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Mom & Me by amyadoyzie.
Circa 1981 in Chinatown, Los Angeles. I wanna take photos like this one day, where I’m the big person.
Filed under: China Be Trippin', Fotorama, Operation Engrish Prease, Random Fotorama, Travelzies
This is one of my favorite shots from my time in China and it conveys exactly what I desire at the moment. I’d like to be napping on a tattered lazyboy abandoned on to a anonymous street, neglecting my job and dreaming of better days.
Filed under: China Be Trippin', Fotorama, Operation Engrish Prease, Random Fotorama, Travelzies
Maybe it was fatigue or forgetfulness, but somehow I forgot to blog photos of the time I spent in the Tibetan autonomous region in western Sichuan last summer before returning home from China. Here are my faves:
His English name is Michael Jordan.
We stayed with a nomadic Tibetan family who raised yaks and earned our keep when we (ineptly) helped them herd the animals closer to their yak-hair tent. I was worried as we slept because the baby yaks stayed in the tent with us and I feared that they would trample on top of me!
More: Tibet photo set.
I’ve realized that my Flickr account is bulging with 6,852 photos (and counting, I upload daily). For some odd reason, I used to not like the idea of posting images on my blog. I’m sure I had some half-formed rationale for it, but it escapes me now and I can’t seem to post enough images on this darn thing.
So I’m digging up some of my favorite images from the past and will post them randomly just because I feel like it.
At my uncle’s house, where my adoptive grandmother/biological aunt lives in Bao Binh, Vietnam. Our family returned in 2005, the first time my parents set foot back in the country where they were born and raised and forgot since they left in 1978.
I wrote about the experience in a column: First Encounter with the Third World.
