taking the train to arles with salome and this trip to france has been very different from most of my trips to paris. i am enjoying the intimacy of havig a local friend to show me around and not have to be on guard/aware all the time. the pace of the experience has soak in other things besides the foreignness of travel. this would obviously be the prefer way to travel, to just go with the flow and see things from a local perspective. having travel enough in my life, the urge to just see things for […]

since she is going to be reading this at this some point, i have to refrain myself to some degree. anyway, an far away friend came to visit me a few weeks ago and i was slightly surprise that she would try from LA to SF to hang out for less than 48 hours! still, i welcome her company because one, i had no plans for the weekend and more importantly, i was very curious how much she as transformed since i last saw over a few years ago. i had been following her updates on FB […]

her 5th birtday is coming up in a few days and i just have to say that the last 5 years has been the best in my life. a lot of fun times, unadulterated love, cute photos and healing. even while she was refusing to fall asleep, i reminded myself that the time i have with her is so precious. i just hope that me succumbing to her call for love when i know i should better, well, i just hope that all my extra love manifests in her […]

i should be writing more about work as it is particularly interesting period in it’s development. in the past year, the pace of change/improvement in multiple levels has been great compared to years prior. i have to admit that that big shift came after i came back from india and decided to ‘retire’ from shooting for the most part. I do it still here and there but for the most part it counts than less than 2% of my time now. With that shift, it has allow me to focus on many parts of the business that […]