Thursday, December 30, 2010

long time no see?

I donno. I got lazy I guess.

Now the new years is almost here, I'm pretty sure one of my goals/wishes will not be done when the new year comes.

Hmm. What can I do?
Hoping the best that it will come true this coming new year.

I donno why.
I'm somehow always the sad, the moody one during these holidays

Looking back the past year, sure, I did accomplished quite much. But the thing I'm searching for, it's still missing.

It's still somewhere in the dark I suppose.


I do not know.



We'll see.

Friday, November 12, 2010

same story all over again.

Before I start talking about the main topic today,
lets open up with a small "something else".

So the funny thing these days, when I go into shower, in the middle of everything of cleaning yourself, I tend to get confused with whether I body-washed myself or not. It always happens at the moment when my brain start thinking about a deep thought or other crap while in the shower, my body goes into auto pilot, then when I realize I was lost in my thoughts, I always wonder: did I use my Old-Spice body wash yet? 
Just incase I didn't wash my body before getting out the shower, I always wash it again in those situation.
Yeah.
Kinnda funny.
Not really.


Back to the main topic.
Yeah, story of my life moment again.
Had a crush on a girl.
Finally decided to start/starting to do something with it.
Then the next day, I realize that some other friend in the group just started dating with the girl I have the crush on.
It's either this, or I end up having to leave the place, move and stuff.

And you know I'm not the alpha male type of asshole, I don't compete with friends for girls, and I don't try to be the third wheel.

So...

as you see, this girl I had a crush on for three months, a good friend, now I gotta forget about the feelings and move on. Which I guess will take like least a while.

But the funny thing is, after waking up from a nap, before I was feeling like s**t for a while, most of the negative feelings just gone like "poof!" gone.

And somehow the day ended pretty well hanging out with friends.

Is it cause I'm getting used to this?

It's a super weird day in Chicago that I can tell you.



Monday, October 11, 2010

a piece of bread.

Yeah.
We left the puppet house early, Tayler stood behind to finish up some final shootings of the show.
Took the L(CTA nickname) blue line with Blue back to the Loop.
Yeah.
Helped her to carry the bass guitar.
Walking in the Wicker Park neighborhood.

The train cabin was abnormally noisy today.
Got off the train on Jackson street.
Walked her home.
Went up stairs to "the Womb" for a bit.
Tried a piece of Theresa's homemade bread that took her 7hours to make.
Talked about the photo shoot I'm planning on doing.
Exchanged a few ideas.
I kept on eating the bread, and yes it was yummy even without the butter.(Which I failed to locate)

It was late and I had to go.
So there I went.
But before heading to the Buckingham, a 7-Eleven was necessary.
A big Gulp filled with Dr. Pepper. Along with the piece of bread in my hand that I'm still enjoying.
$1.79 the total it was.

On the way back.
Accidentally dropped my bread on the sidewalk.
Oh well, five sec rule. I don;t even care. Just blow the dust off.
Dropped the piece of bread once again in front of the Buckingham, like I said, I didn't care at all.
So just like that, I picked it up and kept on enjoying it as I was waiting for the elevator.

Got back to my lovely unit on the 20th floor.
First thing comes first: gotta go dump.
Sure it was good getting rid of all that crap afterwards.
(I made sure I didn't bring that piece of homemade bread with me into the bathroom, and I remembered to wash my hands afterwards too)
Then I got back to the business of enjoying that piece of bread along with Dr. Pepper.
What a great piece of bread.

Friday, October 8, 2010

you


you're walking on the street.
the wind breezes.
you kept on walking, walking pass couples holding hands.
they hold on tightly, with a smile and a kiss
you kept on walking still.
trying to forget you're walking alone.

you think about the great friends you got
just trying to forget you're alone still
you're alone standing there, felt like you're always the one missing out
they're not touching your heart
you think, "it's all hormones fault", but you still can't do anything
then the word "love" starts questioning

you look back into your memory
all the great friends you got, but never loved one.
you start wondering if this is fate, a hollowed soul alone
debating should you ask his almighty, but second thought that this ain't worth his time
you go to bed, thinking tomorrow's gonna be a day with new hopes
but eventually, realizing you're still alone walking on the street,
you're  watching the couples still, and feeling the breeze
wishing a day, you might be the one

Saturday, October 2, 2010

staying productive

one way of staying positive in life, is doing the things you love.(YEAH, DUH)


Yes I do like to take photos, but taking photos for homework is something else.


Once reason why I was able keep myself sane while in the dead boring California, was I kept going to places, taking photos and scanning film.


I'm missing that part a lot these days.


Yes I'm taking a lot photos for photo class assignments, but now I'm not able to really work on the photos cause I don;t have a film scanner at hand, and color darkroom printing is a BITCH.


Hmm, hopefully I get to scan my film next semester with the digital photo class.


Now I just need somebody that has time on the weekends that would love to go explore with me and take me around the suburbs of Illinois.


Then life would be great.(Life is great enough, but I'm just saying it can be better)

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

maybe I should do a update here

yeah since I've been here for almost a month.

Okay where should I start?

Life is certainly good these days.
My roommates have been pretty much the greatest that they can be.(I'm somehow pretty lucky, throughout out my college life so far, I never had a bad roommate)

Yeah so school and classes.
4 classes, 12 credits(I wish I can get more)
Each of them meet like once per week, but it's like 4 hours every period.
The good thing about it, is that I get to have a pretty chill schedule. My weekend starts at Thursday 1230pm, how great is that?

Oh yes, one thing that sucks: my Photo class is on Monday afternoon. But film developing/school photo labs are not available on weekends..... so that means I have to finish all my projects on thursday afternoon,  and get the film developed/ photo printed in the darkroom on Friday to be able to turn in the homework on Monday. Weekend free time is pretty much useless for that class. ugh EF!@#$%^&*(

Anyways, yes, I finally got the iPhone4. People always assume I always had the iPhone since I'm such a big Apple fanboy(to be honest, I don't think I'm qualified to be called a fanboy). My old Nokia 6500Classic finally bailed on my after 3 years of loyal service. RIP.

I was lucky enough to find a group of friends here in school right away. Reminds me of the old dead tree's. But this time everyone in the group are old friends already, I'm the newcomer. So yeah, still trying to fit in and know everyone. Especially the girls, they are the hardest to understand....

Oh yes, still working on the postcards. I'm pretty much running out new ways to say hi on the postcards these days.(To be exact, it's been like this 6 months already.) But I'll do my best to send out those postcards to you all asap.


And thanks for the help from Paul and Kelly, I was able to receive the info and get the freelance photographer position at the school newspaper, the Columbia Chronicle. Once a news paper photographer, always a newspaper photographer(?)  Haha.

Yes my hair is still growing, although it's increasingly getting in the way of normal day activities, but I have no plans of cutting it yet.

Thats all I could say for now. Heck it's only a month into the school year, wait till the winter comes and We'll see how would I bitch about it. LOL

Oh well, bed time anybody?

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Chicago

It's been almost a week since I got here.
Things have been pretty good.

Really loving this place.

Weather has been getting better.

The City is amazingly beautiful.

Too much to talk about with too less time.

I'll fill you guys in later on.

Bed time for now.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Still chilling? heck yes

It's a sunday morning.
I woke up early(I have no clue how I did it).
Start watching my baseball, fell asleep in the process, until Robison Cano hit a grand slam.

And then came rain delay, oh well, it's already an official game. Okay I'm over baseball for the day.

Next.
Reading Collette Bodtcher's blog of how wonderful her marriage is. (LOL only cause she's in the honeymoon stage)(But I'm not saying it's going to get bad)(Of course I want her to be happily ever after with a good life)

Hmm going through some other friends blogs/tumblrs too, like erika and alyssa and etc.

Reading? hmm, yeah I should get on top of that. Still got 1/3 to go through before finishing The Yankee Years. Hmm. And the new book from Jon Krakauer: Where Men Win Glory.


Plans:

I leave thursday for Chicago.
Fact: I have not yet started packing yet at all.
Yeah.... I MIGHT start doing it tomorrow.

Friday, August 13, 2010

chicago

So as I'm warping up the three day trip to chicago, starting to think about the near future stuff.
For example:
How am I going to bring all my stuff with me to Chicago?
Where am I going to find that 15K that I'm missing for school cost?


Oh well I really want to graduate from columbia.

Tuition and living costs around 40K per year, better make the most of each penny.
I hope I can finish school in less then 3 years.

We'll see how it goes...

friday the thirteenth

didn't noticed it till this morning when I woke up in the hotel bed.

funny

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Improvise scrap wood

 Today when the Directv guy came by to install our dish.

I thought, hmm I could make the left over scrap wood for good use.

Especially that we can't find any entertainment system shelf small enough to fit the hole in the wall.

Improvise then.

And this is what I end out making:

It end up better than I thought, everything fit perfectly.


And still I had some other scrap wood still.... I turn my attention to relieving some space for cramped little computer desk.

Instead of spending 40 bucks on a aluminum mount for the Mac Mini, I did this with free wood and probably less than $2 of screws and angle plates.


yeah it's not painted one some cuts, but oh well, I wasn't trying to perfect it, that will take me too much effort and I don't have the tools neither.


To be honest, it really felt like a fulfilling day, especially when you got nothing to do around the place.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Texas

HOT
HUMID
WITH LOVELY PEOPLE
MARRIED COUPLES
CRAZY WEDDING RECEPTIONS
LOTS OF PHOTOGRAPHS


I think I just summed it up pretty well.

Friday, July 16, 2010

All I want is a place in your dearest memories

Thats all I want from a friendship.




(but not just for the past. keeping the friendship on going is important too, so we can create more lovely memories)

Monday, July 12, 2010

the past 1month.

I can't say it's productive because I've been doing a lot of school/family related stuff.

No Personal projects were done, no photo shoots.
Barely shot any photos. That roll of Provia400X in the film camera still stood at frame number 6.
Even if I did shot any photos with my EOS40D, it's just those normal crappy everyday life photos that people shoot with their cheap point & shoot camera.

There is just no inspiration right now.

All I wanna do is get this moving thing finished, get things ready, and then start a new chapter in Chicago.

Yes I do still have old ideas about some photoshoots, but I don;t think I'm able to do it in this situation. I'll save it for later. "Please come back again."


So brooke's wedding might be my biggest project thats going to happen recently.
Even so thats not really a project, oh well.

hmm. Hope things progress when I get to Chicago.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

It's travel time in the summer again

It's becoming quite an habit now,
summer is when I travel the most.


Tuesday I booked my plane flight to Texas for Brooke and Tanner's wedding. July22-26.

Wednesday I booked my plane flight along with Roxanne to attend Collette and Travis's wedding. July30-Aug1st.

My parents told me today they found the place we're moving in down south in San Diego suburb area.

Dad's gonna work close to the San Diego Navel Station.


So I got my bike back, my sweet ride. But he's so busted by the Hawaii weather. Oh well. No worries. I'm gonna get you a new pair of brakes, grips, chain. And we can go on our joy ride once again.


I found that packing up all the stuff for moving, in certain terms, is quite annoying. I mean, how much stuff do I have to sort and pack? How much addresses do I have to change? definitely more than all my finger+ toes.


Yeah, living in Chicago ain't going to be too cheap. Thats why I just finished filling out my FAFSA.
Oh Well.


Now my journey can expand to the east/central part of the States, other than just the west coast. Sounds like good progress. Maybe even Canada.

It's gonna be fun from now on.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Considerate the complexity of this task

- Got accepted into Columbia College Chicago, School starts September 7th
-Need to attend my photography major's orientation Aug3 or Aug14(Visit Gabby in Indiana)
-Family is moving to San Diego before August
-Attending Brooke's and Collette's wedding in Texas/Utah late July
-Visit Chelsea and Stacy in Alaska
-Only started work at Godiva for a month(seems like I only get to work another month and thats it)
-Burn all that 15lbs of fat I gained the past half year

Quite crazy huh?

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Just right when I finished that last post......

I received an email from Columbia College Chicago saying that I'm ACCEPTED for Fall2010.

Hot Baby, I'm Chicago bound!

So it's all about chocolate these days

Like you guys heard

Godiva's not too bad. (Way better than my last job)

After three weeks, my working hours are steadily increasing(but still quite insufficient to keep me away from debt soon)

This pay period which ends today, I think I accumulated 17hrs of work.(The past few weeks I barely reach 10hr per week) Not a bad week. I can be expecting a much bigger paycheck this up coming friday.

Anyways.

Spring term is approaching to it's ending, my photo project(UGH CRAP)
Not going to take any classes in summer.

Looking forward to receive news from Columbia College Chicago's admissions office(my high school transcript better not require extra evaluation...)
I think I'm gonna call them Monday and see hows the progress.

June is approaching it's end, and July is coming. This reminds me the same time of last year, when I was getting so excited about visiting Utah& Texas.....

Travel season? Totally (just missing the Franklin's thats all)

Monday, May 31, 2010

chocolate&Memorial Day


I have work tomorrow from 2-6
Yes, selling chocolate @Godiva on Memorial Day.(Stanford Shopping Center)
Come visit?

(I really think Godiva should sent out chocolates to those GI's who are protecting our country )

Friday, May 28, 2010

The judgmental moment


Teen Werewolves? WTF?

Those teenagers are sick these days. WHAT? You wanna be a wolf?
Let me get my hunting rifle. Open season!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

I'm just not that good with coming up random idea's



So stop judging me that I lack with creativity!


It's almost like a disability now.

I'm product of asian education culture/philosophy.(Don’t question/obey the teacher/repeat what he says)

Pretty much I'm just making an excuse of myself not being that creative.(But it's the truth though)

Still if you get me something established, I can give you thousands of idea’s of how to improve it.(that might be the only good thats left in me)

Monday, May 24, 2010

progress

So I finally thought of writing a blog post after all those days with scattered thoughts.
I know it's long due.


I hate the number 158.
I started selling chocolate(plus eating it)
Waiting for my admission application to come back.
Still scattered thoughts.
Need a new cell phone.
Wish that Yosemite wasn't so packed with people so I can somehow go visit and camping.
Need to correct my sleeping schedule.
Write letters, haven't done it in months.
Work outs, yes, work outs.

What else?

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Weddings, weddings, weddings

Another friend of mine, got engaged. This time it's Collette Charles.
We all thought it was coming.
I'm not too shocked, but sure a bit surprised.

Oh well? What can we do?
YES, WE GOT LOTS TO DO!
GO ON A ROAD TRIP TO UTAH AGAIN AND PARTY LIKE CRAZY!!!!(driving 12hr straight on I-80...)

Early August.
Basically right after Tanner and Brooke's wedding(July23)
This is going to render me bankrupt again.(Ain't I still in bankrupt status?)

Story of my life having a bunch of Mormon friends.


But isn't that what I do? Waste money on good friends! and the experience is always worth the money!(In most case when they turn out good)

Now gotta start saving up money for all this crap.

Thursday, May 6, 2010



“Arc’s”
Antigua, Guatemala
Fujicolor Pro160C

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Breads last time, chocolate this time

The news is, I got a job at Godiva. You guys probably know already: but here's the details

Thanks for the help from Serena(she works there)

Soon I'm gonna start selling Chocolate.



I applied to the job like a month ago, I finally came back to check with them about the application status like last week. Then things just went like "SNAP", after two days of interview, and Serena called me "Fellow Coworker" that I realized I got the job.

Now I just gotta wait till all those paper work gets through, background checks and crap.

Everything seems to be on track these days. Ugh is that a sign of good life?

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Epic Failure

Went to a SanFrancisco Giants game playing the Phillies today.
Woke up at ten, feeling not so good, but I don't want to waste that 40 bucks for the ticket.
Oh yeah, rainy day. Rained all the way from home to the park.
But luckily the rain stopped after we got there.
Yup, Tim Lincecum pitching.
He was just dominant all the way, out pitching Phillies's Cole Hamles.

We had 4-1 lead on the top9th when Lincecum was called down for Brian Wilson to take over.

We thought we could swept the Phillies in the series.

We all assumed. We're naive. Everything went down from that point.

Somehow Wilson let the Phillies loaded the bases, Jayson Werth hit a 3 run double.... the game was tied.

Wasted Lincecum's 11K, the strong outing and everything...

Then we allowed another run in the 10th, but we got it tied again in the bottom of the inning.
I was basically falling asleep by that time...

Then 11th inning, they scored 2 runs made it 7-5. We tried to rally... but came short.... only scoring one run, losing the game 7-6.

Ugh.


I have no comments after that...

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

so it felt like I'm one step closer to be back on track

A Chinese metaphor says that if you haven't study for 3 days, it can be seen on your face.
Kinnda my situation here. I've been out of school for too long.(I don't really considerate community/junior college real productive because the fact that it leads me no where.)

Just turned in my application to transfer to Columbia College Chicago today. Not really "turn in" but I shipped it through UPS next day air, will be arriving tomorrow at Chi-town.

I didn't finish my essay till like this Sunday, kinnda crazy huh.
But glad that big stone in my mind in finally on the ground, solid.
Hope I didn't miss anything.
Now I just wish it comes back with a good result four weeks later.


Feels like I'm about to get back on track to finish my college once again.


btw I got the job at Godiva.

who wants chocolate?

Sunday, April 25, 2010

the adventure for Zooey and She&Him

I should have typed this up a long time ago.
but eh. haha.

Anyways, to cut the long story short.
Went to a She&Him concert on the 15th at the Glasshouse in Ponoma, CA with Roxanne Miller®, finally getting to see Zooey in real life.

A three day trip, drove down(6hr) to Ridgecrest, CA. Stayed at Roxanne Miller®'s place. Went to the concert the next night, drove back to the bay area the morning after.

She&Him's performance surprised me, way better than I expected. To be honest, I think it sounded better live than on the CD(which is recorded in the studio)

Zooey's still Zooey as usual. I wish there was a girl in real life around me.(Daydreaming I am)

Hmm. that 12 house of back and forth driving was worth it.

(Plus I ate a ton of sushi on the way, ask Roxanne Miller®)

The Perfect Generation



I really think those youngsters(under 18) really sure can beat us in everything, including all those "cuteness" "nerdyness" on myspace/tumblr/WOW/HALO and etc.

I really think we're lucky enough to be born in the eighties and growing up in the nineties, resulting in a well balanced exposure between internet technology and traditional media/real socialization.
We can understand new technology and adopt to change, but not overly depend on it. We can still socialize traditionally face to face like humans, without the help of those instant messaging/text/facebook/internet stuff.

Because of those reason, that make us the perfect generation.

And yes, I'm talking about YOU, kid.
Turn off your computer now and go out talk with some real people!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Sprits and Conversations

I have to admit, for the past week, I've been visiting bars quite frequently.
Some beer, some high bar drinks with popcorn, and with all that comes with come great conversations with other people.

 To be honest, it's a bit pricy, 3 dollar a drink is the cheapest I can find so far.
But had a few great conversations and meeting news friends.

Got smoked by people who smoke, eh, somehow I'm use to it. But cloths stink like heck when I got home.

Still trying to find a place for escape from all this urban/modern crap....
Seems like the city just never ends....

I dream like a back yard with a small hill and all grass plain .....

Or like the hundred acred woods in Christopher Robin's backyard, not all this concrete and metal.


Daydreaming....



I sill have yet to start on my application essay......

Saturday, April 10, 2010

What music are you listening to today?

Fantastic Plastic Machine Mostly this afternoon. ha

Ask me anything

Friday, April 2, 2010

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Adventures


this is where I plan on visiting soon.

the two  bunkers south of San Francisco

http://www.artificialowl.net/2009/07/hanging-bunker-at-devils-slide.html

Friday, March 26, 2010

Once again.

Bank account nearly empty.

I don't think I'm getting much back from tax return...

Hmm I really have to find a job.....

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

political views

It's funny to think about it.

I don't really believe that real peace exist in international relations.
Diplomacy soft power can solve a lot of issues, but when you're facing a nation that does not care what you say or do, thats when hard power is needed. I'm quite pro-military to be honest, but it's still going be considerate the last resort in solving problems.

But at the same time, domestically, according to how americans categorize political positions, I turned out to be pretty liberal.

just like my good friend Jesus Molinar says, that I'm "like a boy who walks soft but carries a big stick."


Haha.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

life is good

"Life is good when you dance all night

And the world transmits electric power

Messages you send to mars

Came from a crown of flowers...."

Life Is Good Blues

by Laura Veirs




yeah. Although I'm jobless, I'm broke, but I just felt like life is great. I got all the friends I need, got a lovely family, got to see all the amazing stuff with my eyes.


I'm just so excited to see amazing art works by people all over the world.
It really is something.
I wish sometime I got the ability to produce such photographs one day in the future.

we will see some day.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

So the past week in Utah...

As you know, it was my 21st birthday on Wednesday, March 3rd.

So I decided to take a week off from this crazy California life and head to Salt Lake City, to see some of the most lovely people I know on this planet.


A 12hr drive ain't that bad, just the fuel cost kills. Hey but it's still better than flying, and plus I don't gotta rent a car.
It cost me like $180 for the whole trip back and forth. A one way ticket there is like $150 something.

I spent the first 4 nights sleeping at Davis's condo.
It was pretty sweet, except the dog.

Spent the last night sleeping at Collette's basement(? OR FIRST FLOOR?)
Oh gosh I love her Mom. what a great mom Luann is. ha. ( maybe it's different not being the child)
Reed's a good brother to have too.


The Charles made a cake for me to celebrate me turning 21.
Got pretty drunk on that Wednesday night too, Collette's friend Benny took me out to a bar.
Sweet deal. He said I was dead funny when I'm drunk.
Ha.
Glad I did have some self control that night, didn't puke at all.
But that last glass of Long Island Ice Tea really kills. huh

Chatted lots with Collette.
Miss that girl so much.
She said she felt land locked here that she also felt out of place in Utah.
Kinnda the same thing with me in Cali.
Alyssa was still having withdraws after Hawaii, and then Jerusalem. Poor her.

Yes, I haven't seen Alyssa for more than a year. It's great to see that wonderful girl too.
Her newly developed tommy gun laugh is killing me. LOL
So funny

Met Collette's boy Travis.
Classic good boy.
A firefighter(In fact she just got his job on tuesday or wednesday?)

also met up with a tumbler friend, Michelle,Ryan Bagley's UVU good buddy in freshman year.
Crazy girl too.
THe only thing bad was that my car got booted while visiting her apartment that night cause I was late to the parking lot for 2 minutes of the 1:30am limit. It cost me $65, that also took my life away on the low budget trip. Screw you evil private parking lots.


For the rest of the time,
basically I just hung around the place quite much for the whole week.
I mean, thats just how I do things. I like to be around the people.

Left Salt Lake City on sunday early morning, aka 1am, said good bye to Alyssa and Collette. And then that was another 12hr driving back.

Weird thing is, when I got back to Mountain View, I felt that the place was different from before I left. That out of place feeling I spent so much time trying to depress, just suddenly popped out again.
It's just weird.
I don't feel like I really belong here in Cali.
Only just a week in Salt Lake City can make such a big deal. Hmm

I wish I can do good in chicago later this year for school.
Anyways.


What can I say, it was a good birthday.
Hope my wishes come true.
Wish this year can be a good one.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

it was a great week in Utah

and yes it's been a while since I wrote anything at all....

But it's 3 am here in cali

and I got class at 830am

so I'm gonna go to sleep first.

I promise you a full length entry tomorrow

Monday, February 15, 2010

Smoothing out the bumps

Hmm, time sure goes by fast these days.
Two weeks past by without any notice, last time I typed a entry.

It's funny that I donna why am I so busy in life and yet I got so less done.
I can hardy find some time to sit down relax and clear out my mind these days, there's always something in my mind going on.
I still haven't finished the book: 36 reasons why god doesn't exist.
Still got tons of homework to do.

I probably procrastinate too much on the computer.
It's a love and hate relationship with facebook.

Really gotta use my time more efficiently and smartly.
Prioritizing things and stuff. Work and crap.



I'm thinking of quitting my job these days. It's really getting on my nerves working on the weekends 8hr per day.
With all the home work piling up... I donna will I be able to sustain a decent grade and work at the sometime.
But yet with all the debt I got sitting on my head.
HMMMMMMMMM.


So should I drive to Utah for my birthday?
Take a week off from school and work?
12 hr of driving by myself would be my first time, but that ain't going to be a big problem
money? eh... I get paid friday before.(But remember I loads of debt still going on)


So Winter Olympics?
So intense and awesome.
Especially in HD.

It will be way awesome if I were to be there at Vancouver.
Even better if I was one of the photographer on the side line covering the event.
Like the dream job.(But you know the job isn't as great as you think, it's VERY challenging )

anyways. Tomorrow is presidents day, no school no work. thank God.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

mid term and essays

time goes by fast in this quarter system

Dang it's the first mid term already?!


blew up my Anthropology, easier than a piece of cake.

Macro Economics was an easy kill.

eh, PolySci.... working on it...although it's gonna be a though assignment since I got so much work to do this weekend(24 hours in total for three days), all I got is monday afternoon, tuesday night, and wednesday morning to finish that crap before class starts at 12:30 that day.

Photography mid term, yes you heard me, mid term for a photo class, how stupid is that, can't help having a professor that thinks he himself is super funny.



anyways. I developed my second third and fourth roll of B&W film on Thursday in less then one hour, which is quite impressive considering the result film that came out.

Nah, I'm not going to scan them anytime soon, they some how are still too curved up.


So I'm back in the mailing business.
Start expecting postcard arrivals soon.



And yes, I started working on my application to transfer to columbia college chicago.
And I saw the essay.......

Friday, January 22, 2010

Rocket science.

today was the day that I developed the first roll of film on my own.
B&W

It was tricky.

rolling the film onto the developing sprocket in total darkness was a bit hard.

didn't do it too good, a few frames on the film to overlay eachother, resulting in that part of the film didn't absorb enough developer chemicals and got "killed"

but most part of he other frames came out pretty decent.


I still got two rolls to work on later. Hope it comes out better.


btw I started to attend vollyball nights every tuesday and thursday at the local(not really) church with Brody and Mikey(both are James long time good friends here in the Bay area).
I really need to exercise more to get myself in shape and stuff.

ugh, I pulled my quad tonight trying to save a play...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

complaints

I'm sorry if I have blogged in such a while and still I keep on telling people the blog more.


Things have been a bit tough for me the since school started and non stop working.



I donno.


30+ hours of work per week is just way too much for my 15 credit school work.
But I need those 30+ hours of work to get rid of my debt asap.
Then, my work place is understaffed and the store manager still does not want to hire more people to spread the work load. Then I'm forced to work more than 30+ when I needed time for school and life.


It's funny how things work these days.
when you got too much time and too less to do, you just can't even find a thing to do.
but when you got a job and money, you just can't find the time to sleep and the opportunity to spend the money.


I really want to take a vacation away from this crappy place, I wanna go to Salt Lake city and see all the friends I miss, or hawaii, the place that I met all the wonderful lovely people.

I miss all of you.
No need to type down all the names.
You know I miss you.


I'm going to try to get back on the blogging "business".

And I got wonderful hawaii photos on beautiful slide film just developed.

Look forward to my future posts.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Film order of the night from B&H

Slide film:

-Fujichrome Velvia100F *5

-Fujichrome Velvia100 *2

-Fujichrome Velvia50 *4

-Fujichrome Provia400X *2

B&W Print film:

-Fujifilm Neopan1600 *2

-Fujifilm Neopan400 *5

-Fujifilm Neopan Acros100*5


That's a total of 25 rolls of 35mm film



oh dear I'm such a Fujifilm junky.

This stock should serve me well for a while.

Friday, January 1, 2010

10 years into the number 2000

Shoots.

It felt like it wasn't too long ago when I saw those two planes crash into the two world trade centers.
Thats was one fresh memory I somehow had when I was in junior high school, like a book mark.
But if you really go and count how much days it had been till now, 9 years is a long time.

Hmm.

2009 was a fairly good year I gotta say.
My second year in the states consecutively.(If you wanna count in the years spent in Ohio, then this would be my 7th year)
Despite the fact that I was unemployed for a whole 9 months.
Traveled a lot. Texas, Utah, Guatemala, Yellowstone, Mexico.
Did way less stupid things comparing with 2008.
Procrastinated hell lot.(All those days at home)
Drank lots of Dr.Pepper, which gave me plenty of cavities also. :/
Left hawaii, and went back again, which was the sweetest.
Saw the Yankee's won their 27th World Series title.
Went into heck lots of debt.
Came back to cali and got a job.
hmm.
Not bad at all.


So for the very beginning of 2010.
I had work on new years eve.
It's gonna be the same thing on the first day of 2010.

Hmm. I think this is the first time in my life I didn't really celebrate new years, just suddenly realize it's just meaningless to celebrate.

Glad I get paid double for work today(Jan 1st).

Technically, I don't really have any new plans for 2010, but it's not really like I don't have plans, it's just that I consistently make up plans for the future. I don't need a "new year" so I can plan for new things, dude, everyday is a new day.

But I bet you guys must be interested, so I'll repeat those plans that are happening in 2010 I planned out before:

-Try to get into Columbia College Chicago for their photography program.
-Get rid of debt.
-Work in Houston selling pest control making bank?
-Get my body more in shape
-Try to save up some money rather than spending them all.


hmm. we'll see how this year goes.

we'll see.