worked on. Above collage shows snippitz of a few of them. For those of you who used to visit my website/blog, you might recognize some.. yeah hella old..!

I want to work on something fArtsy, otherwise at this rate my right brain will perish. ararghargharg. ok im going to sleep now.

uniformity is undesirable.

imperfections allow room for growth.

so said Kenko and apparently ancient Chinese philosophers
Too often, I set a mental to-do list that I never get around to complete it all.

Right now, I want to beat my brain up for never finishing my old to-do list....
why didn't I do this,
why didn't I do that.
Then.
I could have.
done this.
did that.

but there will always be imperfections.
if i had done all that, I would most likely see another problem to work on.

The best way to deal with it all is see that I am always making progress.
I'm always getting better.

THINK POSITIVE!!!!! RAGH.

snow blankets Seattle!

why would you ever go in the water!?

I saw a lady taking a photo of this fountain,
so I decided to take a photo too.
then I realized, what is in the fountain is not snow.. but foam! why?!

I used to sit here to eat my lunch during summer...!

I love this photo above!

brrrrrd

at least I know I can walk to work still! :)

Photos of Summer 2008
Tacoma, Victoria B.C, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Gorge WA

what fascinates me
what drives me
what empowers me

I think about these questions everyday
even on days when I don't feel at my best

lessons I learned
actions I took
qualities I possess

replenish my soul.

Chiri's All American Experience Pt. 2 + Fall Break


I carved a pumpkin for the first time in my LIFE earlier this month! since we carved so early, they all got moldy & soggy so I threw mine away yesterday =(

well.. rest of the photos are not so American as they're more mainland U.S. experience... but check ittt..

Sunset view from my window :D

One day, I decided to bring my camera with me to go to the bank/grocery shopping. I wanted to capture Fall + everyday Tacoma scenes. I was surprised to find that there are SO MANY different kinds of trees here!! I also love pretty lawns... mMMmm..

Proctor!
mMMm multicolored treeee o_O

Fall Break pt. 1
John and I went on a bus adventure to Tacoma Mall. The weather was so nice! Full view of Mt. Rainier from Border

Fall break pt. 2: we walked to Old Town!

soooo prettyy :D

Chiri's all American Experience Pt. 1

"Frisko Freeze" an ALL American burger joint with Hummer parked next to it...!

out the hummer, comes a family of four grabbin' dinner

downtown Tacoma with white boys! super American!

downtown Tacoma... see Tacoma was supposed to be the Seattle of Washington, but people found gold in Seattle so Tacoma got left out... I feel like downtown Tacoma encompasses all elements of an "urban" city but it always seems so deserted. although that is my favorite part of this place because I feel like its still a place with a lot of potential for growth, like no one has yet discovered the "gold" in Tacoma... o_O *deep*


more entries to come soon!

I went camping!
I didn't take these photos, I got these photos from John because I forgot my camera (and I wanted to kill myself)

We left Tacoma on Friday night and we drove up a mountain and camped at the top. Next day we did a 4 mile hike down to Echo Lake and set up a tent at a camp site near the lake. On Sunday, we woke up at 8am and hiked 4 miles back up! O_O
So my school has this freshman orientation program called Passages where they divide the freshman into smalls groups and go out on a variety of outdoor activities like backpacking, kayaking, canoing (?), etc . Well I missed mine because I got really sick during that week and I always regretted not going. 3 years laterrr, I finally felt like I made up for my lost time by deciding to go on this backpacking trip. It was a pretty difficult hike, thing as I'm SUPERRRR out of shape but the lake and the mountains were so beautiful; it made me love the northwest even more <3

ahhh this is my last week of summer! I can't believe its almost over! although... I didn't really have a vacation because I was working full time... (and I still am till this Friday...) I think I'll go nUtz this coming weekend because its a three-day weekend! and almost everyone's gonna be back! :D :D