Saturday, August 29, 2009
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
New York
May 10, 2009
Opened on January 1, 1892, Ellis Island became the nation's premier federal immigration station. In operation until 1954, the station processed over 12 million immigrant steamship passengers. The main building was restored after 30 years of abandonment and opened as a museum on September 10, 1990.
Today, over 40 percent of America's population can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island.
Times Square
Times Square, the most bustling square of New York is known for its many Broadway theatres, cinemas and supersigns. It is one of those places that make New York a city that never sleeps.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The Cove Atlantis, Paradise Island - Bahamas
This was taken during a windy weather with scattered rainshowers in Bahamas - The Cove Atlantis, Paradise Island. While I was hiding in one of the sunbathing beds to prevent the raindrops from touching down my body (while my friends were playing beach volleyball), I spotted the trees swaying in the direction of the wind. And geared with just my underwater camera, there I was, moving inch by inch to where I was sitting just to capture this shot. Not bad. Not bad. :)
Bahamas Old House
This is an old house that we spotted when we visited The Islands of the Bahamas. It's old and .... very calming in my eyes.
"Marilla says that a large family was raised in that old house long ago, and that it was a real pretty place, with a lovely garden and roses climbing all over it. It was full of little children and laughter and songs; and now it is empty, and nothing ever wanders through it but the wind. How lonely and sorrowful it must feel! Perhaps they all come back on moonlit nights. . .the ghosts of the little children of long ago and the roses and the songs. . .and for a little while the old house can dream it is young and joyous again." Excerpt from "Anne of Avonlea" by Lucy Maud Montgomery
View from Empire State
New York City
View from Empire State
May 9, 2009
When we first went to Empire State, there was a huge mass of fog above the tower so we decided to just come back later that day to let the fog subside. Good thing we decided doing that...here's the proof! :p
This is the moment!
Compass Point before sundown
Compass Point Restaurant/Hotel
Nassau, Bahamas
July 4, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
How to format HDD in MAC OS X
So, I've been having problems in transferring files from my home laptop (Mac) and work laptop (Windows). Since these two systems are running in different OS, you will have problems in transferring files to and from different formats.
MAC 101: Printscreen in Mac (Part 2)
Few months (or years...) ago, I posted a guide here which I made regarding on how to do printscreen using macbook. And here's another set of procedures that I found out whenever you need to screenprint a *specific* area/section of your screen:
With Mac OS X v10.2, you now have yet another option for capturing screenshots. This method is so often ignored that it may as well be a secret. We're here to let the secret out. The first two options were available in previous versions of Mac OS X (note: Command = Apple key):
1. Press Command-Shift-3 all at once to take a screenshot of your entire screen.
2. Press Command-Shift-4 all at once and Mac OS X presents you with crosshairs you can use to select whatever portion of your display you'd like to capture in a screenshot. Just select your desired area, let up on the mouse and whatever you've highlighted will be captured.
The new third option in Jag is very cool:
3. Type Command-Shift-4 and then press the spacebar once. The crosshairs will change into a camera icon. Hover the camera over any element on the screen you wish to capture, for example, the Dock, the menu bar, the desktop, or any open window. Then just click the mouse button to "snap" a screen shot. Or hit Command-. (Command-period) to cancel. With this option, you can entirely eliminate the desktop when you capture a screen shot of an individual window and get a clean outline without having to crop your screenshot in another application.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Publicized!
I realized that I haven't kept my promise (to those asking) to blog about this. The picture was posted in my flickr account last August 2008 and I got the advice from Schmap Chicago Guide 2 months ago (January 2009).
"Caption posted in Flickr in January 2009: This photo was published in the 6th Edition of Chicago Schmap Guide: www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=56406645N00/c=SJ20151692
www.schmap.com/chicago/events_outandabout/p=12386/i=12386...
www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=chicago&sid=events_outan...
I'm not really fond of sending photos as entry to any organization or any kind of publication...but suddenly I got a notice that my photo was seen and selected from Flickr 3 weeks ago (I read the email probably 2 weeks after it was sent :lol. Then I received the confirmation @ 3am today that my photo was selected to be published for the 6th Edition of Schmap Chicago Guide so....so !"
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Laugh is contagious
I was going down memory lane and I spotted this photo...
I couldn't help but smile...
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Space warp
...when boredom strikes, crazy mind works.
This was just a wine glass placed on top of one of our place mats. Lens was put inside the glass, focused, and I pressed the shutter.
