cindy pon
a little sweet, a little sour

Category Archives: ramblings

how do you know?

i’m in between revisions again and more
than a little obsessed with Fury of the Phoenix.
it’s a fantastic all-consuming a little maddening
feeling. i write in my head constantly, am thinking
of plot and scene and dialogue and character.
and god knows what’s getting lost sometimes
due to The Hole in My Head. but i think i retain most
of it, [...]

a painting and a poem

i gift my brush painting teacher an amaryllis each
year. this year, i had chosen one that was a deep
rich crimson. this is my attempt at its portrait. =)
i used the same one and a half shuen paper i had
used for blobby cat with quasi-disastrous results.
the flower blobbed out more than i wanted in much
of the [...]

art show!

all san diegans are cordially invited to the
chinese brush painting society’s art show.
i can’t believe it’s just next week–i’m very
excited, especially since i’ll be selling my cards
for the first time this year. they have been well
received and i hope people enjoy them!
i finished The Glass of Time, which i enjoyed,
but didn’t find as compelling as [...]

it’s all greek to me

is it really and truly february??
i have this theory that time takes on
a snowball effect as one gets older. imagine
calendar pages of months flipping faster and
faster and faster… i’m sure some physicist
can prove this somehow?
february and i have yet to post my christmas
london fotos! today is my tribute to one of the
best greek restaurants i’ve [...]

and the next six years

i forgot to mention that i started my chinese
brush painting classes in 2001. a very frustrated,
impatient why can’t i paint beautifully right NOW
right AWAY brush art student. =)
we visited san francisco on my 30th birthday
in august 2003, when i was around seven months pregnant
with sweet pea. fotos were taken, me with my
rotund belly, but i [...]