一位超醜, 非常難看的男生....跟一位超可愛的女生 (和別的比那第一位男生好看的人)... :D

So this really shouldn't be the first picture I put up of Jon, so I'll keep it small. Mom and Dad, if you want to see your son and his favorite pasttime (jk jk!), please click and look. Otherwise... uhh, skip it? Haha...

Just as a mini-explanation-- we were playing cards, and then one thing led to another, and... well, suffice to say that Jon was quite naked at the end of the night.

KIDDING. He was fully clothed and just stumbling around-- unable to walk straight. ^__^

And SO. Closeups of the UGLY ONE. 哈哈... 我真的覺得他不應該長鬍子...But it's his choice, right? Jon, from now on, I will only support what you want to do. If you want to grow a goatee, mustache, long nose hairs, etc., I will say OKAY, GO FOR IT. Although I might have to protest at a tattoo...

Look at that cute smile ruined by that weird growth under his nose and on his chin...


Another one for the benefit of the parental units.


My initial reaction? It's my initial and final reactions.

Yeah, the bags under my eyes are huge. Gross.


And then the next day, we hopped on the train (well, more like ran and leaped frantically) to go to 屏東 and see 阿公!!! Here we are, playing with the camera.Aww, so FOB.

Jon can do the eyebrow thing. I can't. Boo!

Yeah... I've got weird expressions. And Jon looks like... deer caught in headlights?


阿公!!!! He's adorable. I can imagine my dad become this guy in 30 years. He is unbelievably strong for someone his age. [side note to my DAD-- 你應該比較常去看你爸!!! O__O] I know when I first called 阿公 on the phone, he sounded really nervous to be talking to me. Why does everyone think that my Chinese should suck? ;__;

Anyway, all 阿公 does all day is watch TV on his nice, fat 42+" screen. And he only watches three Japanese channels. It was cute. He sat and translated for us. Hehe!



...or at least, he translated for me. Jon passed out somewhere during that viewing of Japanese... I don't know what it was. Singing? Probably.

And then 阿公 bailed on us (literally) and disappeared with a relative (I think one of his nephew's daughters) to go to the daughter's piano concert. Her name was Yang Lan-Yin. So the abandoned brother and sister were off to wander 屏東 by ourselves. We walked over to SOGO to have dinner. I saw this beautiful sunset with clouds, so I took pictures. And had my picture taken.

Woot! I am truly a fob tourist. Yay.

Breakfast the next day, and Jon was definitely NOT awake when I dragged him down to go eat breakfast. Haha.

I was pleased with what I ate. Yummay!

And here is 阿公... he is soo unbelievably cute, it's amazing. He tries so hard to scurry back and forth so that we're okay. I heard from kiugong that 阿公 was extremely nervous about Jon and my arrival, fearing that we wouldn't be able to communicate. Lucky for the both of us, I can speak enough Chinese and he doesn't need to speak as much Japanese, although he clearly prefers speaking it.


Waiting for lunch on Sunday.


Watching 日本棒球! Yay ICHIRO! Haawtness...


Kiu gong. Nicest guy. Ever.


Me, Shyu-先生 (??), 阿公, 哥哥寫

舅公, 我, 阿公, 哥哥 (notice that Jon's head is half cut off)

And FINALLY, after getting the giant to crouch down, we get everyone in the picture... at the SAME TIME! Whoohoo!

I love 阿公. 他真的是超可愛的... ^__^ 希望以後有很多機會常常去看他. ^_^v

Taiwan- from my humble eyes, this is my home and family

The one thing I hate about the way Blogger uploads photos is that it never inserts them somewhere in the text-- the photos ALWAYS end up at the top of my entry, which means they're out of order, and I have the hardest time rearranging everything.

Luckily for this entry, I'm just posting pictures of my family and the event really doesn't require an order.

I visited my mother's family this past weekend. Saturday through Sunday. It was pretty fun, although a little bit tiring and frustrating for reasons I won't put here, although I will be more than happy to rant elsewhere, if you know what I mean. I'll just leave these up with brief captions.


My eldest Uncle's daughter, her husband, her daughter(千千), and 大阿姨 (Big Aunt). We were just sitting and chatting in the main living room and eating fruit. Lots of fruit.

阿公! He's such a cute little old man. Getting kind of weak though. For some reason he went in the back and came back out with a huge handful of ... water lily leaves?I'm not quite sure.

千千 and 大姊姊. 千千 and I hit it off right away. She's really cute and looks just like her mother, which means she's going to grow up and be quite the looker. Talkative and inquisitive, she definitely is an adorable child. She's almost four. 大姊姊, on the right, the eldest grandchild (and, for that matter, still unmarried and "boyfriendless," although I keep wondering who this "小胖" is that she keeps mentioning, eh eh?!) has got all the symptoms of hyperthyroidism and almost definitely has it (if she doesn't, someone punch me in the neck then, because hers bulges out almost more than mine does), which also makes her super skinny. I hate how Asian girls are so eager to lose weight that when they do lose weight without explanation they don't care and just let themselves waste away without caring about the potential health hazards of rapid weight loss.

Me and 千千.

At dinner, this adorable child demanded to sit next to me. Ahh, too cute! Although, I will insist on being called 姊姊 just because I feel too young to be called 阿姨... 大阿姨, to boot!

At KTV (Holiday), my eldest cousin, with the body of a prepubescent girl.

Second cousin (I don't know how to write her name in Chinese... from now on, I will call her YunJie) YunJie with her son, Ah-Jun. Cute little bugger is a little over half a year old.

千千 with her Daddy.

阿媽! Grandma!

阿公! Grandpa! My, they're both aging so rapidly...

We have a maid/nurse who takes care of my grandmother, since my grandmother's movement is now limited due to all the surgery and other issues she's been enduring in the past several years.

( Yvonne, it's the lesbian sign! Aah!) YunJie and her son. I'm pretty sure that skinny, meatless, weak-looking arm is 大姊姊's.

Aww, cute little boy being fed by Big Aunt (or, in his case, Grandaunt)

My grandparents...

... are so cute. Even more so than...

...Ah-Jun? Maybe not. But definitely cute.

ME and the Grandparents! With glasses...

...and without.
The three girls. I just noticed... it's a gradient of color-- YunJie's the lightest (I think her foundation is a shaaade too light for her skin), and then I'm the darkest! And this isn't even DARK for me! Weiiiird, yah? (What makes it worse is that YunJie is complaining about how dark she's been getting)

The three cousins plus the niece/daughter.

The three girls again, with half a head of a little boy.

Hurrah. That was fun. I'll try and post more pictures as often as possible.

Oh how life flies past...! ZOO trip

I AM POSTING! Since I have such a huge backlog of pictures, I have given up on trying to go in chronological order-- instead, more recent pictures are in order! More specifically, I am posting pictures from when Anna and I went on a date (of sorts) and went to explore the zoo! This happened the day of my physical chemistry ii final, so if I look a bit crazed in some pictures, it may be because my brain had stopped functioning early that morning...


So we arrived, and here we are, being touristy in front of the ZOO! Yay!

As animals, we clearly aren't very perceptive, and we had our pictures captured by a motion-triggered camera! Haha... we have been spotted! Humans aren't endangered after all...

Aww-- the two of us... in front of an exhibit... of some sort. Haha!

What is a trip to the zoo without the requisite PANDA sighting? I think this is the baby, Taishan, although I'm not quite sure. Sadly, I have not been to the zoo in years, so this is the first time I've gotten a chance to see the "baby" of our nation's capitol. Not so baby-like anymore.

Shippo posing with Hippos!

An even LARGER hippo. I don't know which I think is cuter-- the pygmy one (two above), or the regular large one (above). Either way, hippos are cool (and quite rotund).

The beavers! They were adorable. There was also a pile of ducklings in their little exhibit. Don't know why. Oh yeah, Anna's looking happy too.

Pucker up! We saw these fish in an Amazonian Rainforest exhibit toward the end of our little romp around the zoo. In fact, it's the last picture I have of the zoo.


So after wandering around the zoo all day, we grabbed dinner in Adams Morgan and later decided to get dessert. At Union Station. Vaccaro's. It's an ohmygoodnesslyscrumptious place (based in Balti

Fatty, I am.

EAT UP, YAY! Strawberry creme napoleon... YUM.

On the Metro on the way home! Whee!!

It was an extremely fun (albeit tiring-- look at the bags under my eyes!) excursion! Anna-- you and I have to go explore more parts of the Capitol now!! ^__^v

Luray Caverns (from 8.22.2006)

So my Dad had been bothering my entire family to go to Luray Caverns... literally for the past 11 years (ever since Jeffkun was born), SO FINALLY, after over a decade of talk, we finally hauled our butts down to Luray Caverns! We also went throught the Shenandoah Valley (I think?) on the way back, but my camera ran out of batteries, so there will be no massive postings of picture after picture of green knolls... Hehe~

Jeffkun!!! Aww, he's growing up! Doesn't the picture look kind of surreal? Like he's not really there and we were just standing in front of a screen with a picture of all of the stalactites and stalagmite formations?


L->R: J, J, J! In order of height. But one day, I be the shortest of the three of us...

Mom and Dad!!! Hahaha. We look so touristy...

I reaaally like this picture for some reason. Probably because once again it looks really surreal. Somehow my camera couldn't handle the dark lighting... But this picture is kind of fun, isn't it?

The boys in my family-- Dad, Jon, and Jeff. I love their expressions. I heart them!

And I think this is when my battery died..