Finally, Kok Hon has gotten a Facebook account (a more serious one to be precise). World destruction imminent! Two weeks! D: If you wonder why would the world be destroyed in two weeks. Well, he is the king of the panda race and he is millions of years old. The moment he creates an account in Facebook and becomes somewhat serious about it. The spacetime continuum breaks into a million pieces and goes BOOM!

And yes, I know that was pure crap. Don't need to remind me.

Anyway, Kodak just went bankrupt. Though I am not involved in film photography, I feel a little sad that a photography giant fell. However, many new companies are rising up to take its place. Makes me wonder what the world of photography be like 10 years down the road.

Well, nothing really very eventful happening right now. Looking forward to the coming weeks!

Hahahahahaha! I've been travelling a bit during these two days and in the morning, I went to Chinatown for a little street photography. Must admit street photography becomes a lot easier when there're a lot of people around you, especially tourists. It just make me who is holding a giant DSLR invisible. Snap, snap, snap!

Today has been a truly eventful day. Or rather, past few days. First, I got a earphone + MP3 player combo at about S$270. While a little too pricy for my liking (I was thinking more on the line of spending about S$200 in total), I must admit that the sound quality is really good. In fact, playing anything with a bitrate lower than 200 makes me feel like I'm wasting this setup. Sansa Fuze v2 + TripleFi 10.

Also went to church leader's meeting today... without myself being a leader! Hahahahahaha! Anyway, I really like the praise & worship at leader's meeting. They sing with lots of energy & passion, as if they really want to carry out what they sing. Oh, talking about this leader's meeting, I must talk about something that I am including into my workplan of the year. "Help ShenYu in his O level." This is a task issued by William and the target is ShenYu. I have yet to work out the details but I am ready to go. It should go along quite well with my A level re-revision. Hahahaha!

And since I'm visinting Jurong West, I took a few shots of the old church building. I really love that titanium facade. It gives off a mix of blue and yellow, something that is not even supposed to be possible! And I'm losing touch with my wide angle techniques... The shots didn't really turn out very nice. Need practice & improvement! Click to enlarge!

Hahahahaha! I want to laugh out loud every time I remember that "five strong men" incident. Well, guess it's hard to forget something that funny. Anyway, went out for dinner today at Pepperoni Pizzeria near Bukit Timah. It's a fine pizza restaurant with lots of nice food. We ordered a giant pizza & two servings of pastas. The taste is good and everything came really quickly. I guess I am satisfied. One down side though is that the pizza is really thin so it's not really filling. We ended up ordering pasta to top everything off.

Due to demand, I added a "......" after each post in summary page for easy indication. Quite amazed that I figured out how to do it really...

I'm also starting a project. Or rather, to continue one. My keychain project I call: My Kingdom. It was previously stopped because I don't know how to shoot my favorite keychain out of them all, a crude crystal. Finally, I have the equipment required to make the shot and I've just done it. I attempted minimalism and I hope it works out well. Anyway, I won't be posting these pictures on Facebook. Maybe I will once I complete it but not now. It will only exist here.

I realized that this place has become more and more like a pure photo blog. As I can hardly recall (or feel very strongly) about events happened else where by the time I reach home, I don't really have much to post now.

Feeling strangely (but not strongly) depressed for sometime already and I still don't understand why. I guess I'm just seeing "life" again. Some around me are pretending. I understand so it's ok. Some around me are angry. I understand so it's ok. Some around me are mourning. I understand so it's ok. Some around me are lost. I understand so it's ok. Some around me are happy. Hm... Don't really understand that. Anyway, this is life. Boring, same old same old. Would be nice if I can bring my cam to camp and capture them but unfortunately it's not allowed.

My flash just arrived. It's exciting indeed. It is the most excellent flash bought at the price of nearly half of what the other flash in this category would cost. I love my homeland (wanted to say love my country but it suddenly strikes me that I'm no longer a Chinese)! Reading it's menu and learning it's usage right now. I'll expand my creative capacities by leaps and bounds. But I must remember. Never fall into the old trap. Never expect anything from life. Anything that is good to me is a blessing of Him, anything bad is to be expected. Anything expected is just ok.

Yep. David won the weirdest guy award on this shoot. He got chased around for a few hundred meters by this security guard and I had to distract the security guard for him to escape. Awesome!

Anyway, didn't really get much shots today. My reason for photography is to make others happy so I won't shoot if I know it will upset that person. Not very good for street photography.

Feeling slightly down today. Maybe I was thinking about the relationship between love and conflict, a supposed romantic subject turning into an all-out warfare between the genders. Maybe I miss the company of friends. Maybe I haven't taken any picture for a very long time.

Or maybe it is the last few picture I took this Saturday that is making me sad. Anyway, uploading them now. Same rule, click to enlarge.

There's no point in being denial, so I'll go straight to the topic.

I failed my driving test~! In fact, I only obtained 2 points through out the entire journey. But managed to obtain 12 points+ immediate failure in the last 1 min of the whole test.

It was an awesome mistake! A L plate car that was turning left suddenly decided to go straight which resulted in me having to stop in the middle of the road. Near accident + fail to watch out for traffic + force other road users to take evasive actions. My instructor went "FUUUUU!!!!" (Yes, that's what he said. Because he just kept his laptop thinking I can never fail. Muahahahahaha!)

Off the record, I am actually quite depressed now and it would be nice if someone can comfort me a little. Heh... So close...

More pool action. Finding it hard to concentrate on the game when all that's in my mind are cameras and pictures. More people, more objects, more color, more lines (diagonal lines to be specific). WOOHOO!

Getting slightly better at people shots, at least from my point of view. Desperately need a flash gun to fill, illuminate and make an impression!

It's been a while since I last write a post. I realized that I had just began another season of self-doubt and self-questioning. As I tend to sound overly emo during this period, I thought it would be best not to expose those crap online. Though lacking viewership, this is an open blog. Gone are the days I can throwing whatever crap I wish to on blogs...

Anyway, in this new year, I think I should restart a photography project of mine. A photo album of my key chains. As I've already gotten my 100mm Macro and a flash soon, I think the time is right. I've decided to call this album "My Little Kingdom" and it will probably be updated weekly. Wish me luck.

Been talking to a few colleagues about love. Sometimes, I feel a little sad that love has been reduced from a feeling to a skill. However, I can't deny that with appropriate skill, one will probably be much more successful in the field of love. 知己知彼，百战百胜。But won't it be nice if there's no skill and just feelings? No need to consider anything else, be together just for love. I sound almost like a little girl who read too many love novels.