Yet another one of my hobbies – watching the swell and the daredevils that are out here at Ocean beach, known for its powerful beach break surfing, especially during the winter season. This is not a location for the faint of heart. Even seasoned swimmers and surfers are wary and careful due to the harshContinue reading “Winter 2025: Surf’s up”
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Winter 2025: Because Twin Peaks are better than one
No, I’m not referring to the tv show. I can’t remember if my brother brought me here first, or it was my uncle who was living here at the time in the 90’s… Either way, it’s been over two decades since I first breathed in the fairly fresh mountain air (or as mountain as oneContinue reading “Winter 2025: Because Twin Peaks are better than one”
Winter 2025: Cold Moon viewing in the Bay
Somehow, I lucked out on the last viewing of the cold moon when I walking around, trying out this new disposable camera lens (fitted over my fuji xe-4) I purchased over Black Friday. The photos were fun to take, but I’m uncertain about the aesthetic. It was amusing to watch the moon rise over theContinue reading “Winter 2025: Cold Moon viewing in the Bay”
Fall 2025: Art, illusions, whatever
Georges Rousse, Sungkok Art Museum 2025 I made my way to a tiny museum almost forgotten by the public in a small localised neighbourhood in Seoul at the beginning of Fall. Celebrating the museum’s 30th anniversary, they had a showcase on it’s rich history of housing contemporary art from around the world alongside a specialContinue reading “Fall 2025: Art, illusions, whatever”
Fall 2025: Quietly
November is shaping up beautifully, after a series of situations rendering me untethered and uncertain. When I mean by beautiful, I mean that things have not been good, but quiet, and quiet is such a dream right now. As expected, knowing is very different from living things out. With each struggle, we can only takeContinue reading “Fall 2025: Quietly”
2025: Beyond a mid-year summary
This year has been one full of growth and coming to terms with some realities. It’s been okay-ish. It tends to feel like I don’t move forward fast enough, or don’t do quite enough, yet the years are not to be measured solely on the successes determined by the world, nor the number of personalContinue reading “2025: Beyond a mid-year summary”
2025: A beginning like no other
I’d like to say ‘Happy New Year!’ , though it’s already February. It’s hard to believe time passes so quickly (yet it keeps happening at the same pace it has always moved.) Ah, the mystery of time, or perhaps, it’s just my regular idiocy at hand here. Spent quite a bit of time mountain watching,Continue reading “2025: A beginning like no other”
2024: At a glance
I’m not certain how much I travelled this year, but I’d say it might have been too much. There seems to be a strange pattern in my life with excessive spring, fall and winter travels, with summer being the only downtime I experience a year. Long before work took me overseas, I’ve always remembered travellingContinue reading “2024: At a glance”
No Snaps: Just thoughts
For the first time in a long while, I felt the yearning to pen something quickly before I forgot the importance of this moment. I had been putting off watching Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Opus for a while, just like how I have locked sad creative fantasies away after too much interaction of that in real life,Continue reading “No Snaps: Just thoughts”
City Snaps: Always, Winter 2023
Recently someone asked me a poignant question, and perhaps it was not intended to be so, but it evoked a sense of melancholy somehow. It’s not particularly sad, per se, but either way, it reminded me of these photos from winter last year that I completely forgot about. The question was simple, “Do you feelContinue reading “City Snaps: Always, Winter 2023”
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