From San Diego to the Valley, Riverside to Malibu, Pomona to Long Beach, So Cal is gettin alot smaller. :) Schools out, so this week is going to be.... legendary
Showing posts with label -justinelement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label -justinelement. Show all posts
9.24.2009
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8.31.2009
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8.28.2009
The Art of Juggling
24 hours in a day
25 hours of work
equates to another sleep deprived filipino
overworked
underpayed
locked in a cell of self committments
makes no sense
when i end up using it
losing it
abusing it
when i end up buying
a low fat 0 carb fruit smoothie
protein boost please
-excerpt from a spoken word i wrote march 2005
8.26.2009
8.25.2009
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8.08.2009
8.07.2009
8.06.2009
8.05.2009
8.04.2009
8.03.2009
7.21.2009
Looking Back
have you ever looked back and realized how lame and stupid you were when you were younger? cuz you did something incredibly dumb or immature? yea? well my advice is, don't look back and just leave it back there where it belongs. :) its worse reliving it
-justinelement
7.17.2009
LB Photoshoot
So our day will start off at the Cal State Long Beach Pyramid. Why perhaps? Because the pyramid has the most convenient parking situation and the most visually open shooting environment. Meaning if any of you come late, it won’t be hard to find us in the open field around the pyramid. We’ll be parking on the street in between Merriam Way and Palo Verde on Atherton Street. Directions are 405 north exit palo verde, left on exit. If your on the 405 south, exit palo verde, right on the exit. Right on Atherton, park on the right side, or make a uturn at Merriam way and park in front of the pyramid.
After shooting there or on the campus for a little bit, we can make our way to the 2nd street naples canals. Going down Atherton again making a left on Bellflower, a left on Pacific Coast Highway, and a right on 2nd street.
Continue here and make a left on Toledo/Sorrento Drive (which is right before the 2nd bridge. Follow it as it curves and make a right onto Neapolitan Lane. Follow it down and stay on the left and make a left onto Florence Walk where we will be parking. It’s a great nice neighborhood so no worries here. We’ll be walking around the canals, over the bridge we drove over into a really nice park along a T split canal with a bunch of palm trees. It’s a beautiful area and you’ll all love it. We can explore more but we should probably leave and find some food by 5 or 6 ish at the latest. 2nd street has great food or we can go to roscoes.
Eventually We’ll go back down 2nd street the way we came and backtrack to Pacific Coast Highway. This time make a left on 7th street and take that all the way down to Long Beach Blvd. Left on Long Beach Blvd. Right on Ocean. Left on Pine Ave. You’ll be passing the huge steps of the convention center on the left and Long Beach Pike on the right. Make a right on Shoreline Drive. A Left on Aquarium Way. Follow it around the circle turn about and make a left at the first chance you get (which is still aquarium way). Follow it behind the Aquarium of the Pacific and you’ll find a parking lot on the left, which is absolutely safe and free. ☺
This is Shoreline park, a peninsula surrounded by water and bay. The lighthouse has a long winding road leading up to it and palm trees that go on forever. There are also fisherman piers, jetty rocks, and a perfect long shot of the Queen mary on the other side and the multi colored bridge that lights up at night (we’ll be back here before we go back to our cars for the night shot of this).
After the lighthouse and the Queen Mary scenery we can walk up the east end up the sidewalk bay north towards the ferris wheel, roller coaster bridge, the pike, and the convention center. If we continue north we can enter downtown long beach and shoot the busy street life. We can find some food here also if you’d like. We can also walk down ocean or pine ave. As we walk back hopefully the sun will be down and we can get some good shots at shoreline village and the bridge we saw earlier.
If time allows and its before 10PM, we can get back into our cars and head over to the last stop: Signal Hill’s Hilltop Park, just up 7th street again, left on cherry, and a right on skyline drive. The park closes at 10pm and SH police are really strict on curfew. So we gotta be out by 10, but you don’t wanna miss the skyline shot of Long Beach and ultimately, the greater LA/OC area. If you haven’t been there yet, you’re gonna wanna see it.
That pretty much concludes the night, If all goes according to plan, you shouldn’t have to worry about meters, (unless we go to 2nd street to eat), or paying for parking. Everywhere were going is pretty safe, downtown Long Beach is the only place I’d worry a little bit about, but there will be a lot of tourists walking around anyway on a Saturday evening. Make sure you have enough money for food and drink and bring really comfy shoes. Don’t forget to accessorize ☺
I hope this helps as the most convenient and affordable way to hit up all these spots. Can’t wait! P.S Afterwards, lets grub at Fantastics near signal hill park ☺
Thanks
-Justinelement
After shooting there or on the campus for a little bit, we can make our way to the 2nd street naples canals. Going down Atherton again making a left on Bellflower, a left on Pacific Coast Highway, and a right on 2nd street.
Continue here and make a left on Toledo/Sorrento Drive (which is right before the 2nd bridge. Follow it as it curves and make a right onto Neapolitan Lane. Follow it down and stay on the left and make a left onto Florence Walk where we will be parking. It’s a great nice neighborhood so no worries here. We’ll be walking around the canals, over the bridge we drove over into a really nice park along a T split canal with a bunch of palm trees. It’s a beautiful area and you’ll all love it. We can explore more but we should probably leave and find some food by 5 or 6 ish at the latest. 2nd street has great food or we can go to roscoes.
Eventually We’ll go back down 2nd street the way we came and backtrack to Pacific Coast Highway. This time make a left on 7th street and take that all the way down to Long Beach Blvd. Left on Long Beach Blvd. Right on Ocean. Left on Pine Ave. You’ll be passing the huge steps of the convention center on the left and Long Beach Pike on the right. Make a right on Shoreline Drive. A Left on Aquarium Way. Follow it around the circle turn about and make a left at the first chance you get (which is still aquarium way). Follow it behind the Aquarium of the Pacific and you’ll find a parking lot on the left, which is absolutely safe and free. ☺
This is Shoreline park, a peninsula surrounded by water and bay. The lighthouse has a long winding road leading up to it and palm trees that go on forever. There are also fisherman piers, jetty rocks, and a perfect long shot of the Queen mary on the other side and the multi colored bridge that lights up at night (we’ll be back here before we go back to our cars for the night shot of this).
After the lighthouse and the Queen Mary scenery we can walk up the east end up the sidewalk bay north towards the ferris wheel, roller coaster bridge, the pike, and the convention center. If we continue north we can enter downtown long beach and shoot the busy street life. We can find some food here also if you’d like. We can also walk down ocean or pine ave. As we walk back hopefully the sun will be down and we can get some good shots at shoreline village and the bridge we saw earlier.
If time allows and its before 10PM, we can get back into our cars and head over to the last stop: Signal Hill’s Hilltop Park, just up 7th street again, left on cherry, and a right on skyline drive. The park closes at 10pm and SH police are really strict on curfew. So we gotta be out by 10, but you don’t wanna miss the skyline shot of Long Beach and ultimately, the greater LA/OC area. If you haven’t been there yet, you’re gonna wanna see it.
That pretty much concludes the night, If all goes according to plan, you shouldn’t have to worry about meters, (unless we go to 2nd street to eat), or paying for parking. Everywhere were going is pretty safe, downtown Long Beach is the only place I’d worry a little bit about, but there will be a lot of tourists walking around anyway on a Saturday evening. Make sure you have enough money for food and drink and bring really comfy shoes. Don’t forget to accessorize ☺
I hope this helps as the most convenient and affordable way to hit up all these spots. Can’t wait! P.S Afterwards, lets grub at Fantastics near signal hill park ☺
Thanks
-Justinelement
7.16.2009
He's Just Not That Into You
Sometimes we have those moments when we reach elevated thought and we think everything were saying is somehow life changing or amazing. BUT we honestly don't have much to say, its our 50 cents because thats what it is, just 50 cents, not a hundred dollars, not a million dollar idea, no, nothing special. its just another thought of idea by some other shmuck who thought hey, look at this: its called - im the exception not the rule. its called - she's out there waiting for me. its called the pathetically hopeless romantic notion that if you just wait, the right time, the right person will come along and you'll find love. heh. the idea that when i'm 40 and i talk to my kids about how i met there mother, it's going to be a incredibly cute story full of twists and turns, wit and smarts. its going to have that life changing moment, that moment that you know changed everything, when you looked up and went, dam - life is awesome. yea, the idea is probably short lived and over thought of, but hey, i still think its going to happen. because
i'm the exception, not the rule, i'm going to make it rain, i know its not going to work, but it just HAS too.
-justinelement
7.15.2009
Up
Thank you for the adventures,
now go have an adventure of your own.
Its just hella funny the way im going to put this... but everything is coming together yes, and i'm enjoying work, zeta, my reincarnated school, and everything, but then i just realized, its been forever since i went dancing... and dammmmm... wowww... just, i forgot how it felt. pun intended, both mentally, and yea literally, to get down on the dance floor with someone. that was so much fun, so to my short lived partner, thanks, i almost forgot how it felt :) and yea i know i'm lame writing this. but guess what, the amount of time it took me to actually get out there and dance? that was more lame... let me go stick my head down a hole :)
-justinelement
7.14.2009
How I Met Your Mother
If you ever get one of those
dolphin tattoos on your ankle,
call me
:)
Season 3, Episode 13 - Ten Sessions
ahahaha when i heard this, i was thinking. WTF i know someone who has that same tattoo. LOL
p.s that episode has the greatest date of all time... if you want to smile. watch it: freeonlineepisodes.net
-justinelement
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