And then there were none

I'm in my winter quarter and haven't been doing much.  Things have slowed down and I have become a sloth.

I still don't like holidays very much...perhaps it's because my family isn't closeby.

I miss home.  Hence this one clip of a roadtrip in Korea.  My sister took the very last sashimi piece, per usual.

Finals week

This quarter has been the most amazing quarter for me.  I deeply enjoy what I am doing and I love the people I am constantly with (professors, classmates, patients).  It has been all very unexpected and a wonderful surprise for me since last year was such a horrible year filled with anxiety and frustration.  I pray this high will continue.

Sorry I have not been updating and I know the last couple of posts have been super boring and only fashion related.  But much has been going thru my mind and I do want to share :)

Here's one random thing I found out about myself this quarter:
I like candles.  I really like striking the match and blowing out the candle with a sweet bonus of subtle aromatic fragrance. For once in my life, I am looking forward to the holidays.

Nice.

Dressed up and waiting...

...for <3
(2007)

Moldy Candy

color experimentation in 08

Clippings I liked and collected

Just cut and pasted them into my notebook

eYes

these are how my sister, me, my aunt and my mom draws eyes :)  it was pretty interesting!

Bird Lady

fast doodle in the car

Sketches and Ideas for Gallery in 06

There were many assignments where I had to pick an artist and draw my own ideas from their works..

self destruction theme

research on fashion! hehe

fish theme

dreary theme

hehe late -1 !!

twist

Sticks and Stones

i dont know how to fix my camera to not include dates -_-
but here is a doodle i did during art class

Wishful Girl

linoleum print
2005

little sketches before i made the print...
again, in high school i had an affinity for fishes hehe

Fashion ad ideas

2005
as you can see, i really wanted to do fashion advertisement hehe

Wooing Woman

cleaned up my room and found some old pieces I did from my senior AP art show.  next couple of days I will show you little things I found~ hopefully they will be interesting to you :)

Wooing woman (2006)
medium: acrylic paint

Hi I'm Nekked

Got some crazy bubble bath (and expensive...ohlala) goodies from the wonderful Helen Cho and June Lee.

Haven't done it in a looooooooooooooong time, especially because I only had no bath tub--only shower stalls.

Perfect beard, no?  With a bubble uni-brow crown.

My sister and I were taking the bubble bath together.  She is behind nekked, too ;)

Yes, I am back home.  Drawing updates coming soon!

Please remain

cool, calm, and collected
medium: colored pencils 

Eight more days..

It's been a succession of slaps on the face--proficiency after proficiency, final after final after final, and there is still more left to do.  Grad school is no joke!
Definitely will become an expert in this field and am finally understanding what it takes to become a doctor.  Didn't realize how hard it is to earn that name...how narrow-minded of me.

Have to work out, wash dishes, do laundry, clean up my room, pack boxes and study some more...

Wedding

the string of sad wedding dreams continue.
this is perhaps my fourth or fifth dream of getting married to someone I don't really love nor know that well in for the past year.
i keep thinking, i cannot reverse this.  too much planning effort too much money too many people, i have to go forward and finish this.  i am quiet, nervously smiling, excited about the future, but sad--uncertain how I can make this work and make myself truly happy.

Do you like rain?

How to rob a bank

YEAH

so

do u want to go to europe?

hahah

i do

but i dont want to use dad's money

8:35pm

...

okay...

so we rob a bank?

*shrug *

okay

sounds good to me

too cute too cute

too bad im allergic to cats and not too crazy about yoga

even if i weren't allergic to cats

and loved yoga

i still wouldn't have the butt for the cat's ledge.

Highly suspect

takes only one bite out of each pastry
and leaves the colony to stale...

bad habit.

Some were meant to fly..

but my wings are made of strings.

i can work with that!

doodling while talking with mom about family, being young and prayer.

Habakkuk 3:17-19

¹⁷ Though the fig tree does not bud 
   and there are no grapes on the vines, 
though the olive crop fails 
   and the fields produce no food, 
though there are no sheep in the pen 
   and no cattle in the stalls, 
¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in the LORD, 
   I will be joyful in God my Savior.

 ¹⁹ The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
   he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
   he enables me to tread on the heights.

   For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.

MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

TANG WEI

AOI YUU

SHIN MINA

After I get all of my favorite foods at the grocery store

source: whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com

so. true.

BON ANNIVERSAIRE!!!!!

strawings is one year old!

Quietly slip out of here...

and go do what i have always wanted to do..

Close to you

I like that phrase.  Just being close is so sweet :)

Strawing's First Birthday is....

...on March 24th :)

Sadly, my goal of drawing for all 366 days (yes, it was leap year this year) did not work out.  So far, I have only created 122 days of drawings.  That's not even half of the year!

Much has changed...will reflect and update then :)

Pugs

prince bogart and boo

royalty.

pugs can be so dumb sometimes.

Skin

the radiance within

wobblin' hobblin'

the english and me
doodling at the ppc meeting...oops

sorry for the fuzziness, its not your eye's fault.  the drawing is actually blurry.

Comfort...

My mother and her sisters

i don't like copying pictures.  i like to think of my own..
but i found a picture on a reading website and was so moved by it!
it was a girl in a hammock, reading with a hat.  like this.
if only i could find it...credits to that beautiful image!!

I see it as a late afternoon reading on one summer..

E-mail my dad sent me this morning (Part II)

Ladies, I moved more guppies into the main aquarium. -- There are about 15 happy guppies in the aquarium.   And there are still more than 40 guppies swimming in the pond.   A mysterious thing happened. The male guppy disappeared one day. I could not find any trace of him. I don't know what happened to it.   Possible causes are: 1) The three female guppies plotted to kill him because of producing too many baby guppies. 2) Male guppies saw so many babies in the small pond and committed suicide by jumping out of the pond -- to avoid overcrowding. Then Sonic ate it. 3) Mom's theory: she saw Sonic drinking pond water at night and he accidentally ate the male guppy.   Any guess or suggestion?   See the photos that I took today.   <<   아 빠   >>

Red meets the Blue

I just realized what Matt Wertz meant by this title!
This whole time I was like lovers from the south and the north during the civil war!

But he's talking about LIGHT WAVELENGTHS!  I came to this epiphany because I was studying about it for my optics class...

When red meets blue, light is visible.  He wants to SEE this girl!  "I want to SEE all of you"

AH-HA!  Okay I'll shut up and go back to studying.

-----------------------------------------------------------[update]------------------
i..am..totally wrong.  i found this:

"Matt explained at a concert that he wrote this song when he was in colorado looking out at the way the sky met the land. pretty cool"

i think this just happened:

please excuse the profanity.

I WANT

The Fete Book by Jung Lee

I want to work with her for a summer....*le sigh*