<In the City> The Holidays.

Looking back on 12 months of one's life at the end of each year always induces mixed emotions. As I mature, I noticed that my memories started to be rounder, softer, and milder. This may be due to my progressively evaporating memory or simply due to my ability to forgive, forget, and let go of my sins much easier.

Either way, to toast the year 2013, I would like to post a couple of pictures and tell you a short story about life:

Living life seems like a never-ending, upward journey.

Happy holidays, everyone.

<photos by me>

<In the City> Introspection.

It is that time of the year when I halt mid-step, frozen, because I could feel the stirrings of disharmony.  

The feeling is not quite an eruption or a chaos or a turmoil. 

It is like roaming aimlessly until you come to realize that you are unsure of your whereabouts yet lack the proper methods to find your way home. 

You plant your feet on the ground, hoping that clicking your heels three times will bring answers to all your questions, take you back home, and tuck you under your covers, safe and sound.

The inevitable question of the holiday season: What have I done this year?

I immerse in this discomfiting question in a pleasurable way. What I have gained and lost, only I know in its entirety, and who is to say 'becoming better' has to be quantifiable?

Definitely not I.

Roam. Wonder. Dream. Repeat.

<photo by me>

<Out of the City> Phuket, Thailand: One.

In September, my girlfriend and I traversed to Phuket, Thailand, and its captivating beach-fronts bewitched our minds and souls. 

Paradise, it was.

There were glittering and vibrant portraits of unfiltered nature wherever we went. It was a larger-than-life Disney World that even made sunbathing an enchanting experience.  Phuket was the the magic carpet ride that swept us off our feet and twirled us around in a whirlwind of unparalleled beauty and Zen-like serenity only true nature can evoke.

I blab, but pictures speak thousands of words.

<Kata Beach>

<Karon View Point>

<Phi Phi Island Tour>

For those of you who wonder: Yes, the water is truly that color.

<Karon Beach>

A typical beach-loving Cali-girl at heart, I would be slighting Phuket without dedicating an entire post to its beaches. 

<photos by me>