Just got a new pc and 22inch lcd screen recently. Dad paid for them and re-exported the old set to my grandma’s place in penang.

Huge casing


the good thing about running a macbook pro is that u can do a dual display, the 22″ forms the top part of the larger screen.. i just have to move my mouse upwards to move into the top screen where i work on my photos…ok messy table i noe…


Did i mention my new mouse, Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse..heh.. bluetooth baby! it’s a pure laser mouse, as opposed to the red beam LED mice which are inaccurate on some surfaces like glass.. my mouse now works from 10m away and on any surfaces, including my head


Anyway my parents got a fengshui master to our place, who said that our living room orientation is wrong..must literally flip ard..so its a mess @ home now..with painting, new furniture etc.
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Ppl have been working hard…until they have to rest in weird orientations relative to each other


The best thing that the fengshui master said is that my sis and me would bring fortune to the family, and that i would get a gf soon who would also bring wealth to the family.. Cues in fortune cat action…

1st yr associates from Drew & Napier LLC

Work until stressed liaoz…hah!

It’s good to have someone in the professional sporting world with a sense of humour.

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Students were told of a new rule that no food n drinks are allowed in the School of Computing, and to use a pantry. But see what greeted them at the pantry



This is so bruce lee movie lah, the one with the sign that says “No Chinese and Dogs allowed”.  Somehow i think this summarises how aNUS regards undergraduates

Something to make you throw up your lunch with…

Got this series of photos back in june in Jaipur City, Rajasthan, India. Basically I was hiding in my room at nite, trying to escape the 40+°C heat outside. At 11 plus pm, there was suddenly a lot of music being played on the street outside the hotel. A wedding procession was taking place, at midnight! So i quickly cheong down in my running shorts n singlets with my 50mm lens and flash unit on the camera..

1 of the band members

Supposedly the little star of the wedding, i guess he serves the same purpose as door opener in our chinese weddings…they were sitting on a horse btw

No horse for this kids, only horse cart

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One of the shots @ TnF finals, CCK Stadium

Still thinking of a nice name to use for my photography, thought that “JK Light Capture” is nice…what do u folks think?

Added a 300-ish preset using Adobe Lightroom on this next shot..

Upped the contrast, saturated reds and yellows

All the crazy internet videos, combined into a 12min video.. Take ur time to watch, i watched 3 mins @ 1 go… Note, lots of painful falls…Not for the fainthearted

Presenting one of the new 7th Wonders of the World, thru my viewfinder…



Shot with Canon EOS 30D at 2007-07-09


Shot with Canon EOS 30D at 2007-07-09


Shot with Canon EOS 30D at 2007-07-09


Shot with Canon EOS 30D at 2007-07-09

..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

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

“Lu kua simi, Nanchiau?”

This is one photo that i like alot

here’s the slideshow of my photos

Big electrical appliances boxes are always a great source of fun for me n my sister when we were younger.  Guess that we have not lost our touch…





Sadako has degraded herself from crawling out of a TV to crawling out from a TV box

Damn cute lah this error msg..heh

I’m amazed by his creativity, this Muar chap… rap siah!

PS: Kantangs can pass on this ok

I was surprised that I could wake up on my own (w/o alarm) at 7am the next morning. Put it that way, I was so tired that i din even bother crawling under the blanket and ended up sleeping on top. The hostel costs included daily breakfast at a small restaurant next door, which supposedly serves italian food. I was going there to have american breakfast. The deco included figurines like this: Go figure…

The day’s itinerary surrounded exploring the Wat (temples) along the banks of the Chao Praya river.  It was surprisingly chilly when i stepped out and walked to the nearby Skytrain station, Asok.

Took the skytrain to Saphan Taksin Station where the Chao Praya Express river boat stops at Sathon (aka Central) Pier.  A ride on the boat costs 13baht from Sathon to Tha Chang, where the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha) is.  It becomes apparent on how impt the river is to Bangkok when I saw that much of the activities and administration used to be centred along the river.  Top hotels have their own piers and boats to ferry their tourists, and ppl live along the river by building their houses alongside. (more…)

Ok this is a bit delayed, but heck, i have 15 days to do it mah..
Was trying something with my camera mounted on a tripod, turned out to be quite successful and me and my sis had a great time doing all these:



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I thought I would post up the match photos first. The touristy photos those can come abit later. Anyway i wrote this on ClubSnap forums, so basically just transplanted over

Was one of the 100 odd fans who made their way down, though i travelled on my own. With the bitter result from the 1st leg, this match promised fireworks. Sadly i only have my 17-85 f/4-5.6 and my 50mm f/1.8. So, alot of cropping for the action shots, not to mention the blurred motion. The stadium was located within a stone throw’s distance from MBK.

Walking towards the stadium

How come nobody sell singapore flag? heh (more…)

I can never spin my pen ard my fingers, but this folks are pure madness!

…who went to put this pic on Singapore Seen, and said that the rider was inconsiderate to occupy 2 lots..



FYI, the rider has to pay for 2 lots when buying season parking.  how u want him park 1 lot?

Common sense will be the hottest commodity in years to come, it’s becoming rare to come across it these days already

And so last Friday was the day when I started perhaps the craziest trip that I’ve done in the past 2 yrs: Fly to Bangkok to watch the 2nd leg final of the Asean Football Championship between Singapore and Thailand, on my own.

Another first is flying out from the Budget Terminal for the 1st time, and the 1st cockup of the trip.  I rode over to T2 and thought, hey BT should be close enough.  No point talking across whole of Carpark C back into T2 to take the free shuttle.  Just walk over lor, how long can it take.

Not long, only 20 minutes.  Not alot of things to carry, just my backpack, a small daypack, a camera bag and a tripod.

Smart right?

I didn’t expect much from BT, but I guessed it was pretty fine.  Imagine a giant warehouse, with a/c.  Warehouse i kid you not.

DFS Shops, dun worry, BT also can buy liquor

What I liked were the cheery colours and the various small makan outlets in the Departure Lounge.


So everyone mulls around the area until the gate opens, and surges there, cos 1st come 1st served seating.  The plane wasn’t full and the cabin crew claimed that they have to distribute weight, so it’s sorta of assigned seating.  I convinced them that with my long legs, I should sit at the emergency door row.  What more with my weight, it’s better i sit near the mid-section of the plane, then can balance mah

2 hour flight and I was greeted by this huge ass airport in Bangkok.  Really really huge, probably the size of T1 and T2 combined, with the immigration area as big as either T1 or T2 alone.


So that led to damn long Qs at immigration, which I thought i was very used to, with all my JB experience.  But 30 mins, this takes the cake!  World class airport to challenge Changi? erm…

You’re supposed to check the LCD screen to find out which belt to collect your luggage from.  Mysteriously Tiger Airways TR118 is not on the screen.  So i walked ard for 20 mins, in the equally big luggage area trying to find my bag.  And i found it lying on the floor next to the luggage belt.  Thanks yea.

The cab ride into the city was pretty smooth, with the driver hitting 130km/h pretty often.  No problem with that for me, 30 minutes to get to Sukhumvit Soi 25 where my hostel is.  A quick check-in and I was ready to hit the streets.  Went over to the Silom area, where the Suan Lam Night Market is. 

Esplanade as well, but i think more mainstream than our durians.  Theirs look more like erm..pomelo..

The main difference between Singaporean and Thai culture became clear outside Silom MRT Station.

Do this in Singapore, be prepared for holiday, at Changi Hotel.

I settled for a bottle of beer and garlic stir-fried sliced pork with rice..Beer Chang!


A lot of small shops selling craft, clothes and home deco.  I wasn’t coming to shop, so i settled for 3 beer t-shirts.  The kind that you always see my Taiwan buddy wear one..haha!

Part 2 of makan over @ a nearby outdoor food court.  You buy coupons from a main counter and the food stalls only accept those coupons.  Tried the papaya with pork salad and fried sea mussels but wasn’t pretty impressed.

Decided to go back to the hostel just after midnight, and the taxis there are the same as Singapore.  They don’t hide before 12am, but after 12am, all the fare meters mysteriously spoil and they quote u ridiculous prices.  The tuktuk drivers are the same as the taxi drivers, except they do it whole day.  So being the cheapo, i paid 50baht for a motorcycle taxi.  1 word, shiok!

Went for a walk in the red light district near my hostel.  Don’t worry, i’m still pure after the walk.

Serious!

Before the rest of the photos come here, let’s post the key photo one.. i didn’t meet the players at Changi T2, because i landed ard same time @ budget terminal and because i’ve already met them @ bangkok airport.. n took photo liaoz.. check this out


We are the Champions!

Eat your hearts out folks

Basically, they got extras to pretend to be a mob and storm the poor fellow..

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Winner liaoz lor..haha!

Way cool lah, someone pls lemme try @ home..or we can go 7-eleven…heh..



Got the video and the following explanation from Popular Science Blog

Far be it from us to deride anyone’s childish fascination with blowing stuff up in a microwave—a foolhardy nerd rite of passage if ever there was one—and what better place to exhibit dangerous, potentially expensive shenanigans than YouTube? The experiment is simple. Take a seedless grape and slice it lengthwise, making sure (this part is important) not to cut all the way through, so you leave a little bit of skin connecting the two halves. Put it face-up in a microwave, and blam: fireworks!

So what the heck is going on in there? Grapes are chock-full of electrolyte, an ion-rich liquid (a.k.a. “grape juice”) that conducts electricity. Each grape-half serves as a reservoir of electrolyte, connected together by a thin, weakly conducting path (the skin). Microwaves cause the stray ions in the grape to travel back and forth very quickly between the two halves. As they do this, the current dumps excess energy into the skin bridge, which heats up to a high temperature and eventually bursts into flame. At this point, the traveling electrons arc through the flame and across the gap, ionizing the air to a plasma (which itself can conduct electricity) and creating the bright flashes you see.

And that notion about poisonous gas tainting your roommate’s Hot Pocket? Well, the guy’s talking about the ozone generated when the air inside the glass is ionized. “Poisonous” might be too a strong word in this scenario (a little ozone definitely won’t kill you), although high concentrations of ozone can oxidize lung tissue and have been known to cause asthma in urban inversion-bowls like L.A. and Mexico City.

Again, DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME. Microwave ovens + biological capacitors = bad news. —Martha Harbison.

Nothing much..just arranged alot of RISK figurines, played silly games and of cos set off pyrotechnics… Check out kee siu’s video…




UCC Rocks!

i remember watching this series of ads when i was in india, has the amazing effect that makes everyone goes “so sweeet….”

China never fails to amaze me, and that’s considering that i’ve never been there before. Kapo-ed this pic from one of my students’ blogs (yes i still read ur blogs from time to time), she was in china for table tennis training trip..dun worry, i censored off ur face

For those who can’t read chinese, translated as “Athletes who dun aim to be champions are not good athletes”

pengz

Was thinking of getting an iPod Nano but the fact that it has no radio turns me off..what more with all the DRM shit that bars u from transferring songs from iPod to pc.. sucks big time..

So for 23 bucks less, I bought the Sandisk Sansa e200 for $225..heh..

Plays mp4 video, can be photo viewer..acts as thumb drive… and micro SD expansion slot…sweetness…

The only gripe i have, buttons abit too small to press… who ask me have big finger…

piang eh..whoever did this is damn fierce..uploaded the entire dvd of NDP onto Youtube.. good for cheapos out there, usually includes me but not this time round.. I is totally notre dame-d!