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(5+5=10) Other Things About Me

Written by on May 6, 2009 – 8:00 pm18 Comments | 1 Read this

And this is the sec­ond and last part of the “about me” pho­to­hunt! Last part of the assign­ment, then I will stop being so self-centered, I promise.

Scar­let has already com­pleted her (5+5): who else wants to participate?

Pens, Lots of Them!

Pens, Lots of Them!

I like draw­ing, I like color and I like art, pho­tog­ra­phy, lit­er­a­ture or painting.

My father is an artist (Philippe Bossard) — it prob­a­bly explains why we, the kids, like to see the world with a dif­fer­ent eye. Eh, after we grew up in the jum­ble of buck­ets of oil paint, acrylic paint, gouache paint, water­color and char­coal crayons…

It took me many years to appre­ci­ate my father’s work, because his draw­ings seemed so abstract to me as a kid (see his paint­ings inspired by the Gen­e­sis, his draw­ings on sub­way tick­etshis exper­i­ments). I think I get it now. I think.

Three of my Scarves

Three of my Scarves

I seem to have a thing for scarves. Maybe it’s the weather… maybe it’s just me.

Some women are into shoes — I’m not. Scarves are usu­ally cheaper, one size fits all, and they are soft, unique and comfy.

These are three of my favorite: the dark red (from Guatemala), the whool one (from Canada) and the stripes one (from Bolivia).

Our World Map

Our World Map

I have always loved trav­el­ing, and I turned it into an almost full-time activ­ity as soon as I fin­ished high school. Work, save money and go — that’s how it works.

So far, I have traveled/ back­packed in China, Hong Kong, Aus­tralia New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A, France, Eng­land, Bel­gium, Italy, Spain, Fin­land, Tunisia, Greece, Mex­ico, Belize, Guatemala, El Sal­vador, Hon­duras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Equa­tor, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil… and hope­fully there is more to come!

Cute (Chinese) Bear In Buenos Aires

Cute (Chi­nese) Bear In Buenos Aires

I like Win­nie the Pooh, Prob­a­bly more than I should con­sid­er­ing I’m 26 years old! I have four lit­tle “Win­nies” and I usu­ally carry one in my back­pack when we go traveling.

Seri­ously guys, don’t laugh, that’s my deep­est secret. My Winnie-dependence.

Tuney's Pasture OC Transpo Station

Tuney’s Pas­ture OC Transpo Station

As every­body knows by now, I don’t drive. Well, tech­ni­cally, I can: I learned, I have a valid license and we have a car. But I was never too com­fort­able dri­ving — who knows why!

So I rely on the bus quite a lot. I wish I could say it’s for envi­ron­men­tal rea­sons, but the truth is, it’s because I’m too fuck­ing scare to drive to the super­mar­ket by myself. Maybe one day…

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  1. Above Ground
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  3. Costa Rica, Pacific Coast
  4. The Tem­ple Of Heaven (天坛)
  5. Beach Bum­ming In Uruguay

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  • I wish I could say my father is an artist! Sadly, he is the oppo­site… not an artis­tic bone in his body. I don’t really know where the three of us get our artis­tic bent, maybe our mother’s side. We were never really encour­aged to pur­sue art, though.

  • Graham says:

    …and there is more. These are so amaz­ing. Your art­work is fab­u­lous. This is where I really get jeal­ous hehehe! as I would love to be able to put my hand to draw­ing, but never could. I rely on the cam­era. You have the amaz­ing tal­ent of being able to do both equally as good. It must be quite ther­a­peu­tic to be able to let your emo­tions flow through the pen­cil onto the paper and come up with the images that you cre­ate. I am truly in awe!!

    There is an expres­sion “Why bark when you have got a dog?”. If pub­lic trans­port is reli­able, why drive? As you are prob­a­bly aware,the pub­lic trans­port in Eng­land has a rep­u­ta­tion of being so very unre­li­able ~ always late and comes to a com­plete stop if we have the “wrong” weather, and in Eng­land we are ALWAYS hav­ing the wrong weather!!! LOL! Zhu, I love your work, I love read­ing about you, I love see­ing your pho­tos and I think you are an AMAZINGLY won­der­ful per­son! A++++ for your “10 things about me” interpretation.

  • Feng says:

    I like draw­ing as well except I such at it.

    We do have some­thing in com­mon and that is I was never very com­fort­able with dri­ving either. Prob­a­bly some­thing to do with rid­ing the bus for half of my bus. Either that or I was chauf­feured all the time in my past life :D

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