Tuesday, January 26, 2010

1st wedding of 2010....Pauline and Paul

It's almost one month since we stepped into 2010. It's been a pretty long month for me, and I guess 1st exciting thing so far is Pauline's wedding. Yeah....one of my bride's maid is getting married, 2 more to go....She married someone named Paul, so I guess the names match at least....:)

Billy fixed the straps of my dress few days before the wedding. The length was perfect, and yet the weather wasn't. We had rain for the whole week and the rain just stopped in time for the wedding. It was too cold for me to wear the dress shoes so I decided to wear the boots and change when we get to San Diego. Took a photo of that outfit cuz everything looked kinda funny with the huge boots I put on....

We got to SD way too early so we had lunch at Carl's Jr. and went to Starbucks to get myself some boost of caffeine.... Billy brought a book to read and all pretending to concentrate on the book....and that is why he looked super surprised in one photo where he pretended to not know I was taking photos of him....

Howard took some photos of us at the church. Lighting wasn't ideal so I guess this was the only one which turned out ok....

We took some photos with the couple before the ceremony cuz we had to leave right after the wedding....

I had to sit on the stage while the whole ceremony was going on. The only good thing was that I got to take photos with their faces since they were facing my way....

Howard sang a duet with another girl after Pauline and Paul lighted the candles...I think he was super nervous while singing and playing at the same time....

Billy took this one which I think turned out to be interesting....I am glad we had our wedding outdoors so there is no need to light the candles...so much trouble...

We took some photos with Howard at the parking lot before we left. It's annoying most of the photos turned out to look kinda bad with the colors....oh well....


Anyway....it was a speedy run for a wedding....I know at least 4 couples who got married on the same date. It's weird how many people are still getting marriage even though I personally think it's one dangerous thing to step in....Pauline's wedding was kinda interesting cuz so many people were crying in the wedding....Hopefully the path of their marriage will be filled with laughter, not so much tears....

Friday, January 8, 2010

Last day of 2009

X-mas break after Xiao Zhen left wasn't all that exciting. We didn't do much other than watching TV, going to super markets or various stores. On the last day of 2009 we went downtown to check out one building, and I ended up taking some photos of downtown while we were walking around....

See that single pink flower on the tree? odd....

This is at the fountain at Pershing Square....the reflection actually....

Stopped by Biltmore hotel....They used to have Oscar dinners here long time ago. Last time I came here was at 7-8 years ago I think...



Here is the building which we went to downtown for.....

The inside of Bradbury building is really classy....


There was this weird Chaplin sitting there right next to the stairs....

Without my thick coat...

Funny bear with police hat....

Used the tripod to take photos of us....didn't turn out too well cuz the light coming from the roof...

The theater across from Bradbury looked kinda cool too..

And there was a market right across from Bradbury, which turned out to be like a Mexican market...man I really don't know what Mexican people eat....Stuff just looked scary to me....


Ok this is the photo that would conclude for the downtown trip....1st day of 2010 kinda looks like the photo...depressing that is...anyway....that's another story....