3 January 2012 / Tuesday







ang saya talaga mag pasko at bagong taon doon sa Pinas kasi nandoon ang pamilya ko. yung isang umaga, pinicturan ko yung kapatid nang lola ko… gumagawa siya nang suman para sa pasko. hindi ako masyado nag tatype nang tagalog so kung hindi tama.. pacienca na.
Lola making suman for Christmas Day. I’m back home from the Philippines after a lovely 3 week vacation to see my family. I had an amazing time catching up with cousins and getting to know new, younger cousins. Let’s just say I miss them already. It was fantastic getting to spend Christmas and New Years with them again. I photographed my Lola Ita (my grandmother’s sister) making suman, a Filipino rice cake wrapped in banana leaves for Christmas day. She lives right next door to my grandmother (like, two steps away literally) and they go to each other’s houses randomly to chat. It’s very sweet. 

ang saya talaga mag pasko at bagong taon doon sa Pinas kasi nandoon ang pamilya ko. yung isang umaga, pinicturan ko yung kapatid nang lola ko… gumagawa siya nang suman para sa pasko. hindi ako masyado nag tatype nang tagalog so kung hindi tama.. pacienca na.

Lola making suman for Christmas Day. I’m back home from the Philippines after a lovely 3 week vacation to see my family. I had an amazing time catching up with cousins and getting to know new, younger cousins. Let’s just say I miss them already. It was fantastic getting to spend Christmas and New Years with them again. I photographed my Lola Ita (my grandmother’s sister) making suman, a Filipino rice cake wrapped in banana leaves for Christmas day. She lives right next door to my grandmother (like, two steps away literally) and they go to each other’s houses randomly to chat. It’s very sweet. 

9 July 2010 / Friday

OLD SHANGHAI. If I could go back in time, I would time travel back to Shanghai, China in the 1930’s. I have always loved vintage Shanghai ads and to me, these posters scream classic elegance and glamour. Shanghai was once known as the “Paris of the East”. For the longest time, I’ve wanted to buy a qi pao for no reason and I probably will sometime in the future. I truly love this old Shanghai look. 

As I grow older, I’ve noticed that I’ve been appreciating my culture and heritage a lot more than I did in the past. I love being Asian. Yeah, so I can’t speak mandarin fluently and I tend to mix a bit of English with my tagalog, I don’t know a lot about Asian pop culture, or I don’t have a massive Asian friend group, but honestly yes I love being the little Asian girl that I am. I love the fact I got to grew up in another country. I hope the same goes to you as well (no, not the fact that you should love being Asian, but just the fact that you should love your heritage, culture, and where you came from.)