Today was a beautiful day, bit chilly though. Started off at Croydon Park at the brides place. Well actually, ended up starting at the hairdressers. Then proceeded back to the brides, for the girls to get ready. Church ceremony was at Leichhardt – a Greek Orthodox church. Then we spent the next few hours in and around the Rocks area as well as Martin Place. Reception was at Dockside. Here are a few pics:
The rings:
The flower girl pulling faces at the camera:
As the bride and groom were wandering the streets of the Rocks:
A postcard image:
The bouquet, dress and suit:
Zorba’s Dance:
More pics at www.vlblog.net .
So this was the first wedding, of many i hope, that i brought my MacBook Pro along to the reception to start going over my pictures. I was able to go through all my photos for the day and save Vince some time. Was originally using a program through Parallels to do the previewing, but that took way too long. It was running through the networked shared folder and just took way too long to go through them. I guess i either need more RAM, or just to set up BootCamp – still yet to do. So I decided to use Apeture. I was able to use the ranking system to achieve the same results which was good, and it was so much faster! So, it means that I’m home and able to blog these pics right away.
So in the past week, Sunday, I had a very relaxing day. It was planned that I go check out the Kitty Hawk, but the weather turned out quite bad, so I ended up having lunch at Pancakes on the Rocks, and long relaxing day out and about in the city with an early night. The weekdays were spent on my new project, doing data modelling. After a meeting on Monday, it was decided that, instead of having modelling sessions with the boss, I would start coding, and start creating the metadata for the database I would be using. So I of course had to finish the modelling first, which is now complete, well its over to my boss to see if anything is missing. I started on the meta data on friday, and still yet to complete it.
I had been slightly distracted throughout this week with the idea of a new bike. So, Kona has stepped into view and its the Caldera that I’ve been looking at. Went to Anaconda on thursday to check it out. I also spotted a Fluid Rhythm which is an Australian company, with good parts and a good price, but not too sure on the frame. So now having a toss up between the Giant Talon and the Kona Caldera. I’ll be hopefully have a test ride tomorrow.. or today and see which I like more.
Last night I ended up going to a friends place for dinner – was running late, had to drop off some biking accessories and take a few back from my friend. Had a nice dinner, before chilling out. Also had to pick up another subwoofer for the car. Cousin bidded for it on ebay. It was a steal really. Its the same specs as my Rockford Fosgate one (not sure of model right now), and so hopefully hook it up soon enough, of course, would mean i would have to redesign my whole boot, but for the moment I may just hook it up at home.
One thing I must complain about is my Alpine head unit. So my display has died. Sound, functionality still works, but the display is dead. So I call Alpine in melbourne and they say, its never happened before so send down the face plate and it should take a couple days to fix. So I go to JB Hifi, where i bought it and it has a 5 year extended warantee. They send it off to Alpine. I call them on Thursday to check on the status. They say to me, they just received it but since they dont have a back unit to test it on, they cannot diagnose the problem. so until they get one in, it will just sit there. I’m thinking, this is just freakn great. So I personally said, so if I call back next week and you still havnt touched it, I should send in my back unit. And of course they agreed. So, its been a week now with no audio – since i still havnt hooked up the remote cables for my dvd player unit, and itll be at least another 2 before I will have that sweet sounding music again….
Written by Milton Lai