NY ♥ NY

Here are the final results of the photo project I’ve been working on with Don. Together we recreated three pictures that were taken of my mom in Thailand, circa 1976. She was 21 – less than a year older than I am now. Um, and she’ll probably yell at me when she sees this because I kind of just revealed her age.

How adorable was she?

Considering how much I love my mother and how often people tell us we look/act alike, this project has long been something I wanted to do. And I’m grateful to Don for taking on all the artistic work (shooting/editing) while my duties consisted of nagging him and trying to look pretty.

My absolute favorite of the three.

Fast forward to 2008 and my mom is still pretty cool. While driving to the mall this past weekend, a car kept beeping at us unnecessarily. Pissed off, I rolled down the window and flipped off the driver in true New Jersey fashion. Okay, so she happened to be another Asian woman who was headed to the same parking lot as us. I got a little nervous but my mom was unfazed as she parked the car and coolly declared in Thai, “Come on, let’s go start a fight.” The whole incident only made me love her more, of course.

Brownie points for whoever can identify the guys in the posters behind me.