"6"

tiny baby. horrible photoshopping job but i wanted to get this one in on time!

"6"

"5" is for bejeweled

I was waiting for my mom and was in the holiday spirit, I guess! Don't worry, they're coming off before dinner. :)

The "5" Key.

Hooray! It's not one of me for once!

"4" is for erm.. Setting Up the Tree?

Well... There's 4 of me...

I coulda done better, but the final outcome isn't bad enough for me to try again. =p

"3" is for Westside

"2" Awesome

The photo of me isn't the sharpest... I guess that's what happens when you're relying on tripod to take your photo using the maximum fps. Oh, and Powerpoint ftw.

"1" is for Neo

Took this shot at the under construction area of my work's new building. Got to test out my new tripod. Some bits are fake. =D

I never would have known the whole One = Neo thing if it wasn't for Krispy pointing it out to me. I guess if we were going by alphabet, I could also use this as "A" is for Anagram.

"Z" is for ZZZzzz...

It took a few tries to get this shot right. Had to experiment with the camera on timer, on manual focus (to where I thought I would be) and with different flash settings so that there weren't really strong shadows. There is very little lighting in my room and the walls are pretty dark which made it rather challenging. I would prolly do it differently now, but I didn't want to spend even more time on it. I learned a lot from trying it tho!

"Y" is for Yin Yang

"X" is for X-MEN

"W" is for Warholio

W is for Wonder of the West

Yosemite is one of the 10 wonders of the west according to the Travel Channel.

"V" is for Vespa

Not really, I believe it's an American copy...

"U" is for me

A self portrait if you will/

T is for Turtle

In an effort to not let dnrtime go under I just drew a little Mr. Turtle on a handy dandy post-it. He'll keep me company on this lovely Friday.

"T" is for Train Tracks

This was taken just outside of my work... I have to cross 4 train tracks just to get to work... Location is in San Leandro, on Williams St.

"S" is for Sexually Transmitted Disease in a Can

What were you thinking? It's dick in a can.

S is for Save the Date

I have yet to make a S.T.D but figured I can start since I have an actual date now. I wasn't going to do one but it was recommended since it falls on a Friday and out of town-ers need to take more time off. Who said I wanted them to come, I'm trying to eliminate hundreds of folks not gain them?! :P

In any case, I found this picture I drew in '96 and think I'll use it as inspiration.. or just copy it completely haha! So here it is, my inspiration from back in the day..

S is for Skeleton

I forgot that I doodled a skeleton in class on Monday for Dnrtime. My class happened to be held in some physical therapy classroom so there were skeletons and body parts lying around.

Poor effort but I'm easing back into dnr!

Also, I wanted to let you know that I used Picnik to edit this phone camera shot of my doodle. It's a neat website that let me edit, save, and blog my photo in the same amount of time that it took for me to get Photoshop open. Enjoy!

R is for Red Cherries

Hullo! Went cherry pickin' over the weekend & saw lots of cherries in various shades of red which I tried to draw for "R". Realized I am not a great colorer so I made this red collage instead.



Hope you had a rrrrrrrrrad weekend everyone!

Q is for Quiet Time

Shh, the babies are sleeping. This is Benji at about 7 weeks and Bella, the cutest chubster, is about 13 months.

"O" is for other side.

I'm posting early because I'm leavin' for Miami tonight!

edit: Apparently, I super fail at ABC's...

"P" is for Procketteer!

"O" is for Originally Oscar Only

The two dogs move so fast that they're rarely in the same frame during a good shot. So... I placed Jake in one of Oscar's photos. hehe. It kinda looks like Osc is the one that's p'chop'd in. haha

O is for Octopus

I decided that this sketch of "O is for Octopus" is better than last week's "N is for Nothing".

O is for Ostrich

It was the first O thing that popped into my head that wasn't food related. Who doesn't think about Oreos all the time?!

"N" is for No Mole!

My Japanese look-a-like forgot the mole!

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

The mole^

M is for Move over Homie...

...there's a new pup in town! Please welcome Nameless Puppy. At 7 1/2 weeks old, he is fully vaccinated and ready for visitors. This new Bad Boy of the house took 4 shots like a champ - no crying, pouting, or peeing on the table (as Homie did).

M is for metal dog-tag

L is for License to Ill.

Unlike the current Hollywood Bond, I have black hair (as per Ian Fleming's true character).

L is for Little Lamb

... and Mary had one. I call her Possessed Mary since I accidentally messed up on her eyes and had to color them in. Possessed Mary better not hurt that little lamb!

K is for Kid flying a Kite

I love Easter, I love kids, I love kids at Easter :) Yesterday we had over 100 eggs filled with goodies for my nephews to find. I wanted to take them to fly a kite too but we were distracted with all the eggs, food, babies and Bakugons. Don't ask me what Bakugons are, I'm still the cool Auntie for pretending to know what they are and how to play with them. Since I didn't get to flying the kite I might as well draw one.

Egg Dash! (And Bakagon shirt) Uncle Vince was a rascal and hid them too high

K is for Kid in a Box

The Japanese Cherry Blossom festival in Japantown had some interesting things going on, like this traditional Japanese child-box.

K is for kaffir lime leaves

If I had a favorite leaf, this would be my new #1. I was introduced to the kaffir lime leaf two weeks ago at my first Thai cooking class. It is widely used in Thai (and other southeast Asian) dishes for its unique and aromatic scent. I did my Thai "homework" today and made two dishes containing these leaves: a hot and sour prawn soup (dtom yam gkoong) and a green curry (gkaeng kiew wahn moo). Mmmm.

J is for Jumping

D and I hiked Mission Peak on Saturday and the hills were beautifully covered with these purple flowers/weeds. I smelled an opportunity for another jumping picture.


I really tried with this one but, sadly, it looks like I have bound feet and burnt skin.

J is for Jeepers

I is for Iberian Breakfast

Spanish brekky at Cesar in Piedmont. Well... the start of it. It ended with churros con chocolate.

I is for ice pack

I ran four miles yesterday and biked 15 miles today. My body, especially my tush, needs a good icing! It's a lame drawing but I really wanted to use these new Derwent studio colored pencils that D gave to me. As you can see, I am really bad at "blending shadows and highlights" - what these pencils were intended to be good for. Anyone want to take a drawing class??

I is for Ice Cream

For lent I gave up this culinary wonder and it has been pretty hard. I miss it a lot and I'm sure it misses me too :P Sundaes, halo halo, milkshakes, floats, ice cream cake, ugh. Two more weeks and we'll be one again.. I can't wait

H is for Halibut

I didn't want to be completely left out of "H" week so with an hour before the "i" deadline and 7 days late for "h", I present to you "H"alibut ...the ugliest fish ever.

H is for Hayward Hamburgers!

I always thought that this Wendy's on Foothill Blvd looked really cool and original.

H is for Hands

These 4 day old hands belong to baby Benjamin. I was patiently waiting for him to go into his praying hand position but that didn't happen. Trust me, it's the cutest thing. Once he did it I knew he was Grandma's boy and they'd be church buddies soon enough (Grandma is a devout Catholic). A few seconds later I felt his lil farts and figured out the position was just helping him push :P

G is for Golden Gate Garden

Sooo... while Tina and I were in the Japanese Tea Gardens today, I was trying to think of something for "G" and I couldn't come up with anything... so I took this photo of "g"ear around 10pm...


It wasn't until after this shot that I realized... DUH! "G"arden! I took hella photos around Golden Gate Park too, lol. I'm an engineer dagnabit... numbers > letters