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Monterey Bay, California

** Asilomar Beach

** 17 mile drive

** Fishermans Wharf

Boyfriend & I

DSC_0051, originally uploaded by maricriscf♥♪.

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TWILIGHT'S ECLIPSE

I am a huge huge fan of the Twilight series, & I refuse to call it saga because that just sounds silly. Today the 2nd trailer for Eclipse was released and I'm beyond elated.

I have no worries about this movie living up to its expectation. The director David Slade's been known to be a tough critic and wanted the movie this time around to be more realistic than its previous counterparts. From the trailer alone looks as if Kristen Stewart's portrayal of Bella has improved. There's the action scene that I can't wait to see, it looks bad ass! The newborns look ferocious even more so than they were described in the book. I personally think that they calmed with Edward Cullen's look because he is not as "dreamy" as he was in New Moon and Twilight, but I have to say I'm liking his realistic Edward Cullen look.

HAPPY EARTH DAY

Let's pay respect to our mother Earth. Without her, no matter what you believe in, whatever your beliefs may be, regardless of all the hate, despite all the hostility, we would have no place to call a home. A home. Looking at these shots taken from Nasa, it surprises me how insignificant us being truly are in comparison to a much larger picture. We all sit back, do our daily routines, whatever it may be, even digress from our lives and presume that we are the center of the world. But in fact we are just a part of a much grander scale of things. We see it everyday when we look at the sky or when we breathe oxygen. From a scientific point of view; it is an amazing prospect what we've all turned out to be. From a religious one; it is nothing short of a miracle what Gods true wonders can really entail.

This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of a planet beyond the Moon. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission. (March 8, 2004)

The image is a mosaic of images taken by the rover's navigation camera showing a broad view of the sky, and an image taken by the rover's panoramic camera of Earth. The contrast in the panoramic camera image was increased two times to make Earth easier to see.The inset shows a combination of four panoramic camera images zoomed in on Earth. The arrow points to Earth. Earth was too faint to be detected in images taken with the panoramic camera's color filters.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Texas

A magnificent shot taken from Mars. For me, it's quite mind boggling.

Cumulonimbus Cloud over Africa

details of the image, as well as the others, are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4542423196/in/photostream/

This was one of those "second-glance" moments, because I didn't know what it was. I honestly thought it was a macro shot of a mushroom.

Let's pay our respects to her! Try to cut down on using electricity as much as possible today. Let's take care of her and in turn, she will take care of us for a long long time.

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On a much more important note, today is a my brother's 14th birthday! He lives in the Philippines with my Aunt and Uncle who are absolutely the best for taking care of him. It's a broken feeling when my family are here in America together. As happy as we are, it's not a complete and utter joy. There's that missing factor always nudging me in the back of the head, telling me that I shouldn't be joyous because my brother is not here. There are a lot of people who are asking "why isn't he here" & it's a sensitive subject because it's not that easy. My brother has a condition called Cerebral Palsy. When he was an infant, he got sick, was jaundice, and too much blood rushed in his brain -- or something like that. Apparently, I understand now that it could have been avoided so long as the doctor ordered for blood work, but he didn't. Whether it was laziness or assumptions that had him believe that nothing was truly wrong with my brother when in fact there was, it's too late now. This was in the Philippines and as a young child, I remember my brother being rushed to the hospital 4 months after he was born. I also remember my dad, who was my brothers blood type match, coming home very weak because they took so much blood from him in order to save my brother. They are hazy thoughts, and me, at such a young age, did not understand what was happening at the time, fully realize it now that I am older. When my brother was 2 or 3, I didn't understand why he could not walk yet. And why he couldn't hold his head up himself, or why his movements were odd. When he was 5 or 6, his condition remained. I never really asked my parents, not because I didn't care, but because I was probably afraid. I just knew he was sick... I didn't know the extent of his sickness. Circumstances now are that my family moved here to get a better a life and unfortunately my brother couldn't come along. My parents will go back in a couple of more years to live there, and I in the future, will visit the Philippines as much as I can to see him.

I am glad to say that he is better now. He has his own physician, a good one, at that. My moms cousin and her husband and their two daughters take care of him like he was their own son. I couldn't ask for more better people. We visited him 2 years ago, and we will again this June and I can't wait! We webcam chat with them once a week or as much as we can. He looks very happy, and he remembers us as his family and I couldn't ask for anything more.

Happy Birthday little brother.

~ Dearest, ate Maricris

the tighter the rope

Beautiful moments.

Its trickling despair.

Its brilliant image.

Its satisfaction for hope.

All the more; the tighter the rope

It binds us, and never lets go.

Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/robkints/

Touring Frisco

San Francisco was just all around beautiful. It was overcast. It sprinkled a bit. But the sun ended up shining in the end.

On the way there. A picture of the Bay Bridge.

San Francisco State College. My cousin who's nearing graduation is very interested. If he ends up deciding that this college is for him, I'll have two cousins that attend college in the bay! Whoo!

Us getting lost in China Town while looking for Japantown. I had this idea that the two were near each other, but in fact, they weren't. lolol

Street Perfomers. They had an amazing voice.

We ended up taking this taxi back to my car. I couldn't stand to walk back.

When we finally found it, we were so relieved. I couldn't stand to be in a car with two hungry guys who were continuously complaining. There was a pretty cool festival going on. The band was lip syncing to their own music. Banging drums were heard in the distance. I wonder if Japan is really like this?

Yummy food, but what I wanted was some authentic ramen. =\ The line was crazy long and I didn't want to wait.

We also visited the Golden Gate bridge. I can't believe how far the distance is from bridge to floor, or ocean rather. To think that people had actually commit suicide there! While we walked, I stood there and imagined what kind of mindset would those suicide-es have. How depress and out-of-way can one be to fully ignore the magnitude of, or even the mere thought of, that fall. I'm not afraid of heights, but I after looking down, I felt too felt dizzy.

To end the day we visited Fisherman's Warf. There were some street performers. A man for example hiding behind a make-shift bush, waiting to ambush any by-passers. It was super funny to watch him frighten the shit out them xD. There was also these two college students who spray paint for a living, I suppose. Very talented young men!

That was my adventure. I can't wait to go back! The city is so much more fun than boring stockton. Anyway, <3.>

~Dearest, mc.

Beautiful weather

My brother, boyfriend, and I basking in the sun. Beautiful day.

I'm super enjoying photography. It's like this way of relief and it just relaxes me completely. I also just recently learned about hdr photos. You basically take 3 of the same photo's with 3 different exposure settings and overlap them on top of one another to get this spectacular image. Here is an example:

Image Taken from: http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/?s=overcast

Need I say more? The colors just pop. It's an amazing thing.

~Dearest, m.c.