hm......what happens if you can't read chinese?!!!

well.....you lose out on this super deal (3 dishes plus rice for $17.99) at this little chinese restaurant next to the music studio I go to for violin lessons. They have this chinese banner out saying, "3 dishes plus rice for $17.99" and nope there is no English translation on there. Good thing I can read the number 3 and $17.99. Well, so I asked the waitress in my horrible mandarin about this $17.99 deal and she handed me the special menu and guess what?!!!! It was all in chinese. I asked if there was an English menu and there was, except it was the regular menu, not the special 3 items for $17.99 special menu. So in short, the deal was only for people who can read chinese. How...rude...how discriminatory.....so i randomly pointed to 3 items on the menu becaues the waitress didn't want to read the dishes one by one for me.....(can't blame her, I wouldn't want to either) and I don't want to pay $10 for a dish that I could get for $6 on the special menu....

Mind Boggling....

OK, so whenever there's a holiday do environment engineers really get a day off? For example, for us, trash day is Monday and it was labor's day so of course, no waste management service that day. But then the next day we put our trashcans out. So doesn't this mean that they have to work twice as hard to get all the trash that was suppose to go out on Monday done on Tuesday?

Testing out my new lens at Hakone Garden

One of the best things about being a photographer assistant is being able to get your hands on all sorts of photography equipments, body, lens, flash, tripod - you name it. But nothing beats getting first dibs on on them when they being replaced by newer equipments on the market. So, that is how I came to own the Cannon EF 75-200 2.8 USM telephoto lens, an absolutely amazing lens, even if there isn't IS on it.