Papaya Time!

OK, folks. Here is painting #2! This time I chose to paint a papaya that I picked out at the grocery store this afternoon.

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Here is my subject, Mr. Papaya on yellow.

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Here is my painting.

The photo doesn’t have the exact same angle that I was painting from but you get the idea. This one was a bit more difficult since there was different shape to deal with but I managed.

I guess I’m sticking to a “tropical fruit” theme. The goal of this project is to end up with three paintings that you can hang up next to each other on a wall. So, they need to have a common thread that ties them together but be contrasting at the same time to add some interest. For the mango and papaya, I’d say that they are similar in size and color tones but they contrast in the directions of their shadows. Here they are side-by-side:

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Now I just need to figure out what the third painting will be. Any suggestions?

He fought a good fight.

I am sorry to announce the death of our friend Scrappy. We found him in the pond swimming upside down on January 31st, rescued him from the current, and he stayed alive for another month. He sure was a fighter and actually looked like he was going to make a full recovery.  Alas, his health did a little nose dive a week ago and we found him dead today in his bowl. *sniff* So long, Scrappy. You will will always be remembered as the little fishie that fought a good fight.

Another 100 bucks!

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Woo Hoo!!  I’ve reached my second $100!!  That’s $100.25 to be exact.  My “Lift to the Top” photo was downloaded today and now I get to cash out.  It was almost exactly a year ago when I reached my first $100.  I guess $100/year is not bad for sitting on my ass doing nothing.

By the way, that’s Kelly, Patty, and Johnny on the lift.  Hee hee…

stinky prom

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My mom got to have dinner with her kids last night. We took her to Koki’s Teppan and Sushi for some meat and entertainment. It was the usual chop chop fare with the cheesy strobe light antics of our chef in the big red hat. The unusual part of the dinner was being at the same table as a large group of high schoolers dressed to the nines. I think they were having their pre-dance dinner for some kind of winter formal going on that evening. Not only was our table filled with teenagers but another group of about 20 more arrived a little later and sat at the table next to us. It was kinda fun watching them as they sat two by two with their respective dates. The funny thing that we realized was that they were going to head over to their event with the distinct smell of grilled meat and seafood. I suppose it doesn’t matter as much if they’ll all hanging out with each other anyway. But can you imagine wearing a formal that you spent so much time picking out to have it end up smelling like Korean BBQ at the end of the night? Yum. Anyway, the food wasn’t very memorable but the experience was.

Archived

Ever since I was young, I felt it was important to capture memories and record my life through photography and journaling. I have albums and albums of photos – capturing every moment of my childhood, adolescence, and adult life through my eyes. I have numerous handwritten journals and a really old computer program called “Journal” on my Thinkpad that I started in college. A guy named Jesse Lim gave it to me. *wink wink* I also had a web log (before it was called a “blog”) since 2001 and remember the days of having to code EVERYTHING in html. To preserve my earlier entries, I incorporated them into beakatude. You’ll find some old entries dated back to July 2001.

When I read them, it was like looking through a time capsule. I wrote about my internships, planning my wedding, and even Jes’ accident in 2002. So weird. Much has changed since then and so has my site. It’s evolved from a geocities site that I built from scratch, then went to my own url with dreamweaver by my side, and now it’s so automated by wordpress that it doesn’t take nearly as much time and effort to keep it updated. Uploading and sharing photos is so much faster now too. I can still remember making my own thumbnails, arranging them in a table, and making links to each one individually. Man, that was time-consuming. I just love how technology now allows me to journal and share photos all in one place. Long live beakatude.com!

Here we go!

It’s official, I signed up for the Disneyland Half Marathon!  I also registered for Brother who is brave enough to train and run it with me.  Woot!  The course should be fun.  It goes through Disney’s CA Adventure Park, then Disneyland Park, then around Anaheim to pass by The Pond and Angels Stadium, and ends near Downtown Disney.  Anyone want to come out to watch us in September?!  It’ll be over Labor Day Weekend (on the 3rd).