Archive for January, 2010

Cannon Beach Getaway

January 31, 2010 { Posted in: fun things, life, photography, travel | No Comments }

My Seungshine turned the big  3-0 this month.  He wasn’t too thrilled.  In fact, he hasn’t been too thrilled about getting older ever since he turned 25.  Every year thereafter he made it seem such a depressing thing.  I really don’t get people who do that.  I on the other hand get excited for what lies ahead.  It’s all in the attitude, dude.  Anyway, I suggested we do something… get away and relax somewhere.  My first suggestion was to go to Forks, WA (hahaha) and the idea got shot down real quick.  I had another beautiful place in mind though and that place was Cannon Beach.  Whether it was hot, cold, wet, dry, windy, snowy… I knew this place would be relaxing.  I needed a getaway too.  I had planned the trip for this weekend, but moved it up a weekend earlier at the last minute after I found out that some out of state friends of ours were going to be there too.  Seung and I spent the entire weekend in Cannon Beach.  There were moments where I contemplated venturing into Portland to do some shopping, but I’m very glad we didn’t.  Plus, the beach was beautiful and it was too hard to leave.  We had an amazing time strolling the beach, watching the sunset, roasting hot dogs and smores over a bonfire, having ice cream in the winter time, soaking in the tub at the beach side Surfsand Resort and just relaxing overall. I can’t wait to return in the near future and hopefully add sun bathing, burying my toes in the sand, splashing in the ocean and hiking to our activities!


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There’s A Way!

January 16, 2010 { Posted in: life | No Comments }

Last year I developed a motto for myself and it was to “just do it”.  Yea okay, I bit it off of Nike, so who cares?  There are a lot of things that I want to do, but for one reason or another I end up not doing anything at all.  I admit one of the things that stand in my way is fear.  Fear of change, fear of failure, fear of the unknown outcome… I realize my biggest regret would be not doing anything at all and at the end of the day that was all up to me.  Sometimes you just have to take that leap of faith or you would never know the outcome altogether.  That wasn’t okay for me.  2009 was a year of “just do it”.  It was a year of self reflection and realizations and just making things happen.  I know it sounds a little silly, but sometimes you just have stop thinking about doing something and actually just doing it.  In that aspect I felt 2009 was a satisfying year for me.  I really want to keep this going through this new year and lately I’ve been feeling like if there’s something I really want to do that I have to make it happen.  Things aren’t going to happen on their own.  A lot of the times we know what we want to do.  The next step is how we’re going to get there.  If you want it badly enough there’s a way and that’ll be my motto for 2010… “there’s a way!”