ごめん、わたくしわいませんです。

kalieaire @ 2009-10-02T21:33:00

2009-10-03T04:33:27Z

Photos: ALEXEI HAY Stylist: JOE ZEE

Sadness .. Foto_Decadent -- is gone.

2009-07-16T01:34:16Z

A community I've been frequenting for the past few users suddenly disappeared. I've been a visitor for entertainment, inspiration, and to awe myself and fellow artists.

I can't believe it's gone. :(

life at 40,000

2008-11-16T04:30:12Z

is a cold one.

at 40,000 feet, the west coast of greenland looks spectacular during the summer with glacial ice melting and looking gray, the black being the ocean water, and the clouds wafting up and creating their own shadows on the barren landscape.

after

2008-11-16T04:03:41Z

without further delay.

[drag and drop as usual to enlarge]

8th shoot

before

2008-11-16T04:02:22Z

Who wants to see what happened after?

I'll show you after i get 10 unique comments.

kalieaire @ 2007-04-12T13:02:00

2008-11-16T04:01:14Z

::trying to find that happy medium::

selected few from the garden grove tet festival

2008-11-16T04:00:27Z

set 3 of 3

-_-

selected few from the garden grove tet festival

2008-11-16T03:59:20Z

set 2 of 3

blah

selected few from the garden grove tet festival

2008-11-16T03:57:12Z

set 1 of 3

as usual, drag and drop the photos into your address bar.

3 o'clock sun

2007-03-08T23:36:59Z

You know what I remember?

Sneaking out at 1:45pm on those lazy Fridays in a metallic blue sometimes a dull white Toyota Camry in spring. Then coming back to campus - arms full of Fantasia Green Milk Tea, or Grass Jelly, drinks in those recycled paper trays or those tall drinkable tomes of Jamba Juice in that cardboard carry box.

That 3 o'clock sun when the bells rang and all the students came streaming out from their classes refreshed at the blindingly bright spring sun coming at them. Standing in between the G and H buildings near the lockers with our drinks, that was the best time with the blinding 3 o'clock sun.

Chit-chatting, back-backcracking, sun-bathing in the 3 o'clock sun.

That's what I remember.

LEAD FOOTERS, BEWARE

2007-02-09T21:45:44Z

Posted on Fri, Feb. 09, 2007

Highway Patrol is cracking down on south bay lead footers

By Gary Richards

Mercury News

Gary Reyes / Mercury News

CHP Officer Jason Morton uses a Laser Tech Ultra-Lyte 20 lidar gun (light and range detector) to monitor speeders on southbound Hwy 85 in San Jose on Feb. 7, 2007. Morton is part of a newly developed traffic enforcement unit aimed at slowing drivers down in Santa Clara County freeways. The program began in January and has already garnered over 1,700 speeding tickets.
The California Highway Patrol is cracking down on speeders at a pace never seen before in the South Bay, issuing nearly 1,400 tickets last month. At that rate, the CHP would quadruple the number of tickets issued last year.

A newly created five-trooper team is swarming a stretch of road every weekday, sometimes nabbing speeders twice on the same trip, and this isn't just some temporary tactic.

The goal is to make the South Bay an area where flying down a freeway at 80 to 90 mph is not tolerated. Despite severe staffing shortages, CHP commanders in San Jose are determined to change a disturbing fact: Speeding is the main cause of two out of three highway deaths in the state.

``What we have out there is in essence a free-for-all,'' Lt. Spencer Boyce, one of the CHP bosses behind the change in strategy, said. ``People figure if the speed limit is 65, then they can do 85. The reality is that speed kills. It's that simple, and we want to change that.''

The early returns are impressive. The new unit issued 1,744 tickets in January -- 1,369 for speeding with the remainder mainly going to solo drivers cheating in the carpool lane or not wearing seat belts. The group is on pace to issue more than 16,000 speeding tickets this year. Last year, the entire San Jose division gave out 4,155 tickets for excessive speed.

Tuesday, Lisa Basili was one of the unlucky ones. Officer Jason Morton clocked her at 83 mph on southbound Interstate 680 near Capitol Avenue.

``God, don't write me a ticket,'' pleaded Basili, who was returning to college in Monterey in her 1994 Buick with 125,000 miles on it. ``I'm sorry. I won't do it again. Just give me a warning. I'm driving a Buick. Please.''

No mercy, for her or anyone else, on this day.

Morton and four others no longer are assigned to patrol a particular highway by themselves. Instead, they are teamed up to saturate one South Bay freeway or expressway each weekday as part of the new crew, headed by Sgt. Bob Buckles.

They sometimes work together, one officer radioing another farther down the highway with four on motorcycles and one in a patrol car. Other times they stay on the same highway, but go after scofflaws separately. Some motorists see a trooper on the shoulder busy writing a ticket and zoom off, thinking the officer is too busy and they'll never see another for miles, a reasonable assumption in the past.

Surprise. ``We've given a person a ticket and three minutes later they are stopped again,'' officer Lance Hedrick said. ``They don't think there's going to be more than one of us out here. Certainly not five of us.''

Most crackdowns in the past have needed special funding or overtime pay. When that money ran out, enforcement often eased or stopped.

But not this crackdown. Officers' main duty is looking for speeders. No accidents to worry about, road rage incidents to deal with or other duties that often tie up a traffic officer.

Each day Sgt. Buckles picks a road to target. Highway 101 on Monday, Interstate 680 on Tuesday. Highway 85 on Wednesday. A different road today. Sometimes in the morning, sometimes late afternoon. Keep 'em guessing.

``It is a target rich environment,'' said Lt. Boyce. ``It's not like we have to wait 30 minutes to get somebody speeding.''

Try maybe three seconds. Tuesday around lunchtime, Morton pulled his black and white cruiser into the median on I-680 before Landess Avenue and tracked northbound traffic with his Lidar unit, which shoots a narrow laser beam at its target and can accurately pick out a speeder more than a half mile away.

``This won't be long,'' he told the Mercury News reporter.

Within four seconds, he jumped back in, hitting the accelerator hard to catch up to a gray Honda Accord flying by at 80 mph. It was Stacey Nixon's unlucky day.

The 37-year-old San Jose woman grumbled about her fate.

``I think this is very unfair,'' she said, her tiny pooch Sammy wagging his tail in the back seat. ``There are so many other terrible things they can get you for. I don't think speeding is that big a problem. People go a lot faster.''

Oh my, do they. Up next, Mike Nguyen, 38, of San Jose who was late for work at a Pleasanton restaurant. Speed: 86 mph.

Want faster? Try Nicole Young of San Jose -- 90 mph near Jacklin Road. That's a minimum fine of $350.

``People get hurt when they drive too fast,'' she said with a sigh. ``Well, 90 is pretty fast. I don't think I was driving unsafely, but it's a healthy reminder. I'm guilty.''

Rhianna Vicini, 84 mph. Sung So, 80 mph. The five cops wrote 116 tickets, the highest number of any day so far in the new crackdown.

Allen Hauptman of San Jose was tickled to see speeders and carpool cheaters being ticketed on San Tomas Expressway recently.

``What pleases me the most is that the enforcement effort isn't just a one or two patrol-person effort,'' he wrote in an e-mail. ``Nope. These scofflaws are being pounced upon by a team of four to six motorcycle officers.''

Ditto, said Pamela Yanne of Saratoga after the CHP flooded Highway 85 between Almaden Expressway and Union Avenue two weeks ago.

The CHP crew, she said, made drivers behave better, and the commute was ``a welcome sight to the usual stop-and-go, watching cheaters dart in and out of the carpool lane and speeders weaving through traffic.''

For years, motorists have lamented the absence of heavy patrols on state highways and expressways, for good reasons. The CHP's total of 66 patrol officers in its San Jose branch is down from 85 three years ago and from 119 in 1969. Factor in those assigned for special duties from homeland security to organized crime units, and there are 1,000 fewer cops cruising state freeways than in 1970.

Ten new cadets may head to the South Bay later this year, but local commanders said they can't wait for them.

``We need to be proactive,'' Boyce said. ``We can't just react to what is going on.''

The San Jose division is the first to employ the special unit. Don't be surprised if more follow suit, said CHP spokesman Mike Wright.

``You give an officer no beat accountability and tell them to go after speeders,'' Wright said, ``and it's like putting them in a candy store.''

another sf trip - lol, this is getting repetetive

2007-01-29T04:48:02Z

as usual, drag and drop the photo of your choice into the address bar to see a larger view of the photo ^_o

it's really cold in sf at night.

2007-01-15T01:29:18Z

mike and i took another trip around the city in the middle of the night on saturday. it's a stark contrast to the oakland chinatown area. where one is somewhat populated, even at midnight, the other is completely empty, save for one crazy lady talking to herself on a lonely street at a bus stop underneath a street lamp, with no one around in a 1000 foot radius.

here is a select set of photos that came from this expedition.

[in no particular order]

beside a private parking lot - but yes, playing and jumping -are- dangerous.

powell st

motion

a horse's ass and the man who rides it

a random antique store

installation at saks 5th

a sushi restaurant in chinatown

a local butcher

broadway and grant intersection

partner in crime

lol.

2007-01-08T10:00:47Z

coughing out a lung.

2006-12-15T09:24:25Z

somebody prescribe me azthiromycin 250mg 6 pills. i've got green expectorate - and i'm damn sure it's a precursor to bronchitis because i had the cold.

sucks to have to pay someone 180 bux to tell you to pay another 45 for antibiotics.

one foot.

2006-12-15T07:55:07Z

*curious equipment peepers*
bodies : canon digital eos 5d
lenses : canon 28mm f2.8
props : my foot

lol.

2006-12-15T07:54:22Z

it was her idea.

mm indian food.. well sorta.

2006-12-15T07:51:54Z

so we're out celebrating ros's bday. what an interesting time. i've had about 4 hours of sleep after getting home from initiation and my friends go "hey let's celebrate by eating indian food!" i'd have gotten better photos, but everybody was camera shy. i was only able to get these two decent candids. sorry to ros, ray, tim, and the food i didn't take photos of.

chantal is looking emo.

tam really likes his tandori chicken!

Some photos from my trip to SF for a gallery review.

2006-12-15T07:38:10Z

nothing spectacular, but no photoshop

just a nice picture of bloomingdales.

About those monitors..

2006-11-12T01:40:15Z

..Thanks everybody that helped me out by offering monitors for pickup and other things. Sorry to A LOT of you whom I could not meet up with to pick up your monitors. For the past eight weeks I've been pledging for a fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi, and yeah, that was our fundraiser to make up money for all the administrative and non-administrative costs for our projects especially the Community Service Project we put together as well as directly donating money as well. We ended up raising over 200 dollars from monitors and other electronic waste. We also collected donations and other money and donated over 500 bucks to the Sunday Friends organization as well as sponsored and ran a pumpkin painting booth and helped with the entire community service project.

Check out some more of the photos from that event.

Remember, just because the community service event is over doesn't mean we stop giving.

Sunday Friends is still in need of volunteers and donations. They are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping low-income families and giving kids a place to hang out and have some fun when they normally would be unable to. So if you can, head over to their website and see how -you- can help individually or collectively! Also, all donations are tax-deductible, so instead of just plainly paying taxes, donate!

anger doesn't help.

2006-09-19T05:48:56Z

grr. ::grits teeth::

last free night (which wasn't so free) for a while.

2006-09-18T06:58:21Z

SF Nights w/ Mike Wong

random photos from the past week.

2006-09-14T23:13:55Z

SJSU Senior Abby Presar among other students in a Geology class by Duncan Hall learning how to measure distances.

An absurd amount of traffic jams up 680 between Landess and 280. Apparently it was all caused large amount of rubbish that fell of the back of a struck. At 9:15AM in the morning, 680 is normally clear northbound.

A driver of a Tacoma speeds past Duncan Hall onto 6th street almost mowing down a pedestrian.

A man and his family look on at the truck as the tires of the Tacoma screech past them.

ok, I don't wanna study... ... for the moment.

2006-09-13T00:44:21Z

[b]"six things about [myself] which are either weird, unusual, habitual or are just plain fun to hear about (and true!)."[/b]

1) I walk around my house with no lights on in the middle of the night when I want to get food or do laundry or whatever. Seriously, we need to conserve power, yeah?

2) I avoid immediate corners, but whether it's walking down a sidewalk, kitchen tile, etc, and there's a corner created by an inlay piece of brick, or whatever, I avoid it like the plague.

3) I can't take turns slowly when driving, it just wastes too much energy to use my brakes. I mean do you seriously want me to slow down when you're trying to walk through the crosswalk? You must be kidding.

4) I cover my mouth when I laugh. Must've been when I was a kid and had seriously crooked teeth vs now where they're just slightly crooked, I was seriously self-conscious but I just do it out of habit now.

5) I check my email and browse online forums when I wake up. Seriously, what's going to change between 3:30AM and 5:30AM, the time between I sleep and wake up in the morning. I might be a little more than addicted.

6) When I type notes in class, I don't feel like opening up a new page of notes a lot of the time and type my notes into the chat windows of hapless chatters online. I don't think a certain MIS graduate appreciates it too much. But comeon, it's plain economics, there's benefit from trade!

[b]"once you post these things in your blog, you must tag six to ten others in the Xanga world, who then, in the spirit of not wussing out, must follow the same rules you did!"[/b]

So here're the lucky seven people that lose:
Introspection 86, undacoverbum, Deskdroid, kumigumi, neurotictrash, panasonikku ho, ininja004.

the real blame should fall on virtuamike.
damn tagging for giving me an excuse.

PS - the present you've been waiting for.

That's right.

a lazy sunday evening..

2006-09-11T09:43:59Z

..and like that.. ted came and went.