7.05.2007

4th of July & Out w/ Jessica

Since I got back from NY, I went shopping again on the 4th of July. My mom taught my how to carve out a flower from an apple.

Today I had dinner with Jessica~ a middle school friend since 6th GRADE!! wow.. we were young.. only like 10 or 11. So we went to eat Japanese food @ Niwano Hana. We then had dessert at Diary Queen. I had a small blizzard. Jessica had a medium chocolate dipped cone.
The size for Diary Queen here is HUGE!!!!!!

That wraps the night... I still have to upload all my NY pictures.... so lazy!!

























The flowers I carved













Jessica w/ her medium dipped cone







Jess and Me ^_^

7.03.2007

Weekend in NYC!


On June 30th @ 1 in the morning I went to NYC! I went to see Puifai. I went with her Aunt. I arrived in NYC @ like 5 am? I got to see the sunrise! That's something new! I never wake up. So I got to her apartment and we chit chat for a bit and then went to sleep. Woke up again at 11:30. We went out to Chinatown to eat @ a Vietnamese food. We had Nam Nuang, Grilled Chicken on rice, and Shrimp roll.
Next, we went to Century 21. Didn't really do shopping.. Next, we went around to the Rockefeller and took pictures.
Next, we went to St. Patrick's Church @ 5th Avenue.
***STORY STORY ***
So when we went to the church, I found a cellphone phone the steps. I wasn't sure what I should do. So I we didn't know if we should pick it up or not.. but we did. So I picked up the phone being scared that something would happen.. and I called back the most recent outgoing calls, then talked to this one guy he said he would tell his daughter to call us ( his daughter's bf's phone .. i think ) so the owner of the phone called and said we could meet up. Make the story short.. we got $50 bucks for it!!!

We headed to Time Square to take pictures. I wanted to see how my camera would do in the dark. So we go the picture above. ^_^ I think it turned out nice for my 1st time during the night w/ my camera.

We had a system going on ... Puifai would hold the camera tightly (didn't want it to fall or someone steal it) I would look through the viewfinder and aim and press the button ^_^. Not bad! Oh! There was this one guy he was like I'll take the picture.. but then I said that we liked taking pictures like this, but he was scary and looked like he would steal it.

Next, we went to Sanrio store.. just looked around.. nothin' was really on sale.

We were getting hungry and it was like 9pm. So we went to K-Town (Korean). We had Korean BBQ, there were really any cute guyz .. grrr! Next we hand yogurt ice cream "Pink Berry".

That's the whole night~

I'll post pictures laters~~ ^_^

My 1st DSLR!!!!! Nikon D40



On June 25th I bought my 1st DSLR ... well I didn't buy it.. buy my Daddy paid for it ^_^
I got the Nie-kon D40 as the Americans love to be unique its "Nye-kon".

I bought the Nikon D40 kit for $550 + tax , it included the 18-55 lens.

My brother taught me a couple of basic things.

A (Aperture) - Its the f-number, it all about the depth of field.. or in other words.. how to make the bg blurry :-p That's wut I like doing.
f-number is small = the more open = more blurry
f-number is big = the more closed = less blurry

A good f-number is when the shutter speed is 60 when there is to tripod.

S (Shutter) - Its the shutter speed. The number that is shown in the camera is 1/X
Therefore...
bigger the number = the more fast = LESS LIGHT
smaller the number = the more slow .. stays open longer.. = MORE LIGHT!! ( like taking those pictures with the lights as a line...

P (Programmed Auto)
The camera has combinations of f-number and shutter speed.

Here are a couple of pictures I took

My 1st pictures w/ the DSLR











Ommy came home & my Mommy's B-day

Wow! I haven't updated my blog for a longgggg time! I divide the events up into little parts.

So, my brother came home. It was my Mom's B-day on July 18th, which is the same as Joy IT. My mom and Joy are both from Surat and they have the same birthday. It's funny.

The Thai people in MD held a birthday party for 5 people. My mom was one of them. I didn't really take that many pictures of the party.. it was boring cause it was a last minute thing. Well yada yada..

Here are pictures from the party. (Oh! me and Puifai just took pictures outside)



Birthday PPL



Show the Thai Adults did



My Thai dancing teacher dancing! (sorry lazy to rotate pic)



It was soooo HARD to take a picture of her!




We were bored!