(Aww it's Lillie!)
It's halftime of the South Korea vs. Uruguay game, so why not write a post? It's 0-1 right now, but I'm really impressed with Korea just to get into top16. Their play style is very European, whereas Japan seems more South American. I'm so glad the referee didn't see the should be penalty kick :) I remember thinking this earlier in the group plays, but Suarez reminds me of a mini C. Ronaldo with his style of play as well as how he looks haha. Forlan reminds me of this American actor, but I can't remember the name right now.
I still can't believe all 5 South American teams got in plus Mexico and USA, the rest of the world is catching up! US really got lucky with their bracket, no European nation, hardest just Uruguay. However, their defense is just amazing, Korea could barely get into the box, which is why the little passes didn't work out. However, they were so accurate and very pretty style of play.
I'm really nervous about the USA vs. Ghana game haha. Although an African country, they have really proved themselves to deserve to be in the top 16. US needs to step up the defense, stop being so sloppy and have a good mindset in the first half of the game especially. I think what USA lacks is one or two world class players, sure some of them play on European clubs, but they're not stars or anything. I mean look at Portugal, the rest of the team is just okay yet they still do well because of a famous striker and a few good defenders.
Enough with my soccer analysis. I could honestly go on and on but halftime is almost over.
I've learned a lot more about taking photographs by tweaking the white balance, aperture, shutter speed, and (somewhat) ISO. I love how if you just change one of these, it completely changes the tones of the picture. Also, I've learned how to further use curves, selective coloring, color balance, and layering styles on photoshop. I really love muted colors over high contrast/saturated pictures, because it seems a bit more realistic, more depth, and has that gentler/relaxing feeling to it. What I really want to do now is successfully do an HDR shot. The ones I've taken so far don't look that nice, perhaps because my exposure settings not at the right interval. I have no idea. As for now, I took a few pictures with Lillie, Larr, and Julie to learn portrait shots. I ended up taking about 70 good shots. So crazy! Below are a few of them, I tried compiling some of them because there were just way too many. I still got a lot to learn!
(The bottom picture with "Dream" is my favorite. I'm not sure why, maybe because of the tones and it's just so happy haha)
I still can't believe all 5 South American teams got in plus Mexico and USA, the rest of the world is catching up! US really got lucky with their bracket, no European nation, hardest just Uruguay. However, their defense is just amazing, Korea could barely get into the box, which is why the little passes didn't work out. However, they were so accurate and very pretty style of play.
I'm really nervous about the USA vs. Ghana game haha. Although an African country, they have really proved themselves to deserve to be in the top 16. US needs to step up the defense, stop being so sloppy and have a good mindset in the first half of the game especially. I think what USA lacks is one or two world class players, sure some of them play on European clubs, but they're not stars or anything. I mean look at Portugal, the rest of the team is just okay yet they still do well because of a famous striker and a few good defenders.
Enough with my soccer analysis. I could honestly go on and on but halftime is almost over.
I've learned a lot more about taking photographs by tweaking the white balance, aperture, shutter speed, and (somewhat) ISO. I love how if you just change one of these, it completely changes the tones of the picture. Also, I've learned how to further use curves, selective coloring, color balance, and layering styles on photoshop. I really love muted colors over high contrast/saturated pictures, because it seems a bit more realistic, more depth, and has that gentler/relaxing feeling to it. What I really want to do now is successfully do an HDR shot. The ones I've taken so far don't look that nice, perhaps because my exposure settings not at the right interval. I have no idea. As for now, I took a few pictures with Lillie, Larr, and Julie to learn portrait shots. I ended up taking about 70 good shots. So crazy! Below are a few of them, I tried compiling some of them because there were just way too many. I still got a lot to learn!
(The bottom picture with "Dream" is my favorite. I'm not sure why, maybe because of the tones and it's just so happy haha)
(Ahh it looks so weird small, click for bigger image!)
(Why is Julie centered >.<) 
(Inspired from the "Bad Day" music video. I thought this was so cute, although anyone could've taken the shot.)
(Again, another cute concept shot, but badly taken.)
(Got lazy on editting so I did a simple high contrast, low saturation.)We finally went to 5 guys. The burgers were pretty good! (But...Fudruckers is still better) The good thing was the it was really cheap, around $4-5 for a burger with all the topping you want. I think the toppings are what made it good. I was talking to Susana about going to Rudy's in Houston because they had one of the best burger/meat places around and you buy it by the pound. Then, I realized it was in ABQ as well! I'm definitely going to try that place sometime this summer.
(I tried taking a picture of my massive burger, but it looked too ugly to post because the bun was squished.)
(I tried taking a picture of my massive burger, but it looked too ugly to post because the bun was squished.)Three days ago, Leah and I decided to try to make a cover of "Yesterday" by Leona Lewis. I've never recorded anything seriously, so I think this will be a fun project. However, so far it has failed. I REALLY love this song.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_j6YVCKYM)
Day 1: Pick a song, took hours.
Day 2: Leah sings verse 1, her voice is not the "Leona Lewis" type voice, so she tried tweaking it a bit. Nonetheless, it took a whole day only because we're perfectionists and we can always find something wrong with it x.x
Day 3: Trial and adjust! Hopefully we're gonna get something productive :D
Yesterday, we went to celebrate Julie's birthday at the bowling alley. Laryssa bought some Baileys and we attempted making Baileys brownies, but ended up wasting so much because it didn't even taste alcoholic! I guess it's the same concept as hash brownies? Haha, who knows. After that fail, we made Julie "bubble tea" since my house had the straws and plastic cups and everything. Julie thought it was good and then got confused as to what it really was lol. We just mixed milk and Baileys on ice and snuck it in. Today, for the first time in my life, I broke 100 in bowling! I got THREE strikes (although the first one was because the lane was faulty...but who cares ;)) Now, this might not sound amazing, but my average is usually a 50-60, maybe it was because of the Baileys!
(The brownie's supposed to look like this. We put too much Baileys and it ended up being very soft, forgot to take a picture.)Finally, my big made me an awesome present for my birthday. I took a picture of it at 4am haha, it's sooo cute! I can't believe she made it from scratch!
Oh, and on a final note, I've been looking through some homemade things on Flickr and I REALLY want to make cute bento box lunches and sew stuffed animals....but I doubt that's ever gonna happen. Ah, too many things on my to-do list!
