I’m leaving this place in a few days. I’m pretty sure I’m coming back in no time, but I still feel sad about leaving. NY and NJ have both been my comfort zones away from home. I loved it here!

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Thank you for the wonderful memories with the most awesome people! I shall see you again soon! :)

Today’s the start of a good life! I’m officially done with work. At the moment, all I can think of is how to spend my bum days. I’ve worked my ass off here in America, and I deserve an awesome break!

I am giving myself up until after my birthday to decide what I really wanna do. I’ve too much plans in mind— go back to school and take masters, venture into a new career path, or continue to pursue what I’ve started.

I am very grateful because God has been really good to me. Life has given me a lot of options! And all that’s left for me to do is to decide wisely.

Lets see how everything goes. I am excited to discover what life’s in store for me!

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Life is great— Can’t complain! :)

And though I still don’t get to appreciate Florida that much, there are few things that I love about being here. One of them is being with these boys!

I was literally pulled out of my bed to go out last night. I wasn’t really feeling that well cause of cough and colds due to the sudden weather change and my workload.

Glad I was able to push myself to go out, I had fun!

Last few days in Florida before I head back to New York/Jersey.

Picture taken at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, FL

I wouldn’t be ashamed of telling the world that I was crying in the cinema while watching Toy Story 3. It’s my cartoon—and Toy Story will always be a big part of me!

Picture taken at Downtown Disney, Orlando, Florida

My 3 days sweet escape to Orlando— exactly what I needed at the moment. It feels so great seeing Karen, KC and Rob again, “my so-called family” in Jersey! And that just made me so excited to go back up North and spend some more time with them before I go back to PI.

Never too late for Christmas—my 6th and final lens for 2011! Welcome home, baby!

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This coming 2012, I hope to travel more, shoot more, and start my own travel/photoblog!

It’s been almost 2 months since I moved here in Florida! A lot already happened, and opportunities came from left to right. I would love to share everything to you, but I was just too overwhelmed with the turn of events.

Life is awesome—that sums up everything at the moment.

Belated Merry Christmas, folks! Hope you had a good one! :)

Yesterday, my friends and I went pumpkin and apple picking! We carved our own pumpkins after. All my first and it’s really an awesome experience— would love to do that again! :)

…and yeah, we’re almost ready for Halloween!

Been enjoying New York City lately… Well, yeah, it took me a little while before I learned to appreciate the big apple’s beauty.

I hope I could share with all of you the amazing views I’ve seen. I’ll try to post more pictures soon! :)

Washington DC

I know nothing else about Washington DC aside from the White House— that is the sole reason why I wanted to go to DC. I never knew that there’s a lot to see in there, so I thought that a day trip would be more than enough to see its best. But I’m wrong— there’s absolutely a lot more for the second most visited state in the US. Living 10mins away from the top destination in US (New York), it feels good I was able to set my foot in DC.

After Anna (my co-worker) and I went to Six Flags Great Adventure, we talked about where to go next. And she mentioned about her wanting to go to Washington, and since I also wanted to take a picture in front of the White House, I agreed to go there with her.

Originally, we planned to ride the Amtrak which would bring us to Washington in 5hours. We checked their website, it’s quite expensive for a 5hour ride costing a one-way ticket around 100usd or more depending upon your time of travel. And then I found out about the 6hour bus ride which would only cost around 50usd for a two-way trip. We decided to just take the bus.But when I was about to book our ticket, Ace (another co-worker) told me that he and his wife are also planning to go there to meet up with his cousin. So we could just go with them and chip in with the gas expenses. We all thought that it’s gonna be more practical and way comfortable so we scratched our supposed to be very tiring trip and waited for another week to get to DC. Well, I guess it’s way more practical and comfortable.

We left New Jersey around 3am, we had a stop somewhere to grab breakfast. We arrived in DC before 10am. We stayed a little while in his cousin’s apartment and headed to the penn station by noon. We had lunch and off we start. We opted to do the bus tour, it was freakin’ hot that day so the all the bus tour operators would shut down operation by 5pm. For 5 hours, I’m more than happy that we were able to go to the top attractions.

We had dinner at a Chinese Restaurant and headed back home around 10pm. Arrived home safe before 3am.

If I would be given another chance to go back in there, I definitely would! And probably, I would push through for a 2 or 3night stay!

Here are some of the pics during the trip: