..resulted in 335 shots being taken.  Haven’t gotten the chance to QC them yet, but here’s one for the time being..not much editing, just tweaking abit of the curves…the pic i think technically is ok, but somehow i just feel it’s not strong enuff.. like wat huimin said, the boy is neither happy nor sad..


Shot on Canon EOS 30D, 50mm f/1.8 at 1/50s, f/2.2, ISO200

Just a follow-up to this post

Somehow my friends are very trusting, I had the chance to test drive a vios when we had to go jurong pt to buy food for a bbq.. So he simply passed me his car keys even though he knows that I just passed.  So it was a good opportunity to learn how to park properly.. Thurs another fren lent me his Sunny for a delivery from Kranji Newater to Pertapis at Serangoon.. Parallel parked..eh sai liaoz..

Seriously lah, driving those 2 cars is boring..perhaps cos its auto and that pickup is non-existent… put it this way, the kick that i got out of my 1st bike, that 100cc 30 yr old relic was way more than driving the vios or sunny.  It’s sianz to drive a manual car in singapore too i guess, with all the traffic jams and poorly designed carparks like National Library (exit gantry is at the top of a long ramp..so if long Q..u can imagine handbrake move-off for ever car length…)

Seems like the decision to take a car, the advantages are more homely and er.. domesticating.. I really have to think about keeping my bike for weekend thrills, if not i am gonna age faster…

1st substantial post for some time.. I think my blog has become stagnant and it would only get worse in Q3 2007. But anyway that’s a problem for the future..

I was given an interesting problem last friday by my dad. Now for those of you who dunno, I have managed to successfully hide my motorcycling from my parents for the past 4 years or so. Add in the learning period and it would be almost 5 years. It’s not something that I’m proud of, though I may appear to be when you talk to me. Ever since young, it has always been a dream to be able to ride a bike, and with the dream so attainable, there was nothing stopping me but my parents. So this is a tiny workaround that sorta fulfils the conditions.

Back in nov 2006, my dad was making some money in shares n unit trusts, and he offered to sponsor me and my sis in learning how to drive. My sis din take the offer,but i did.. Eventually i passed with 1.3k of his money and 500 of mine in late april. So all was quiet on the car buying bit. Money has been tight in our family for sometime. Not that we are poor or wat, just that we dun make big ticket purchases like this.

Until my dad sms-ed me on friday. It was a long sms, spanning 2 sms. He went on about how mum loves me and my sis, done alot for this family n would be heartbroken if i ride a bike. He’s willing to get me a compact car in december if i dun ride a bike. So that’s the catch. Somehow i think that i’m in a scenario that economists would use to study game theory and assymetrical information.

I wonder how much does my dad really noe? I told my family that i passed my bike license recently, but i never said which license. I passed my class 2, which allows me to ride any bike and my mum prob thinks that i’ve just passed my 1st license. She’s starting to get paranoid and refuses to ride on my dad’s bike now (yes he rides!!!). Somehow i think he knows that I ride, cos he says strange things to my sis @ times. There was once when i went downstairs for supper, he asked my sis after i went down how come i never go further to eat, instead of downstairs. I would go home with a faint marking on my forehead due to the helmet lining, which is actually quite obvious if they look @ me.

So now i have a few options.

1. Tell him ok. That means to say i deny that i have a bike, and wait for car to come then i still keep my bike as a weekend ride. The problem with this is that he might wanna check if i own any vehicles or not.
2. Tell him no, i wanan ride a bike.. i dun need a car. This one would make him unhappy, and also if my mum finds out, all hell would break loose. I am quite sure of that.
3. Tell him that this bike i have to keep, cos it’s a momento to remind me of my friend who has been riding up in heaven for the past year. I will not sell this bike to any stranger, it has to be to a friend. I am prepared to give the bike away to a friend to ride as long as I am still the owner. The friend just pays for maintenance. Heck! i would even share in for major servicing.
4. He might just refuse to compromise and I would have to cease n desist all riding activities, which totally sucks ass.

For the sake of family harmony, I’m leaning towards 1 and 3. Talk about domesticating myself…sigh…

Irritated by the following:

1. Calling NYC and nobody answers the phone in that whole fucking dept
2. Sistic website and phoneline all got problem
3. Having a credit card salesman not just trying to hardsell, use 苦肉计 by saying almost end of mth n need to meet sales target.. u might as well tell me that u have a wife n 5 kids to feed?  Nonetheless im still getting that card cos u have my number, and u will bug me to no end if i dun.
4. slow replies of email from alot of ppl, i mean ALOT
5. my workplace uses EIGHT THOUSAND STYROFOAM CUPS in ONE MONTH.

Is to not plan at all. Last yr when i went taiwan, RH and me only booked 1st day hostel, after that we just planned a few days in advanced..so everything was fluid.. Lonely Planet rocks, 1 book to rule them all. After sitting down for past few days trying to plan my Delhi/Agra/Rajasthan holiday, i’ve given up and instead settled for a list of die-die-must-see locations, incl taj mahal and jaipur city.

The extent of my planning (or lack of it) is that i’ve only booked a ticket to bangalore @ this pt of time. I know that i will reach there on 8th morning, and i will want to get to delhi on the same day, nite latest.. hotel in delhi not booked yet. Day 2 not planned yet, agra (n taj mahal probably). Shiok liaoz.

Remember, 1 book to rule them all…

Using Adium on my mac for msn…here’s what happens when it crashes (n burns, literally)

“Lu kua simi, Nanchiau?”

Quarter-century old, completed 5th set of 5 yrs…perfect square birthday (cos 5th may, 5 x 5 = 25), whatever you call it, i’m 25 now.. Amidst all the birthday greetings, i spent my afternoon walking ard city hall area taking photos, before going back to durian to chat abit.. it was nice meeting up for dinner later with the physics folks..thanks for the jacket..i like it, bright colours and all..  Thanks to all of you who remembered my birthday, either by heart, overheard me saying, or simply over friendster, heh… a pity that someone din remember…hai..

but on a happier note, this birthday greeting from my sis takes the cake…i tell u with a sis like this, i’m set for life liaoz..

This is one photo that i like alot

here’s the slideshow of my photos