My Sigung, Lum Jo

My Sigung is now 100 years old.  His health is excellent.  I better keep practicing that Tiht Sihn Keun.  This photo is probably over fifty years ago.

5th Annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration

I love photographing Asian American community events in San Francisco. I have attended this event annually for the past five years.  The people who show up at these is like a big party with food, music and a great sense of community.

I was even approached by Tamiko Wong, Program Director of Asian Week to be a contributing photographer for their webnews site which I am more than happy to do having worked as photographer for another community weekly be...Read more

Al Robles

It was with great sadness to learn that long time friend, writer and poet Al Robles passed away of a sudden heart attack yesterday morning brought on byGuillain-Barré syndrome.  Al has been temporarily paralyzed by the syndrome for the past few weeks.  His improving updates seemed positive that he was going to make it out of this OK. 

I was really looking forward to having a roast pork lunch with him at the Read more

Mitzi Mouse

I was in love with Mitzi Mouse of the...Read more

Gai Krapao (Thai Mint Chicken)

I believe that if you like to eat something enough, you should try to learn to cook it.  I made this dish before....somehow this time it came out perfect.  

Just as good as the Gai Grapao I had on the sidewalks or roadsides of Thailand for 12 bahts, Gai Krapao rahtna Khao.  $8 at the old Racha Thai in San F...Read more

Xanga, Facebook and Hung Ga Gung Fu

I've been spending a lot of time and energy on Facebook.   Which may explain why I don't post as often as I used to. 

Facebook has a lot going for me.  I can upload photo galleries, I can "tweet" on it with what's on my mind in a sentence or two, I can surf the net and when I see something interesting, I can easily share that interesting website, youtube movie, news article, photo or what have you.  I get a lot of feedback with my posts.  I can easily see what's the latest news with peopl...Read more

Wedding Photographers Never Die

Walking around C-Town.....hey.....there's Henry, a wedding photographer directing traffic for the Department of Parking and Traffic.

 
He says, "it's a great job...everyone's got digital cameras nowaday...Read more

Ten Randoms

1.   I attended that dumb parent meeting at Marina middle school just for that $25 Safeway giftcard and they didn't have cards to give.

2.   The MIL got a bunch of free food from the food bank again....she brought a big hunk of ham.

3.   I'm still trying to finish up 2007 and man...can't get an appointment with Brougham.  What's frustrating is Teresa lets other appointment bogart in...Read more

The Cover Photo of CHSA Annual Journal

This 1970 photograph I took will grace the cover photo for CHSA's CHINESE AMERICA: HISTORY & PERSPECTIVES --THE JOURNAL OF THE CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA  Published annually since 1987This is a photo I took back in 1970 when I first be...Read more

Day of Remembrance Poster and Brochure Cover

so...I did the postcard.  They wanted me to do the brochure cover, flyer and 11x17 poster too.  They wanted to retain the date on that banner in the original photograph.  I tried to keep things simple without too many changes since the postcard format didn't fit with the brochure cover and poster format.  I just used the photo straight and added a gradient.  Hmmm...looks ok.  I should've done that with the postcard from the get-go ...that way all the graphics will look consistent.

Here's the 8-...Read more