04.19.07 Tacoma, Washington






"Ellipsis..."
自分の人生だから、自分自身で楽しみたい。
いままで共に歩んでくれてありがとう。

weird.

my decision to stay in Tacoma in the summer seems to have taken some sort of emotional burden off my shoulder. I can't quite figure out what it is, because Tacoma has always been just a place where I go to school, but suddenly, Tacoma is becoming my home. It's kind of weird, when I first decided to stay here, I tried hard to think of all the positive reasons why I should stay in Tacompton. In that process, I somehow convinced myself that I actually wanted to disassociate myself from Hawaii. this is weird. the idea seems new, yet kind of old. I mean after all, the whole reason why I decided to NOT to go to UH was because I wanted to get out of there. and its really not that I hate Hawaii, but something about it tells me that I shouldn't be there.
I also feel like I'm actually settling down for the first time since high school. Having to switch my lifestyle every break is stressful. this summer I feel like I actually get to continue with my life without putting it on pause... whenever I go back to Hawaii, I'm often disappointed with the stagnant lifestyle - with exception of constant remodeling of Ala Moana shopping center and growing belly of King Tuckster, nothing ever changes. friends tell me about the same problem they had since the previous summer and the summer before that, and then I offer them the same solution to the problem which I told the previous summer, and the summer before that. and, its not just them, I seem to get involved in this as well. so far, every single summer since the Freshman year of college, I've had some sort of emotional break down regarding my relationships with people from home. and I've noticed that its usually a domino effect that starts out in Hawaii and knocks down everyone, including anyone who is even remotely related to the certain issue. because in Hawaii, everyone fucking knows everyone. another words, "personal problem" does not exist in hawaii. it always have to be everyone's problem. and thats definitely not cool with me.

well, I was gonna write more but I'm off work so must get out. yay :D

03. 31.07
花見@University of Washington

This was my first time actually walking around UW campus... that place is enormous!
Cherry blossoms were gorgeous. It turned out to be a very nice day too :D


Petals on the ground!


left to right: me, my housemate Elizabeth (whose face is half covered by my annoying hair) and Sasha Bon. Sasha trying to act fabulous

falling petal + joyful women series


L.O.L.


ah spring... <3 so after we took 32094823984 photos of the cherry blossoms, we tagged along with Pat, Yuya (sp?) and bunch of FLIA Japanese/Chinese students to a ramen place right behind Uwajimaya. I bought some manga and read them all when I came home. eheheh... and also I played......
dun dun duuuunn.... I ordered it on Wednesday and it came on Friday!!! so fast!
so yeah... I'm saying goodbye to life (+~+ )

josh martinez + eastern sunz concert tonight... should i go or should i not... i don't really have anything to do.. and its only 3bucks. o_O bOn bOn


not coming back to hawaii this summah of da bummah. I dunno when I'm coming back next time. bummah bummah. me stay in tacompton mon.

2.17.07
Blackalicious Concert
Gift of Gab

da crowd

i moved around a lot so I could get a good shot of the two... =/


Gift of Gab again

Chief Xcel
the concert was pretty good. I wish the venue was not at our gym but at a bar nearby, but oh well. I got to see them pretty close, they pretty much look exactly like how they look on the photos. I'm not a HUGE fan of them but I'm glad I got to hear them live. :3

2.10.07
Sasha's family was visiting from Portland. I tagged along with them to the Tacoma Art Museum and the Museum of Glass.



I was not able to take any photos inside the museums which was a bummer. but at the Museum of Glass, they had an exhibition of an "electronic" artist, Jim Campbell. I never heard about this artist before so when I read the introduction about him, I thought the exhibition was going to have bunch of robots or something, so I wasn't very thrilled.. but after I had gone around the exhibition, my mind was completely blown away. He has an education background in engineering and filmmaking, but his artworks were also powerfully psychological. I was intrigued by how effectively he demonstrated this fusion of art and science. Most of his works consisted of very unique forms of video imaging like one of a lady standing up and picking up a telephone but she's moving ULTRA slow so you can't really tell she's moving. There were also weird objects like analog clocks that times the speed of a person breathing or blinking. My favorite one was called, "The Last Day in Beginning of March," which an incredible installation piece.


I really enjoyed this view because I like railroad tracks and in combination with the highway, it reminds me of Tokyo.


Chahuli~ deep inside, I was scared all this glass was going to fall down on my head.
When we crossed the bridge, we were greeted by the Tacoma Popo.
turns out, the native Indians were protesting in front of the courthouse.



So at the Tacoma Art Museum, we went to see the exhibition called "Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon." It was interesting because I'm not a big fan of her art but I always wanted to know more about her as a person, and the exhibition mainly consisted of actual photographs of her and Diego Rivera and portraits done by other artists. She had fabulous hair...

Thank you Borodovsky family for taking me out!

Winterbreak in Hawaii 2006-2007

I'm finally done with my template :D

I decided to make this photo blog because I take a lot of photos, but I always get lazy sending them out to people via e-mail... originally, I wanted to use the default templates that blogger (or blogspot) offered, BUTTTT being the webnerd that I am, I wanted to at least figure out the basics of css spreadsheet for blogger... 8) well enough about that. I've got quite a few photos to post... I actually created this thing a month ago, but I never got around to finishing my template until now.

11-24-06 Black Friday at Seattle Premium Outlet

Tacoma Snowfall