Thursday, July 30, 2009
Walk to the beach
Finally, summer school is over !
Comm Std 101 is the most difficult class that I have ever had in my life. It's about First Amendment and under what circumstance government can regulate freedom of speech. We study some landmark supreme court cases that are interesting in some way, but actually I do think that some of them are really ridiculous. The exams are all hypothetical questions which are so hard for me as an ESL. But anyway, it's over. I think I have tried my best.
Today I just walked to Santa Monica Beach from Sawtelle and Pico with Derek. The distance is 4 miles and it takes us an hour to reach the beach. The beach surprised me. I felt so good, relaxed and comfortable. I did some jogging on the beach on the wet sand and I thought I should do it at least one per week. It was just way too cool to feel the wind, enjoy the sunset, and experience the freedom. Anyone wanna come with me next time ?
Comm Std 101 is the most difficult class that I have ever had in my life. It's about First Amendment and under what circumstance government can regulate freedom of speech. We study some landmark supreme court cases that are interesting in some way, but actually I do think that some of them are really ridiculous. The exams are all hypothetical questions which are so hard for me as an ESL. But anyway, it's over. I think I have tried my best.
Today I just walked to Santa Monica Beach from Sawtelle and Pico with Derek. The distance is 4 miles and it takes us an hour to reach the beach. The beach surprised me. I felt so good, relaxed and comfortable. I did some jogging on the beach on the wet sand and I thought I should do it at least one per week. It was just way too cool to feel the wind, enjoy the sunset, and experience the freedom. Anyone wanna come with me next time ?
Monday, July 20, 2009
I was quite busy during weekdays since I am now having two internships and taking 1 class. Summer life shouldn't be like that, so I just went to main street in Venice and MOCA in downtown Los Angeles during weekends.
Main street is pretty cool, with lots of cool stores (cafe..boutique..)on both sides of the street. I immediately thought of the georgetown in Washingtion D.C. I don't really like shopping mall; I like do shopping in those stores along the street. I didn't get a chance to walk around since my purpose of going to Venice was to enjoy the sunset and photograph it. But eventually I was so disappointed as the sun had gone away before I could reach the pacific coast. (I spent 15 mins on finding free parking lol..that's why).
On the next day I went to MOCA with my housemate miss kori wong, a museum-lover, green-tea-lover, and antioxidant-lover. According to our plan, we are going to visit at least one place per weekend. MOCA is our first destination. I did have expectation about the exhibitions and I did look forward to seeing some great modern art. But once again, I was disappointed. First, the museum is pretty small in size and there are only 5-7 exhibitions. Second, I was just not too interested in its collection. I just wondered why some of them were qualified as the collection of a museum. Perhaps I was just really not sophisticated enough to appreciate those works. Actually the exhibition of Robert Frank's "The Americans" photographs was pretty good. But I had seen it in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. already lol. Anyway we did have fun tho, by taking pics for each other. Here are two of my works:
This color style becomes my favorite one recently. I just edit the picture style in my camera and then use photoshop to adjust the saturation, lightness, contrast and color balance. Shooting great portrait is not an easy task, but I really wanna do well in shooting people. So...anyone is interested in being my model? haha
Currently I am working on the poster design for wcccc. I could say it's a quite challenging task. Let's see what I come up with at the end, which means THIS COMING FRIDAY lol
I remember a sentence that I said before: "WITHOUT HOPE, WITHOUT DISAPPOINTMENT". A friend of mine told me that she always had no expectation in her life so that she could always be happy.
I do always have expectations on many things.
Main street is pretty cool, with lots of cool stores (cafe..boutique..)on both sides of the street. I immediately thought of the georgetown in Washingtion D.C. I don't really like shopping mall; I like do shopping in those stores along the street. I didn't get a chance to walk around since my purpose of going to Venice was to enjoy the sunset and photograph it. But eventually I was so disappointed as the sun had gone away before I could reach the pacific coast. (I spent 15 mins on finding free parking lol..that's why).
On the next day I went to MOCA with my housemate miss kori wong, a museum-lover, green-tea-lover, and antioxidant-lover. According to our plan, we are going to visit at least one place per weekend. MOCA is our first destination. I did have expectation about the exhibitions and I did look forward to seeing some great modern art. But once again, I was disappointed. First, the museum is pretty small in size and there are only 5-7 exhibitions. Second, I was just not too interested in its collection. I just wondered why some of them were qualified as the collection of a museum. Perhaps I was just really not sophisticated enough to appreciate those works. Actually the exhibition of Robert Frank's "The Americans" photographs was pretty good. But I had seen it in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. already lol. Anyway we did have fun tho, by taking pics for each other. Here are two of my works:
This color style becomes my favorite one recently. I just edit the picture style in my camera and then use photoshop to adjust the saturation, lightness, contrast and color balance. Shooting great portrait is not an easy task, but I really wanna do well in shooting people. So...anyone is interested in being my model? haha
Currently I am working on the poster design for wcccc. I could say it's a quite challenging task. Let's see what I come up with at the end, which means THIS COMING FRIDAY lol
I remember a sentence that I said before: "WITHOUT HOPE, WITHOUT DISAPPOINTMENT". A friend of mine told me that she always had no expectation in her life so that she could always be happy.
I do always have expectations on many things.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Macau - 10 years after the handover
as a macau citizen, I have a lot to say
but i just don't know how to say it.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
places to be visited within next two weeks:
- main street in venice
- lacma
- moca
anyone interested ?
tonight's quote
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." (Earl Nightingale)
okay good night. my mind is still chaos.
- main street in venice
- lacma
- moca
anyone interested ?
tonight's quote
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." (Earl Nightingale)
okay good night. my mind is still chaos.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Updates of life
I am still pretty good.
School is not busy since I am only taking one class. But my work schedule is pretty packed. Should I give up some responsibilities? Now I can say that I really have too many duties. Sigh.
It has been a long time that I didn't touch my camera.
Anyone wanna go taking pics with me ?
Anyone wanna go to some nice places with me ?
Anyone wanna randomly walk around the city with me ?
I don't want a big group of people. I just need one or two companions
I wanna HANG OUT !!!
School is not busy since I am only taking one class. But my work schedule is pretty packed. Should I give up some responsibilities? Now I can say that I really have too many duties. Sigh.
It has been a long time that I didn't touch my camera.
Anyone wanna go taking pics with me ?
Anyone wanna go to some nice places with me ?
Anyone wanna randomly walk around the city with me ?
I don't want a big group of people. I just need one or two companions
I wanna HANG OUT !!!
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