Here’s my long overdue post about my Taiwan bike trip from last year, truncated at the point where Wordpress for Android crashed. Last November, Chris and I biked up the East Coast of Taiwan, from Taitung to Hualien. We had originally planned to bike from Hualien to Taitung (north to…

How a silly dance I learnt in high school took on a life of its own in rural Yunnan — by Jessica Chong One of the best things about my all-girls school was our PE class. We got to do all sorts of girlie things that wouldn’t fly at a…

Happy Birthday (nine days ago) to me and Justina, creator of the Underwear Tiger and Peggy Pointer! I drew this for Justina on our 二十七th birthday. Justina created the characters but I put them all in a birthday party. I’m in blue, cutting the cake. Justina’s in green, swinging at the piñata. Jennifer is in the yellow pinning the underwear on the tiger. Originally published at blog.jessicachong.com on March 15, 2013.

OK. My new favorite thing is playing this song and watching Reilly run into the room.

This is my favorite Mario game of all time! I was playing this overworld theme song on the piano, but had trouble playing the stride bass line (left hand in octave for whole song) so I decided to switch to my trusty ukulele and practice rhyming. …

My friend Ada is — can you tell from her Halloween costumes? — an art teacher. Here is a showcase of her Hallowinning outfits! Smeary sock monkey! I came home that night with streaks of red facepaint/lipstick all over me… Bjork.

I earn (some of) my keep making websites. A lot of people ask me why/how I know how to do front-end development and design and all that when I studied geography in college. I was 13 years old in 1999, and all I wanted to do was read, write, and…