Drawing with my special hand

A Better Life

2011-09-03T10:53:00.000-07:00

Well, I have lived in Vancouver, Canada since 2008. I live with my family - one sister, one brother, and my parents. I am currently studying graphic design at a school.

Three years ago, We immigrated to Vancouver and it was my first time to ride the airplane in my entire life. After we made it, we excitedly saw my brother as we hadn't been seeing him for 10 years. I hugged him, yet I was a bit shy. I guess he must be surprised that I was grown up; however, he still keeps the precious pictures of me. He never knew that I am not good at speaking and use sign language. He was shocked when I talked with my sister by using sign language and speaking a few words. And I can read my brother's lips.

After traveling in a month, I had nothing to do at home and looked for a school. My siblings and mother went to work. My father is retired. They wanted me to look for a job, yet I refused. I was not ready for that. No one gave me some good advice about jobs when I was in the Philippines. I didn't know how to look for a job. I didn't know what kind of position I could want to be. I only thought of my goal which is "Graphic Designer". However, I didn't have any diplomas or certificates from a graphic design program.

I found a school named Vancouver Community College where Hearing and Deaf students study. My sister recommended me to take English Upgrading since I was kind of bad in English. My brother helped me to apply for it and enrolled at that school. My independence was not improved well due to Canada. It's different to the Philippines. I was totally awkward.

Once my class was started, I made new friends. It was difficult for me to communicate with Deaf students using ASL (Amercian Sign Language) because I used SEE (Signing Exact English). After a few weeks, I got used to ASL. I got a job - Student Aide for VCC. It was only for the length of two terms.

During two years, My buddy Lea taught me how to be independent. One funny thing, I asked her if she could interpret for me. She said NO. I was stuck and then I tried to talk with a stock worker. She was fine and kind to me. I learned this new lesson. It's unlike the Philippines. Lea chatted with me about the Canadian culture, good news, and our lives. And, I learned a lot of new experiences from other people and workshops.

After two years, My English is improved well. I decided to take a graphic design course; nevertheless, it was too late because of the deadline. I was told to take it next year. I suggested myself to learn how to answer questions properly. I practiced and looked for a job at the same time. I have a job that is the business of my friend Mika's uncle. It's only a on-call job.

After my sister came back from the Philippines, I got a lot of mistakes. I was scolded. I know I was young to not be aware. Madness is NORMAL. Learning mistakes just helps me to know what I can do for right. I tried to improve my independence on my own.

This year (2011), I got a graphic design job even though I don't have diploma and certificate. I only got an idea - "internship". I emailed my resume to a lot of companies. One of them emailed me back. They wanted to talk with me. All of the sudden, I was frightened! I only thought if they were "strict". I tried to meet up!!! However, they are nice. I was relieved. hehe.. by the way, it's a on-call job.

I get in the graphic design program. OH MY GOSH! September 6 is so close!!! I am only the one who is Deaf with hearing students. I will do my best! I can't say I want to be passed! I only focus on my DREAM and STUDIES. Hopefully, I can do anything!

This year is better than two years that I did nothing. I really miss what I did for good in the Philippines. So I move on new life that I am in Canada. I am trying to improve my better LIFE.
I will update a new blog when my class happens to me. :D

Lost Prayer

2011-09-01T01:04:00.001-07:00

A month ago, Louie wanted to invite me to a church where Deaf people come and pray. I was on the fence. He knew that I didn't always go to the church. So, I was willing to go there.

I came his house and he guided me to the church. Wow! I haven't been in the church for 3 years. I almost forgot what I did in the church! I found it is way better for me than Jewish Witness.

Well, I was brought to the Kingdom for Jewish Witness. It was my first time. I like to interact with people, but I don't like to listen to the lecturers because I didn't understand what the Bible says. That religious is different to the catholic. Two people, who are from Jewish Witness, came our house and taught me about the story of the Bible. Then, I quitted already.

So now I continuously attend the church with Louie every Sunday. I hopefully have a faith~ I thanked to him for inviting me! :D

Meet an alien

2011-09-01T01:03:00.000-07:00

In the morning, I was on break and sat in the classroom at Vancouver Community College. Once a disability helper called me and Mika, we followed him to ASL classroom. I didn't understand what was going on. Then, I suddenly saw a man's back when my friend, Denise walked out of that classmate and said, "There is one man from the Philippines." His complexion is familiar to me and I guess he is just Filipino or not.

The man turned to us before we entered the ASL classroom. ASL teacher introduced us to him. He introduced himself to us. He's Carlo (for sign name, but his real nickname is Louie.) Next, Mika first introduced herself and talked about where she studied and she asked him where he lived and studied in the Philippines. He said that he lived in Pasay City and studied at CSB. We know these already. Then, it was my turn. Awfully, it was awkward for me to introduce myself to him. There was a bit something wrong or embarrassing with me. I thought I just asked him as a foreigner, not Filipino, but I was wrong. He nodded to me. How embarrassing I did. hehe.. After that, we went back to our classroom.

My buddy, Lea knew Louie's last name after she snooped his application in the office. So she gave me his last name and I found him on Facebook. I added him already.

Guess what? There are two friends who have the same names - "CARLO". The first person was that I met him at VCC after I moved. I felt uncomfortable with him since he's totally immature. Then, the second person was that he was my classmate for English class. However, we didn't talk much. He's very quiet and hard of hearing. I know he doesn't use sign language all the time. Two people are failed to me. BUT now is the third person. In fact, I hoped it would work for us.

Why did I hope? Because I have been talking with a lot of gals for many years. I tried to find a way to talk with some men, yet failed. Their interests are not fitting to me. I don't want to be surrounded by gals!!!! hehe.. Lea truly wishes I have new friends of men! It's true. I don't want to talk about girly things because.... LOOK AT ME, I am a MAN! hehe

Anyway, I thought Louie must be bored at home, so we often went out with my buddies.
Now I feel better with him than being surrounded by gals!!!! hehe I know it's normal and LIFE.

Winner of Contest Tee Summer

2011-07-16T20:24:00.000-07:00

Whoa! I am the winner of the summer tee contest. It's my first time in my life!

Click here if you want to see the full view.

Thank you so much, facebookers!

Zazzler Contest: Entry of our first contest, Summer rocks!

2011-07-03T09:38:00.000-07:00

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Doodles

2011-05-09T17:11:00.000-07:00

I love to doodle with so much tiny details. I can't believe my eyes why I love to doodle more than "like".

Here are my priceless doodles.

December 2010

May 2011

If you want to commission me, I always accept that. I ALWAYS want to do that! :D

Please visit my page.

Note: Please note me if you have a deviantart account OR if you don't have one, PM me. Thanks a lot!

My New Skill

2011-05-09T16:48:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm building up my new skill, which I do digital arts. The dark colors are improved well. I always explore the different style of arts in DeviantArt, which artists upload their works.

I chose only one of my works for each month. However, I will make the collection of my best works after a year.

Look at my improvement art.

January

February

March

April

Do you see that improvement art. The colors are improved so fast.

I am looking forward to seeing how different my new works are. :)

Surprising Gift

2011-01-24T16:02:00.000-08:00

My best friend, Hannah, video called me by using sign language. She told me that she had a gift for me. I was excited and had a big curiosity to know what thing she had.

She gestured like "drawing and using a pen".

I said, "is it a tablet?"

She didn't know that word. I explained her what it means and then she said, "Yes, it's a tablet."

She said, "How can I send it to you?" Actually, I live in Vancouver, Canada and she lives in the Philippines.

I came up with my mind. Mika was in the Philippines already! I asked my friend, Jami if she could get the tablet from Hannah. After a while, she got the tablet from Hannah. Then she gave it to her former classmate who is very close to Mika. Mika got it finally!

When Mika was back, I was overexcited. She saw me smile when she carried the tablet. She thought it was a medicine or something. Then, I unwrapped the tablet. AAAAAH! I LOVE IT!

Here is the picture.

Wooooo-hooo! I thanked to Jami and Mika for delivering and Hannah for the special gift!

Sketch

2011-01-09T15:22:00.000-08:00

Somebody told me that some of my drawings are not enough dark. My friend, Jami, suggested me to practice on shading a ball, using pencil. I know it helps my eyes to see something light and dark.

Here are the sketches.

I was struggled with adding more dark on this apple. I don't have any soft lead pencils for the very dark.

Look at the strawberry!!! I think you feel like it is YUMMY!!! lol XD

So I thank to Jami for the suggestion! :)

Freezing Temperature after 25 years

2010-11-26T15:16:00.000-08:00

1st day - November 19, 2010

There were a lot of statuses on Facebook; my friends said, "It's snowing!" These made me so much excited. However, it wasn't snowing at our place yet. After a while, the snow came around 10:30 P.M.

I encouraged my sister Cocoon to taste a piece of snow. I guess she tasted it like water. :P

We enjoyed with the snowfalls.

Here we walked on this snow.

2nd day - November 20, 2010

When I woke up, I went out for viewing the snow I loved!

Here is in the front yard.

Here is the back of our house. My brother's car was gone; he went to work.

The baby snowman is there! Is that cute, isn't it?

It was taken through a train window. No more green things.

I went to my friend Lea's house and then we had been waiting for my friend Kathy to pick us up. But she couldn't make it since she was scared of driving on the snow. I bet her area is dangerous for slipping. So I stayed at Lea's place for a party instead of watching an Australian Deaf man's performance. After hours passed by, I couldn't go home because of freezing in the night. I slept over here.

3rd day - November 21, 2010

I woke up so early as Lea's house got colder than our house. Then, Lea's cousin Tess and I dressed up before leaving the house. Wow! The temperature suddenly became so cold and the chill wind was frigging cold! My new jacket, which my mother gave me, didn't make me enough warm. Finally, I came home!

4th day - November 22, 2010

The morning was around -5'c. I was sick of wearing very thick garments! I noticed many students seemed like they hated the very cold. They bought hot chocolate milk and coffees all day. I was chose by the Student's Union of Vancouver Community College to take a video of me and my classmate for U-Pass which we supported for the students. Then, the sunset came around 3:30P.M. I went home by train. It was so crowd; people ran to enter in the train. The chill wind was severely freezing as -10'c to -15 'c. My gosh! I didn't feel my face!

The crowd is in the train.

I am vain, nooooo! lol

5th day - November, 23, 2010

The snow turned into ice already.

My brother brought me to Braid skytrain station. I was waiting for the train to arrive.

After school, I came to Lea's place since she needed my discount card and school ID to be approved in any stores. She would buy clothes.

Here Lea, her cousin Tess, I went out of the house. My face is weird, isn't it? lol

I had been waiting for my sister Veron to buy an Olympic toque for me, so now I bought new one already. Yahoo!

6th day - November 24, 2010

The temperature was still worse, yet good thing that I wore the toque. It made me warm. Many friends said, "Oh! It's CUTE!!!!" lol

7th day - November 25, 2010

It was light snow flurry. It was not bad; however, it was hard for me to walk on the snow.

Weee! Look at my toque!

The snow melted on the floor.

Eventually, It was a bit heavy snowing. I saw many students playing with snowballs. Teachers, too! What a fun day!

Here is between the new building of Vancouver Community College and the parking.

Again, I am vain! nooo! LOL~! :P

The night was boring so I made the snowman. I bet this was the last day of freezing temperature.

The snow slowly melt on November 26, 2010. I couldn't say goodbye to it. I miss the snow more than the freaking cold! hehehe!

Anyway, that terrible temperature in Vancouver was my first time in my life. I thought I was excited, but I realized that the cold was worse. Know guess? I am still looking forward to seeing the snow. I am super crazy, you know. :P

Painting a cat

2010-10-29T15:13:00.000-07:00

My second attempt that I painted a cat on the canvas. I bought Leaf Green and Sapphire acrylic paints from Giant Dollar Store.

Here is my procession.

Click this larger photo if you need to see.

The colors of the cat's eyes are so hard for me! I doesn't get used to painting any eyes' colors. :S

The background was changed since gray looks dull or doesn't fit with other bright colors.

I have one blank canvas. I'm looking forward to painting it when I am ready. :)

Faber Castell Colored Pencils

2010-10-24T08:47:00.000-07:00

Three weeks ago, I found National Bookstore website which is a store in the Philippines. It is very popular for art supplies, materials, etc. I was so surprised that it is available for shipping. I was excited to ship, but no cards to order.

I emailed my friend, Abbie to purchase Faber Castell Watercolor pencil and classic color pencil for me. On October 10, she came to Vancouver from the Philippines with her mother and then she met me at the airport. After we went to her aunt's apartment, she gave me colored pencils and I paid her already. I thanked to her very much! I haven't owned any art supplies for about 4 years. I didn't want my friends to lend me any supplies because I know it is tiring to borrow and return if they need.

Here is the Faber Castell Watercolor pencil and classic color pencil.

Luckily, these have free sharpers.

This is Watercolour pencils.

This is Classic colour pencils.

This is just the coloring test, adding

I drew original characters on my sketchpad and colored them. Then, I used

"Hiphop Girl"

"Adam"

"Quest Crew"

These paintings look very light and don't have something very dark. That's okay. You know, Painting was very awful to me when I was a kid. Now I'm still improving. :)

Filipino Parade

2010-08-13T21:18:00.000-07:00

The Filipino Parade was there I have ever watched. My memories came back because I watched the different Filipino of dancing.

At lunch, I bought Halo-halo! I was like in heaven!!!!!

Doodle's Life

2010-08-12T16:15:00.000-07:00

August 5, 2010

Last night, I started to draw the doodle of leaves around 11:00P.M. until 1:30A.M. After I woke up, I continued to draw it. It was so addicting to me.

It was done! It took about 2 hours. Whoa!

August 7, 2010

It was a bit hard for me to have any concepts about this doodle. There were no pictures of fairyland in my mind, so I googled for images of it. It helped me to imagine and to have ideas. :)

August 11, 2010

A few weeks ago, I looked for different styles of doodles in Google. I found something amazing like this doodle. I've been practicing on drawing seaweeds for a week. Now I am successful! :D

It was began to draw!

DONE! My left hand was exhausting because it took me about four hours to draw!

I edited this doodle on Adobe Photoshop and then I submitted it on Deviantart.
Click HERE

Here are the pens I used.

This red pen case was given me by my friend. Another one ball pen for black ink is not suitable with drawing, but it's okay. I will buy more fine-tip pens as soon as I have work. :)

Final Firework

2010-07-31T00:49:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday, July 28, I couldn't go out with my friend Yiba for watching the firework since I didn't have enough money to pay the fare.

Last night, July 31, I asked my brother for allowance and then he said, "Its 1A.M. already. The banks are closed." He said he will go to bank to withdraw money for me before going to work.

In the morning, I woke up; I thought he must forget to give me allowance so I asked my mom to give it to me.

Going to Elizabeth Park at noon was cancelled because a friend of Lea's cousin was very tired from work.

Around 6:30P.M., we left for English Bay to watch Chinese firework. When we arrived there, we looked for a spot. It was so hard to find! The beach was full of people! Luckily, some people let us to sit on the spot in back of them. After a few minutes, the lightning came! The rain was coming! AAAH!!! However, we got a bit wet. :) The rain was gone after 15-30 minutes.

Unfortunately, the spot was changed. We only sat on the stair. It was too bad! I hated to set my tripod on the stair because of the crowd. :(

Anyway, I'm improving to take pictures of the fireworks. These current pictures are better than before. :)

A Novice As A Farmer

2010-07-25T23:32:00.000-07:00

Was it my first time? No, I have been going to Laoag City, Ilocos Norte in the Philippines for almost 20 years. There are a lot of farms. :)

By the way, Lea asked me if I joined her parents for picking blueberries. Then I said Yes! Her parents and her cousin Tess considered about me. They told me that it was very hot weather. I told them, "It's okay. I love it!"

Next early morning, I woke up at 5A.M., but Lea's parents were still sleepy. After 20 minutes, they got up and packed the bags for us. At 6A.M., a bus from Johavol Berries came and we rode in it. Richmond is very far from Lea's house.

I was surprised that friends of Lea's parents joined us.

Finally, we arrived the Johavol Berries which an Indian man owns the farm. It was my first time to see blueberry plants in my life because I thought they were like grape vines, yet they were not!

The weather was chilly. Lea's parents taught me how to harvest blueberries. It was interesting to learn. Harvesting green or red blueberries is prohibited they told me. And then I was ready to work on it~!!!

I carried the pail holding in front of my belly. I harvested and harvested a lot!!! I thought I worked so fast. I had two big pails of berries, but surprisingly, my friends got 3 or 5 pails. What the hell?!? Oh, I worked so slowly! For second time, I got 2 pails and for the last time, I got 3 pails!

After 10 hours, I felt bored of picking berries, so I got the small pail of blueberries for my family. Lea's parents let me take some rest.

Two people, sitting on the pail, are Lea's parents. :)

It is me! Wearing the cap and handkerchief protected me from the sunlight.

After 1 and 1/2 hours passed by, we finally went home at 7P.M.! I was so exhausted! Lea's father asked her for me. She interpreted me what he asked. He asked me if I came to pick again. I shook my head and said NOOOO! He laughed. He told me to give him my card that was how many weights I picked blueberries. It was 119. I am not sure which lbs or kg it was. And then I got paid. :)

A few hours, all my body was in so much pain, especially my hands, so I took medicine.

Explosive Firework!

2010-07-24T20:24:00.000-07:00

The Celebration of Light is an event which the fireworks are designed by four different countries.

Last year, I went English Bay to watch wonderful fireworks with my friend Lea, her siblings, and her cousin four times. There were so many people like 50,000 ants! ha ha ha!

This year, for the first firework, I couldn't make it since I was so lazy or couldn't afford to pay the fare, anyway.

Now, finally! We came Granville Island with friends of Lea's cousins. We watched Spanish firework. After it was over, it was so crowd to go home by trains.

Here are the pictures I took using Lea's DSLR.

An Injured Pigeon

2010-07-19T23:39:00.000-07:00

This morning, my father was outside of our house, opening the window while I was using my laptop to chat with my friend, Jami. I thought he just gave me some envelopes, but shockingly, he held a pigeon to show through the window. I suddenly stood up near the door and was scared of it as I thought it might bite my fingers if i touched it. He said, "No, it doesn't." Then, I tried to get it from his hand.

Jami took these pictures of my webcam. She said I was funny because I was scared of it and my face looked so frightened!

I was so stuck! We did not have any cages! It took me about 10 minutes to walk around and to look for a box or a basket. Jami told me to get a laundry basket, however; mine is not good for keeping the bird. It is too loose. Finally, I saw another sturdy white basket. I brought it to my room while holding the bird with my right hand. I took all the clothes out of the basket and put it upside down on the floor. I threw the bird into the basket successfully!!!

Here I was feeding the bird. At first, it refused to eat cooked rice. Then, I tried to put raw rice, but the bird still refused. I wondered if it was afraid of me. I added a small amount of bread. The pigeon refused. My father told me to put a small piece of cooked rice in the bird's beak. I did three times. After a few minutes, the bird went back to eat raw rice I was glad. I put a small plate of rice and a small bowl of clean water. WOW! The bird did not stop eating a lot of rice! Oh I know it's harder to look for food outside than people easily buy food in the stores, right? Anyway, my father said the bird cannot fly well.

When I gave the bird to my brother, Kuya Venice. He checked it up. He said it is sick. I was surprised he said it is female. I said him how. He showed me: he pulled the beak with his fingers. If the head doesn't move toughly, it means it is a female. How interesting! He has a lot of experiences!

I put the bird, rice, and water inside the other basket in the garage room. It is night already.

I am looking forward to seeing if the bird will like me after a few days or so. :D

Rare Movie!

2010-07-19T00:36:00.000-07:00

Do not read if you have not watched this movie! :P

I thought that "Remember Me" movie is just romantic because I know Twilight makes Robert Pattinson very famous since people have fans of him! I am not interested in that movie, but it's really amazing. I love to watch horror, adventurous and humorous movies more than romanctic movies, yet sometimes I feel I want to watch some romantic movies. :) Anyway, Robert is a role as Tyler in "Remember Me".

I began to watch "Remember Me". Wow! It is a rarely romantic movie I have ever watched. In the beginning of the movie, a mother was murdered and her daughter was there with her; I felt sorry for them. I was very surprised that in the end, it is a totally unexpected, heart rendering, emotional roller coaster ride of a movie. I was weeping!

When a teacher walked beside a blackboard, it showed a date (I can't tell when if you haven't watched it yet. :P ). It was going to happen after Tyler was in his father's office, waiting for him to come. Umm, I can't tell all the story. hehe!

Hope you will watch the movie immediately! YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT!!!!!!! hehe

Philippine Flag Key

2010-07-16T10:16:00.000-07:00

My boredom killed me! Anyway, I was trying to create a new key chain. It is the Philippine flag key.

I just tested on printing blue, red, and yellow inks on the white rectangular form. It was still wet so I put a tissue to absorb the wetness of inks from the form. It was a bit moist. I dried it using a hair dryer. However, I wonder if it's not waterproof. Keeping it is for my keepsake! :P

Another thing, I prepared yellow, red, and blue felts. I thought of what steps I could sew the Philippine flag key. Awfully, I was so busy between sewing it and cleaning the house! Aargh!

Finally, it is complete! It looks a kind of ugly and neat. ha ha ha! But... if you see it very far, it would be cute and awesome!!!!

I am wondering if I can sell when I make some. Yes or No? What do you think? D-:

Cold Beach

2010-07-11T12:57:00.000-07:00

“There are countless footprints on the sand; you don't know where I stepped.”

The beach was cold, wasn't it? No, it was not, yet the wind was a kind of chilly and the sea was so cold!

At noon, Lea's relatives prepared stuffs for going to Jericho Beach with me. Lea and I went outside of her house while waiting for them to be ready. I took DSLR camera and taught her how to take perfect pictures.

We arrived the beach around 1:30 PM! The wind was chilly, but it was the wonderful weather!

OOOHHH!!!! Here is the Filipino BQQ!!!! YUMMY!!! I love to eat it so much since I was a kid. :D

My portrait is good. Lea took this picture. :)

Scrabble is Lea's favorite game. As for me, I do not like it. I loved it when I was a kid but now I don't. Lea wanted to play with me and others so I was patient. It was fun to learn new words.

Sylvia won! She got about 130 points.

Tess hugged me. Why did I put "X" on my face? I am not a macho person! I am so lazy to exercise, yet I love to walk or run! :P

Brrrrrr! The sea was so COLD! I was getting tan! Yipeee!!! I hate stones on the sand as my feet got painful! OUCH!

Yikeeees! Do you think that I am idiot or nerdy without eyeglasses? :P

Oh Domo! Welcome to the Jericho Beach! He can't be able to swim. If he touches the water, he will absorb it! Like Spongebob doesn't want to touch the water. ha ha ha!

I ate ice cream. It tasted like Milo! Hmmmm! I miss Milo!

We played a game like dodge ball. It was my first time! It was so fun!

What a perfect photo! I struggled myself not to see the screen in the camera because of the bright sun! However, this picture in Lea's laptop is awesome! I did not know that! :D

OUCH! This picture is bad and blurred. I told Lea to take it. It was too late since the sun almost went down.

Finally, we left for Lea's house around 7:00 PM. After we arrived home, we were weary! :D

I don't like the sand at the Jericho Beach sincee it is like dusts. I really miss the beaches in the Philippines because of the white sand and sparkle blue seas!

A Hidden Park

2010-07-06T16:29:00.000-07:00

A few months ago, I walked around and explored places as I was bored. When I noticed there are a lot of trees, I tried to pass there. I was a bit scared because the beautiful houses on the street looked quiet and there were no people. After that, I went home and checked the internet about that place. It is named Robert Burnaby Park.

Now, I asked my friend, Lea if she came our house. She came here and then we walked the 9 or 10 blocks from our house to there.

Here are the photos I took. Love the shines!

I enjoyed in the forest, however; the inserts annoyed me!

We didn't finish to explore somewhere in the park because the night came. Next time, we will take more pictures if we have spare time.

Walking in the cave or city

2010-07-02T13:20:00.000-07:00

Nikko came back to Vancouver and he just stayed for only three days before going to California.

By the way, Mika, Yiba, Lea and I hang out with him. My baby named Domo kun was with me.

We rode in the Canada Line train to go to Olympics Village.

Domo was in the pocket with my jacket since he didn't want to get lost. Look at Mika. She was so cute!

I carried Domo up! CHEER UP!!!

They walked while talking through using sign language. Domo just watched them.
We discussed about where we could go to Granville Island. I haven't visited there before, but I only noticed there while driving. We decided to walk there. Yiba didn't want to but she had to be patient. It was easy for us to chat continuously without thinking about a long walk.

We stay enjoyable and happy in our lives and this picture! We're definitely Filipino! However, Mika was not included. It was too bad!

Domo felt comfortable to stand on the grass! Yipeeee! He watched us to swing at the playground.

What an amzing photo! We have to stop you to do: STOP STARING AT US! :P

We made it! We needed to take some rest. Domo saw that place for the time. I visited there for the first time, too.

Yiba bought Vietnamese rolls since she got very hungry. That's why she took a long walk.
Domo was tempted by that food!!!

I just hugged him as he is my baby! ha ha ha!

Yiba asked us if we could ride in the vessel to go to Yaletown. We agreed with her. We rode in it.
Domo was very scared of the water. He sat in the rescue ring for safe!

I encouraged Domo to see the sea. For the first time, he was speechless to see how beautiful it was!
We arrived Yaletown and then we went home finally!

Domo's current life is better than old life which he never went somewhere.
Do you think that it is fun to see Domo in these pictures? :P

Cheese Party

2010-06-07T12:25:00.000-07:00

My teacher, Shannon put five different kinds of cheeses on the table. She wanted me and my classmates to learn how different we tasted each cheese.

Here are the pictures I took in my cellphone.

The first cheese is Brie.

I think I have eaten it before when I was invited to the party for the closing Olympics. So I tried to taste the cheese. It was soft, slippery, and a kind of salty, but the rind (Brie’s skin) was sour.

The second cheese is the Old Cheddar.

You know, many people love that cheeses and you guys also. I love it, too. I tasted it like heaven!

The third cheese is the Blue Cheese.

Oh my gosh! This cheese has mold inside it. (I am so sorry. The color of this picture is not good. The mold is blue for real, not green.) I picked a tiny amount of the cheese. Why did I pick very small one? If you have never tasted that cheese before, you need to eat a very small amount because it tastes very strong. By the way, I ate it for the first time. I felt like it was so disgusting and bitter!!! I hate it so much!

The fourth cheese is the Medium Cheddar.

You know again, many people eat it with sandwiches. It tasted very sweet when I ate it.

The last cheese is the Gorganzola.

This cheese has mold inside it; however, it is stronger than the Blue Cheese. I do not like it very much. I tasted it for 1-2 seconds and then I threw it away quickly! It was SO GROSS!!! My classmates hate it, yet one of us loves it!

We had fun to learn about the different cheeses.

Hope I want you guys to eat all the cheeses if you have never tasted them before.

Beware of Domokun plush!!!

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I went to the Giant Dollar to buy some felts. I noticed there was a sign saying “Magic felt are awesome!” and then I bought some.

After arriving home, I went to my computer and searched for the instruction of tiny Domokun plush, and then I printed it.

I started to make parts of Domokun’s body, but it was mistaken. So, I remade the second plush. It looked more prefect than the first plush.

My facial expression was weird, wasn’t it? Domokun wanted to yell. RAWR!!!!!!

What the hell?!? The two plush can walk or talk! How impossible they were only things, I could not believe my eyes!

All of the sudden, the second plush chased and jumped over me! It was stronger to push me than I thought it was weak.

Whoa! The plush were happy and safe because they attacked me!!!!

~The End~