Archive for August, 2009

Then to Now.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

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HELLO THIS IS YOUR MOTHER. SMILE. GOOD MORNING TO YOU AND I HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD SLEEP SMILE OK REASON WHY I WANTED TO CALL YOU BECAUSE I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT TODAY IS YOUR FATHER’S BIRTHDAY… SMILE. GA

Remember the TTY days? No, better – remember when there weren’t any “smiley face” days? Instead of that, we used the word, “SMILE” often – especially during our TTY conversations. I found this old comic strip about our “SMILE” days…before the “smiley faces” were born. I remember how annoying it was for me…. Was it for you too?

And no, I never had my mom call me to remind me that it was my dad’s birthday.

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This Made it Easy.

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

It’s officially over. My summer ended last night. This morning I woke up by an alarm clock and it was so weird. My husband said I looked like I was waking up at 3 o’clock in the morning. He wasn’t sure if he should laugh at me or feel sorry for me.

Today at work – yes, I made it to work if you must know. It wasn’t that hard – until I was sitting in a full theater room of co-workers, listening to the annual welcome report & presentations. Trying to stay awake – one little soft beep from my iphone. I tried to not take a peek but you can’t help it when you’re sitting there from 8am to 11am. I peeked and this was what I got from my sister. It was about a book on teaching your baby sign language. The best of all – my niece was on the cover. I don’t need to tell you which one – just find the most beautiful blue eyed girl signing “aunt”. I like to think that she was signing about her favorite aunt — me.

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Check the book out and you can buy it from amazon.com – Here’s the link: http://www.amazon.com/Knack-Baby-Language-Step-Step/

After getting that email from my sister with this kind of news – everything felt so easy at work today. Yeah, I was very cheerful. Some people must have wondered if I was crazy enough to be excited to be back to work again.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider’s Big Question:

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

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My Very First Comic Strip.

Monday, August 17th, 2009

I was cleaning out my stuff and found a very first comic strip I did after I graduated from RIT. Sometimes it’s nice to have hearing people get taste of our daily lives because they do not get to be “deaf” everyday.

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And if you want to know who the deaf guy was mocking at, here are the answers:

1st – Arnold Schwarzenegger,  2nd – Dolly Parton,  3rd – hearing people.

Questions That We’ve Always Been Asked.

Friday, August 14th, 2009

The Deaf Questions

I’ve been Simpson-ized.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Last weekend I decided to pick a cartoon movie to watch – and I picked The Simpson Movie.

Good lord. I forgot how funny the Simpsons can be. Homer still day dreams when Marge was giving him a lecture. Bart plays the phone pranks at Moe’s. Lisa trying to change the world but nobody listens to this girl – heck, nobody in Springfield pays attention to Maggie even I think she’s the smartest one in the family.

Sometimes I have to stop and remember to do what I enjoy — and that’s watching cartoons. As you can see, I’ve got my “fix” in a simpson way. I’m glad I watched the movie.

No, my summer isn’t over… yet.

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Gale the Gallbladder.

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

I had a twitter friend who was tweeting today about getting her gallbladder removed tomorrow morning. It is about three years ago, I had a minor surgery to get my gallbladder removed.

And I remember this conversation with another friend who was telling me how a gallbladder looked like.

“Did you ever see what it looks like?”

“Uhhh no… did you?”

“Yes, I googled it and oh my god. it’s ugly. it even have teeth and –”

STOP! Don’t tell me. I don’t wanna know!”  because I truly have a weak stomach.

I couldn’t stop thinking about what she was trying to tell me. I find myself trying to google it up and check the images that night — but I shut down the browser right away as soon the images were uploaded. Best not to know, right? But at the same time, you can’t help it being curious. Now what to do?

I decided to draw my gallbladder. I even gave it a name.

Meet Gale.

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Well, my twitter friend, I hope your gallbladder was cute as mine. Maybe it’d help if you gave it a name. Good luck with your surgery tomorrow morning. You’ll be fine in no time. And you can eat anything you want after that, I think.

Did drawing Gale helped? Yes. Do I miss him? No.

Then came along Bestie.

Bestie, who?

My Bestie the Benign. That’s when the another story of my life began. I’ll blog about Bestie another time.

It’s in the family.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

I got it from my grandma, my dad, and now I’m seeing my niece’s getting it too.

The art in us.

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My 1st Children Book: Handy Stories

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

HSRSbookpageI wanted to share you the exciting news about getting my first children book published with Gallaudet Press. I’ve been working on Handy Stories to Read and Sign project for last few years – and I’m thrilled that it is now on sale!

You can check it out & order one today!

http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/

Welcome…again.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Yes. I’m back. This time I’m doing it differently. I have decided to have my portfolio, comics and blog all together. They’re now all rolled into one, all convenient like.

I never felt so alive.

Thank you for sticking with me for all those years. I welcome you to my new website – enjoy! :)