Category Archives: PERSONAL

Jen & Barry are both foodie just like us so Jen made several reservations at their favorite restaurants. Friday night we went to theWild Ginger in Seattle for Tyler’s birthday! Sleek and modern atmosphere. Delicious Asian Fusion food and nice service. Then Saturday Morning we went to Salty’s at the Alki beach for the brunch. Loved Fresh Oyster bar the most but you gotta try their waffle station. If you sit by the window you can enjoy breathtaking view of Seattle downtown. Sunday night, four of us went out to dinner at the Cafe Juanita in Kirkland for nice and cozy adult only dinner. Jen and Barry shared their Aubert 2006 Chardonnay with us. Very fruity and smooth Chardonnay. I prefer little fruity over dry Chardonnays. I had the halibut dish so it was perfect. For the appetizer, we had “Seared Foie Gras with Bing Cherries, Candied Ginger and Cocoa nibs” was delicious! You have to try this one if it’s on the menu when you go there. Cafe Juanita offers five Star service and the quality. And of course house made desserts are to die for. Please make sure to reserve your table in advance. Okay, There was more than just food & Wine during this vacation. We went out to see the Tropic Thunder (not my kind of movie but I had a good laugh), shopped and of course did little sightseeing. I couldn’t have asked for better vacation. Great food, wine and the wonderful friends to share the table.
With Jen at the Cafe Juanita

I still have few more things squeeze into my carry-on bag and I will be leaving in few hours. There always is so much to pack when you take your camera gear. Not to mention trying to take 20 rolls of film in your carry-on. I’ve been running around like a mad woman last week just to get few things done before I go out of town for two weeks. It’s little scary to leave everything behind for 2 weeks but I know everything will be okay. Okay, I have been to Passport agency and my passport disaster has been resolved. I can finally leave. Because I recently took Andy’s last name and I did that before I change name on my passport, Agency has suspended processing name change on my passport. They are now asking for additional documents. I shipped them over night but when I tried to confrim with them on the phone they told me that I won’t be able to get my passport back for another 2 weeks! So I rushed in to get an appointment with the Passport agency in Los Angeles. I was lucky to be able to get an appoint in such a short notice. Last friday morning in 405 traffic, I drove down to agency. A nice supervisor lady at the window #12 said “NO” at first but she took pity on me when I told her I really really really needed to take care of this before I leave so my husband can bring passport with him next week. ( They won’t give your passport on the spot unless you are leaving the country on that same day!!! ) She said maybe she can get around the rules and see if she can get my information transfered by next Tuesday. I can finally take our anniversary trip with Andy to Canada after Rod Dresser workshop. Here is my advice to future brides, if you are going to take your husband’s last name, do that first on your passport then change everything else. It will make your life so much easier. So I am off for two weeks, please bear with me if I cannot get back to you right away. My dear clients, you know where to reach me for your photo emergency! I won’t be able to post things here until I come back so please bear with me.

I ran to upstairs panting, looked under our California king size bed where he told me to look. At first, I didn’t find anything. The mattress was heavy and I began thinking that he probably took it with him. I gave up searching initially then I went back searching after few hours. There it was in between the mattress, carefully chosen for the occasion and filled with his sweet words. Andy called me this morning from UK and told me that he left me a card under the mattress that he was sorry he couldn’t be with me on our anniversary. Andy’s been writing cards on every occasion for past 14 years that I have known him. There were very few times that he didn’t and I would demand that he should write me a card. Andy would just smile. I don’t’ mind not getting presents, but it feels weird not to receive a card from him on these occasions. They are always filled with his small and neat writing. I would tease Andy saying that he is not the most romantic guy but how men do really write a lengthy cards to their wives? Well- my husband does.
Andy, here is my card for this year over the world wide web. It has been wonderful being your wife for 7years. Your easy going personality and growing love transformed me to be more like you and life with you has been easy sail with the cool ocean breeze. I am proud to be your wife. You are a honorable man and you will always be my genius.
I miss you a lot and can’t wait to see you on Friday!
Not only you are my best friend, but you are my hero that enables me to do things that I couldn’t even imagine. I know that your job has been tough on you lately, but I do really believe you when you tell me that you are working “SO HARD” for me. So cheer up baby! Thank you for your unchanging love and trust.
Can’t wait to go on our anniversary trip in few weeks!
With Love, from your wife who’s been forgetting our anniversary since 5th

For those of you haven’t met my sweet husband. Here is us at the Boston
Harbor, MA

I am so sorry that I did not keep my promise to update this blog regularly, but I am a very good excuse. I spent 48 hours with the angels last week. Though I was deprived from my beauty sleep and gained 3 pounds by loading myself with Mc Donalds and Pizza, I am pretty sure I went to the heaven. Flexibility of my work schedule allows me to volunteer for something fun like this once in a while and I cherish these moments. I was not an official photographer(?) for this event; I acutally enjoy not having this responsibility once in a while. But I couldn’t help but to snap few candids. I enjoyed being a group counselor for my 1st grade angels.
I love these children…and I know that God loves them more.

Some of you may already know that I have been working on my new workstation for a while. This is while I am tyring to build my new website, write blog entries, and keep up with facebook! -oh, I painted my dinning room for the second time! Things have been pretty hectic here and to be honest, I am really burned out now. I still have few albums to put together and upload edited images online. My PC (yes, I am still a PC girl) has been really bugging me lately.I been drooling over Mac Pro for a while now. I know the importance of keeping up with new technology now days. However, I have been trying to keep my overhead costs low and to spend my money where it will help my business to grow continuously. (I will share my experience on how to build your photography business wisely for the new comers in this industry so please stay tuned) Luckily, I can operate both PC and Mac ( assisted a photographer who had a Mac), so it won’t be hard for me to switch over to Mac. I know that Mac users probably say other wise but honestly, I can’t see that much differences. I can do everything on my PC as fast as I could on iMac (not Mac Pro). I can’t really complain much about PC at this point. Andy is my genius guy at 24 hour Genius Bar. He makes sure that my PC doesn’t crash and I’ve never lost a single file so far. (knock on wood!)
However lately, I’ve been noticing that my PC was running slower. So of course, I asked my genius husband why. Andy’s answer was short ” Your computer is too old and you just have too much stuff on your computer!” …. hummm a year old computer is old. I guess that’s like 100 years in computer world? So we went down to Fry’s to get some RAM. Despite of Andy’s research, we found out my computer is too old to fit new memory!!! Now, My genius guy is backing up my data locally and tomorrow we are going to put my PC back together with brand new motherboard. I guess, I will just have to wait to work on those images. Andy is going to write more technical entries for you all, bright minds out there real soon.

Happy New Year everyone!

I wish you the best of luck in year 2008!

Lemon Garlic Herb Turkey- My first turkey deserves photo!

Few side dishes;

Honey Roasted Acorn Squash

Asparagus with Orange Sauce

Green bean with tomatoes

Roasted bell peppers with lemon juice (Spanish tapas style)