PouchTalk is a fun, silly blog where Joyce + Wayne can document their journey.
PouchTalk is a fun, silly blog where Joyce + Wayne can document their journey.
You know what powers the Bay Area economy? Asian grandparents and their incorrect opinions. Enjoy the last episode of 2020, plus bonus baby.
We’re Pouching in Place this season, so join us for three episodes while we discuss forever friends, formative children’s cartoons and whether we should reveal another collection or another baby.
What do Mulan, Maleficent and Wayne have in common? They’re all lightly CGI’ed Disney properties coming to LYFE this 2019/2020. As the parents-to-be of a monochromatic baby 👶, we discuss our heritage and why Joyce won’t be washing her hair for a month after 🐷 🥟 pops out of the steamer.
It’s been a minute. As we prepare to turn a combined 64 years old, we thought we’d start this post-Millennial chapter with some reflection and dim sum. 🐷 🥟
Walk those feelings down the aisle, because we’re going to talk about maximizing your wedding enjoyment. How to make memories that last a lifetime (or the duration of an evening).
The downside of turning 30? Creakier knees, weaker metabolism and a diminishing sense of possibility. The upside? NEXT. LEVEL. DINNER PARTIES (pass the social climbing, please).
The last year has been eventful for us; we got married, found new jobs, moved across the country and bid farewell to our 20’s. Some aspects of our lives didn’t make the transition from New York to California, from flirty-in-the-city to smug-in-the-suburbs. Exhibit A: our metabolism, sense of spontaneity and ability to stay up late. These have been lovingly placed on a longship and pushed out to sea.
Nearly two months have passed since our public, unofficiated community-theater wedding at Villa Montalvo, and we can comfortably say that May 7, 2016 was the best day of our conjoined lives. Never again will we look as taut, youthful, and radiant, as surrounded by equally taut, youthful, and radiant individuals.
We can’t choose whom we love, and on Asian soil, we can’t choose how we marry. Enter the Taiwanese wedding; it’s the penumbral, family-driven yin to the American wedding’s phosphorescent, individuality-driven yang. Curious about the difference between the two types of celebrations? Watch our informative video here. After the last batch of koalas and cake from our Villa Montalvo reception were loaded into Wayne’s parents’ car, we hopped on a plane to Taiwan for the Asian component of our nuptials. Here are five keys for surviving the trans-Pacific culture shock:
One of the reasons we chose Villa Montalvo for our wedding venue was tasteful versatility of the location; as dinner winds down and the first strains of sweet synth pop start wafting in the air, there’s a space just for you, whether it’s the lounge for taking tea or the library for cuddling with Pouch-approved, non-feral babies or the solarium for hiding behind the wedding cake (don’t hide inside the cake, though). We do hope you’ll join us on the dance floor, though, and to that end, we have assembled a brief tutorial on the mating dances of The Pouching.
As we may have been bellowing from the eucalyptus treetops, Wayne is making Joyce’s ceremony gown for the wedding, like actually making, from designing to sketching to purchasing fabrics and notions to patterning to cutting to fitting to sewing to calling his mother for tips to sewing to zipper inserting to specifically hand-stitching to hemming, all over the course of a fiscal quarter. To prepare for this silky tofu undertaking, Wayne has been creating dresses for Joyce over the course of their engagement. Hence, the endeavor #waynedressesjoyce.
Like plucking freshly steamed dim sum from a rolling cart, we enjoy picking various Western and Eastern traditions to incorporate in our wedding. In this video, we explain just how Asian the wedding will be, on a scale of “spring rolls” to “braised chicken feet in black bean sauce.”
You’ve received your invitation, deeply assessed your relationship with one or both of us, mentally cleared your social calendar and maybe started contemplating which outfit to wear, or which date to bring or snacks to stash in your purse. But if you live significantly far from the Bay Area, there is the additional consideration of cross-country transportation and lodging. And for that, we love you more than our other guests (shhhhhhh).
Weddings are the best places to bring a date, platonic or otherwise! The venue and food have already been secured, the air is awash with bliss (or drama), and you’re pretty much guaranteed to slay it on the dance floor, because at that portion of the night everyone has embraced their feelings and their native fierceness, much like an Asian girl at a Calvin Harris concert in Vegas (seriously, was there some sort of migration during Halloween?).
On Saturday, October 3, 2015, the League of Extraordinary Friends of the Pouch, NYC Chapter (with members from DC and Chicago branches) converged upon a lovely home in Chelsea for our engagement party. These are their stories.
This is the friendship episode! We’re here to talk about making friends, making babies with your friends and making oat milk with friends of the rainforest.
After three episodes in a row, we’re taking a break to have this baby. Depending on how cute 🐷 🥟 turns out, we might come back this winter ❄️. Until then, we discuss marketing tactics of naming our latest joint venture. Plus, since we all love a good reveal, we got 3 of them for you! Can you guess them all?
Surprise! We may be expecting parents now, but we’re the same ridiculous marsupials you mildly tolerated in the first place. Stay tuned for three episodes, full of hints and a reveal—just like Black Mirror, but for yappies. #nosedive
Is this the end? Yes, it is. We thought we’d close out the season with a good family story and an Extra reveal.
We are terrible Millennials who don’t travel enough for leisure, but we do know a thing or two about business trips.🐨 💼 ✈ Step 1: keep a small suitcase, packed with toiletries and underwear, ready to go at all times. Step 2: evaluate your marriage.
Watch Wayne transform into a wine mom (because that suburban craft corner isn’t going to decorate itself). New coast, new apartment, new tax bracket, new season… with a surprise announcement at the end!
Hello, friends and family! Nearly a month ago, you celebrated our wedding day with us, from blowing bubbles at our ceremony to socializing like adults on the veranda to chugging your last beer whilst being dragged off the dance floor because Saratoga is a respectable city with respectable noise ordinances (or falling asleep on the couch in the library — hi, Sandy!). We’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by your support and kind wishes, so we’re going to pull your butt both cheeks down for a vacation slideshow, since we will literally never look this good again.
Joyce isn’t one of those Girls Who Isn’t One Of Those Girls. But she does get hives inside jewelry stores (and bridal salons), so every piece of jewelry she owns has been lovingly sourced and purchased by someone else, usually Wayne. Also, every piece of pouch jewelry she owns comes with a sentimental story. These are their stories (chung chung).
With the wedding date a mere three months away, we wanted to take the opportunity to thank you guys who have been following our silly website from the beginning, giving us feedback on our videos and advice on wedding vendors. To paraphrase our new favorite Ellie Goulding song, when we’re with you, we’re standing with an army. And if we could bring you all on our honeymoon, we would (note from Wayne: actually, we wouldn’t, because that’s kind of creepy).
There are lots of things that we encourage at The Pouching — feeling the conversation, feeling the lights-glamour-romance venue, feeling the music, feeling your feelings, feeling your date, feeling yourself.
Babies — a problem, or a blessing? In this video, we explain our reproductive choices.
What are the colors of the pouch? A light mauve. A smoky chipotle. A creamy cashew. Look, we’re not gonna get all… sumptuary… on the dress code for The Pouching. We care about the comfort of our wedding guests, and you should wear whatever illuminates your best self.
The greatest love of all is you coming to The Pouching. However, you may want to bring some items to ease your journey to the wedding venue, whether you’re bumming a ride from San Francisco or flying cross-country with a baby and a Maltipoo. During the course of our courtship, we’ve taken eight trips together; here are several travel essentials that keep your business tight, clean and ambiguous:
We’re generally a repository of glib answers, but if you asked us what our song is, we would be all-around stumped. We can’t remember the music that was playing during our first dance. Based on the Top 40 Pop Hits of March 2013, there is a significant chance that the track was — ugh — Demi Lovato’s “Heart Attack” or — ugh —Pitbull’s “Feel This Moment” or Ke$ha’s “C’Mon.” We’re hoping it was Ke$ha.
We’d be overjoyed to see you at our wedding, but you’re a busy person with things to do and a rich, fulfilling life that doesn’t involve us. In this video, we make a logical, concise argument (with puppets) for why you should come to our wedding.
Welcome to PouchTalk! We’re having so much fun preparing for the wedding that we decided to start a fun, silly blog to document our journey to marsupial matrimony.
You know what powers the Bay Area economy? Asian grandparents and their incorrect opinions. Enjoy the last episode of 2020, plus bonus baby.
This is the friendship episode! We’re here to talk about making friends, making babies with your friends and making oat milk with friends of the rainforest.
We’re Pouching in Place this season, so join us for three episodes while we discuss forever friends, formative children’s cartoons and whether we should reveal another collection or another baby.
After three episodes in a row, we’re taking a break to have this baby. Depending on how cute 🐷 🥟 turns out, we might come back this winter ❄️. Until then, we discuss marketing tactics of naming our latest joint venture. Plus, since we all love a good reveal, we got 3 of them for you! Can you guess them all?
What do Mulan, Maleficent and Wayne have in common? They’re all lightly CGI’ed Disney properties coming to LYFE this 2019/2020. As the parents-to-be of a monochromatic baby 👶, we discuss our heritage and why Joyce won’t be washing her hair for a month after 🐷 🥟 pops out of the steamer.
Surprise! We may be expecting parents now, but we’re the same ridiculous marsupials you mildly tolerated in the first place. Stay tuned for three episodes, full of hints and a reveal—just like Black Mirror, but for yappies. #nosedive
It’s been a minute. As we prepare to turn a combined 64 years old, we thought we’d start this post-Millennial chapter with some reflection and dim sum. 🐷 🥟
Is this the end? Yes, it is. We thought we’d close out the season with a good family story and an Extra reveal.
Walk those feelings down the aisle, because we’re going to talk about maximizing your wedding enjoyment. How to make memories that last a lifetime (or the duration of an evening).
We are terrible Millennials who don’t travel enough for leisure, but we do know a thing or two about business trips.🐨 💼 ✈ Step 1: keep a small suitcase, packed with toiletries and underwear, ready to go at all times. Step 2: evaluate your marriage.
The downside of turning 30? Creakier knees, weaker metabolism and a diminishing sense of possibility. The upside? NEXT. LEVEL. DINNER PARTIES (pass the social climbing, please).
Watch Wayne transform into a wine mom (because that suburban craft corner isn’t going to decorate itself). New coast, new apartment, new tax bracket, new season… with a surprise announcement at the end!
The last year has been eventful for us; we got married, found new jobs, moved across the country and bid farewell to our 20’s. Some aspects of our lives didn’t make the transition from New York to California, from flirty-in-the-city to smug-in-the-suburbs. Exhibit A: our metabolism, sense of spontaneity and ability to stay up late. These have been lovingly placed on a longship and pushed out to sea.
Nearly two months have passed since our public, unofficiated community-theater wedding at Villa Montalvo, and we can comfortably say that May 7, 2016 was the best day of our conjoined lives. Never again will we look as taut, youthful, and radiant, as surrounded by equally taut, youthful, and radiant individuals.
We can’t choose whom we love, and on Asian soil, we can’t choose how we marry. Enter the Taiwanese wedding; it’s the penumbral, family-driven yin to the American wedding’s phosphorescent, individuality-driven yang. Curious about the difference between the two types of celebrations? Watch our informative video here. After the last batch of koalas and cake from our Villa Montalvo reception were loaded into Wayne’s parents’ car, we hopped on a plane to Taiwan for the Asian component of our nuptials. Here are five keys for surviving the trans-Pacific culture shock:
Hello, friends and family! Nearly a month ago, you celebrated our wedding day with us, from blowing bubbles at our ceremony to socializing like adults on the veranda to chugging your last beer whilst being dragged off the dance floor because Saratoga is a respectable city with respectable noise ordinances (or falling asleep on the couch in the library — hi, Sandy!). We’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by your support and kind wishes, so we’re going to pull your butt both cheeks down for a vacation slideshow, since we will literally never look this good again.
One of the reasons we chose Villa Montalvo for our wedding venue was tasteful versatility of the location; as dinner winds down and the first strains of sweet synth pop start wafting in the air, there’s a space just for you, whether it’s the lounge for taking tea or the library for cuddling with Pouch-approved, non-feral babies or the solarium for hiding behind the wedding cake (don’t hide inside the cake, though). We do hope you’ll join us on the dance floor, though, and to that end, we have assembled a brief tutorial on the mating dances of The Pouching.
Joyce isn’t one of those Girls Who Isn’t One Of Those Girls. But she does get hives inside jewelry stores (and bridal salons), so every piece of jewelry she owns has been lovingly sourced and purchased by someone else, usually Wayne. Also, every piece of pouch jewelry she owns comes with a sentimental story. These are their stories (chung chung).
As we may have been bellowing from the eucalyptus treetops, Wayne is making Joyce’s ceremony gown for the wedding, like actually making, from designing to sketching to purchasing fabrics and notions to patterning to cutting to fitting to sewing to calling his mother for tips to sewing to zipper inserting to specifically hand-stitching to hemming, all over the course of a fiscal quarter. To prepare for this silky tofu undertaking, Wayne has been creating dresses for Joyce over the course of their engagement. Hence, the endeavor #waynedressesjoyce.
Like plucking freshly steamed dim sum from a rolling cart, we enjoy picking various Western and Eastern traditions to incorporate in our wedding. In this video, we explain just how Asian the wedding will be, on a scale of “spring rolls” to “braised chicken feet in black bean sauce.”
With the wedding date a mere three months away, we wanted to take the opportunity to thank you guys who have been following our silly website from the beginning, giving us feedback on our videos and advice on wedding vendors. To paraphrase our new favorite Ellie Goulding song, when we’re with you, we’re standing with an army. And if we could bring you all on our honeymoon, we would (note from Wayne: actually, we wouldn’t, because that’s kind of creepy).
You’ve received your invitation, deeply assessed your relationship with one or both of us, mentally cleared your social calendar and maybe started contemplating which outfit to wear, or which date to bring or snacks to stash in your purse. But if you live significantly far from the Bay Area, there is the additional consideration of cross-country transportation and lodging. And for that, we love you more than our other guests (shhhhhhh).
There are lots of things that we encourage at The Pouching — feeling the conversation, feeling the lights-glamour-romance venue, feeling the music, feeling your feelings, feeling your date, feeling yourself.
Weddings are the best places to bring a date, platonic or otherwise! The venue and food have already been secured, the air is awash with bliss (or drama), and you’re pretty much guaranteed to slay it on the dance floor, because at that portion of the night everyone has embraced their feelings and their native fierceness, much like an Asian girl at a Calvin Harris concert in Vegas (seriously, was there some sort of migration during Halloween?).
Babies — a problem, or a blessing? In this video, we explain our reproductive choices.
On Saturday, October 3, 2015, the League of Extraordinary Friends of the Pouch, NYC Chapter (with members from DC and Chicago branches) converged upon a lovely home in Chelsea for our engagement party. These are their stories.
What are the colors of the pouch? A light mauve. A smoky chipotle. A creamy cashew. Look, we’re not gonna get all… sumptuary… on the dress code for The Pouching. We care about the comfort of our wedding guests, and you should wear whatever illuminates your best self.
The greatest love of all is you coming to The Pouching. However, you may want to bring some items to ease your journey to the wedding venue, whether you’re bumming a ride from San Francisco or flying cross-country with a baby and a Maltipoo. During the course of our courtship, we’ve taken eight trips together; here are several travel essentials that keep your business tight, clean and ambiguous:
We’d be overjoyed to see you at our wedding, but you’re a busy person with things to do and a rich, fulfilling life that doesn’t involve us. In this video, we make a logical, concise argument (with puppets) for why you should come to our wedding.
We’re generally a repository of glib answers, but if you asked us what our song is, we would be all-around stumped. We can’t remember the music that was playing during our first dance. Based on the Top 40 Pop Hits of March 2013, there is a significant chance that the track was — ugh — Demi Lovato’s “Heart Attack” or — ugh —Pitbull’s “Feel This Moment” or Ke$ha’s “C’Mon.” We’re hoping it was Ke$ha.
Welcome to PouchTalk! We’re having so much fun preparing for the wedding that we decided to start a fun, silly blog to document our journey to marsupial matrimony.