Philippines doodles

just a few doodle pages done while I was visiting Manila last month

(These aren't really traditional "sketches," which are supposed to reflect what one sees. These are really "doodles", which mainly reflect how I feel.)

PUNAI: A Shitty Conversation with Mama

real conversation.

so apparently my kid thinks my work is pooping...

is what it is

I am not always like this,

but when I am,

uh... I am like this

bubblez

recently I got a lot of this floaty airy bubbly thingie in my life. 

I wonder why? could it be because of my baby that's running around asking for bah-bowl-sh~??

a 420 memory

a 420 memory? that is, if this phrase is not oxymoronic 

(or, if the semantics of this NP is not non-intersection)

multilingual baby

So my spouse and I have since day 0 (that is, when the fetus was still in the womb) spoken all our languages - Tagalog, French, Taiwanese Holo-oe, the Taiwanese variety of Mandarin, and American English - to our child, who is now a bit younger than 2 years old (the child has also learned some Chamorro in school and will hopefully learn my heritage language Siraya when older). As a linguist, I know for a scientific fact that this person's mental universe is gonna be - well, likely already is - rich, diverse, and wonderful. Here's just me trying to "visualize" my baby's multilingual world by quoting some favorite words and phrases :)

Why not Fly?

Do you jump because others do,

or because some loud men tell you to?

Why not fly 

and ignore the ignorance of your kind?