Mabo Tofu

Since Tina posts all of her amazing food adventures, I had to post some of my own to boost the madness of all the delicious food currently on this blog. Hi Tina! Although we've never met, you seem like an awesome cook ^_^!


Here I present Chinese Mabo Tofu from scratch. You can buy the sauce packets if you are lazy. Lee Kum Kee makes a great sauce packet and all you need to do is add pork and tofu.

1 box of Tofu, 1/2 pound of Pork

Tomatoes and Onions

Hoisin Sauce and whatever other spices you want

Brown the onions, toss in the pork

Once the pork is fully cooked, chuck in the hoisin sauce and your other spices along with everything else...put in the tomatoes last to prevent them from coagulating

Serve over a bed of rice! Om nom nom nom...

Photographing People

I started practicing photographing people today. It is definitely a lot harder to compose a good shot using people versus doing landscapes. I feel like I have mastered landscapes, so now I'm going to move on to taking snapshots of people. It'll be a big learning experience but I'm all for it!

got married today

So Queen and I finally got married today. It was a really small event. Prophet, Lawrence, and Yuritzi were the only guests there. It was perfect, no headaches that come with a big wedding and the price was great ($100 for the license).

We were bored waiting for them to call us up so we took these pictures with our phones.

Later I photoshop'd it and made it a little nicer.

This took me probably 5 min per picture. I think if i spent more time on it I could have made it look really good, but it just goes to show you how much of a difference Photoshop can add. Remember these were from camera phones.

Night Photography

Rock Bottom Brewery, Old Market - Omaha Nebraska
1 second shutter speed, ISO80

A lot of people ask me what type of camera I have, after looking at some of my photos. It turns out that I have a point and shoot, Canon SD1000. It just so happens that I have exploited all of its manual features in order to take some stunning photos. I want to prove to people out there that you don't need a fancy SLR to take great pictures. In fact, some people with fancy SLR cameras take some horrible pictures. It's not very nice to say but it can be true sometimes. The only draw back to point and shoot is that I can't print anything bigger than 11x14 with my current camera. Oh well.

Enter the world of HDR my friends. If you have never heard of this photography style, here is the summary of what High Dynamic Range Imaging is all about: "A set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight." - Wikipedia.

Basically have you ever taken a photo with the sun in your face? You'll notice that certain parts of the photo come out darker than others. What if you can evenly distribute the light to all areas of the photo? HDR allows qualities such as even light distribution to be injected into the photo. Most of the time HDR photos look synthetic, since the color map is so well represented. It is definitely worth experimenting. Let me know if you are interested in how to make one.

Crazy Asian Drivers

Some controlled reckless driving videos to mix things up a bit!

Sunset From The Pacific Coast Highway