Category Archives: Leisure

Evaluating Lightroom 3 vs. Aperture 3

Today I spent pretty much the whole day trying to figure out whether I should use Adobe Lightroom 3 or Apple’s Aperture 3. Here’s what I want to ultimately accomplish: store my photos on an external drive be able to edit/retouch non-destructively select photos without being tethered to my external drive localized adjustments I downloaded …

August 21, 2011 – 7:31 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Leisure | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Life with a CR-48

It’s been 1-2 months since I got the CR-48 (a prototype laptop/netbook that runs Google’s Chrome OS). How has it fit into my habits and workflow? When It Has Come in Handy Productivity on the BART; 100MB of free 3G data per month for 2 years is a pretty sweet deal. 100MB doesn’t seem like …

April 27, 2011 – 11:52 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Geeky, Information and Technology, Leisure, Life, Web Development | Comments (0)

Body Worlds Vital Exhibit

This past Friday I went to the San Jose Tech Museum (The Tech) with my sister, brother-in-law and dad to see the Body Worlds Vital exhibit. It was my first time going to this sort of exhibit on the human body and it was really fascinating and inspiring on two levels. The first level was …

February 27, 2011 – 11:23 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Leisure, Life, Reflection, Spiritual, Thoughts | Comments (3)

Jetlag

Having recently come back from Taiwan last Wednesday, it’s no surprise that I have jetlag. There’s a whopping 16 hour difference and given that I don’t think I fully adjusted to Taiwan time in the first place, my biological clock is whack. Usually these sorts of vacations occur during an extended break so I have …

January 10, 2011 – 11:46 am | By leehsueh | Posted in Leisure, Random, Thoughts, Updates | Comments (1)

Some Videos from Taiwan

A few video clips that I took in Taiwan with the Canon Rebel T1i. Please pardon my shaky hands, noob focusing, and american-accented chinese. Youths from Sabah singing hymn 389 in Malay All of the youths, save one, are related. I believe three are siblings (children of a Pastor Joshua) and the rest are cousins. …

January 8, 2011 – 10:43 pm | By leehsueh | Posted in Leisure, Pictures | Comments (2)

Taiwan: The Beginning of the End

We are now situated in the Farglory Hotel in Hua Lien, which is probably the most baller tourist hotel in the area. As my sister described it, it looks and feels like a Vegas hotel. It’s the last night for Whei and I; my mom and Hain-Sing (to his great dismay) are in Taiwan until …

January 4, 2011 – 7:15 am | By leehsueh | Posted in Leisure, Pictures, Updates | Comments (1)

Taiwan: Arrival in Hua Lien

We are now in the Ola Hotel in Hua Lien after arriving around 4:30pm. A local pastor and his wife picked us up and took us around for the evening, including a couple of the churches in the area. It was really nice and the best word I can think of right now to describe …

January 2, 2011 – 7:25 am | By leehsueh | Posted in Leisure, Updates | Comments (1)