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May 17 2009

Three Months’ Worth

I had been extremely busy doing other things besides doing photography. I have been taking photographs, just not doing anything to them. I had a lot of things, obligations of sorts: there were the military intelligence classes I was taking, my solo exhibition, selling art, and my unit’s preparations for our upcoming deployment to Afghanistan (which may or may not happen; no one knows). I am usually so exhausted by the end of the day, I am not interested in doing anything creative.

The training tempo for the past three weeks has slowed down quite a bit. So much so that I was able to find time to build this website from scratch on a different blogging platform than what I am used to. Now that it is done, I can do photography now.

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Feb 21 2005

Fujiyama

I visited Fujiyama today. That is “Mount Fuji” for the Japanese-illiterate. He was looking snazzy and majestic as any proper mountain should, at least when he was not hiding behind the veil of cloud covers. With my cameraphone in my right hand and a bag of sour Starbursts in my left, I happily and excitedly boarded the vehicle that shall whisk me away to Mount Fuji and its snow-capped peaks. With an expectant smile, I pressed my face against the clear glass window of the vehicle and suddenly realized that it is far too early to be up. It was only 7:30 am! Who the fuck wakes up at that time? On a holiday! I closed my eyes and promptly went to sleep.

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