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Posted at 01:14 AM PST: "Taipei, Tokyo and More"

Wendy, Mom, and Makoto, Tom, and Nina Chino

Tom, Mom, Nina, Wendy

Tom and Nina, looking at Wendy's photos

Dad, with the food

Chaos in the kitchen!

Mom and Cindy

Wendy, with the Yayanoses

Eryn Roston and Heather

The Collingwoods, with Wendy

Mom, with other Taiwanese parents

Sue and Chris Fan, with Wendy's work

Mrs. Collingwood and Mrs. Yayanos

The crowd. Carey's parents are in here, too.

Mrs. Wong and Wendy

My uncle, cousins, and dad

Maya Gurantz, Wendy, Heather, Eryn

cool. Yeah, using the helpful tool of google I found juillard. Interesting school. Searching on google I found like 4 other people w/ the name of maritha. And I thought I was the only maritha in the world. Yeah, how many times have we replied?

posted by maritha @ 12/12/2002 02:12 pm PST

Juilliard: http://juilliard.edu/

It's a music school in New York. It's the only one most non-musicians have heard of. :)

Yeah. I was surprised when I saw him, too. He was clean and proper, before.

Hey! This is like e-mail correspondence... only... it's public. :)

posted by echeng @ 12/11/2002 10:36 pm PST

For some reason, I can't quite picture him scruffy and if I did, I don't think I'd recognize him. What/where is juillard?

posted by maritha @ 12/11/2002 08:20 pm PST

I saw Fernando a few years ago at Juilliard. He was sitting on a railing in front of the building, smoking, and was quite a bit more scruffy than he was during high school. :)

posted by echeng @ 12/11/2002 04:32 pm PST

haha, her impression of me makes me smile and laugh as I remember that I was a pretty rebellious little kid. I wonder what made me so rebellious. I am glad that I have since learned how to be more respectful of my elders.
I remember Wendy as the best piano player that Mrs. Antin had alongside Fernando. I wonder what other impressions people got of me when I was little.

posted by Maritha @ 12/11/2002 03:58 pm PST

Hi, Maritha - Wendy remembers you and your mom, but I don't, for some reason. You must have been really young then!

Wendy says that she remembers that you gave off the impression of being "rebellious." Both your memories seem to be better than mine...

posted by echeng @ 12/10/2002 11:29 pm PST

Me and my sister used to both take lessons from her also. You probably may not remember me though. What got my curiosity was going to see your sister's slide show on that one site. When I saw it on the site, I saw her picture, and instantaneously she looked like the exact same picture that I have in my photo album from one of the five piano concerts. I just had to make sure it was the same person. Just from reading bits and pieces of your site, it's so great to hear that both you and your sister have been so successful over the past five to ten years. Your interesting personalities are an encouragement to me as I'm still going through highschool. There are not many people that I know that are so..."well-rounded" as they say it.

posted by maritha @ 12/10/2002 02:47 pm PST

maritha - in fact, both my sister and I took piano lessons from Mrs. Antin. she was just telling me that she completely forgot to invite her to the opening. we have not seen her for many years.

posted by echeng @ 12/10/2002 12:32 am PST

Did your sister ever happen to take piano lessons from a certain Mrs. Antin?

posted by maritha @ 12/09/2002 03:17 pm PST

i'm hoping to get a website up soon...in the meantime you can access a small slide show of pictures of taiwan here:

http://www.berkeley.edu/lange/2002/cheng.html

thanks for the comments.

posted by wendy @ 12/03/2002 11:45 pm PST

It was great catching up with the Chengs!

Agreed: awsome to see Wendy's work up in a gallery space like that.

posted by eryn @ 12/03/2002 11:14 am PST

site is in progress. :) i don't think anyone knows when it will be ready...

posted by echeng @ 12/03/2002 09:59 am PST

does wendy have a site? and has she or is she planning to post any of her images?

i like her description of the "vernacular landscape". photography can be at once inspiring (at catching moments of beauty and details that we might not notice/remember), and at the same time depressing (by bringing us to a consciousness of what we try to remain ignorant).

posted by paul @ 12/03/2002 02:39 am PST