Fireworks Show 2008~

Went to watch fireworks with the firework kaki gang cum FD gang... many thanks to Mas (sheltering from the rain under his 7-11 brollie~) who sponsored me his old Minolta camera that devours AA batteries for fun with every click of its shutter... hmmm still I'll be ponying up for my own compact digicam that I can bring along for my bike rides and outings, and one that won't be as hungry for batteries~ =p

Golden Shower for good luck~! Helps that it also sounded like firecrackers too~!

Playing around with the camera settings during the whole fireworks show, these are some of the more usable pictures... however not as busy as Mas who had to answer a certain phonecall from a certain "Mr. Emo-boy" halfway through the show~ =p



Some droplets of rain on the lens =(

Grey-ness~

Caught in the rain on my Sunday afternoon trail ride... with little "rivers" streaming down the trail~ Pictures taken with the new Nokia 6500 phone that my dad brought home, swopped with my SE K770i "Cybershot" which has stinky camera and video qualities... The pics are still somewhat greyish and dull in general, but they do come out much sharper than the K770i, even though both are 3.2Mp cams. Nokia's autofocus, autoflash and shutter speed is also much better. Nokia's user interface stinks as compared to SE's, but I like the stronger vibration motor, louder ringtone speaker, and of course the much better camera and video recorder, if only the camera has a built-in cover~

Found a pair of metal tire valve caps while pumping at the Shell petrol station, one gold and one red, probably lost by some absent-minded motorcyclist... Washed them and put them onto my bike for some added Mat-Rempit racer bling-bling coolness haha!

Sam and Poh Tin treated us student helpers to farewell lunch at Swenson's today, really appreciated it. I really don't think that we have done much to warrant such a big treat, but they were really nice people, especially Sam, which was a big reason why I chose to do my FYP in his lab. I hate "farewell"-themed events of any kind, kind of depressing everytime without fail~

NDP Parade

Went to watch the NDP parade air-show and fireworks with my mum, her first time watching the NDP live. It was sunny when we left home for Marina, but it were these dark rain clouds, and a slight persistent drizzle that greeted us over there... Had to respect those parachuters who did their show amid rain and strong winds~

The strong winds and dark clouds in the sky made the air-show a little less beautiful as compared to the rehearsal last week, especially that the heart-shaped smoke didn't come out that nicely at all, and the winds blew it apart within seconds, the dimming natural light also didn't help at all...~



A faint rainbow appeared towards the end of the air-show... Sign of good luck to come?

First blast of fireworks, the crowd was starting to getting to get worse and worse, especially around this poor family in front of us who brought laptops to watch the NDP live over Wifi, and found themselves jammed-packed surrounded by foreign workers, smoking and talking loudly (mainly the China ones) watching the show with them~

Then the smoke came... The strong winds spoiled the air-show earlier, and ironically, the lack of winds spoiled the fireworks show later in the evening... Mother Nature still rules~



After Shine Singapore, it was the Haze Singapore... hahaha~!!

I got my free Creative Ep-630 in-ear earphones from Sim Lim Square, after signing up for the Wireless@Sg promo last month... finally I can listen to my Mp3s without having to leave that ugly "hairband" impression on my hair as I'll get when using my Sennheiser headphones. Sound quality wise, I find that the Creative earphones were pretty good, perhaps because so much of ambient noise is filtered out. I also found that I would have to turn off the EQ and any Bass Boost features in my MP3 player because it would result in the best and clearest sound quality. It's definitely much better than the Sony in-ear earpieces that came with my old W800i. But for the guitar and piano sounds, I still feel that my Sennheisers have a slightly fuller, warmer and more natural sounding effect. I'd still use my Sennheisers at home, where I don't care about my hair~

Commuted to school today by bicycle for the first time, after being frustrated by endless jams and delays and waiting and squeezing on MRTs and buses for the past few mornings. I left home as usual, and still managed to reach school almost 30 minutes earlier than by public transport! I'm still early after taking time off to change shoes, dry myself, change my shirt and keeping my stuff in my cabinet drawer... Only trouble being the weather, when it drizzled slightly on the home-bound journey, and some rude and inconsiderate drivers hungering for some after-work on-road entertainment via some of my "non-verbal communication skills"...~

NDP last full-rehearsal~

Cycled to watch the NDP full dress rehearsal at Marina on my own, because my poor FD kakis were all either stuck at work, or having exams, or busy with some other stuff... Watched with a couple of people who were there alone too, so it wasn't quite so bad... Got to see the stuff that I'd missed 2 weeks ago due to an untimely toilet break, like the Red Lions paratroopers, and the National flag / Chinook / Apache fly-by, and the first of the F16 fly-by... Not easy to take pictures with my handphone camera because the lag between pressing the shutter button and the actual picture being taken, and the lag after taking each picture due to saving the picture to the memory card... have to aim off in front of the fast-flying planes just to make sure that they'll appear in the middle of each picture... much like what I'd learnt in army when shooting aircraft using my M-16 rifles and GPMG haha... quite frustrating~







Mas, I have my own 9-11 picture now too lol~!

Smiley eyes...?

No... It's a big heart~

Signing off with a five-pronged "hand" to wave bye bye... should have taken this picture in Potrait instead of Landscape...~

Fireworks~

Full of erm... L... Lo... Love...~

Now playing on my blog is Fish's new song! Title's 满满的都是爱, cutesey warm sunny song, new album should be here very soon, already can hear the baby crying in the delivery room, now just waiting for the "missy" nurse to carry her out haha! Haiz... Mas just reminded me that Fish's album promo might clash with my exams/school/classes/quizes, as always in the past 3 years haha... Evil guy this Mas, power on Hamilton at this weekend's Turkish Grand Prix! Give Kimi and Massa smoke and dust to go with their Turkish flatbread dinner lol~!

3 more days to the start of the new school term, my second to last term if all goes well and everybody gets thrown into the dark pits to be fed to the crocodiles...

Before the mayhem begins, I will be going down to watch the NDP rehearsal tomorrow... I just love to watch fireworks and aeroplanes hahas! Anytime! But tomorrow's attendence might be poor due to work/study commitments... Will be extra careful not to cough my lungs out and splatter them all over the Black Knight's F16s tomorrow lol~ =p