Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

I was traveling by train from Hualien in Taiwan in the late afternoon on my way back to Taipei in 2007. Fortunately, I was able to make a few photographs like the one below before the light out the window quickly disappeared making it pointless to try to capture anything while in a fast moving [...]

Do you remember when they met? When did we have brunch together that day when we met? Was it 2007… or maybe it was 2006? I know! Check our old email messages! There must’ve been an email about it. There we stood at the wine store, pacing back and forth poking at our iPhones trying [...]

There are many people who cross our paths in our lives. And sometimes we get to cross paths once. Twice, if we’re lucky. Some people call it serendipity. Others call it fate. Larry and Tim rode the same San Francisco Muni bus to work in the mornings and although they saw each other on the [...]

Let me explain. It’s because of computers… I had gone through two computers by the time I graduated from high school. My first one didn’t have a hard drive and my second one did, but was accessorized with an external modem sometime later. By the time I started college, I was on my third computer, [...]

Ma, isn’t there a temple near here? I said to my mom (in Cantonese) as we were walking around District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam last year. I was thinking of the temple we had visited the last time we were in Vietnam… the temple where my grandfather’s ashes had been laid to [...]

I’ve always passed by it and wondered what it was like on the inside. The exterior always kind of gave an impression that it was an oldie. So one night last year, while looking for some place to eat for dinner, I had a chance to finally try it. The brown interior did look oldish, [...]

I was in elementary school and we were going on a field trip! Field trips were always exciting to me because it meant we were going to go out and do something instead of stay inside the classroom. Our teacher passed out a piece of paper and I had a pencil and then we were [...]

It will be yummy and a place I suspect no one has been……..curious? That’s what the email said last August. Back in 2004, some of my friends and I used to get together randomly and spend time with each other whenever we were free. Simply spontaneous and unplanned. Hours would turn into whole day affairs. [...]