Arts and vegetables

Posted July 18th, 2009 in Art, Design, Photography, Cooking, Food, Life of Giang by Giang

We go to the farmer’s market today for the first time. It is hot, and I buy three peaches, three zucchinis, baby bok choy, and a giant purple onion.

We then slog through the heat for our little Riverside museum day.

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The Riverside Municipal museum has stuffed birds, an orange packer, and a display on the internment of a local Japanese family during the war.

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In the Riverside Art Museum, I run across this and can actually feel my life being enriched. I am not an art connoisseur by any means, but as they say, “I know what I like.” And oh yes I do like “The Curious World of Reynaldo and His Twist of Lime Shirt” by R. Mike Nichols. It’s the bird. Curt likes the dogs, but he is wrong, for it’s most certainly the bird. For those who prefer art that doesn’t include dogs and birds, the museum is also currently displaying pieces by some fellow who paints with coffee grinds and glitter.

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The UCR Museum of Photography has a very shiny first floor, as can be seen. We see an exhibit of photographs by blind photographers and a camera museum on the first floor, and an exhibit on the effects of Agent Orange on the third floor. The pseudo-tiling on the second floor (which is see-through and creaks) is suspect, thus I am too frightened to venture far into it. So I don’t know what’s on the second floor. Something about expectation. Or construction. Or deconstruction. Or maybe unicorns.

Tomorrow we go to Long Beach for fun antiquing. Happy Sunday. ;)

The robots attack at midnight!

Posted May 5th, 2009 in Art, Design, Photography, Life of Giang by Giang

Tonight, my new camera arrives. Behold!

I’m always convinced for every good thing that happens, something equally bad will happen. I’m very excited about this new camera, thus I am girding myself for something to go catastrophically awry on my way out to pick it up, or on my way back. Curt says this behavior is paranoid, but what he doesn’t know is that universe, while largely a chaotic place, is sometimes just out to fuck with you. Beware! Beware the robots!

Truth and bowling

Posted October 7th, 2008 in Art, Design, Photography, Life of Giang by Giang

I weight 186 pounds. In my adult life, I have been a size 2. I’ve also been a size 20. My weight has bounced up and down pretty much ever since puberty. While many of my counterparts chose partying, alcohol, drugs, sex or shopping to dull pains in their lives, I have always used food. When I’m stressed, I eat. When I’m sad, I eat. When Curt and I get in a fight, I eat. When I’m bored, I eat.

It’s time to make a good try to lose this weight. So, using my l33t Excel skills and track my weight every week, and post a weekly chart! Yay, weight loss is fun!

(It’s always all fun and games until my stomach starts to shrink and it feels like an alien is trying to gnaw its way out of my body.)

Anyway, so this last weekend was my sister’s and my grandfather’s birthdays! We went bowling for the sister’s birthday, and out to dinner for grandfather’s.

Curt and me at the bowling alley.

Brother Wonk and his wife, Sister Powla.

Future brother-in-law Jason.

Sister Piggy, Brother Truc, Brother Vuong, and Sister Powla.

Carter, my grandfather’s cat.

My grandfather, blowing out the candles on his birthday cake. He turned 88!

A whole bunch of Hoangs.

Honeymoon photos!

Posted October 6th, 2008 in Art, Design, Photography, Life of Giang by Giang

So, I gave up setting up an all new site for the honeymoon photos, however I did upload them to Flickr for quick and painless viewing. Have fun! :)

OMG

Posted September 3rd, 2008 in Art, Design, Photography by Giang

…I hate the way the site looks now. DAMNIT.