It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.
- "The Basketball Diaries"

This city turns people into shadows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vhpB6EF6l8

My Thesis Exhibit, and last hurrah at Parsons, concludes this week. It's been a great ride. On to the next thing.

Check out my Thesis Project on the Parsons Exhibit Website: http://amt.parsons.edu/bfacdt/thesis/2010/2010/05/sleepless-nights/
I designed my friend Michelle Wolter's one-woman-show postcard recently- everyone should go check out her upcoming production at the Midtown International Theater Festival.
GaRam and I made a little youtube channel recently. Click here for more!

Yale Trip and a wedding

Was working all day on my final exhibit piece! My Parsons Senior Exhibit opens soon, and I'm so happy to finally be done with my last school assignment. I love how my quilt came out, and it's in such a nice spot in the gallery, if you walk by the school it's right there in the window!



Later: Went to Ajna Bar (formerly Buddha Bar) with GaRam, his sis, and cousin. Just got home- it was so good! Apparently the winner of Top Chef cooks there- literally some of the best food I've ever tasted. Wore super comfy heels! Gosh, so much fun tonight... bleghh! It's so nice to be around nice people, having fun, without any worries.

New Headshots here. Thanks so much to my friend Doua!

Updated http://www.coroflot.com/AndreaChen with some design work.

"Gracious strength. Watch Southern women. They're as sweet as sugar, but they let you know not to push it." -Michael Kostroff

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
(by the existential ee cummings)

Graduation was great...


(tim keller from redeemer)
Once, a traveler came to a British village at the foot of a mountain. He had his mind set on climbing it even though the villager's told him it was too high and he wasn't prepared. Overconfidently, he went anyway, one morning, without the right equipment, rations, etc. He wasn't even a third of the way up, till he had to turn back, admit defeat, and come back down the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, an old woman told him,
"if you'd gone up the way you're coming down, you would've come down the way you went up".

Going to have pizza and then go to Madison Square Garden for my graduation, with daddy!

Update: "The Bridge" won Best Short Narrative at the Athens International Film Festival!

Sitting here right now with my dad and cat, at my apartment. Watching 'If I Can Dream' on hulu- i can't believe someone just got kicked off! I've been addicted to this webseries since I saw my old co-star Liberty Ross on it! and Alex Lambert lol.

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." -Charlie from "Perks of Being a Wallflower"