"if you can't afford to lose, you shouldn't play" -oliver chen

I'm learning, just learning
Learning how to live and bear the weight, push into the sky

I tripped along the sidewalk today, and now my ankle is the size of a grapefruit. well, they do say 'break a leg' for good luck. wonder what a swollen ankle means.
also, my birthday is this week.

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Bought a new dress today. Like?
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes" -dorian gray

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)