Archive for November, 2008

Flying Without Wings!

I now know how it feels to fly. True, the paragliding experience I had wasn't as exciting and as risky as that done by fellow blogger and flickr

Photography

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Mt. Fuji, At Long Last!

The ascent to the paragliding base (to be tackled in a separate post) was itself an adventure, but there was no taking the thunder away from

Photography

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The Colors of Fall (and other park shots)

It's my first experience of autumn and I have long been excited to watch and take pictures of the colorful hues that tree leaves wear as they make the

Photography

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Don’t Go Changin’, Billy!

His face was covered with ashen beard, his head almost bare of the once luscious, wavy crown. He surely wasn't the picture of the dapper rock-ballad i

Entertainment

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Let Me Ask You

I have been using the tag "islander" since the very start of my blogging days, but I had to settle with "r-yo" after some time, when many others used

Japan

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Two!

Two years. That has been this long since I started blogging, on the egging of now celebrity-blogger Gibbs Cadiz. At the time, I have just

Japan

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Messed Up

A few ticks away from Halloween, my year-old laptop met its untimely demise. With no fanfare. It simply jumbled its screencolors, formed a crazy rain

Islander's Notes

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