New Year’s Day

玉龍献瑞, 萬事如意!!! Jade Dragon brings Good Luck, Good Health and Prosperity!

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon

洪福齊天,龍翔萬里!

May you have Eternal Blessing and be like the Dragon that ascends in strides of Ten Thousand Miles!

Happy 2012! A new beginning … …

This is my first Blog. With everything there is a first. I want to write about things that I am passionate about, things that inspire me, things that interest and intrigue me. As you read my Blog I hope you will share my passion and get a taste of my visions and experience. And whether you agree or disagree with me, please give me your honest feedback and constructive criticism.

First and foremost I am an artist. I experiment with different media in art. I am not too afraid to take risks, even if I hit walls from time to time, or fall flat on my face. My ability to get back on my feet after falling is my strength; my adherence to my principles at times give others the impression that I am stubborn, it could be my weakness, or strength, depending on the perspective. It is evident that I am the big critic of myself, and I do have a big ego. I am a dreamer, an explorer, and a survivor.

So far this post looks a bit over serious. Maybe this is not the sort of material I want to publish. So perhaps this is a good time to tell my readers that I like having fun. The topics for my Blog will be honest, truthful, and  fun. I can laugh at myself. I do tend to get serious about things that are important to me.  How do I have fun? Ummm … I like music, love going to movies, worship artists and creative people. I love dancing and free movement; freedom is the essence – free to live, free to create, to express oneself – though I remind myself that freedom should not be taken for granted.

I believe in learning. One of my fear is that I am not a ‘good enough’ writer. I loved writing when I was a child. When my first grade teacher gave me a word and asked me to compose one sentence I usually ended up with three to four lines, which became more like a short paragraph. When I was six or seven years old I told my dad that I felt uncomfortable if I did not get to speak my mind. Now often I worry that I do not have anything to say. So I suppose Blogging will be a good practice for me. I want to develop the habit of organizing my thoughts too, not just speak at random, which I seem to be doing now.

Something interesting to tell about myself, before I lose interest of my readers – I have always aspired to become an artist: I love drawing, painting, getting creative, I have an inexhaustible imagination.  I am a children’s book author, I had my first storybook published four years ago, now working on my second book and hope that I will complete the project this year. I am a designer, first started designing clothing in the 80s, then moved on to become a fashion buyer, I traveled the world to buy clothing for prestigious specialty stores. By the late 90s I traveled extensively in so much that I got burned-out, left my hometown in Hong Kong and relocated to the United States.

Taking a break in my life had given me the opportunity to rethink my life, and recuperate my life force. I spent twenty months living in Honolulu before I moved to California. There have been many new challenges since I started making a new home for myself in the Bay Area. I’d discovered a new objective: to make a living doing something that I love, and love doing the thing that I do to make a living. A new chapter in my life begins…

There will be quite a number of chapters before I get to: How I become the creator of the Precious Pollabies. Who are the Precious Pollabies and what do they represent… See you on my next Blog!

Pauline Po