Older and younger sister enjoying some quality sketching time before lunch.


Want some soy sauce with those chillies?


After a nice seafood lunch. My mohawk covers up lesser people.


Found an even better juan, either 96 or diesel.


That night we went to go see some bands perform. Shitty pic, but this band is called Archipelago. I've never heard of them but I really like them now.


Next morning I was able to catch the taho man. Taho is a warm drink snack thingie that you can only find in the morning. A guy has 2 large cans. One with soy bean curd, the other with 2 sections, one for boba and one for syrup. The syrup is just a simple syrup but made with brown sugar, not white. When I was a kid I used to sit outside on the curb every morning and wait for the vendor to come around with two big glasses and money in hand. I did the same today.


This is what it looks like. You can still get this at Filipino fast food joints like Chowking.


New Year's Eve. We only let my little sis play with sparklers.


Found a cool bamboo wall.


These star-shaped lanterns are called parols. They can be as simple as this, or can be pretty extravagant, like the one in front of governor uncle's house.


I got my little sister a Hello Kity digital camera but it's a piece of crap. Found it kinda funny that it had a tripod hookup though.


My little arsenal for the evening. Usually when the whole family gets together, it's a lot bigger than this. But I was on a solo flight, so this was all my money could buy. I really did waste the last of my money on fireworks. Not pictured are the 100 rockets I bought, but didn't set off because it was really windy and the first few rockets I shot went to my neighbor's house. Doh...


It's really unsafe to light firecrackers with a lighter, so I prefer to use a sparkler, which is also...somewhat dangerous.


My aunt had this lame idea and bought a "wish balloon." Inside is a block of wax, that when lit will make it a hot air balloon and it'll fly away and send your wishes up to God...or somesing like that. Anyway the block did light up after 10 minutes of lighter abuse but wasn't flying anywhere. LOL


Mostly because she wouldn't let go of the damn thing.


Our more festive parol, with 4 sec exposure.

hardly check it... but ok