If you have been following my blog and Facebook, you have seen that I post some pictures that I take where ever I go. I didn't want to clog Facebook with my photos as I wanted more freedom with them. So I looked up one of the biggest photo sharing websites that was actually part of main websites I visit everyday, Flickr from Yahoo! I remember a couple of months ago I was thinking about using a photo sharing site, but stayed away because I remember visiting photobucket once and finding it was really slow. That gave me the impression that all photo sharing sites were like that, but I was wrong.


I have to admit, Flickr is a godsend for me and I wish I had found it earlier. I have been taking pictures almost everyday for a couple of years and I wanted a way to show them to the world, because to me, my pictures and my camera help others see my world and the beauty/uniqueness of it. I always imagine someone on the other side of the globe that happens to find my pictures and wonder about life here.

For the years I've been blogging on any place on the internet, they have been pretty much about me, like a diary of sorts. I been thinking about writing small articles about stuff I see around me and on the media, and about the small things in life we don't think about too much but would laugh about when talked about. I am following in the footsteps of my favorite blogger, Danny Choo, a guy from Europe who now resides in Japan who writes about the otaku subculture of Japan and also about his life there. (Visit his website! http://www.dannychoo.com) Ever since reading his blogs and photo articles for a while, it made me think about the slice-of-life things I see here, and how it may be "normal" here but looked at differently halfway around the world. I know people like these kinds of slice-of-life scenarios as there are popular TV shows that demonstrate this, such as Seinfeld and Lucky Star(anime), both not having a set story and are about random things in life.

As I walk around everyday, I see article opportunities to write to the world, such as "While walking to your destination, you see someone handing out fliers or want you to support their cause. Do you stop to talk or pretend to check your phone for messages as you pass by?" or "While riding the bus standing, someone who is getting off next stop who is sitting in front of you gets up and gets off the bus leaving an empty seat. There are several people standing around you and you decide not to take the seat. For a while no one takes the empty seat as the bus gets more crowded until someone has the "guts" to take it. Why do people hesitate to grab an empty seat if there are people who are standing in front of it?"

I have an intrest in knowing and sharing what we do in the big and little events in our lives'. I'm so used to where I live that I feel that I will leave here to share and learn how other people live and what they do that is the same to us but differnt to them (such as common practices, like what do people do when the weather changes or how people commute to work/school, that we here are used to here but others outside would find how we do it strange or unfamilar to themselves.) Starting in November I will be adding mini articles between the time of my major "journal entries" about various things I want to generally talk about to you (the reader).

Now to this month's "summary of my life" journal. ......Crap! I can't really remember much from this month. Well I could go look back at the hundreds of pictures I took over the past 4 weeks or so to refresh my memory, but I don't have the time as I have homework. I plan on buying a Ipod Touch 8GB but thinking about the 32GB version as I know my 4GB Ipod Nano is filling up fast and those apps, pictures, and more will take up more room than ever on a Ipod I would own. Using the Ipod Touch's notes app, I will be able to keep track of things to blog about for my mini articles and for my personal journal. There is another item I was going to blog about, but will save it for a mini article. For the hundreds of pictures I take, I'm gonna have to start using those picture hosting websites (if they are fast and reliable) so I can post the best few on my blogs. I can't put all of them on Facebook forever!

In the next few days Halloween will be here. I have a costume in mind but its not really a costume either...just wait for pictures in the following days. On the day of tricks and treats, I will be out and about with my Canon PSSD 1100IS so look forward to seeing Halloween in the city of the fog and Golden Gate. Cya soon!