23th rise and X

what to follows in the few posts ahead will be all of sunrises
i shot both the sunrise of the 23th and the 28th and shall i say i was stunned man
these two days, the light was just awesome
and i loved what i shot !
and again too, sunrises were all i could afford to shoot man
pretty busy in the month to come
april, the month of studying :)















the past few sunrises, i've went all up with the 3 cameras i have in my possessions, the 400d, g9 as well as the iphone :D
recording my way up to my spot and during the rise itself, switching between them interchangeably














:D
awesomeness
just look at the colors in the sky !
wohoo














aight, in between these pics
i wanna talk about
X JAPAN !














yes, the greatest band ever existed !
they reunited !!!!!
yes yes yes

i.v. had been repetitively playing at the itunes and it's time to pump the x japan blood back man !














i had loved them from my secondary school years, when the music was full of all those heavy metals songs, children of bodem, metalica, arch enemy, slipknot and of course luna sea too, 2nd greatest jap band ever hmmm
brought back lots of memories man
sitting there
andrias and then henry on the other side of the long table
lol !














man i miss secondary school days !
oh yeah,
sorry man dri, didn't went to meet ya when u were here, some financial prob man, u know...
will catch up with u when i'm kl-ing in may aight














camho abit
lol














so yeah, despite the fact that Toshi's voice kinda sucked at the recent concert in Tokyo Dome, i still kinda am eagerly expecting their new album launch, well again despite again that Yoshiki said that it's still a 50-50 chance that they'll come out wif a new album but i certainly hope so coz the rest of the world would want so tooooo !!!

Yes, Yoshiki, I know u very busy guy, got S.K.I.N got Violet UK and many others, but please please please..release an album with X can ?














ok la, enough
i shall go prepare for school :)

Love +ve

firstly, i wanna thank you,
from the very bottom of me heart
i wanna thank those of you who've supported and voted for me right from the start, from the very beginning
my model who wish to remain anonymous, dad, mum and f who believed in me and the rest of you there who took your time to vote, tru the net or sms
really thanks man

but












nope nope nope
i didn't win :(
went to the event, reaching about 10 mins late, just in time for the announcement of the first prize winner, and there then they mentioned it

Koh Sze Kiat

my very own friend :D

congrats man

and then what follows were the voters' choice which again i didn't win d

Winning picture is



big congratz man bro !
glad that it's one of us that won :)


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on a much brighter happier note,
IT'S ON ITS WAY :D




woHOO !!!!
24" 2.8 ghz and will definitely upgrade it to 4gb of RAM
one of the fastest iMac d












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sharing two pics,
both snapped with homesick's 40d















i kinda need to find a nearby place to do my sunrises,
currently, i've got plenty, and i really mean LOTS of pictures of the same place, only different sunrise conditions
i want a change man
may be will explore more during one of these sleepless nights

VOTE ME

YES YES YES
so 2 of my pics got into the top 20 finalist of the Love +ve photo competition :)
damn happy can

anyway, these are the two














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this pic is number : 19

SO SO SO example sms like this d,

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send to 82569446







the other pic will be















same thing, just diff number nia

this picture is number : 5

so still the same

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thank you for your support much much a lot a lot big big plenty plenty :)
every vote u cast, even from the online voting thing is deeply a lot a lot plenty plenty APPRECIATED
thank you many many

rises and sets

aight
it's been quite a great day i believe, despite the damn stupid idiotic mistake i made just a few hours ago
which is, not checking my calendar, schedules and being extremely careful about my purchases
talk bout it later
anyway, been sometime since i post my G9's pictures, so here's them :D
a compilation of sunrises and sets as well as picture of the moon
today's post is specially dedicated to my lovely G9













17th March 2008

i believe this was the day that i mentioned that the say was damn blue
which means i've posted the 400d's versions






yeah, so this is the G9's version of that sunset
the sunset that day was beautiful, not amazing, as i've seen better sunsets before















nevertheless, the pictures i've shot kinda amazed me
i can't really remember that the actual sunset amazed me as much as the pictures though















oh yeah, i remember going to my spot earlier than i usually does, thus, after snapping a few pictures of the sun, i took a look at the other side of the apartment
and wow ! the moon was there !














my first time snapping the moon with a blue background d
and i stood there, right in the middle of the apartment, with the sun shining its light on one side and the moon on the other !
lol












21st March 2008

a picture of the moon on that day



not sure was it that day or the day before that the moon decided to make its full moon appearance












22th March 2008

this was the night that i first witness the most amazing color in the night sky, seriously, i've seen pink clouds, orange clouds, even a bit reddish skies at night. in addition, i've also laid on the wide spread grass in the middle of a forest in Malaysia back then and witness the skies of stars (one of the most memorable day in my life) but i've never seen anything like this before man



as for now, my study table is directly facing the window thus, the skies and the apartment opposite are my views during my distracting mins from the notes and was i glad i was distracted that night
i took a better peek and to my amazement, there was actually an opening in the clouds and there shone the light of which reminds me of sunsets
being in the east direction and at 9 p.m. it was simply impossible that there'll be any light from the sun left, i quickly went to grab the G9 and zoomed in for a closer look
it was the MOON !
i wanted to immediately went off to my usual spot for a better chio-er view of the scene but once i've packed the bag which was like less than 5 mins, the sky turned black when i took a last peek before i left

mins later



explain that to me man












23th March 2008

the morning rise was quite beautiful, that day, i've decided to give homesick's 40d's on trial for a sunrise using the methods i usually does for sunrises and sets, of which u'll see the 40d's version tomorrow :D

this was the G9's then



i've forgotten to apply the built-in ND filter for the G9 thus the burnt out sun
it was at its fastest speed then :/ 1/2500 at f/8












27th March 2008

of course the most recent of all
the rise of yesterday
peeked the sky again as i was jolting down notes for the project meeting later on in the day and was shocked that it was already morning !
i grabbed the G9 again and snapped, didn't went up to my spot though
just a shot from the G9



the sun hadn't rise then, damn should i have gone up !
another peek showed me the sun tearing the clouds away as it rises above
nevertheless, just recently, i've went to another location during the same sunrise hours and grabbed some pretty cool stuff too d :)












last thing to share today:



make urself free :)

kelly 02

aight, where did i left off ?
let me go check first d

ok, until the host right
actually i got a few more shots of the host, but she's not the limelight here
it's kelly















OT a bit, i was talking to dad again this morning, and things seems pretty good now towards the new religion (mac)
then, i wanted macbook + 23" cinema displays badly
but somehow, dad got his friend to call me, only to find out later that he's the GM of apple in singapore XO
omg can, i feel so damn honored
this boi, herbert wanna buy some apple laptop only, until GM also haf to call
the moment i knew that, my balls grew 4 times its size, serious.
nevertheless, sometimes my dad can kinda anyhow hantam one, so anyone knows apple GM singapore name ?
if he's Mr. Lim then yes, i was speaking to that ah lim dood d

anyway, we discussed my usage, etc etc
and he recommended that the macbook pro would be so much better, for its better graphic card
of course
but then i was thinking again
if, i'd have to go for the mbp, i might as well just go after the iMac man
and so he said "why not ?"
after the following few mins of more poisons
i decided that my new mac will be of the iMac
the spec ?
later lah, when its at my hand XD














anyway, Kelly came a while only
and sang a bit, some wo pei wo pei wo pei song which she duet with leon lai, which got me a bit addicted to that song after the whole thing coz during the entire waiting and event itself, that was the only song that's been playing along
unlike the S.H.E one the other time where they repititively replay the entire album, album not 1 song
this one 1 song, got me
"wo pei wo pei wo pei"
dunno wo pei or wo bei or whatever, but if u have that soundtrack, send me please
lOL














and i shall say
her voice was amazing live !
really, honestly, seriously, sumpah d !














and it's even more awesome to know later on that she was actually not really well, kinda sick i believe
after the song she was like, coughing coughing non-stop and well they were all speaking some mandarin so when she come into some cheem words, i could only guess
but then again, her accent and vocab she used, kinda not as cheem as i thought it'd be
or is it me cheena getting better eh ?
LOL














she went up the stage
talk talk a bit, talk about the storyline a bit, talk about the injury leon and donnie suffered a bit, and herself also, sang a bit, then sign a bit of autograph also
there was kinda quite a lot of people lining up for the augh, i think got bout 50+ but then she say she'll be only be signing the first 30 which got people really pissed and i overhead some ns man beside me in the queue (i stood right beside the queue) saying "complain la wah rao..want complain or not ?" and bla bla bla
nevertheless, i think the whole event wasn't really protected as tight as the S.H.E one though
dunno, just got this feeling

ok la enough rantings
i shall go back to continue visualizing that i'm already typing on my massive 24" iMac
have a happy day guys
and thanks for reading XD

kelly 01

4 days ago, i had my very first presentation for the degree course
although my group's slideshow was rather...not...pwetty or what
something i've never do
presenting my project using only powerpoint
i remember my first presentation at SIM,
must have been the one about London Eye,
i used a powerpoint, but it was image intensive
the following presentations i went more adventurous and started using flash
recording voices and had the flash do the talking instead
which, then, was warmly accepted by the class, well, at least i believe everyone had a good laugh then

this presentation however, was it not only the first time i had a presentation with no pictures at all, it was also the first time i was so this unprepared
nevertheless, i guess we did well overall

immediately, after i finished my presentation
quickly, st and i left for my place, had lunch first and then me home
packed the camera, and attached the lens to the EOS 40d homesick borrowed me and thanks a lot for that
snapped quite a few amazing pics with ur camera man
including the sunrise that's to follow after this series, lol, and not forgetting my new header itself was snapped off with his 40d
really do appreciate your trust in me for your baby camera
lol
thanks bro

aight, then we headed off to plaza sing and waited















from what i saw at a forum, Kelly Chen Huilin, Leon Lai and Donnie Yen were all supposed to come for the short promo event of their new movie, an Empress and The Warriors
however, when we're there, all i could heard them mentioning was Chen Huilin Chen Huilin Chen Huilin
why tak mention Li Ming one ?
then i noticed down there, eh it's not Donnie Yen that's coming can, it's Guo Xiao Dong which i don't even know how he look like but his name sounds familiar














aight, so Donnie ain't coming
i reached at around 6 and Kelly was supposed to come at 6.30
i was kinda lucky to have found quite a rather good spot














this ah pek must be some hardcore fan man lol














well, what's there to do while waiting and u haf a camera at ur hand ?














he was flashed !
lOL
i was testing my flash etc, skali a bit overpowered d












and then the host come



forgot her name also d

low low quality pics

aight, i wanna rant some more d
there's a lot of changes that i have to go through
as in seriously
but somehow the discipline part is kinda tough
nevertheless, i gotta do it. well for the better of me myself too

i really really really really really want to live a life like a normal person
why would i say so ?
it's not that my life ain't normal right now
but yes, i think they aren't
my sleeping problem is seriously hurting me inside out
waking up at 3pm doesn't feel great at all
once, i forced myself to wake up pretty early, if i'm not wrong at around 6 a.m. the other time after an early sleep and i feel damn great the whole day
i feel fresh
and i want that feeling everyday man
and this is what i really gonna do man
sleep early, wake up early and live normally
after today, i really feel that's it
i woke up like at 4pm just now and felt asleep again at around 9 only to wake up again at 2am
and this feeling ain't nice
i had my meal and now i'm typing this

okay d, enough rant
presenting to you the first series of pictures from my iPhone















i don't really snap pics with my fone, that's why u've never seen me posting any pictures from my phone before
nevertheless, i'm kinda getting the hang of it thou
may be part of it is because of the great way i can view my pics at the phone which really makes me, at times, wanna snap more














however, being just a simple 2mp camera phone with a constant aperture of f/2.8, quality-wise it's really really depressing
i can't even edit a lot, i can't burn, i can't dodge, i can't really adjust the levels or needless to say the curves














thus, what u see here is pretty much straight outta the phone, coz whatever changes i do to it in photoshop will only bring out more noise
and, i'm not those that appreciate noise a lot, especially digital noise, and especially noise from a camera phone which in my dictionary, is totally unacceptable
and that is the number 1 reason why i don't really snap with my fones a lot
the thing is, that's about to change i guess, now that i've even make a special frame for pics from my iPhone
guess i'm just gonna snap more wif the fone d, and try to appreciate camera noise














this series of pics were snapped on the same day as the previous post, on the 17th as well
i was simply snapping along my way to my snapping spot at what i call the-level-22














i brought the phone up for a test, and man, the quality disappoint me a lot but regardless, this is a camera phone ! (excuse lol)














the color tones were so really off !














okay d, i think i gotta begin studying d

sky so blruuu !

new header !
new tagboard too !
coz i was trying to change some setting stuff at cbox and i realized i forgot my username !
so might as well create a new one :D
so, help me fill them up again ah =x
haha







alright, guess this is it
gotta stay more organized from now on
i do really have to
for one, my pictures are all over my hard disks (i'm running on some 500 gb at two separate external hard disk, 250 gb each) and it's just really hard to find a single pic that i wanna see / edit
i've also decided to create a new account for my photobucket, again for the same reason
gotta start tagging my pictures and finding a new software to really organize my pics for easier finding man, any recommendation ?
lightroom is great, but it's way too slow for my this laptop to take
and still, i can't wait to convert to mac :D
another thing that's gonna change is may be, again, i shall really just blog, ya know, type. instead of just pasting links from my photobucket
thus, i really will do if i have the time aight !
like right now :D
















sky so bluee !!
this is my current desktop wallpaper man
and the same theme also lies as the wallpaper of my iPhone














before i go any further,
let me just rant on some stuff aight
it's in the middle of the night right now, and i'm at photobucket, and what's with its advertisement man
the other time was the movie "the eye" which i watched, and now "shutter" and no, i ain't gonna watch this ever, seriously
one thing i always say is "i don't pay to get myself scared man, i pay to get myself entertained and being scared or shocked ain't entertaining for me" and another point is that the story of shutter lies behind a photographer kana chased down my some hantu or what i dunno
thinking bout it kinda give me the....my god














shot this series of pics back on the 17th march when the sky was really really damn blue !
i haven't really process these pics yet and so is the series on the leaf and drops
but i suppose these are the best few i've glance tru-ed
i'm pretty sure i can share the rest later on, when i'm up on the super busy mode again and literally have no time to shoot ! lol



























this is the other side of the sunset
looking at this pic, reminds me of....
there's suppose to be a picture of the moon !
yeah, up there among the blue blue sky even before darkness falls
can see the moon already and that evening i brought my G9 up for the moon
share later, got a few moons to share anyway
like the one tonite
damn big can !
tonite's night sky is one of the brightest i've seen, can literally see its blueness still !














aight
guess this is a pretty long entry

ps. i know i'm a day late d



u got my wishes :P

i miss you terribly too, f