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For the past few days, my mom’s been taking us around L.A., and since her social circle is made up of Chinese friends and Chinese businesses, Elena hasn’t really seen the States through my eyes yet. Everyone she’s met since we’ve arrived had been Chinese, and even the restaurants my mom takes us are Chinese–which kind of defeats the purpose of trying to show her what the States is like. L.A. has become a hot spot for the Chinese, and it’s amazing how entire suburbs can look like it’s been taken over (my mom lives in Alhambra), with Chinese supermakets, auto shops, restaurants, banks, law firms, video stores, beauty salons, book stores…etc. Tomorrow we’ll be visiting Meats Meier at Gnomon School of Visual Art in Hollywood, so Elena will have to play mute and deaf for the whole day, because in my social circle there are hardly anyone that speaks Chinese. My mom showed us Laguna Beach and Pasadena in the last few days. As nice as they were, there’s something missing–I guess I’m just a Bay Area kinda guy. San Francisco is much more romantic in general. You can see the photos that Elena took of L.A. with the Olympus C3030Z here.
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My mom and her tenants adopted a dog recently. Being an alaskan husky and german shepard mix, “Lucky” is a very handsome boy and quite well-behaved–he never barks and is very quiet and friendly. Once he gets to know you, he tends to get a bit too playful though–the previous owner probably didn’t train him to not jump on people. Here’s a pic of Lucky:
You can see more photos of Lucky here.
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We got to spend some time with my favorite aunt:
Would you believe me if I told you my aunt is well into her sixties (second from the right)? Asian women are famous for aging well, but my aunt is in a different league all her own.
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Every once a while, you get a great shot that’s totally unintentional by accident, such as this one of the rearview mirror of my mom’s car. I had the rear window rolled down and was actually trying to shoot the clouds, and when I accidentally pressed the AF button too early, it focused on the rearview mirror, and I thought, “Damn, that looks really awesome with the teal, black, and red colors!” This shot turned out to be much more interesting than the clouds I was trying to shoot.
