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A month of absence is unlike me of me, but yeah, sometimes, when stars align, things happen. Between June and July I've got so many things on my plate I didn't even have time to write my annual birthday entry, it's a good thing though, as my time was taken up by some projects I'm really passionate for and also I find my birthday entries rather boring to read. What else am I going to say aside from Thanks Mother, friends and had a lovely time? Anyways, first thing first, Polaroids.

I made a short trip to LA on mother's day weekend, after spending two days at my parents, me and Roger decided to find our ways to a LA "must-see" that we never bothered to visit until now - The Bradbury Building. I don't want to go into details about the building, if you're unfamiliar with the place, you can read it here.

Pier 23 is a bar on Embarcadero we often go to. These were taken one of our colleagues' farewell party.

SF often have these short and sudden showers, they'd start misty, then drizzle and suddenly clouds would rush off. So on this cloudy day there was nothing special, except the serendipity of timing, the clouds were thinning as the night begins to fall. Everything for that brief 10 minutes turned into blue.

I think guys my generation all have this moment of epiphany when we saw army men and the lovely army jeep for the first time. Tanks, helicopters and other things never had the same impact with that little jeep and the first 5 poses of the green men.

So I almost jumped out of my seat when I saw the leggos edition, what a perfect rush of nostalgia.

In my blog I rarely write about fashion accessories, in this case, it's something more than that. The messenger bag was about a 100 bucks, it was 2002 on a cold rainy day in New York when I had to buy it to store all my internship paperwork. I remember grinding my teeth about the purchase, back then a 100 bucks meant 3 weeks of my allowance. My dear friend Miki used her store manager power to get it down to 90, but still, it was a lot. I kept the bag for years, and it followed me to all the places, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Prague, Tibet... So as you can imagine, I'm having a "Toy Story" moment.

The journey slowly came to an end in Boston. After 6 years, The canvas became more and more threaded, and finally came apart. I really didn't want to give it up, as often the case it was the only witness to my discoveries on my journey, like a loyal friend, carrying my stuff as I wondered about in the world.

I'm sad to get rid of it, but had to. I kept all the pins I've collected over the years and hopefully they will go on a new canvas bag. This entry is dedicated to you, my favorite messenger bag.

A friend all of sudden decided to drop by SF this week. We've known each other for ages. Due to some circumstances I couldn't really mention her name, non the less, it was fun hanging out. This is taken atop my apartment building. I enjoyed your company friend :)

After an entire month in heiatus, I finally squeezed out a little time to post an update. Yes folks, I've left Mullen Boston, and am now with Cutwater in the beautiful San Francisco. I was lucky enough to be put on a cool project for Persol, for those hipsters that knows the brand, expect some exciting stuff very soon, for those of you who don't, don't worry, you'll hear me babbling about it often.

The January trip was amazing, I got to work with one of my favorite photographers, Carlos Serrao, and his amazing crew. Aside from eating non stop at various cool places to compensate for lack of sleep (sounds really bad I know), I also got to fly on the airplane I created ads for - the A380 airbus. It's a gorgeous airplane. Business class seat that goes all the way horizontal, restrooms that's twice the size as other planes', and LED cabin lights that dims and transitions to different colors.

Ok, enough babbling, here are some pictures, more will be posted soon.

Meeting up with my "Thanksgiving Orphan" friends in NYC seemed to become my newest tradition. Thanks Mike for letting me stay and Dines taking me to this awesome texas bbq called Hill Country.

Also seeing the Standard finally completed was a cool thing, I know this sounds bad, but I have to say, architecturally, its very cool. "The high line" which was a park converted from an abandoned raised train track next to the hotel is a nice touch too.

Polaroid of the week this week continues on our Fall theme. I just can't get over it. New England's fall is beautiful, besides the maple trees turning red, there are this type of birch trees turning bright golden yellow around my apartment and office.

Fall's upon Boston. Loved this random light that got into the camera.

Fall started across from my apartment today.

The ferry I take to work always carries a lot of toddlers. I love how they're always curious about everything around them, this little guy just stared out through the entire ride, not a peep.

Saw this handsome fella on my way to work one morning.

Over the weekend I went to MIT museum. Yeah, that's right, the tech school has it's own museum, and I have to say, it is pretty impressive, definitely worth a visit if you're ever in Boston.

This is one of it's architecture structural studies, it's like watching math come alive, I felt smarter as I stood next to it, hehe.

Work's just getting crazier and crazier, this is to make up some of the missing polaroid of the week entries.

The above are Zakim bridge and Charlestown bridge. The sunset gets really beautiful here in Boston during the fall.

Spent the weekend dog sitting for Popita. I swear her dog Sasha is the smartest dog I've ever met. She took commands after just one or two trailings. She never begs for treats, and when she gets one, she hides them for later. Only down fall is that I had to walk this tiny Yorkshire terrier at astonishing 4 times a day, first one starts at 7 am :(...

This past 2 weeks has been pretty crazy, the office is slowly calming down from all the adjustments. Some notable things, on our first day we get visted by Boston mayor Tom Menino, and a Penguin ambassador from New England Aquarium named Meatloaf. If I ever have a penguin as a pet, I'm gonna name it Meatloaf.

Finally, I'm taking mass transit instead of driving now. Doing that is nothing new, but, taking the ferry to work is a first for me, dunno how this will go down in winter, but so far, I'm loving it.

Spring in New England arrives in May, the first batch of flowers finally bloomed last week and everyone's already sporting shorts and sandals in 60 degree weather. I totally understand why after going through the winter here. Hooray warm weather! I missed you.

Puma City is a cool design store concept. Its already cool to convert a shipping container into a store space, but Puma cleverly did it with several containers and made them into interchangeable sections. This one is the biggest one, which included a Bar and a roof deck. If you're in the Boston area, this is at Fan pier.

Fan pier is also currently hosting some sail boat races. Pretty cool.

Charlestown apt, this is the first thing I see entering the building from the garage. AC box

This past weekend saw Boston's first ever 80-degree-weekends of the year. I decided to do kayaking on the Charles river again. Its been nearly a year since I did this, and frankly its one of the things about Boston I think its hard to top in the world. Its absolutely gorgeous going down the river.