Preparing for the Culture Shock...

To prepare for my trip back to the Philippines in about 2.25 months, i've been talking to several friends who have been there recently to get some tips. You see, I haven't been back to the home land in 11 years!!! I don't know what it looks like anymore, what it smells like, what the authentic food tastes like, what the shopping is like, etc! I definitely don't want to look and sound like a foreigner so I can bargain well at the markets, hehe.

For those of you who don't know, I am originally from the Philippines although I only lived there for 2 years. My family then moved to Hong Kong for 10 years and then we moved to Canada. My first taste of culture shock was when we visited Canada before moving here. I was stunned. Where was everybody? I was used to the streets of Hong Kong which was packed at almost every hour of the day. People would walk shoulder to shoulder and you'd often get elbowed! And what do you mean the mall closes at 6PM? What do you mean the bus arrives every 30 minutes instead of every 5 minutes!? What do you mean people don't wipe boogers on bus and train poles? :P

Where did you experience the biggest culture shock? 

Speaking of cultures, travel, and far away places. Check out what arrived in the mail today all the way from INDONESIA! I ordered two prints from my lovely friend Tiara, one for me and one for my four year old cousin. Tiara's imagination, creativity, and skill radiates through her artwork. Seriously amazing! Check out the rest of her prints HERE! The quality is great, her prices are reasonable and my prints arrived quickly. Thank you Tiara!


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Lost in Translation

You know how sometimes you look at a piece of expensive artwork and think... "what the heck?" a black dot in the middle of a canvas and they charge $5000 for it? Well this is my version.

Like my latest piece of artwork? :P

(It's whats going on in my brain at the moment)

How would you translate this?

Day 17 - An Art Piece (I Cheated)

This actually isn't the right "day 17 topic" for the list i'm following, i cheated and followed day 17 from a different list. ;P 
This stuff encrusted car is parked everyday on the same parking spot downtown. There is a bunch of random stuff stuck to it which looks really cool from a far but a few weeks ago, I looked inside the car for the first time. Uhmmm.... dolls & baby dolls? Am i the only one that finds this slightly creepy? But then again, dolls in general creep me out. I have a pretty wild imagination and I always think that dolls will suddenly blink and start moving and talking to me. haha!