Last night, I went to his place to help him packing. Well, although we still made joks to each other, I could somehow feel the sadness from him. Indeed, packing is hard. Revealing the past sometime means killing youself softly. A 25 years old big boy could end up with tears and anger. It's a big step to him. I just wish he could make it and one day, when he looks back, he will be so proud of himself...... I know he could make it! He must be!
After a long day, I deserved to have a break.
With a cd walkman, a camera bag and a Canon EOS digital SLR + a 100-400 L lens, I found myself, walking with earphone on the street, shooting everything that I was interested about......
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I, personally, like this photo alot, high color contrast with the motion on the flying bird......
Can't believe it's the end of June already. Another 45 days, I could see my Trista. Woow, How exciting I will be!
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It's really fun.
Dropping by the music store on 4th Ave this morning, I bought myself another Keith Jarrett's cd album, "Always let me go, live in Tokyo". Pity that I didn't have time yet to actually sit down and enjoy his music.
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Trista was sick these two days. I wish she could recover soon. Be tough, sweetie!
I took a photo through the mirror and was surprised by the result. This photo has been resized already but the image still looks good. I know the building quality varies alot from the consumer level lens to professional lens, but I could never imagine the optical quality could differ in such a great magnitude.
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Muffin had a shower this afternoon. Now, she smells good and her hair is very soft. Everytime after a shower, she knows she is very clean and deserves to sleep on the bed. So before I went to bed, I found out she was lying on the bed, watching "Friends" season 9 with this super xxx pose.
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But she is so cute.
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Although sometime she shows me the evil cat eye-sight.
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I walked along the street, shooting scenes that I was interested in. However, after couple of shoots, I found myself try to recall the memory I had with Trista......
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The Granville Island beer. The Merrick window.
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The steamworks
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And the sea bus.
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There are good memories that I have with Trista in these places. I would never forget them. Days like now, without Trista, is kind of lonely but whenever I aim in the viewfinder to focus these familiar scenes, I feel she is beside me......
I miss you
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Working with him is always fun. :) Especially, I could learn lot of new stuff. Although we were using a Canon point and shoot digital camera, the result turned out to be really good.
I was really depressed yesterday. Something that I've been expecting for very long time, couldn't meet my expectation... It's really sad. But thank you Trista, my love, for supporting me no matter how hard the situation is.
When everything made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am!!!
This is the panaroma photo of downtown Vancouver's night view. Taken on last Saturday!
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Eric took a photo for me.
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Tonight, I met Johnson and Joannes. We talked alot at my place. :P I enjoy talking with them, since there are always new stuffs that I never heared before.
Johnson showed me a website. It's called "Folding @ home distributed computing", hosted by Stanford university. The main purpose of this website is providing a free program which will run on your computer while your CPU is idle or has less work to do. Then, the program will use your CPU to do the distributed computing. Their goal is to underestand protein folding, protein aggregation and related diseases.
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If you will leave your computer open 24 hours a day, please go download this software. Since you will not waste your resource. The folding@home program will use your CPU to help them do the massive calculation through the internet.
Please share your resource to support medical research!
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The downtown's view is outstanding. I will for sure to take Trista here sometime.
I am tired now. gotta go sleep. I will upload more photo tomorrow.
It's only the 2nd day. How can I pass through this fucking week?
I checked out my schedule every morning and told myself that I can make it.
Monday
9:30am - 5:30pm Working
6:00pm - 9:00pm ECON370 class
Tuesday
3:00pm - 6:00pm ECON325 class.
6:00pm - 9:00pm ECON370 Midterm
Wednesday
9:30pm - 5:30pm Working
6:00pm - 9:00pm ECON370
Thursday
3:00pm - 6:00pm ECON325 Final Exam
6:00pm - 9:00pm ECON370
Friday
9:30am - 5:30pm Working
6:00pm - 9:00pm ECON370 Term paper due + 20 mins presentation
Saturday
3:30pm - 6:30pm ECON370 Final Exam
Thinking about my family, dad, mom and Trista + muffin here, they are the only reason that I could survive.
Dad is busy on his business in Beijing. Trista is busy in Shenzhen on her MDP, interview + writing paper. Mom is busy to take care of Dad and Muffin is always busy to sleep and eat.
I miss my family. I miss them all. I am not affraid of loneliness, not at all. I could always fullfill my schedule with things that I have passion at. However, I hate to be separated with people I love.
I miss Trista's smile. I miss dad's blaming. I miss mom's voice and I miss my home in Beijing. :(
Last saturday, I went to join Carolyn's dinner party at Tony Roma's. Lot of old friends showed up in the restaurant. Gathering is always fun. But I am too busy to updated anything after last friday. Anyway, here are some photos I took during the dinner.
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There are more photos which have been resized and zipped into one file. Please feel free to download it. (Right click the link and chose 'save file as').
It's almost 2am now. Time for me to sleep. Tomorrow will be a long day.
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One of the biggest reasons that Trista can't resist Muffin is because Muffin has these big innocent eyes. And she is really good on modeling and always posed for me whitout any meow meow complain.
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I forgot from when that Muffin has this habit. After jumping onto the chair, she would then grab the curtain and hold it to sleep. It's really interesting to see and indeed cute!
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I am thinking to make a separate page to display Muffin's photo. It will be lovely. Yup, maybe I should do it, but for sure after the following bloody week.
Trista will go back Shenzhen today and I tried to contact her. However, her cell is out of money and couldn't even get connection. Sad sad sad....I couldn't talk with her untill tomorrow morning. En...I miss her ^.^!!
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The seminar was actually a presentation by Selina Oppenheim, a professional consultant for visual professionals in USA. The presentation was focused on how to build and sell the portfolio. People who attened this seminar were all professional photographers. Well, of course I am not professional at all, that's why I went together with Joannes, since he is the CAPIC member.
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Joannes helped me to take this photo. I was pretty exciting about the event. The gentleman pointed by the red arrow in the following photo is Rich Etkin. He is so far the top photographer in Vancouver.
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Although I didn't make any new friends, I did have a good time there. And it's always wonderful to learn about new stuff.
On the way to the studio, I dropped by the music store on the 4th Ave and bought myself a cd by Keith Jarrett, one of my my all time favorite musician. I didn't have chance to listen it yet. But I have no doubt about its quality.
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Trista is in Shanghai these days. I wish she could have a good time there and good luck on her project interview.
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I put the tripod in the center of the living room. The tripod is heavy and huge. I couldn't even reach the top when it's been fully extended. Joannes photographied me with 3 Canon EOS cameras.
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After some practicing, I shoot the following photo in my living room. I also made my first quick time 360 degree photo. Please click here to play it. (It's 7mb....gonna take a while to load) Remember to hold your cursor in the photo and then move your mouse either left or right. In this way, the photo will be turned according to your direction.
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If it can not be played in your IE, please right click on this link and then choose "save target as" to download the file and then play it by quick time player.
As you can see, this photo is not perfect. Since the lighting condition in my room varied too much, some photo turned out to be pretty dark and others were bright. When I combine these photos, the software automatically leveled the brightness. The result was really unpleasant.
Anyway, it's my first time to make 360 degree qucik time photo. I am happy with it.
We went to this secret Korean Tofu Pot family restaurant to have dinner together. The food there were super good. At least, Trista and I both treat this restaurant as the best Korean restaurant in Vancouver.
After dinner, I drove them along the Marine Dr down to UBC. Since Carolyn and ET didn't go back UBC for a year, they wanted to see the new computer science building and the unfinished main library.
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Watching at the new CS building, I thought about our old LSK. Beside James, no one in the car actually had chance to enjoy the new facility. It's a pity. However, memories in the LSK building will last forever and be chrished as a priceless treasures by every single UBC CS student, at least, to this AKA group.
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As usual, we went back to Carolyn's place after dinner. James brought us a new game and we played it for a while. Chatting with these people is always a wonderful thing to do. We have had lot of fun together.
I also had chance to try the Olympus Stylus-500 which I borrowed (for free) from my camera store. I like this camera
I went to this place today after working. Since my manager let me off 30 mins earlier than usual, I could have some time to fool around.
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I bought this Jazz trio album by Tord Gustavsen, an unsurpassed Norwegian pianist. This is his second album and is just another set of crystalline beauty......
It's so pity that Trista couldn't be there to enjoy with me.
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I didn't meet him for a while. Eric was pretty busy on his graduation stuff. Plus his parents were here to visit him. Buyt anyway, it's good to meet up old friends once a while. There are lot of things to catch up and talk about.
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After lunch, we drove to granville island to buy JJBeans' coffee Latte. For what I feel, the Latte there is the best in Vancouver. Trista is probably missing the coffee there as well. Pity that Eric will go back Taiwan in the middle of July. I am sure that I gonna miss him alot.......
The Volvo s70 has been repaired. With four new tires, the car could run smoothly. I was driving it back home tonight. Man, it's the car which could meet your expectation. It's quiet, fast and powerful. I was imagining how it feels to drive a XC70 or a XC90 with Trista in the Rocky Mt.
Thinking about the loneliness, it's actually not sad at all. It gives you time to dream. And it even gives you time to make your dream come true. Well, I should enjoy my loneliness and make it more valuable.
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