Luis’ Blog

Last night while it was a busy night at work. I was back and forward with phone calls. Suddenly when I come back to my chair from getting a phone call there was a snail on top of news paper. Where did it come from? how did it get there? I think he came to tell me something… To s-l-o-w- d-o-w-n. When I got off of work, my friend Matt had invited me to go ice blocking with some other friends. well that was a lot of fun. I ate it every time! After ice blocking, and getting wet for rolling on the wet grass after falling, we went to a old building that was being demolished. Matt was going to take pictures of his friend Joyce. The place was wicked. it look like something straight out of a end of the world movie. I didn’t have a tripod or any sort of lighting equipment, but it was awesome being there and I got a few cool pictures. 

Here are some pictures taken by Liliana and Maricarmen Munoz-Najar, my sisters. I find them to be much more organic. they tell a little bit more of the real relationship that we had Choche. This fun little guy that we adopted about two years ago. I said no to him and the beginning, I didn’t want the responsibility, but soon enough Choche became part of the family and part of all of our lives. I love this pictures cause they show how much fun we had with him. 

He was Maricarmen’s Prom date.

Choche and I taking a nap… 

My sister would use him as a doll. you can see he didn’t like that.

Smily Choche

A cool jet smart looking dog.

 ”I feel the love, now let go of me!” 

lots of toys

Again, thats all we did, sleep.

back when he was a gansgta.

A potty train dog 

He would sit by you legs and just stand by you. 

I don’t have much to say. We adopted Choche about 2 years ago, and fell in love with him. He woke me up almost every morning at 6:00 am. I love that little thing so much and he will leave a huge empty hole in my heart. I never thought losing a pet would be so hard, well he was just another member of my family. I’ll miss him so much.

For the past 5-6 months I have been training to run the Los Angeles Marathon. It all started with the idea of getting in shape and I found the Marathon to be a good goal to strive to. I started with a mile a day. With persistence and a good attitude every week the distances got longer and more intricate. Weeks before the marathon the longest I ran was about 11 and a half miles. I though that my training was not enough, I though it was crazy, and I would not finish 26.2 miles. The night before the Marathon nerves started kicking in, didn’t go to sleep till 1 in the morning. I woke up at 4:00. Thinking I still had time I went back to sleep. Suddenly I wake up as if I had a nightmare. When I saw the time in the TV I almost die out of the surprise, it was 830! ( I had to be there at 7am). I was so angry at myself, I ran to my sisters room and woke her up, told her that I was late and while I was cursing at myself. I thought… “All the time I spent getting ready for this”. I then grab my phone, open it, and then notice it was 5:00AM!!!  I ran to the room and notice that the time was still at 830. it wasn’t the time but it was channel that it was left on. I laughed so hard that left me in a good mood for the rest of the day. My friends Lauren and Brad came to pick me up at 5:30, they just volunteer to do it and where so supportive that I want to say thank you to them, its people like them that motivate me to do things like that. When I got there it was so overwhelming, there was so many people. It got so crowed it that I wished I had stretched earlier cause it was impossible to do anything. Well, the race started and it was all good until mile 18, when I said to myself ” WTF am I doing?” but with with less than 8 miles to go I had to do it. just about mile 23 the thought of giving up cross my mind, but it went away soon enough. I cross the finish line, 5:47 hours later, they gave me the medal and I was done, well not till 3 and a half hours later. My sister that was supposed to pick me up decided not to and I had to wait for my parents that were coming back from San Diego. At the end, it was such a great experience that I will do it again next year. 

Last week we had an assignment for my lighting class. I thought it was going to be easy, but I was in for a surprise. I started with the lights one way, that looked nice. Towards the end and after 10 different tryouts, The light looked just about right, but it was a bit boring. Well a few things were tried but my Professor gave me a few advices that I would like to try next week. Lighting glass is harder than one can think. to make it look nice you have to light it from behind and because it reflects everything you have to be in an angle. It was a lot of fun doing it, now it will be a lot easier to re-shoot it.

I was completely clueless on what to do with an assignment due yesterday. At the last minute I had an idea that turned out to be pretty cool, it started with the concept and then decided to add the legs, that completed the idea.  Krista was the very helpful model that helped me bring it all together. The pictures turned out very cool, thank you Krista. This was the original idea. 

Then, the legs happen. 

Everyones favorite 

I actually like them better in black and white

I turned in some photographs to the Cypress College annual Contest. I did it 2 years back and they picked three picture, and that was very exciting.  Let’s see what happens this time.  Here are the pictures I turned in. 

Well, this  was the second day in San Fran. After breakfast we all spent some time with Ildita. she is such a good baby, never cried once. Later we head out to see some family friends in right at the down town. They had an awesome house and we had a great time, enhanced by whine and appetizers. It was such a fun day. On the way back we all got so bored that we got very silly and acted it all stupid all the way till we got home.  

My Grandparents with Ilda.

Maricarmen on the left and Ale and T.J. with Ildita

 Ale, T.J., Abuelita Hilda, Abuelito Lucho, Mom, Dad, Maricarmen, Liliana, and me.

Peta.org put this awesome commercial on their website. It makes you think a little about the causes of using leather or fur. With the voices of Pink and Ricky Gervais. Think about it…  

“Stolen for Fashion”—Learn More at PETA.org.

This past weekend my family and I took a little road trip to San Francisco. We went to SF because my aunt just had a baby and because my grandparent were leaving this weekend. We had a great time, our trip included a hike to mountain Diablo, a early birthday celebration for my Grandma, and a visit to my friend Mimi, an old neighbor of my sisters and me.  

If you go on the 5N You get a very nice view of all the Wind mills.  

 This is Ilda, the newest addition to the family.

My Grandma and My sister. Two different generations, same female instincts look their best.

The hike was so incredible the place was full of vegetation.

Me at the top of the mountain. there are some falcons flying around me.

My aunt Alejandra her baby Ildita, she is so cute.