Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Old Madrid Gateway


Old Madrid Gateway, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

It's been a while since I last blogged or put any picture up. I'm not exactly busy..but I just didn't have the mood.

A lot of shit has been going on with me, and I'm not particularly comfortable to share it with any Tom, Dick and Harry.

Anyway, I've decided to put a few pictures up today. This is the old Real Madrid gateway. Back in those days with castles, knights, horses and etc...when Madrid was surrounded by a wall....this is the gateway to enter the city, everything is gone now except for this structure.

I didn't carry my tripod that night, so I had to use other things to get a stable foundation for this shot. For this one...I had to use a trash bin! I left my camera sitting on the trash bin, while me squatting down adjusting the camera to get a good shot.
Anuar took a picture of me taking this shot...BABI LU!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anuarfariz/120629996/

Stadium


Stadium, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

If you are a real football/soccer fan like me, we should all know this stadium... Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. Yes, the home of Real Madrid FC...supposedly, the best football club in the world...maybe not right now! Yup, this is where Zidane, Beckham, Ronaldo, Robinho and gang shower together after every game here.

Madrid, Park


madrid_park, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

I'm really bad with names...but I know that this picture was taken in a huge park right in the middle of Madrid.

I have a couple of good shots of the park itself...again, I will process it when I have the time.

Madrid, Palace


madrid palace, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Behind me..it's a palace...sorry I don't remember the name!!! Haha...

Tower Bridge


tower bridge, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Me and my buddy..Kai Hui...my only photo critique guy so far...haha...yes Kai Hui..both of us still have a lot to learn about photography...

Friday, April 14, 2006

Salute!


Salute!, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Anuar and I...in 'En la Cueva Sesamo'....drinking................................grape juice

Random


aroma, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

All right, so I was in Madrid staying with my friend Anuar. His apartment was really nice. You can tell that the owner must be an interior designer, or gay. Tall slim doors, different paint colors in different rooms, neat, clean and small little things around the apartment that made the place really awesome.

Ok, so he's gay..lol. Not Anuar I hope. Anyway, the apartment was filled with decorative items. That day, I came back from walking around the museum and etc..had nothing to do so I decided to take some pics around the apartment. Saw the candles and this arome thing on the table...so couldn't help it but decided to take a snap shot.

Anuar, I really hope your wonderful housemates won't drug you...so that you will not feel the sting in your butt hole the next morning =)

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

London!


bigben, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Yes...I was there 2 weeks ago, and after 2 weeks these are the only pictures I processed! And I was suppose to process more pictures from my Thailand trip. Warcraft has taken a lot of my time..lol.

Anyway, as I was saying I went to London and Madrid 2 weeks ago. It was a damn good trip! Took bunch of photos and I edited easier ones like these.

Didn't have the lovely weather as I expected, but city itself was nice enough. Good food, good entertainment and not to forget, pretty women too...for both London and Madrid..haha.

Had a lot of good time with my cousin Jun and his friends...my buddy Kai Hui and of course...Anuar, who is staying with two gay men in Madrid...lol.

I will try to post more pics!

Another shot


bigben, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Color


londoneye3, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

I wanted to get on the London Eye...but I thought about the queue there...I was like screw it! So, to make myself happy...I just took a few photos of it. I'm sure the view up there will be a lot better. Maybe not...it was raining everyday when I was there.

Black and white


londoneye2, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

London Eye..close up


londoneye, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Ladies


ladies, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Just ladies being ladies...you know? yak and yak and yak....Lol. Just a random photo.Took this in Spain in a desert shop? See the 3 cups in the photo? Those are not coffee, they are mealted chocolate. I don't know what to call it...I'll just call it bread stick? You're suppose to dip it in a cup of chocolate and eat it.

I'll try to post more photos from Spain if I have the time.

Monday, January 30, 2006

New Year

To all of you folks out there, just wanna wish you...

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!

Don't even ask me what I did on my Chinese New Year....nothing interesting and no stories to tell unfortunately. The rest of you, have loads of fun and be careful where ever you are.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Bend It Like Beckham!


Bend It Like Beckham!, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Hey...try to bend your legs like them. Just look at theirs left legs, how the heck can you point it up that way?! Oh well..only statues right? Why am I complaining...

Took this shot in Bangkok at another temple. Gosh...you know, I did try my best to remember the names of the places I went to...but how the hell do you expect me to remember something in Thai?! I think the name of this temple is Temple of Vanajguhlanvijkalpul. Naaa...I was just kidding, I really can't remember.

Anyway, this temple was built like 300 hundref years ago? Maybe 400? I don't know. Built by a king of Thailand...a CHINESE king of Thailand. I really didn't know there was a chinese king in Thailand before...damn. You'll see a lot of chinese influences around this temple. Will try to show..

little girl


little girl, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

I took this picture when I was in Chiang Mai. Yes inded I took tons of pictures during my 5 days in Thailand, but I could only find this one nice enough to blog.

We were at this temple steps and we saw a few of this little kids dressing like this. They were saying something in Thai which of course I didn't understand at all. So, our tour guide was telling us that they were asking us to take their photo. So I did, took a couple including this shot. Well it turned out that nothing is free...lol, if you know what I mean.

Chiang Mai is located nothern part of Thailand. I was told that a lot of things there have Tibetian influence. If I'm not mistaken, some Tibetians migrated to Chiang Mai or something like that. So, that's why you get to see kids dressing up like this...not in general of course.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Another year



Wassup people?! I know it's been a while since I posted something here..but hey, I'll just try my best. I can't keep up with all my interests! You know what is taking most of my time now besides work? World of Warcraft...man that thing is so addictive.

Well...my last trip back home in December was an excellent one. Just that I didn't spend enough time in Penang. Took a trip to Chiang Mai and Bangkok with my family, as usual I took whole bunch of pictures. I still need to find the time to edit a few good pictures and put it up here to show all of you, but like I said World of Warcraft is taking most of the free time I have available! However, I do have a picture to show...as you can see right here. We were at this place selling handy craft stuff in Chiang Mai and I came across this shop, I really don't know what was the vender trying to sell...Pure Silver or Porn Silver? Lol...pretty KINKY bebeh!

Life here in Kansas is always exciting as usual! Naaa...just being sarcastic. Life is reallllllllll slow. I spent my birthday ALONE. Picture this, birthday on Saturday, no friends, no celebration, no presents...Just nothing. Oh I did something...World of Warcraft (pathetic!). This coming weekend will be Chinese New Year...hey no biggie...just spend the day ALONE with myself. Come to think of it, this is my 5th year away from home for Chinese New Year. Man this sucks. I wanna go home.

I don't freaking know what's wrong with Flooble Chatterbox on the left side. It's like when there's no one to write anything for a certain amount of time...they'll freeze your account or something? That's why you can't see all the past comments anymore. Damn...maybe it's time to change to another one.

I'll will try to find time to edit more pictures and post it up here....when I get my character to level 60! Just kidding. This is my first post of the year...lol

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Sea


Sea, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

You can tell I'm really bored at work. I just wish that I could chill on this beach instead of sitting on my desk here and do nothing!

Red Wall


Red Wall, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.

Hallway 1


Hallway 1, originally uploaded by Adrian Tan.