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Lili Chin she/her
@lilichin.bsky.social
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animal illustrator and author DOGS OF THE WORLD (new!), award-winning DOGGIE LANGUAGE & KITTY LANGUAGE, small biz gift shop, board gamer, cat mom, learning mandarin, swimmer, SGV 🇲🇾 🇦🇺 🇺🇲 🍉
shop: Doggiedrawings.net/collections
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Do you live in LA? The San Gabriel Valley? Near Monterey Park? A data center has been proposed in our neighborhood, this is literally 5 mins away. Please share!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MPK Data Center Handout (English, Chinese, Spanish)
What is being proposed? An Australian investment company wants to build a 218,400 sq ft data center with its own substation at 1977 Saturn Street (15.8 acres). The project includes: Demolishing existi...
docs.google.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPAALLL!!!!
Magic Number Eleven is a very interesting 2P soccer game. I was very lucky and won 5-1 against @nathanrlong.bsky.social
Green and yellow checkered game board simulating a soccer field, with cards of soccer player positions.
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Yes!! I second this recommendation. Some of the most useful languages to know that are desperately needed worldwide. 🐕🐈‍⬛🐾
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December is National Learn a Foreign Language Month and I'd like to recommend these 2 books. :)
🐶 doggielanguagebook.com
🐱 kittylanguagebook.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
Where do you even start.
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
Naturally there were lots of law enforcement types hanging around the convention — men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the Bible and the Constitution and eagles and flags ...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
lilichin.bsky.social
December is National Learn a Foreign Language Month and I'd like to recommend these 2 books. :)
🐶 doggielanguagebook.com
🐱 kittylanguagebook.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I am so not good at parking. And I am not great at polyomino games in general even if I enjoy them a lot!
#overparked with @nathanrlong.bsky.social
Cardboard pieces showing different colored vehicles, arranged on a grid. Player board with an arrangement od different colored cars and traffic cones.
December 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Spooning cats.
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#ShimmyToebeans on my lap.
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Yay! DOGS OF THE WORLD is on this list!
www.forbes.com/sites/jenree...
5 New Books For Dog Lovers
From beautifully illustrated nonfiction to stirring memoirs and fiction, there’s something special on this list of 2025 books for any type of dog lover.
www.forbes.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The cramped space and minimal leg room in economy class is simply brutal. Especially when the dude in front of you leans their seat all the way back on a 12 hour flight. Here are pics from our layover at HK airport. Happy to be home at last after a very long day from Singapore >> LAX!
Only in Asia, lol. A blue sign at HK airport that points to Hot Drinking Water. Sad that there was no massage at Hk airport. The closest thing I could find was this device in the gift shop. Dinner of chicken and Charsiu on rice. At a Scandinavian lifestyle store in HK (there were many gnome decorations and herbaceous calming products)
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Last day in Singapore: my stomach and feet hate me! 😅 It has been fun and I am ready to eat *normal* amounts of food again and be with our cats. We fly home to LA tomorrow.
Breakfast of sardine puff, fried sweet potato and banana, green bean sesame ball, kopi c kosong National Orchid Garden - where my aunt used to work Orchids orchids orchids Successfully fitting board games and food items into our suitcases (Games: Overparked, 108 Outlaws, magic Number Eleven etc)
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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@lilichin.bsky.social and I went to the Museum of Asian Civilization in Singapore today, where they had a special exhibit called The Art of Asian Games, and found the world's coolest object. Someone needs to write a series about the samurai who had this made.
Here is the museum's description of the object: Tsuba (sword guard) in the form of a go board. Japan, Edo period, 18th century. Bronze, copper, silver. Seigyoko-an Collection.
November 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The Art of Asian Games exhibit at the Museum of Asian Civilizations #Singapore is pretty cool. The whole museum is spectacular.
From a display of books from the 1700s on solving Go problems. Taking photos of incredible looking chess pieces from different cultures and time periods. These are chess figures of Chinese zodiac animals. Sir John Company chess pieces from 18th century India! Indian rulers vs British East India army. One thing I learned today is that Mahjong is not ancient! It started only in the 1800s in South China, and was developed from a card game.
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Asian board games festival by day, mahjong by night. My aunty who said she hadn't played mahjong in 20 years won almost every game! 😅 With @nathanrlong.bsky.social
#Singapore
Mahjong
November 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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A few of the games we played at the Asianboardgamesfestival.com today! With @nathanrlong.bsky.social

I am now wondering if everything will fit in our suitcase/if we need to buy another suitcase. #singapore
Durian Smuggler (co-op or competitive). From Indonesia. Magic Number Eleven. A really cool 2P soccer game from Korea. A 2P tic tac toe-ish game from Taiwan. 108 Outlaws by Darryl Chow, Origame (Singapore)
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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My favorite: Nyonya/Peranakan food, which sadly we cannot get in the US. Today's lunch at Bibik Violet was so good. #singapore
I can't remember what everything was called.... there was buah keluak, achar, fried chicken, Satay, Assam prawn curry... Nyonya kueh (dessert)
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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nathanrlong.bsky.social
Celebrated Thanksgiving after getting off the plane in Singapore at 10pm with chili oil chicken, dumplings, morning glory with shrimp paste, shrimp, and forgetting it was Thanksgiving until we got in bed and looked at the internet.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Today was @nathanrlong.bsky.social and my last full day in Taiwan! We went to Jiufen, a beautiful mountain town, & saw the famous Shifen waterfall. We also caught sight of several free-living Formosan Mountain Dogs (Taiwan village dogs)up in the mountains, which was a treat! 🐕⛰️
In front of one of 2 suspension bridges on the trail to Shifen Waterfall. A fermented red rice vegan meatball - Jiufen specialty. It is like a giant glutinous dumpling. Walking up to the Ai-Mei teahouse in Jiufen - very "Spirited Away" vibes with pricey teas for tourists. So picturesque, so many narrow stairways, and amazing mountaintop views. We go to Jiufen early before loads of tourists arrived.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Met my Taiwan publisher today (Oak Tree), did an interview with a pet magazine about my books, went to Nanjichang nightmarket, then Tonghua street for dessert! #Taipei

🐕 DOGS OF THE WORLD will be published in trad chinese in 2026!
Nanjichang night market 5pm No we didnt get any cat paw things. 😸 Traditional Taiwanese dessert Tonghua night market
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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SO MUCH CUTE. I really loved the gift stores in Huashan Creative Park! #taipei
Blind box figurine of a orange cat sitting on top a person scooping poop. Felt turtle boba holder. Next to a felt capybara. Wooderful is a shop full of wooden toys, figurines and miniatures. Cute AF! Paper cut art and figurine - Cascade store.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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So many cute/cool books and comics!!!! (Eslite bookstore) #taipei
Chinese picture book with a little girl and her dog Butt detective comics in chinese Illustrated book with cats This looks like Shigeru Mizuki! Mysterious cases in the Showa era.
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I feel like I've gained 10lbs in the past two days. I need to save my stomach for Singapore. #taipei
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Taipei day 2: Zhongshan underground Eslite bookstore, massage, Taipei fish market sushi lunch, shaved ice, tea shop, board game cafe, Raohe night market. Our friend Bernie had so much energy. My legs hate me. I need another massage.
Pet section of Eslite bookstore in Zhongshan. They have Doggie Language and Kitty Language! Phenomenal set course: handroll, Nigiri, oysters, grilled fish, soup, at Taipei Fish Market. Matcha shaved ice with red bean. Raohe night market: Taiwanese hamburger
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Day 1 Taipei.
With @nathanrlong.bsky.social
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Taiwanese breakfast in ximending. Amazing salty soy milk with youtiao. Omelette thingy, fantuan with lots of pork floss, cold milk tea. All of this came to around 5 USD!!!! The national Palace Museum was full of amazing Chinese artifacts and paintings from ancient times. Unfortunately it was hard to see everything clearly because at least 20 tour groups arrived at the same time we did. Ottomi Gelato in Da'An district. I had to try the smoked salmon just because. We ended up getting the Mascarpone Longan and Caramel Macadamia which were good but we were so full already... We waited in line for ages, and the line kept growing. Yongkang Beef Noodles are Michelin starred, and well worth the wait. The broth with the pickled veg 👌🏽 Funniest thing is that the people waiting in front of us were from LA too! And there were some kids taking photos of their noodles with fan images of BTS, lol. That good.
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM