Annual Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco Hike 2012

Golden Gate Bridge at sunset… New Years Day. Good vibes.

 

 

2012

Happy new year! My view from Rincon Towers in San Francisco. I have never seen the fireworks from this angle in SF before. Absolutely beautiful. The vibes are good. 2012 is going to rock!

Chasing Time

Halfway around the world, my friends in the middle east are already in the new year. My cousins in London are just about to celebrate, while my other family and friends in Asia are waking up from a long night of partying to welcome in 2012.

I got out of the car after running errands. The sky was clear and the weather was crisp with the warm December California weather. It just seemed like another day. Did it feel like something new was coming? No. Same old.

We went through a lot in 2011. Challenges, triumphs, disappointments, beginnings and ends, births and deaths. To me, it seemed like such a “bleh” year that there is hardly much to celebrate about, except for an outlook to a brighter new year.

Tonight will be another adventure in the foggy city of San Francisco. I will start a new decade-long artistic project filming. New friends will be met and made. Jokes will be thrown around. Memories will be ingrained into our minds. Fates will be determined.

Tomorrow at 12:00 AM, I will start my countdown to 30, along with 30 things I will wish to achieve.

30 things till 30 years…

I’ve always made lists that focused on what I should be doing more… perhaps a time for change should be what we should not be doing. Less is more, right?

30 things I should be NOT doing more before my 30 years is here… especially #4.

Credits to marcandangel.com and my friend who sent it to me…

1. Stop spending time with the wrong people
2. Stop running from your problems
3. Stop lying to yourself
4. Stop putting your own needs on the back burner
5. Stop trying to be someone you’re not
6. Stop trying to hold onto the past
7. Stop being scared to make a mistake
8. Stop berating yourself for old mistakes
9. Stop trying to buy happiness
10. Stop exclusively looking to others for happiness
11. Stop being idle
12. Stop thinking you’re not ready
13. Stop getting involved in relationships for the wrong reasons
14. Stop rejecting new relationships just because old ones didn’t work
15. Stop trying to compete against everyone else
16. Stop being jealous of others
17. Stop complaining and feeling sorry for yourself
18. Stop holding grudges
19. Stop letting others bring you down to their level
20. Stop wasting time explaining yourself to others
21. Stop doing the same things over and over without taking a break
22. Stop overlooking the beauty of small moments
23. Stop trying to make things perfect
24. Stop following the path of least resistance
25. Stop acting like everything is fine if it isn’t
26. Stop blaming others for your troubles
27. Stop trying to be everything to everyone
28. Stop worrying so much
29. Stop focusing on what you don’t want to happen
30. Stop being ungrateful

On Space. The intangible, metaphorical, and psychological one.

Staircase-III 2010

Do Ho Suh born 1962

On display at Tate Modern, London

This was one of my favorite installation art pieces on display at Tate Modern a few weeks ago when I stopped by London. Pictures do not do this installation piece justice… the grandeur, elegance, and detail was simply amazing. It was as if the heavens opened up and a stairway descended from the ceiling to bring you up to a surreal fantasy. The artist, Suh, sewed this piece together to create a sense of space and environment, and also to recreate a space that once occupied him physically and metaphorically.

Upon feeling this installation art upon me as I walked into the room, his work gave me a strong reminder that our perceptions and reveries our are own, we can weave and piece them together to create our own sanctuary and space, or it can be our own personal hell. His use of red fabric heightened my feelings of passionate creativity…. something I was seeking as I wandered the halls of Tate Modern.