Hiroshima, Fall 2006

Best tour ever - Melissa and I paid 5,000 yen for a bus tour to Hiroshima. Spent two days and 1 night there with Kokokoronet volunteers and foreign students from Hyogo International House. We met 2 pinoy students from Hiroshima, forgot their names....

NYC, Spring 2007

Visited Santa and Kiril in New Yok. Finally met Cosmo and Spunky. Toured NYC with them....

NJ, Spring 2007

spent five days with the family... watched pinoy soaps in tfc and pinoytv

Okinawa 2007

Kobe JDS Fellows Study Tour 2007

Second time in Okinawa - went on an island hopping tour: ishigaki, irimiote, taketomi

Hokkaido, Winter 2007

spent a week in the cities of sapporo and otaru. stayed and lived with the monks for a weekend and practiced zazen

kobe scenes

i'm uploading photos to free some space in my notebook. these are under the folder: kobe scenes. i don't know why these pictures got under this category but pressed for a description to write here - i think these are the everyday kobe scenes, season after season, that i want to capture and remember...

i guess, i'm preparing to leave this home for the real one.

kobe shinrin shokubutsuen

after hiking and climbing mount rokko three times, i finally got to bring my camera. went there summer last year and twice this spring. now i have this sense of fulfillment - i think i can now understand the rush and excitement that photographers from the national geographic feel. it's as if you are given the chance to capture fleeting moments of beauty, wonder and miracles....