Family Chalet 14112009

It's family day! Great gathering, fun day, all thanks to Jonas Kor for organising :)




Before the games:

Nephews by the pool!

"Hehe"

Attempting to get Charles attention~

不是满分笑容，但幸好我的头比你小，哈哈哈。:P

The games!:

"I'm in Matt's team"

Matt's team

Colin's team

Ah Yong's team

Mesen's team

Prize giving:

而幕后工程是谁？

就是他！Thanks Kor!

It's so hard to find a good compact nowadays. The always lacking factor: image quality.

Guess SLR is most reliable, haha.

嘿嘿。。。 终于轮到我放假了吧。。。不过还是有些工作“首尾”要解决，这就是大人世界！:P

两部我假期必看电影：

1. 十月围城 （看了，不错！革命的牺牲、革命的伟大，我想是我们这代人无法彻底感受与理会的。。。电影里也有许多不是搞笑、却又搞笑的情节。。。看后让我知道 k? 我们可以“讨论”一番，呵呵~）

2. Avatar (听说不错，很高科技，所以想看这次大导 James Cameron 又使出什么花样来。。。:P）

What we ate at the food fair:

1. Sausages

2. Smoked duck

3. 仙草水

4. Otah

5. 蚝仔面线

6. 台湾鲁肉饭

7. 马蹄薄饼

8. Mr Bean's soyabean + bundong (2 cups)

9. 鱼翅汤

10. 咖哩鱼丸

11. 扣肉包

12. Munching the free samples of 肉干 (that's me only, kekeke)

Movie: 2012

Ching's rating: 8.5/ 10

It's been a while since I last watched a good film. Kiwi likes it too, keke. It kept me on the edge, 很刺激！But it's a sad show... if there's this doomsday, would you choose to know it beforehand?

但黑暗过去，曙光就会再次出现。

Halloween!!! 31102009

My first halloween! Haha.

Gonna post more pics up when I've the time...

Been a long long time since I last posted hor... cos' really super busy with work...

sometimes I think I'm breaking, or cracking... but well, I think I'm still sorta hanging on cos' I've been getting lotsa lotsa support around...

*emo* :P

So there's really a difference between an A1 and an A2. The WORKLOAD :S

And who says interim is better than finals? It's as tough!...

The madness starts all over again, argh.......

All fellows, we endure hor, hang on k...

p.s.: think i'll really need the encouragement myself, hoho.

DNA

This is really backdated... Will upload photos when I gotten my new desktop and does some post-processing (my old lappy is TOO SLOW, argh...)

Meanwhile, enjoy some snow flakes, hahaha:

Facebook is good

cos' I get to know what's happening around me;

like who got married on 090909 (*congrats!*),
like someone took pictures with a parrot in the office (*interesting...*),
like my friend's friend got beaten up by some unreasonable, barbaric creatures (*angry!*),

and

little Charles is not feeling well(*get well soon!*),
Kor kor feeling down (*jia you!*)

and everyone is glad that it's TGIF~

oh, and FB is nice too, as my friends can tag me in the photos :)

but still it's too much of a public place for me
I still prefer here (Life Comes Full Circle)
it's more of an exclusivity, hahaha. (j/k~)
it's more of close friends would know that I have a blog, and I would tell my closer friends that I have a blog (ya noe, this is how young people communicate nowadays, to know what's happening to your friends, haha.)
and friends who care will, well, probably ask if I have a blog, hohoho.

*p/s: a random entry, as thoughts bubbled while I was surfing FB a moment ago.

The limited edition PE shirt!!!

Well, I spotted this guy wearing this PE shirt last saturday... (spent some time to 偷拍) it's very rare, cos' ZHSS has changed its uniform design long long time ago... and hey, his 'limited edition' is pretty new loh, don't look worn out... tsk tsk...

The point is,
I miss having this PE shirt (okay, I know I'm weird, haha.) I don't like the new design the students are wearing now... and my PE shirt is very worn out liao. *sigh*

I miss school,

I miss Zhonghua...

Wow, it has been 1 year.

Excited

Obviously not over my work. Haha.

Firstly, 五月天 concert is coming in 1 week time! yay~~~

And the second one is the trend of the cameras industry; big-time players, like Canon, Panasonic, Fujifilm, seemed to notice the lack in compact cams: picture quality.
It's interesting to observe the trend; for the past few years, compact cam's megapixels just kept increasing. From as early as 2007, it's 5MP, then it goes 8MP, 10MP, 12MP! And now they go back to 10MP, attempting to improve the picture quality (yep, more megapixels doesn't mean better pictures, long story...) So I quite excited lah, imagine taking good quality photos (nice colours, low noise, sharp pics) using compact cam, hehehe :)

Okay, this entry must be boring for you peeps, haha...

Buildings on fire(works) 09082009

Okay, due to weak economy this year... there seemed to have none fireworks festival (yea, Government decided to be costs-saving?...) :(

Arh~ so that means last night was my only chance of shooting fireworks... but unfortunately, the buildings blocked my view entirely! And that means I din get to any fireworks this year :(

Oh well, it's all right... I do get some night shots in the end... and it's quite 'adventurous', wahaha... a pity I din get up to the top part, the view's much splendid, but lacked guts and I am accountable to... people, hahaha. Maybe lah, should try it next time... :P

Shall post some pics when I have the time~

I am walking, hoping to find my way. And I shall continue.


*p.s. : Well, it suddenly struck me while I was walking along the travelator in the train station.

好失望。。。

But what to do, stuff in life don't always happen like what you expected...

所以只能跟自己说，“看开一点吧。”

就如 FS 说的（读会计的朋友们，这 “FS” 不是 financial statements hor, 是 initials 啦，呵呵），也只可以这样对自己说，

ENDURE...

Canon 50mm f1.8

Finally bought a second hand Canon 50mm f1.8 last Sunday.
Why it? Cos':
- I want bokeh badly
- Something compact
- But most importantly, something CHEAP, haha. Got it for $80, it's the cheapest you can find among all lens.

Some test shots, all unprocessed:

If all my managers are like him... I will cough blood sooner or later.
Thank god not~

18072009
My 2nd 'official' kite flying (yea, i.e. I went specially to a field, just to fly kite, haha). Not so bad, cos' my kite is a fish design (special!!!)... and fish swims well in water, not in the sky you know, haha... must compliment, as it managed to 'swim' sustainably, very little downtime (in fact, no down time? Only time was when there's not a trace of wind), say 10%? Well, it did not fly as high as the rest, but comparing to my lst 'official', it's much much better. :)
And thanks Ivan for repairing my kite the previous time, keke.

Oh, it's Kiwi's first official leh~ *claps* fun anot? It's not a question actually... cos' you can say only say yes! hahaha

And we saw a gigantic octopus kite. When i say gigantic.... it's ReaLLy giGanTic! Got lights installed on it somemore... cool... what's more, it flew real high... mine was pale in comparison x3, keke.

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Haven't been shooting for very long, getting rusty, argh... I need: 1. wider aperture (nice bokeh!) like f2.8, f1.4, and 2) compact lens... 50mm f1.8? 30mm f1.4? 20mm? 28mm?
But first thing first, get my butt moving and start shooting, haha.

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And I haven't been exercising... guess I still prefer 打打杀杀，hahaha. Maybe I should start to scout for lessons... kick-boxing ah, pilates ah, hot yoga ah or back to wushu? HmmMm... tsk tsk...

From Africa...

are...

and the priceless video. Thanks ya :)

Oh, and happy 3, keke :)

Will you miss home?

It seems like a trend, or an "in-thing" to travel, especially once you start work...

A way to relax and get away from the work and stress; to a totally new place...

But while in the foreign land,

do you ever miss home?

Do you ever think of your loved ones back home?

Well, I don't know for you,

but I do.



It's fun, and all senses appeal to the new things we would experience in the new places.

"How I wish the holiday wouldn't end!"

I would,

but it would mean to spend them with my loved ones,

for home is my only constant longing place.

Tangible, and intangible.


p.s.: Ah... I am such a “宅女”in this sense, wahaha~

虽然只剩一周的假期，有点迟了，但还是决定在接下来的六天过得健康一点，来个早点睡、早点起的生活！

自我催眠。。。“我一定做得到！”

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还有一个星期咧。。。原来这种等待不好过咧。。。you gonna get it from me when you're back! :P

Olympus Pen E-P1 Preview

This camera is a beauty:
It's the first Micro Four Thirds camera from Olympus. In short, it is a compact digital SLR. Can you imagine?! A compact-like dSLR!!! :) It will be so convenient for me to bring it around!

And I really like its retro design! It's actually following the design of its old Olympus Pen series' (yea, the Olympus Pen series, which is a half-frame film camera, was very popular back in the 50's-mid 80's), hence its name "Pen E-P1".

Above: Pen E-P1 (left); Half frame Olympus Pen film camera (right)

Hope it will be lauched soon... but don't think it's gonna be cheap, hahaha....

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After the blog entry, YT told me that she actually got to test test the cam! But is kinda plasticky.... hmm, must reconsider le, shall go to Cathay Photo one day...

Redang 08062009 - 11062009

Redang here we come!
Some info, we took 5 Star coach (SGD 90 per pax, two way), the journey is about 10 hrs, argh... but I think it's considered a nice coach le, haha.



Early in the morning, we reached Merang jetty. This is the resort bus that takes us to another temporary jetty, from which we will board the boat:






In the boat! :








The boat ride is very 刺激，it's like sitting roller coaster, wahaha. Takes about 30min, and we reach Redang :)
Super happy, and I love the waters! Look at the clarity manz...:


Well, below is Laguna Resort, looks good right? But sorry loh, this is not our resort, hahaha...






以下才是我们住宿的地方，Redang Reef Resort:
For info, for 3D2N, and for 4 persons = RM 1440 (inclusive of all meals and 3 snorkelling trips, but exclude snorkelling equipment charges).






Well, facilities and food wise, Redang Reef Resort is no where compared to Laguna Resort. But still, I like Reef Resort's location, especially it's backyard! It's really windy at night. Enjoying the sea breeze, chit-chat and chill out, 很爽～:






Our room. Surprisingly they gave us one extra bed. Look at where JR and PY were sitting? That is our '垃圾床'. Hahaha.


More pics....

The famous house:

Below is my favourite pic! A mystical feeling...

Well, a nice place to just slack and relax. Nice experience for me, as this was my first time snorkelling... even got 'kissed' by a fish on my arm, keke. And look at the waters! Now I know why when we colour, we colour the sea blue... Worth going at least once... till then~ :)