Most of the time, you can catch me behind the camera, which explains why I don’t have many photos of myself. For the sake of attaching a face to a name on this site, here’s a rare photo of me & my little niece Ava. Needless to say, I’m the guy on the right.
Ava can’t quite pronounce my name properly, but she does the best she could & settled for ‘Uncle Ai-ai’. Who am I do deny a nickname like that from a cutie like her?
Niece Ava & Uncle Ai-ai
Family, Lifestyle, photography
Last Friday, we got to hang out with a few familiar faces. Cindy & I got to catch up with our old study abroad buddies from Okayama. Good times, as expected.
We brought them back to our apartment after a dinner in lovely Downtown San Mateo, where we reminisced with all our fun stories of old. It eventually prompted me to pull up my old photos taken five years ago in Okayama—essentially the beginning of my photography career. It was kinda cool to see how much I’ve progressed with my photography.
Above is a photo taken toward the end of our one-year tour in Japan. Alex, being the performer & musician that he is, brought his acoustic guitar, found a seat near the iconic water fountain in front of Okayama Station & played in front of a small group. Why did he do it? He said it was one of the things he wanted to do before he left Okayama. Sure, it was a bit out-of-place to see a big foreigner playing a guitar in front of a small-town Japanese train station, but it did add to the coolness factor of it all.
Overseas & abroad
photography, travel
August 1, 2009 will be special for many Oakland Athletics fans. Rickey Henderson, baseball’s greatest lead-off man, retired his jersey number 24 forever in Oakland. I won’t go into too much details into his stats since it has been mentioned so much on the Internet, so I’ll let this site do it for me. Oakland is so proud to have a home-grown kid as talented as Rickey, which is why they dedicated the month of August 2009 to be Rickey Henderson month.
They laid out a long red carpet all the way from the center field wall to second base, where he met many of his former teammates. What I didn’t realize initially until Rickey lifted the base from its place was that it was plated in gold:
Stealing a gold-plated 2nd base
At the end of his speech, Rickey asked the crowd to chant Run, Rickey, Run one last time. The crowd roared & Coliseum was filled with a unison chant. The experience was magical.
Rickey Henderson Day
Bay Area, baseball, photography
