Departure!

Mimi the Cat 2013, originally uploaded by szachko.

You came to my life in the size fitted in my palm..

You left my life in the size fitted in my palm as well.

Miss you, MiMi and RIP...
1999.10.03-2013.11.1

愁

upload, originally uploaded by szachko.

甭提淮南子的知秋葉
莫論李太白的故鄉月
相望東西岸的白髮人
只有愁愁愁愁愁愁愁

Disappearing Habitats

2013 Memorial Weekend in NYC, originally uploaded by szachko.

Couple years back, the way to get away from office hassle is to hind in the bookstores. With internet shopping and Amazon expansion, we lost Border totally and B&N is shrinking as well. We really miss the adventures of browsing through the book jungle. The only place we could find is back to city, to this unique place: Book of Wonder.

Ready for the Summer

Delivery, originally uploaded by szachko.

Waiting for the 17 years, they are popping up everywhere to join the summer orchestra. This is the first time for me to see them this close...

Flowering Magnolia

Spring in Cotswold - Flowering Magnolia, originally uploaded by szachko.

Spring finally arrived in Cotswold.

Magnolia blooming like crazy. They can not wait to tell the sky like life is still beautiful no matter how ridiculous the world become. The journey could be short but surely fills with hopes and excitements.

Birds are having party every day discussion what to build this coming year.

My dear little ones, what is your plan in this exciting season?

Fairy Tale .....

Snow in March, originally uploaded by szachko.

You cannot be a street photographer without living in the city. Could you?

Could you shoot the same subject again, again and again?

Festivus

After Super Storm Sandy, originally uploaded by szachko.

S: Happy Hanukkah..
A: Oh Thanks. Are you Jewish?
S: I just moved to Tenafly. Does that count?!?!
A: !!!!!!!

80-20 Rule

Carpet..., originally uploaded by szachko.

It is a typical 80-20 rule case...
It only took us 20 minutes to pull out 80% of the carpets.
But it took us about eights hours to pull out the rest of 20% of the carpet with those terrible GRENN GLLUE at the bottom...

Who is the luckiest one this year?!?!

Easter, originally uploaded by szachko.

Who is the luckiest one this year?!?! This is a Geek Easter tradition according to Nana. Each one at the East Family dinner will have his/her own red egg. Before dinner started, every one sits around the table and knocks the egg with each other till one of eggs crack. The winner will go to the one with intact egg. The winner will go next run with the other winner of the other pair. Whoever goes around the table for all the egg knocking without cracking the egg shell will be the luckiest one of the year....

New Page

Untitled, originally uploaded by szachko.

Enter a new page of chapter

Do You Know Where You Are Going To?

New Year 2012, originally uploaded by szachko.

This song ringing in my ears... 

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to? do you know?
Do you get what you're hoping for?
When you look behind you there's no open door
What are you hoping for?
Do you know?

Once we were standing still in time
Chasing the fantasies that filled our minds
You knew i loved you, but my spirit was free
Laughing at the question that you once ask me

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to? do you know?

Now, looking back in all we pass
We've let so many dreams just slip through our hands
Why must we wait so long before we see
How sad the answers to those questions can be?

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to? do you know?
Do you get what you're hoping for?

When you look behind you there's no open door

What are you hoping for? do you know?

[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/diana+ross/do+you+know+where+you+are+going+to_20192225.html

Waiting

Waiting, originally uploaded by szachko.

At the terminal,
Boat just left,
It is too late to turn around,
Wait is the best option now..

Recital

2011 Recital, originally uploaded by szachko.

Like everywhere in the world, parents in Hoboken send their kids to different programs to ensure they are stimulated properly. At the end of the year, we wonder how much that kids have absorbed and transformed? We have done the nature part, and how we can tell the nurture parts? Listening to Mozart's piece resonating in this classic German Church from our children peacefully, I have my faith to the futures..

Thanksgiving Mystery

Thanksgiving 2011, originally uploaded by szachko.

It is time to celebrate Thanksgiving with my side of families. My Super Aunt Sophie was preparing 20 people meals starting 7 days before the date. The bird on the Thanksgiving dinner table was not a turkey but a goose which is a traditional entry shown in Chinese banquet. It took Auntie seven days to prepare this bird. It was so delicious beyond descriptions. However, no one could figure out why there were two tangerines inside the bird. Trust me, this is definitely NOT Chinese or Taiwanese way. This is pure creation from my Super Aunt.

Fashion Designer

Hoboken Art and Music Festival 2011, originally uploaded by szachko.

Ms. Rita Presto has participated Hoboken Art and Music Festival for years. She has seen her clients grown from little girls to young ladies. All girls in town have to stop to visit her for every festivals to pick up new fashion designs for their favor dolls. The widen range style designs cover New England coast life, New York glamor, and Jersey Shore shimmering.

Here is the information
Rita Presto Designs
Designer Doll Clothes
rpdesigns@embarqmail.com

Solute! Street Fighters.

, originally uploaded by szachko.

The Street was hit shot waves after another. People on the Street just dust them off and keep fighting against the current. It will be up to generations beyond to give these Street Fighters proper justifications. However, it is this mighty persistences and energy that push the civilization engine.

Different Landscape

WTC, originally uploaded by szachko.

Looking out through the same window, but different skyline is showing up..

The Last Show..

Romeo and Juliet (Behind the Scenes Part 2), originally uploaded by szachko.

HDA is closed after this fantastic Recital...

Nice to Have A Friendly Shop Around....

Summer 2011, originally uploaded by szachko.

This deli shop is on Willow Street and right next to the dance studio. The place usually serves breakfast on weekends and closed around noon. For the past weekend, the shop was opened on Sunday to assist those hard working dancers and dancers' parents. At one point time, the owner even pull out extra tables and chairs for those patient parents.

富人不說，卻默默在做的33件事 by 延赫

NNJCA 2011 Chinese New Year Gala (北新美華聯誼會新年晚會), originally uploaded by szachko.

1比期限提早兩天完成
2不喜歡的事，再多做三分鐘
3和家人一起吃早餐
4坐第一排的位子
5隨身帶著筆
6在手機背景畫面寫上自己的目標
7比約定的時間提早十五分鐘到達
8先訂好玩樂的計畫
9先大聲向別人問好
10在一週內寄E-mail給初見面的人
11正確喊出對方的姓名與職稱
12剪掉信用卡
13興趣是你一輩子的同伴
14三秒之後再回答
15一邊聆聽一邊附和
16別按關門鍵
17少吃一口飯
18每天和別人共進午餐
19吃飯時不要掉落食物
20每天走路或跑步三十分鐘
21送客要送到電梯門口
22所有的回答都從「是」開始
23睡前五分鐘向自己提出問題
24五分鐘內記錄夢的日記
25仔細閱讀報紙
26隨身帶著一本書
27每週一次，從不同的路線上下班
28靜靜坐著觀察周遭的人
29電腦關機再下班
30裝做不知道
31壞消息別用電子郵件告知
32讚美不在場的人
33向自己道謝