fact: I look sickly without lipstick. another fact: I forget to apply it sometimes.
Category: Newspaper Comics
Join ah-Lin as she juggles her family and life. Commentary on current events of the time are also explored. The comic strip appeared in the Sampan Newspaper, the only bilingual Chinese-English newspaper in New England, until 2020.
The Joys of Parenthood
Seriously. My kid can go 2-3 hours straight playing pretend battle. He will not get tired so I just go along with it and fire […]
tech struggles
The challenges of not just managing your own mountain of logins and passwords but then adding your folks’ logins and passwords on top of all […]
Mooncakes: A Full Circle
The Mid-Autumn Festival, aka August Moon Festival, is coming up on September 17, 2024 and somehow we ended up with a bunch of mooncakes 🥮 […]
The Circle of Mooncake Life
It’s interesting how the traditional foods I used to spurn in my tween / young adult years are now the foods I can’t get enough […]
We are not the same people.
This latest comic for Sampan Newspaper was inspired by a Facebook post. Someone left a comment thanking their friend for sharing vaccine sign up information […]
The vaccine will solve everything…right?
The relief I feel now that I’ve been able to secure one of the very few vaccine spots for my mom and in-laws has now […]
BaBa Chan Gets a Spot on the Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-Out
It was a challenge navigating the MA Covid-19 vaccine sign up process for my dad who was eligible because he falls in the 75+ category […]
SoooOOOooOOoo Many Mooncakes
The other week while on a grocery run for my folks at 99 Ranch Market, I saw the display for mooncakes which was perfect because […]
More Pandemic Lessons
So many lessons being learned during this pandemic. Among them is the fact that all this time we could’ve voted in the comforts of our […]