Author Archives: CV

About CV

Real estate investor & online entrepreneur. From cabinet making to internet marketing.

SeaFood & Gallery Photos

I found out that Flickr will only show you most 200 most recent photos in your Flickr account. I am at that point now so either I have to upgrade to a $24 Flickr hosting account so I decided to forget about Flickr and use a WordPress plugin to make my image gallery. I have over 20 gigs of space that I can use on this hosting plan so I may as well take advantage of it right?  Why do I need to pay $25  a year to upgrade to a Flickr pro account, umm no thanks.

Anyhoo you can see most of my images on the newly created “pics”  page located at the top right hand  section of my blog. The plugin I used is called “Next Gen Gallery“. It has a ton of options that are pretty slick. I played around with the options and I’m happy enough with what I got now. Realistically it’s a gallery of images, how many options do you really need right? I set it up last night, so it’s all done.

It’s funny how small things like having a image gallery up on my blog gets me hyped.  I have been “blogging”, even before blogging was even a word. MotionGroove.com was my personal site 9 years ago and then became a corporate site to show clients and now it’s back to a personal space.  Since I have no clients any longer (by choice), I can use this domain as my personal playground.

Caffe Artigiano – More Than Just Cafe Lattes

Me and my wife hooked up with Gianni and Lucy for coffee last night at one of our favorite coffee shops, Cafe Artigiano. I have been going to Cafe Artigiano since I worked downtown at some sweat shop called Zoo Link. Thank God the palced has been closed down for a  few years, goof balls. They have a bunch of locations (downtown, West Van & Kerrisdale), we usually go to the one on Hastings Street in Burnaby.

Anyways the guys (Sammy Piccolo the owner & staff) at Cafe Artigiano are Barista champions. Yes they actually have competitions for coffee tasting, visual appeal and so on.  They hooked our lattes up with some funky designs, that I decided to take photos of. The demonic dog cafe was mine and wifey had the spiderweb soy caffe latte. They look pretty tasty dont they? Yum, yum.

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dog design in caffe latte

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spiider web design in caffe latte

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closeup of coffee cup

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sneaky shot of older dude reading the paper

Friday Afternoon Wrap Up – Real Estate, Tenants & Paul Blart

I went to check out 3 condos today with my realtor in Burnaby (close to Lougheed Mall). The first place was nice, dark laminate flooring, stainless fridge, black stove, rustic looking slate tile in one bedroom, nice mocha designer colored walls and so on. It was selling for $210,00 I believe. I will probably put an offer on that one. The other 2 condos were heaps of junk. One place we went into was actually crooked, we walk in and you could actually feel how sloped and crooked the floors were. Actually there were no floors it was green painted concrete (such a dump).  I got a bit dizzy cause the floors were so off balance. They wanted $197,000 for that place, um no thanks. I wouldn’t even buy it for $160,000. The last condo which was the biggest out (900 sq ft) of the 3 condos was too close to Highway 1. It was noisy if you had the windows open even a wee bit.

Anywho, I have to do another tenant showing at the Poco condo today at 3pm (2 people viewing), so instead of backtracking to Kingsway I came straight here at 11 PM and I’m using the Roger Rocket Stick so I can work from here no problem. I feel a bit weird working out of  an empty condo sitting on the carpet but that’s me right, weird.

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Tonight I will actually be going out to watch a movie at the MetroTown Silver City theaters, something I haven’t done in many months. We got some movie tickets for Christmas so it’s time we used them. Me and the lady are going to see Paul Blart Mall Cop, with Kevin James. Hes the dude from The King Of Queens, funny guy. He plays a bumbling mall cop and all that goes along with it. I checked the reviews on MyBC.com and 250 user reviews gave it a 4 out of 4.

And that ‘s all folks… Have a great weekend.


Burnaby Graffiti And East Van SunRises

A few random photos I took, graffiti and sunrises. A camera is meant to capture life, good or bad, dirty or clean, dark or bright.  It doesn’t have to make sense, most things in this world make little if any sense, but they seem “normal”. What am I trying to say? Who knows and who cares. Enjoy the photos then turn off your computer and go for a walk. See ya!

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I thought this was too funny not to photograph. I waited for the MetroTown Public Library to open and this piece of work was scrawled on a metal support beam… Someone has some serious problems. I misspelled “read” with “reads”, my bad.

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I saw this Obama graffiti stencil on an electrical box in Burnaby a few weeks ago. Luckily it was still there so I could snap a photo of it. Yeah, yeah it’s graffiti, cry me a river….

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Obama graffiti stencil on garage in Burnaby.

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Very cool sunrise on my street 7:40ish am

Photos On Kingsway At Night, Oooooh La La

As always I have my trusty Canon camera in my pocket, ready to snap anything that catches my eye. Yeah, how lame right? I seem I have progressed with photo abilities, and most of the time the flash is not even used anymore (surprisingly). I find it a challenge to take cool looking photos. I am no means a pro at taking photographs, but I am progressing at it. Enjoy the photos (if that’s your thing..).

That’s all for now folks, enjoy the rest of you weekend, giddy up. And you can see all of my photos on my Flickr account.

C.V

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Walkway crossing over Kingsway to MetroTown from Best Buy

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Foggy shot of Kingsway/ walkway at MetroTown

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On the walkway looking down at east bound traffic on  Kingsway

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cool shot of Walkway crossing over Kingsway to MetroTown from BestBuy