General Statement

Sophiee’s Space records and presents my life with texts and images.

The contents are somewhat personal and private, and prepared for the audience I consider the most intimate public to me, i.e. my family and friends, scattered around the world with the majority in China.

The purpose of the blog is to efficiently inform my circle of family and friends about how I am doing and thinking, especially after moving to Hawaii and being a full-time housewife.

The purpose behind that is to have a lifelong contact with all my friends. Time slips away and we grow old. I want to share some of my best, worst or average moments in life with those who care and whom I care.

Strangers are not welcome to the space. Please keep the blog to yourself. Without my written authorization, please don’t invite any third party to visit this website.

The update frequency is flexible. I recommend once in a month, you jump in and see what happened. Any urgent issue will be brought to you by email or phone. J

The copyright is fully reserved to Sophiee (Sun, Xing). Again, without my written authorization, no one is allowed to copy or disseminate the contents of the website.

Photo Album

The photos, image-format contents, are all taken at Oahu, Hawaii and mostly around Manoa Valley, where I live. I promise to bring photos of other places on the planet into your vision. But so far, that’s the best I can do. After all, Hawaii is actually a good selling point, uh?

I group them into the following:

-         Garden: The details around a residence that impressed me. Life is about detail, right? Garden is an essential part of a house and a home here. What I see and show on the photos demonstrates how people living in Hawaii cherish their life.

-         My Moments: Pictures taken and self-taken (by turning the camera toward myself, resulting in distorted faces sometimes, but fun to do so) for all family and friends to see ME. You may comment and ask about a particular photo.

-         Ocean: You can find different expressions of the ocean, like wave, sunlight and color. Ocean is mysterious, forever changing, and charming. It depends on my time spent on the seashore. So it’s likely the volume will grow.

-         Creatures: Hawaii has no snake. For other species, I am discovering. If lucky enough to catch the moment of a bird or a gecko, I will surely bring it here. There are plenty of roaches at my house. You have no desire to see that.

-         Residence: That’s the best part of all pictures, I think.  I am never tired to glance, stare and daydream in front of the same houses. Real estate is the third largest industry of Hawaii. Many gurus choose to live here. Got to be pretty houses.

-         Flower: My father would love this part. He tried to cultivate roses at our cold Northeast home. At Hawaii, lots of delicate indoor flowers grow in garden, like jasmine, “turtle back” and “tiny bamboo”. Hawaii is a wonderland of flowers.

-         Haiku: Simple. Just illustration photos for my haikus. It may not be adorable for the eye, but a visual tool to show what I am trying to poetize.

-         People: It’s the soul of Hawaii photo gallery. People are what make a place unique. You will find the manner, air and temperament on the faces and dresses of the people. But I cannot guarantee they are local instead of tourist.  

-         Landscape: Hawaii is not all about ocean, sunshine and palm trees.  It has volcanoes and rainforest, not to mention many mountains and valleys. I cannot determine I am ultimately a mountain or ocean lover. But I love them both.

Take your time. Click through. Give me feedback (by clicking on the comment and typing your honest opinion).

2006 Resolution

The five listed, writing, speaking, fitness, guzheng and accounting, are the identified areas I want to improve in 2006. As humans are naturally lazy and resistant to progress, I publicize my New Year Wishes to discipline myself and realize most of them. I will write a summary report on the five targets by the end of 2006, my own annual report. J

Blog

That’s what it is, the text format content of this website, where you can find the latest news from me, whether it’s a transitory thinking, an anecdote, jokes I laugh, books I read, movies I watch, or short poems I scribble.

Glimpse through. If you laugh, sigh, frown at anything, do let me know. It will make me feel so good about sharing.

Categories

As stuff pile up, the website has an automatic way of organizing them into categories of the entries. Actually, I define and decide how to categorize them. Here they are:

-         Murmur: My life. What happened (to me) and how I feel about it. It’s the most private part of this blog. But I will make sure it does not become a diary, where all my darkest thoughts so blatantly kept. Only I have access to my diary.

-         Chatter: Book review. What I read and how I think about it. It comes from chapters of a book. Since it is a luxury to read through any good piece, the entries in the category will be lowest, unless I regard magazine and newspaper as book. Generally, it’s about how I think about other’s life or the world event.

-         Fumble: Film review. What I watched and how I think about it. As a movie is more easily consumed, I think it will be bigger than Chatter. I pick up weird names of murmur, chatter and fumble to relieve myself of any pressure to write good stuff. Just think it as crap from me and I can write peacefully.

-         Hawaii: Hawaiian facets. What I see and how I feel about it. As this is my first long-term sojourn in a foreign country, naturally those catching my eyes are different from China.

-         Haiku: Short poems. This is partly for one of my 2006 Resolution, writing. I need to practice handling of words and images. Incapable of a sonnet or any poem longer than three lines, I am undaunted to try this one.

-         家书：Chinese Contents.(中文内容)全是说给故乡的亲人朋友听的，或者不希望这里的洋人了解的，比如我如果说基督教是胡扯又去吃人家的免费餐就很不厚道。

-     People: Achiever Review. I am always interested in studying people, where they come from, how they grow up, what they achieve, when they shine, and why they are who they are. 

Archives

Easy. If you want to read the old entries, click through. But since the blog is only two month old, you don’t have much to click around.

Profile

Surely, you know much more than that about me. You can skip that part. This is just a label of my rights for the space.