tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141853182023-09-24T01:39:23.892-07:00...but you were part of my dream, too.ozhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522680073742979970noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14185318.post-1124449257611281132005-08-19T04:00:00.000-07:002005-08-19T04:04:38.256-07:00

Krishna at Venice Beach (Hare Krishna "Festival of the Chariots" California, Aug 7 '05)More photos of the festival!

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Right after the San Diego Street Scene... I get off the trolley at 5th Avenue, and I'm walking back to the hostel. It's around one in the morning, and the streets of the Gaslamp Quarter are alive and throbbing. There's a small Italian place open, and i'm starved; i get a large slice of pizza in a paper bag.I'm going down the street carrying my pizza, and i pass a huge black man on his knees,

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Garbage at Street Scene '05Photo by freschwill, from Flickr.comSan Diego Street Scene '05 will surely count as one of the greatest experiences of my life--and i almost died there, quite literally. It was wonderful just to get to see Kasabian, the Killers, and the White Stripes (especially the White Stripes). But the pinnacle of the experience, far more awesome than i ever imagined, was seeing

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It's a scorching summer sun outside, and yet there's an aura of spring: i see bumblebees dancing among the flowers, a whirring hummingbird dipping its long beak into a nectared blossom.But wasn't i supposed to write about San Diego? I'm getting to that...My first night there i had the oddest experience. I was sleeping in a dorm room with three bunk beds, and i was in the top bunk of one bed. At

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I am typing this with a tender wrist--i twisted it riding (okay, falling off) a mechanical bull in Tijuana--and it's still sore. More about that later.I had a fantastic time in San Diego. The sad thing is that i have no photos to show you, because i lost my camera. Yeah, you got that right. I got careless and lost it on the way to the Street Scene festival, i'm not quite sure how. It was terrible

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Wawi Navarroza writes in the most curious, delightful, almost archaic fashion, even in her emails. I received the loveliest missive from her, one no less endearing for being projected on an electronic screen. It began by thanking me for my postcard:It was a very beautiful moment, the exact instance i saw the postcard lying on the console table waiting for me as i entered the front door when I

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Bon Odori at Higashi Honganji Obon Festival Mascots & girls doing the Bon OdoriMore photos: [ link ]

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It's been several days since my quick trip to the San Diego Comic-Con 2005. I've been exhausted. It was an adventure in equal parts fun and frustrating.To begin with, i didn't even know about the Comic Con until saturday. And i decided, on the spur of the moment, to just jump on a train and go! After all, San Diego was mere hours away....But i had a lunch i couldn't cancel. And i needed a ride to

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And more photos taken at the San Diego Comic-Con 2005:SupergirlCatwomanBluntman & ChronicEgon (Ghostbusters)Anime Girl & BoyAnime GirlAyanami ReiAliceX-menKiller RobotFairies

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i met 3 mexican girls during the downtown artwalktheir names were andrea, mariana & ximenathey were fun & it was good to have friendseven if it was just for a little whilecoz i've been lonely....pics: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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This morning i saw the most beautiful girl in the world. She was a black girl who had stopped to help an old black lady get her metro ticket from the machine. Slim, dressed all in black, wearing a plain sleeveless top, her long hair delicately and tastefully braided, she had the face of a modern Nefertiti, or Cleopatra (only softer, less imperious). She stood a few meters away from me in the

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Me and Melody del MundoI finally met up with my old friend Wendy in Fountain Valley, CA. With her friend Kai driving, we went to a club where a bunch of Pinoy bands were playing, including Stella's Notch, fronted by the former Sugar Hiccup singer Melody del Mundo. Her new band doesn't sound like Sugar Hiccup--they rock a bit harder, though Melody's dreamy vocals still deliver that ethereal

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View: Photos taken at the Getty CenterToday i went to the Getty Center to see the exhibit of Rembrandt's Late Religious Paintings. I found them to be marvelous works, but i was not as awed by them as i expected to be. I was merely... well, admiring.I found true delight in the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, the Impressionists, and Post-Impressionists. I saw Van Gogh's Irises, and paintings by

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Today i stepped out into a muggy morning in La Mirada, CA and felt myself in an alien world. To most of you it would just be an ordinary scene, rows of plain houses in an American suburb. But i've just arrived from Manila, a place that is tropical, chaotic, and in a word, unwashed. Now i find myself in a world that seems uncannily scrubbed-clean and television-show surreal.A journey to an

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