Cindy Pon's Blog
December 15, 2009
December 14, 2009
Cobbled Streets and gray skies
The smell of roasted chestnuts
Rubbing my mittened hands for warmth
as it pours from the café and shop windows
like sunshine on a summer day
But London is muted, dark too soon
beneath dense clouds
The Christmas decorations shimmer bright
colors: reds, golds and brilliant greens
Silver tinsel glitter like iced stars
I want a hot scone slathered in triple-clotted
cream and strawberry jam
-cwp 11/09
i have an email pen pal who is in elementary
school, and in our...
December 7, 2009
i'm very excited to share the indonesia
cover to Silver Phoenix! the publisher let me
know that my book went on sale last week
abroad! so exciting!
do you love the cover?
i think it's gorgeous in a mysterious
quiet way. i was shown the cover before
the books went into print and i only had
two comments. one was suggesting the
chinese characters (they had stand ins
that actually said "chinese word",
now it says "silver phoenix")
and the fact that ai ling didn't wear a single
braid–as she does throughout ...
December 3, 2009
*lily nestled in rock.
i had a fabulous time with my
brush artist friends on tuesday night.
ate great food, then proceeded to paint.
our teacher had been encouraging us
to paint rocks (which can also turn into
mountains for landscape paintings) and
i finally tackled the subject.
the hardest component in this painting
for me was the rock. it's definitely more
challenging as i love painting flowers
and using color. rocks, when done wrong,
turn into lumps of dough. i think what is
so essential about g...
*lily nestled in rock.
i had a fabulous time with my
brush artist friends on tuesday night.
ate great food, then proceeded to paint.
our teacher had been encouraging us
to paint rocks (which can also turn into
mountains for landscape paintings) and
i finally tackled the subject.
the hardest component in this painting
for me was the rock. it's definitely more
challenging as i love painting flowers
and using color. rocks, when done wrong,
turn into lumps of dough. i think what is
so essential about g...
December 2, 2009
About Struts & Frets
More than anything, Sammy wants to play guitar in
a famous indie rock band. The problem is that his
front man is a jerk who can't sing, his bassist is a burn-out
who can't remember the songs, and his drummer is just out
to lunch. But Sammy needs this band because it's the only
good thing he's got going. His father skipped out before he
was born, his mother is an overworked therapist with a
drinking problem, his grandfather is slowly losing his mind to
Alzheimer's, and the...
November 29, 2009
my mom is making a trek back to her
village in the province of guangxi next spring–
her first time back since leaving china at age five
or so. she's been back to china since, but never
to her home village.
guangxi is where the famous and gorgeous
guilin mountains are located, immortalized by
brush painters, then tourists and their fotographs.
how i wish i can make this trek with
my mom in the spring! but it's just not my
time yet to visit china. it's certainly something
i'm looking forward...
November 19, 2009
*especially low tide this past sunday.
so much so that the mossy green rocks
furthest out were revealed along with its
tidepools. munchkin is clinging to the love
like a rabid monkey and the sweet pea is a
smudge of red. i feel much blessed to live so
close to this beauty.
i haven't seen my wild canyon bunny for near
two months. =( i still throw out my carrot each
day and in the mornings, they are gone. i'm hoping
that the bunny is still coming to nibble and it's not
a skunk or possum or giant...
November 16, 2009
the hub and i were able to go out on
a date night and have some delicious
izakaya. i had had it only twice maybe while
living in los angeles and k found this awesome
tucked away restaurant that is absolutely
delicious and quaint.
the place was nearly full at 6pm!
i was glad we made a reservation. also
love sitting at the bar–near the food. ha!
burdock (sort of like bamboo but tougher?
we still don't know what it is!), japanese seaweed
(which i liked. and i don't usually like seaweed much),
cold...
