So I went to New York for Labor day weekend.

Mi amiga from college Sasha bought me a ticket to Electric Zoo, a huge 2 day rave that featured some of my favorite artists!

We had a deal that if I buy plane tickets, she'll get me the tix to the concert. so I flew my ass across America last Saturday.

I also finally accepted a fact about myself and that is I become REALLY emotional during an airplane take off. It does not matter where I'm going, leaving, doing or thinking, when that plane takes off, I get teary eyes because something inside my brain tells me it is a very profound moment I am witnessing.

Anyway, New York was great, everything is all close together and OPEN 24 hours!!! Reminded me a lot of Tokyo, the subway stations were a lot like the ginza-line in Tokyo. Everyone seemed a lot more skinny than here either because of drugs or because they walk so much using public transportation. They also all looked very stylish in a "I'm not even trying hard to look good but I look so good" kind of way. Being in a big city always makes me feel so tiny compared to the world, but in a good, cozy kind of way. My japanese superstitiousness tells me its my year-of-the-Rat persona speaking. nonetheless, I felt such a rush being in crowds of people and sea of man made concrete buildings like wow I am part of this human society.... duuuude.

The concert was F'n amazing.

The best rave I've ever been hands down. it's been my dream since the time I first hit up a rave in Hawaii to go to a massive on the mainland and I finally f'n did it!

The venue was on an island/park off the coast of upper part of Manhattan. There were 3 giant tents setup and then 1 giant open stage. I'd say there were like at least 10000 people there, probably more. But at each stage, some dj/artist was playing at any given time.

I was at the concert for most of my trip so I didn't do any sight seeing, but I def wanna go visit again. I've always thought east coast was kind of scary because when I was little I visited dad in DC and NY and they were both very terrifying places for a 10 year old non-english speaking child to be traveling alone. but not so bad now. I wanna keep traveling east. Sasha and Andrew were telling me about their roadtrip across US and it really sounded fun!

its the 2010! time seems to fly by when you look back on blog. I should update this more often.. I mean.. I should take photos more often.

well since most of 2009 went without photos here, I'll wrap it up with collections of food photos that dangerously raised the level of generousness of my waist.

began pretty classy with cheap wine and orange juice in wine glass..

summer time bbq in portland

delicious lentil salad in Montreal

fillet mignon

seattle pork ribs

increased love for french dip

daddy would you like sum sausage?

almost half a year since my last update.. these days my time is spent thinking about or doing work... I even dream about it and it drives me crazy.
I'm thinking about reviving my design hobby. I realized that for quite sometime now I've been telling people I like doing computer graphics design and I haven't put time and effort to build a portfolio. So I've been working on putting together a website. In that process, I found deep down in my harddrive, old projects I've worked on. Above collage shows snippitz of a few of them. For those of you who used to visit my website/blog, you might recognize some.. yeah hella old..!

I want to work on something fArtsy, otherwise at this rate my right brain will perish. ararghargharg. ok im going to sleep now.

uniformity is undesirable.

imperfections allow room for growth.

so said Kenko and apparently ancient Chinese philosophers
Too often, I set a mental to-do list that I never get around to complete it all.

Right now, I want to beat my brain up for never finishing my old to-do list....
why didn't I do this,
why didn't I do that.
Then.
I could have.
done this.
did that.

but there will always be imperfections.
if i had done all that, I would most likely see another problem to work on.

The best way to deal with it all is see that I am always making progress.
I'm always getting better.

THINK POSITIVE!!!!! RAGH.

snow blankets Seattle!

why would you ever go in the water!?

I saw a lady taking a photo of this fountain,
so I decided to take a photo too.
then I realized, what is in the fountain is not snow.. but foam! why?!

I used to sit here to eat my lunch during summer...!

I love this photo above!

brrrrrd

at least I know I can walk to work still! :)

Photos of Summer 2008
Tacoma, Victoria B.C, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Gorge WA

what fascinates me
what drives me
what empowers me

I think about these questions everyday
even on days when I don't feel at my best

lessons I learned
actions I took
qualities I possess

replenish my soul.

Chiri's All American Experience Pt. 2 + Fall Break


I carved a pumpkin for the first time in my LIFE earlier this month! since we carved so early, they all got moldy & soggy so I threw mine away yesterday =(

well.. rest of the photos are not so American as they're more mainland U.S. experience... but check ittt..

Sunset view from my window :D

One day, I decided to bring my camera with me to go to the bank/grocery shopping. I wanted to capture Fall + everyday Tacoma scenes. I was surprised to find that there are SO MANY different kinds of trees here!! I also love pretty lawns... mMMmm..

Proctor!
mMMm multicolored treeee o_O

Fall Break pt. 1
John and I went on a bus adventure to Tacoma Mall. The weather was so nice! Full view of Mt. Rainier from Border

Fall break pt. 2: we walked to Old Town!

soooo prettyy :D