Night Shots
Canon PowerShot S3IS experiments on shutter speed / long exposure. Not bad for a regular digital
View ArticleThe Cat and the Cranes
A 3.5-minute video taken with my Canon Powershot S3IS from our front porch. Overlay music is "Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness" from Joe Satriani's "The Extremist" album.
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New Articles: Aquarium Design and Decor
How to Design an AquariumDesigning an aquarium, also called aquascaping, is one of the most exciting and challenging aspects of the fishkeeping hobby. The aquarium is a mini replica (or simulation) of...
View ArticleNight Sounds
We live in Orlando, you know, the city where dreams come true. For several years, we stayed in an apartment located just two traffic lights away from Mickey Mouse's door. Every night we would hear a...
View ArticleScampering Squirrels
We had this brilliant idea to put some leftover (aka stale) mixed nuts on the tree stump in the back. The squirrels quickly got wind of it and... well... went nuts!
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Birds of Prey
There are hawks in our neighborhood. Some months ago, I was able to capture a Red-Shouldered Hawk sitting on a bridge rail about a block from our house. He was just sitting there, taking in the wind...
View ArticleInterweave Press | Knitting Patterns and Beading Projects
One of my handcrafted necklaces, Peach Princess, is on the Interweave Store. You can purchase the project design specs for only $4.00. Click on the link to enter the Interweave Store... or just click...
View ArticleMy Jewelry Phase
I started beading in June 2004. My first submission to Stringing Magazine was for the Fall 2005 issue. My pieces got published in five issues until I stopped submitting in 2007 when we relocated. I've...
View ArticleThe Baby Pink Tulip
In October of 2007, I bought assorted tulip bulbs to grow in containers. I experimented by planting some in soil and putting the pots in the refrigerator, keeping unplanted bulbs in the refrigerator...
View ArticleShameless Plug
Well, what the heck would I do with all those photos I have on flickr? I have the printer (it was on sale at BestBuy), I can still afford the ink (I think), I have photo paper (buy one get one), and I...
View ArticleFall Colors 2008
We timed our drive up to North Carolina to catch the peak of the turning of the leaves. The colors were amazing! Our first day was rainy (and the BlueRidge Parkway was covered with fog); but the next...
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RightPet.com
A new site for pets has just launched: RightPet.com.It's a place to check out which pet is best for you and your family. Pets and vendors are user-rated so that an online collective wisdom is shared...
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How to Cook Lumpiang Shanghai
When I moved to the US, the ordinary homemade dishes I grew up with suddenly became "ethnic delicacies" available only in Filipino restaurants (almost an hour away) or in the freezer section of the...
View ArticleThe Hanging Lamps Project
Most of my home projects are born out of necessity – necessity for convenience, necessity for comfort. After we built the breakfast counter, I noticed that whenever I sat there, I seemed to crave for…...
View ArticleFish Come True
I’ve always believed in the saying, “Be careful what you wish for.” A lot of my wishes have come true, and I’m thankful. But I’ve also had to pay a price. Case in point: when we moved to the new house...
View ArticleTreadmill Tunes
Below is a re-post of an entry I uploaded back in 2006 to my Learn-Something-New blogsite. Reason for the re-post: Rej and friends are talking about jogging to the tune of their favorite tunes. Here's...
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Concert: Fleetwood Mac
We had ejected all the CDs from the car and had forgotten to snatch a new batch from the house, so we ended up listening to the radio. The announcer played a familiar Fleetwood Mac song and capped it...
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Concert: Steely Dan
I wish I could be like Steely Dan and make people pitch in for my house payment. This is what their "Rent Party 2009" tour is supposed to be about: for all of us closet fans of their several decades of...
View ArticleCocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral Community Fireworks
We decided to watch this year’s Fourth of July fireworks at Cocoa Beach –- a first time adventure for us. According to various sources (aka, Google’s search results), the annual Independence Day...
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