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.

same story all over again.

Before I start talking about the main topic today,

lets open up with a small "something else".

So the funny thing these days, when I go into shower, in the middle of everything of cleaning yourself, I tend to get confused with whether I body-washed myself or not. It always happens at the moment when my brain start thinking about a deep thought or other crap while in the shower, my body goes into auto pilot, then when I realize I was lost in my thoughts, I always wonder: did I use my Old-Spice body wash yet? 

Just incase I didn't wash my body before getting out the shower, I always wash it again in those situation.

Yeah.

Kinnda funny.

Not really.

Back to the main topic.

Yeah, story of my life moment again.

Had a crush on a girl.

Finally decided to start/starting to do something with it.

Then the next day, I realize that some other friend in the group just started dating with the girl I have the crush on.

It's either this, or I end up having to leave the place, move and stuff.

And you know I'm not the alpha male type of asshole, I don't compete with friends for girls, and I don't try to be the third wheel.

So...

as you see, this girl I had a crush on for three months, a good friend, now I gotta forget about the feelings and move on. Which I guess will take like least a while.

But the funny thing is, after waking up from a nap, before I was feeling like s**t for a while, most of the negative feelings just gone like "poof!" gone.

And somehow the day ended pretty well hanging out with friends.

Is it cause I'm getting used to this?

It's a super weird day in Chicago that I can tell you.