ECHENG.COM - Guestbook Archive (before 10/22/2002) page 1Name: Jeff Heidel Hometown: Sterling, IL Occupation Currently winterizing homes with emphasis on heat and moisture problems by making whole house investigations (not inspections). Sent: 11.38 - mon 21 oct 2002 I was researching thermal photography when I crossed your web site. And, what a great website you have! I might use it as a reference when I build mine. got 2 go. Later. Jeff Name: climaxdive Hometown: Bangkok , Thailand Occupation business owner Relation to Eric nothing Sent: 10.30 - mon 21 oct 2002 hi , now I addicted to this website :) , I just get by here from Bora bora , very nice place , Try Thailand if u have a chance ... you will not regrate Name: Johanna Homepage: http://alanis.ath.cx Hometown: Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Occupation Student, Hamburg, Germany Sent: 09.36 - mon 21 oct 2002 I would like to tell you how deeply I appreciate listening to your music. I particularly enjoyed the Mozart Quartet you played on your housewarming party. Actually it was the first file I chose to download, because Dec 16th is my birthday. ;) Thank you, J :) Name: Eric Cheng Yu Shiung Hometown: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Occupation SAP Support, Cyberjaya, Malaysia Sent: 08.17 - mon 14 oct 2002 Nice pic and a lovely layout of all your info....keep up the good work. Name: Ariel Homepage: http://switchseats.com Hometown: Berkeley, CA Occupation viola player, UCLA Relation to Eric old friend from SSO Sent: 10.31 - sat 12 oct 2002 Hey Eric! I was browsing through old e-mails in my in-box and I came upon some "back of the bus" correspondences. I found a link to your Italy tour pictures from 1998 and I can't beleive how much your site has grown. It is absolutly amazing. I am really impressed and pleased at how well you are doing. It is great to see that you and Pamina are still close. I get a few random e-mails from Judy and Ben Coates once and a while, and I saw Shavon at Urban Outfitters in Berkeley over the summer, but otherwise I have virtually lost touch with much of the old SSO Italy Tour crew. Thanks for leaving the pictures up for everyone to enjoy. Good luck in all that you do, Ariel p.s. I am probubly going to graduate from UCLA this year, and will be giving my senior recital. I will send you info on the date and time. Name: sara Homepage: http://solace.paperhearts.com Hometown: Little Neck, NY Occupation student at a university in DC Sent: 07.48 - fri 11 oct 2002 for all intents and purposes, i forgot that i wanted to be part of rice bowl journals, when yesterday, i got an email saying i was accepted. then, i got sucked into looking thru random journals. this site is just smashing. and i looked through the wedding photos, 'cause i'm a girl, and girls get into wedding-like stuff. so even though i've been trying very hard to minimize my time spent staring at my laptop, i'm glad i stumbled upon this site. and lemme just say that i looooved barcelona, gaudí is the bizombs . . . okay. i go now. take care :) Name: Megan Hometown: West Fargo, ND Occupation Student, wannabe photographer Relation to Eric none that I know of Sent: 18.32 - wed 9 oct 2002 I like your web site, pretty wicked. Just surfing now, supposed to be doing homework. Well, thanks for the distraction! ps: awesome pictures! Name: Mark Homepage: http://www.umovefree.com Occupation Realtor Relation to Eric none Sent: 05.27 - mon 7 oct 2002 I visited your site and wanted to comment on how visually appealing it is. Nice work When you have time please visit my site. Name: Wylellen Occupation student from IU Relation to Eric none Sent: 19.25 - thu 3 oct 2002 WOW. There are just endless information in your website. I can't finish reading all of them. Your life is filled with so much adventure....I can truly see that, just by reading... Name: R Lloyd Homepage: http://www.floridavillasforsale.com Hometown: from uk Relation to Eric none Sent: 05.51 - thu 3 oct 2002 just surfing through...nice site! Name: Sleepless Hometown: Vancouver, BC Occupation Slacker..dozed off all the time in front of my monitor Relation to Eric Anonymous reader..haha Sent: 20.25 - wed 2 oct 2002 umm..nice layout..hmm..good thing u don't install stuffs that'll slow down my pc..I like Vienna Teng now after listening the music link..anyways..keep posting..be here to read..=) Name: Connie Hometown: New Jersey Relation to Eric None Sent: 16.35 - fri 20 sep 2002 Hi! How come you don't smile in your pics? Smile!!! Life can't be that bad as proven from your impressive bio and resume. Great site! Name: caustic asian Hometown: north of the 49th parallel Occupation medical student by day, violinist by night (except when i'm on call) Relation to Eric he wouldn't know me from eve Sent: 18.40 - thu 12 sep 2002 great site. beautiful pics. i'm deathly tired right now (like, contact-lenses-peeling-off-my-desiccated-eyeballs-tired), but helplessly caught in the pitiless clutches of insomnia. at first glance, echeng seems like one of those annoying overachiever types that stimulates eyeball-rolling in the general populace, except that the text and pictures bespeak a person who is too wickedly cool to be annoying. cheers, ~CA Name: Sandy Hometown: cali Occupation IT support Admin, LB Relation to Eric who knows? i might be ur long lost sister..this wrld is so small.. Sent: 14.18 - wed 11 sep 2002 hey Eric! small world..i thk i remember something now...i know i landed on ur friend Kenny's page from my friend Chris's mssushi's page and then from there i found urs? not sure..great page and pics! cheers! Name: Jake Duvall Hometown: Cambridge MA Occupation sell French wine, dive, compose 4tets & so on Sent: 18.09 - mon 9 sep 2002 I like your sites, & admire your work. Best rgds Jake husband of LUM Kathy Name: Marie Shell Sent: 11.39 - mon 9 sep 2002 Hi Eric, I found your site in my quest for a violin teacher, someone who would be willing to come to a private home in Pescadero and teach two adults together. If you have any leads for me, please pass them on, or have them call me at 415-648-8345. Thanks! Name: Massimo Hometown: Sharm el Sheikh Occupation scuba instructor Relation to Eric Friend Sent: 07.59 - mon 9 sep 2002 Eric, Your e-mail address isn't working !! I try to reply to your last one, but I get an error message ! Ciaoooo Name: Donna Homepage: http://www.dpphoto.com Hometown: Woodstock, GA Occupation Photographer, GA Relation to Eric never met him Sent: 08.44 - sat 7 sep 2002 Just wanted to say that I think your underwater pictures are great! Found the sight researching the EOS D60 (now I know I have to have one!) Very talented indeed. Name: Nick Homepage: http://nt.per.sg Hometown: Singapore Occupation Lawyer Sent: 17.33 - fri 6 sep 2002 Excellent underwater photos! Name: Fontejon Hometown: Hercules, CA Occupation EE Relation to Eric Fan Sent: 15.50 - thu 5 sep 2002 Absolutely beautiful pictures and an excellent website. It is people of your calibar that inspires me. Thanks Name: catherine Homepage: http://extricate.nu Sent: 13.19 - thu 5 sep 2002 i love your photos! can i ask you a question? did you use a digital camera for those Denver pictures? the colors are so natural, so i wonder. Name: lilpaul Hometown: San Francisco Occupation Limo driver / digital film editor Relation to Eric none Sent: 20.31 - tue 3 sep 2002 Awesome photos! I have a few questions for Echeng? What camera did you use, film speed, and camera lenses? Sorry if this isn't the place for these questions, but if you could direct me to the right person! Enjoy and be safe! Thank you for your time and patience. lilpaul :-) Name: Lisa Hometown: Singapore Occupation student in Fashion designing Sent: 11.17 - sun 1 sep 2002 One of the best homepages i've seen. Plently of photos. Stumbled across your website as i was doing a reserach on sea anemones for an up-coming design collection i had to do. You seem like an interesting person to converse with. :) Name: Jay Pradi Hometown: Holyoke, Mass Occupation globetrotting teacher and rolling in Indo Relation to Eric future brother in law I hope ;) JK Sent: 19.11 - sat 31 aug 2002 hey eric, always enjoy a great work of another asian american (that will be me too), I've been teaching English around the globe and 'stuck' in Indo at the moment. Just taking up scuba certification couple months of ago and loving it!! Tempted to try underwater photography........... Later JP Name: Alex Homepage: http://www.da-yung.net Sent: 14.55 - thu 29 aug 2002 Hey eric, great to see you joined the Chinese Taiwanese Journals. You have a great site here. -Alex Name: Mike Homepage: http://Michealhallett.com Hometown: Swanton,Oh. Occupation Network Engineer(some times) Relation to Eric none Sent: 19.12 - tue 27 aug 2002 Good job!! looks good ,very impressed. Mike;~) Name: derek Homepage: http://jobsformusicians.com Hometown: hampton Occupation musician in nc Relation to Eric none Sent: 21.53 - sat 24 aug 2002 Hey guys nice site,keep up the good work! Name: Lebret Hometown: Toulouse (France) Occupation I manage a young society Sent: 14.06 - sat 24 aug 2002 Hi, I've seen your photos in the Bahamas, and they made me dream... You've done a very good jod theyre. Then I looked all your web site and I'm very impressed. Keep on. Name: siyu Hometown: shanghai Occupation i'm an undergraduate Relation to Eric i know you from you webpages,but u don't know me Sent: 23.25 - fri 23 aug 2002 just say hi Name: Linda Snow Hometown: Greenville SC Occupation computer programmer for large tire company Relation to Eric none Sent: 07.22 - thu 22 aug 2002 Hi, I stumbled on your page in a google search for St. Lawrence String Quartet - my daughter and I are big fans and she's looking for a poster from one of their performances. Enjoyed the casual photos of your recent visit with them. Name: Ron Johnson Hometown: Katy, TX Occupation Dive, photograph, ride motorcycles all over the world! Relation to Eric Saw at Digi-Deep- Bahamas Sent: 12.52 - wed 21 aug 2002 Eric, I sent your web page to my list of about 50 divers. Your's is by far the most outstanding travelog of a dive trip that I've ever seen! I've just entered the realm of digital photography with an Ikelite housed Nikon Coolpix 5000, Ikelite DS-125's. I went to Truk Lagoon and shot up 1500 images! You have an excellent eye and certainly a flair for photography. Well done. We have a group called "Club Ed" who travels all over the world on Liveaboards. Our next trip is to Belize in June of 2003. You should join us! I guarantee and spectacular time and many great pix! Dive Cheerfully! Ron Name: Laura Hometown: san jose, ca Occupation student at UCSD Relation to Eric cousin Sent: 10.54 - wed 21 aug 2002 hi eric, somehow i was searching through google for a free shipping code at abercrombie and your website came up. it didn't go straight to your home page but to another page and it said echeng so i thought hmm that's my cousin's name too and it just happened to be your webpage. so weird! you have a really nice website. i like the part with wendy's letter the best haha. you have traveled everywhere in the world too. soo lucky! i guess i'll have time to do that too after i graduate. who knows when that will be! haha. well i'm really bored at work right now but i guess i should get back to it. interning is not all that fun anymore. sigh. haha. oh well. just one more month until i go back to school. anyways, i just wanted to say hi and hope you are doing well! Name: Joseph Hometown: Valllejo Occupation Hospital Security Relation to Eric Sold me his BIG SCREEN HDTV Sent: 09.40 - wed 21 aug 2002 Very nice & friendly guy, He was very nice to me to sell me his Pioneer Pro-620 Elite HDTV at a price I could afford. He didn't need to come down so much on it but his did. When we moved to set from his place I felt bad that we got his walls dirty from the blankets on the TV and he was so cool & nice about it. I'm signing his guestbook because he has done a great job on it and I would like to thank him for all his help. Thanks again.. Joseph Aguilar Name: Janice Ratliff Homepage: http://www.weknowhouston.com Hometown: Houston, Texas USA Occupation Real Estate Relation to Eric n/a Sent: 07.50 - wed 21 aug 2002 Eric, My husband sent your Bahama's Journal and I must say it is the best Live Aboard Dive Journal I have ever seen. We have been diving on Live Aboards since 1988 and we want to add you to the next trip we take!! You did a great job describing the dives and people. When you live on a boat with strangers for a week it is like being at Summer Camp as a kid! Looks like you were lucky to have a fun group. Super pics and nice delivery! Mermaid Sista Name: Tiffany Chan Hometown: New York Occupation CPA Relation to Eric none Sent: 06.03 - wed 21 aug 2002 I read your article about climbing Kilimanjaro. What an advanture, in the rain, missing personal gears, but still reached the summit. I am planning the trip also. Your article definitely help me to prepare for it. Will write you later for more information. Hometown: Calgary Relation to Eric none Sent: 19.46 - mon 19 aug 2002 (LOL!) I just have to say that letter that was written by your sister at such an early age was hilarious to read! Name: YuLong Occupation paramedic-Orlando, FL Sent: 18.58 - mon 19 aug 2002 I'm 50, the kids are grown and I'm homesick for China. Just cruising to see Asian faces - not a whole lot here in Mickey Mouse-ville. Nice site. Travel in safety and peace(dead-giveaway that I'm Buddhist) Name: Lindy Hometown: Costa Mesa, Ca Occupation Medical Device Development Sent: 09.38 - mon 19 aug 2002 Eric, Your pictures are awe inspiring! Saw your Palau journal last week while looking for digital camera housings and reviews. These pics here are even better. You have a gift of writing and photography. Hope when I get my camera they will be within a fraction of yours! Keep swimming with the fish! Lindy Name: the YOUTH withe TRUTH Homepage: http://www.reddINK.com Hometown: Topeka, ks Occupation Whot dost thou meanest, my good and fair leige? Relation to Eric brother in Christ Sent: 05.10 - mon 19 aug 2002 My URL instructs us about our Eternity (sign the guestbook): How inevitably both are determined and molded by the choices we make in our voyage home to the Father; This URL is both a stairway AND a roadmap TO that Utopian Domicile. Step out in faith: Experience the Awesome Reality of God. You're the spark. You're a warrior. You're His treasure. He deemed it so. Your service is good. Your love towards God is better. How He yearns to welcome us into His everlasting home beyond death's horizon: With such a price-tag on our souls, human beings are clearly precious beyond diamonds. You must abandon all fear of Him and know that He is all love. Say this: "Father, I love you and I give myself to you." And He wills that you inherit His Kingdom... PEACE. You ARE loved by the Trinity. See beyond illusion: Read Daniel 12:3 LONG LIVE CHRIST the KING. Name: Ping-Pong Peter of Prickly Penstick. Hometown: That's better. Timbucthree. Occupation I pacify upon the tentcake of Gummivonappledungtree, just off the coast of Lalaland. Relation to Eric I ate his cat, so he took me as his herbal wife. Sent: 07.48 - sun 18 aug 2002 Welllllllllll. We are starting a "Random Revival" right here, but that still doesn't change the fact that my mingling mercury mongoose married my cheese grater!!! The prat. Nevermind. In other news: What A Beaver Harris decided to put Dingly Derek's ovenfish in a mixing bowl constructed out of only the finest of jelly-weeds and, would you believe it, turn it into a Polish tree stump! Man, I've come across some blithering horse wallets in my time, but that just pinches the proverbial oceanic tin-guff. Also, the Great Mountain Pigment of Eastern Clay-poo dumpstation gimpsy land invaded all the roof-tiles of American facilities and planted a cringing wall-mounted evergreen tortoise "all hail the vacuum cleaner for it's pot filled arachnids" tutu flower-trump plant in the middle of the guppy-ring of Saturn's divisional key-tapper googly ring, directly opposite the over-topped oxygen cylinders of the ring of burning wallabies, who are being punished for acting like they actually know the divine ratio of soil to hoity-toity Greek goats of the ice-cream cactus. Agggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh diddly festival out-take chip turnip candle-bearing pump dinglingy drain toe keyboard "Alvin and the Chipminks" stump-nutter pray for the whales as they are dead and nearly finished. Well that it is, in all me days-born and all the "I can't do it as good as James 'Skipper-dedodododedadada Munch Bunch trout-beard' Hardyhahahargreaves". By the way madheads, I can't come out and fix your ever swimming colostomy conkers, so please do me a ready salted biscuit of a favour and stop asking. Said in pure, 100%, undiluted, unadulterated Christian love for the dove of new Cliff Richard trapdoors. Oh no. My honky-tonky snake resort has just evolved into a giant pickle munching ferret lampshade. Crap. Crappy-crap-crap to that said the Queen to her nasal spider. Righty-dokey and okey-ho. I must go now and trim my battery. Take care and God Bless. But not too much. (Cheers Mike Pilavachi sir!) Oh, and before I forget: eat me. Dean'Lo. P.S: I'd just like to say a whopping huge word of thanks to all the registration plates out there who help me through my decision not to take up sidewalk choppering afterall. There's a ridiculously large sized vat of pancake mixture winging it's way towards you as we gibber. Thanx guys. I'm touched. Name: jeannie Hometown: pasadena, ca Occupation freelance designer/illustrator Relation to Eric none, just an admirer of his skillz Sent: 22.07 - thu 15 aug 2002 dude, you're one intense photographer! any more tutorials? beautiful europe shots... now i'm all inspired to create better images (& to travel more too)... thanks! Name: Frank Gil Hometown: Miami Springs, Florida Occupation Network Engineer/PC Hardware Tech Sent: 12.56 - tue 13 aug 2002 Hi Eric: Great Site! Very well thought-out and presented. Great pic's too! I am a reef-keeper also and enjoy all of the interesting inhabitants in my 120 Gallon tank. To me it's a great form of stress relief! I got your link via: http://www.simplifiedreefkeeping.com/stanks.htm Anyways, just wanted t sign your guestbook and say Hello. Good Luck! Frank Gil Name: EL Hometown: Singapore Occupation IT Project Manager (banking) Sent: 08.29 - mon 12 aug 2002 I was looking for taiwan+driving in altavista and came across your website. I am off to Taipei coming Saturday (it will be my 3rd trip in 3 years) - gonna drive cross-country with a couple of old school chums. I am trying to find out whether I need to apply for international driving permit ... I like your website ... will probably visit again in future ... Cheers! Name: DIMITRI SHA'URI Occupation student, middlesbrough, england Relation to Eric kindred Sent: 08.45 - sun 11 aug 2002 to see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower to hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour Name: Ley Hometown: Indonesia Relation to Eric Stranger only Sent: 21.54 - fri 9 aug 2002 Got ur website fr. frenz. Showed 'bot divin' trip. Coincidently got spare time ... browse around....n....got a strong urge to spoilt ur blank space. ;p Name: Lady Luck Hometown: Muddle of Pud, Yorkshire Relation to Eric His Coy Mistress Sent: 03.53 - fri 9 aug 2002 Master Eric of Solace, I am writing to inform thou of thoust most handsome website, it isnt everyday that a Lady reads something of such charm and wit. I do, if I dare, say of such reflection this work has on your beauty, such a defined writer and enchanting Knight. For such an elaborate art could be in danger of succumbing a Lady to such... heated emotions. Hence, let us roll our strength, and all our sweetness, up in one ball thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run. I did forsee of the unlady-like mannor I would convey, but surely my Lord, i could intrigue you, for lady luck is fickle but a lady is allowed to change her mind. For Master you deserve this state, nor would I love you at a lower rate. Yours in unvanquished Love, His Coy Mistress Name: Jia Hometown: NYC Occupation Publishing Relation to Eric ... Sent: 08.24 - thu 8 aug 2002 Hi Eric, I think I stumbled upon your page by RBJ, through Amabelle's page. I thought I was just a random browser enjoying the photography and adventures, until I realized that I think your friend Adam T has a friend in common with me. Juliana who graduated from Stanford in 2001(?) who is working for Reuters. I went to HS with her. Further more, did you just move to my neighborhood Jackson Heights from SF? How Chungking Expressish! Anyhow, it's been fun living vicariously through your words! Occupation govt worker Relation to Eric none Sent: 20.52 - tue 6 aug 2002 some of the clearest best dive phots i have seen on the web, great narrative also Name: Digital Cameras Homepage: http://www.digitalcameraswebsite.co.uk Hometown: Hastings Occupation Photography UK Sent: 00.17 - sat 3 aug 2002 Hello. Name: Marie Hometown: Singapore Occupation Treasury Sales Sent: 02.04 - wed 31 jul 2002 I am trying to get information on buying/choosing a new cello and saw your article on your cello search. An interesting read! |