the laptop is sent to the workshop for check ups. i am pretty sure the fan is failing and maybe the harddisk as well. uurgh, life is even more disoriented without my lappie. reminds me of a post from K that a taiwanese married herself to her laptop.

didn't really have much to say except that year 2011 is ending and there's a wedding to attend on the second day of 2012. a good start? maybe not. lately i have been contemplating to sell off the dslr camera. i don't feel excited bringing it out for field trips due to it's huge baggage. and mainly because i have not been practising with the manual settings to capture any decent pictures. relying on auto settings is not attractive when the camera weights a ton. and the more i realise the limitation of a starter kit lens and its built in flash, the more i am put off to actually use it. i could be so jaded sometimes i don't have a clue what i am doing.

so back to the present, i just revisited some long forgotten pictures i took while vacationing with fei and theen. if i remember correctly, it was only 3 months after i bought the dslr and i was excited to bring it to the beach. and it was also during this trip i realise what a big commitment it is to take care of the dslr during stormy boat rides and how much pain it is to play with manual settings against cloudy weather.

but what a surprise, the pictures turn out much better than i remembered them. they weren't bad at all. :P okay some weren't bad at all. :)



so new year resolution. keep the camera. and try to capture something with it. it sure didn't fail me. it is just I who quit on the camera. let's see how many moments i can capture with it next year. :)


hot chicks alert!!! baby mama on the left already lost her figure last month to squirt out a baby boy. mrs on the right will probably lose hers next year.


a wide DOF (depth of field) with fairly sharp focus throughout the landscape.


nice portrait shot with shallow DOF (in this case fairly sharp focus on the subject but a blurred background.)


don't try to reason why we do the things we do. :) this is a low exposure shot. could've easily turn up the brightness with photoshop but the pirated software crashed.