I hate biking in the cold.

That's right! I hate biking in the cold! I bike everyday to work and my feet freeze. Even though I wear my leather boots or my desert boots, my feet still freeze. My boyfriend thinks I'm cold blooded. He complains about how my fingers are always cold. I also finally sealed up my bedroom window, so no heat will escape my room. So I bought my tickets to LA for February. I can't wait to get away from this cold, even if its only going to be a weekend. Also, has everyone seen the coraline trailer yet? Friends in LA and NYC all got to see the Coraline posters too. I work at Laika and I've only seen one poster... which is the one that's on the laika website. There's not a single poster ad in Portland... or maybe I'm blind. I heard one of the poster changes when you drive by it. That sounds cool. I just hope Coraline does well... my job might depend on the fate of that film. So I've been doing a lot of cafe drawings the last few weekends. I started this routine of every Saturday morning biking down to the big Powell's bookstore, grab a copy of the new yorker and a cup of soy chai, read and draw the people outside. The bookstore has a coffee shop with large window walls. And its on a busy intersection, perfect for me to sketch the locals and tourists. You can always tell the smokers and skinnier folks are the locals. So I got excited with some of the clothes I saw people were wearing. I biked home and started some sketches and colored them.


Here's a page from my sketchbook.


Few weeks ago few friends and I got kinda drunk after dinner, so we hanged out at this dessert wine bar until I was sober enough to drive home. We ended up drawing. The top is my boyfriend, below are Kim and Julian.


Julian did some funny drawing of me. My favourite is the second one, where I look like I'm possessed.

St. Valentine Day Cards

On the day of inauguration of President Barack H. Obama, I bought a pair of new neon green undie. Okay, so that's not so shocking... since I own a lively colorful underwear wardrobe. Just imagine, I'm a walking hidden rainbow. Perhaps that was too much information to expose on my blog, but you should know by now that I have no shame and full of pride.
Anyways, I designed few St. Valentine's Day card for Tender Loving Empire, but they are available all over Portland. Only two of my designs got made it out the printer.



I like this one better than the tree design, but it didn't make it for the cut.


Here they are live, with the other cards.


I don't know if they are available online. Anyways, YES WE CAN!

Happy new year!

New painting!


Wow, its already 2009. I've got few new year resolutions. First, I need to save more money. I go out way too much. Second, I gotta get back into Pilate. I stopped when winter hits Portland... the rain sometimes is a bit too much for me. I hate biking to the gym in heavy rain.
So I was in Taiwan visiting for the first time in 15 years. It was a definite culture shock and extreme nostalgia experience. I had tons of fun hanging out with my cousins and grandparent. Since my parents live in the south near the beach, I spent a lot of time eating seafood, running along the ocean, and surfing. While Portland is snowed in, I'm surfing on a white sand beach and eating clams. Nice!