This is the third year in a row that I hosted a craft event in my company, in celebration of the Lunar New Year. We had such a fun time!
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Chinese + Western Style: A Great Friend’s Wedding
We had a fun combination of Chinese style pre-wedding events and western style wedding at the chapel.
Chinese New Year of Rooster
In China’s time, people are stepping into the first day in the New Year of Rooster. This is a time that everyone sends wishes to others.
Papercut Art – Chinese Style (Tutorial Inside!)
Chinese New ear of Rooster is around the corner. Here are some samples I put together. I’ll also teach you how to cut the 囍 character.
A Museum of Video Games
We had a fun time at the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland, CA, aka the Video Game Museum. It made me think of my childhood, and the reason why I wanted to study computer science — making games.
Let Clothes Hang
The sun makes clothes puffy and comfortable, and gives them “the smell of sun” :)
Do You Bike with A Raincoat?
I rode my bicycle to school when I grew up. Whenever it rained, I put on my raincoat — not exactly a coat, more like a big tarp with a hole where my head can get out — and still biked to school. Many people wore this kind, too. It protected me very well under “tarp”, I never really got wet wearing it.
Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
China has such a long history that we have a great deal of museums on our ancient culture and artifacts, and I’ve visited so many. However, I was not aware how other Asian countries evolved at the time China was evolving from dynasty to dynasty. Therefore, the Asian Art Museum exhibition was such a great eye opener for me, and I was so happy to have a landscape view on arts from all these Asian countries.
Duan Wu Festival
“Duan Wu Festival” (or the Dragon Boat Festival), the fifth day of the May in the Lunar calendar, is a important Chinese holiday. It is for remembering a politician and great poet Qu Yuan, who lived in Chu Guo Country, more than 2000 years ago.
Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses
Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses is a very famous tourism spot in Xi’an, China. They are real-life-size clay figures buried with Qin Emperor, the first empire of the ancient China. It’s a masterpiece from more than 2000 years ago and one of the Eight Wonders of the World.