Jason Lee : A Creative Photographer

Q: How did you get into photography?
A: I picked up my first digital camera a year before my first daughter was born, which was about 8 years ago. I really enjoyed taking photos and getting the immediate feedback from digital and it just grew from there.

Q: How do you come up with such creative photos of your daughters? What's your creative process like?
A: Most of the ideas come from the girls, from observing them play, or hearing the funny and outrageous things they say. Their day to day life also plays a big role for my inspiration. Creative process, hmm, thats a tough one. After coming up with an idea, I then 'set up' the scene, and often use artificial lighting to enhance the images. It helps to plan out the shoot before hand, so at most, I only have them in the shoot for a minute or two.

Q: How has being on Flickr helped you with your business?
A: I generally use Flickr to share photos of the kids, but I have had several inquiries for wedding work after people have seeing my child photography.

Q: Any inspirational stories you'd like to share?
A: Well, not sure if this is inspirational or not, but I'd like to share a little bit about why and how this project came about. In 2006, my mother was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. The girls were constantly sick, with colds and coughs so I couldn't always bring them to visit her. I started a blog http://kristinandkayla.com as a way to keep my mom up to date with things that were going on in their lives, and hoping to cheer her up with pictures. I still try and keep it updated with photos, but it's at a far less frequency than when I first started.

Q: Do you have any advice for aspiring photographers?
A: Don't be afraid to experiment. Take notes. When you have an idea, jot it down somewhere for later. Practice, practice, practice. Start a 365 project, or at least try to shoot something on a consistent basis.

Q: Any quotes you live by?
A: Like in Finding Nemo, Dori advises "just keep swimming, just keep swimming." Replace swimming with taking pictures and I think you have a winning formula : )


Jason Lee's website

Children with Swag

Recently i love doing "blogwalking" and suddenly found this cute Tumblr named "Children With Swag" They explored and captured children with a cool style fashion and attitude. 

Love them all !

Now days children are better dress up than me. Sometimes,i'm just a little bit lost, with "What should i wear?" even to the office or just hang out to the shopping mall. Is it a normal thing? Well all we need is an inspiration style, so sometimes i love to buy a magazine to see what is up to date now. Like Tribal Style or Sheer Blouse, Floral Print, Lace / Embroidered,Asymmetric Skirt, etc.

Brunch - Saturday 26 May 2012

Carrot and Tomato Juice

Carrot & Tomato Juice

Carrot & Tomato Juice with flaxseed

This is my second trial,mixed carrot and tomato juice without sugar, just ass natural honey and lime syrup, and mineral water (you may add ice cube to make it even cooler).

I use one and a half piece of carrot and one piece of tomato. It not taste really good as a juice in a can or   a box. Believe me, it is more healthier than those instant juice out there.

Or you may create another mixture of juice, like strawberry and banana, papaya and guava, kiwi and melon, or you name it !

Brunch at Imperial Chef - Emporium Pluit

Having a brunch with family at Imperial Chef, then take away some delicious foods.

Char Siew Bao (Char Siu Bao/叉烧包)

Cha siu bao or char siu bao is a Cantonese barbecue-pork-filled bun (baozi).

The buns are filled with barbecue-flavored cha siu pork.

They are served as a type of dim sum during yum cha and are sometimes sold in Chinese bakeries

There are two major kinds of cha siu bao: steamed (蒸, zheng) and baked (烤, kao). Steamed cha siu bao has a white exterior, while its baked counterpart is browned and glazed.

Cha siu refers to the pork filling; the word bao simply means "bun."

Fried Baozi / Fried Pork Buns /水煎包 / 包子

Steamed Pork Buns

Found a recipe from Lily Best Blog

Ingredients: 


A:

3 large thin slices ginger
1 stalk of green onion - cut into 2 - 3 inches length
1 tbsp oil for frying the above
2 cups waterB:

1 tsp chicken powder
1 tbsp dark caramel soya sauce
2 tbsp light soya sauce
4 ozs oyster sauce


C:
1 cup sugar/207 g fine granulated sugar
2 tsp gelatine

D:

2 tbsp tapioca starch
4 tbsp cornstarch
1/2 cup waterMethod:

Mix B till well combined

Mix C with a fork or whisk and mix it thoroughly otherwise the sauce will be lumpy.

Make a slurry with D and leave aside

Heat a large skillet or wok with 1 tbsp oil and fry ginger slices and green onions.until aromatic.  Add in the water, bring to the boil and cook until the ginger slices and green onions have released their flavor.  Remove the ginger slices and green onions and discard.

Stir in mixed B, lower the heat and contine to stir.

Add in C and continue to stir until sugar and gelatine have dissolved.

Finally add in the slurry D and cook until the sauce thickens.  Turn off heat and allow sauce to cool before putting into the fridge and let it cool and set for 3 hours before using.To make Char Siew Filling:

Diced 1/2 lb Char Siew into tiny dices.

Mix in the above cooled sauce, the amount is up to you, more sauce or less sauce, your preference.  A word of caution, do not overmix the sauce otherwise it will be runny.  Filling is ready for wrapping into paus/baos.

Found another recipe from Kuali.com

Char Siu - 叉燒 - Chinese BBQ Pork

Video by danrt50

Cake Boss

Carlos Bake Shop

Cake Boss is an American reality television series, airing on the cable television network TLC. Set at Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey, the show mainly follows Buddy Valastro and his family as they operate their business, with a focus on how they make their cakes, along with family gatherings and celebrations.

Cake Boss - Zombie Cake

Cake Boss - A Big Bumblebee

Cake Boss : Cheeseburgers Part 1

Cake Boss : Cheeseburgers Part 2

Cake Boss S04E24 (New Season) - Part 1

Cake Boss S04E24 (New Season) - Part 2

Cake Boss S04E24 (New Season) - Part 3

Cake Boss S04E24 (New Season) - Part 4

Cake Boss S03E19: Sandals, Sandwiches and Shelves part 1

Cake Boss S03E19: Sandals, Sandwiches and Shelves part 2

Cake Boss S04E25: Paleontology & Popping the Question part 1

Cake Boss S04E25: Paleontology & Popping the Question part 2

Cake Boss S03E23: Crazy Chocolate Cake and 

Carlo's Centennial Celebration part 1

Cake Boss S03E23: Crazy Chocolate Cake and 

Carlo's Centennial Celebration part 2

Vintage Taxi

Look what i found. It's ridiculously vintage. Wait, there's no consistency between this old rustic public transport compared to the modern TAXI. Yes once again it's a Blue Bird Group. Trustworthy and safely take you to your destination. Do not hesitate to call them, when you are need to go to some place, when you never go there before. Or just directly stop a taxi, which pass by on the road. Because they still charge you, about IDR35.000, although the truth you only need to pay IDR10.000

In the other hand, if you suddenly would like to cancel the order. You can do it, but you have to pay IDR10.000 for the cancellation fee. I know, it's kinda disturbing, but yeah you still need to pay.

Usually, i took the regular taxi, with a friendly price and affordable. It's very comfortable and the driver are friendly. Some of them will greet you with a Good Morning or Good Afternoon and maybe open the door, like in the romantic movie. But not all of them, of course! Some of the drivers are also like to be grumbling and mad because of the traffic. It's Jakarta, where there always traffic jam even in the "High Way" are also made you stuck in the middle of nowhere. People get mad, and curse each other like there's no end of life.

I just wish the transportation in Jakarta, could be develop to be better and high maintenance. In fact, the real life was rate to be so poor. I'm here not mean to judge all the government works, but the reality always speak. Why don't the government build a better transportation to cover up the "Blemish" of the cruelty of Jakarta? It is non-sense, if the Government say "There's no budget to fix/repair the broken/ugly facilities."

I am impressed with the transportation in Malaysia, though they seem always steal the Culture of Indonesia. They build a better monorail, a better train to provide all of the people to go to school or work. So they won't be a traffic, even so they are not worse than Jakarta. Just don't compared to Japan, they are very high technology and hard worker. Good attitude, work on time (not-so-me), proper management time, and well balanced life. So, if we compare Indonesia with Japan (the most modern country in tech), we have no clue how to compete.Because Indonesia classified to be "Developing Country" and Japan is "Develop Country"

The good thing about Indonesia is they are not selfish like some of Japanese. Because Japanese People are tend to be a very "Hard Worker" and they work on their self, not dependable to others or we can say "Give a cold shoulder." But Japanese are famous in good attitude, polite, kind and well mannered. Since Indonesian are so nice and friendly, western people love to tittle us with "Down to earth" and maybe they like to bully us? hahahaha...

Notes: It just a random post, confuse what to do in office, since there's nothing to do. So i put up in a song Blog. Sorry to say, if this random post would probably irritating your eyeballs. Get ready for the bleeding.

Now, this weirdo is ready to pack up her stuffs to home and maybe will do some research of FOOD and whoring with the World Wide Web. Stick the butts in the chair and starring at the silver pack square with an Apple icon on top. Ha!

Ciao!