Archive for May, 2009
WildKatana Design Blog has Moved!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Hello all, since I have a new web-site for my portfolio and business, WildKatana Design, I have also moved my WildKatana Design Blog over to the other site. This is just a note, saying you need to go there to see more great tutorials and posts! Go to the new WildKatana Design Blog!
Portfolio Progress
Sunday, May 17th, 2009Another week has come and gone, and here I am again typing for my blog. For those of you who have been following along, I have been working on my portfolio recently. I need a good portfolio since I am often getting new clients, and it would be nice to show them my work showcased on a nice website. So I’ve been working on www.wildkatana.com for the past couple of weeks, and now it is really shaping up. It is built on the Drupal platform, and it lets me post portfolio projects, testimonials, and anything else I want. I heavily customized the system of course. I still have a lot more things to do with it, namely making a blog there for my business (and moving the posts from here to there) and a few other things as well. Go check it out if you want to see what it’s like: WildKatana Design.
Sharon started her Photography Class this week at Dixie College, it is a part of the Community Education Program. She is WAY excited because in her heart Sharon is a student. She would go to school her whole life if she could. Sharon and I also did some fun things this week, like on Friday we went up to Provo with my mom to watch my brother Kendall play Tennis for State, and she wanted to meet up with an old friend, Vicki. Tyler came to watch Kendall play too, so it was good to see him again. Afterwards he gave us the grand tour of his apartment and his new (to him) ‘85 BMW. We went to see a movie (Taken) later with my mom at the $2 Theater. We also had a nice meal at Panda Express.
Sharon and I also went out Saturday. We went to eat at IHOP (I LOVED IT) and then went to play Miniature Golf at the Laser Tag place. It was cool because it was all in a black-light room, and it had lots of cool art work and fun things. We also got to see a Classic Cars show and then went to a movie (Watchmen, it was so bad we left half-way – seriously no plot and bad language and violence, if you haven’t yet seen it: don’t).
I had to give a lesson in Elders Quorum this morning, and it went pretty well. It was about ‘The Power of Forgiving’. Many people had good comments so it went by very smoothly and I was only able to get half of it done. It reminded me of when I used to give trainings to Missionaries on my mission.
Well, I suppose that’s all for this week. I’ve been working hard and things are getting caught up with my work, which is a big relief. I also have been working on the Adjustment of Status forms with Sharon, and we are getting close to being ready to send them in. Hopefully Tuesday or Wednesday. It will be a huge relief once we get those in as well. This summer we are planning on doing fun things with my friends, Paul, Nikki, Chris, Ben and June. Fun days are comin’! And Sharon is going to Hawaii in June to visit her friends there before they graduate.
We still haven’t sent any Thank-You cards, which is really sad because Sharon does have a lot of time during the day >.> I’m looking at you now Sharon with a strange look on my face, you’ll know why later when you read this! I am probably spelling things wrong because I’m not even looking at my keybiard or screen.
Random Pictures for this week:
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| Sharon and I at Weeping Rock |
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| Is she really that sad to marry me? Haha. I love u babe~ |
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| Paul got his Associate’s Degree! Congratulations! |
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| Sharon is a natural! |
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| I love nature!! |
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| Fun in the Park |
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| Go Fish is an intense game |
That’s enough for this week, to see more cool pics of the Picnic and hike and other stuff, be sure to check out Sharon’s Blog, it is always much better than mine^^ Until next time~
Magic and Munchkins
Sunday, May 10th, 2009Well, this week has been nice, since I was able to get caught up with all of my clients except one now, so I’m not so stressed out from work, and also because I got to go over to Paul’s house twice, once on Wednesday to play Age of Empires 2 (Sharon actually liked it!) and then again on Friday night to play Magic: The Gathering and Munchkins with some of my friends who I haven’t seen in a while. Joe Wasden, Justin Williamson and his girlfriend, Chris Lambert, and Ben Wilsterman all came to Paul’s and we had a lot of fun. I ended up winning both games, though the first one was a team game so 3 of us won that one. It reminded me of old times, and I wish we could do it more often. Now that summer is here we are going to try to do things every week with as many people who can come. Sharon is being a good sport even though she is often times bored (and my friends are usually too preoccupied with cards to be polite and talk to her haha). I made it up to her on Saturday when we went to the St. George park by the Library to have a nice picnik together. Sharon made some delicious sandwiches and devilled eggs and we also had yougurt and strawberries. It was an excellent lunch. Some cute kids came and made friends with us, we shared our lunch and bubbles with them and they shared their laughter and smiles with us, both parties profiting thereby. Sharon had a lovely little bird leave a lovely little doodoo on her head, so I guess she was really lucky that day. After playing in the water there at the park and taking lots of pictures, we went over to the Red Cliffs Mall to do some shopping. Sharon was really mad at me for not taking her there sooner (I thought I had), because there are some stores there she really liked but she didn’t know they were there til yesterday. We bought some shirts at Hollister and some more shirts at American Eagle. It was a lot of fun and we came home feeling tired but happy.
Sharon made some Bak Kut Teh for dinner while I weed-eated the lawn. The Bak Kut Teh was really tasty and smelled delicious. We also went over to my Grandma’s house to take some pics and ended up getting a tour of the property and a nice wedding gift from Grandma and Grandpa.
Today was Mother’s Day and we had a really nice program during Sacrament Meeting. Sharon and I got up early (for us) at 7:40 and made my mom breakfast in bed, following a family tradition. We also sang ‘Mother I Love You’ (well, I sang it solo since Sharon didn’t know the words). Kendall was at Mission Prep (crazy they even have it on Mother’s Day). Now we are all back home and getting ready for dinner with all of the extended family over at our house to celebrate Mother’s Day.
In other news, I’ve been working on my business website, which will serve as a place for me to showcase my work and give information about my business. It is http://www.wildkatana.com. It is not finished yet, but you can check it out anyways if you are curious. I am also looking into getting a Business License and registering my business officially, so I can start cashing my checks which are made out to my Business name (WildKatana Design) rather than my name (already a few people have done this ><). I’ll report on that next week.
Sharon and I are also working on getting the Adjustment of Status forms ready to send in (like 6 forms with multiple pages each, plus lots of other supporting documentation and photocopies of records, etc). It is a complicated process, and costs $1010! Anyways, we will be happy when it is all settled.
I’m Married!
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009Well, it’s been a long time since I updated this, so let me apologize first. I married Sharon Ting Ee Wen on the 15th of April, 2009 in the Bountiful, Utah Temple. It was the happiest day of my life. It snowed after we came out of the temple, so it was amazing and gorgeous. Sharon actually said she wanted to get married in the snow, so she got her wish! I had lots of my family and extended family come, and many of Sharon’s friends came as well as her mom and her sister, Ivy, and her friends Doreen and Vicky. It was all really nice.
That Saturday we had a reception at the Lichfield Pond. It was really windy but that didn’t stop us from having a killer time. We rode the bumper boats, had a slideshow and danced to some of our favorite songs played by the DJ. It was a really beautiful setting, and we had a lot of fun there, and some good food. Oh yeah, for pics of all of these happenings, please see Sharon’s New Blog which she has put a lot of work into the designing of. She has been really diligent and good about posting tons of pictures and commentaries, so I would definitely recommend checking it out. Ee Wen is her Chinese name, so her new website is www.eewenstales.com .
Thanks to all who have sent gifts, we are still trying to get to sending the Thank-You notes, but they will come, I promise!
Since the wedding, I’ve been pretty busy trying to catch up with my work (since I was gone for the better part of a month, the work just piled up!). Things are going well, I went rock-climbing with Paul, Nikki, Chris and Ben, so that was a blast. I’ll re-commit to writing on this blog at least every Sunday again now that things have quieted down a bit. I love you all!