Cindy Pon's Blog, page 19

the first three years

my intention was to do a decade look back.

i don't usually do this type of retrospective post,

but so much has happened for me between 2000-2009,

i thought it would be a fun endeavor.

i began collecting fotos and realized that it will

have to be divided into two posts, at least!

in 2000, i was just finishing my masters program
at new york university. i would graduate in may
and return to san diego by the summer. what was
revolutionary for me was the purchase of my first
digital camera. i don't...

tgifbm!

*today, as the bubs helped their daddy search

for "treasures" with his metal detector. 8)

i've been tweet-bragging about our sunshine

and high 70's temps and getting grouchy and

threatening replies from all over. =p what can

i say, i'm a southern cali girl through and through.

i'll gladly trade "seasons" for constantly temperate

weather. and proximity to the beach. i don't like

swimming in the ocean at all, but i love to gaze at

it. it's both soothing and inspiring.

last night we went to...

how could it possibly be 2010?

i was watching the season 2 finale of The

Tudors last night, and feeling really very

anxious about it all. anne boleyn was beheaded

and altho i've read about this multiple times, it's

quite another thing to see it acted out. there's

something to be said about visuals. she was

executed in 1536 and the 500th anniversary

date will be in 2036. i fumbled with the math

in my mind and figured i'll be 63 that year.

it's rather unsettling to calculate

my life years (away) like that.

as i said, we made ...

cindy's 2009 reads and top five list!

happy 2010! i'm back from england!

it's so good to be home safe. holiday fotos

will follow soon! for the past three years,

i've shared my reading list as well as my

top five books on my blog. this year is different,

as i'm beginning to read books that are written by

authors i know, some even friends to me! the list

is most definitely predominantly young adult, more

so than all previous years.

so without further ado, these are my top five

favorite reads of 2009!

1. THE KING OF ATTOLIA by megan ...

stupid cupid by rhonda stapleton

i can't believe this is my final debs 09

blog tour post!! ringing in the new year

with rhonda and her debut, Stupid Cupid!



About Stupid Cupid

Felicity Walker believes in true love. That's why

she applies for a gig at the matchmaking company

Cupid's Hollow. But when Felicity gets the job, she

learns that she isn't just a matchmaker…she's a cupid!

(There's more than one of them, you know.)

Armed with a hot pink, tricked-out PDA infused with
the latest in cupid magic (love arrows shot through...

stalk me! =)

i'll have my iphone for the first

time while abroad this year. so i hope

to take random fotos and make tweets

while gone. check for my updates on

my twitter page. also if you are on twitter,

please add me! and happy holidays!

2010. wow.

http://twitter.com/cindypon

london calling

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...

silver phoenix indonesian cover

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 ...

a very full saturday

i had two events this past saturday.

the first was with the rolling readers at

the women's head to toe expo at del mar

fairgrounds. when i originally signed up for

it, i thought it was a reading event. apparently,

it was the first time they decided to try and

do this book/author component with the expo,

and i suspected it might not have worked too well.

the moms that went most definitely left
their tween/teens behind. the kids that were
there were preschooler age. so i wound up not
doing a...

about a lily

*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...