I am a day late for blogging about the meaningful bloggers unite event happening yesterday on 9/27/2007. I want to put a post about verbal abuse as they affect the relationships with close ones and the people we bump into. There are times that even the calmest of us will have used the abusive words when we run short on times or we are frustrated with what run against our ways in our daily routines as simple as in driving or waiting in line in a store checkout line. We use abusive words in many ways of manifestation of our emotional outburst.
More often than not, I overreact to negative emotions and stresses that I have no control of. I once saw a great article about 90/10 rule that 90% of our misery actually comes from our overreactions to the 10% of incidents that we have absolutely no control of, say the traffic jam or the needed attention of our crying children. Why sweat for that small percentage incidents that we can't 
control. Next time around when people cut in front of us in traffic, let us say 'good for him or her' as he or she can get to work earlier. Yeah, right! At least, we do our part not to trigger our emotions into the wrong direction for the day. Why bring in unnecessary stresses in our daily routines, let's all be lighten up for the important.
I for one have to stop all the abusive words that I have at home. Yes, I do have frustrations at home when I lack sleep and my two boys and my very tiring wife wants the attention from me. I have to yield to their needs and lighten up with positive and praising words. I have way too many thoughts in my life that translate into negative abusive words. And I am tired of the negative words that seem so natural in me. I am here to share this blog post to remind myself and others to use positive words and stop any negative wordings that can become abusive to others especially to our close and loved ones.
All pictures taken with Pentax FA 50 f/1.4
Hand-Held 1/2 sec, f/5.0, iso 400, 0 Ev
My video camcorder Canon ZR 50 finally gets a new bag as a close out item in Circuit City. I paid $6.50 out the door, I still couldn't believe it. It is a perfect fit and I used my camcorder over the weekend in Children Discovery Museum with my boys.
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I have been troubled all week deciding if I want to upload pictures that I normally don't want to talk about. I make the decision to post some of Ben's pictures while taking his daily preventive medicine for his asthma problems. Ever since his first visit to Emergency Room around the age of 7 months old, his asthma attacks have sent us to many late night visits to ER and doctor's office. He is fine this week and all pictures are taken while he is doing well.
And I appreciate my sweetest Ben with or without his inhaler. He can be messy and a little brat at times but he is always the love and joy of my life. My daily favorite moment is holding him and kissing him on the back of his neck. Photograph ABC on 9/19/2007:
Picture taken with Pentax FA 50 f/1.4
Why this Blog
Unlike my Hin's Tech Corner where I document my journey form p&s to dSLR and things that I have learned along the path in digital photography, this blog is my personal journal. All writings, photographs, and videos are my digital capture of special memories. This blog is a display of my love in photography and my family and you will certainly see my two lovely children and occasionally my beautiful wife in the blog. I love my family and part of the reason in starting this blog is to capture the special memories that I have with them in our daily lives. There are the negative moments in my daily struggles but hopefully my positive postings will overshadow those negative moments and make them unnoticed.
Digital Passions
As of the writing of this blog, there is little at all in terms of financial rewards through advertisement as a publisher. Having an audience whom I can share my learning and my pictures give me the most satisfaction. This blog is a journal of my learning path with digital photography. You can help me greatly by leaving comments in blog post for sharing, encouragement and corrections when necessary. Your comments and feedbacks are highly appreciated. It is priceless in the knowledge gained through studies, research, writing and sharing with you all in this blog.
Picture taken with Pentax FA 50 f/1.4
I have some unplanned sunset pictures when I happen to have my camera bag with me yesterday at pre-school meeting for my younger boy. Sunset picture was taken with Pentax K100D and Pentax DA 50-200.
I have been wanting to have a blog post for my Dad and Mom. I have few pictures taken of my Dad and Mom while visiting home in beginning of this year. I went alone in the trip. I was sick throughout my entire visit and I was not enthusiastic in taking pictures in my stay at home. Though these pictures only show the back of my beloved Dad and Mom, I never thought about having them in my blog when I took them. But I am very glad to have few pictures of them.
I love my Dad and Mom and they are the most loving persons dedicated completely to their family and children. I have been truly blessed to have been raised up in a loving family with lots of fond memories with love and cheers. Dad and Mom are getting old and I forget to take a picture of the medicine box that my Dad is organizing every morning and late evening for all the medicines that he and my mom need to take daily. And I forget the exact count but it is a large number of boxes that my Dad have to keep them in two separate boxes bigger than a shoe box.
I am glad both the medicines and medical facilities in Macau have kept them very healthy and they manage to live an active life style. Though my Dad seldom holds the hands of my Mom, one can see the strong love and dedication in how they care for each other in daily routines as simple as my Dad organizing medicines for my Mom in the early morning and late evening.
Our home has a detached garage and it is always a pleasant experience to walk home through our garage. Home gives us a sense of belonging and I am forever grateful for my home that offers us shelter and a place to bundle up for joy, rest and comforts. Sometime I come home late from work and I pass by those dimly lit light in my driveway and all I can think of is the thankful thoughts I have for my kids and wife safely kept in our beloved home few steps away from my garage.
The few pictures above offer different views of our garage. My photos can give the wrong impression of my garage being tidy. It is kind of a mess in reality. It has a second floor for storage and it has spoiled my family in keeping all the old cardboards of any household items from going from baby stroller to Dell computers that I purchase years ago.
Pictures were taken with Pentacon M42 50mm f/1.8 in the 1st photo, DA 50-200 in 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and last one was done with Takumar Asahi 28-80 Macro.
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