Jul 27 2013

Main Street Unionville (cloudy/rainy photo shots)

I didn’t expect with a cloudy weather Saturday I would manage to come up with a few good pictures, guess it doesn’t have to be sunny to get that achievement hehe.  I haven’t taken any pictures outdoor in a cloudy day for a long long time and the result was not bad.  I love photography, don’t want to be a professional but I am trying a lot different types just for fun.  Practice is what I need and I am sure I will do a lot of that this summer.  Every experience begins with a start, feel free to comment because I will definitely need that to improve my skills hehe.

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Jul 27 2013

St. Jacobs Flea Market

Call me a noob, can you believe after all these years living in Toronto, I had never been to St. Jacobs?  The weather wasn’t the greatest, just a little rain which was perfect because the hot weather would probably kill me outdoor :-P.  There were actually a few surprises went I got there, the size of the Flea Market is so huge, soo many amish people, the place was totally packed at 10 in the morning and a tourist hot spot.  Compare to the flea market I had been to, the biggest difference I noticed was probably the indoor area, tons of unique shops and food counters, I was amazed by those specialty food counters lineups, outside area was more like a festival/farmers market/shops and not to mention there is also an antique area too on the other side of the street.  It was a very good experience overall, everyone was soo friendly, as a city boy that wanted to get away from concrete, this is definitely a place to go from time to time because of the calm atmosphere 🙂

more pictures on my facebook here https://www.facebook.com/karlng5354/media_set?set=a.10151754887665211.1073741828.689775210&type=3

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Jul 21 2013

Dinner with Cheryl and friends @ chop Steakhouse bar

As always, we would like to celebrate our friends birthdays early, if you are reading this, don’t forget to send greetings to Cheryl at the end of this week 😛  Cheryl’s pick of the night was chop Steakhouse bar, there are 8 across Canada, luckily the one in Toronto is located just around our airport, 801 Dixon Rd Toronto, Ontario M9W 1J5.  First impression was, the look is very modern from the outside and the inside, people are extremely friendly and price is inexpensive compare to the similar kinds of restaurants.  Our waitress was extremely friendly, quite surprised that she actually remembered all our names and service was excellent.  I picked the crab cake, prime rib and apple pie from their summerlicious menu, everything was pretty good, crab cake was delicious, prime rib was cooked just right and apple pie was excellent.  Unfortunately, I didn’t finish everything because the portion was a little big for me.  Anyways, for a fine dinning restaurant, this one is really good especially if you want to get away from all those franchise in Toronto 🙂

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Jul 11 2013

TRAXXAS Rally

Welcome the newest member of my RC family, my new TRAXXAS Rally 🙂

DSC06601What a coincident, my best friend Raymond asked if I wanted to play RC with him, and of course I didn’t mind 😛  After doing some research, I figured I should get something that I don’t have, maybe a Rally?  I used to play a lot of different on road and off road RC cars, I think I have about 10 RC cars in my basement, but they were the old days’ toys, time to see what’s out there.  I found this TRAXXAS Rally, great reviews, love the ready-made body cover and everything.  Don’t really want to surprise anyone but you know, I had never had any of my RC cars running 7 cells, this is actually my first 🙂  Anyways, I am charging the battery right now and will probably try it tomorrow if the weather allows.  If anyone has something similar and want to play together, let me know and we can figure something out 🙂  plus I hope I will take some awesome video on this baby in the coming future too 🙂

 

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Jul 07 2013

“kids” – a short video using my Sony ActionCam

Finally made a video using some of the footage from my Sony ActionCam, while I was uploading to YouTube,  I realized the last video I uploaded was almost 2 years ago.  I here to promise, I will make videos more frequently.  Anyways, here is a video of some misc. short clips of kids that I hang out with almost every week that’s why I call this video “kids”.  FYI, in the beginning and at the end, those clips were shot in 120 fps slow motion mode, and for the rest were just regular 30 fps, enjoy!

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