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Happy Meal Happy Friday!

Ham & Egg Pita Bread. Yumsss!!

Ohai! It's Friday!

LOVE toying around with the fisheye camera.. ♥

Miss You.

Alfie and Grumpy - June 2011.

Twilight

Sick Food

Raw fish porridge at Hon Kee Porridge Restaurant, Damansara Uptown

My sick food is always porridge. Easy to swallow and no need to chew. Hehe. Actually I love eating porridge. I'll never get sick of porridge..

There's a virus spreading in my office. Everyone's getting sick. Flu, cough, sore throat and/or fever. And I'm down with fu and cough, spreaded by my neighbour, Aishah... poor girl lost her voice for a few days and she sounds like a duck now (she say one ah.. not me.. I quote her only..)

This weekend will be a busy one. 2 family weddings to attend. Hmm. I need a short getaway after my workload is lesser by end of October.. Meantime, I guess I'll just have to suck it up.

Another weekend again....

Just last week, I was in Paris *cough* 

Shenzen la....

Time flies.

30DPC : Day 22

30DPC Day 22 - "A photo of my town"

July 2011.

View from my gym on a typical rainy Friday night.

30DPC : Day 8

30DPC Day 8 - "A photo of my favorite band/musician"


No secret that Hanson is My FAVORITEST band since I ws 11yo. Yes, they're STILL my fav. ♥

 


30DPC : Day 1

I'm on a 30 Days Photo Challenge (30DPC)    =D

Let's start with Day 1 - "My Facebook profile photo".

 

alone she walked.

Energy

Perfect start for the day

Current Favorite!

Mango Shaved Ice

Nah! Big-faced photo of me in case you forgot how I look like. Bleh.

Itadakimasu!!!!

Crossing Out The Checklist

I know I’ve been saying this a lot. But there is a list of things that I need to do/complete.

So called “resolution” that was made early this year on top of some regular items on my usual checklist. Haha.

I think I failed terribly.

Haha.

Except maybe the “going to gym regularly” part...Oh..and the "going to Jap class regularly" part also lah…. But exam is next week and I have not been revising. *shrug* last minute is my middle name.

A pile of new books STILL in the boxes, unwrapped, untouched, unread. note to self: buy wrapper. no wonder my brain is not progressing lately. Aih. Lack of knowledge juice. Boo!

The “go home more often” part was actually a major fail lah… I admit. BUT!!! At least I got spend time with daddy also mah… right? Right? Okay… I need to stop finding excuses. But I don’t want to be independent wor. Ok ok. Be brave. Vince was right. I need to really get out of my comfort zone and brave myself for a war. If not, I’ll be forever like this. Time to set a goal and try to achieve it. Only then he can stop saying that I have 小女人 attitude problem. Yea.. I admit sometimes I’m too desperate to be a 小女人 that I forget everything else. (Aiyah.. nobody will understand this lah…. Just let me rant ok?)

Quitting cigarette is also another issue that’s been ongoing for few years. And lately, I realized that in order to speed up the quitting part, I have to sacrifice my coffee. SACRIFYING MY COFFEE is a MAJOR NO! Boo! :( I need to think of another solution. Hmm.

I’ve always mentioned that I need to be more focused.

But the more I wanted to focus, the more I go astray.

Something just gotta happen and make me lose my mind.

Something just have to happen.

Maybe my focus ring spoiled already.

Pfft.

Guess What?

i posted a stupid photo on facebook and i got 163 comments within few minutes (partly due to spam from friends anyway.. ) haha! here's a part of the super bohliao comments.

before you look at those silly comments (and the answer), would you be able to guess what it is?

*click on photo to view original size*

Are You Really You?

Today, I’ve learned that in order to be happy, the first thing you need to do is be yourself.


We’re living in a world full of mysteries.

Full of lies.

Full of redundancies.

Full of controversies.

Full of hypocrites.

No matter what you do or how you do it, there will be people criticizing. There will be people who disagree.

Many times, we tend to sway from our own direction. We end up trying to please everyone by doing what deemed “right”.

We end up flocking with the “majority” just because we don’t want to be a cast-out.

We end up being one of them.

No self judgment.

No self confidence.

No sense of belonging.

No independence.

Because we rely too much on what others think of us.

Because we’re too mindful of how others see us.

We’re pressured to blend in.

We tend to forget who we are. We lose ourselves. We lose our identity.

We lose our happiness trying to make others happy.

So, before it starts killing you, get out of the stereotypical perspective.

Find your soul. Be yourself the way you are. Not the way others want you to.

What I See Everyday

Exploring the Dramatic Tone art filter.

Whole New Perspective

I gathered some courage to attend the Olympus ES & PEN Comprehensive Workshop that was held yesterday night at the Olympus office at 1Mont Kiara tower. The class was conducted by David Chua and it's a small group of 15 of us (I think). The reason why I signed up for the workshop is because I wanted to learn more about the functions of Olympus PEN E-PL2 that I’ve got. Cos since I got the camera 3 months ago, I’ve been using the iAuto and Art Filters function most of the time and it’s kinda frustrating that sometimes, I cannot achieve the effect that I want. Super frustrated that when I know very well that the camera does wonders and it’s such a perfect camera (at least for me) and I cannot even fully utilise it. I actually also wanted to prove to friends who doesn’t understand why I chose the PEN instead of some DSLR, that I’ve not chosen the wrong camera for myself.

I've learned some basic stuff about photography before from friends who are avid photographers (like Uncle Mun and Jazzmond), so yesterday's workshop was more like a recap to me and I definitely learned a lot about the functionality of the camera. Though I understand the theory (not fully yet), but to successfully implement it, is another story altogether. Not forgetting to mention that the lack of creativity and art sense in me makes it more difficult for me. So before I jumped into investing more money on lenses that I’ll end up not using, I’ll try to make full use of what I’ve got now. I’m taking David’s advise to challenge myself to make 12 print worthy to be hang on the wall (with my kit lens) before I get another lens. So he is my critic sifu now. HAHA! Of course, I hope that more people will be criticising my experiments so that I can improve faster.

After yesterday’s workshop, I noticed that I started to feel differently about photography. I really enjoyed the workshop ad will definitely put more effort into photography now. With encouragements from David, I started a Flickr account to post up some of my experiments shots. And I believe that I’ll learn a lot from there. I’ll also be posting up more of my experiments on my abandoned Tumblr account, which will be more like a photoblog from now.

Here are some shots that I took for the assignment yesterday. We need to submit one photo and everyone can critic it. I kinda cheated and submitted a black&white photo :P (what.. it was night time and and nothing much to shoot also at that place ma..)

this was the shot that I submitted.

additional experiments...

failed panning attempt. *frust*

candid shot. i kinda like this. but the feel is just not there.



Lost or Waiting?

Lost, a photo by thedroplet on Flickr.

Messed EQ

I don’t know.. but it really irks me when people tend to contradict themselves. I am, sometimes, contradicting myself too, but then at least I listen to other suggestions and see what are the next best steps to take. But no.. certain people just like to complain to you and when you give a few possibly great suggestions, they SURELY have negative things to say about it and in the end, whatever suggestions you made are just a bunch of rubbish that got thrown outside the window without being considered at all.


Wtf right? Ergh.

And then, there are those people who reject whatever ideas you have whenever possible cos they think your ideas are rubbish and their ideas are the best. Or, even worse, whatever decisions you made are deemed stupid to them and they just gotta stab you right in your heart by saying negative things. Sigh. Sometimes, telling people things/stories/problems/etc, doesn’t mean that I want your agreement. I just want your moral support. If you don’t have anything nice to say, just don’t make me feel bad by adding salt to my wounds lah right? At least wait until my mood gets better before you start telling me how great your life is and how terrible my situation was.

Aih.. I don’t know lah..

Anyway, I gotta start thinking for myself. It gets really tiring for being the tough one and in the end, I neglect myself. Over the weekend, I kinda broke down. It just came to a point where everything seems not right. EVERYTHING. And it’s really scary at one point.

Sometimes, it’s sad knowing that even the person who sleeps next to me for 5 years might not really know what’s in my mind. Am I giving the wrong impression all this while or it’s just how he sees things? I’m afraid of a lot of things, yes. I do like to dream about a lot of possibilities that could happen to me, yet I’m not showing any good initiative that I’m up for the challenge. Deep down inside, I’m just scared. At one point, I just felt that I couldn’t hold on to it anymore. Everything suddenly turned pitch black and there I was… lost and scared. And in case anyone wondered, no, I’m not talking about relationship problems. I’m talking about my problems.

But everything has a solution. Most powerful solution is tears. Shed some of it and immediately, you’ll see a light *tink*. Then everything seems to be a little clearer. Of course, with some rational advice from your partner who thinks that you went nuts a few minutes ago and with some pinching on your cheeks which leads you back to reality. And then, suddenly, you’ll feel that the person who sleeps next to you for 5 years now, actually might just be the best person you should turn to even though he might appeared to be an asshole for not showing that he cared. Suddenly, he turned out to be the person who kinda understands you the most.

I guess this monthly bleeding thingy really messed up my EQ this time around.

Pfft.