Good Old Memories....

18/100 (03.18.09)

It's been good so far.
18 days on the road.
Drove 4,600 miles...
Drove through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and now in New Jersey, the place I grew up....

I met Yonji in Virginia...
Last time I saw her was 1.5 yrs ago in summer... very briefly so I don't really remember much...
all I remember of her is that she was a little girl... very little... in middleschool....
and now she's in College... dang...

Oh well... spending time with her was very gorgeous....
time well spent.

seeing her... talking to her gave me inspiration and hope....

seeing her little drawings hit me really hard...
she loves to draw portraits... just like I love taking portraits...
but she spends her time studying the person and spends her time to make one work...
when for me it takes at most 1 second to make the portrait...

she puts so much more effort and energy to create a one work and to capture that emotion in drawing.... wow
I was blown away by her talent... and made me think of myself and the way I work...

Photographing is so much easier and faster compare to the drawing..
and at the same time drawing has more personal touch to it than photography... I don't know...
I think that's how others see it... I do too...
oh well...
now I gotta start working hard to capture everyone's soul...
work hard to have people open up to me... and allow me to capture their natural beauty than "Photo Smile"

Yonji! Good luck!! and believe in yourself.
you are an amazing person.... you make people be themselves when they are around you...
that's an incredible ability to have.
and you can use that in any kind of field. from graphic designing, business, and to art or anything that you maybe doing.
and... good luck with your midterms! sorry took so much time from you. haha




drove from Virgina to New Jersey today.

Driving is so easy now... and especially long distance...
I drove 6hours today and it was nothing.

Driving through Leonia, NJ... the place I have most of my childhood memories... was some what sad...

I had really good friends here...
I loved the school here...
I enjoyed every moment I had...
But I had to move to Dallas... not by my choice....

Moving to Dallas was not a bad thing after all...
It changed me.. made me a better person...
a person with bigger dreams and bigger heart...

If I have stayed here in Jersey... I don't know what kind of person I would have become.
maybe gotten into so much problem...
and of course, wouldn't be doing photography...
I maybe was trying to become a pro soccer player... or I don't know..
still dreaming of becoming an engineer.. who knows....

My memories from Jersey... and the lessons I learned from Jersey... helped me get through myself.
made me become a bigger person...

meeting up with my old highschool friends was very interesting...
seeing them all grown up...
of course.. I've seen them couple years ago and almost every year.
but now... it's all different
everyone's doing their own thing... have their business, going to school, trying to become a teacher...

But somehow... I couldn't connect with them deeply....
the conversation stayed on the air...
the way we were thinking was very different...
It wasn't bad at all but it was interesting...
we are still same people... but the way we are living now is very different from one another..
I felt very distant from them...

As much as I've missed them and wanting to talk to them...
the time have never stop running...
and we all kept doing our own things in different places....

That's how the world is...
the distant and time changes everything...

But we are still friends... not just friends but good friends.... sharing same memories of youth..
spent so much time together...
laughing... talking... fighting... sometimes crying... haha

every little moments added up and created me...
that's how I became who I am now.

and I'll be changing everyday.... to better myself.....

oh well.... it's getting really late...

I'll post up photos later....