Hi Steemians, I'm a Malaysian girl, that grew up in Kota Kinabalu, the largest town in Sabah, Malaysia. Arts have and always be such a big part of my life. I had been dancing and drawing since I was little, I ended up going to an art school to pursue my passions within the arts community. I was raised in a Malaysian Chinese family by open-minded parents. My childhood was happy and carefree.
Time flew by and in 2013, I had officially graduated from high school. I flew all the way from Kota Kinabalu to San Francisco by myself, and I was only 19 years-old. I love the city and left my heart there still. It is so vibrant and full of creative minds. Being able to live in the States, I travel quite often and I began to dream about work-traveling. I want to explore life to the fullest and to experience everything that I never experience before. Being able to share those beautiful moments with you is amazing.
After my further studies and work in the States, I flew back to Malaysia in 2016. And I am finally able to live with someone important I met 7 years ago. And now, I have met some good friends from the States who I am still keeping contact with. It was, in retrospect every single steps and decision I made was worth it. I miss everyone who I met and lived with. Therefore I started to illustrate places I have been to and make them into postcards. San Francisco is a city where my heart belongs.
If you are interested in my artwork, you should definitely check out my Etsy shop - ejlopostcard
Thank you for reading. Would love to meet you all soon!
Welcome and enjoy this great gift to mankind.
Welcome to the great Community cuty...
Your life will be so amazed with this community..
Cheers..
Thank you @djmalith In totally agree with you:)
Welcome to the Steemit family, @ejlo3310.
Great post, and thanks for the sincere share. I trust you will travel more, and along with the experience, comes more insight that in time, will become wisdom.
You strike me as someone curious and insightful, and reminded me of a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt, "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
Steem On!
Thank you:) Definitely will travel more to experience the fullest:D
Ups and downs remind us that challenges are there not to punish us but to test our capacity and abilities so you are lucky and look at you now very independent and pretty. =)
Welcome to steemit!
Aww, that is very nice of you. Thank you very much
welcome elicia, heys by the way, we have the same surname Lo
Awesome story, and welcome! Glad to have a new member in the community. Small world, my family use to live right outside San Francisco, in a town called Blackhawk, but that was back before '93 and the big move to Alabama :) Anyways, I'm sure you will enjoy yourself here. Cheers!
Wow cool! So are you staying in the States now ?
Yes ma'am. Alabama to be exact.
Welcome! Enjoy your time around!
Welcome to steem! I used to live in San Fran for a bit, what a beautiful and crazy city!
Hi Elicia! Nice to meet you. Welcome to steemit! Cant wait to hear more stories from you and your artwork too! :)
Welcome to Steemit!
Great to know you...Can't wait ur artwork to come out...Happy steeming!
Hi @ejlo3310, welcome to steemit and TeamMalaysia :), Your second photo is beautiful, overlooking the city and sea. It's amazing!
Welcome to Steemit, I enjoyed reading your introductory post. Your artwokr is lovely too! Nice to meet you
Welcome @ejlo3310 😁 to SteemIt and Team Malaysia, looking forward to your process of drawing 🖊 the artwork.
Nice view of the city and Happy New Year 😆
By the way, this will come in handy for you.
hi @ejlo3310 ! welcome to steemit :)
Look forward to hear more good stories from you.
Welcome to Steemit. I wish you much success here on the Site. Cheers.
Hiiiiiiii welcome to teammalaysia!
Welcome here to Steemit and TeamMalaysia. Have fun sharing your life and art. :)
Welcome to Steemit! I'm also a fellow U.S. graduate that had a hard time settling back into Malaysia. But that was 2.5 years ago, and I think I'm still more or less settled back into Malaysia?
Coincidentally, I just wrote about my first trip to America as well if you'd like to read about it here.
The teammalaysia community is pretty active. Do take advantage of it! =)
молодец! хороший выбор образования!
Welcome to Steemit elicia! :)
Welcome to Steemit @ejlo3310
Welcome to steemit @ejlo3310 ... Always great to have more creative brains onboard teammalaysia
See u in #steem-cartoon. *wink *wink
Hi @ejlo3310. Welcome to steemit. Nice to meet you. (^^;)v
Welcome to steemit!! Your artworks are so pretty, please post more haha
You made the right decision by joining and all we need to do is to support one another am also new here .steemit big!!!ur highly welcome
Lovely post, you will do great there. I'm am sure. I left he when I was 19 too.. It was the greatest adventure and a huge learning curves in my life. The best decision ever. Continue to share your journey there. It would be educating to all of us here too in Malaysia. Best of luck. Cheerio.
I love your art, Welcome to Steemit!
Keep up the good work!
teammalaysia FTW
Welcome @ejlo3310 !! Can't wait to hear more from you hehe
Welcome to the Steemit and TeamMalaysia family, @ejlo3310
looking forward more artwork from you in the future :D
Congrats on joining and decided to go through this journey with us. I hope you have a beautiful experience. I'm Eve from Sabah and nice to meet you. Cheers! @madeve
Hi @ejlo3310 you’re so talented I love your illlustrations
And welcome to the steemit family :) looking forward to your other posts !
Hey welcome to steemit!
Your artwork is beautiful! :)
Welcome to Steemit! Thank you for sharing your personal journey going to a foreign country. Not easy doing all this alone. Must've been a tough few months for you to adapt. I understand how all this felt. :D