Aeroplane

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Kissena park, bench, trees and an aeroplane

Picture taken in NEF, converted to jpeg using Ufraw from GIMP. I don't know much about the apps, I just used save as or whatever I feel like to use.
Do we need another park bench picture, probably not, but there is nothing you can do about it.

Thanksgiving, 2005

Edward, Alex, Eric and Harry.

Thanksgiving, 2005

The boys

The Lais

The Lais

The Chows.

Sandy, Edward, Eric and Mr. Chow.

Thanksgiving dinner

Brother in law and my big sister.

Roasted garlic mashed potato, Yam with toasted spice rub, cranberry citrus with dijon mustard, autumn panzanella. Eric and Edward.

Thanksgiving, all recipes from Foodnetwork.com

Turkey dinner, turkey dinner, gather around, gather around, Who will get the drumstick? yummy yummy drumstick, all sit down, all sit down. That's what Harry likes to sing.
The turkey was marinated with rosemary citrus salt and toasted fennel seed rub. Roasted at 425 degree for a bit more than 2 hours. I am happy with the result.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner

...Thanksgiving is all about turkey and gaining a few pounds and trying in vain to lose them afterwards.
Wait, it's also about the day after Thanksgiving, black Friday, the day we are supposed to start our Holiday shopping.

Harry

Harry is trying to get a Bionicle with no success. 

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Harry speeding. 

Kissena Park

Harry and his ride in Kissena Park, Flushing. Shot with a manuel focus 50mm f1.4. 

Shooting with my Manual Nikkor 50 f1.4

I can't get metering from my D70 when using my oldest Nikkor: 50mm f1.4.
The focus is too much on his left eyes and the f stop is around 2, I guess that doesn't give both eyes enought depth of field and hence lack overall sharpness in areas that matter.
The Nikkor 50mm f1.4 survived a car crash and was initially bought with my Nikon FE back around 1984 I think.
Harry riding his tricyle in Kissena Park.

Happy Birthday, Harry

Harry turns 4 today.

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Harry, looking mischievous. 

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Alex, riding his scooter. 

November 6, 2005

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Autumn

The brothers are helping to rake the leaves. 

Root Canal

My chronic toothache turned into full blown acute toothache a couple days ago. It became so freaking unbearable I had to take pain killers which turned out to be not as helpful as I'd like them to be.
Finally I got to see an endodontics. Endodontics's like tax and death, unpleasant yet unavoidable, at least for me.
The process was painful and I just hope that after all this is done, everything will be back to normal.
And the bill, more than a brand new Nikkor 80-200 f2.8 but cheaper than the 70-200 f2.8 VR.
I got to check back with my endodontics some time next week.
Brush your teeth twice a day, friends don't let friends go to sleep without brushing.

CNN news

Anderson Cooper is in, Aaron Brown is out. Not the other way round.

What's happening in France?

The French government is in crisis mode now, there is this riot going on on the ourskirt of Paris. All of a sudden the other France is rearing its not so pretty head. After all, France is not just Louis Vuitton and Chanel. France is also about class struggle, French Revolution, and the guillotine.

Nikon D200 is official now

Nikon officially put D200 on its website and announces a selling price around $1,700 for the camera body. The camera has all the goodies except a full frame sensor. It's priced cheaper than the D100 when it first came out about 3 years ago. If you have the money and like Nikon glasses then the choice is pretty obvious. If you love full frame then the choice is obvious too, a Canon 5D or even the Canon 1Ds Mark II or something is your camera.