This is my personal collection of photographs - of me, my friends, my family, and my favorite places. I have a bunch of video clips as well, and I've also written a lot of background information for most photo sets. The goal is to make this photo album feel almost more like a photo JOURNAL, which is more interesting than just pages and pages of thumbnails or photos with little to no explanation as to what they're about. Do let me know what you think about my efforts to make this place interesting!
Of course as this is my personal photo album all the material here is copyrighted to me, so please do not hotlink directly to my files or modify them to make them part of a webpage's design or something of that nature. However, since I am nuts about the ocean I have a lot of beautiful photos of the California coastline (as well as other nature photos), and you are welcome to download any of them to use as wallpapers for your personal computer! You could also use pictures of me or my friends as wallpaper, though I have no idea why you'd want to! *rofl* :p Also, if you're working on a school project or an article of some sort and you'd like to use one of my photos of the coastline, please e-mail me to get permission.
Thanks, and have fun! Oh, and one last thing: All of my relatives who appear in my photo album are from my mom's side of the family unless otherwise noted.
- Ganymede
2008 Photos
 - 2008 Photos from March (59 photos and 3 video clips)
2007 Photos
- 2007 Photos from November to December (64 photos and 5 video clips)
- 2007 Photos from February (53 photos and 7 video clips)
2006 Photos
- 2006 Photos from December (63 photos and 10 video clips)
- 2006 Photos from September to October (44 photos and 9 video clips)
- 2006 Photos from March to June (40 photos)
- 2006 Photos from January to February (153 photos and 4 video clips)
2004 Photos
- 2004 Photos from March to July (60 photos and 1 video clip)
THE REST OF THE PHOTOS
(not yet sorted by date)
Pics of Myself - Alone or with Friends and Relatives:
myself in 1984 or so (and I was born in November of 1979 so you do the math :p), with my face painted cat-like o_o
myself in November of 1984, posing for a school portrait type thing
from left to right: my aunt, my brother in the stroller, the nerd (me at about ten years old :p), my mother, my grandfather, and my uncle with my cousin in the stroller
this picture has the same people as in the previous pic - my relatives visited from Korea and we were touring San Francisco for their benefit :p
we also took my relatives fishing at Half Moon Bay :p ...and I'm in some big blue shirt, standing behind my grandfather o_o
at Half Moon Bay with the relatives again... weird rocks o_o
*rofl* I look half asleep and oh-so-lame in this (is that a CROSS I'm wearing? *rofl*)... this was me in September of 1991, posing for my eighth grade pic
wow, I look like a girl o_o - this pic was from summer of 1993, when I was thirteen and my brother was three (this was taken in our backyard)
another pic of my brother and I in the backyard
Eunomia and Megadorus (don't ask)
my mother, my little brother, and I at Muir Woods in the summer of 1995 (it MIGHT be 1994, but I can't be sure...)
my mom, my little brother, and I on my mom's birthday... *rofl* I love the big smiles on our faces XD
Emiko, Shenaya, and myself at my going-away party thing (my face looks burned o_o)
myself and Emiko at in my dorm room at Brown University (that's not lipstick, my lips just get red :P)
Michelle, John Inman, and myself at a KTEH Store of Knowledge Are You Being Served? promotion event, 27 September 1997
Kat and myself in costume at Anime Expo, 17 July 1999
a terrible picture of myself with Emiko... we have no foreheads! XD (24 August 2000)
a bad pic of my mom and I at the beach on Christmas day, 2001... *rofl* only in Southern California, I'm tellin' you...
my little brother and I playing Scooby-Doo Monopoly (don't ask), during the last week of 2001
a good shot of myself, my brother, and my mother near my family's Northridge home (2 January 2002)
my brother and I in front of Burbank Airport (2 January 2002)
me dressed as a pseudo J-rocker and hugging Maral, at Anime North (26 May 2002)
another pic of Maral and I, with me kneeling in front (26 May 2002)
me at Maral/Stu/Paulina/Eric's place dressed in the infamous Hello Kitty Apron XD! (29 May 2002)
me dressed as Guitar Wolf, but still with that damn apron! :p (29 May 2002)
a bad picture of me at Justin's house (27 June 2002)
a close-up of me lying on the grass at school (8 July 2002)
a smaller version of the previous pic (8 July 2002)
and here's another bad picture of me on the lawn! :p (8 July 2002)
a bad picture of me with glasses, at the Belmont library (23 July 2002)
another one of me with glasses (23 July 2002)
a smaller version of the previous pic (23 July 2002)
me doing my hair on the morning of Arianna's wedding day (13 October 2002)
another one of me doing my hair :p (13 October 2002)
a lame webcam pic of myself... I was told I look about fifteen in this pic XD (24 December 2002)
my mom cracks me up... she said, "damn it, I look like a fat country woman who eats yams," when she saw this pic... not that I look any better *rofl* XD (25 December 2002)
*rofl* me eating pie at Christmas... I look so thrilled XD (25 December 2002)
me, from a dinner at Hyungjae Galbi (a Korean restaurant) in San Francisco with James and my parents (ca. April 2003)
posing for A.P.I.Q. (Asian Pacific Islander Queers), a group at U.C. Davis (ca. May 2003)
promotional picture for A.P.I.Q. - I'm at the very top of the image (ca. May 2003)
more posing for A.P.I.Q. - I'm in the center (ca. May 2003)
posing for A.P.I.Q. next to a tree on campus - I'm on the lower left :p (ca. May 2003)
me, looking dead tired an hour after arriving in Toronto to see Maral at Anime North (16 May 2003)
me in my Helly Kitty apron at Anime North... as you can see, I'm considerably more energetic in this pic XD (18 May 2003)
me in my Helly Kitty apron, with Maral, Stuart, Roupen, and the other Fanboys at Anime North (18 May 2003)
me and my mom in Oakland, after having lunch at Scott's Seafood Restaurant (13 June 2003)
left to right: my biological father, my mother, my brother, and myself at my brother's graduation from middle school (13 June 2003)
I love how my mom is all pimping with her Fendi purse and I got my Kenneth Cole glasses and Structure outfit, while my brother's suit is missing a button and my biological father is in jeans XD (13 June 2003)
my brother's graduation was held at Cañada College, a community/city college whose campus is in a really gorgeous part of Redwood City, five minutes away from my childhood home (13 June 2003)
my brother David and I, still at his graduation (13 June 2003)
an edited picture of me - "now you've got me in stereo, baby!" (13 June 2003)
Kevin in a Nixon mask and myself in an air force jacket and army hat (I'm a confused person :D), taken after Halloween (1 November 2003)
me with my mom and little brother on my mom's birthday, after her birthday brunch... like the cookies in our piggy little hands? XD
another picture of my mom, my brother, and me after the birthday brunch (6 August 2004)
I love how my mom is glaring at my stepdad in this picture - you see, he was a bit TOO camera happy that day... *dies* XD;;;
getting my mom a fresh tiramisu cake for her birthday, from the "Little Prague" bakery at Gelson's
my mom, my brother, and myself after having decimated the tiramisu cake XD (6 August 2004)
and what better way for me to spend my mom's birthday than swimming in her pool? XD;;; *L*
me in L.A.'s Little Tokyo, during their Nisei (i.e. "second generation Japanese-Americans") Week festival
my mom, my brother, and I in Little Tokyo, trying to cool down
slicing cake for Michael's birthday (9 September 2004)
...I'm sure you all really wanted to see me eating cake in my underwear... -_-;;;
Michael and I at Disneyland's California Adventures, with Mickey Mouse! XD (by the way, like my t-shirt? XD)
still at California Adventures, with TEH MISS PIGGY! XD (1 October 2004)
I SPEAK ENGLISH XD - HERE SPEECHING GOOD ENGRISH XD
HERE MORE SPEECHING ENGRISH YOU KNOW? XD
Michael and I at Disneyland... too bad the only one who came out well in this picture was the Queen (and if you ask, "Which one?" I'll k1ll j00!!! XD!!!)
at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center ("those lips..." XD XD XD;;;)
in a stand of bamboo, at the Zen Center (7 November 2004)
on a fence, with the Point Reyes coastline in the background (7 November 2004)
this is the same view as above, but it's a much better picture since my eyes are actually OPEN :p *rofl* XD
me doing a stupid, STUPID dance on the way down the LONG flight of steps to the Point Reyes Lighthouse XD;;;
me on the stairway again, except this time I actually look serious and halfway decent *L* XD
Michael refers to this as my "Wouldja like ta buy a mattress? 8D" face XD;;; *L* (7 November 2004)
be warned: you may go blind ;_; *L* XD;;;
I'd like this picture a lot better if I didn't look like such a dork... *rofl* XD;;; (7 November 2004)
my shadow and Michael's shadow, cast on the waters of Hermosa Beach - we're the same height, but I was hunched over while taking the picture (1 December 2004)
here's me fooling around on the touristy boardwalk at Santa Monica XD *L* (1 December 2004)
on the Santa Monica boardwalk - I was making faces because the sunlight was too bright for me to take a proper picture ^^;;;
desperately trying to look cool (key word: "trying" XD;;; *L*)
Pics of My Mother and Other Relatives:
my mother with her eldest brother, near their rural home in Korea - this pic was taken in 1960 when my mom was eight, and is apparently the earliest picture of her in existence
my mother with her two older sisters, her two older brothers and their wives, her younger brother, her younger sister, her parents, and three of her nephews and nieces - can you guess which one's my mother? :p
a pretty pic of my mom in a train, off on some field trip for one of her university classes
a picture from the day my mom married my biological father (23 May 1976)
my grandparents in the snow-covered courtyard of their rural home in Korea, from early in 1981
a passport photo, from July of 1982
my mom in Lake Tahoe, from around 1984 (that would explain her outdated clothing and hair :p)
an "employee" type photo from October of 1995
my mom and brother David at Disneyland, August of 1999
Mom and David at a beach in Southern California, again in August of 1999
Mom and David at the end of November in 1999 - we were celebrating my bro's tenth birthday a week early
my mom, some time in fall or winter of 2001
my mother shopping for hats at an art fair (ca. December 2002)
Mom and David at his middle school graduation - my mom's making a weird face *L* XD (13 June 2003)
my mom dressed up all nice and looking gorgeous for a professional picture - she's wearing the Paula Cain Lerner pearls and the Holly Yashi earrings I gave her ^_^ (ca. summer 2003)
I *love* the look on my mom's face in this pic (it was taken at Little Tokyo in L.A.), cause she looks so annoyed! *rofl* XD
a picture of my mom at the dinner table - we were having a late-night snack of sashimi and umeboshi, among other things XD (8 August 2004)
Pics of Friends and Acquaintances:
Michael taking a break on one of the walking trails at The Sea Ranch (18 October 2004)
Michael standing by a bell and drinking tea at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Sausalito (7 November 2004)
Michael at the Point Reyes Lighthouse, with the ocean beyond (7 November 2004)
Michael stops briefly on the way down the LONG flight of stairs to the Point Reyes Lighthouse
I took this photo of Michael going back up the stairs (away from the lighthouse) so that you can see the scale of the descent/ascent
a cute picture of Michael on the stairway <3 :D
look! here's Michael going to meet "God!" *DIES* XD;;; (7 November 2004)
Michael at Stinson Beach, waiting for lunch XD
Michael viewing the tea garden and teahouse at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (7 November 2004)
Michael at Santa Monica <3 *_* :D;;; (1 December 2004)
Michael at the Sea Ranch house, looking out the living room window at the pretty ocean view
Michael on the deck of the Sea Ranch house
Michael watching it rain outside the Sea Ranch house from the front door
Michael's profile, taken while we were in the boat that goes around Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland
Michael licking the Agatsuma CD I got him for his birthday... XD
...and what good is a birthday CD without a LOUD BELCH? *DIES* XD
a cute picture of Michael with one of the teacups I got for him (9 September 2004)
Michael messing with the pottery piece I got for him
Michael shows off his track marks! XD!!! (9 September 2004)
Michael after blowing out his candles
Maral dressed as Hamasaki Ayumi (J-pop singer) for Anime North (16 May 2003)
Maral again, laughing as she listens to some idiot talk about how there used to be blond women roaming the savannas of Africa XD (16 May 2003)
Justin with his Kenneth Cole sunglasses :p (8 July 2002)
Justin at the Belmont library (23 July 2002)
Justin takes a break while wandering around the U.C. Berkeley campus
Justin looking cute at Lake Tahoe
Miko at one of Simran's many parties
Ritu and Mike at Emiko's 18th birthday party
Ritu and Mike (at the party again)
Mike at one of Eric's parties (1995)
Ginna! mah dahling blond Pisces furrend ;_;
Sarah at the J.C.L. house
Simran Kaur Singh :P at Miko's 18th birthday party
Shenaya wasn't expecting me to snap a picture
Ahhurnyanurgh!
Deirdre auditions for Scream :P
Michelle L., Sarah, Shenaya, and Heather C. at 11:37 A.M., San Diego
John E. dressed as the god Mercury for Olympus on My Mind
Pics of Random Scenery:
a psychedelic shot from inside the Winnie-the-Pooh ride at Disneyland! XD *L* (1 October 2004)
a break the shape of an eagle's head was beginning to appear in the heavy clouds of the Sea Ranch Sky... gorgeous! *___*;;; (17 October 2004)
a gorgeous shot from inside the woods of the Sea Ranch coast (18 October 2004)
the waters of Redondo Beach, seen all askew!
TRY CHURRO DIP XD
this has got to be THE BEST piece of art I have EVER seen... (Redondo Beach, 29 November 2004)
...no, wait - I take that back *ROFL* XD!!!
a cute group of gulls playing in the clear waters of Redondo Beach
afternoon light, with gulls over the ocean at Redondo
a seagull, REALLY close up (the tourist nature of "Redundant Beach" :p and the constant flow of people dropping crumbs have made these gulls lose most of their fear of humans)
oh, look... natural beauty, ocean, pristine scenery, blue sky... and then in the corner... -___-;;;
a TINY cove (it's almost a cove-let), viewed from above (29 November 2004)
the pattern on the water in this picture may make you dizzy, as if you're being drawn into the ridges and valleys
a female seagull, OMG A SHE-GULL!!! *DIES* I R TEH FUNNY LOLLERZ TEH SHE-GULL!!111ione XD XD XD;;;
"rats with wings" >.>;;; XD;
quick shot of a bird taking off from the waters of Redondo
gulls gather round a hunk of sourdough, ignoring the sardines schooling less than a hundred feet below the pier (it got much worse the next day, when an idiot brought an entire plastic bag FILLED with sourdough -_-)
a sea lion below the water's surface, hunting for food
more sea lions going underwater at Redondo
this was one of the many "NO FISHING" signs - clearly tailored so that even illiterate idiots could understand them - that a group of fishermen chose to ignore at Redondo Beach (I called the PO-lice on them and had them moved to the *proper* fishing area *L* XD;)
never has a bird's ass looked so... so... MAJESTICAL! ;_______; *L* XD
a gull hunts for food near the surf, her shadow thrown behind her by the late afternoon light (29 November 2004)
I want to go to THIS bar, baby! XD XD XD (Redondo Beach, 30 November 2004)
a view of the Palos Verdes Peninsula from Redondo Beach, facing south
I came across a feral cat exploring these rocks at Redondo (I think it lived somewhere in the rocks!), but he walked further off before I could think to take a picture! Y_Y
seaweed in sunlight, Redondo Beach (30 November 2004)
I love this picture because there are so many layers and feels and textures in it (Redondo Beach)
a pelican circling in the air, getting ready to dive for sardines at Redondo (if you can see the white and grey flecks on the sand, that's mostly tourist litter -_-)
sailing off into the sunlight at Redondo Beach (30 November 2004)
this scene at Santa Monica had Michael and I cracking up - read the sign and you'll see why XD (1 December 2004)
passing under the Golden Gate on the way in to San Francisco (7 November 2004)
a gorgeous picture of the ocean, viewed through a small space between two huge stones on the way to Point Reyes Lighthouse (7 November 2004)
this is why the northern California coastline kicks the southern California coastline's bleached-blond ass... XD *rofl* it has more texture! *_* more activity! more STUFF! more RAWR! XD;;;
a view of the Point Reyes coastline while leaving the lighthouse
yes, all the white stuff on that rock is *indeed* GUANO... XD;;; can you SMELL IT? XD!!!
here's another SASSY XD little ocean view - I love all the plants encrusting the rocks on the slope *_*
an ocean view from relatively high up - don't get dizzy! @_@
another ocean view from near the Point Reyes Lighthouse, complete with a chain link fence to give you that punk rock feel XD!!! (7 November 2004)
when Michael and I saw this on the way to the Point Reyes Lighthouse, we looked at each other and sarcastically went: "Oh, look! It's GOD! 8D" *DIES* XD XD XD
here's a MUCH nicer view of "God" XD (7 November 2004)
more "God" XD;;; *cough*
the northwestern coast of Marin County, viewed from near the Point Reyes Lighthouse (7 November 2004)
a similar view as above, except with more of the land visible
this picture feels like flying, and I love it! XP!!!
a view of the ocean from the deck at the side of the Sea Ranch house - you can see how close we were to the water!
a view of the cloudy sky at the Sea Ranch - it was pretty cloudy the entire time Michael and I were there, but it made for great views and colors (e.g. greys, slates, muted blues and greens, et cetera)
a great shot of a wave coming into a small cove near the Sea Ranch house and Salal Creek
a shot of the ocean at the Sea Ranch, about half an hour before sunset
a shot of Sea Ranch coastline, taken facing south
a strong wave coming into the small cove near Salal Creek, The Sea Ranch
another great ocean shot from about half an hour before sunset
a view of where land meets sea near Salal Creek, lighted by the setting sun
this is probably my favorite shot of the ocean, since it captured the magical aspect of the setting sun's light so perfectly
an absolutely GORGEOUS shot of the sun setting off the coast of the Sea Ranch
another amazing shot of the same sunset
a wave coming into the cove which Salal Creek drains into (this area stank like HAYL from all the rotting seaweed and detritus piled up everywhere, and there was a swarm of flies... so yes, that black smudge in the sky is a fly, not a U.F.O. XD;;;)
a shot of the rain coming into the little courtyard at the Sea Ranch house
a gorgeous ocean shot taken while going south on Highway 1 (Shoreline Highway), just south of Bodega Bay
another ocean shot taken while going south on Highway 1 (what I love about this pic is that the sun is breaking through the clouds and brightening a small patch of the ocean's surface, and Point Reyes is just visible in the background)
on the way home from the Sea Ranch, there were some great, "PUFFY PUFFY!!!111one1" clouds - the kind that you get when heavy rains have cleared up - casting shadows on the hills, and there was also a smudge of a dying rainbow over one of the hills... needless to say, I had to take a picture! XD!!!
a gorgeous stand of violets at Disneyland, with a fake barnacled anchor sunk into the soil O.o;;;
a picture of Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland... yay xp
a mini model of Agrabah from Aladdin in Disneyland's Storybook Land
the castle from Cinderella (if you look closely, you can see the pumpkin coach! XD), again in Storybook Land at Disneyland :p
Pinocchio's village in miniature at Storybook Land - you can even see Geppetto's shop! XP
a guy dressed up as Merlin roped this hapless straight guy into The Sword in the Stone skit he was doing at Disneyland (what was great was that this was Gay Days weekend at Disneyland, so people wore red to identify themselves as gay... and this dude seems to have accidentally donned the crimson *DIES* XD)
a really great view of the Small World building at Disneyland
irony in action - this girl's ass says "Juicy" - even though it is SO NOT... it's juicy the way a fifty-year-old raisin is "juicy" XD!!!
a view of the cute/fun lamps at the restaurant in the Grand Californian (at Disneyland)
a neat view of city lights from an airplane window, with a reflection of the hands belonging to the person in the seat behind me
the teahouse and tea garden at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center (7 November 2004)
Michael and I attempted a Burmese style tea leaf salad - the big bowl has cabbage, and the small bowls from left to right (barring the bowl of limes) have tomato, fried split peas, spent tea leaves ground up with peanut oil, toasted peanuts, toasted sesame seeds, fried garlic, and minced jalapenos
remember the pic somewhere above of my grandparents in the courtyard of their home in 1981? here's the same courtyard, in spring of 1992
sentimental graffiti, which I created in a conference room at Justin's workplace - you can see Korean, Latin, Greek, Japanese, and astrological sigils on the whiteboard, as well as a curse in Gaelic! :p (31 July 2002)
if you walk away from my mother's (and grandparents') old rural home in Korea and walk slightly up into the hills away from the village, you'll find a gorgeous stand of red maple just randomly coexisting among a bunch of greenery - here's a picture taken within that stand of red maple
another pic of the red maples
a photo of neat tree formations which my mom snapped in Muir Woods some time in either April or May of 2003
somewhere near Santa Cruz there's a tiny, absolutely pristine gravel beach with an extensive tidepool structure you can walk through - here's a picture of water flowing over part of the tidepool
flamingos at San Diego
the shade-roof-thing at the deck at Eric's house
a profusion of flowers from the big flowering tree in our frontyard |
