draw something.

Many many weeks ago, July asked me to draw something. and so i did draw a simple one during an art outing/jam. :) Thanks J!

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where was I?

sorry to keep you guys waiting so long! i was seriously lazy and was totally irritable in these 12 weeks so i had no motivation and time. (note:i have no time again... thanks to the &*^%^ FH course) but after so long i have decided to blog, seeing that you guys have been looking at that stupid 70-300mm camera lens for so long... so i added more lenses for you guys to see! (not that you're bored already) I made this card not to long ago for our sergeant secret as agreed by my detachment members who think that he deserves some recognition for his role as in instructor. Hope he doesn't tell the rest and rub it in their face... opps!
I brought a prime lens and a BETTER zoom lens which i THINK i am statisfied.... the new camera flash excites me like crazy! however, one MAJOR drawback to this flash is that it makes noises! I seriously need to try them out more often...
This with my camera added-on features, i think i'm gonna have soooooo much trouble carrying it! I am just super happy now that my nightmare is over but i'm really afraid the worst is yet to come in my new posting serving the nation. sigh... till then, SMILE, say cheese!
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Expired. (things i wanted to tell for a long time)

There are like tons and tons of memories and things i want to write about but as you can see how busy i am once i get home from national service- here's just the gist of it:

1. ZOOM lenses and camera accessories

The lack of money and time obviously only allow me to dream and dream of it only and one dream is to just take tons of photos and capture memories. But more photos = more problem of organising + storing + lack of disk space + increase urgency of scrapbooking. So the camera is put on hold for this moment, so there's no 'zhnging*' of my camera! This camera lens was borrowed from my dad's friend for my passing out parade and was returned promptly to stop me from going gaga over it and getting one in the end. Meanwhile, I'll just dream and look through amazing photos. Here's one from my company mate in the army who does an amazing job at his hobby: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutternumber2

2. Cycle expeditions

we cycled like mad trying to race at the speed of light in order to curve space-time so as to reach the bicycle shop before our rental time. Somehow or rather, we were a few minutes late that means to say we needed to pay a over-night in which i believed would have been pocketed by those bike rental personnels which almost got me in a fury, fortunately, we so called convinced them to charge us the original extra hour charge. We need to have more of these cycling expeditions as a group!

3. 29 Injections

Crazy me actually agreed to the nurse to do the food allergy not knowing that I had to test for so much food (she said it was average 18 injections only but i got more of it!) The 3 hours procedure was quite a nightmare and got me really groggy after that. I would never want to go through that again. ever. basically, I had to done the food test to determine the food that cause me to fall sick soooo many times in my army term. (specifically, I had to be injected with milk, corn, wheat, malt, soy, egg, baker's yeast, garlic, rice, pepper, apple, watermelon, check, pork, tomato, potato, onion, oyster, mushroom, clove, cumin, Cinnamon, coffee, tea, cocoa and 3 control chemicals) I had food hypersensitivity to (try saying it in 1 breath) malt, egg, baker's yeast, watermelon, pork, potato, oyster, coffee, tea, cocoa. So as S says, I have to live with rice and plain porridge and water for the rest of my life? (OK, 6 months of that-the nurse says. but that would mean ending my life..lol) Avoiding these foods is HARD, so bloody hard. you could say i did these injections for nothing. :)


3. Good Day! (with fist high up, elbows locked)

these people are really funny, enjoyed thick and thin (mostly thin?) with them. Gonna miss those who are posted to other unit! Good Luck!



5. Happy 19th birthday

Thanks for all the birthday wishes that you guys have given been more than a month ago. All presents are appreciated, including this one which i pasted in my army cupboard locker. It just reminds me of needing to get creative which i so need to work on, random doodling might just work....

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new upgrades to paige a.k.a my camera!

Went to Funan I.T mall to look at some stuffs for my camera and a new computer headphones (equipped with a mircophone!) I eventually bought 2 new stuffs: A new polarising filter and a camera romote control which would defintely improve my photo taking skills. You can see how helpful the filter is on helping to reduce the reflected light or increase the intensity of the blues! (these 4 photos aren't edited.)

Who knew remote control can be so fun?

1. I was trying on the camera remote control when my brother walks past.

2. I demostrate the use of it.

3. he looks at the little plastic thingy while i told him that it can let you shoot as far as 5 metres.

4. he starts trying on it.

5. he attempts to shoot at a higher angle

6. he proving that the statement for the product is true.

7,8,9. He sees how far can he go using the remote.

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Jump-start my life.

After 14 days from the end of a levels was what it took for me to start scrapbooking! And during these 14 days was endless outings, get together, shopping and slacking! But eventually, i am able to start to put things into place. Still, i am not able to free up time to do more stuffs i want to do after 2 years of suffering. Its good to start nice, like this scrapbook layout. Thanks amel for the help!

4e1 clique gathering was totally fun, loads of catch up to do with what we're doing right now and things about the future. I join them the same day as my wisdom teeth exraction surgery, the pain hard to take, but it still it was worth it to meet up with old friends.

Amelene took this photo i think, great job!

Thanks for being so fun guys... catch up again on this saturday's class reunion BBQ! you can see the photos here.

A meet up at settler's cafe was fun fun fun! we played 4 or 5 board games and enjoyed great times that afternoon! We took some photos to remember them too!

A trip back again to singapore's renowned HSBC treetop walk! The view is still as spectacular and beautiful in all direction! it still takes my breath away to be on the bridge look out! we need to explore more parts of macrichite reservoir! But, of course loads and loads of shots were taken from my favourite camera!

This holiday would be more busy but nevertheless, exciting and learn more things! There is loads more things to come! My life is getting a JUMPSTART!

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Struggling.

I love taking photos with my new CANON DSLR! But such i pity that i couldn't take it around more and spend more time learning from it. However, whenever I have the chance, I would defintely try my very best to take more of life. But its now just studies and me. Oh yes, its name is called: Paige. Though i normally call it 'baby', it turn most heads around when i say that in school and thoughts of me being crazy due to over-studying...lol.





















Here's probably the last card I would be able to make before my A level kicks in. A happy 19th birthday card to shan hong.


















So Its study study study now....but its getting so bored of it. Pin It

248 pictures to 28 seconds.

I had some fun trying out my camera by making it work for 6 hours while it connects to the computer automatically an take shots at interval. The result? it makes a really cool 28 seconds video. 6 hours compressed into 28 seconds...really cool. Sigh.. wish i had more time making fun stuffs like this... :( (the one below is of better quality, if you have better internet or flashplayer... you should be able to press the green 'play' button.)

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Holiday surprise.

Yes... i have been complaining how sucky my camera was in the past year and then it spolit. which made me real mad over it. But now, let me introduce to me my new love: a canon DSLR. It took me quite some time to register in my mind that I have an semi-professional camera. it's totally cool. I am real happy now... there is nothing to complain excepy about the college and studies. But now, there's load of things to learn from the camera.
More teachers' day cards for other teachers which i could not make it time to give to them. happy teachers' day, teachers. you deserve this day.

meanwhile, my holiday sucked. wasn't really studying or relaxing... and the days just blew away... sigh... i hate going back to that school.

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What was happening...

After NOT BLOGGIN for months, here's some photos to jot my memory of what i did or see for the past weeks:
blood donation
The college had another one of its blood donation, but sadly, this time had very very few people as we J2s are having prelims soon. But i'm gald that i went college to study and donated blood too! Oh yes, thanks hannah for being there too!
National DAY BBQ
This phenomenon occured on the beach near our family BBQ pit, it came out as a waterspout which is featured in many local articles about it. The newspapers say that it occur once a while near the singapore shores and is of no threat as it would dissapear when nearing to land. However, this time, it became a realtively weak dustdevil.
And we were shocked that the waterspout change to a"sand storm" instead. Although, it WAS short lived when it reach the shores, but it already travelled about 12 metres from the sea line and look at the amount of damage it has caused. tents were destroyed and people were running away from the danger zone at that time. Stuffs were flying all over. The worst part was that it blew up sand which really hurt and cause sand all over us espeically our hair. Luckily, no one was hurt.
The BBQ resumed again but with more excitement as it was a "chance" of a lifetime to experience a "safe nature disaster" and see how nature fights back sometimes. (a reminder to SAVE OUR EARTH.) When we all started back to our BBQ, the rain came, and we had to stop for a while and quickly put shelter over the pit and protect our food. (my dad is really cool at setting up such stuffs.) When the rain stopped, he came back with a blow torch. And wow, the BBQ was started up really quickly! COOL!
loads to see, the helicopters pass the beach too.
Then, in the evening, there was a raindow caused by the rain in the afternoon and also the setting sun. It was beautiful.
Teachers' Day
I spent like 5-6 hours making teachers' day cards. And I as say, its hard to get back on track when you have lose your handcrafting skill for so many months. But still I managed to get it done!
College celebration was interesting at some particular parts but the sad and irritating part was that there wasn't more of it. And the place wasn't big enough to house all of us.
Sadly, i was disppointed at the general group of people who was laughing at some particular perfomances as some sang off-key (you will miss it if you did not listen attentively) or went a little off-beat.

Meanwhile
making more of the cards to pass on to some of my secondary school teachers which i did not manage to finish and they kinda expecting it.
Also, i think i'm buying a DSLR, but i'm still considering... Canon EOS 450-D really appeals to me. Sigh... to buy or not to buy? Pin It

Sky.

Brother: Look at the sky.
Me: Huh? you see the sky everyday what there to look?
Brother: Go see the sky.

Me: What's there to see? What' so special about the sky?

Brother: Just go see the sky.

Me: ... wow.

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Outing!!!

The most successful outing we ever had!!! We went to the national museum of singapore to view the greek masterpieces and they look really good (in terms of condition) after soooooooooo many years! Its been an interesting time there look at the pieces and the story behind each and every individual masterpieces.
But the sad thing is, my camera is working real bad and despite long hours of charging, it still went dead in less than an hours. Worse, the museum lights are in purple ( i think its on purpose) such that its really hard for us to take any pictures unless we're taking only the pieces.
Here's one interesting photo of william looking into the pot, I got billy to do the same for another piece but he didn't look real enough. but sadly, this photo is too blur!!! I need a new camera!
Here's one of the student docents speaking to us about one of the pieces... but he's really soft, so i started to take some picture of classmates listening intenly....
This two could make it as one of the pieces!!! Eleanor is just so creative and photogenic in which to take many pictures with weird poses! LOL. keep giving loads of funny ideas!

After all that, we went to the fish & Co. glass house (i think that's what's called) to gather together for debroah's farewell party. (i would call it early retirement..lol) We have a super good time and the food taste really really good!!! There was atmosphere and music all together, forgeting that there were lessons and homework the very next day. To save the photos, click on the slideshow below or this blog post's title.

Edited: i added some photos from eleanor tay.

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It's bird... it's a plane!

taking the Saturday off from school work and went to the air show with gwee, w.k and yiwei.

The air show is really really good as we got to see many great planes including the BIGGEST commercial plane! We were all like woooh...and waahhh when watching the different planes performing different trips.
The exhibition was super big with different companies show off different parts of their air plane, and polished metal parts that we don't even know what it is for, but i was more like interested in their coffee machine. (one latte please.) at least we head on to the real life size working planes and there is some really cool private planes they've got! (having one on my 21st birthday, I hope..lol)
As usual, my camera is ever so lousy (get me a NEW ONE!!!) and so, during some point of time the lens inside which was lose, fell in place and got reversed, causing this weird but cool sensation that other camera DON'T HAVE! Haiz, I need to comfort myself to stay on with this camera, if not, burn a super duper huge hole on my pocket. So i have to tell myself: so what if its 3.2 mega-pixel and its huge? At least mine can do something other cameras can't.

Here's the slide show for the photos. You can click on this post title or the slide show above to see some of the videos and pictures that gwee and I took, thanks to yiwei great eyesight, helping us to spot the incoming planes!

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Everyday Special.

Went to Ikea weeks ago. Having my favorite supper....!~ Totally enjoyed myself... walking alone at my own pace, looking at every little furniture or product Ikea has....
Here's one message from ikea I like. That's what life artist is about... Mad about the everyday stuffs!




One other special everyday, working on chemical experiments.... look closely... you'll see that the ash has a hint of GREEN.
This isn't something special but a gadget I use almost everyday and something bad bad bad is happening to it. Somehow the lens is not aligned, causing very huge problems in Zooming in or out and it can't retract its lens.... This can hold for the moment if I don't touch the zoom function but, I guess its gonna spoil soon. I thought fixing the memory card would have ended problems... but i was wrong. how am I gonna live without my trusty camera?

This of course, is VERY SPECIAL. Enjoying my favourite fruit...

....its the everyday.

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