It was just my dad's birthday the other day, so I decided to showcase one of his most wholesome, vulnerable moments from the past 😂 A few years ago we went to go visit my extended family in Hawaii, and it was a pretty epic trip. We collected a bunch of new, unique experiences, but when it was my dad's turn to say his favorite part, he just started crying while saying his favorite part was spending time with all of us 😭 We even pushed him to say something more specific cuz of cours...
2021-09-16 02:27:04 +0000 UTC
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Occasionally, I think about the life my cats had before they were rescued by an animal rescue center. It still sometimes brings me to tears to think about how there was a moment in their lives they were suffering 🥺 My cats are two sisters who were found under an abandoned vehicle and had some tummy problems when I first got them. Now they are thriving on fresh food + water, fun play times, and unlimited access to a tempur-pedic bed 😭 These life changing events for animals and humans cou...
2021-09-10 01:21:21 +0000 UTC
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I ❤️Arlo the series is now out on Netflix! This was the last project I was on in a physical studio before the pandemic hit and am super proud of our team for being able to pull through despite all that :') This was my first time writing on a show as well as storyboarding with my board partner @natemorebikes who’s the master of jokes. Check out our episodes which are “Jeromio, Jeromio,” “Make a Fish,” “Swamp Itch,” and “Tony Baloney,” but of course watch the whole thing t...
2021-09-02 23:52:38 +0000 UTC
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Growing up my parents never let us have a dog or cat as a pet until the day they finally broke the news of us moving to a new neighborhood. Moving to a new place was very hard for me and my sister, as we had to sacrifice our preexisting life for a new one. However, after we got our dog Dash (aka Mupz, Boogz, Mr. Boop, Mr. Man, etc.) life in the new place wasn't so bad. We made a lot of good memories in our new (but now old) home, and he even got to see us graduate college, and move out of the...
2021-08-20 00:29:41 +0000 UTC
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Taking a break from posting a comic-comic this week, and wanted to just spend the time doing relaxing drawings of my little family. Sometimes it's just nice to not have to force my brain to construct a sequence of images to make sense to someone, and just get lost in the zone doodling things that mean a lot to me. It's been a looong time since I really got lost in just drawing something that makes me feel calm so much to the point it's nearly midnight. Nowadays I pass out around 10pm, but it'...
2021-08-06 06:50:42 +0000 UTC
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Every time I ever thank someone for complimenting me, or saying something kind in general, I tend to excessively use the 😭 emoji because a part of me still can't believe that someone is actually being kind to me LOL. Growing up I always downplayed compliments or deflected them back at the other person, because a I always felt uncomfortable about receiving them. I thought that if I accepted it, it would make me seem like I was narcissistic or bragging. I spent so much time thinking about th...
2021-07-29 06:09:39 +0000 UTC
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It's been a while since I've livestreamed anything, and lately I have been taking baby steps back at it through IG Live (Which so far is bleh as many of you may know). Unfortunately, I forget the way that society and the internet can be sometimes, and had a very awkward return back to live streaming with viewers who clearly were not there for the right reasons, leaving various sorts of verbal, sexual, and racial harassment. 😐 What made it even more awkward was that I was trying to keep a s...
2021-07-23 06:55:05 +0000 UTC
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Who else misses their grandparents so you dream of them to see them again? 🥺✋🏼It's been a long time since they passed away and to this day, I fear of forgetting more and more about them. Dreaming about them and documenting things I remember about them have helped me feel like I am still close to them. Sometimes the dreams feel so real I actually wake up in tears and desperately try to go back to sleep to resume the dream, but it usually never works 😔I either dream of something else...
2021-06-28 22:24:58 +0000 UTC
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Happy Belated Fathers Day!! I get asked how I got into art/animation quite often, and the truth is I really couldn't have gotten into it without my dad who so graciously re-enacted scenes from Disney movies and wrote stories with me. I feel like I've told this story 100x by now, but I feel like there are always new ways I like to retell it. I'm just so thankful to have had parents and a dad who supported me in my interests, so much to the point he would carry me by my shirt collar with his mo...
2021-06-21 19:41:54 +0000 UTC
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One reason I was a bit hesitant about getting cats at first was how it would change my daily life. In a way I feared not being attentive enough due to a busy work schedule, but I still wanted to do my best in being a pet parent cuz ya never know til you try! Adjustments in my daily routine definitely had to be made thanks to these furry leeches, but one of the biggest things they've reminded me to do is take a break from that busy life I was worried about in the first place :')
2021-06-15 05:14:32 +0000 UTC
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When we first moved into our new house, I felt guilty for not being so in love with it at first. I kinda knew I would feel that way because we got a fixer upper, and it was the foresight that we mainly relied on. In the beginning it was hard to really view the place as “home,” but as we gradually made it more and more our own it STARTED to feel that way. But no matter how much we fixed it up to make it look nice, something still felt missing to make it really feel like home. My sister sta...
2021-06-07 04:48:55 +0000 UTC
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Has anyone else finally gone out to eat with their partner lately and treated it like an actual first date after this whole past year?😅My boyfriend and I have been slowly starting to eat at restaurants again but like to roleplay as if it's a first date all over again LOL
2021-06-02 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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I have been reading this book called "Quiet" by Susan Cain and feel more validated about my introvertedness lately. I definitely speak up more now and have a social life much more lively than before, but I still hold onto parts that I feel like are still valuable traits often associated with introversion. I sometimes still feel as though being a more social, highly energetic, happy person is society's ideal standard, but I feel more confident about challenging that idea lately as it has been ...
2021-05-25 06:58:50 +0000 UTC
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Some of my favorite simple life moments between me and my boyfriend, and that I hope others can relate with their own partners :) Honestly making these "lists" so far have been some of my favorites because it alleviates the pressures of needing to make a cohesive story all the time and I can just focus and relax on doodling individual moments. It's like a visual gratitude list✨
2021-05-19 05:31:01 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to my fake internet boyfriend that I met through an online game in middle school, I grew a weird insecurity with my voice when I learned that it was not a stereotypically feminine voice. I googled ways to sound more girly, and forced myself to speak softer or more high pitched. Eventually my social anxiety just grew when it came to things as simple as ordering food, making a call, or just talking to people. This may sound easier said than done but I just eventually... stopped giving a ...
2021-05-14 16:44:12 +0000 UTC
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I never really talked about this, but in middle school I missed almost a full month of school due to an issue with one of my kidneys. Nobody really knew what was wrong, but I had to go get an MRI scan (after an ultrasound AND CT Scan). I'm honestly surprised that I wasn't AS terrified as I would be now, knowing how precious life is as an adult. While I was still scared of the whole situation, I feel like I wasn't AS scared thanks to my mom. It wasn't until recently my mom recalled that time i...
2021-05-12 06:33:03 +0000 UTC
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I remember the good old days when the things I ate were always questioned because they were different. Fried rice smelled weird, Boba was not even popular, and seaweed was gross. Despite my classmates' commentary on my food back in elementary-middle school, I still preferred Asian food over American food no matter how much I tried to mold my diet to more American. Then all of a sudden, everything that once made me and other Asians "weird" became popular and trendy. Boba chains emerged everywh...
2021-05-06 06:42:00 +0000 UTC
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Over the years I feel like I have better pinpointed things that work for me when I feel sad. I used to just obsess over the thing that was making me upset, and then got more upset about how I allowed it to steal my time away. I feel like regardless, sadness is a feeling we have to accept, and in fact it's good to just let yourself feel sad about something, cry it out, and sit with your emotions. I do think that there IS a point eventually where we will have to get back up and move on, so here...
2021-04-20 01:02:10 +0000 UTC
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FOR THE RECORD: I’m not leaving instagram LOL. At first I thought that I was doing something wrong when I noticed I was plateauing on my instagram growth. When I took a break and didn't post anything for a few months, I had a massive surge of unfollows. I knew it was gonna happen, but I couldn’t let “numbers” determine whether if I should take a break or not. I took a look at my insights the other day, and the number of unfollows I got just for not posting can be a little jarring. The...
2021-04-12 23:26:27 +0000 UTC
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What do you do when you can't stop thinking about your crush / loved one / anything? For me, the easiest way was to just imagine them constipated on the toilet trying to poop and it 11/10 always helps me redirect my focus back to working because I wish to never think of that again. Yet ironically, I still think about it again for the next time I need to refocus lol. Do you have any absurd tactics to stop thinking about a certain special someone, or something?
2021-04-05 18:36:40 +0000 UTC
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Like many others in the AAPI community, the recent rise in hate crimes towards Asian Americans has caused a lot of internalized experiences with racism to resurface. At first I wasn't sure if I should make a post like this, but then I realized I would only be contributing to the lack of awareness to what has actually been going on for yearrrsss. Hate crimes towards the AAPI community is nothing new and it's been happening for a long time. There was even an uptick in the hate crimes last year ...
2021-03-28 19:53:45 +0000 UTC
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Sooo this is a part of myself that I'm still trying to work on, but I'm not 100% there yet-- and that's taking a compliment 💁🏻♀️Whenever @noorrasoull and I hang out, we always have a moment of expressing gratitude towards each other, but we always cringe and get uneasy over our sappy words. The only type of love we know is through fake meanness at each other 😂This is literally the dynamic between me and all of my close friends, but we know we truly care for each other deep dow...
2021-03-16 05:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Don't be surprised if you see me doing a part two, three, or more of these... there are so many small things in life I wish I could just keep feeling forever, but all good things come to an end. I feel like I've recently started to TRUELY live in the moment in these past few years, where I really started to acknowledge these little moments that can be so mundane to some, but is a blessing to have for me. Learning to romanticize your life is definitely a skill, coming from someone who was once...
2021-03-09 06:02:56 +0000 UTC
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It was only recently I really learned the true meanings behind nice vs. kind. To me, nice is more about pleasing others while kind is putting genuine action to helping and supporting others. When I moved around schools, I got a clearer picture of who my fake friends vs. true friends were. My fake friends acted nice around me until their other friends judged them for being with me, and then would act as if I never existed. Being in this limbo of fake friendships became so exhausting, I ultimat...
2021-03-02 03:35:24 +0000 UTC
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One of the most annoying things is when people just assume you are a "type of person" just because you participate in certain activities and then question you if you do anything out of line with you stereotyped character. Since when were our personalities limited to a stereotype or persona? It bugs me when some people don't realize that personalities are complex and layered, and not as black and white as society and the media makes it seem. While I'm an introvert, I still have interests in ot...
2021-02-24 06:44:09 +0000 UTC
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We literally haven't gone out to do things for so long that now we consider going to the door to retrieve a package is a date in itself LOL. And there's nothing more romantic than opening a new fresh bottle of Poo-Pourri that will guarantee our relationship to last another year 😍
2021-02-21 23:29:42 +0000 UTC
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DISCLAIMER: Plz do not actually copy what I did in this comic to yourself! Just sharing a silly life experience :) For a lot of asian people, we have eyelids that can have a mind of their own. Mine are almost never consistently the same and it always depends on the situation. For example, if I cry, I find that my eyes swell up and one eye becomes puffier than the other, causing triple folds of eyelids, while the other one becomes a monolid or something else. To get it back to being even, I ei...
2021-02-17 06:53:55 +0000 UTC
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Isn't it strange how the things we love most in life are also the things we really need to take a break from sometimes? Sometimes I feel muddy and gross whenever I overly force myself to try to perfect my art. The final product ends up feeling unnatural so I've learned to just step away from it whenever I'm not feeling it. You might feel guilty and wonder "If you love it shouldn't you be doing it right now?" Well, I don't really think I'm giving it my "love" if I sit there and just force thin...
2021-01-30 05:19:08 +0000 UTC
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When Collin and I first started going out, he always walked on the street side where the cars were, and I was always confused af as to why he would always make us switch places when I walked on that side. I had no idea that this was some gentlemanly custom or tradition so I was just like, "What?" LOL 🤣. Since I originally am a city girl, I was already used to dealing with busy streets, plowing through crowds, and quadruple checking for cars before crossing, etc. But I still thought it was ...
2021-01-27 06:21:53 +0000 UTC
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To this day I still like to make fun of me and Collin for starting off our relationship as serious, intense people who didn't even want to think about children yet here we are now, dancing, singing, and shaking our butts off with our kittdrens. AKA our daughters LOL.
2021-01-23 06:48:26 +0000 UTC
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