I'm Jihan. I like drawing, sea creatures, food, really dandy clothes, books, and tiny or giant things.
I allow myself to be sentimental about foliage and snow after listening to Californians complain about cold weather for four years in school.
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Half Moon Bay, CA
Ran this through pixlr-o-matic since it was a crappy cell phone photo anyway. I swear I have a legitimate camera; I just hate carrying things around.
I just moved to California. Things I like: more diverse food options, more extensive library collection, inoffensive if repetitive weather, being employed.
Things I miss: (deciduous) trees, simple roads with none of them fancy lights/sidewalks/multiple lanes, ShopRite, the sound of crickets and frogs and all manner of critters at night, feeling like I’m home.
Tower Hall at San Jose State University. There’s a section (presumably the Hall) that sticks out to the right of the tower. I did not draw it. Spent a quiet afternoon doodling and bumming around the library. They were having a book sale, mostly stuff I wasn’t interested in. There was a book on dealing with Y2K.
I don’t think I’ve thrown a birthday party since I was six because I hate planning things like that, but you would be surprised at the nice things people do for you when it’s your birthday. Like bringing you to eat delicious burritos and partake in super chavelas. Or feeding you prawns and ice cream cake (not at the same time; that would be less nice). Or hanging balloons over your cubicle and giving you the tiniest of tiaras and a bizarre paper robot. Or inviting you to run around a house with the lights out playing laser tag. Which resulted almost immediately in me running into a piano and falling down. I’m not good at these things. And yet, I’ve managed to survive for over two decades. Hurrah.
Food update:
Tune in next time for lentil tacos and something with quinoa. Also I will try to update gradually. Massive text-dumps are not very tumblr-like, I know.
A house in California. I think I would freak out if some random person posted an awkward drawing of my house online. But also, I worry too much.
I drew this with a Pilot G2 pen. I generally like runny-ink pens and the G2 is supposed to be a good pen, but I do not understand why. The ink doesn’t flow smoothly and I have a harder time achieving any sort of subtlety. I used to have some non-retractable pens (the Pilot precise, probably V5) that I bought from Walmart or wherever, and they were pretty good. I guess if I want to be real artsy-farsty I could invest in Microns or something, but I don’t generally worry about “unparalleled archival quality” and the like.
Hello, outskirts of San Jose.
The general landscape here is kind of flat, not a lot of trees, at least not like New England. You can often see large hills in the distance, mostly brown grass with patches of green trees like rashes. My commute is about 1.5 hours, 1 hour on the light rail and .5 walking to/from stations. I read a lot and nap and listen to Bon Iver to pass the time. Two organisms that I’ve been seeing a lot more are snails and roly poly bugs.
I took a brief jaunt into San Francisco. There was a hilly section with lots of gorgeous tall Victorian houses. Although I am not the most enthusiastic tourist/explorer of cities, I’d like to make another such trip.
I am interrupting the irregularly-scheduled programming of random things I like on the Internet to write some bloggish posts. Mainly because I’m interning at Cisco in San Jose, CA and it’s my first time doing this sort of thing and seeing this part of the country. So far the weather has been cooler than I expected, the landscape more treeless than I expected, and the stuff I’ll potentially work on more interesting than I expected. Not a bad deal at all, even when my days begin at 6:30 am.
