Brightly Above the Rest

Yep, thank goodness I still have that yearning for photography. I know because I nearly froze my fingers for this.


After a rainy week and seeing the sunlight do its thing, I think it's your turn to filter through the clouds.

Keep on shining. (:

Concept of Us

Unique, yet the Same.

Recipe for Richness

"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for."

John A. Shedd

Short Scare

In big and bold black capital letters: Tornado Warning. Well, that's a first. Fortunately though disappointing at the same time, no tornado was spotted.

I don't understand you, California weather. And stop harassing me with your thunder. I keep on thinking it's another one of your earthquakes.

Hira Hira

This song brings back so much memories. Another year of cherry blossoms blooming again.

On and On (and On, On!)

"The existence of forgetting has has never been proved: we only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them."

Friedrich Nietzche

Wings

Behold,
Santa Clara street from the 18th (Mayor Chuck Reed's) floor of San Jose City Hall! Don't ask me how I got access; I just walked in armed with a phone. Without a word, snap snap. Okay, bye.

It's hard to believe this once was a small, sleepy farming community. In front of my eyes are buildings whose heights are just below the limit set by an ordinance, in the same area where twenty years ago was just a run-down slum neighborhood. Rewind that back to a century ago and it was nothing but trees and a few small houses. Honestly, I've lived a suburban lifestyle my whole life, and the last 12 months is the time where I've begun to take an interest in my birthplace.

I blame my parents for not taking me out as much, but that's okay. ;) Heck, I'm an American and a few weeks ago, I realized I didn't even know how to order or how etiquette is at a restaurant. I stood around innocently smiling and blinking at the waiter, expecting him to tell me where to sit, when to pay, and all the fancy things people do at restaurants. It's embarrassing, but on the contrary, it's rather stimulating. To me, the feeling of exploring a hidden realm or something unfamiliar gives me a rush of thrill, or perhaps a token, as one can say. A token of experience which, held forever, accumulates as time goes with increasing value. These minute events are one of the many types of things I highly treasure, which perhaps is the reason why I think I take so many darn photos, making memories. Darn me. I'm running out of hard drive space, too.

As for the time being, I can leave my city next year happy. (:
I'll come back every now and then, but can't wait to see how it'll be in twenty years. I still wonder whether I'll be in this country, though. I'm beginning to chase what I dream but have not yet dug up my roots until recently.

Pure White

So did you all see the fog early in the morning today?


You couldn't see anything, including headlights of other cars, farther away from 2 houses. Family had fun, or I at least, making out what color the traffic signals at the next intersection were.

"It's red!"

"No wait, it's green!"


It eventually cleared up though. Boo. Even so, we ran a yellow light in the next picture because it was still damn hard to see. CAN YOU SEE IT? Yes, this was how much we had to struggle to FIND the signal even AFTER the fog cleared up a bit. Definitely not a good day to practice driving.


With that ski sticker on the top right, I can fool just about anyone that this picture was taken from Interstate 80. It's really Montague Expressway.