Darren 的太空船

Darren 自己做的飛船，都幾detail咖！前面綠色的小點是武器，後面有引擎（會噴火的）。有三個乘客正坐在座位上欣賞電視（電視畫面上還有公仔）。前面綠色像一支是雷射鎗。100％自己做的，他真的十分喜歡太空船！！

I am sick of "Sent from my iphone"

I am OFFICIALLY sick and tired of iphone photos

I don't know what people are thinking when they think iphone camera (or other smart phone camera) is a substitute of Point and Shoot. I have yet see a iphone photo of friends/family kid that does not look horrible.

These tiny little phone might work on a picture perfect sunny day at a outdoor environment, but trying to capture that indoor with that tiny little led "flash" and the tiny sensor is just a disaster.

Maybe I am too old school.. I still use email instead of FB exclusively, I still write Blog instead of mini-blog.

But come on, if it is a kids photo that you want to take and keep, please use a decent P&S. Those wash out fuzzy photo really do you no good in keeping the memory. If you can afford an iphone or any smartphone, you can afford to get a modern P&S, and the size is small enough that ladies can put them in the purse at all time and guys can put them in their pocket.

All this being said, if the only photos you have of my lovely nieces/nephews are from your iphone, send it over anyway... that still better than nothing I guess. ( Oh, now I know why this trends continue... it is better than nothing)

PS. Just as I started this blog, there is an article posted on New York Times about this

"NOT" sent from my iphone

「打邊爐」

又到「打邊爐」季節，沒有山珍海味，但一家四口在室外氣溫華氏三十多度的寒冷天氣中,圍著火鍋徬邊吃吃肥牛肉，也是人生一大樂事。

National Air and Space Museum (Chantilly, VA)

國家航空航天博物館

今天我們去和一些朋友到 Chantilly, VA 的國家航空航天博物館的, 不要混淆她和 DC 的國家航空和航天博物館。她是一個相對較新的博物館，如果你從來沒有聽過它，也許你看過電影“變形金剛 2”。在博物館裡的場景與許多飛機的一幕便是在這個博物館裡拍的。

喜歡或不喜歡如在於是你喜歡飛機，我覺得它值得一去。由於是史密森學會的，所以沒有入場費（除US＄15元的相對比較高的停車場費）。在博物館裡，我相信大部分展品是真的，有40年代和50年代的舊戰鬥機，也有一些僅僅在幾年前還在服務戰鬥機。

對我來說，一個比較有趣的部分是法航協和式飛機。就在幾年前你仍然可以得到的機票（如果你有那樣的錢），現在又是一個很大的博物館展覽 ..

今日是和一班舊朋友一起去的，已經有一段時間沒有見大家了，很高興可以見一見大家。更加高興的是孩子們現在長大了一點，幾個小孩差不多是第一次正式見面，但卻玩得很開心。

National Air and Space Museum

Today we went with some friends to the National Air and Space Museum in "Chantilly, VA", don't confused that with the "Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum" in DC. This is a relatively new museum, if you have never heard of it, maybe you have seen the movie "Transformer 2". The scene in the museum with a lot of airplanes was shot in this museum.

Whether you like it depends on are much you like airplane, I found it worth a visit. As part of the Smithsonian Institution, there is no admission fee ( except for the relatively high $15 visiting parking). In the museum, I believed most of the exhibits was real, it has the older fighter jet in the 40s and 50s, all the way to some fighter jet that was still in service just a few years ago.

To me, one of the more interesting piece is the Air France Concorde. Just a few years ago you can still get ticket for it ( if you have that kind of money), and now it is a big museum exhibit..

It was also a nice experiences to meet our friends, we have not seen each other for a long time, We were quite happy that the kids, now grew up a little since they last seen each others, were having a lot of fun playing together.

Thanksgiving Feast!!!

Thanks for the nice Thanksgiving dinner!!! Our "contributions" ? The homemade Toblerone Chesscake become a "Sara Lee" frozen apple pie.. Haha.. Too sick to cook the day before... :) At least we did bring the wine/drinks and most importantly the ice-cream!

謝謝友人的感恩節晚餐好！我們的“貢獻”？本來自製的Toblerone Chesscake變為“莎拉李”冷凍蘋果餡餅 ..哈哈..前一天病了嘛 ... ：）至少我們有帶酒/飲料，最重要的是冰淇淋！