situation kilo-alpha-delta-charlie

( that kilo-alpha-delta-charlie was just some random crap I came up for the title)

The third year in a roll, I came to visit the Powell's in Texas.
Three years. It's almost an annual traditional now.
It felt like I just visited the place like a few weeks ago, but the reality shows that it has already been 12 months since the last time.

Even weird, seeing the kids grow up. I mean, April's sister Ashlie's kids. (thank gawd they still remember me)

To a certain degree, I feel like I'm part of the family.

As usual, gonna do what I'm going to do: photographer for the wedding. (don't get me wrong, I HATE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY)


New topic:
Summer has been great. Hot and poor, but great. Riding my dear bike around the place in Chicago. Trying to burn that excess fat that I accumulated this past 2 years of post-hawaii life.(30 pounds man, 30 pounds)

School's been going pretty good the past two semesters @ Columbia College Chicago. Now holding a 3.1 GPA(not that amazing, but if you compare with what I had in Hawaii, then you see the significance of it)

Made a bunch of wonderful new friends(and not too surprisingly, all happen to be Christians, ONCE AGAIN)
Oh yeah, they're also extremely talent artists too. I mean, not those bored housewives that call themselves artists, but the REAL DEAL HARD CORE ONES. Looking forward to the new semester, I mean SERIOUSLY.

NEWS: dear friend from Iowa I met in hawaii name called erika dick is moving to Chicagoland, as in Aurora, IL. Suburb town of Chi-town. Still, you don't know how excited I am. (OH YEAH, I AM REALLY EXCITED)

hmm. Photography is going well as usual. You know the same old s**t.
Hopefully I get the job at the School newspaper as a Photo Editor(basically a photographer), instead of being unemployed like I did this past year(sucked hell) Getting the job also means giving up my weekday social life.

Oh and love life? no progress. Not surprising at all. Will try to work on that.

thats for tonight


TO BE CONTINUED...

oh yeah

I forgot to tell you guys that, I finally got my own domain:

ting-shen.com


In the following weeks I'll be getting the official website set up and running soon. For now, I'm just gonna use my tumblr as a temporary site.

a short biography

Bio:

 Ting Shen is a freelance photographer based in Chicago. Born in 1989 to a small family of five in Taiwan, he came to the United States during an early age with his family, this experience established his strong emotional attachment to the American culture. In the mean time growing up in a Taiwanese family with traditional Chinese values gave him a parallel culture understanding and a unique perspective. With influence from American contemporary painter Edward Hopper and photographer Robert Frank, he is fascinated with the beauty of the rural parts of North America, the scene of remnants from the great westward expansion, and the true sprit of the American Dream. Beside his job with the campus newspaper’s photojournalistic work, his personal work focuses on documenting the human interaction with the surrounding natural environments, as well as portraits of the individual personalities. He is currently enrolled at Columbia College Chicago, majoring BFA in Photography.

Had to cut it short around 150 words for a mag submission. How do you guys think?

actually

hmm

I never had any high expectations on a girl or something(yes there are girls I like and the ones I don't)

I wish I can just accidentally fall in love with a girl

and everything will be so smooth and sweet

even there are bumps

but thats the whole thing about being in love

thats not the case as of today for me

never been in a relationship in my life yet

tried, got close, but mostly end up me leaving the girl for events that happen in life(aka go to college here in the states, switch schools, family moving and stuff)

oh well.

we'll see how stuff goes.

like my mom said: "what is meant to be yours in life, will be yours. vice versa"

new year resolutions?

I don’t think this resolution thing that people make after new years really makes sense at all. If you wanna improve, you can do it anytime.

But oh well, since you asked, I’ll answer.

-Hang out less at the Womb (Yup, that’s name of one of my friends apartment).

-Try to make more friends outside of the group(basically all Christians [I’m not]) I have now, branch out.

-Learn to cook better.

-Read more books

-Improve time usage efficiency

-Sleep on a more regular schedule

-Work out more

I think that will be good enough. Let’s see how it goes

long time no see?

I donno. I got lazy I guess.

Now the new years is almost here, I'm pretty sure one of my goals/wishes will not be done when the new year comes.

Hmm. What can I do?
Hoping the best that it will come true this coming new year.

I donno why.
I'm somehow always the sad, the moody one during these holidays

Looking back the past year, sure, I did accomplished quite much. But the thing I'm searching for, it's still missing.

It's still somewhere in the dark I suppose.


I do not know.



We'll see.