(Union Square, San Francisco)

picture #2 is the reason i need auto focus. i swear it was completely clear in the viewfinder.. i've noticed nikon is a lot slower than canon at processing pictures.

so simple but so nicely worn. i can't get over how amazing his bag is. its like a wild wild west rucksack.

my sister refuses to drive me anywhere after march 1st.. i really need to learn how to drive. i will set a goal to learn by the end of next saturday. hoorah

went shooting with megumi again today.
we tried filming homeless people and doing that 50 people 1 question thing.. didn't work out too well. i wanted to study class structure and ask homeless people questions but it's hard to come up with the right question. then i get depressed because there's nothing i can do about their circumstance.

i had a personal thing of not shooting people who smoke, but it makes for a nice picture so what the heck.
i like his boots. and the whole boot-look.. kinda rugged hipster meets prep.

my vintage boots have holes them. "vintage is a euphemism for old" -cynthia. nicely said.


the lack of auto-focus compatibility with my lens is starting to frustrate me.

(Financial District)

the v-neck scarf look reminds me of a military uniform.. i have no clue what is attached to his left shoulder

(Financial District)

i love the way his pants fit. it looks ahhhmazing when people wear pants that fit, like clinton kelly. and ORANGE socks add that playful pop of color to his serious demeanor.. and OXFORDS! i wonder how you bike in oxfords. that must be uncomfortable..

(Chinatown)

old-lady prints :)

i have $13 in my savings account. 5 months ago i had $700. what a sad, sad life.

i've realized i don't know if i'd ever want to get married. i'm afraid of really liking a guy (or a girl, i don't really know yet) and then having all that fuzzy-amazing-im-in-love stuff ruined by spending so much time together and living together.

so i've decided that when i grow up i want to work a lot and my future spouse-wife will work a lot and we'll rarely get to see each other but when we do it will be amazing and i will never get sick of him or her. sound good? yah.

watched avatar yesterday. three-deee. after 2.5 hours i felt like i had climbed mount everest, thats how exhausted i felt, with all the bombing and gunshots and whatnot.. but all i had done was sit there. kinda over-hyped.

attempts at street photography today in the fi-di with meg.

this guy's boots are raw. he was really tall though, so his spread legs made for an awkward picture! he had amazingly blue eyes, which, unfortunately are not very visible in the picture.


her outfit could have come out looking really hookery, but it didn't :)



want to get me some tom-toms! i think he's just wearing white vans though.

here's my sorry attempt to be thesartorialist and capture a picture of a man with i must say, impeccable taste. i didn't have enough balls to ask him for a posed picture and i only had my camera phone which responds terribly to motion so i couldn't get him while he was walking.


he was wearing a jeans and a bright red windbreaker with a washed-blue colored scarf and mahogany-orange oxfords. he looked like ed westwick, but he had a mustache and had blond hair. he looked really disgruntled the whole time like ed does though. he got on the bus when it stopped at castro. he was falling asleep and i wanted to take a picture of him then but it'd be such creeper-status.

i love when the bus stops at castro station because i get to see people in nice outfits.

other things that are hot:
- when people hold their gloves in their hand - i don't know why, it looks sophisticated
- people who work at trader joe's - or maybe i'm just attracted to yuppies
- men who wear suits with a pop of color or dress all suit chiq but wear a paisley dress shirt (there was this guy walking on stockton today who was wearing a suit and sweatervest but had a paisley dress shirt. he was so brilliant. the only thing that ruined it was his sneakers.) or just pops of color in general.


by thesartorialist

here, here, and here

i liked super sunday today. after doing summer day camp for 3 years in a row with 1st-2nd graders, i was almost adamant in my decision to never have kids. but there was an adorable kid named jason today. he kept pulling down the seats next to me and looking for people who looked lonely and telling them to sit next to us. and he was frustrated and said 'aiyaaah' when me and candon were messing around and untying each others' shoes because he sat between us. what a cutie- he's so thoughtful.

a lot of times when i speak in (very bad) cantonese i have a tendency to mix vietnamese into it. then i wonder why the grandma or the kid can't understand me. d'oh

some quotes from my psych book i really liked:

"Based on the roughly 10-million-to-1 odds against a bet's winning a state Lotto jackpot, one's chances are not much better than the odds of being struck by lightning. If you are an average British citizen and you place a bet in the National Lottery, the oods of your dying during the 20-minute National Lottery draw program on television are several times greater than the odds of your winning (Chance News, 1999)."

"Casinos entice us to gamble by signaling even small wins with bells and lights -- making them vividly memorable -- while keeping big losses soundlessly invisible."