Cape Cod 05/07

For Memorial Day this year Baha and I went to Cape Cod, Falmouth. The last time we were on the Cape was before we got married. Mom hooked us up with a place to stay through her time share, not a bad little place, right on the harbor and short drive to the beach where we could use other connected hotel facilities that were located right on the beach.

Falmouth is a cute town, Friday night, after 3 hours on the road to go 75 miles, we had an excellent dinner at Fire Fly's.

Sat we spent the day at the beach, covering ourselves with sunscreen everywhere but our legs and feet, DOH! Man did we paid for it! We collected sea shells, a ton! Baha got a little obsessed, you know him, all or nothing. We brought home a cooler full of shells, all shapes, sizes and colors. He did have the great idea to make wind chimes, that should be fun.

We played some frizbee and discovered we are equally as bad, but that made it fun. Then cooled off in the heated outside pool! The beach was just for walking on, the water is WAY to cold! Sat nights dinner left alot to be desired. But the homemade icecream we had for dessert made up for it.

















Sunday because we were both suffering from 2nd degree burns on our legs and feet we had to stay out of the sun so we went for a ride to Woods Hole for lunch and around the coast.

















Sun. nights dinner was amazing! The RooBar in Falmouth is excellent, we highly recommend it! 2 bottles of wine and 2 fillets later we went back to the hotel.

Monday we packed up, checked out and headed to Besty's Dinner for brunch. Nothing like dinner food to help a hangover!
We had an excellent time at the cape, it was nice to do something summery. It's been a long time since we went to the beach and it was worth the wait.

Kisten's Party

Ding Dong Wedding Bells are Ringing!
Kirsten looks so pretty in her Tiara!

Kirsten and Graham's wedding is quickly approaching, Sat. June 2nd! So the girls got together to take Kirsten out for a night on the town.

5pm drinks at the bar at Ivy, table for dinner at Ivy 6pm, tickets to the show Respect (A Musical Journey of Women) for 8pm and then night caps at Rustic Kitchen.

Lynn, the Maid of Honor, did a great job arranging the night!

Amber came up from NYC to join us in celebrating this most excellent of ladies.

I am looking forward to the wedding so all of us can hang out again!

Talkin' Art

Jim, MaryPat, Dragan, Baha and I got together Thurs night to talk art!

MaryPat has a show coming up soon, Jim is thinking about his photography style, Dragan is thinking about marketing and Baha and I are working on your website to draw in work.

Lots to talk about! We started at 5:30pm and cut ourselves off at 9pm as it was getting late. We all agreed we need to do this again more regularly and the next stop is Dragan's house within the next couple of weeks so we can review MaryPat's final images for the show and Baha and I (mostly Baha) have completely redesigned our website.

Baha will say it was an ambush for him regarding the critique on our website, and maybe it was a little as Jim and I had talked about it a few days before, but it was necessary and has resulted in an excellent redesign by Baha of our website.

It's hard to work in a bubble, you need to get feedback from folks who aren't so close to all the hard work. But we are growing and it's good to be flexible and be open to improving yourself always. It was a good exercise to go through again, ah the good ol' days when you got ripped apart daily. Aw, it wasn't that bad, couple bruises, but they are healing nicely. ;)

Thanks guys for your input! looking forward to the next crit!

Baha's Birthday!

I started my day really slow; checked my e-mails, wrote some e-mails, made some phone calls, and received some gifts, calls and cards (much thanks to everyone!). Then by 12:00 pm I was out to deliver CDs and DVDs to Boston Public Library, then to the Chief to return his digital camera and spend sometime with him. After that I came back home, waited my brother to come and hang out with me. We played Fifa'07 on PlayStation till my sister called, told us to meet her in Chinatown. When we picked her up we decided to have lunch at the Garden of Eden in the Southend. I had a very nice burger and waited my salad to show but it was no where to be found... After awhile, I canceled it. I think there was a mix-up, because even though I canceled the order, it still showed up on our table very late. We finished our meal dude! Anyways no big deal, it happens...

When we were ready to leave my brother-in-law Ali came to meet with us, we decided to go to another place called Flour Bakery in Southend and had desert. I had a excellent time, hanging out with my family. This doesn't happen very often because of our schedules, but I cherish each time we do get to see each other.


After our tummies were really full my bro had to go back to work and my sister dropped me off at my grib. Came home and my beautiful wife was working on my b-day cake, as you can see it (the cake) in the pictures. All day long my hair was bothering me so I decided to leave her alone and get a hair cut. By the time I came back and took a shower, everything was ready to roll.








Just my gorgeous wife, my awesome kitties, and my excellent b-day cake, it could not be better. What more can a man ask?










Thanks babe! Everything is excellent! What would I do with out you? :) (we are only showing rated PG version of our kiss)





Time goes by really quickly, I can't believe I am 32 freakin' years old. I was just a young teenager when I first came to the US. 4 more years and I have spent half of my life in the United States. Can you believe that?

Anyways, after the cake around 9:30pm my bro showed up and we got ready for our real soccer match in Revere. The game starts at 11:00pm and we play till 12:30am. Usually I start as goalie and make my way to defence ;P Hey! I am not that good at playing soccer any more. I used to play every day back in the old country and I was pretty good at it. After I came to US, I never touched a soccer ball till my brother came to the US.

I must admit it is good to play again. My condition already approved but my feet coordination needs more improving. I even score goals every once in a while.

Unfortunately my brother decided to go back home for good in June so after he leaves I am not sure if I would keep my appearances at the game.

So, not bad for a birthday schedule ha? I could not imagine a better day then this. Simple pimple! Just the way I like it.

baha

John Adams Exhibition Photo Shoot

Another successful project at Boston Public Library completed. My job was to go in and shoot top and front views of 21 cases of the John Adams Exhibition.

There were 7 different categories; clients, country, fame, fellowmen, fortune, god, and power. Each category has 3 different topics. The exhibition was pretty impressive, Beth did an outstanding job putting the exhibition together. Even though the 29th was the last day of the exhibition, people were still coming to see it. Before they took down the exhibit Beth wanted reference photos of these important cases.

When I went in the exhibit room people were still looking at this amazing part of history. So I had to work around the people. Beth was giving a private tour so I started to work on my first case. Then she came by and looked at my photos and decided to open each case covers to eliminate glare. It made a huge difference. She kicked out everybody in the room and helped me photograph the top view of each case. She opens the case and I shoot. It went pretty smoothly but I was blown away with the history behind each piece.


These types of jobs gives me great pleasure because I feel like I become part of the history. After the shoot I had to organize, rename each file, run some actions, and burn both CDs and DVDs. It took me awhile to do the post process by the time I left BPL it was 7:00 pm, Beth had already left and the offices were closed so I could not deliver the product. Today is my b-day so I am kinda taking it easy but I will deliver them by noon time. ;)

baha