Locked Door

Imagine, if you are coming late to class and the lecture room is locked by the lecturer. Would you you allow it to happen for the second time?

I encountered this experience when i was late to ECC3101 Computer Programming laboratory in semester 1, 07/08. A 5 mins late, barred me from entering to the lab. I was so worry of the consequence, for attendance and task assigned during the lab were graded. The lab demonstrator ignored whatever explanation and that was the pricey lesson for me to pay.

However,

Today I am so grateful, because i am inside the room when the door is again locked.

by,
The return of Candle

Mission Accomplished

Today is my 21st birthday, i have had my celebration at The Curve after spending 90 minutes in a long queue to register as a legal voter at the POS office. The procedure is simple and fast, the only needed document is My-Card. I completed half of the responsibility of a citizen, whereby the another half is to cast the ballot during election.

Moving to 4th Week

The Globe is revolving fast, everyone is marching ahead, or some may passionately run. They are the person who are fast in every way. They adapt to the environment or climatical changes, not the latter adapt to them. But, how about those who are lagging behind? In fact, i am a lagger, struggling hard to explore the right moment to sprint, but when does it arrive?

Semester 4 is too heavy, 20 credits to cope with, only free on weekend. I have no rage to complain about, it is my decision to overload the credit hours. But how to maintain or keep the thing inside your pocket? I can not lock it with steel-chain, can i? I remember a saying that sounds as "You pay peanuts, you get monkey" which means what you pay is what you get. So, is it possible to have two spring season in a year?

One more thing to consider, will i be offerred to stay in college? There are too many questions, but i believe when the boat approaches to the port, the bridge is straight.

by,
Candle

Photog Station

Dear friends,

I would like to invite you to browse my photo on my Flickr regularly. Please comment and criticize to boost up my creativity and innovation. I am learning at this moment, so your voice may be beneficial to sharpen my skills. Also, if you do have any relatives recruit photographers for wedding or events, please recommend me. I would like to accumulate the shooting experience in prior while getting fund for other equipments.

Your support is very much appreciated.
~Merry Christmas~

MYC

Online Trading

My first ever online trading was very smooth. I purchased a bag for the use of laptop and camera from a member in shutterasia forum who are from JB. I had my fund transferred by CIMB clicks. The reseller provided a good service and packed the item nicely and fast sending the item to me within 48 hours by poslaju. Item received in excellent condition.

Item purchased : Bagman Snapshot Trekka
Date of purchase : 15/12/2008
Received date : 17/12/2008
Postage by : Poslaju

Pictures of the item:

Falling to the Dark Side

After 6 weeks of enough reading reviews, fed up asking users opinion, and testing the camera in several shops, eventually, I broke my misery to choose either Canon 40d or Nikon d90 as my first start up into photography while in the future, as an investment.

Photography is an expensive hobby, if you pay peanuts, you get monkey. Luxury gadgets produce perfect optic quality and high satisfaction to user while moderate apparatus could only yield so so output, but best enough for beginner like me.

After spending one day playing with the body, i found that it is not easy to control the setting, i upgraded from pns camera to dslr camera. In pns camera, photo is captured by the aid of 2.5 inch LCD screen and without chances to use OVF (optical view finder). But now, i must depend on OVF to shoot photo, what i see is what i get. However, the colour, the brightness, the exposure, are not obvious, they are very much dependent to the setting such as shutter speed, aperture, white balance, iso and other factors. If i were to use live view on the camera, it responds much slower than a pns camera in terms of AF. To short, live view function is not practical for shooting moving objects and i only use it for HD 720p movie recording only.

There are many differences to get used to. For instance, the huge size of the body, the weigh of the body, the inconvenience to change lenses when shooting is in process, the tendency to be poisioned to upgrade for better body or lenses that lead to dust and grass eating days (bubur is expensive nowadays). I was advised not to use auto mode to shoot unless i want to throw money into sea by learning nothing besides to be lazy. As a beginner, i started to use P mode (programmed mode, only shutter and aperture is auto controlled, other is decided by user), soon i found that i have much to discover.

I never regret of getting poisioned, because i take it as an investment. Thankz to my father who is so generous to sponsor me finally, after i had nagging hard for past few weeks, otherwise i will not have the opportunity to play with it.

My wish list (updated on 14/12/2008) :
1. Bag that fit my camera and laptop (within 3 days)
2. speedlite sb-900 (before going back to collage)
3. 70-300mm vr, 50mm F1.8 (before cny)
4. cny clothing (if only anyone sponsor me)
5. visit to NZX, ara damansara
6. More to come, more to discocver, more to zoom

Cheers,
myc

Smile of the Universe

The night is outshone by a smile, but the world is not peaceful. Terrorism in Mumbai, India is the newest attack massacred almost 170 of lives.

Meanwhile, the unrest in Bangkok, Thailand is another tragedy that

attracted the concern worldwide.

Demonstrators of anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has occupied the Suvarnabhumi airport for 5 days. The consequence is huge and the loss is incalculable, causing instability to the country.

However, situation is worsened when pro-government demonstrators were also on street to show their support. Furthermore, on 30th nov 2008, 51 anti-government protesters were wounded in several explosions.

In view of these chaos, i am so grateful to see the smile of the universe, once in a blue moon. The journey ahead is unpredictable and cloudly.

Tomorrow is mysterious.