Woo Hoo!! I’ve reached my second $100!! That’s $100.25 to be exact. My “Lift to the Top” photo was downloaded today and now I get to cash out. It was almost exactly a year ago when I reached my first $100. I guess $100/year is not bad for sitting on my ass doing nothing.
By the way, that’s Kelly, Patty, and Johnny on the lift. Hee hee…
My mom got to have dinner with her kids last night. We took her to Koki’s Teppan and Sushi for some meat and entertainment. It was the usual chop chop fare with the cheesy strobe light antics of our chef in the big red hat. The unusual part of the dinner was being at the same table as a large group of high schoolers dressed to the nines. I think they were having their pre-dance dinner for some kind of winter formal going on that evening. Not only was our table filled with teenagers but another group of about 20 more arrived a little later and sat at the table next to us. It was kinda fun watching them as they sat two by two with their respective dates. The funny thing that we realized was that they were going to head over to their event with the distinct smell of grilled meat and seafood. I suppose it doesn’t matter as much if they’ll all hanging out with each other anyway. But can you imagine wearing a formal that you spent so much time picking out to have it end up smelling like Korean BBQ at the end of the night? Yum. Anyway, the food wasn’t very memorable but the experience was.
Ever since I was young, I felt it was important to capture memories and record my life through photography and journaling. I have albums and albums of photos – capturing every moment of my childhood, adolescence, and adult life through my eyes. I have numerous handwritten journals and a really old computer program called “Journal” on my Thinkpad that I started in college. A guy named Jesse Lim gave it to me. *wink wink* I also had a web log (before it was called a “blog”) since 2001 and remember the days of having to code EVERYTHING in html. To preserve my earlier entries, I incorporated them into beakatude. You’ll find some old entries dated back to July 2001.
When I read them, it was like looking through a time capsule. I wrote about my internships, planning my wedding, and even Jes’ accident in 2002. So weird. Much has changed since then and so has my site. It’s evolved from a geocities site that I built from scratch, then went to my own url with dreamweaver by my side, and now it’s so automated by wordpress that it doesn’t take nearly as much time and effort to keep it updated. Uploading and sharing photos is so much faster now too. I can still remember making my own thumbnails, arranging them in a table, and making links to each one individually. Man, that was time-consuming. I just love how technology now allows me to journal and share photos all in one place. Long live beakatude.com!
It’s official, I signed up for the Disneyland Half Marathon! I also registered for Brother who is brave enough to train and run it with me. Woot! The course should be fun. It goes through Disney’s CA Adventure Park, then Disneyland Park, then around Anaheim to pass by The Pond and Angels Stadium, and ends near Downtown Disney. Anyone want to come out to watch us in September?! It’ll be over Labor Day Weekend (on the 3rd).
It’s the last day of February and the end of our “Question of the Day” series. I hope you had fun reading each other’s responses. I sure did. I’ll probably throw one in every once in a while but probably not as consistently as I have this month. The award for “Most Comments Made” goes to….Brother!! But Dayantha definitely comes in as a close second. Yay!
Question of the Day #16:
Tell me one good thing about two of your friends or family members.Â
C’mon…you can do it.
My Answer:
Brother – Always up for trying new things (ready for the half marathon?!)
Dayantha – Always a team player…i.e. QoftheDay, imaginary bball, etc.
OK, Everyone. Brace yourselves for my very very first painting on canvas EVER!
Introducing…My Subject, Mr. Mango on Orange
Ta Da!! Here is the finished piece.
Well, it’s just about finished. I think I’m supposed to do some touch-ups next week. Now for the most important question: Does it look like a mango? Be honest now…
Here is my palette.
And here is my “painting station”. You can actually see the subject in the background too.
So there you have it – my very first painting. It was quite daunting at first and my instructor even said that the green was going to very hard to pull off. But I think as long as it’s a recognizable mango, I’ve succeeded.
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