As requested, here is a photo taken just a few minutes after arriving at Orgiva, Spain where I stayed with my friend for a night before we drove up to Madrid. The house is surrounded by mountains that which ever direction I turned to… the view would be similar to today’s pick.
I am stuffed at the moment because I just came back from brunch, eating “just” a little bit too much. But isn’t that the idea… eating Breakfast + Lunch. Because of that, my brain is lacking Oxygen, resulting in me… just staring and blanking out at the picture and in my head, just “dot dot dot” ……….
Day 6… Today is April 11, and if I were to be in Los Angeles I would probably go to a Thai Temple for the Thai New Year Festival. The actual Thai New Year is on April 13 but in LA, we normally celebrate on a week before the date.
For the road-trip, our plans are so not rigid that we may be coming back from Madrid on Friday night and go to Alhambra on Saturday but for sure the plan is to be back in Marbella by Sunday afternoon.
After being away from the beach for so long, staying on the road, driving… co-piloting with the map and spending so much time in the car, I think it would be a great idea to change environments by trying a yachts for a the future road/boat trip. That is how I ended up with the picture taken at Puerto Banus. It would have been nice to just waste my day on a yacht, but that has to wait until I have one of my own.
*update via Mobile: We are heading back to Marbella from Madrid. That would take about 7 hours of driving. We will be driving to Orgiva first, to pick up my friend’s laptop and then to Marbella. The only concern I have is for the car, that it would be able to handle the lengthy trip. Lets cross our fingers!
Day 3: By now, we should be in Madrid with some of our PG buddies. At this point I must have seen so much of this city… perhaps too much? I hope that my camera can hold enough pictures.
I wonder if this gentleman that is fishing in the picture is from Madrid and that he is here fishing in Marbella because he has spent so much of his life in the busy city street, perhaps he is a CEO of a big company that is taking his day off just to do nothing.
Most of the people who are fishing are not really after the fish… but the moment of peace where it is suddenly change into enthusiasm when the caught the fish. It is the feeling not about the fish that we are after when we go fishing, at least that is my reason for fishing.
*update via mobile: today plan is to go to Gran Ville, where the “Loewe” store is located. An interesting incident happened yesterday. After we arrived in Madrid and were trying to look for our friends place, a block from their place… our car died in the middle of the intersection. !!! Unnn Beee Liveeee Aaaa Ble!!! So we had to push the car to the side, with help of a very nice local gentleman that helped push the car. About 30 minutes later… the car came to life again!!! That was just wierd!
**after we gathered up with our friend, we went to a coffeshop, Met Cafe and the rest of the evening we were just resting at their place… guess what we were watching??? Gossip Girl!!! I think we much have watched about 3 episodes! And then we went to Tony Roma’s for a late dinner, my first time eating in Tony Roma’s. After that, back to the apartment and watch more Gossip Girl… then sleep.
This picture was taken yesterday, the last day of midterms, in the evening after dinner. It was around 8:00 pm but the sun was still up. A group of us then headed out for a walk from our school, Les Roches, to Puerto Banus. About half an hour later, we got this view, of the Sierra Blanca mountain. I had about 40 sec to capture this moment, a moment that captured the evening, the evening that marked the start of a week of Easter Holiday!
I must have seen this mountain many times but the difference is that, the view it is being viewed from, the context that is in the view and the surrounding of the view. As a local, I don’t think that they see what a foreigner, ie. me, sees just because Sierra Blanca has been part of them for so long that they may forget its serenity and beauty. To me, I just couldn’t stop looking at her, everywhere I go… I will always looking around to see if she is in my sight, or have I gone to far that I couldn’t see her anymore? She is the first thing I look at before I start my day at 6:15 am, because when I look at her, I can tell if today is a sunny, rainny, warm or cold by simply looking her.
Let us stop everything we are doing for a moment, look around and start noticing things that have always been there. Then, you will find yourself a Sierra Blanca of your own.
Back to the first day of the year, January 1, 2009 (duhh) Cold, yes!!! very cold… I wasn’t prepared for this much coldness!!! Anyway, that day was a great walk, I must have spent about 5 hours walking in the snow, brown snow… sometimes yellow snow. Eww. From this location that I took the picture, it took me about 30 minutes or so to get down to the flag because I wasn’t wearing proper shoes, I had tennis shoes on… no waterproofing— nada! Walking to the flag wasn’t easy at all since I keep sinking into the snow that was about knee deep.
Ohh, I posted this picture today because I read an article about the Winter Games 2010 which is going to be in Vancouver. Great place, great choice, and great location for the Olympics. There were so much to see, to do, to eat and to explore here in Vancouver. We were there for only 3 days 2 nights, and it wasn’t long enough for us to do much. Well, we got to countdown in Vancouver… and after that, I got to experience the snow “actually snowing from the sky, real snow (not the man made stuff like in Big Bear, California)” for the first time in my life. And it was literally right after the year started!!! An amazing experience, what a great way to start my year!!!.
Okay, are you ready for Vancouver? Less than 12 months from now, is the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Here is their official website Vancouver 2010.
Try to listen to the music while reading today then, maybe, you might understand the feeling I experienced the moment I took the picture.
Saturday, I went to for a coffee break in Puerto Banus. The coffee shop, La Pesquera, is right on the beach. It is a small hut with coffee tables and beach benches for those that would like to take a sun bath while drinking. Sitting and chilling there for bit and just doing nothing. After the coffee, I just walked around the beach trying to find the right frame to take a picture so that it say something, if not all about “Marbella”. I took quite a few pictures, but in my opinion, I believe that this is it ^_^ “An Orange sandal, a boy, Sierra Blanca (the mountain behind), and the Beach… ” I’ll just let the picture speak for itself because I am bad at expressing what I want to say, duh… if I were good at that, I might as well write a novel too. ^_^
Anyway, does anyone know how to print postcards? What kind of printer (portable if possible) and paper to get? I am interested in trying to make my own postcards ^_^.
