Trying out Panning shot

My first attempt to do a panning shot. Did it out of boredom. (While i was queuing for JJ's 背对背拥抱 event at bugis) Had countless tries and this is the only one which looks better. And it's still not perfect yet. I think cos the lorry is bigger = easier to focus than the cars. Haha! The rest all cmi. i deleted all of them. =x

But anyway, i'm trying to learn more camera skills and i admire some ppl for their eye for some very nice scenes. I do want to have a different look at the world as well. Rather than too prim and proper. And i do need more practise. haha. Still quite lousy. But ya, i think i'm getting better! But still sucked at night scenes. Can't seem to get the lighting right. ISO for the nikon not high enough also. Have to depend on shutter speed i think, but then my hands not stable enough. Rah. Have to explore more. :)

Feeling stress

It's almost the end of Mar. Come to think of it, don't you find it scary that it's been almost 1 year since i graduated and I have gone nowhere? As in securing myself with something. And yes, i do feel very insecure and all for the past 1 year, not knowing what tomorrow will be like, let alone a month later or a year. And till now, i don't even know what will happen after next week. Will i be back to the same again? or what? I have no idea.

Although I spent the last 3 months mostly at home and meeting up with friends, syco, erhu and some random activities, I don't feel very good abt this kind of lifestyle. And that's why i rebutted sushi's comment. I wasn't really offended, rather, I didn't like the mention of it as if i need someone to remind me i'm jobless. I was quite upset with myself. And moreover, i believed i would be still able to have a wonderful entertainment life even with work. Becos i got very sick of ppl telling me and asking me abt my job searching, i dislike the sight of it. You know, concerns can be a kind of stress too. I felt very stress this whole time. I dislike the feeling the telling any family that i have an interview but in the end i was rejected. I didn't want to tell them i was going for interview but sometimes i couldn't avoid it. So what if i was feeling confident? Was it really my problem?

I feel guilty cos my parents, or rather my family, seems to not push me too hard although i know they are concerned. Then i felt even more guilty because they are more concerned abt whether i still have enough money to spend. I felt that i've already spent enough of my parents' money, esp. on my studies and everything else. They never complained, but they could have gone to a few more places with that kind of money. My sis asked me the same thing when she saw how much money i had left in my acct.

Hais, i got to work harder and be very well prepared this time round. Plus i hope the music goes well too. Although i think i played really badly. =x But seems hopeful.

Sighs, sorry for the sudden change in mood. Ok not really but change in emotion. Paiseh, sometimes can't control. I think i need emotion management. Not so much for anything else but just the being sad part. And the tears flowing part. I think i can handle anger, frustration and all those pretty well. Happiness dun need to handle lah. But then sadness + tears very hard leh... cannot control at all.

Ok. Shall go and sleep. nites everyone.

My spendings

My friend commented that i'm very into online shopping lately. I really am! I have so many things i want to buy. I hoped i had more money to spend on. haha!

Anyway below are my latest buy(s).

Last week Threadless Tee was having their anniversary sale, which was $10 for ALL t-shirts. Would be a good deal for the newest shirts. But in the end i got these.


Deep Tree Diving. Wanted to get this the last time but i had too many orders for myself already. Haha!


Reach for the stars. The animals cute. Only thing i was contemplating the whole time is the colour. cos it's forest GREEN. But i decided to give it a try since it looks quite dark from the picture.

So well, waiting for them to come! :D After adding them to my collection, i have 10 threadless tees. LOL!

But then soon after the sale, new t-shirts came up and i already have an eye for one of them. =x Just one.. haha


And you see why. So cute lah the penguins! lol. Next time sale have to look out. But so far quite a few of the shirt i bought last time already OOS. I have a good eye yea. lol! Hopefully this one doesn't get sell out too fast cos i dun think will be buying soon unless very very very good offer. haha!

Then to replace my existing old and torn cardholder, i got this.


Very nice! But i didn't like the protruding portion of the one. Too much as compared to the one i had. The old one fits nicely into most of my bags' little pocket and my pants. haha! But this one has 2 compartments. behind is transparent which allows my ez-link with Stitch sticker to be seen! I like. :D I wanted a Stitch one, but not much luck with that, so i'm settled with this. :)

And then.. i call this impulse buying. But i never regretted. haha!

DAME CUTE LAH i tell you. Wait till u see the real thing. Each and every one of the five is so cute i do not know which should i double up so that i can use it. haha! And so i decided not to. But to what i know, it's OOS almost everywhere cos it's been quite some time. Maybe some shops still sell, i dun know. but online not really. I think i got the last set left on ebay. So i didn't hesitate at all. =x

Lastly, I've got to show you this.

Like OMG right! And NO, i didn't buy it lah. I saw a online blogshop owner looking for it. So no luck yet. But seriously, i wouldn't mind having one, even if it's just a 15". Haha.

So i went through quite a no. of blogshop which sells cartoon stuff and LOTS OF Stitch stuff. And then again, EVERYTHING abt stitch is SO CUTE i want to buy them all. Luckily i really didn't have the amt of disposable income to do it. hahaha. need to save lah.

Ya so that's all for the moment. I'm saving up for my iPod Touch now. hahaha! I've got the money but they are my savings and i dun want to spend them just like that. Plus 3 months of unemployment didn't get me anywhere near there. I promised myself that i will get it with my 2nd month's pay if i get the job. Cos first month i plan to give my family a good treat. :)

Night Cycling

I realised that there are too many happenings with the asswai ppl. lol.

One day after E-awards, we went to zhiwen's house for some random stuff.. Haha. But i have to admit that i do not like to see every gathering is just so that they can gamble. It's fine to have small gambles for entertainment's sake once in a while, like during big occasions but then not like every week or every other day. Moreover they are all students. But well, it's the kind of life they want and i'm fine with them gambling and me just looking or hanging ard with the other non-gamblers. haha.

So anyway, Last week we met for 5 days and 4 days for this week! Like working like that. See zhiwen see until sian liao. LOL. And yet, seeing her again later.

Night cycling with zhiwen, xunqi and desmond on fri. HAHA! Hand and butt pain. i dunno sia but both my palms are like very stiff. But today better. Ytd was like... Can't really do much.. i was sleeping most of the time anyway. LOL! It goes like this. Started off from ECP at 10pm. Cycled to fort road carpark or something like that for safety brief and then cont the trip. the briefing takes a bit long, so started off quite late too. Then, we got disconnected with the leading pack and we missed a turn at aljunied. By right we could have taken another route, but the organisers took us back to the correct route and i respected that cos they are the organisers. So that took us quite a lot of time cos we could only push our bikes on the pavement in the opposite direction of the one-way traffic. couldn't cycle cos too many obstacles on the pavement lah. Got to MS area.. Rested for a while and carried on to Jalan Kayu. Prata was all right, drink was good until some fly flew right into the cup. -.- and there's still bandung inside which i wanted! Tsk.

Then we had to cut the journey cos it would have taken up too much time. Actually we only went one more stop. Stopped somewhere at lentor ave, and some decided to cont with the original plan to cycle to orchard and then back to ECP. While the rest of us took the choice of going back to ECP straight. But eventually we didn't make it back to ECP. Somemore, we broke off again from the front grp. Hmm... need some reflection here.

Ok.. classes at CFA have all ended i think... so that's all first! :D Going to zhiwen's chalet! haha. Asswai again.

SCO and E-awards

Watched 2 free concert last weekend! Best! :D

First was SCO Concert featuring Hu Bing Xu. Thanks to SCO for the tix. =x Anyway, I think he still has his charisma on stage. Sometimes i do miss the times he was still with SCO. A different feeling altogether. Anyway, other than the conductor being awesome, the soloists were fantastic too! i realised i've nv seen a sanxian concerto before. So it was quite a fresh thing for me. Didn't stay long after the concert. Looking forward to the next SCO concert! With Ling Hock Siang and Qu Jian Qing as soloists. Woohoo! And watching it with the rest also lah..

The next day went to watch SG E-awards with AssWai.. haha. Had a great time cheering for JJ. HAHA! I wanna see JJ!!! (ok. that day will come soon) Oh and Budak Pantai was as good as ever. Really love their songs and their singing. Apparently it got to the headlines for newspaper report for E-awards the following monday. Some parts were quite boring but the rest were good. :D Oh! it's free thanks to the performing asswai ppl. Yeah. Although all of us hope we could perform, i'm glad to be there to watch too. :) While we would love to perform, the performers think we have better benefit cos we can watch all the performances while they are restricted to their own space. Hmm.. the grass is always greener on the other side ba. haha. Still we had our usual HK cafe supper and cabbed home after that.

Thank u asswai for such a nice weekend. :)

OCBC Cycle 2010 - I survived

Alarm goes off at 4am of 7 March 2010.

(Actually i turned it off and only woke up at the alarm from my sis' phone. LOL!)

Soon we are on our way in a cab to the F1-pit. Reached there slightly before 5am, waited for the rest to arrive and went to get our bike. My first instinct was, bike quality is not bad, looks new, better than those we usually rent at ECP. The whole bike is rather new with the better kind of gear control grip and rather new seat too. Just that. it's really hard.

Flag-off for 40km was at 6am. But by 5.45am, a lot of bikers have already gathered at the starting point ready for the race while we were still having our drinks and food from Starbucks counter. Oh at least we had something before going off.

Good thing the weather was really good. And probably cos it's very early in the morning. No sun yet. Feels damn good cycling. Sometimes i feel myself going too fast but every other second another person overtakes me! Haha. Stopped once to have a drink. That's all. Some motivators really did their job well and it does make a difference. :D The fast riders too give me some motivation to go faster. And that's probably why we finished the whole race much earlier than we expected of ourselves.


Yea. Quite proud of myself. haha! Maybe my category got lesser ppl. Women 19-24years old. Haha!

All of us after the race. Too tired to stand up to take photo.. but then all ready to go for out breakfast! HAHA!


My bib no. and medal. Heard last year's medal was gold. This year is silver. Like downgraded. hahaha!

Ya.. That's all. Looking forward to the next! :D

Nothing much...

Ytd this time... I was still at Mac with Via and sushi.. Finishing up our convo and getting ready to go... We like long time nv see like that.. Sit there and talk for so long. haha! Reminds me of our regular supper meet ups last time. Ever since my graduation... we haven't been meeting up for supper that much anymore... And now that the prata shop is undergoing some changes, the new signboard is up, but not opened yet. So ya, haven't been going there. And of cos i'm not really keen in having supper anymore (although ytd's mac was really satisfying. haha) =P

Afterall was quite emo abt something ytd and was hoping to find some consolation somewhere. That perhaps made me end up buying some snack from ntuc before meeting the 2 of them. And then was thinking through. I can't really blame anyone or anything. Yah.. and that's life. Ignorance is really bliss in this case. I hoped i didn't know. But ya anyway we still will at the end of the day.

只能说，不走运。