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I haven’t updated for a while. Life hasn’t been not crazy busy yet, however, it’s just occupied by so many random activities, such as hang out with friends, a little bit time for my intern job, very little of time for school(?!).

Geez…did I mention that midterms are coming? Yeah..it’s coming…(crap…I need to study…)

Anyways, one thing that I am looking forward to right now is that…

I am going to Seth Godin’s Tribe event!!!! Ya…I know I sound like a fan, a groupie, or whatever you wanna call it. It’s such an exciting opportunity and I start to realize that it’s such a privilege to live in a city like New York. Well, it’s like you are close to everything, or at least things that are sorta important to certain amount of people. I will try to update after I go to the tribe event. Let’s see.

loving web2.0

I just can’t get enough of web2.0.

As I officially start my intern, I dive into the web2.0 world immediately. Well, it’s not like I am making any development or something, but I’ll say that I am exploring the world of Web2.0 which is fun fun fun and also tons of information.

I really admire those people who always keep themselves up-to-date… In the world of web2.0, it’s like there are always hundreds of things going on at the same time. RSS feeds keep updating every single time as I refresh it (geez…that’s why we need iphone=P). Although there are so much information, so little time, I still try to read my RSS feeds as much as possible. There are couple of sites that I read most frequently.

1. Mashable
Needless to say, this is like the yellow page of web2.0 (or at least social network sites). A lot of interesting articles here, and almost updating every hour.

2. Seth Godin
A great marketer, writer. Godin has lots of great, interesting ideas and he updates his blog on a rather frequent basis. It’s my daily must-read. I am also reading one of his books right now (Permission Marketing). His writing is pretty straight-forward, and you get his point easily (and those points are usually important for a marketer!). I like his writing a lot, so I might check out his other books some time.

Certainly there are lots of great sites out there and I will be exploring them in the near future hopefully. I’ll put up more sites next time.

[FYI]

In case you are wondering what’s Web2.0, go check out the Wiki definition below.
Wiki’s definition of Web2.0

If it can make you smile

Today, one of my best friends sent me an e-mail that saying as she went through my photostream on flickr, she almost cried. What a compliment for me! Well, I am not saying the fact that she almost cried, but the fact that she felt something in my photos. I totally know how that feels, seriously. Sometimes when I browse some flickrers’ photostream, I feel like I want to drop a message immediately to express how much I admire his/her work.

If it can make you cry, then it can certainly make you smile. No matter how you feels about these photos, it means something to me. It really does!

Lunch at Max Brenner

Labor day weekend. People are all over New York city (or people are always all over NYC?!). We had lunch at Max Brenner in East Village. I was told this place is famous for its chocolate; however, we didn’t come here specifically for dessert, we hoped they have good food as well besides chocolate. So, we both ordered Garden Omelette. Well, the food itself it okay not impressive or anything. But, the service is horrible…It took forever for them to take our order, and probably more than 25 minutes+ to get our food. Not to say that I probably waited for more than 10 minutes to get my water glass refilled. I ended up paying $12 for my meal. If I ever need to come eat here again, maybe I’d try their fondue.

[FYI]
Max Brenner

Flushing

This is the second time I went to Flushing (last time was two years ago I think). This is place is so-called “little Taipei.” Well, for me, there is no such place can be called little “you-name-it-place.” Every place is unique and it has its own character. Flushing is alright for some cheap Chinese/Taiwanese food. However, if you want me to come here often…well…I guess Manhattan already has a little bit of everything PLUS it takes at least 30mins to get here…Maybe if my friends ask me to, I’d think about it=P

@main street at Flushing, Queens.

Caffe Trieste

@ North Beach.

My must-visit place in San Francisco.

favorite of today

taken at Starbucks（Yin-Hua a.k.a. “sakura” branch) in Taichung.

I photoshopped this pic a little bit (mainly just adjusted the curve), I like this color more than its original version directly from the camera. (the original version seemed a bit underexposure to me)

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Taken in LuKang, Chang-Hua.

This is the second day since I started using GRDII. I feel like I am getting to understand why so many people are amazed by this luxury point-and-shoot digital camera although there are still some things I don’t like about it. However, it makes snap shot/ candid shot so much easier and intuitive. The color tone is pretty impressive and the 1:1 ratio is rather interesting as well.

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My second visit to Gaomei this summer. I had a great time as usual just that I only had my GRDII with me and the battery was almost dead so I didn’t get many good ones this time. Well, maybe save for the next time and I will make sure that I have three cameras with me=D

*My good friend Sway in the pic.