While going over the old files on my hosting server, found this photo album that I created back in 2004.
I went to London in 2003 with two other friends, Ken and Karin. At that time, I did not have my own camera, not even a simple digital point and shoot. Since Karin had an extra, I just used hers. This album consists of photos from all of us. I believe it was created using one of the Photoshop templates and I then edited the files to add descriptions.
Link to 2003 London Trip Album
2010-07-18
2010-07-17
2010 Cherry Blossom @ Branch Brook Park, NJ
Finally, an album upload after being quiet for a while. There are actually quite a few albums queued up due to the site revamp but now that I'm satisfied with the update, I can start to focus on processing the photos again.
My friend, Han, was in NY around April and we decided to go check out the Cherry Blossom at the Branch Brook park one weekend. My sister, my mom, Han, Joy, Cadi and I squeezed into one car and off we went. We went on the first day of the Cherry Blossom festival and so we were expecting awesome blossoming at the park. When we get there, that was not the case at all. Most of the cherry flowers were already gone, it was so bad that even the cherry trees that we saw while driving had more flowers than at the park.
For this album, it took me a long time to pick out the photos, had to go over the photos at least 5 times. It was not that there are a lot of photos, it was just that I took so many shots of the same variety that it became difficult to choose one from the same bunch.
Love this taxi limo but when we saw it, it was having trouble starting and by the time we left, people were still there trying to fix it. The renting company is located in NJ. Anyone we know that wants to rent it for a party or something please let me know. I'll go with you. =P
Ya, there were "SOME" flowers left. Cadi wearing one of them.
Since Han stayed with us during his visit, Cadi had no problem with Han holding her. That was not the case when we visited Taiwan this year.
Same face expressions. Wonder what were they thinking at the time.
After finishing NJ, Han and I got off at Time Square. Joy has a problem with me putting the Time Square photos together with the cherry blossom ones. While I agree they don't fit together, I'm too lazy to put them into separate albums. :)
My friend, Han, was in NY around April and we decided to go check out the Cherry Blossom at the Branch Brook park one weekend. My sister, my mom, Han, Joy, Cadi and I squeezed into one car and off we went. We went on the first day of the Cherry Blossom festival and so we were expecting awesome blossoming at the park. When we get there, that was not the case at all. Most of the cherry flowers were already gone, it was so bad that even the cherry trees that we saw while driving had more flowers than at the park.
For this album, it took me a long time to pick out the photos, had to go over the photos at least 5 times. It was not that there are a lot of photos, it was just that I took so many shots of the same variety that it became difficult to choose one from the same bunch.
Love this taxi limo but when we saw it, it was having trouble starting and by the time we left, people were still there trying to fix it. The renting company is located in NJ. Anyone we know that wants to rent it for a party or something please let me know. I'll go with you. =P
Ya, there were "SOME" flowers left. Cadi wearing one of them.
Since Han stayed with us during his visit, Cadi had no problem with Han holding her. That was not the case when we visited Taiwan this year.
Same face expressions. Wonder what were they thinking at the time.
After finishing NJ, Han and I got off at Time Square. Joy has a problem with me putting the Time Square photos together with the cherry blossom ones. While I agree they don't fit together, I'm too lazy to put them into separate albums. :)
2010-07-16
Revamped: clearcubic.com back-end
It's been a while since I posted photos and that's because I have been revamping my web site's back-end. I'm happy to say that in terms of what people can see, it's close to 90% done. While the site still looks pretty much the same as before, how it operates in the background has been completely changed.
Before:
After:
Before this revamp, I did not know any of the technologies that I have switched to and that was the reason that the site hasn't been updated for close to 3 months. It took me about 4 non consecutive weeks (nights and weekends) to get the site looking like the original. Because it was almost like starting the site from scratch, I rethought certain ways to do things. To enhance performance, the website is now practically static html pages that are pregenerated by my new administration tools. Administration tools were dispersed throughout my site before but they have been separated from the main site into a centralized location (still a work in progress).
What prompted me to make such a drastic change? Two main reasons. One, I was thinking about the future. Two, I wanted to try out some of these new technologies. Didn't I say I love technology? I honestly do. =D
About the "thinking about the future" part. I was thinking what would happen to clearcubic.com once I'm gone from this world. By using a paid hosting company, if no one pays the hosting fee, this site would surely disappear from this world forever. The Google App Engine service I'm using now is currently free. While I can not be certain that it'll be free forever, I do think my site would have a much better chance to survive at Google.com than 1and1.com. And yes, the domain, "clearcubic.com", is also a paid service but once it dies, remember this free alternative address, "http://clearcubic.appspot.com".
Before:
- Web Hosting: 1and1.com
- Language: PHP
- Database: MySQL
- Web Application Framework: None
After:
- Web Hosting: Google App Engine
- Language: Python
- Database: App Engine Datastore (non-relational)
- Web Application Framework: Django
Before this revamp, I did not know any of the technologies that I have switched to and that was the reason that the site hasn't been updated for close to 3 months. It took me about 4 non consecutive weeks (nights and weekends) to get the site looking like the original. Because it was almost like starting the site from scratch, I rethought certain ways to do things. To enhance performance, the website is now practically static html pages that are pregenerated by my new administration tools. Administration tools were dispersed throughout my site before but they have been separated from the main site into a centralized location (still a work in progress).
What prompted me to make such a drastic change? Two main reasons. One, I was thinking about the future. Two, I wanted to try out some of these new technologies. Didn't I say I love technology? I honestly do. =D
About the "thinking about the future" part. I was thinking what would happen to clearcubic.com once I'm gone from this world. By using a paid hosting company, if no one pays the hosting fee, this site would surely disappear from this world forever. The Google App Engine service I'm using now is currently free. While I can not be certain that it'll be free forever, I do think my site would have a much better chance to survive at Google.com than 1and1.com. And yes, the domain, "clearcubic.com", is also a paid service but once it dies, remember this free alternative address, "http://clearcubic.appspot.com".
2010-07-06
David H. leaving on a jet plane
2010-07-06 marks the day that a friend, David H., is leaving NY and going to Singapore to study what he likes, Animation. Dave is quite a creative person and I think he'll definitely do well in this subject. I wish him the best and hope to see him again some day.
On another note, some other creative young people in the NY YAD made a farewell video for David. The video, from concept to finished product, only took no more than 3 days. I think these young people definitely deserved a big round of applause. Here's the video:
On another note, some other creative young people in the NY YAD made a farewell video for David. The video, from concept to finished product, only took no more than 3 days. I think these young people definitely deserved a big round of applause. Here's the video:
2010-06-13
Accident @ blogger.com
Notice anything different about the blog? I'm sure you can see the difference if this is not the first time you visit here.
I'm currently working on changing my site's back-end structure and had to do some adjustment to the blog. When I saw that blogger has a new design function, I played with it and saved the design by accident and that erased my previous custom code that made the blog look similar to clearcubic.com. Not willing to spend the time to put in the custom code again, I'll have to settle with this new look here. I think it looks ok anyway. :)
Oh, happy birthday to Cadi. She turned 1 today. ^_^
I'm currently working on changing my site's back-end structure and had to do some adjustment to the blog. When I saw that blogger has a new design function, I played with it and saved the design by accident and that erased my previous custom code that made the blog look similar to clearcubic.com. Not willing to spend the time to put in the custom code again, I'll have to settle with this new look here. I think it looks ok anyway. :)
Oh, happy birthday to Cadi. She turned 1 today. ^_^
2010-05-16
Grand Central, NYC
Han came by NY not too long ago. After dinner at Aburiya Kinnosuke, we took a stroll at Grand Central before we go home. Aburiya Kinnosuke has two (now three) sister restaurants. One is the Yakitori Totto. The food at Aburiya Kinnosuke is more like a fusion type between Japanese and American (based on what we ordered that day). While itt was good and different (and also expensive), we still prefer Yakitori Totto. I do recommend you to try it at least once though.
Because the table we got was small, so the food's original presentations were only SHOWN to us by the waiter and then he divided the food into portions. As a result, no photos of the food. I feel sad as the food presentations looked very nice.
You need to have a steady hand (this is really more suitable for the tripod) AND steady people to get non blurry photos. Joy and I failed to stay still for too long. Han's was not too bad though.
Love this one. Would have loved this even more if I got the letter "T" in "Tracks". Saw the couple and had to press the shutter immediately so there was no time to think.
Because the table we got was small, so the food's original presentations were only SHOWN to us by the waiter and then he divided the food into portions. As a result, no photos of the food. I feel sad as the food presentations looked very nice.
You need to have a steady hand (this is really more suitable for the tripod) AND steady people to get non blurry photos. Joy and I failed to stay still for too long. Han's was not too bad though.
Love this one. Would have loved this even more if I got the letter "T" in "Tracks". Saw the couple and had to press the shutter immediately so there was no time to think.
2010-05-10
Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park
Since we came back from Taiwan, we have not taken Cadi out to any trip. Since we know (more like a guess) Cadi misses going out so much, we decided to go on a day trip on an April weekend when the weather turned warmer.
With a baby, it's not that easy to go on a long trip so we wanted to look for a nearby place and the "Planting Fields Arboretum State History Park" turned up. A place found by my sister that's not too far from where we live. When I first hear the name, I was thinking of mountains and little streams mainly due to "state history park", not so (and I couldn't think of any mountains in LI either). Apparently, I have not gone on enough state parks that aren't mountains and streams. =D Well, check out the photos to get a partial sense of what this park is about. You won't know all as we did not explore all there is to explore in the park.
Joy being, well, joyful.
Cadi striking a weird pose and my sister hiding from camera.
Love this house's roof. Can't believe it's not flat. Wonder if anyone still does this. I'm not crazy about it's color though. :)
A cactus flower from a greenhouse in the park. Disclaimer: We did not harm the plant in anyway. This is picked up from the ground...I think.
Joy being joyful again.
While in the garden, we overheard someone saying there's a beach nearby. Since the park closes early, of course we wanted to check out the beach. We didn't have the exact location but with GPS, we managed to find a park with a bit of a "beach". Though we are not sure if this is the place that we overheard from.
I shot quite a few of these people playing, posting two here. Don't know why but I love this series.
The park has a playground. The playground has a swing. The swing has Cadi.
With a baby, it's not that easy to go on a long trip so we wanted to look for a nearby place and the "Planting Fields Arboretum State History Park" turned up. A place found by my sister that's not too far from where we live. When I first hear the name, I was thinking of mountains and little streams mainly due to "state history park", not so (and I couldn't think of any mountains in LI either). Apparently, I have not gone on enough state parks that aren't mountains and streams. =D Well, check out the photos to get a partial sense of what this park is about. You won't know all as we did not explore all there is to explore in the park.
Joy being, well, joyful.
Cadi striking a weird pose and my sister hiding from camera.
Love this house's roof. Can't believe it's not flat. Wonder if anyone still does this. I'm not crazy about it's color though. :)
A cactus flower from a greenhouse in the park. Disclaimer: We did not harm the plant in anyway. This is picked up from the ground...I think.
Joy being joyful again.
While in the garden, we overheard someone saying there's a beach nearby. Since the park closes early, of course we wanted to check out the beach. We didn't have the exact location but with GPS, we managed to find a park with a bit of a "beach". Though we are not sure if this is the place that we overheard from.
I shot quite a few of these people playing, posting two here. Don't know why but I love this series.
The park has a playground. The playground has a swing. The swing has Cadi.
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