 |
Sometime in the evening, while I was helping my father on some stuff, she fell in sleep on the sofa. Muffin could jumped onto the sofa and slept beside her. It's a lovely scene.
Lately, I was aruging with Johnson through emails. He was pretty mad at me because I didn't show up at our gogomenu meeting couple of times. Plus I delay our schedule alot. And what's worse, I was bull shiting all kinds of excuses for myself.
It's a shame. This is one of my biggest problem. I don't know from when, I became a person who says alot without doing equal amount of effort. It's bad....very bad... Trista was mad at me for the same reason couple of times as well.........
Lucky that I still have Trista beside and a friend like Johnson, who could speak to me and help me out. I think it's the time to make changes. I believe I can do it. For all these people who cares about me, also for a better Max.
Life sometime was so comfortable that I forgot to fight. But no matter what, there is no excuse for not making my promise. I don't want to be a inresponsibile person......NEVER.
I still wanna make an apology to Trista, Johnson and whoever felt me in the same way. I know it takes time to change, but at least, I will try.
...... Tomorrow will be better!
 |
oh, Trista had new hair cut. I like it alot. :)
Dad is still ill and suffered from fever. Wish he could recover as soon as possible.
I know that my life is complete.
'cause I've held you in my arms.
'cause I can't imagine life without you by my side ......
......
you take me to a place
...... so high that I never wanna leave
Those words were in my blog last year around this time. It's what I felt at that time and it's still what I'm feeling right now.
I ... did wrong things to you again and again. Nothing I dare to expect right now but a forgiveness. And please love me as passionate as before.
The past is over. The only thing that we could carry on is what we have right now and what we gonna build up in the future.
I love you and I am so sorry!
 |
I took this picture few days ago in downtown Seattle.
For this weekend, my major event was shooting the basketball games between UBC and SFU. I am glad that UBC got into the playoff. Friday's game was ok, UBC won by 10 points. Last night's game was a bit different. You could easily sense the fire on the court. Although UBC lost at the last minute, it's absolute a good game.
 |
I found myself getting more and more comfortable to shoot basketball game. And my picture is sharper than before. Somehow, I wish thunderbirds' game could last for the whole term so that I could go to take picture. I like the feeling when zooming my lens on certain player, waiting and shooting.
 |
Sunday afternoon, there will be the last game in War M. Gym for thunderbirds. SFU or UBC, whoever wins this game will get into the western final. I can't go watch the game, but I really hope UBC could step forward!
GO THUNDERBIRDS! GOD BLESS YOU!
Trista, unlike Max, prepared some wonderful gifts: a box of chocolate, a meaningful book together with a card.
 |
The book I got is called "On the road" by Jack kerouac. It's an unique fiction with passion and inspiration. I kept reading it for whole day. I love it. It reminds me about "The catcher in the rye". Both of them are talking about a unforgettable road trip. Part of the book made me think deeply. Maybe sometime I had the samiliar feeling with what it said in the book:
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the divding line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon ......
speechless ...... Hats off to Jack Kerouac!!!
This is Tata, Trista's lovely "sister" in ShenZhen. Trista's mom took some pictures of their newly renovated patio in Shenzhen's house. I like the new patio. It looks so nice and comfortable. I so wanna go visit her home and have a tea in this new patio.
 |
 |
Maybe we went too late. There were only two boats selling salmon and tuna. Dad bought a whole salmon with only 12 bucks. However, he doesn't even know how to cook it. Anyway, we gonna bake it. ^__^!!
 |
Beside a parking lot, I found this red wall with white window and sun light.
 |
It's always good to go out with family, sweet and relax.
One of the CD is from Arild Andersen, called "The Triangle". Arild andersen, Vassilis Tsabropoulos and John Marshall showed their talents in this album. Plus the recording quality is spectacular. If you have a decent amplifier and good speakers, you could just feel the bass hanging in front of you like a ghost.
 |
I like the song "Pavane" in this album. It's amazing with a theme that repeats and resolves in a flourish.
The second ablum I bought was from Keith Jarrett. I heard of him for really long time but didn't get any cd from him untill today. K.J is one of the great musicians in US. He was trained entirely in classical mussic and didn't become interested in Jazz untill his early teens.
 |
There are tones of his albums in virgin and I picked this one because of its name - "The Melody At Night, With You". Like its name, the album is filled entirely by love and romance. If you gonna have a drink with your love at night, please turn off the light and play this album. You will not be disappointed.
Tomorrow, Trista will come over. I will listen these albums with her at night, maybe on the bed. I believe she would like them as well.
Trista today had a fight with her co-worker, an annoying mexican who doing nothing but talk at work. Of course I am on Trista's side and gonna support her no matter what. :) - Kill that bloody mexican guy.
I have this great family dinner tonight. Dongdong was here as well. We ate hotpot and watched TV together.
 |
Dad and Mom showed me some pictures about their new apartment in Beijing. Dad designed by himself. I like it alot. This is the living room. They made a open kitchen
 |
This is the dinning room where they eat dinner and have drinks.
 |
Sometime, I miss our places in Beijing. No matter how much I like Vancouver's life. Beijing is my home forever!
It's gonna be a new year. I wish everybody could stay close to his/her family. And I wish all of you guys could have a wonderful year!
Looking through his pictures, I was impressed by his composition, simple but strong.
 |
We talked about photography, about some skills and experiences. He gave me some useful advises about my photo career. I told him that in the begining, I want to stick with landscape photography but later on, I found myself greatly amazed by people photography.
 |
So, he showed me some of his photos. I like them alot. Speically this one, the lady wearing her shoes at her wedding day. I don't know why. I like it alot.
 |
It's always nice to meet new friends and I am so glad that I met Nic this term.
Dad and mom came here for the Chinese new year. They will stay 20 + days with me. I am glad that my family is around, but somehow, I want some personal space. Sometime, I have this strong feeling to grab my camera and drive out of the city. Driving to a place where cell phone couldn't ring, taking pictures for people and landscape. Anyway, reading break is ahead waiting, I should definitely do something.
Well, thinking back for a year, the very first reason that I built up april28th was to tell Trista what I was doing, since she was in China at that time. Plus, I've being reading Eric Cheng's website for years and I love his work. ( If you haven't had a chance to watch his work, simply checking out his travel journal here, i am sure that you will be impressed. ) So, I created my little space to record my life and I want to update my travel journal online as well.
I have to admit that I admire Eric's passion toward life. Trista once said that I treat this guy as my idol. Whether he is my idol or not is not important, the thing that matters is whether I could be a person as passionate as him.
I realize that I didn't take too much pictures lately. Beside these basketball games on the weekend, I seldom taking pictures on weekday. Am I losing my passion toward photography???? Definitely NOT! Taking pictures or watching other people's photo is the most enjoyable hobby so far in my life.
Since Trista doesn't like april28th in white, I will switch back to my black version tomorrow.
photo reserved & copyright @ april28th.com Yinan Wang