Kel's now on Flickr! Link to Kel's Photostream

Yay! Just bought my first ever big bicycle pump! Now I can pump my GT's tires to my usual 75psi without having to make a mandatory trip to the Shell pump near my home at the start of every ride! Yay!

Haven't blogged in a while...
Quite tired with the constant report & proposal writing at work, trying hard to sell my ideas during the project lull period, while I wait for my hardware to come back online, and then I have to start clearing all the bad debts accumulated during the last 5 weeks of system downtime...

I do look forward to going out to take photos on the weekends though... the recent weather hasn't been good for biking. Just as well, it's also nice to go out, soak in the chill and peace of the early morning jungle. Especially after every 5 shitty days...


MacRitchie is my newest jungle home. The recent weather also made many fungi subjects for me to try out!


Looks good enough to eat!


"R-21"... Fly mating in progress!


Fat spider, with tiny tiny eyes...


My favourite subjects are these jumping spiders. I love how their soulful eyes can be! Although it's a big big challenge to snap pictures when they're always busy hopping about!

I feel like crap. I feel like I'm a piece of crap. Useless piece of rubbish.

Didn't feel like biking on last Saturday morning... still feeling sore after doing my first jog since Chinese New Year. But I woke up damn early, and didn't want to waste the beautiful morning. So I packed up my camera gear, and took the bus to MacRitchie Reservoir. It's been years since I hiked there; the last time I was there, the multi-storey carpark outside wasn't built yet! Really tiring hike though... a total of 10+km, with my camera, a few lenses, tripod, water and food on my back, under the mid-day sun, plus once-in-awhile dashing off into the bushes after some creature... it's really like some army mission! My legs were really lembek (soft) at the end of it man! But happy happy day!!


Really lucky to spot this sweet baby Wagler's Pit Viper. If not for my growling stomach, I wouldn't have stopped at a shelter to have my snack, and noticed this sweetie on a branch behind the shelter. She's a real sweet snake. She's really deadly toxic, but she allowed me to get so near and practically rub her nose with my lens! And she laid perfectly still for me to get all my shots, even though my flash was just millimetres away from her! Only when I got really bold and poked her with my finger did she really looked pissed. Really beautiful snake. My first viper encounter in the wild! Yay! I love snakes!


Pissed after I "molested" her by stroking her tail... =p


A hoverfly was bugging me when I was having my sweet date sitting next to the snake. So I just aimed at it and fired two shots. But goodness me... look at its mesmerising eyes!


Got lucky when I flipped over some leaves and found a family of caterpillars sleeping under them. I found them so cute to be nicely "parked" in their individual "lots"! And then, I saw this pair of siblings, away from the rest, probably sleepless and having a nice heart-to-heart chat...


This jumping spider was also so sweet. She did not run away as I was shooting at her, even though my flash was directed straight at her! Instead, she turned to me and flashed her big shiny eyes. Really cute! Next time maybe I'll concentrate on spiders!

Was wrapping up my "home-made" corrosion test for my work project. This is the face of a badly-corroded piece of aluminium alloy just 10 days into my test. Putting my macro lens to good use =)