Panorama d’...
» Written on March 19, 2008 at 3:50 PM «
A very messy, very lazy panoramic shot of Pulau Tekong that I shot while waiting for our ferry’s arrival at the jetty right after my graduation parade. More importantly, this is my first time using Photoshop’s automated panoramic functions, and I must say, it’s rather startling how my hard work of years previous, aligning images together and painstakingly stitching seams together have now been rendered less than obselete through algorithms.
It’s kind of ironic, then, that I got a D for my Mathematics.
Anyway, yes, I have been a little quiet these past few days, busying myself with the various processes that continue where they left off while I was away. I’m sure you can imagine for yourselves what that actually means. I’m still around; just wait for the Cadburys and Team Fortress 2 to kick in before I get myself back in the mood to actually start writing more again.
A Brief Interlud...
» Written on March 13, 2008 at 9:51 AM «
Has finally made its way to my weary, blistered feet, allowing me a moment, or, to be more precise: a week and a half of recovery time in which I spent my entire first day taking an extended nap of sorts. This explains why, then, that this post is made on the following day after my graduation parade from the Basic Military Training School that resides on isle horride of Pulau Tekong.
And no, I don’t think I’ve found my army life so far meaningful or memorable, thousands, perhaps millions of claims to the contrary.
Marksmanship
» Written on March 2, 2008 at 12:06 PM «
Is a key quality for any human, let alone soldier to acquire. Be it with a rifle or a computer mouse.
I have only recently found myself back in the relative safety of my home, to last a few hours more before I am bound by both duty and law to head back to that detested isle that lies approximately 10 kilometres to the north-west. I use the term relative in a very loose sense, as it were: being at home presents me with the other problem of getting along with this decidedly incompatible family of mine.
Yes, that was also another questionable adjective that I used right there, but I think it’s more politically correct sociable than to use something like dysfunctional instead.
Time
» Written on January 2, 2008 at 9:28 PM «
Has always been one of the few concepts that, you might say, are integral to my personal life and habits. Truly, time is important to all of us, of course. It governs how we work, how we play, how we live at every moment that it progress along its axis infinite. Many people think time is like a river, flowing fast and sure. But as the great Prince once said, time is an ocean in a storm.
And as such, a sturdy vessel, one that will weather the rain, ride the currents and sail the seas to progress onward to salvation, is not just a need, it is a requirement. Fail, and rather, a requirem will be duly held in your dishonour to understand such a simple concept.
Or something like that.
Welcome, year
» Written on January 1, 2008 at 9:25 PM «
You certainly bring with you good tidings. 2008 is finally upon us, and sinners, repent. You may yet receive the grace of forgiveness, if your luck so happens to favour.
For today, it is a time of celebration. Of what, I’m not exactly sure, but what I am sure of is that every New Year’s Eve, there are fireworks, and like any good fly will tell you, such things are analogous to fly destroyers: they attract humans of every race and intellect level towards their ultimate destruction.
Photographers are no exception in this matter. Which is why, at around 2130 Hours, UTC+8, I found myself walking along the waterfront of The One Fullerton hotel, scouting for adequate vantage points for my trusty D50 to make its quiet, yet bold statement of the year olde.
So I’ve be...
» Written on June 7, 2007 at 12:11 AM «
For the past month or so. It’s decidedly unnerving, not having written any one single thing of significance ever since my last protracted absence. I’m simply getting more and more lazy these days, and my commitment to various events of sorts hasn’t helped matters much at all. I was actually surprised when I saw my site still up, then I remembered that I was using paid hosting now, which makes such inactivity all the more cruel on my soul.
Just one thing before I slip back into the clutches of oblivion, though: I recently acted as photographer for a recent major event (well, as far as events for me go, anyway) which involved inviting a couple of kids over to our school for a 3-day ‘camp’ of sorts, running from early morning to afternoon each day (and into the late night on the last day). These kids aren’t the kind that come from institutions best left to your imagination, but they are the kind that come from families which resemble that of a broken crater, with streams of lava flowing through the cracks, sealing off all passages of hope and reconciliation.
So my skills at using metaphors have atrophied in my absence. Whatever. Anyway, if you know me at all, I’m not the kind who goes all sentimental and teary-eyed at such mention of events (though sometimes I really wonder why I sign up for these kind of things), but essentially I took it as a test of my own ability with photography and Lightroom 1.0′s capabilities. I wasn’t disappointed: it ran absolutely, markedly well on my aging heap of a tablet PC, and in fact, surpassed the performance of the beta on my main workstation. It really is amazing how much efficiency Adobe has managed to squeeze out since the beta versions, although, of course, one cannot rule out the fact that those versions may have been somewhat coded with less attention to efficiency.
See, I’m getting back on the road to using italics, too!