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a thousand words
Made by saikiishiki
sorry, it's been awhile again! since the last post (before the xmas~y one), mukha, me and my boyfriend went on an epic journey half way across the country to see our families. that was in november though and i wanted to post pix afterward, and tell stories about the treacherous trip but i was in a state of shock and it took a long time to recover.. trust me, if you read the tales of our travels it will probably shorten your life a little. so, when i finally post some pix, beware of reading the stories! ;q (none of us got hurt or anything, so don't worry!) anyway.. also, mukha had her 4th birthday on 11~22!!! unfortunately, we celebrated by riding in the car all day :( soo, about this pic.. there is so much to say! first of all, i captured mukha doing her special ninja eye technique, (where one of her eyes is focused on me, and the other is just, well.. not ;)) she is so amazing and talented! she is so creative too! she actually helped make the texture i used on this photo! see, i rarely see grasshoppers here, and there was one sitting on the side of our house for a long time so i decided to take a pic of it. mukha was all minding her own business, but i guess she realized i was trying to take a pic of something besides her (we can not have that!) so she came over and tried to attack the grasshopper right when i was taking the pic. i was totally focusing on the grasshopper and didn't even know she was coming. she really scared me and i got this action shot of the wall's texture. it was in the same batch of pix as this one, so i decided to try it as a texture and it worked! hehe, and the reason i even took this pic of mukha to begin with is because i was setting things that i want to sell on craigslist on our table and taking pics of them, but like i said, we can't have that. the camera is for mukha only! she's so cute, she just starts slowly sneaking into the shots by first sniffing whatever i'm taking a pic of and then standing over it until she's completely in between the camera and the object. or she just lays down and poses like in the photo below. :) she does love to be on the table, though! she does it all the time but she still cracks me up every time! ♥love her!♥ i'm trying to get rid of things because we just found out our landlord hasn't paid taxes on our house for 3 years and the house is going up for auction the 7th. and after 5 years of our landlord regularly collecting rent every month, he just stopped collecting it and stopped taking care of the place. then he sent us a text message eviction threat a few months ago. .. before that we messed up our wall a little and decided to paint it and the rest of the room, but we only got some of it done when we got the text threat and decided to stop painting.. so that's why there's one cool painted wall in the pic.. i guess we'll be moving soon :( it would be so great to find a yard as amazing as the one we have now for mukha!!! and a better house! i guess that's about it, except the kimono and the bell on top of the microwave are things my mom gave me on the trip cause she didn't want them anymore.. aawe, and mukha's left ear is in action in both shots, hehe..
Y2 Day 254 - Uncluttered
Made by Ernie E - INACTIVE
EXPLORE, #16 & Explore Front Page! For Flickr Group Roulette challenge, Uncluttered. This isn't some illusion here. That is a big, red wall I'm leaning on right in the middle of downtown Orlando. It happens to be a great spot for portrait or model photography but the empty lot where this is is up for sale so I don't know how long this will stay like this. The photo might be uncluttered but this description isn't. My friend tagged me so now I have to give Nine Random Goals & Facts About Me. This wasn't easy but here you go.... 1) I am an only child to older parents. I do have a half-brother on my dad's side but I only met him once growing up and don't know anything else about my father's side of the family. 2) I'm a full-blooded Filipino but was born and raised in the U.S. My mom immigrated by normal means, my dad through the U.S. Navy. I don't observe Filipino customs which don't cast me in a good light with my relatives over there due to diametrically different Asian & Western customs. 3) Six years ago I 'lost' my mother to Alzeimer's dementia. It was a traumatic period in my life trying to take care of her with help with my aunt and it being my last semester in college. I was an emotional wreck seeing someone I've known and loved turn into someone I didn't recognize. If it wasn't for the support of some friends from my business fraternity, those times could've have easily destroyed me. It still haunts me but at least I'm comforted that she's being cared for by the family back in the Philippines. 4) I am a Pisces by astrological sign but I don't exhibit anything resembling one. Pisces are suppose to be creative and I'm creatively-challenged. I'm more of an analytical person. 5) I am a native San Franciscan but I've been living in Florida for 15 years now. My mom and I moved here because of lower cost of living and friends & family here. I haven't been back to S.F. in that time but I still call it my hometown. 6) I absolutely despise eggplant and liver. Other than that I can eat almost anything. 7) Laziness and procrastination are my prime weaknesses and they've gotten me in trouble on too many occasions. I don't know if I'll ever learn. 8) After 19 years off and on through college I finally got a Bachelors degree but getting 3 other Associates degrees along the way. That was a big monkey off my back. 9) My biggest goal for this year is to get a job. I really don't wanna be loafing off the government, I want to use my college education to make something of myself and contribute to others. Now I'm supposed to tag friends but I'm really lazy to pick out victims so anyone who'd like to take this up, be my guest!
incredible girl resting
Made by saikiishiki
mukha is constantly doing incredible things, but there are 4 extraordinary things she has done recently that i never want to forget. i had to write them down, thought i would share them! about a month ago:. we were playing and she hit my lip really hard with her head. it stunned me and i turned away from her to stabilize. when i turned back around, she looked at me gently and curiously and sniffed towards my lip, then she dropped her toy and gave me a kiss on my hurt lip! it hurt when she did it, but she definitely made the pain go away because i started laughing and being so amazed at how awesome she is! thank you for kissing my booboo mukha! about a week after that:. sometimes she likes to sit by the fence and spy on things in the yard next door. one day she was doing this for about 10 minutes while i was leaning against the trampoline talking to my mom on the phone. suddenly, she turned around and lightly trotted straight over to me, jumped up gently and gave me a kiss right on the lips and then left! it was so deliberate! thank you for being such a lovebug! about a week ago:. it was evening and the sky was pale and dull. usually, at this time, the treetops are bright orange from the sun setting, but they weren't. everything was bla. we were playing when she stopped and looked at the sky. i was trying to get her attention back to playing again. she looked at me and looked back at the same area in the sky, as if to say 'look!' so i turned and saw a flock of flaming orange geese flying low in the sky. their color was so intense and the only color in the sky. they looked huge. it was so beautiful. thank you mukha chan for showing that to me! the day after that:. we were playing in the backyard, she was running back to me with her ball and i was jumping up and down clapping and cheering her on. when she got to me, i was still jumping and she ran under me while i was airborne and she took my legs out and i totally landed on the ground on my side! it was hilarious! it didn't hurt at all, which is really amazing. it happened in such slow motion. i jumped up in a vertical line and landed in a horizontal line. i laughed for the rest of the day about it! thank you mukha for making me laugh so much and not hurting me!
Infidel
Made by danny.hammontree
Although it was raining most of the day, the United for Peace and Justice Anti-war rally at Lake Eola in Orlando, Florida, had a really good turnout. There were many speakers at the event, maybe too many, but the testimony given by Iraqi war veteran Clifton Hicks made it all worth it, as his accounts of what happened during his deployment in Iraq moved many to tears. As the march started, the skies opened up and a deluge of rain came down. The marchers moved through the streets undeterred, and at about a mile into the march, came upon a small group of pro-war protesters that call themselves the Gathering of Eagles. These self proclaimed “real Americans” yelled hateful phrases and gave the old middle finger salute to everyone as they walked by. This conflict was pretty much over before it started, because the ratio of anti-war protesters to pro-war protesters was so great. What: United for Peace and Justice Anti-war National Mobilization When: October 27th 2007 Where: Orlando, Florida at Lake Eola Photo also viewable at deviantART Speakers Include: Michael Albert - activist, author of Remembering Tomorrow: From SDS to Life After Capitalism & founder of Z-Magazine Lucas Benitez - Coalition of Immokalee Workers Debra Booth - AFL-CIO & Central Florida Labor Council Congresswoman Corrine Brown Scott Camil - Veteran for Peace Michael Canney - Green Party of Florida, Co-Chair Matt De Vlieger - SDS @ UCF (M.C. of the day) Denise Diaz - Central Florida Jobs with Justice Senator Mike Gravel - Anti-war Candidate for President '08 Clifton Hicks - Iraq veteran against the war (IVAW) Jesse Kern - Veterans for Peace (Korean War Veteran) Omar Masri - Speaker from UFPJ Steering Committee Peg McIntire (97yo) - Grandparents for Peace, St. Augustine David Rucker - Metropolitan Democratic Black Caucus & former President of the Orange County NAACP Bruce Wright - St. Pete for Peace Lydia Vickers - CodePink
my bloody new couch!
Made by saikiishiki
literally.. well, except for the 'new' part.. it's actually a dumpster couch, but it is new to us! see, our friends that live a few blocks away from us were outside doing yard work when their neighbor's just put this couch out on the curb. i guess everyone can agree that our futon is the most uncomfortable thing in the universe to sit on so they called and asked if we wanted them to grab it and bring it over. the only thing that appeared to be wrong with it was it was missing the middle cushion. but then they went over and asked them if they had it and they actually did! after our friends brought the couch over they said that their neighbor's little girl kept the cushion because she loved the couch so much and didn't want to get rid of it, so she kept a piece of it! she even hugged the couch goodbye when they took it! so sad! :( the couch was in great condition, no blemishes of any kind. but naturally, it didn't stay that way after being in our house for only a few hours. earlier in the day i discovered mukha's hand was bleeding! but it stopped, so i thought it was ok. then, randomly that night it started bleeding again and she jumped right up on the couch, of course. then we doctored her paw up a bit and cleaned up the couch (not really, we just made the stains bigger..). but then a few hours later it happened again, only worse, because she walked on every single cushion!! so now we have all these blood stains all over the couch! they're actually not that bad, because i kept cleaning it every few hours the next day. they're not that noticeable, but they still need to be cleaned more. that night we doctored her paw some more and it was totally healed the next morning! and no more incidents so far! ps~ that hand that's pointing towards the camera is the one that did all the damage! one of her fingers looked like it was cut with glass.. i'm so glad it healed so fast, i thought we were going to have to get stitches or super glue or whatever.
morning light
Made by saikiishiki
well, afternoon light actually ;) mukha has been getting in this sunshine spot like clockwork everyday for about a month. if i wake up and see her laying here, i can tell what time it is and know i have slept too long as usual. i'm so glad she's sleeping in our room again and in our bed most of the time again! i really missed her most of the summer. see, she got this new bed a while ago and i had it in various rooms before i decided it should definitely go by the front door because that's where she stays the entire time we're gone and waits for us to come home (loooove her:)). i thought she should be as comfortable as possible while we were gone, even though we're usually at home. but then she started sleeping there every night.. and she started waking us up in the morning by barking at all the new activities happening outside the door. finally i realized i should put the bed in our room, obviously. she started sleeping there but still not in our bed :(. then, because she is just so crazy smart, on the night of the first day of fall she started sleeping in the bed again, yaaay! she usually starts out on top of the covers somewhere cozy, but every single morning when light starts to enter the room she has to get under the covers. it's so funny because she knows just where to stand and wait for me to wake up and lift the covers so she can climb in and plop down. she either stands on the floor with her hands on the side of the bed or just stands on my pillow by my face and stares down at me till i wake up. then later usually, because it's not really cold here she straightens out and lays next to me with her sweet head on the pillow by mine like a little human. this is one of my favorite feelings in the universe! she's so snuggly and mushy :)
weimaraner party !!
Made by saikiishiki
mukha had a weimaraner party about a month ago and as you can see by her expression, she loved it! it was so much fun. there were 20 weims total including mukha, plus 1 non~weim! it was a fun day of running around the yard, jumping on the trampoline and swimming in the lake. we have a small fenced in backyard that we call our 'immediate' backyard. beyond that we have our real backyard, which is actaully 2 very large backyards~ ours and our neighbors yard fenced in together. well, we were cooking out in our immediate backyard with the fence closed so all the weimaraners wouldn't eat or knock over the food, and mostly all of the weimaraners were out playing in the big yard~ that is, if their humans were out there with them. if their people were in the immediate backyard, the poor weimaraners could not play anymore and could only stand on the fence waiting for their people to come back out or for someone to let them in so they could be back together again. it was always the case and it was soo sweet (and a little sad)! they are totally mans best friend! in the photos i got of them on the fence, you can tell which people were on this side of the fence by which weims are on the other side :) here are some picts of that and other highlights from the party.. enjoy!
puppy power ♥♥♥
Made by saikiishiki
today is mukha's 5th birthday!! this photo was taken when she was 4 months old, but it reminds me of the very first time i saw her. it was so magical, really. we entered the house, turned the corner and there in the kitchen (unconfined) were 3 little 11 1/2 week old puppies sitting perfectly side by side like one entity (like this picture, x3). they were all facing me, looking up at me.. so calm and quiet, except each puppy was slightly swaying like the flame of a candle in a still room. they had such a powerful, mystical, intelligent aura, but that, of course, was also oozing the puppy sweetness.. twas truly unforgettable! i should add that there was also an adult weimaraner (one who just had babies, but not these babies, which was a bit weird, but anyway..) at the house too, and she didn't bark or come to the door either when we arrived. this weimie behaviour was so unusual to me, because i was used to always coming home to frantic weims. one who loved to shriek and jump and claw at you, and one who mostly did cartwheels :) mukha is still good today, she lays by the front door the entire time we're gone and when we come home, she usually stands up slowly and waits for you to put out your arm where she gently perches and gives kissies ! ♥♥♥
congratulations mukha!
Made by saikiishiki
aawe, mukha's sleeping in her new dog bed that she won in a photo contest (from a really long time ago, but she just got the bed finally!). but that's not all to congratulate her on.. we have been wanting to share some awesome news for a while, but i wanted to make a creative photo first to go with the news, i have some ideas but it's been so nice outside that we just want to be out in the sunshine. i guess we'll share now, since we're on the subject of mukha and photos! soo... here's the good news: mukha~ ~ is going to be on an avanti greeting card! i think it's cool because they contacted us about it 2 weeks after we took and uploaded the pic here! it took them forever to come up with an idea, but it turned out soo suuper cute and funny! it will be out next winter or so, so look out for it then!!! and! she is going to be on a book cover! perfect match is going to be on the cover of the paperback version of 'the wolf in the parlor: the eternal connection between humans and dogs' by jon franklin. yaaaay! mukha! my little pea pod business partner!!
. : h o o d l u m : .
Made by saikiishiki
this is one of my favorite photos ever. i never developed it because it had chanhi in a hoody and some clutter beside and behind rolyn. a few weeks ago i experimented with it in the darkroom. i was going to try to take chanhi out of the pic. i discovered that this photo isn't in focus except for this one spot on the hoody :(. i wanted to practice with it anyway because i was going to try a texture on it and maybe that would help with the out of focusness. for anyone who wants to know the basic details.. first i made a print. then i made a paper negative (the same size as the print). on the paper negative i used black paint to paint out chanhi and the other distractions. then i made a positive print again from the negative and some tissue paper as the texture. heh, that sounded easy.. it took all day! lots of testing in between all that :) i took a picture of the photo. a little extra ambiance was added from inconsistent lighting and reflections on the photo. oh, and you can still see chanhi back there :) i didn't completely omit her, but i think she matches a little with the texture. she's on the right facing the left. greyghost!
'have you found where the frog is hiding yet?
Made by saikiishiki
i love this innocent polite questioning look she gives me. there is a frog that lives in our pond (located at the bottom of the pic) and she always looks for it . if she hasn't found it yet, i will go help her look for it and point it out to her when i find it. we search together for the hiding frog, but while we're searching she occasionally looks up at me with this face to see if i've found it or not. it just kills me! she's so unbelievably sweet. i've always wished i could take a picture of her looking at me like this, but never had a camera in my hands. finally i remembered to have it ready and this is the only shot i got (well, with her face actually in it, as i was shooting blindly). when she finds the frog they have the longest stare downs! she slowly inches closer and closer and the frog just sits there until they are just inches apart and finally it goes under water and swims away, or if it's outside of the pond, it leaps in. then we get to look for it all over again!
icy yew
Made by saikiishiki
one day, mukha seemed to be unusually interested in this mirror. we always play all kinds of mirror games, taking turns looking at each other in the mirror and in reality, but she seemed concerned about something beyond the mirror. i thought maybe a toy or bug was behind it and checked but nothing was there. her face reflecting at this angle was so funny and of course thought it would make a cute pic, but i knew i had no memory left in my camera. i stepped out of the room and got it anyway, came back and sat down and deleted 1 pic. mukha had lost interest in the mirror, but when i pointed to it she went over to it and then this happened! she just stared at me like that! it was so funny, because i really didn't expect much to come out of this long drawn out procedure and when she went to the mirror i was already amazed and then when i saw her looking at me like that i was blown away. not the best quality, but i only had one chance plus i was shaking with laughter :)
a new throne for the lady of the lake
Made by saikiishiki
mukha suddenly expressed some interest in this innertube. it was in the water by the dock and she kept reaching her little hands out for it but it kept floating away when she touched it. the innertube seems tough, but we didn't know if we wanted her on it (have you seen her talons?) our neighbor just recently gave the innertube to us and it's really comfortable and relaxing, so we don't want her to pop it. she kept gently reaching out for it so we finally decided to hold it still for her so she could get on. she just got on it and sat right in it! it was so funny and of course i thought 'i should get my camera' but i thought she probably wouldn't stay there that long and also the camera i'm using is so automatic and it never takes good pictures in evening light without a flash. i grabbed it anyway and amazingly and totally unexpectedly, it did ok. and she sat in the tube for a long time! so here are some more pictures of her little adventure ;)
the listener
Made by saikiishiki
she is the only person in the universe who listens to everything i say, or at least hears everything i say ;) uugh, my iphone got stolen at a bar last saturday! i had always kept it in my bag, but that night i felt i could leave it out on a table, like everyone else seemed to be doing. i think it got stolen by a professional iphone thief! it sucks because all 1800 plus photos of mukha were left on the phone because i wanted them there in case i got a new photo app i wanted to edit them in! luckily all of them but the last few were transferred to my computer at least.. anyway, i love how the iphone always got her head~tilts in action :) .. i just ordered a new one, a new line.. hopefully we can transfer that to someone.. it is such a pain in the ass to lose your iphone! don't trust people around it! keep it on you at all times! i thought there was an app that tracks your phone, but i read about them and they all seem useless :(
hello :p
Made by saikiishiki
ooops.. it's been awhile since i've uploaded anything! i've been taking pix though, and i'll try to get them up soon :) i got a new camera! i've always wanted an underwater camera, and finally got one! it's decent :/ you can't zoom in at all because it ruins the photo, but it's 12 megapixels, so i guess there's room for cropping.. anyway, it can get wet and take pictures, and that's all i wanted it for! this pic was taken on the first day i got the camera.. we went to the dock and mukha was wading around in the water by the dock and i asked her if she was going to go swimming, and she did! she just swam out a bit, tried to grab a random lily pad and then swam back. (it's the first time she's swam in the lake this year.. it's so overgrown, and we have a pool now, so we hardly ever go to the dock..) then she went and dug a hole, of course, and came back to the dock to lick off all the dirt she scattered onto herself :)
not allowed
Made by saikiishiki
mukha and i were going to go have the most fun ever yesterday~ we were going to a weim meet up at a pet resort with a salt water bone shaped pool! i had been talking to her about it for weeks. the only known requirement was proof of a rabies vaccination~ which mukha has. at the last minute we found out she needs all vaccinations which she doesn't have. so we couldn't go :( i tried to make it up to her by playing with her in our lake all day.. from this picture, it looks like i failed, hehe. actually, she spent most of the day having 'invisible fire'. poor girl. she was obsessed with thinking bees were trying to get her butt and she kept hunting them and trying to eat them. the booboos on her nose are from a turtle she found a few days ago that apparently bit her on the nose in the midst of their play together ;)
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Made by saikiishiki
mukha will stand like this forever till her foot starts shaking. she'll slowly attempt to put her foot back down on the ground but until she's fully comfortable it will keep popping back into pointing position. when she's ready she'll place her foot upon the ground and then she'll carefully start to ease forward, but as she's slowly moving forward she simultaneously moves backwards. she does a lot of moving with out going anywhere! she doesn't want the frog to think she's getting any closer. it's a very delicate procedure. mukha and the frog have such a strange relationship. they usually start their stare down game at about 1 or 2 feet away from each other and the frog just sits there nonchalantly till there's about 6 inches between them and it decides to hop back in the pond.
here's lookin at you
Made by saikiishiki
so many wonderful weimaraners have left our world recently :( this photo is for buddy, mika, and bella; and for all of the weimaraners and dogs who have ever been severed from our lives. for all of our best friends. for rolyn & chanhi, we love you and miss you. ∞ it's a crazy 8 day today; 8/8/8. in numerology, 8+8+2008 =8. 8 is infinity, so our babies live on and we will reunite with them again one day. 8 is a marriage/connection between physical and spiritual. 8 is abundance/wealth, they are the ones who give us abundant love and warmth and we love infinitely in return. ∞ it's an extra good day to remember our precious loved ones that are no longer with us and to make sure you are treasuring every second of your life together with the ones still living!!!
'is it chicken?' (inspired by a clever guy)
Made by saikiishiki
mukha peeking up from between my legs. i love it when she does this. unless she has a stick, which is when she likes to run through my legs the most and with vigor and is why we don't play with sticks. this is the first time i've gotten a good shot like this. well, i think it's good. my boyfriend doesn't like it, but that's usual. that's a ball in her mouth, btw, in case you are like my boyfriend. it is a purplish broken tennis ball with cheetah print and is safe to play with. honestly, as soon as he saw the pic, he asked, 'what's in her mouth?'. i just sat there silently, bewildered. he stared at it for a long minute and asked, 'is it chicken?'. ?? hehee, i just realized that has to be the title now.
cirque du weimaraner
Made by saikiishiki
i've been thinking about trying to take pictures of mukha on this stool for a while, since i did it a couple of times a long time ago with rolyn--minus the turtle--and the shots turned out pretty cool. the challenge is (well, last week's anyway) 'dog n chair' for 52 weeks for dogs, so i decided to try it out and everything worked out so awesomely! i had just started asking mukha if she would like to sit on the stool when my boyfriend suddenly came into the room and actually offered to help! mukha was just walking around with her turtle in her mouth when he scooped her up and sat her on the stool. she kept her turtle in her mouth the whole time! she's the best model ever :)
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