2010 LA Auto Show

Last Thursday went to LA Auto Show. Actually i just want to see the most anticipate company in the show Lotus which launched 5 concept car at Paris Motor show last month, but they just showcased 4 out of the 5 here, without the lotus Eterne. so here there photo of the day..

Maple leaves series

Now is Fall season , so the greenish trees turned their leaves to red, yellow, gold , etc colors. Here  i took a series of colorful maple leaves around my neighborhood, ( I pretty love maple leaves actually) some of the pictures a little blur because of the low light condition ( 5p.m the sky already dark) and without tripod, i should shoot early next time. 

Maple leaves 2nd series click here

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 sorry some wild weird plant.

 oranges 

 apple

3 pieces on my laptop..

Weeling Ng

Newport, California, USA Whale Watching

Last summer we ( me , hua, ann and jack) went to Newport beach for whale watching. Few weeks before that, we got a good deal which cost us only $11.25 per person for the whale watching trip( normal price is $30 ). That day we departed at about 11p.m and heading toward Newport beach, about an hour we reached there, first sight it feel pretty good and nice, the atmosphere there is more to relax, many families there are prepared to the beach and water sport.
Parking along the road is full, so we follow the GPS direction and finally reach the Newport Landing office. After parked our car and registered at the office, we walk around the area while waiting for the boat, a bay that separate the two side of the area, they even have a small ferry that fetch the car to the opposite side and many yacht that parked at the bay area. The scenes there pretty nice and calm, just felt in holiday mood, everyone is enjoying life there.
 Then we wait for the boat to come, about half hour we depart and begin our journey "hunting" for the whale. We passed  many luxurious houses that build beside the bay and most of them have their own yacht in their "garage", then we reached the ocean, the boat keep going, on their routine route. The boat is equipped with sonar  and GPS system that help to detect whales, so the captain keep look on his binocular to spot whale; on the way we saw many dolphins swimming and jumping out of water. It pretty warm scenes because this the first time I saw dolphin in the wild and in large numbers. When the captain spotted the whale he will announce and ask us to look at the particular angle/side. That time i prepared my 55-250mm lens in order to capture the far away whale, i manage to get some of the whales but after all i felt  dizziness and felt like gonna vomit. This might be i focused too long on the camera or maybe seasick tho. So after the boat turn back; no more whale to see, i just sat on the chair and rest the camera beside me. (I don't want to vomit on the boat, this gonna to be super duper embarrass), no picture anymore. Although suffering for seasick, but still enjoy the trip, this is the first time i saw whales, dolphins and sea-lion in the wild.

here some photos of the day.

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yachts  

 the street

 the ordinary california view

hua and jack(open ur eye) 

craved shark on wood

 doggy in the boat

yachts  

dolphin

 whale

 the whale tail

dolphin jumping at Newport beach

seals

 beach

the beach

WeeLing Ng

my cellphone alive after half coma...

while on the way back home from laundry.. i ran toward my apartment because of the cold weather(approximately 12 degree celcius)..whose know today isn't my day..my cellphone fell of my pocket and i step hard on it..i discovered one small piece of the aluminium frame broke off ( pretty lucky the LCD screen didn't broke).Fine, as long as it usable. But when i tried to call my mom..the "call", #2 and #3 keys doesn't work.. omg..

so i decide to dissemble it and see what wrong with it( the first time i dissemble a phone).. i found some tutorial at youtube on how to dissemble the phone.. and successfully dissemble it..while testing the phone, it show the chip is broken.(i'm guessing, because i thought maybe something is loose so that the key doesn't work; but when i directly press on the chip it still can't function) so i gave up and assemble back to it original state, and turn on the phone; miracle happened the dead button come alive..just usable like last time..i'm so happy..:)

anyway the moral of this story is i need to keep fit, someone say the aluminium frame broke because i'm too fat and step on it..

here some photo of my pity phone..

 Dissemble in process 

 assemble back..but a small piece of aluminium fall off

poor phone..

Weeling Ng