Cutting to the chase: On June 20th, 2009 I married the lady of my dreams, Patcharee Phongsvirajati.

The wedding ceremonies took place at our houses and the reception was held at Foxchase Manor.

Check out some photos taken by a few of the many photographers:

Photography by Mac Pham, my cousin:

Photography by the Pros:

Photography by Cau Duc, my uncle:

May your pockets be filled with little red envelopes.

For the web galleries, I really liked Picasa’s layout over Flickr’s. The web site is a lot more simplistic and easy to navigate. Maybe it’s becase I’m so familiar with other Google services. Flickr’s slideshow is so awesome though. Viewing your photostream through Cooliris is such beautiful eye candy.

I started with the free accounts. Google gives you a gig of space for the free account and you can create as many albums as you want. Flickr’s free account gives you 100 mb of upload per month and limits you to three sets.

For me, it really came down to pricing. In order to get more disk space for Picasa, you have to purchase more storage. Starting purchase goes for $20/yr for 10gigs up to $500/yr for 400GB. This storage is actually not specific to Picasa but is shared by all other Google services that need to use extra space. Flickr offers a Pro account, which gives you unlimited storage space for your videos and photos and allows you to create any number of sets and collections, for $24.95.

Given the number of photos I want to upload and my budget, I went with Flickr. Today, storage is so cheap. For $25 bucks, I should be able to get unlimited storage for a service like photo sharing. I’ve started to upload some photos I’ve had for awhile and never really shared them with those who would most enjoy them. It’s been really fun going through old pictures. My photostream can be found here.

I’m sure there are some kinks to iron out but please check out theoandpat.com and let us know what you think. Oh, yeah also, RSVP for the wedding. If you’re reading my blog, chances are I know you and you’re invited.

-Theo

I wish you Happy Happiest Day of the Year.

If you don’t already know, my name is Theo. I’m a twenty-something year old software engineer. I would describe myself as someone who has yet to define himself. I’m not one thing or another. I would say I’m different from those are different. In some ways, I chose to be different, in others, I had no choice. More about this at some other time. In the mean time, welcome to my blog and I hope the readers can use this blog to gain some insight into who I am and maybe even inspire some other thoughts or ideas.

I’m a big believer in whole chain-reaction of thoughts. If I can say or write something that influences someone else’s thoughts which inspires a new idea, I think that is one of the best things in the world.

I previously tried to do the whole routine blogging thing but life gets in the way. Here’s my third try at this with a brand, new twist! Not only will I blog about things in my life but my personal goals and thoughts on interesting subjects (at least to me anyway) .

Some topics I have in mind:

• Jobs
• Finances
• Movies
• Books
• Programming
• Life

Not that I’m an expert in any of these topics, but I think I can at least share my experiences and thoughts about them. If anyone has any suggestions as to what they want me to ramble about, please let me know.

Till next time…sooner than later I hope.