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Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

2010-04-26T18:34:00.001-07:00

So it's spring and the cherry blossoms are blooming. Yea I don't know what cherry blossoms are doing in Brooklyn either, but they sure are pretty! And my, there are lots of kids, aren't there?

New York Part 2

2010-04-26T18:04:00.000-07:00

Isn't it annoying how every other post here screams "SORRY THIS IS OVERDUE!!" huh? I should either keep up with my game with updates, or drop this blog totally.

But anyway, SORRY THIS IS OVERDUE!!!

So I'll cut out the commentary and put the pictures. Though I wonder if half the entertainment value is actually the commentary?

Alright just burning through with these pics. Next up: Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.

你有多久没写华文了？

2010-04-18T18:55:00.000-07:00

就让这当练习吧。

我也不知道为什么突然有个需要保留着我的华文能力。也许是因为在一个陌生的环境里，有许多东西能威胁自我。这造成一种反射行动吧。

你应该能看得出我的华文的确不是很棒，但我想说的话的价值没被我的烂透的华文影响到。

我在欺骗谁啊？平常能够在几分几秒打出来的字体现在害得我想应该的用哪个字才是最适当的。而且我也不知很多词，打出来的篇章读起来又幼稚又无趣。

也许在我想保留着我华文能力时，有一部分的我不愿被这陌生地完全被“西化”。这就是我要和其他美国人（甚至新加坡人）不一样的地方：即使说华文对我来说有多痛苦，我不想愿意放弃母语。

也许其他新加坡人没有这个需要（天啊，我一直用“需要”这个词，应该找个新的字来代替‘desire’）因为他们觉得他们的华文不会受到美国的影响。或完全觉得留着母语有什么屁用。说真的，有什么用处嘛，在美国练习华文？

我有很多感想想说，但由于能力限制无法完全的用华语来表达。

可笑的是当我在新加坡时，我一直抵抗着新加坡的‘现象’ - 我不愿意直接地说“我说我是新加坡人”。我对新加坡有偏见。但到了纽约反而变得好虚伪，变得像拥有一个属于我的身份。

（我刚学了一个新的字。“欲望”。）

欲望着一个能分辨“我”和其他人的身份。欲望着一个工具能让我说“我是。。。”的句子。欲望着让我觉得自己有个价值。

这可能是我的自卑感在说话吧。

words to remember:
- reflex: 反射
- desire：欲望

Feeding time

2010-04-18T18:43:00.000-07:00

So I decided to feed my blog to facebook. Yea I don't know why either.

Now I gotta go to facebook and see if it was fed properly. Else it might die of starvation and I'll be sued for abuse.

OMGZ A POST DON'T DIE OF SHOCK

2010-04-07T20:54:00.000-07:00

I've decided to post something while editing the rest to be posted.

OMGZ WTF IS THAT.

It's a very sexy piece of leg.

Now the next question is: Guess who?

No prizes.

New city, new life, new beginnings, new hope? This is New York.

2009-10-17T13:17:00.000-07:00

So if the majority of the photos are uploaded on to Facebook, what is the impetus to visit this site then? You know you only do so out of dogged perseverance that there might be something different here than on Facebook. And right you are. There are like, 4 extra pics here that are not there, I suppose. Think of it as bonus material, my immaterial audience.

Pics I like a lot (also known as lumping nice pics together so I don't have to think up of witty captions for them

So that makes it 5. Which means I have 33 more pics to caption. Bah. Oh wait here be another overarching category!

Views from my window (and are not photoshopped!)

That makes it... uh, wait I can do the math... 27?

Flying the Singapore way

I like how the German announcements have a Singapore accent to them.

We are so speeshul

We have our very own subway station with our own signs in mosaic on them!

Uh..

Wait what? So did Columbia? And their signs look prettier! Hell what are we paying our insanely expensive tuition for? Votes to have 'More pimp NYU signs at the 8th St subway station'.

Pretty statues

Columbia University has nice statues at their campus. We don't even have a campus.

Dungeons

Where Columbia students get banished to if they score below an A. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Haha.

and Dragons

Their cellars look like some crypt-y dungeon thing, and you expect to slay a dragon any moment now. All these happening in the basements of Columbia dorms.

Nice... building?

I dunno. Felt like taking a picture. I think there is some significance to this building, though I cannot remember what.

The Crows

Even the birds have it tough here in NYC. Look how stressed they are.

Library and clouds

=/

Two couples on a bench and a kaypoh kia

On surface they may seem like a loving couple...

But on closer inspection...

"WHY DO YOU ALWAYS GIVE ME THAT STONY EXPRESSION WHEN I AM TALKING TO YOU???"

Colors of the rainbow

ROYGBIV. But why is the violet weirdly placed?

The wind did it

The Stonewall Inn, where the root of LGBT-equality action began.

Narrowest building in New York

The car is longer than the house is wide. And the house is pretty expensive too.

Insubstantial

It's address is 75 1/2. Reminds me of like Platform 9 3/4.

Peedofeeliiaaa

In honor of Charmaine.

Oldest street in New York

Stone Street, because the street is paved in stone. Duh.

Pretty

Don't know what else to say about this.

Standard tourist shot

EVERYONE must take a picture of this signpost when they go to Wall St. Strangely I didn't take a picture of the bull.

Oldest surviving church building in the city

St Paul's Chapel. Built 1764, it survived The Great New York City Fire of 1776. See? My blog can be educational.

Healing Hearts and Minds

Patches sent by policemen and firefighters all around the world make up this exhibit commemorating the Sept 11 attack.

Candles

Another of the exhibit.

San Gennaro

Festival at little Italy with tons of booths with games that actually look fun and foods that looks good.

Lost Turtle

Uh. Must be some turtle, if it can escape fast enough for the owner to be unable to notice. Or some owner.

Buskers

Seriously, New York City is infested with them. I get woken up by jazz saxophonists everyday at around 9am. I understand your need to a starving artist on the streets, dear buskers, but give it a rest already. I NEED MY SLEEP.

If Peter Parker loses his job...

He could take over their jobs anyday.

And to end off...

OOOH LOOK LOCH NESS MONSTER!!! HAHAHA.

Zombie National Day Pics!

2009-09-16T19:07:00.000-07:00

I finally did it. I sewed the pieces of the photos together and got the panorama out.

See the skyline filled with cranes

It's really small here, huh?

These

fireworks

will

be

over

in

like

10

minutes!!

Cheapskates.

Alice in 'Wonderland'

There's someone else in it. TEEHEEHEE.

Zombie lomo pics

2009-09-15T16:08:00.000-07:00

Revived pics from dunno where. Uh. Enjoy!

This is Lomography

Zombie pics!

2009-09-14T15:30:00.000-07:00

These pictures are back from the dead!

Cosfest 09

This was like what, back in July? Revive the pics!

Final Fantasy heroes are sad

Why? Because even their magic powers and insane skillz cannot stop the humidity of Singapore from wrecking havoc on their hair. Warrior of Light is not happy.

Chun Li gets it

Why? Because she knew better and tied her hair in a bun.

Cool Guy gets it even better

Why? Because he stayed in the air-conditioned compound the whole time.

Mandatory Gundam

There must always be one at every cosplay convention here in Singapore. I think I have way too many of these people over the years.

SATSUGAI, SATSUGAI SE YOOOO!!!!

RAPE! RAPE! RAAAAAAPE!

National Day comes early

Cosplayers showing their national pride dressed in national colors. Just kidding.

Check out out Dante's abs

They're drawn on. =)

Baby Goku

Choice of weapon is a balloon sword.

大！大！小！小！

Big meets small - Neckache ensues.

Happy Chinese Tourist New Year

2009-02-21T05:43:00.000-08:00

I wonder why I've put off uploading of the pics I've taken at Chinatown on Chinese New Year's eve. After all, I've only 13 pictures in total with 10 to show. It's that dismal yes, there were more tourists and gawker than ChineseNewYearers. And in Chinatown, no less. I mean c'mon, it's not as if I'm expecting a crowd to throng say, Little India on Chinese New Year but the lack of a crowd on a Sunday?

10 totally unremarkable photos

First and last

This was the first and last pic taken. It's like a typical must-take photograph for photographers, as though a large TAKE-MEEEEEEEEEE sticker was stuck on that scene. Yea I took it.

Compulsory pedophilia

I love how there's a single sweat drop down the side of his head. So anime-ish. Except in anime their sweat drops are caused by anything other than heat.

Papercraft

Lalala~ No caption~~

I've realized

That taking these pictures, aren't really very exciting. They're the sort of pictures tourists would take and show their friends and say, "See? These are sweets sold during Chinese New Year."

And these are...

Chinese New Year tidbits lor. Pineapple tarts and all that crap.

Pumpkin

I don't really like them.

Old man in the middle of the street

Was he actually playing the er hu or was he pretending to? I can't remember.

Ninja skillz!

With my rotatable barrel and mad skillz, I managed to take an unflattering photo of an unflattering uncle selling pomelos. He has a sprout of white hair from mole on his chin.

Ninja kids!

At shutter speed 400, the kids were still a blur, you could have imagined them zipping around zip zip whoooosh!

Ninja uncle!

I didn't manage to take a very satisfactory shot of him but he notiecd me and disappeared before I had to chance to take a second short.

The last photo of 2008

2009-01-25T02:04:00.001-08:00

Taken from a bus.

Very punctual

2009-01-25T01:23:00.000-08:00

Wah. This is really early! For photos that happened LAST YEAR, they finally make an appearance now.

And it's not like there are a lot.

I present to you, EOY08. Bleah.

Previously I'd usually categorize them as pictures with Rachel in them, and those without. Since Rachel didn't cosplay, I shall put the pictures as Pictures that are horizontal and Pictures that are vertical. Also, the lack of witty comments shall be indicated with a 'Yea'.

Horizontal Pictures

It's FFIV!

EOY: Where you can wear weird clothes or go half-naked without getting arrested for indecent exposure.

No OBJECTION!

The sort-of full cast for Apollo Justice. Godot is never without his special blend and Emma is fraternizing with Kristoph.

Eetsa me! Luigi!

Not upstaged by his brother Mario for the first time.

Shaman King

Julia from secondary school and her friend, as characters from Shaman King.

No More Dirty Teeth!

Besides using the lightsabre to hack and slash at opponents, the pointy edge can be used as a toothpick too!

Seductive Warrior

Flirtatious eyes shooting electricity. 电死你！Pew pew pew!

All together now...

Awww. SO CUTE!!!

Vertical Pictures

Long time friend

Yea.

Compulsory FF

There must be one every event. This time it's Zack Fair.

Pink Lady

Yea 2.

Weird Shadows

If you notice the shadow of the pipe, where is it being reflected? On the ceiling? Weird.

Advice

Don't patronize her plastic surgeon.

Ok the end. Now to work on the other project, hopefully within the same year.

You have defeated Procrastination!

2008-07-23T23:37:00.001-07:00

Experience points +infinity.

Hooray for hard work, lazy asses and days off. The long overdue Cosfest pics are here, with captions! Yaaay!

Ok as usual, because I went to the Cosfest with rachel, mandatory pictures of her are here. So let's get them out of the way first!

Meet Kula Diamond

From King of Fighters, the bleahry effect at the back is a mixture of skill, shaky hands and pure dumb luck.

Candy

The candy serves no combat purpose. Really.

Unceremoniously stuffed down her ass =P

When she isn't posing with the lollipop, she sticks the lollipop down her back pants pocket.

Get me out of the sun!

It's really hot outside. The irony, since Kula Diamond's powers are Ice.

Freeze

Not even Kula Diamond's icy powers can defeat the Singapore Sun. I bet her attacks would just spew water if the stage was Singapore. *ICY KICK!!* (lots of water splashes everywhere)

Haado Gei! HOOO!

Lol ok random. Trying to fit something into her mouth.

+friend

Rachel with er, according to her, hot bishie vampire friend.

Hot bishie vampire friend part 2

Part 2.

Not bishie or vampire, just friend

It's Yimon! Rachel ~~forced~~coaxed her to come down and see her cosplay.

Ok so that was it for Pictures with Rachel in it. Now for: Things I recognize

Petrol very expensive

To beat rising gas prices again, Optimus Prime makes yet another appearance to earn some extra dough. Transformed into a truck, you realize, GASP, he doesn't have the ERP unit thingy!

Iron Man too?

Maybe not petrol, perhaps lubricating oil prices have risen too?

I'd like to thank...

I'd like to thank my fathermotherbrothersistersunclegrandmothergrandfatherCatsAndZebrasInLarge/TinyHiredCagesMakeSurePadlockedGoondu for this award. Oh, and World Peace.

Not you too Gundam?

Maybe whatever it is Gundams run on have been hit by the worldwide inflation too.

Help!

I'm too tall for this picture!

Bling

Life's better with bling-bling eyes.

Oops

Ironically, for placing this photo under the "Photos of things I recognize", suddenly I forgot what game this is from.

Well...

Well I do remember he had an oversized weapon in the game.

Take That!

Franzizka von Karma took that.

Squally and Rinoa

Rinoa has an uber weapon, Squally uses a lousy revolver. Pooh.

Mandatory emo

Because without which, Squall just wouldn't be squall

Mandatory un-emo

Because without which, Rinoa wouldn't be that irritating female lead that she is. If it were up to Squall, he'd have dumped her for Seifer and they would emo together.

Old skool never dies

White Mage.

Now comes to the portion known as "Pictures of people I don't recognize".

Uh?

Maybe I'm lazy and can't think of what to type, but I choose to say "I don't recognize anything! Yay no need to type anything witty!"

Uh? 2

Nice wings. I don't recognize anything! Yay!

Uh? 3

Still the same person.

Uh? 4

Well she was lying down so I took a picture of her. This is one of my favourite pics.

Cosplayers get tired too

I guess she just needed a rest.

Hot bunny!

Honorable mention for this elusive bunny.

I had to take this from very far away =(

I remember her! She cosplayed Aeris at EOY some years ago! Wait wouldn't that mean I recognize her and that this photo should be up above?

And finally, the last section: Guess who I met at Cosfest?

Irene Ang

Haha Shuhui cut her hair and now I think she looks like Irene Ang.

Irene Ang and 2 L's

One's L, the other's name begins with L. Lol.

Ok that's the end byebye.

Of Lobsters and Blobs.

2008-07-05T18:38:00.001-07:00

After much clamor about going to Nova Scotia and forcibly riding crustaceans, everyone who has had ears bleed from my incessant talking about it would probably want respite in the form of their eyes melting from my pictures. So melt away.

In somewhat chronological order, and no I didn't take 58973 bajillion photos like some of my other teammates did. And definitely NOT SNEAKILY of others too, may I add *glares at Kee*.

Ride the Lobster

Dah dah dah dum dum dum dum. Presenting a slideshow that you have to scroll down, Riiiide the Lobster!

Country for Old Man

My flight to Halifax was delayed for 2 hours. I changed 50 SGD at a very bad rate. I was stuck in Chicago. Lost and lonely, I settled for taking pictures of blobby old men staring out of windows with very, very nice polarizing... window shades?

Alternate uses for a bench

Tired of being sat on by asses all the time, the bench at the Champlain motel got its proverbial panties in a knot, got up and tried a different job: Modelling. Is expecting proposals of hot furniture sex to follow.

Beark a Leg!

Kids want us to beark our legs. =( Wo wo. Maybe I'm no kid-art savant, but the girl illustrated looks more like she's balancing on balls instead. Maybe that's how you beark legs?

Friendly teammate number 1

Demonstrating deer-in-headlight stance. The scalloped potatos were supposed to drop off despondently from his fork to highlight the comical effect but he is a FAIL.

Seafood

Hey! Do you want seafood? Here! See-food! Ahh..... Exemplary table manners and masticated scalloped potatos (seefood) at Annapolis Royal.

No ghosts...

No nasty deadies/mummies/in-betweens disturbed our graveyward tour, but plenty of mosquitos did. He is the guide and the something-of-the-something committee.

Fishy

There is something very fishy about Yarmouth. My 1337 deduction led me to conclude that Fishes were the culprit. Elementary my dear Watson, it's all elementary.

Lamps

Eep I ran out of funny/witty stuff to say!

Skies on Fire

The sun set into the clouds and promptly set it on fire.

Ew Gross! Part 1

Canada has strange bugs.

Ew Gross! Part 2

Seriously why do I keep taking pictures of these bugs?

Endless road

Endless motivation. Endless uphill. End of caption.

To make Jiahui feel better...

By manipulating the camera angle, it makes her look as though she was going downhill! That makes all the difference doesn't it? What do you mean it doesn't work that way?

Dandy Lions

Huff-huff...mrraooow.

He couldn't pay the rent

So the landlord forcibly evicted him. With a bulldozer.

Så kom och!

Dansa med oss
Klappa era händer
Gör som vi gör
Ta några steg åt vänster
Lyssna och lär
Missa inte chansen
Nu är vi här med
Caramelldansen

Awesome skill

...and crotch-grabbings and decapitated hands.

Leap of faith

The look on the lady's face is priceless.

Aw

Coochie coochie coo!

Flying carpet

Lol. Looks like one.

Berlin Wall is falling down

And is not in Berlin anymore. Truro.

Manly

Epitome of manliness and music.

Not-so-manly

Self-explanatory.

Ok smile!

Do not let the sign and smiles beguile you, because...

The face that launched a thousand ships

...A second later, "A smile is frown, upside down! Lalalalaa!"

Bald Eagle

With better table manners (and real seafood) than Jiahui.

Mandatory flower pictures

It wouldn't be nice to spoil tradition and not take pictures of flowers.

Foggy

Meh.

We couldn't find snow in Canada

So we settled for the next best thing and made snowmen out of yucky mash potatos in a Chinese restaurant in Baddeck. Mash potatos that you cannot cut with a spoon.

Team Masticating Bunnies from Hell

3 Masticating Bunnies and 1 honorary Bunny from the German Speeders. I have cleverly disguised myself as a triple-chin-ed blobby so you don't see me in the picture. Muahaha.

This is it. I know I didn't take a lot of pictures. I was too busy riding and lying about riding when in actual fact just too lazy to take the camera out.

Almost about again.

2008-06-26T06:36:00.001-07:00

Photos will come up soon. Surprisingly there aren't as many photos as I hoped that'd be.

Almost about

2008-06-12T15:32:00.000-07:00

Almost about to leave for Halifax, that is. Anyone going to miss me? Reckon not. I brought my camera! So that means somewhat some photos are going to make it here, after such a long absence of updates.

Seeya.

No.

2008-04-23T02:55:00.000-07:00

Ashes or dust?

Golden square,
spilt with the blot of black;
spreading,
wracked with the burdern of heat,
crumples, crushes, cracks and cries.
The glisten of the yellow square
screams bronze - no, black
as they lie, consumed by flames.

Silver square,
on a sheet of white;
off-white, specked with bits and pieces of tears.
The fingers of fire
willfully peels at it,
the silver square submits
as it whispers a collective sigh
before turning into
ashes.

The silver basin
sits in front of me.
Round, its mouth is
gaping wide
as I feed it
squares of silver and gold.
So wide,
within, are the remnants of the fed -
look at its lips,
stained with the demands of its greed
as dancing lights of maniacal gleam,
red and orange,
flicker off its palette.
Is your appetite never satisfied?

Are we all kindling?
Are we all pieces of dying ember?

Ugly pictures of ugly people doing ugly stuff.

2008-03-02T00:41:00.000-08:00

An aside, with reference to previous post, 'Drive' was defeated by procrastination, laziness and strangely enough, Trauma Center: New Blood.

So there will be no pics of ethnical Chinese New Year decorations.

On the other hand, I present to you ugly photos of ourselves. Make that 2 people and 1 cannot-see-face person.

Ride the Lobster Team Pics

A rather dismal attempt to take a silhouette of 3 of us against the sun and sea, with Jiahui doing a seat-drop and the 2 of us flanking either sides. I wanted to do a wheel-walk. Needless to say, the ground was so slippery I slipped trying to run to my own unicycle and then mounting without falling was an uphill task on its own. Probably took like 3948094 attempts. Sans exaggeration.

Jiahui's stand-up. Not that hard to take actually.

The face of nightmares and countless sleep.

I would like to say something nice about this picture. Er. Nice sea?

You had no idea how hard it was to take this pic, albeit sunny smiles and disposition because Kee just couldn't tackle the rocky groyne. Cue laughter from Jiahui at the word 'groyne'.

Heavily edited to obscure my face. The title did mention Ugly People whaat. I seem to like pointing a lot. At what I have no idea. Some of my other pics had me pointing too.

Wah wheel-walk. On a groyne. Cue laughter. If you look carefully, I'm pointing again.

There were more pics but my face was harder to obscure in those so I chose not to put them up.

Drive.

2008-02-06T00:18:00.001-08:00

I wanna go take pictures of Chinatown in festive mood. Watch this space for pictures.

Verisimilitude.

2008-02-06T00:10:00.001-08:00

Gravitational potential energy is not energy (As written by an ignorant arts student with very little grasping of physics and science)

Among laymen, potential energy is the energy derived from height or a position which objects are wont to be that gives them the potentiality to move from one place to another such as the potential energy derived from standing on a high mountain that would make it possible for a man to roll down said mountain slope. It is an accepted fact that potential energy is indeed a form of energy; hence the moniker ‘potential energy’ but this might not exactly be so, as will be demonstrated.

Potential energy exists, but it does so not as energy but as a potentiality, a state of existence or being. Energy is an entity that is derived from the existence of things occurring or is the occurrence itself. Kinetic energy is derived from the process of movement, not as merely an end product or even strictly sustenance for movement but is movement per se, of which magnitude is determined or rather described (symbiotically actually) by the amount of kinetic energy it has. Nuclear energy can be loosely described as the energy released in the splitting or fusing of atoms (fission and fusion). Chemical energy, like the reaction itself too is not simply the end product or the sustenance of a reaction but is the reaction itself. Many other forms of energy fall broadly into these 2 categories. However potential energy does not. Taking gravitation potential energy for example, the amount of potential energy is derived either by its mass, gravity and height, as described in its equation:

PE = mgh

where ‘m’ is mass, ‘g’ gravity and ‘h’ height. There is no occurrence happening. Energy must do something or be something being, being the capacity to do work. Potential energy is simply derived from being where and what it is without anything occurring or being, as though its ‘energy’ is conferred to it out of circumstantial reasons. The more formal definition is that potential energy is the energy of position, that is, the energy an object is considered to have due to its position in space. Potential energy is its potentiality to be converted into other forms of energy and primarily, for gravitational potential energy and perhaps, I may be wrong, solely only into kinetic energy. This appears to be the case so as applied to this world. And as such, being a potentiality is very different from being energy. Being a potentiality simply means existence in a state about to exist. The thing itself does not exist yet but will or might, and this ‘yet’ and ‘might’ is the potentiality mistaken as potential energy, in this essay’s context. To cite an analogy, to be about to be married does not make one married, the marital status is still single (barring ‘attached’, divorced’, ‘practically married’ or ‘it’s complicated’). An apple that can be eaten or is about to be eaten is still intact or a felon yet to received the death sentence is still very much alive. However all these ‘about to be’s’ is a state of being; a potentiality. Therefore potential energy is the potentiality of an object that is capable of being turned into other forms of energy but is not energy itself, because potentiality does not belie the probability or is the raison d’etre of work being done. Men on high mountains have high potential energy or persons with greater mass have higher potential energy than those on low lands or are of a lighter persuasion can potentially fall a longer distance, maybe faster, or bigger massed objects harder. So it is the potential for something to happen that’s being recognized here and is in no way, energy of the mundane sorts. Like a Schrödinger’s Cat scenario, potential energy appears to be the summation of the possible ‘paths’ that can be taken, or superposition of energies that it can be converted into, but with the given context not to cats and radioactive substances.

Next we look at the aspect that the equation of potential energy = mgh remains true. Since establishing that gravitational potential energy is potentiality for something to happen, such as conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy, when you remove the potentiality in potential energy, potential energy should cease to exist. The thing about gravitational potential energy is that objects are always assumed to be able to be related to ground level or a common ground, which is implicating that objects can theoretically ‘move’ or be related to this common ground. Two identical balls on platforms, one higher than the other would result in the higher ball having greater potential energy than the lower simply because of the two balls’ relation to a common ground, where the value of ‘h’ can then be derived, in short ‘movement’ towards this ground. However, what if this common ground is removed, or alternatively, the ability (potential) to move towards the common ground is removed? Having lost its potentiality, potential energy then becomes 0. As mentioned before, since potentiality is required for potential energy to occur, an object on a higher ground but with no capability or potential to move or happen whatsoever has no potential potential energy, as compared to an object on a lower ground. The afore-sentence recognizes a common ground, but removed potentiality. The alternative should remain true, but is a concept harder to conceptualize. Therefore it is wrong to say that all objects on higher ground possess greater potential energy. It’s like Schrödinger’s Cat being dead before being put inside the box and wondering if it’ll live – there ceases to be potentiality for that scenario, probability and potentiality are 0 and therefore no ‘paths’ to be summated. And since potential energy is converted mainly and perhaps only, as disclaimed before, into kinetic energy, the existence of movement, the removal of the possibility of movement not just along physical planes but of theoretical and hypothetical would render the potential energy of any object to 0. How is it possible to remove the theoretical plane of an object from ‘common ground, then? While possible with actual physical movement along a plane, the theoretical removal of the possibility of relation to ‘common ground’ is impossible. However, the theoretical removal of relation to ‘common ground’ and hence potentiality is just as real as the relation of objects to a ‘common ground’ – objects on slopes or heights roll not simply because they are on heights but because they’re allowed to roll or fall. Therefore to believe in relative height from a ‘common ground’ must be to believe in the removal of it, because they’re all hypothetical. This leaves behind the only actual tangible possibility of potentiality, vital importance to the definition of potential energy, of the potential to move physically.

Dissidents who disapprove may state that gravity and height gives an object the potentiality to move, were they to abide, outrageously, by this house’s argument. Therefore an object at high heights but still perceptibly locked in position, rendering mobility impossible still has potential energy simply because being held static does not render the object unaffected by relativity to ground level. Once again, they argue so on the theoretical level that ‘given the possibility for the object to be moved downwards towards ground level’; already have they ignored the fact that it, the ‘given possibility’ has a probability of 0. It cannot happen physically and exists only because humans created a hypothetical scenario for height to happen. Height does not matter when down does not exist. Therefore the potential energy they speak of exists only in their head, hypothetical, but is in fact non-existent. It exists as much as the imaginary number ‘n’ people use for the sake of an expression and ease. Granted, height will be a factor should an object be allowed to move physically downwards, but the hypothetical relative height then collapses because it exists only because the object can physically move; exclusion of the former denies the latter. So this potential energy that people are clamoring about still recognizes the rule that the potentiality of movement must be present, be it physically or hypothetically for potential energy to exist. While the value of gravity is more or less an absolute, height is a relative factor – absolute height is still relative height. The existence of any relative value or factor does not happen when the relativity is removed; the brightness of a color does not exist when no other darker or brighter colors are juxtaposed in perspective; fast or slow; heavy or light – these become inconsequential isolated. Height exists because people like to draw links to the ground.

Therefore, potential energy as energy is a fallacy. Firstly it is not energy because it is only a potentiality, a superposition of states of energy that it can be converted to BUT does not indicate itself as energy. While this seem to question the established statement that energy cannot be created or destroyed, as then people would ask what then would the converted energy be derived and converted from, this does not in fact run contrary to the established statement – it does not claim that any energy is lost or created; taking an example of a rollercoaster, after moving downhill it goes uphill and the kinetic energy is suddenly converted into potential energy simply because it has lost kinetic energy and must be converted into something else before being converted back into kinetic energy and for the sakes of expression, people term it as being converted into potential energy. But at the peak of the hill it has the potentiality to be converted into kinetic energy again but the potentiality per se is not energy but a state of being. So what was the kinetic energy converted to prior to being converted back into kinetic energy? While this remains an unknown, this house shall informally coin it as ‘negative kinetic energy’. If negative velocity and negative acceleration can exist, negative kinetic energy can be a consideration. The more an object is being slowed, the more negative kinetic energy there is until the limit where the object stops completely and that is where negative kinetic energy peaks. This explains neatly what potential energy truly is; a potentiality, while explaining the missing link between conversions of energies. Next, potential energy exists where height and gravity do too is flawed. Removing the potentiality of movement simply mean that there is no way any energy can be converted into any other forms of energy. This is why non-reactive metals can be thought of as having negligible chemical potential energy, because of its very low potentiality for a change of state. So, a hypothetical substance with absolutely no possibility of reaction can be thought of as having 0 chemical potential energy; objects with absolutely no way of movement, physically or hypothetically, have no potential energy. Height is a value derived from relativity drawn from the ground, but without the potentiality to move physically, this hypothetical height becomes redundant. An analogy: a man living on a flat and level plateau very high up with no knowledge that he is on elevation will have no consciousness of the fact that he is high up and height becomes irrelevant to him. To remove the potentiality of movement in potential energy is to be ensconced in the plateau, like the analogous person. It is only until the man moves to the edge of the plateau and looks down that he suddenly realizes “Woah, I’m living pretty high up, huh?”

Disclaimer: This essay does not seek to disprove the existence of potential energy. This is merely an exercise in essay-writing and the exploration of critical thinking. This essay is lacks actual scientific research. This essay also seeks to practice the usage of words in which affects the opinions of people reading this essay. So do not believe wholesale this article. However, whether it is actually true or contains any verisimilitude is actually debatable. It does sound rather credible, or does it?

The poem finished.

2008-01-31T03:29:00.001-08:00

With reference to THIS, an inspiration for an unfinished poem, is now finally finished, in army camp *gasp*.

So without further ado, here it is.

A prelude to a Storm Subsiding

A prelude to a

Tickle;
the patter of tattoos
petering the passages of the heart
and pensive, passive, plosives
that urges to
proceed -

Storm

Throbbing, throbbing bleakly abreast the beat and
ebbing, it brings to break its swollen banks.
The brook has flooded, breakers breached.
My river flows not in rain, it beats,
blaring its pleads and needs
as crash of thunders, peals of lightning
flash and splash
that illuminates
what feeds your appetite.
Still the ice that lie within as
you feast upon men.

Subsiding

It ends, like it should, as always, as all else,
the victims walk away unscathed.
But the river of the heart
bleeds a lonely, longing
tear.

[end]

I quite like it. It's personal.

Abrasions the size of Texas. (This is a Ride the Lobster qualifying ride report)

2008-01-27T23:35:00.000-08:00

Day 1 (26/1/2008)

Temperature: 24 - 32 degrees celcius
Humidity: 84%
Distance ridden: 84km
Subjective rating: 66km extreme temperature, 1 km light rain
Total time taken: 11 1/2 hours

Day 2 (27/1/2008)

Temperature: 25 - 32 degrees celcius
Humidity: 87%
Distance ridden: 89km
Subjective rating: 76km extreme temperature
Total time taken: 12 hours

Something must be wrong when I start to post near a 100 photos of seemingly nondescript photos. You're right. I'm doing this for the Ride the Lobster qualifying report. Being painfully camera shy, any photos you see of me (they have to be there for credibility, darn!) are either silhouettes or taken such that my face isn't really seen. But it's me! Really.

Day 1

I started by taking a train to Kembangan. You see I stay in the WEST and Singapore's so small, all of us have to ride the EASTERN Park Connector for the qualifiers. I reach there at 9am.

How I knew where to go. These devious buggers, as I would soon learn, disappears sneakily along the way.

Ridiculous-looking contraption, but ironically the thing that saved me from utter testicular destruction the second day. The sponge, that is. Not the unicycle. It is a 24" by the way, with hookworm tires.

Starting point, at 9am-ish. I headed off from Siglap Park Connector towards East Coast Park. The sun was strangely hot in the morning but I attribute that to this being the east and happenstance the direction in which the sun rises.

Nice view, only possible taken from...

An overhead bridge which...

Fines people for riding on it. I couldn't resist. The things I do for unicycling.. Incidentally the original fine amount was $1000.

Another silly thing you'll find in Singapore. Being to lousy to afford jet skis, you can achieve almost the same thing by cable-skiing! Nothing says fun like being dragged along a cable going around in CIRCLES IN A FRICKING POND. That explains why the ski cable is facing up.

Endless road, number 1, east coast.

Doesn't look so daunting on a harmless signpost. This is some where nearing the end of East Coast park, I think.

But OMG this is not encouraging.

Endless road number whatever. This is the beginning stretch of road of the Changi Beach park connector that is to stretch for about 7 kilometers plus.

On the left is Changi Airport. A plane. I'm not thinking straight at this point. In fact, I'm not thinking at all.

Very encouraging, yes, still. Did I mention at this point that I wasn't wearing cycling tights? It was 7 kilometers of TORTURE.

In one of my rests in the rest stops along then ever-ending Changi Beach Park connector, I realized my unicycle is in a very bad state.

It's so rusty it might fall apart. *hint sponsors for a new uni hint*

And that just won't do if I was to *ahem* represent Singapore, would I?

Rare cannot-see-my-face shot of me number 1.

Someone scrawled this on the wall. I took this simply to amuse Jiahui, who too took part in the qualifiers, seeing how she used to work for EA. I think it stands for 'Ever Acquiring'.

So that I know the 7 kilometers plus is nearing an end.

It ended! And the nice smell of... ship fumes celebrate my exit from that dratted stretch of road. This is taken just right after the SAF Ferry Terminal, or the Singapore Armed Forces Ferry Terminal which cannot be captured on camera or risk dire consequences. But this nice splash of waves is harmless.

Some jetty that brings you to Pulau Ubin, offshore island.

Rare cannot-see-my-face-shot of me number 2, wheelwalking.

In the words of Jiahui, humps are annoying. Somewhere along the roads of dunno where (I think it's Loyang), and uphill.

Sign indicating that I'm lost. The road doesn't look like a park connector.. (It isn't.)

1pm, and finally civilisation in the form of a shopping mall! I stopped here for lunch and left an hour later, starting at 2pm.

ITE, some technical education institute, where ITE stands for Institute of Technical Education?

It's pronounce tam-penis. It is worth noting that while unicycling, the sneaky sporadic arrows that point to the next connector disappear as and when they please, causing much speculation where to turn next. I got lost alot here.

Which thankfully is sheltered.

Another signboard, but between the signboards I got lost. Again.

This looks pretty cool, but it isn't sheltered. Simei Park Connector.

Another mall, local to Simei.

EXPO, the giant exhibition hall.

Resting at one of the benches at Bedok Park Connector at around 4ish, I think I realized that my shoes were in a really bad shape.

Look! I can see my socks from the SIDE.

Another connector, another step closer towards the goal.

One of them buildings that cannot be photographed.

At around don't-know-what-time, I ended up here which led back to East Coast instead of Kembangan MRT station indicating that I was very, very lost.

So in the end I did not got the traditional route, that the rest sorta took but rather an improvised one with the distance almost being the same, give or take. Take the above report and multiply it by 2, which sums up Day 1's ride. Very boring.

Day 2

Deciding to start somewhere a little closer to home, and instead of taking a train all the way to Kembangan to ride the Eastern Park Connector, I decided to ride there instead, and will not have to suffer riding the stupid connector route twice. Starting off at 7.30am on an empty stomach, I unicycled towards the next station in search of breakfast. Incidentally, Lakeside is in the western recesses of Singapore, Kembangan in the east.

MAP OF SINGAPORE'S MRT STATIONS

I didn't realize there were park connectors in the west too!

Just that they're not as long.

Nice scenic route especially in the early mornings. This route is in between Lakeside and Chinese Garden, the next station eastwards.

At about 8am, I headed towards the town centre for some breakfast and decided to eat wanton noodles. They look pretty decent.

Did that noodle just wink wantonly at me???? The brown drink is a cup of Iced Milo, something akin to Iced Chocolate. Iced Milo is a traditional drink that Singapore Unicyclists like to drink. Well if that isn't a tradition yet, it ought to be. The wantons refer to the dumplings, actually.

Leaving at 8.30am, I headed for the next station and up and down some minor slopes et al, and passed by this shiny Buddhist statue of a goddess.

Near Dover MRT station, I saw this poster for some joint program between the local management university and some university in Chicago. Notice the subliminal advertisement here??

OMG MacDonalds you are t3h evil!!!

Directly outside Dover MRT station, this building is Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore's first vocational institute.

Disused train tracks at Buona Vista.

I think this picture is chronologically out of place, but yea, building for one of those wonder ointments Asians like to use alot.

Queenstown MRT station.

Alexandra Road, after which is a slew of car showcases. Singapore is peculiar like that, they like to cluster specific industries together. Redhill is the place to purchase cars, Orchard Road for massive consumerism etc.

After Redhill, the MRT tracks go underground, leaving me rather confused as to which way to go as this while I've been mostly following the MRT tracks to lead me towards the east. Here's a picture of one of the playgrounds located somewhere in between, with me being rather lost.

Ok this is one of those malls that have an underground train station attached to it, which is the Tiong Bahru station.

Once again, in the quest to go east, and being lost AGAIN, this reeks ominously of uphill climbs.

Why yes it is! This is an arduous climb that seems to go on...

...And on...

And finally some downslope, after much burning legs and burning sun. There's little to no tree cover here. Even though there seems to be a lot of trees in the pictures, they offer little respite.

Something of note to myself. Though I live around Boon Lay interchange, I never knew it was renamed to Boon Lay Temp(orary) Interchange. Ok this adds no value to the report.

After much random routes, I found myself at Chinatown, a clustering of well, typically Chinese groups. But that's rather redundant, because these old clusters have eroded and everyone's almost everywhere nowadays. No longer do Indians reside exclusively in Little India, or Chinese Chinatown etc. But I'm somewhat familiar with Chinatown and am not so lost now.

Singapore river, once Singapore's dirtiest river, now cool water feature straddled with multiple pubs and clubs to pander to tourists' tastes.

Funan the IT mall. We're headed closer and closer towards town, and this is the place to purchase electronics. One of the two specialized places, that is. This is in City Hall.

St Andrews Cathedral, Singapoer's oldest Catholic church. Also in City Hall.

Singapore's city skyline of sorts, also in City Hall. There's quite some things to see in City Hall, strangely.

Glass roof of the Esplanade, a theatre specially built and subject to much criticism over it's ugly roof. Opinions are divided. But everyone agrees it looks like a durian.

One of Singapore's latest project, Singapore's answer to London's Eye. All still in City Hall.

The Cenotaph. City Hall. Though what a Cenotaph is I have no idea.

Singapore's largest library at er, 14 stories tall? Not in City Hall any longer, but Bugis.

Arab Street, one of the old zoning places for er, Arabs and Muslims. Behind is the historical monument, Sultan Mosque. Nearest station being Lavender.

Sultan Mosque up close.

Finally! I see the train tracks again! I heave a sigh of relief. The station thereafter is Kallang.

Making a slight detour but still parallel to the train tracks, I went to Geylang, Singapore's er, notorious place for entertainment of the physical kind. It's not legal, of course, but things happen in back alleys. Yes it's a red-light district.

But my main aim in going to Geylang was this! Rochor beancurd, probably the best in anywhere else. I tried this a long time ago and all else bean curd never tasted sweet again.

A picture of divinity. Time was 12.20pm. Nearest train station is Paya Lebar MRT station.

After that I went for lunch and made it to Kembangan at 3. Mostly because of the lunch.

This is in the direct opposite direction of where I headed in day 1.

Once again, VERY encouraging. Urgh. So this is the beginning of the Eastern Park Connector again, but in the opposite direction.

OMG rare I-can-almost-see-my-face picture of myself.

Bedok Park Connector. It's very misleading because it fails to state that it contained...

THIS. Up and down slopes and uneven bumps!

After the hell that was the connector and many overhead bridges later, I reached the park. I don't know what're in those bags. Probably half dead unicyclists.

Park connector sign.

I ended up tending to take alot of these pictures, huh?

Totally irrelevant picture of Tampines regional library.

OK SunPark. I realized previously I missed this because it was a way off from the main road.

A one-foot pirouette.

How photos of myself are best taken - without my face in it.

They turned one of the lakes at I-don't-know-where into a prawn fishing pond!

Random bird. Soon to mark the beginning of a route that will cause me to be VERY LOST.

Cycling about 2.5 to 3km into the park, I saw this sign and knew something was wrong. It led to a dead end. I was in Pasir Ris Park and there were no connectors at all. I had to backtrack out. Meaning an additional 5km ride.

The familiarity of the tarmac of the park connector brings a tear to my eyes. Oh and some mosque in the background too.

At about 6pm, OH NOES it's the dreaded Changi Beach Connector of DOOM again!!! All 7.9km of it.

I gave up taking pictures at this point.

In the end, I reached Kembangan MRT station from the opposite side, via Siglap Park Connector at around 8pm. I also realized that deciding to call out friends for lunch midway while doing a long distance ride was quite a bad idea. They tend to make the lunches longer and indeed I spent a significant amount of time lunching, about 2 hours or so, from 1pm to about 3pm.

I took a train home, feeling sore and pretty much nothing else. No victory whoops, no vestigial virgins celebration vindictive victory. Just fatigue.

Still in the process.

2008-01-26T06:41:00.001-08:00

I have started my Ride the Lobster qualifiers. Day 1 report as goes.

Temperature: 24 - 32 degrees celcius
Humidity: 84%
Distance ridden: 84km
Subjective rating: 66km extreme temperature, 1 km light rain
Total time taken: 11 1/2 hours

Photos and descriptive report to come.

I came, I saw, the Luna Sea One Night Dejavu concert.

2008-01-12T05:53:00.000-08:00

So that means I went to Tokyo. And that means... photos! All 62 of them, out of 853947.3.

So, here goes nothing!

Kaminari-mon

One of the first attractions we went to, because it was the nearest.

Kaminari-mon dori

The sreets leading up to Senso-ji, full of people trying to sell you useless but touristy stuff and...

Sweet Sake seller

... sweet sake! Seller not for sale though. Sweet Sake seller, in both ways.

Colors of Dembo-in

Fodor guidebooks LIE. Dembo-in is no longer accessible to people.

Cheap fortunes

For 100 yen, get your fortunes told.

Giant Pigeons!

Only because I zoomed in. Haha.

Expensive sushi

And to rub salt into the proverbial financial wound, they're not edible. They're replicas used by restaurants around, and they look damn real. You should see the other replicas of noodles and meat. Found in the shop, Maizuru, in Kappa-bashi.

Kabuki-za

Traditional Japanese theatre that is not Noh. Though the play that we watched was a hybrid of Noh and Kabuki, that means the front part of the play was excruciatingly slow. I fell asleep standing up, because there was no sitting room. But the Kabuki itself was entertaining. I rather liked the music, it was quite eclectic.

Kabuki-za decorations

Outside Kabuki-za. Though can someone tell me what they're for anyway?

The ceiling inside the theatre

Photography is strictly not allowed. So all I could come up with was with this.

And this

It was damn hard to take this picture lah! The best I could come up with of the play was this very blurry photos of the ladies when they transformed into demons. This black-haired one was the head demoness. I was all the way in the stalls at the back.

To give you a clearer picture of what I was actually shooting...

Here's a picture of the poster, though of a different play. Haha. What's the point then, you may ask?

The emperor is rich

He has a courtyard this big. You can hold a concert here and still have enough space to host a soccer match in the same space. Taken in the Imperial Palace's grounds, because it's the emperor's birthday and it only opens twice a year! 23rd December, his birthday, and 2nd January.

Celebrating Japanese

Alot of people were busy waving flags. I was busy taking pictures of them doing so.

Maple trees

Who knew there were these in Japan? Ok so maybe it's just me being ignorant.

Fancy gates

The palace grounds sure has fancy looking gates.

Emo kid drawings

These are drawings on light cannisters that are supposed to show love for the Earth, by grade school kids. Apparently some kid has a flair for art and emoism.

I was there at One Night Dejavu!

I wrote on the Hong Kong SLAVES banner because I didn't have any. They were nice enough to let me write. Though, if LUNA SEA ever sees this, they'd probably think we're part of Hong Kong or something =\ The concert was AWESOME, by the way.

Sad dogs in Harajuku

If I was the dog and I had to don this ridiculous outfit, I'd be sad too.

Cosplayers in Harajuku

There was some cosplay event at the bridge in Harajuku. Also, another highlight was an old man all dressed up in a pink dress and having tea. Photos will not be posted here for the sake of sanity.

A little night photography at the Asahi Beer Hall

The headquarters of the popular Asahi beer brand, just a really big stone throw away from our hostel!

Azumabashi at night

At where we were staying in, Asakusa, there are three bridges, a red, a green and a blue. Ours was nearest the red, Azumabashi.

The bridge that we never take

This is the road that we religiously never fail to jaywalk, because who the hell in their right mind would take an overhead bridge when jaywalking is so much easier? Ignored on a daily basis.

Tokyo by night

Taken on top of the Tokyo Tower.

Ferris Wheel in Odaiba!

You can see all the way to Odaiba, the offshore island from the Tokyo tower! Brochures boast that on a clear day Mount Fuji is visible too.

Streets of Tokyo

I wanda if yoo know, how they they drib in To-ki-yo/ Once you've seen it then you mean it then you know you have to go/ FAST AND FUYIOUS!!!!! DRIB! DRIB! DRIB!

Tokyo Tower

Er. Looks a bit like my photo of the Eiffel Tower HERE.

WARNING! SEPHIROTH FANATISM AHEAD!
zomgwtfbbqSEPHY!!!!!!11!!

Like any Square fan, one MUST make a pilgrimage to the Square-Enix showcase and zOHMIGOSHIT'SSEPHIROTH!!

HABAHABABLADALADEESEPHYYY

*frothsdroolspasms*

zOMGWTFBBQSEPHYISNEKKID!!!!

YOUDON'TSAY???NEKKID!??*DIES*

Now that that was over, we move on to other more normal stuff.

But, pedophilia isn't normal!!

Oh dear, I seem to have contracted Charmaine's apparent pedophilia. But how can one see this kid and not go "Sooo cute!"??? And take pictures.

Ok I need help

The sister, in Minnie costume!

We now present you nice pictures of animals.

So now what, it's bestiality???

Okok how about Chip and Dale, it's harmless right??

If talking animals on crack are your thing, perhaps.

Proof that I have been to Disneyland

Other than pedophilic pictures of adorable kids, here's a nice harmless fountain.

Wanted!

Found posted on a notice board while queuing up forever for the Toontown ride.

What a room setting

Very seedy.

Dine in all resplendence

in the castle in Alice in Wonderland. It's a restaurant, I think.

Random hanging things

Off the Roaring Thunder Mine Ride or something like that.

Random rusty tools

In the 2 hour queue in the Roaring Thunder Mine Ride or something like that.

The Ride itself

Can you see me? That's right. I'm the one... behind the camera. Haha.

Very nice decor

To distract you, and take your mind off the fact that you've been queuing for 2 hours and are nowhere near the ride.

Apt desciption

Kinda describes my situation with money.

The ride of DOOOOOOM

Forget roller coasters. I present to you the ride of CHAOS AND FURY! TEACUP RIDES! PH33R THE SPINNERS THAT LIE WITHIN. A seemlessly harmless ride harnesses the power and fury of hell in the disguise of a teacup.

Fancy spaceship

The prettiest ride you've ever ridden. It's like Singapore's Escape Theme Park's indoor roller coaster, but so much more impressive. Especially the part where you're immersed in a galaxy of stars.

I like the band

A small brass ensemble with a sousaphone!

Disney Castle

Ironically, the only attraction we didn't go.

Birds

The following pictures of the birds are just an excuse for me to show off my photographic skillzzzz.

Birds in flight 1

Blah blah blah.

Birds in flight 2

Bloo bloo bloo.

Bird almost in flight

La la laa.

The underside of a wing

Actually looks rather pretty.

A famous lotus pond

Is now but a mass of dead leaves and yellowing vegetation. Outside the Shitamachi Hakubutsukan (Shitamachi Museum).

Wealth-beckoning cat

They have them back in the Edo-era too! Ok it probably originated from those times anyway.

Colorful straps

To make the old wooden clogs used in the ancient times.

Above-mentioned clogs

Just so you know.

How they washed clothes in the past

Really tiringly. Ok for those who are lost, the before photos are taken in the Shitamachi museum, which showcases and preserves the old ways of ancient Japan.

Tea anyone?

Teaset in a very small room.

The modern-old days

Hey my grandma had that sewing machine too!

Guess where I got lost?

In Shinjuku ni(2)-chome. With a friendly sign above the street proclaiming "Friendly Street". The colorful flag attests to it.

Kupo!

My very own moogle! Pity the pom-pom's a little small though.

Perfect for Lulu wannabes

Aw, how adorable. I <3 my moogle. I feel like getting the cactuar too.

That's about the pictures I have to upload. It's kinda tiring to do so. Wish me luck in being able to go for the competition in Canada, then that way I'll have more pictures to upload!

Photos (finally!) of EOY07!

2008-01-05T08:09:00.000-08:00

Ok I know they suck (insert mandatory sad smiley) but at least I tried....

Ok on with the criticism and somewhat trying-to-be-funny-captions to make up for the lack of photographic quality.

As usual, to be segregrated into pictures with Rachel in them and those without. I seem to go to cosplays with her, often, don't I?

Easily my favourite

Rei practices emo-ing Into the Sun woaahhhhhh, on account of having her hand in a sling.

Poison

Of course, every Evangelion star needs her coffee fix, and what better way to get it than at Coffee Bean's?

Rei and fREInd

Pardon my bad pun. I know it's not punny I mean funny. Gawd kill me. And bad spelling too.

Shocking!

Rei's bedroom is shockingly pink! Bet y'all fanboys never knew that.

Honda something

From Samurai Warriors. The palm tree was probably an import.

Random red demon

I think they're related. Honda and this guy, because they were hanging around.

Years too late

The Calm (lol I typed 'Clam' originally) has long passed but still is Yuna dressed in pilgrimage wear. She should be donning skank-wear à la FFX-2 Yuna!

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!

On the account of rising oil prices...

This Optimus Prime has to make a cameo at EOY07 to make ends meet.

Naruto!

Number 890634598.

The latest fashion in Kendo

Kimono fusion, and a really big stick. The guy's butt in the background is disturbing.

My, what big guns you have

The better to ~~shove down your throat with~~ shut you up with, my dear.

Ratatouille, it ain't

Old-school, but never out of style.

Link and Zelda

Here's a little education for some: The one is green ISN'T ZELDA, eventhough the game's called Legend of Zelda. Yes you can thank me for that wisdom, I accept credit cards.

I like Link

He reminds me of Xandir, from Drawn Together.

I like Link Part 2

Yes you can really see it, the only one with 3 pics of him in it. Rachels/Reis not included.

I.... can give you

GATSBY! GATSBY.... GATSBY.... Obviously the hair stylant of choice.

Aww..

The Blue Badger from Phoenix Wright is heartbroken. Maybe because it ran out of batteries? When is Phoenix Wright 4 going to come out on Best Price version dammit???

Look!

It's the Ouendan cheer girls! Can you say, 'Hello, scratched DS screens'?

Ippongi Ryuuuuuta!

Despite the ferocious looking hair, he doesn't deliver much in the game. He's eaaaasy.

OSU!

Tanaka Hajime! Doumeki Kai (said in a gruff voice)! One's an annoyance, the other's a challenge. Sort of, until you meet the cheer girls.

Help I'm falling!

Oueran Host club members are not acrobats.

I think I'm getting old

But I can't remember where this character is from. Some Capcom game?

[END]

I was going to make some lame joke about REIchel but decided against it.

What SOLDIERS do for fun. Lawl.

2008-01-04T19:32:00.001-08:00

Wanna keep fit? Wanna be a SOLDIER, just like your favourite Cloud or Zack? What better way to do it, than to do SQUATS? Do it safely and from the comforts of your own home.

Rules are simple, click 'CLICK' when the dot thing reaches either up or down, to go either up or down. Do 25 squats for a bonus! Or more.

The Infamous Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core Zack Squatting Game

SOLDIERS DO SQUATS, DO YOU?

Bad day down, rest of the year to go.

2008-01-01T05:44:00.000-08:00

Firstly, my phone wouldn't send and/or receive messages or calls. In short, being everything but a phone.

I was almost late for the short unicycling stint.

I AM SICK DAMMIT.

Kurabing is overrated. Maybe being sober is the reason why. But MOS is bad, other stuff shall not be mentioned on this blog.

Learnt alot, lost quite some.

Cryptic, isn't it? Or maybe because I'm too lazy to type coherently. I blame (not alcohol, I've yet to be drunk) the stupor of sinusitus.

Inspiration for an unfinished poem.

2007-12-21T00:04:00.000-08:00

I have gotten an inspiration, but I'm in a weird place to work on it (read: Tokyo). So, I shall just write down pointers before I forget. And Japanese keyboards are weird. Like, eventhough the button says "(", I pressed it and it came out as a "*".

Anyway here goes.

My river

(Throbbing, throbbing bleakly against the beat and
ebbing, it brings to break against its swollen banks.)
(The brook has flooded, its breakers breached.)
(My river flows not in rain, it beats,)
(blaring its bleats and pleads)
(As crash of thunders, peal of lightning
flash and splash
that illuminates
what feeds your appetite)
(Still the ice that lies within as
you feast upon men.)

Random lines that popped into my head as I was walking along the canal/river and it was raining heavily. And as I thought them up, I was wondering what they meant and I realized they meant something to me. True these are not the original as I remembered thinking of them (this is written in Tokyo) but the first line is close enough. As I thought up these lines, I sought to wright a line that captured the undulations of the hypnotic in which the river flows, not placcidly but in beats, like a heart. Heavy on alliteration it's almost jejune, but after the idea of this poem was formed in my head I began to wonder what it meant to me. Obviously it's something personal, and I realized, "Hm, how true. That to truly deceipher a poem's intention, by teasing out the literal can you then allude to what it's supposed to mean. I only hope what it means remain close to only me.

It is only as such when I chose not to seek to write something, which usually turns out patterned and arraigned, but when emotions or subconsciousness takes over and overwhelms that such raw emotions are materialized into writing. Then will it not rhyme.

Spectacular and not-so-spectacular.

2007-12-06T05:14:00.001-08:00

While gallivanting and frolicking in Australia (I kid), I have found time (surprisingly) to do poi and random stuff.

Here's poi:

Oooh pretty...

That was pretty fun though.

And here's random stuff:

Oh not so pretty

I suck at it, seriously. I offer you a better looking one done by someone else better than me.

Ooh prettier..

I know I suck. Don't have to rub it in yea? But Mervy's rose is definitely nicer. Mine is so obviously amateurish.

I have been up to art!

2007-11-26T00:05:00.000-08:00

At least I know the army hasn't made me unable to draw, yet. But boredom drove me to this.

The Boy With the Love Letter

The Girl Who Received It

As you can tell, while still able to draw, the army has rendered totally unable to come up with nice sounding titles.

These were conceived and drawn while in Australia, during excercise Wallaby. Finally finished digitally today.

Inspirations were: Tim Burton, AAA, Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things, a unicycle, streetlamps, Harlequin, my fingers, free time, butterflies, a surf shop in Australia called Jay Jays and Snoopy.

Ridiculous.

2007-09-24T06:49:00.000-07:00

It seriously is, ridiculous, seeing the lapse of updates that I have on this blog as opposed to elsewhere (winks).

This here is a logo I designed for the upcoming uni-hockey competition to be held in Singapore.

The Logo

After MUCH procrastination, I finally did it, much to the dismay of Maxim, and Jiahui at Maxim's incessant badgering.

But hey, for say a few hours of work it turned out nice, eh? And to think I had to make more than one for selections. But seriously this wasn't the one I wanted to make and use. I had in mind on of a silhouette of a unicyclist in a rounded triangle, but because I cannot draw for nuts, much less with a mouse, it turned out horribly terrible. So this was the better effort, simply because, it's stylized lines. I think I have an affinity with them. They seem to work for me.

Of unworthy note, the words were originally APACHC, which makes no meaning anyway. Not that APUC does, also.

And for a remembrance's sake, here's a historic one.

OMGness

OMG I can't believe I once made something like that.

Seriously.

Ok, I'm still not retarded yet.

2007-04-24T04:45:00.000-07:00

Just when I thought being in the army means mental and intellectual retardation, I found sufficient inspiration and (gasp) smartness to actually churn out a poem! So my lit-y skillzzz are not lost yet. Good.

Written just before the claymore mine demolition live firing exercise (phew a mouthful), inspired by the surroundings there.

Opulence

Nature needs not Swarovski,
she accessorizes sufficiently,
her birch - adorned with morning's earrings
that captures her bounty
in rounded lighting.
Each finger, each sinew,
lit up by a simple dew.
Her dress a vibrant greening,
richer than a tailor's keening
dye; it dies, her dress.
But that's what makes it so alive.

Who needs poufs, when her shy own
fronds and fringes sprout
roundlets of pink - closely, each
formed by the slendest stalk,
tipped by down; ouch. It bites.
So much so for fragile beauty.

She bedecks her veils with curtains of liquid silk,
spun as clear as sunlight,
that covers her earthen expression.
Though,
vampires breed within.

Her reddish hue,
dug up by winches of men.
Her supports,
felled by the hungry, greedy teeth of iron.
Her runnings,
blighted by man's madness machines' running.
Does Man hate her beauty?
Or is it just jealousy?

I/We're famous!

2007-04-14T02:38:00.000-07:00

Sort of. That the Singapore Unicyclists appeared on TV, the programme 'Alternative Sports Diary' on Channel 5 at last tuesday? Somewhere there.

[Part 1]

[Part 2]

[Part 3]

I am We are One.

2007-04-13T22:17:00.000-07:00

I am We are One

To wright a mass of words you have to think,
to write a mess of words, uncanny rhyming.
The art of writing quite a profound learning.
No. Poems are so much more.

To halve oneself and live, are whole, are they?
And half again the cuts you leave no being
intact. The pieces clamor for much stitching.
And not. Are we then so much less?

To err and fault, the result of thine thoughts.
Inherent blame of mine, is this the passing?
Or schisms claim the penance of the failing?
Never. We are so much equal.

Singapore: A spectrum.

2006-12-26T07:49:00.000-08:00

I might or might not have mentioned that I have started a photographic project for myself, to remember Singapore by when I 1)leave Singapore (hopefully) 2)leave for NS 3)become senile 4)all of the above.

It's called Singapore: A spectrum because duh, it aims to capture Singapore in shades of the spectrum. Colors to be included in the project are red, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, brown, black, white and possibly gray. So far, I've only 16 or 17 pictures and the target of 69 pictures I've set myself is still a long way to go, because I require 6 pictures for each genre.

I doubt I'd be able to complete it before I leave for NS. Bah, fie on National Slavery. That'll mean goodbye to photography, unicycling and everything else that NS is not.

I'll not post prospective pictures that will make it into Singapore, A Spectrum, but I'll post those that I've gathered along the way that are not

Here they are.

I'm still struggling to find pictures with a dominant color theme in them. These are the ones that failed.

My projects don't go smoothly, huh. Next up, pictures of the almost completed (sans paint and alot of detailing. Bah that makes it not 'almost completed, is it?) Oblivion keyblade!

My wish for Singapore.

2006-12-13T21:51:00.000-08:00

I wish for...

For Singapore!

Heretical isn't it? I drew that at the Esplanade today where this guy was asking passers-by to write their wishes. Being the oh-so-generous kindred soul that I am, I give my wishes to Singapore.

The day my wish will come true will be when pigs fly. Or if it does, I'd be celebrating it from a prison cell.

Merry New Year, y'all!

(The blob at the bottom right says 'hexacoto')

You know you're not playing fair when...

2006-11-28T21:41:00.000-08:00

THIS happens.

This is rather fun, it is. To chain more than 2000 ghasts so far. Pity the counter runs up to 999 only. As if we're unable to achieve more.

Bah, you underestimate us, Square-Enix.

christmas comes early!

2006-11-24T23:41:00.000-08:00

tangible anticipation is not fun, because it wrenches your hearts so. i was aching for the hour to come and receive my flag pois and glow pois.

and received them i did. here are some pics of the glow pois.

p.s: only a few of them were really me doing the pois. the others are just me holding on to the poi and moving them around.

can you guess which are the ones that are actual things done on a poi and which are fake?

Rare photos of... myself?

2006-11-06T21:03:00.000-08:00

Seeing how I hate to have photos taken of myself (*snap* gah my sooouulll!!) and have been honing my ninjitsu-esque skillz at evading the lens of the camera, inevitably there must be one or a few times when my ninja!powers fail me, as are the photos I'm about to present.

They're really rare! Because even I don't know they exist, until Chun Hui showed them to me. They're pictures of me when I was primary 2 or 3, and one when I was in primary 4.

That's Chun Hui when we were much younger and that was the old PEPS band uniform. It had long pants and it was stifling hot. I remembered walking home in those one day because... I don't really quite remember either. I must have missed the school bus or something. I walked all the way back to Hillview, which is rather far away. I think I took 1-2 hours to reach home. I'm the guy on the right pranking Chun Hui.

I really miss those days.

The guy next to me is Cedric. Did he use to look so old? I have no idea who the girl with the mouth agape is, and the girl with long hair seems to be Yu Miao, a chinese girl from my class who played flute, but I can't be really sure.

Group photo with the band and the new uniform. Of course you can't see me in this tiny picture, so I shall enlarge to the portion where I stand.

To the left of me is Jacky Lee Cheuk Yin (ha I remember names in full), to the bottom left is Salwa and to the right of her is Sim Wei Fang. Both Cheuk Yin and Salwa play the cornet, as I do, and Wei Fang the clarinet.

I really miss those days.

tarantella, part 2?

2006-10-22T07:23:00.000-07:00

Ok I saw this honking big spider in the bath just now, and have spend 10 treacherous, agonizing minutes trying to take a picture of it in super bad lighting (low light, fluorescent, shadows from my big, fat head.) and I sweated like crazy while trying to steady my shaking hands (I swear I must be suffering from pre-mature arthritis!) and insane humidity.

Almost all, if not all, of the pictures were blurry. Like bleeeeeaahhhhhhh-ry.

So bad, photoshop can't save it much.

Here are the not-so-blurry ones.

The spider was about 2cm long (that's very long!) including the legs. It was a female spider I think and it's... mandible? was really big and scary! The two front pincer like things that point down.

And no, I didn't kill it. Neither was it dead when I took the picture. It tried to move and I waited for it to stop before taking the picture.

I'm quite ok with spiders, as long as they don't drop into my mouth or bite me. After all, they help eat mosquitos and flies which I hate more! In fact I welcome spiders!

After a few months of work on the oblivion...

2006-10-02T03:37:00.000-07:00

Ooh, a Black and Decker jigsaw costs only $70! Way cheaper than the 100 over that I expected it to be. So Tzong Hong and I went to Jurong Point to get the jigsaw!

And alot of work was done with a functioning jigsaw, though the pollution was really bad. The jigsaw cut very well, but it has this tendency to throw the sawdust everywhere into the air. Which is irritating and pollutive. Twice has sawdust gotten into my eye, and by Tzong Hong's count, three for him.

Here are some 'before' pics!

'After' pics to come when we're finished with it, after our A levels. That's really long.

I took only 2 pictures though. Shit I accidentally chipped the sharp edge of the keyhead as I took it out of the storeroom. It's not visible, but it's quite bad. Bah. Let's hope that the damage is not irrepairable.

Here they are!

2006-09-23T03:11:00.000-07:00

After the long delay in bringing the photos to completion (prelims, procrastination, pregnancy, alien abduction) I present the much-delayed photos!

Sentinels

Taking a well deserved rest after scaling the mount and the wall to get into Alkaff Mansion.

Sentinels 2

Plonking themselves outside the mansion, they look into the camera, smirking at their missing brother in this photoshoot.

Sentinels 3

Now where is Loz? As if to emphasize this point, Kadaj cocks his head.

Sentinels 4

Phew that sure was tiring. Kadaj takes a break from prodding, Yazoo is persistently depressed.

Close-up

Well Loz wasn't particularly good in the movie anyway, right? Save for the fight scene with Tifa.

The Door to Light

Kadaj sees the white door, previously locked, now open and he reaches to find Kingdom Hea... Wait isn't that a different game?

Relativity

Kadaj looks short, but actually it's the tallness of the door that shrinks Kadaj. Whee wonderland! Drink the potion! Go through the mini-door! Oops wrong game again.

Ambush

Yazoo waits in ambush of whoever's behind the door.

Lens flare

A chance angle catches the lens flare. The door doesn't look that tall now huh? The powers of angling your shots!

Upstairs

There's an upstairs?

Practise!

Practising swordplay with the souba, and mopy-ness.

Practise! 2

This pose to be used in scene 8 of the movie!

Yazoo, in light

Looks out of the window and thinks "Mmm Cloud... when are you coming already?"

Yazoo, in silhouette

Looking more menacing, with suitably menacing thoughts "I'm so going to punish you for being late. Hurr."

Marksman practise

Seeing how Yazoo never seems to successfully shoot Cloud EVER, he's practising his shooting. Kadaj seems to be in danger. "Don't shoot my ass!" >.<

Pissed at the photographer

He aims at the camera.

But logic kicks in...

I mean, if he shot the photographer, who'd take the rest of the photos?

My turn now!

It's my turn to have silhouette shot now! Kadaj gets that and a nice picture of his shadow shot too.

My souba is shiny

I polished it last night.

Precariously perched

But FF figures never fall off. Unless you're some lousy side-character like Reno.

Now, now

"Don't get so depressed," Yazoo to Kadaj. Do we smell incestual tension?

Heavily computerized image

8 pic compressed into one and some foul ups somewhere in the coloring composition.

No fountain of Midgar

This miniature one will do. Look it even has a pineapple on top of it!

Haha Loz

"Some many photos and guess what, Loz? You're not in any of them."

T3h 1nc35t!

Bringing the fantasy in Final Fantasy to whole new levels.

The End.

a random update!

2006-09-21T07:30:00.000-07:00

ok i find it rather hard for me to feel completely happy. maybe the shock of feeling 'haven't done well for econs' still drags me down a little but hey, prelims are over.

whee 41 days to the the a's (hey that rhymed! then again, 'X' number of days will rhyme, because it's the 'days' that rhymes with 'a's').

played the sims 2 and did interior designing! this is what transpired. the resolution really sucks. ha the in game camera is not worthy.

Bedroom pics

I'm quite proud of this design. thank goodness for their increase in architectural possibilities. the possibility of building dais and platforms sure allows for greater creativity.

Adjoining bathroom pics

The attached bathroom is small, but then again too big a bathroom really isn't nice, although i wished i made the bathroom bigger, so that i can put more things. then again it's cosiness is nice.

Interior of 1st floor pics

Some random interior things. I made the floor carpet myself! Forgot to add in the living room, but it's not very impressive.

Pathetic dining

My favourite: the kitchen

I think the inspiration was partly stolen from Ikea =) but hey, i don't have the versatility that ikea has, so it's not as nice. and it has some parts of my own invention. But I admit, the glass door concept, followed by the break-off and the open concept serving island was taken from ikea.

Exterior

Owing to the fact that i design the house inside out, the house takes on a weird shape and actually looks not bad and quite futuristic and modern!

Check out the glass 2-storey garage!

Pool

The pool has a bridge that leads to a central island that has two recliners. the characters actually can swim under the bridge! i'm amazed. they have indeed upgraded their building tools, because previously it wasn't possinle without hacking it.

that's all. maybe i'll re-edit this entry and put in the living room.

sorry for no updates...

2006-09-17T07:47:00.000-07:00

i'm having my prelims =( but once they're over i'll put up nereid's photos and actually be able to deliver them to her.

bah exams...

Rachel's pics are up first...

2006-08-29T05:55:00.000-07:00

Here are pics of Rach's photoshoot.

Test shot

Testing out the lights and the Yuffie.

Trying to act cute

I thought you were supposed to poke higher up on the cheek?

Posing in the colorful underground walkway

Bah we were eventually chased off by the security because they hate cosplayers. Right.

Vincent Valentine

No security guards this time, because we had a gun wuahahaha!

The glare.

...and a very scary glare.

Triple-barrelled gun

For 3 times the fun!

Noir et blanc

Great effect, achieving an effect sometimes color cannot.

Where is this place?

At Raffles area, just next to Lau Pa Sat.

Meanwhile...

...Yuffie sits in a way all mother-in-laws disapproves.

Pai Kia Yuffie

"You got problem ar?"

Same pose, but not so pai kia Yuffie

Actually, still looks pai-kia-ish. But makes for a good photo!

I can pout!

Muah!

Mmm, tao yan~ I've got a zit on my chin!

Right....

Hot!

Literally.

Noir et Blanc; deux

Another one of my favourite pics in this shoot.

Gimme a kiss, can?

~~Rach~~Yuffie want Vincent, like, so bad.

So bad...

...Vincent says 'No' and Yuffie has to settle for daydreams...

Emo time!

Mope.

But Yuffie cannot take it anymore

Die die must also break out in a pose!

Stretch!

Posing sure is tiring! But Vincent carries it off well. Or is he merely asleep?

Not exactly a Potion, but...

100 Plus works just as well! +100HP!

More posing.

More Yuffie.

Coy.

Running out of titles and subtitles...

Grins.

Really have no more titles to put yea.

Ha!

I successfully stole Cloud's materia! Yay!

"I still can't believe..."

...Lucrecia chose Hojo over me. Why??? Am I not good-looking?

My favourite pic

Yuffie still dreaming about Vincent. Tsk.

Ninja neko

Stealthily asleep.

Ninja Yuffie meets Ninja Neko!

Mrrraaoooww!

That's all for Rach's photoshoot. Next up, Nereid's.

Two photoshoot in a single day = Very tiring uploading.

2006-08-26T20:10:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went for 2 photoshoots, the first for Rach's at Raffles and the second for Nereid's at the abandoned Alkaff Mansion. It sure was fun sneaking and climbing into the mansion.

The photos will be up soon, I hope. There are 100 over pictures to edit.

Pictures of the CosFest that I don't have. Bah.

2006-07-24T04:06:00.000-07:00

Yes I went there late and missed everything. I went there without professional enough equipment (read: external flash and filters) and only managed to snap at the remnants of whatever was left of the CosFest. I came up with about 20 some pics though. Bah.

Final Fantasy X-2

Rikku from Final Fantasy X-2: International version with the spiffy new dress sphere that the rest of us mere mortals who can't read japanese, can't get, can't play.

More Final Fantasy X-2

I don't even know the name of that dressphere! =(

Sora

Remember her? She last appeared here in the StreetFest upload. She's back as Sora and she brought friends!

Kingdom Hearts II

Afore-mentioned friends.

Quistis! With a whip!

This one's really well done. Not medium or rare, but well done. The costume was quite immaculate. And whips!

Obligatory FFVII:AC pics

Because everyone loves them. And this guy has the full detachable First Tsurugi blade. Held in his hands are one of them.

Racially harmonious Captain Jack Sparrow

With the recent passing of Racial Harmony Day, we see here another version of everyone's favourite Captain Jack Sparrow.

Da Qiao?

Don't really know if this is Da Qiao from the Dynasty Warriors series, but not bad.

Because I'm running out of pics...

I put up yet another pic of 'Da Qiao'! Wouldn't it be funny if the cosplay turned out not to be about Da Qiao.

Vincent Valentine

Rachel's friend and co-partner in her cosplay. They did a Yuffintine cosplay, id est, a pro-Yuffie-and-Vincent relationship cosplay. Sorta. I'm not even sure about the details. Anyway, Vincent, yea.

Pics with Rachel in them

Rachel as Yuffie and her friend as, I don't really remember what.

Fangirl-ism

The really really good cosplayer who's face seemed to be so in tune with the character, eventhough I don't know what the cosplay is.

Fangirl-ism no.2

Bloop.

Moving on

Ladeedaa!

Naruto, I presume

Looks Naruto-ish.

My highlights

Kadaj! And Rachel's friend. Previously seen here as Riku, when Rachel cosplayed Selphie from KH2.

Highlight no.2

Yea still at it.

The last one

Like it says.

See? I told you I hadn't much pics.

Another poem!

2006-07-19T03:53:00.000-07:00

I wrote another poem, quite with the intention of submitting it to some poetry competition that Mrs Razal suggested but somehow, I'm not sure if it's good enough. Anyway, here it is.

Sin

My eyes appraise your formly shape,
as others are not wont to do.
Holding you, my eyes do partake
the supreme sheen of your glow.

Unlike the other philistines who take you without thought,
the promise of the pleasures you give
do more often than not
make me contemplate
your scent,
your touch,
your favor.

Shyly, like two strangers meeting,
I finger the clasp of your slip.
Lower and lower, I am peeling
the materials that clothe you.
Inching lower, your flesh exposed,
I draw a breath of delight
at the sight of your body.
My breath, withheld, comes out in staggered gasps
and mists on your surface.

Fully, without clothing here,
you stand in stark bareness.
My lips playfully nibble at your ear,
savoring your intense flavor.
A pink tongue runs over your body,
the resistance firm and steady,
but you cannot resist;
you melt under my pressure.

The tongue continues its exploration
downwards, downwards.
The pink rogue basks in adoration
of the heady scent, your musk;
sweet, with a tang of bitter.

Your cool exterior cannot deny
as you melt within me and I, with you.
The pleasures you yield signify
your need for me and mine, for you.
Bolder, I sink me into you,
the silent delight that traverse between us,
the best emotions are best left unspoken.
Falling into a spiral of ecstacy.

It is over, my hands are stick with your residue,
you leave so quickly, so soon.
Licking my fingers, savoring the session
of passion.

I sure do love my chocolate!

[end]

Haha I wonder if that was misleading? That was it's intention really. Hopefully whoever reads it won't be put off immediately by the lewd and quite crass blatant seediness.

Oh, some pics of the little photos I took in CosFest will come up soon.

Pics of the Singapore Street Festival cosplay thingamabob

2006-06-12T18:57:00.000-07:00

A group of 5, of 4 whom are Kingdom Hearts II characters; Riku, Kairi, Selphie and Roxas, went to Marina Bay for a photo shoot.

Most of my day seemed to have been spent doing one thing: waiting.

I'm kinda lazy to put titles and texts, so I'll just slap the lot which are better here.

It started out on a gloomy day. Oops I put in a description.

For the slow, Rach is Selphie. I liked the last one of Roxas, it's not bad. The buildings in the background kinda spoil the effect a little. I liked the 14th one of Riku too.

Procrastination defeated, Thailand pictures emerge.

2006-06-12T03:33:00.000-07:00

The title explains it all, right?

In Thailand for 8 days, even longer than the time I spent in Europe, yielded lesser quality pictures. This is not surprising however, and I thanks the stars and moon and whatever that at least I have about 20 plus passable pictures, with one or two even good enough to be considered for portfolio entry.

Here are the pictures. I shall more or less go in chronological order.

Take the lead

A message on the alcohol carrier, it says 'take the lead, drink responsibly'. Yea like anyone stoned right off their alcoholic mind is willing to read that miniscule message, or even able to understand it.

Rusty phone

The first artistic, arthouse, ok-quality faux-symbolic picture that I took in Thailand. A rarity in Singapore, a totem to the resistance of change in Thailand, and oh-so-totally disgusting to use, when hanging above is a watchful spider hanging from its web and the phone is rusted off its hooks.

Complex networks

The second attempt at artistic, arthouse etc. etc. and this features the lifeline of Thailand, of electricity and truthfully, it is quite unsightly in its sprawling chaos and disorderly placement. Quite a blemish really, but in it is its beauty.

Like I understand what I'm talking about (actually I do).

Road

Nothing extraordinary. Just a road.

Mobile Fruit Seller

Rent doesn't bother him. Authorities chase him. Fuel prices scare him. Meet.... the mobile fruit vendor! Armed with a a trusty motorcycle, wielding bags of groceries of eggs, celery, vegetables and some other random stuff, he brings cheap (and somewhat unhygienic) goods to the residents of Sattahip Naval Base.

Sun, sea, and a Laser

The Laser's the boat, the sea's the blue thing below and the sun is nowhere in sight. Maybe I meant to type 'Sky, sea and a Laser' as the title instead...

Workings of a young mind

Interesting to see what a small kid can come up with to fascinate himself. I found this picture so-so in terms of photographic skills, but i like the way his reflection is reflected off the wet sand.

Heineken

The preferred drink there, by the Singaporeans, who readily drink 'Probably the best beer in the world' instead of local brand 'Singha'. The multiple discarded bottle caps strewn around the ground attest to it.

Shell

Nothing much to say about it. It's a shell.

Workings of a young mind, part II

More pics of kids at play. Fascinating. Oh dear I sound vaguely pedophillic. Will my nose drop off next???

Contraptions

This particular piece of rope swing, a simple and crude one constructed out of rope tied around the centre of a single metal pipe provided lots of weird things for the Singaporean younger contestants. Like extending with their own ropes the swing to make a harness for the leg, or by tying a chair underneath to form a seat-down swing of sorts.

And the sun began to set...

This was taken on the 4th day I think.

The tide climbs...

I stuck my camera in the sand and amongst the rocks for this shot. I took two pictures, one where the tide was just about to break, the second being this, when the tide washed in. I kinda preferred this better, because it makes the sandbed all shiny.... oooohh bling bling!

Nature and nature's being

The dog was kind enough to pose for me. Pretty cool huh?

The torch that never was

Luckily for me I took the picture of the torch before all the other kids started to play with the 5 torches on the beach and successfully extinguishing all of them.

Night falls, but hurrah for slow shutters

This was taken at 9pm plus I think? But thanks to slow shutter 30 seconds, F2.0 aperture and what else, oh yea a filter of I-can't-remember-what, the sky still looks relatively bright. Man it looked really good on my camera, but bringing it to the computer kinda didn't bring out the über-ness of how it looked like on my camera.

Prayer

Taken on the 3rd last day. This was taken at the four-faced buddha statue.

Nature's telephone wires

This was taken on the second last day in Sattahip, at the fruit farm. A grape vine tendril, I think.

Bee!

Closeup of a worker bee! Didn't take a picture of the queen bee though.

Le grand finalé

Watch someone piss fire! Woah he really really held it back in huh?

That's all.

The transition of my photo-takings

2006-05-29T03:43:00.000-07:00

How I've changed from an amateur pretending to professional, or at least attempting to be, to a slightly better amateur pretending to be professional, or at least attempts to be one.

From trying not to point-and-shoot, to better grasped knowledge but mostly flawed of the workings of shutters and apertures, to calculated angles and lighting and finally macro and manual zoom and focus features, the road has been more than a year so far and the improvement is visible.

The first few attempts not to be amateur, the results were averageable.

The most noticeable of the improvements were the sunset pictures, id est, pictures of sunsets. By the time I got to JC, at innova, I had some graspings of aperture 2.0 As seen in the flower picture, the background picture is blurred. This allowed for greater planned pictures.

A significant growth was seen in my trip to Australia. One of the main reasons why I want to travel is because each trip provides opportunity for growth and learning as well as snapshot opportunities. However lighting control in Australia pics were really bad. I didn't have much done in the lighting control, hence most pics were over-exposed or under-exposed or had rogue shadows.

The trip to Europe proved my theory right. Travel improves my photography skills.

I grew exponentially as lighting, exposure, shutter speed and apertures were controlled and mastered. Some featured manual focusing and a full manual mode. Quick fingers were also quickened because of some fleeting scenes, those that you couldn't wait to get the best angle because then it would have been gone already.

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Why am I mentioning all these? Well I'm going to Thailand soon on the 1st of June, and I feel that I might not be able to glean as much as I wish to from this trip because it's a trip with my parents, I wouldn't have the freedom as I did in Europe.

Freedom is my passport to a trip of learning and improvement. I wasn't particularly happy in my Australia trip, I did mention. I went with them too for that one.

I hope to earn enough in my break after the A levels for an air ticket to America with my cousin. To America, without my parents once again, is a trip I relish and fervently hope for. I wouldn't want to borrow again for a trip there. Maybe for the expenses, but the air ticket, I would want to pay for it myself.

My design for my primary school band T-shirt

2006-05-11T08:08:00.000-07:00

It's simple, it's noir et blanc.

My consolidation of my poems.

2006-04-11T06:30:00.000-07:00

Just so I know what I've written, I'm gonig to chunk all my poems here. They range from the most recent to the not-so-recent, in that order.

Desperately rhymed and rythm-ed

It was a night for artful poet's speech,
a greater night one just could not beseech.
A club, it was, where this event was held,
of poet's hearts, in rhyme, the audience felt.

It all seemed right, it did, when starting out,
McNiece did rant about American flout
of wars and squalls, the grunt's welfare's ignored.
"No wars," they pray, yet more often than not,
their cries turned blind, no one can see their plight.
What's left is seen in Ray's poem and pride.

But as the judges graced the bartop seats,
the poems' standard did begin to slip.
The stage was but a playground for the kids
that play with words and try to make them click
to rhyme in limericks, skits and aural tricks.
And even if the poem's point was dear,
the gimmicks presence can't but help to blur,
the meaning of it all, the poem's smeared
by childish stints to make them seem favored.

Of all the teams that did participate,
they most had salient poems to narrate.
But no! They pranced and danced and made a fool
of their poems, poetry's but a tool
for their own purpose, not to seek nor lead,
but as a mean to win five hundred quid.
Integrity is missing in this slam,
as poetry is now something that's 'glam',
and to participate is intellect,
when verily their poems do quite lack
respect.

Paraded like a clockwork monkey, no?
It's acted out, it's trite and all a show,
teams after teams repeat the same old thing,
poetry now has but become a fling
for these poets, if they can be called thus,
disdain for poems seen in every verse
as they with smug expressions take the stage
and douse the audience with contrived garbage.

I'm sorry I condemn and acting thus,
but poetry is like my papyrus,
to scribe my thoughts and other discontent,
in rhyme and verse, my frustrations are vent.

Yet of the rest, there were a few good gems
that brought out spice to this poetry slam.
Called Kueh Kuehs, they had points to bring across,
they didn't need tricks, they had plain discourse
of womanhood, of blithe society;
vagina; unrest; stark community.

I left the venue enveloped in stench,
of chimneys' exhaust, produced by the bench
that seated next to us, group of many,
had fags to burn, their intake was aplenty.

I left the venue quite at loss for words,
my virgin slam, I remain quite perturbed.

Concrete

The grain and gravel
that crunch beneath my feet.
Gray; unfeeling,
waiting to tear the skin
of uncovered knees
that trip over the gaps between,
raised by undergrowth, warped by time.

Walking down, the grass that grows within
boxed planters of concrete,
growing, without freedom
to expand out of the pruned boundaries.

The monoliths that line the sides,
rise up to impale the sky,
as it bleeds,
red and purple,
casting lengths of darkness below,
living behemoths that house the hive
of hundreds, thousands residents.

The flowers flourish on the sidewalk,
as spurned petals from trees grace the concrete.
The gray finds company from the yellows,
who fell from grace from the majesty of pruned rain trees.
The explosion of color (not colors) grant reprieve
but only till the sweeper comes.

A Pupil

The pupil reacts to life,
it takes in sights, both bad and nice.
At tender age, it has to strife
for laziness, they claim, induces slack eyes.

Eyes cannot speak, the pupil notes,
all glittering black and watery.
In schools, the teachers shriek
and pupils dilate in fear,
for fear of the hard edge
against their sides,
the pupil contracts.
Eyes crossed out.

The pupil now sees, with passing age,
from behind a cataract
of clouded vision, tainted views,
the pupil is myopic.

The Ideal Singaporean

The Ideal Singaporean,
is a global citizen.
He fasts on science, he mechanizes.
The perfect automaton.

The ideal Singaporean,
speaks what he wants to say,
only if it agrees with propaganda.
The perfect proletariat.

The ideal Singaporean,
is a fluent speaker
of many tongues, though fractured and twisted.
Ah, excellent communicator.

The ideal Singaporean
will never write this poem.

Speech

My poem lacks strength and form,
My essays in want of spirit.
My discourse dull and lacking,
for I do not know why I speak.

There is no reason, there is no right
as can and can'ts conflict.
I want to speak, I really do
But no! For rules and laws are rigid.

What is this freedom you peddle,
bonded with sloughs you've drawn with your hand?
I see dismal banters, waning colors -
Bland.

The Master and the Sea

No matter how it tries to keep him in,
No matter how the waves threaten to sink,
The Master rides, aloft the hefty seas,
Defies the tide, the Master reigns supreme.
Deluged in knowledge, tries to stifle him,
Pertubed with concerns of the Master's whims.
It scolds with torrents, briny watery sins,
The Master's weak, yet right he claims to be.

The bolt and shackle, ties me, tries to, it;
Establishment, vast, vague and yet vapid.
I am the ruler of my own true means,
No spilling grave shall lord me. For because
the might of power, parental loving
shall protect me from evil raging dints
on mine true pride and honor, tis too dear.
No one but me knows what for me is clear.

Poor little sailor, don't you see your doom?
Your whiny steerings, naught but bad will loom.
My churnings seek not to undo your will,
But only to ensure eventually you've learned.

I am the Master, I decide my fate.
Your piteous waves are weak and meek; stupid.
Do I not know my own true course in life?
Your meddling floods, bother others, not mine.

Hark my ebbs, young Master, you have no time
Tsunami waits to claim your worthless life.

Foolish sea, you should end ceaseless pleas.
Always adrift? Ha! Just you wait and see.

He is my Master, I, the sea have tried.

It tries to make me submit to its tides.

The Man

The man smiles into the mirror,
the reflection smiles back at him.
He sees true self, true feelings,
the replied grin's no hypocrite.

Beyond the mirror, behind the man,
Men sees man smiling into mirror.
They frown
for man's merry mirth appears on shiny screen.

The man turns around,
the reflection too.
No more mirrored smiles on the glaze,
Men's frowns disappear too.

The man ceases to be merry,
for Men are happy.
Man turns back to mirror, frowns,
reflection frowns too.

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Woah that's a hellotta shitload of poems I've written. I never knew I wrote so much.

A little tarantella here...

2006-04-10T06:25:00.000-07:00

Tarantalla: Said to be a frenzied dance people in the past use to do whenever they got bitten by tarantula, in a bid to outdance the poison, to save their lives. Named after Taranto, a town in Italy, according to legend, an epidemic of tarantula poisonings spread through the town of Taranto. The victims (tarantata) were typically farm women or others whose daily life might reasonably bring them into contact with the kinds of spiders that run in the fields.

And I now present to you a picture a a spider found in a nice corner of my house's toilet. It is not a tarantula, but it still is a spider.

Meet my pet

I name her Peter Parker. Or Tobey Maguire, whichever sounds nicer. She was orginally emaciated, starving and destitute, roaming the cold, harsh tiles of my toilet. The cold wintry drafts mercilessly whipped the eight legged loner. On first sight, she was hardly visible. Her abdomen lacking lustre and color, heck, she was almost invisible on the camera! But when a samaritan came along and gave her a gift of 2 mosquitos, she lived!

St Vitus's dance

She's shy, she doesn't like people to see her eat. Unlike certain Charmaines I know, this petit spider actually has able manners! Well, not that she eats off a table, but yea. Oh yea, it was I who dropped that mosquito conveniently into her web. But this mosquito was more or less killed by my attempt to catch it. The other 2 that I dropped in were still alive, only comatose.

The difference between F2.0 and F8.0

2006-03-23T07:26:00.000-08:00

People who are not savvy with their cameras, might wonder what the '' A' function in their digital camera does. That isn't the 'Action!' function, nor is it an 'Activate!' function to release some hidden powers within. It is simply the aperture function, where one adjusts the aperture and hence, the diaphragm within.

But what use is this mode anyway? Well though it changes the amount of light entering, that is not its sole purpose. We have exposure settings for that. Or flash. Or even shutter speed. The purpose of the aperture function is to change the size of area of focus of the pictures.

At most digital cameras, with the diaphragm thrown open at F2.2, the area of focus is narrowest and tightest. Likewise the opposite, F8.0, where the diapragm is very narrow, only a fraction of a centimetre wide, even less, the focus area is huge, even infinite.

Here's a picture of something taken at F2.0 to show you what I mean.

the first dice is focused, but the rest are blurred. This is a pretty comon and cheapskate effect that is achieved through the aperture function and impresses the pants of laymen pretty much.

Here's one taken at F8.0

With a smaller opening for light to enter, the picture is significantly darker, and the shutter has to be opened longer to compensate. Hence one needs a steady hand to do it, or it'll turn out blurry should the hand shake while the shutter is open momentarily. I held the camera shutter open at 5 seconds, if I were to remember correctly.

All the die are focused now.

Now all you imaginary audience are a step closer to achieving easily done camera effects to impress the pants off laymen.

Final Fantasy XII Potion.

2006-03-22T06:08:00.000-08:00

I have one of those! The really cool, money-sucking ploy by Square-Enix and their liege Suntory, and totally terrible tasting health drink is mine!

Lovely pictures!

Oh I've got the nicest design amongst the 6! These are all six of them.

I've got the 5th one from the left. There are 27 cards in total. Mine's of Basch!

My potion

I finished the whole drink so as to facilitate the keeping of it. It sucks though. Eventhough I've put in 12 cubes of ice already, it was barely cold. And it tasted terrible warm, because it was thick.

Blue shadow

The thing the potion is standing on is a cup. See the nice blue shadow when the flash falls upon the bottle?

Another cheap shot

This time slightly underexposed.

The cap

It looks especially nice when the light penetrates through it, because of its facets.

I'm running out of captions

Diddly diddly doo!

Top view!

Laadeedoodameep!

Door and closet

That's my bedroom door on the left, and a closet on the right. Yes I shot these pictures on the floor of my bedroom. So what?

Hummm

Just in cased you missed the blue shadow in the previous pictures, here's it again.

Basch

The Basch card that I got. Rachel took the Ashe card, but I think Basch looks better anyway than the Ashe card.

Basch, up close

The better to gawk at.

Mouth

The mouth of the bottle.

Insides

The interior of the bottle.

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Quite a lot of these pictures were taken in full manual mode on a digital camera, the Sony DSC-F828. Yes I know it's redundant to use a full manual mode on an automatic focusing digital camera, but sometimes using the focusing ring and adjust the aperture yourself allows for better macro and close-up shots.

None of these pictures were photoshopped, well, save for the fact that they were resized to be shown here.

CIP thing at West Coast

2006-03-16T06:03:00.000-08:00

What is CIP? I think it stands for Community Involvement Programme, no doubt another evil scheme by the ministry to make us while our time away. I dont think the community was involved very much, unless you consider Leann's disturbing of the cleaners as an involvement.

Other than that, pictures!

Singaporeans really are a disgrace to themselves. The amount of litter in the wooded areas is appalling. There are like little concentrated packs of cigarette butts sporadically. What are they, illicit chain smokers?

Also found was a cup of red syrup thing, and a pile of dog poo totally infested with flies that went PHWOAR when one walks near it.

Just like in Lord of the Flies. Sick.

Dirty Singaporeans

Tissue number #195 of 129452 picked up. Bah, and you know what? This tissue was picked up within 2 meters vicinity of 6 rubbish bins packed together.

Maybe it was because there were too many rubbish bins that they couldn't make up their minds and threw it on the floor instead.

Alien visitation!

You know how people say aliens leave circular burn marks when they visit? Well here we find various circular left behind spots of cigarette butts, no doubt left behind by visiting aliens from some lung cancer infested planet. Dang just what does their spaceship run on?

Just in case

Just in case this tree decided to run away, let us label them so they'll appear on the blip when they do!

Fleur

Flowers are pretty. What else can I say?

Fallen leaf

Is it the tree that has abandoned the leaf or the leaf that has left the tree? What stupid clichés. See the red that courses through the leaf, as though blood continues to flourish through its veins, as it lies helplessly on the sidewalk.

Me against the world

Slacking, but making for a very picture. Although she didn't help much in the cleaning up of the park, she made a good picture against the tree. Egad, she needs a tree to make herself more eye-catching! Is that sad or what?

Quality time

Something missing in everyone nowadays.

Refraction

While having the lens adjust its lens (and hence focus), the sunlight refracts and creates a rainbow like effect. Is that cool or what? Look at the pavement for the rainbow effect.

By the way none of these pictures were photoshopped. Taken on Leann's camera, but by me.

I am an EMO M&M!!!

2006-03-06T05:11:00.000-08:00

I am an M&M, and I am sick of my place in the strata of society. I've always wished to melt someone's heart, but more often then not, melted in someone's mouth, but never in their hands.

WHY??? WHY?????!?!?!?? Why must I be subjected to such inane destinies? Nobody understands me. NOBODY. Locking myself in my room, I unsheath the pen-knife, that would open up infinite escapes and possibilites within me. All I need is this cutting edge. All I need is me.

Looking off the edge of the table, I see infinite swirling depths. I see a concrete floor, I anticipate a thwack, I see hope.

I am a Red M&M, and I like Simple Plan, Good Charlotte and Blink 182. I think they're so relating to my life.

I can never be perfect, no matter how hard I try. Always, no matter how, I'm never good enough for them. Amidst my hard candy-coated exterior, really, within me is a soft gooey chocolate mush that nobody cares for.

Nobody loves me.

I see hate, I see black. I am red.

With this, I shall leap to freedom, to greater heights.

Farewell, all.

*Jumps*

gasp! my trumpet is a CAM-WHORE!

2006-03-04T23:28:00.000-08:00

it's sad, but it's true. my trumpet loves the camera light and craves attention. it trills in rapt excitement with every photo taken of itself. how ironic, considering its owner (me) hates the camera's attention.

here are some of its whoring.

isn't my trumpet such a camera slut? *tsk!* but i do love my trumpet!

a random pic

2006-02-26T06:50:00.000-08:00

Familial warmth

a random pic taken on the 18th of Feb, wow i must have been really lazy to have only posted it 8 days later. in fact i totally forgot i took this picture.

nice heartwarming picture depicting familial love, the father's a caucasian, so nope Singaporeans still aren't as heartwarming as we imagine ourselves to be.

by no means the best, because they WERE smiling and laughing, but i couldn't just run up to their face and take their happiness, could i? all i could do was secretly snap them from behind.

in fact, i wished i was invisible, so i could just go capture the moment of happiness on the children's and parents' faces.

sigh.

Pics of something..oh yea, Geog trip

2006-02-15T04:32:00.000-08:00

Went to the URA at somewhere, took pics and posting them now.

WTF??

Ok... this is one of the lanterns being hung (heh) in the concourse of the school. People sure have a weird sense of humor...

Random pic 1

Taken from a model of the downtown district.

Random pic 2

Upscale housing just outside the business district, taken from the same model blah blah

Random pic 4

More upscale housing, posting this pic because it looks like it's night and blorgh braaaaaaap....

Random pic 5?

Ok, I have no idea what this is. But this was taken in a hurry because everyone was leaving.

Some spoilt globe

Some stupid spoilt interactive globe that we were supposed to be using to do our worksheets, but we can't because obviously it is SPOILT that's why. But it still makes a great picture though.

The pictures here onwards are the ones I personally like.

Along Singapore River?

I like the effect i got from this picture, (goes into a egoistic trip and gushes about my mediocre ELITEZ photo taking skillzz).

Idyllic beach

Nice white balance and no red filters used, i actually managed to create an orange glow from the picture! Notice the focused kite, all pictures from here onwards were taken with manual focus and aperture and shutter settings.

The woman in red

Taken at manual focus (whee the focusing ring is really fun to play with). Man their reconstructions of people really suck. This one looks like bits and piece of maché stuck together. But I like the picture because of the starkness of everything else and focus on the woman to the exclusion of all else.

Voting booth

This is a voting booth that people use in one of the rooms to answer questions thrown at them in an interactive video thing hosted by local comedian Gurmit Singh. Nice how a mundane object is turned into a mundane unidentifiable object.

Ripples

This isn't really hard to take yea? Fast shutter (i think i used 1/400?) and someone's finger to dip into a still body of water and voila! Instant water ripples picture.

Raindrops

Macro shot, manual focus, yadda yadda. Raindrops falling down.

Town?

Nice, see how the buildings look like they're all converging at the top? It's a little warping effect called.... pincushioning i believe.

Reconciling history.

My favourite picture so far. Manual focus, macro shot, blah blah.

NONE of these pictures were photoshopped, thank you.

temporary reprieve.

2006-02-12T00:14:00.000-08:00

er i'm finally going to post some pictures, because previously i hadn't any.

in due time...

Fire pois are fun...except when they burn!

2005-12-23T03:10:00.000-08:00

I tried playing with fire pois in Desaru. Never play with sub-standard cheap fire pois you buy in Bangkok. Because they are sub-standard and cheap. And the wick is liable to fly off and fire and unsuspecting passer-by.

2 pics, luckily none of them can my face be seen.

one of the wicks went out. did i mention they were cheap and substandard? i couldn't do anything on them! not to mention i was scared shitless of them too.

this one featured both the wicks burning and i was attempting to do a 'butterfly', which i think wasn't that successful. anyway this pic i was only doing the entering stage of the butterfly move so it's not a butterfly yet technically? i burnt myself, by only by the soot on the fire poi as it whacked against my arms and i panicked.

confused as to what i am saying? go search 'poi' or look in some poi webpage. home of poi is a good starter but like i said; 'starter'.

OMG IS THAT YOU INO?

2005-12-22T05:10:00.000-08:00

never would i have believed that inoran would actually hug J!!@#!$ can it be true? the usually emotionless and unmovable inoran actually smiles and suddenly hugs J!!!

Suave Sugizo

first, sugizo plays the violin in the Lunatic Tokyo 2005 in Tokyo Dome to Providence i think,

Dumb looking Ryuichi

then, at the end, Ryuichi comes out looking stupid.

OMGWTF!

J is unaware, looking adoringly at the fans, then SWOOP! inoran perches on J!

!???!!

then J has this WTH??? look on his face. hilarious!

and for the finalé...

inoran actually smiles!

for all those led clueless as to what i have been talking about, it's Luna Sea at their Lunatic Tokyo 1995 live. go ino!

Pictures of the EOY Cosplay

2005-12-10T23:42:00.000-08:00

the EOY Cosplay or the End of Year Cosplay event is the first that i attended. whee what fun.

here are 70 pics of the 200 over i've taken, and the lighting there was pretty crappy. hence i pushed the ISO to 400, which resulted in unsightly noise and urgh i forgot to adjust white balance. the result? an overall yellowy-orangey looking overcast on the pictures.

but they're still good.

owing to the large number of pictures, i've segregrated them into: Dolls pics; pictures of great looking dolls, Trinity Blood pics, Bleach pics, Rachel's pics; where there are pics of rachel, Final Fantasy pics; pics with FF characters in them then the miscellaneous ones.

here we go!

Dolls pics

er nothing to say about this pic...

dolls of Yazoo and Kadaj! they're really lifelike, only minuscule.

Kadaj, Yazoo and some unknown doll.

Trinity Blood pics

Mary Spencer (i think that's what the sword woman is called) and some unknown person. (i don't watch Trinity Blood :P)

Mary Spencer and Queen Esther

The one holding the mic is a really great speaker and she's really funny. her commentary was although fast-paced, but it is quite reminiscent of the way funny and humorous people speak online in chats, for example, she said,

"to know more about these characters, watch the manga! or better still, read the novels. the mandarin ones! insert propaganda here..."

eh, i wanted to close up on her but ended shooting nowhere.

a group photo. this group is huge, consisting of 20 some members?

random targeting of people in the group.

Bleach pics

group shot, the mascot is called KON i think. this is by far the largest group, consisting of 34 members.

this guy was clothed, and when this group did introductions for pairs in the group, suddenly he removed his robe to reveal *phwoar* impressive tattoos on his bod. it's drawn on obviously, but still it's cool.

another costume that looks interesting.

Shameless plugging of Rachel's pics

she thinks she looks ugly/fat/something bad. hm i dunno.

complaining of running out of poses, she went to the back to practise posing.

[oops this pic is removed!]

one of the shots that involved adjusting of apertures, to achieve the blurry effect. blurry effect slightly enhanced by photoshop. =D

hm see above.

we found another cosplayer in the same costume as rach's! and she's only 14. rachel asked her how old does she think she is and the other girl said 20. haha that must have really wound rachel up. "i look so old meh??? >.<"

this pose was to be meant for a yuna and lenne, but seeing as there was no lenne so it's with 2 yunas.

the other cosplayer's friend came as Meiling of Cardcaptor Sakura.

Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children Pics
there are a lot of these, i assure you!

pics with rachel in them

Yuna and Kadaj! totally not related! =)

a cooler Kadaj, same old Yuna.

i think rachel's in love. with that aeris's looks. she was enamoured with the eurasianish looks of the aeris cosplayer. in this pic are yuna, of course, aeris, the pink one and tifa, the kneeling one.

the ones without

y'know what rachel said that spoiled this pic? the guy's...armpit hair. .... ok, right. but it's a cool weapon and costume, except the metal accessory (the cloudy wolf on his shoulder) isn't 3d, but a print-out. kinda spoiled the effect. anyway, this guy looks like raphael!! wuahaha.

still looks like raphael. except this time shamelessly flirting with a different aeris.

vincent and aeris. why's vincent trying to stuff the gun up aeris's nose?

emulating a scene in the movie, it's pretty cool. and that's rachel in the background.

looking even more like raphael. the 'good' side. from left, yuffie, cid, tifa, cloud and reno.

i don't know why i posted this.

!!?? since when did tifa become so whorish and went for aeris instead of cloud? i smell yuri action here...right.

mention-worthy pics, in my opinion
these pics i feel are better taken, so they deserve their own section!

Yazoo and Kadaj, oh and the Yazoo cosplayer is female. and Yazoo is a male character, for those who do not know. she pulled off the cosplay so effectively. and that pose is straight out of the movie!

the three 'Silver-haired men", the bad guys, from left: Loz, Kadaj, Yazoo.

nice pics of Kadaj. it doesn't hurt that the back is all nice and blurry and he glows! wheee! the powers of aperture 2.8 and a little photshop!

another scene out of the movie, it's nice and under-exposed, giving it a surreal, dark and foreboding feeling, although camera critics just say my light-tweaking techniques suck. so what? i like it this way. nyaa to you.

cloud's weapon, this one's not detachable, unlike the movie. but someone did make one that is detachable and comprising of 5 blades, like in the movie. i didn't get to go near that one though. but this one looks better.

truthfully, i didn't take this one. but it's cool to see the 3 SHM together.

rach's facial infatuation, the eurasian aeris.

from far, i thought reno was digging his nose, then i realized he was trying to smoke. this is the better cosplayed reno amongst the rest *cough*ahmad*cough*yours sucked*cough*.

how sweet. yazoo carrying a doll of himself.

another great pic of the SHM. yay.

the last FF pic, this one is not as good as the rest but i forgot to post it in the earlier section. when they were going through this pose, they ended up smiling at the end, quite spoiling the effect. lucky i got hold of this one.

Non FFVII:AC related pics
here are pics obviously not about FFVII:AC, as the title says.

cross-dressing cosplayer!
some guy dressed up as a female character named Meer-sama, i think. he/she seemed to be the most popular character there!

raphael, i think you have a competitor. he looks prettier in drag than you are!

and LOOK! he has prettier legs!

others

the most complicated and intricate costume, it's made up of cardboard and paper and there's someone inside it.

another pic. nearing the end, when he was to go to the stage to reeive the special mention award, he trip and his whole leg came off! he had to stand there and not move as 'emergency technical staff' went to his rescue for 'emergency repairs'. quite sad really.

pics of girls whom i don't think are cosplaying, but look pretty darn good!

the in-charge of the doll booth which i was shooting earlier.

i think she's cosplaying, but i don't know as what, but she's still pretty in that dress!

i think she's just going there as a normal lolita, not really cosplaying as anything. but still wow!

goth chick, with a leather whip!

another lolita/goth. pretty.

very miscellaneous miscellaneous stuff

Harry Potter cosplayers, going as slytherin supporters. their wands look...really cheapskate.

if i didn't hear wrong, rachel said the guy on the right is cosplaying as Itachi. i've never watched Naruto, so i can't be sure.

Kamen Rider! although i don't know what that is. but that's what it's called.

OMG Kingdom Heart's White Truffles! i didn't see those! so obvious this isn't taken by me. eeeyuuur where were they? i'd have liked to see them.

eh, i forgot their names, but they were carrying signs that read

"Vote for us!"

"Or Else.."

[edit 15/12] They're Katamari. But i bet you've never heard of them either.

a line-up of the solo contestants.

more naruto!

Dynasty Warriors! FC if you're reading this, this is for you. hm try to recognize them all?

rinoa heartily from FF8.

D Grayman, cool group! Rabi of that group (the one with the hammer) won the solo cosplay competition.

Rabi.

can't remember who she was cosplaying as, one of the contestants for the solo competition.

he had cool poses, only because he could flourish the sword! i can't remember which game he was cosplaying from.

rabi again

if i'm not wrong, he's Kyo of Dir en Grey!!!

hm some character from Guilty Gears.

don't ask me, i'm as clueless as you are what he is. but it's cool.

group photo at the end.

oh no! how they massacre the Kon doll! =(

oh? the robot's repaired already.

yawn that concludes my pics of the EOY cosplay event. also i learnt one thing. NEVER TO ADJUST THE ISO OF THE CAMERA TO 400 DAMN IT SUCKS!#@#%#@%

Cosplay!

2005-12-06T00:09:00.000-08:00

Finally an update. yay.

Today, we, that is me and rachel, went to take some pictures of her in her Yuna Songstress costume. so now i put these pictures up!

The unrelated stuff first:

Rachel pretending to be Ryuichi

trying on the nerdy look

this was one of the actual shots where it turned out to be an ok look, where she wanted to practice her 'looks' and 'smiles'. so when she finally got one correct (this one), there was this awful shadow over there, and we tried taking another pic. however, the problem was that she couldn't get back that original niceness of this pic!

in case you were wondering, the person in the background is rachel's grandma.

finally, the related pictures

taken at Jurong Lake Park, this is a backshot of rach, as can be seen.

another one, but a closer and better shot.

look at rachel. then look at the flower. which one is prettier? :P

one of my favourites among the pics, a close up of rach in that same clump of flowers.

an attempt to make rachel look taller, a bottom-view shot. however the lighting then sucked. glaring sun! sweltering conditions! but it turned out not bad.

attempt number 2 to make rachel look taller, this one boasts of better lighting.

and another.

she's sitting on a slope, and i fell off when i tried to sit on it. then again, i wasn't sitting the way she was, i was sitting facing sideways.

i think rachel would kill me if she saw this one. look at her face! doesn't it make you want to pinch it? awww....

taken when she was unaware, in a bid to make her look natural. natural she does look, although dorky, but in a nice way i suppose.

taken at the foot of her flat.

and another.

one of the better ones taken at the foot of the flat.

quite a stupid looking pose, but it's supposed to look nice!

this is better, but it makes her breasts look flat.

this is my favourite among the pics. it's quite coquettish and bold. cool.

and another not-bad pic.

that's all. however, there was something very obviously missing from all the pics. YUNA'S EARRING!! rachel i can't believe you forgot her earrings. ha and to think we took so many pics of you and then you realize you forgot the earrings.

damn the weather's hot.

pics of the HK-SG unicycle hockey match

2005-10-02T20:00:00.000-07:00

pics of the HK-SG match arriveth!

GASP SID IN ORANGE

you saw it here first, guys!

team 1st quarter

comprising of names i don't remember.

a halo over kee's head

not that he's angelic or anything. rather, it's more like a 'i see a bright light' thing when one sees kee.

ben

ben. what's there to say?

team singapore 1st quarter

comprising of (frome left) Huifang, Ben, Sid, Darren, Kee, Siyong.

face off!

the game commenceth...

three parellel sticks at one ball

weird formation to have...

merry-go-round...

but it looks like Roy'll get the ball first.

Siyong goofs off...

looking back into the camera, seeking framed attention...

and as a result...

...falls off while getting tackled.

chalice in the middle

nice positioning (and good camera work too! :P)

two-pronged attack

Ben from the right, kee from the left.

youngest HK player

Roy. and he's pretty good too.

goal!

as Siyong's fist attest to it.

group photo

from the front....

group photo #2

and one from the top of a giraffe.

this are but some of the pics taken, total pic count probably amounted to 100 over.

cracks on my AC! GAH!

2005-09-28T21:12:00.000-07:00

stupid DHL Worldwide, and how they have mishandled my Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children!!!! CRACKS! ON MY DVD! assholes gah.

the travesty of it all! and it's a limited edition, so Square might not have any more stock. rach has already requested for a change. let's all hope it gets through.

Posters for my class's lit play!

2005-09-24T01:26:00.000-07:00

After such a long absence, you'd have think i died and forgot about this blog.

right.

here they are! two posters, meant to be placed side by side...

and this is the combined version...

nice isn't it?

i tried and i failed

2005-09-07T22:30:00.000-07:00

i got Flash! Woohoo! i tried making Flash blogs, and i DID have spectacular plans for its design, something involving Harry Potter being chased down by evil cows while explosions and pink fluffy toys pop out in the background, and Tidus loses his voice and stuff.

i failed. i can't figure how the heck to work it!

apparently banging your head on keyboards after 5 failed attempts doesn't get it to work either. think of the bright side though, i have a new keyboard!

haha i'm kidding, of course not.

i'll keep trying, until i have no head left to bang the keyboard with.

i need aspirin.

another post to remove earlier entries

2005-08-27T22:08:00.000-07:00

by this time, some of the slowers one would have only just realized the music has returned. yes i magically got back my account somehow, so the music's operational again. but i'd not risk the risk of being frisked for remote loading. hence there'll be a schedule in which all music will be temporarily shut down, to avoid detection.

gosh i feel like i'm running away from authorities or something.

Music online days

from the 1st to 20th of each month.

Music offline days

from the 20th to the end of the month.

let's just hope they do their periodical scan on the 20th to the end of the month, and not the first 20 days in which my music comes online.

sadness, and the suckiness of angelfire of it all

2005-08-22T21:53:00.000-07:00

apparently angelfire has gotten wiser to me, and that they realize i've been using their sites to host my music!

ahh the sadness of it all.

should i continue using angelfire? or switch to something else?

wonder if other sites allow for remote loading as well hmm...

Japanese Summer Festival

2005-08-21T16:40:00.000-07:00

I went with Rachel, Poh Ying, Evelyn and Grace to the japanese summer festival yay! rachel should really take her own camera along yea, instead of twisting my arm to secretly take pictures of cute japanese guys that she spots.

which was like once every 15 seconds. tsk!

the following pictures will be shown in the following order:

Rachel's cute guy pics

My own pics of the events

call me gay if you're shallow-minded enought to not discern that these pics are rachel's.

Cute guy #1

This guy was at the drink stall selling drinks and beer. Rachel was like "DAMMIT TAKE HIS PICTURE!!!!" when it was high neigh impossible, because it was so crowded with so many people! so she sorta whacked me on my arm until i took a satisfactory picture. blegh.

Cute guy #2

Actually, still the same guy, but closer and in a better angle and view i guess.

Cute guy #3 and #4

she saw them while queuing up and i didn't, so she was like "take their pictures hurry!" while i was going "what? huh? where?"

right, you more or less get the vein in which the rest of the pictures go.

the curly hair one looks like Bae Yong Jun, you reckon?

Cute guy #5

the one rachel was ogling at was the one in the centre, for your information. he was manning i think the dart stall? kinda obvious itsn't it, with the dart board beside him.

Cute guy #6

this was one hard picture to get! we actually, i mean, Rachel actually stalked them all the way from the concourse to inside the fairgrounds. this guy even then was not supposed to be of him, but the pink guy figure behind him. poh ying called them the Japanese F4, because they're that pretty, and better looking.

right, let's move on.

Cute guy #7

another cute guy manniong the drink and beer stalls. seems that all drink and beer stall vendors are cute, with the exception of raphael of course.

Cute guy #8

according to rachel, he looks damn cute and kakkoi, but my photo spoiled everything. but she laughed at this though, and said to keep it. blegh. in case you haven't noticed, he's the same guy in #3 and #4. Bae Yong Jun is beside him.

Cute guy #9

Manning the basketball stall and looking grumpy. geez who'd want to approach his stall with a face like that?

Cute guy #10

Rachel's cute boy whom she was sad that the guy is probably all of 12 years old and she's too old for him. haha this boy is really good looking in the life, and rachel as well as the others were gushing over him.

that's enough pictures of guys. now let's move on! (there will be 11 more pics if i had to show them all)

my pics

random girl

taken while queueing.

random girl with sister

really cute, isn't it. i reckon it might be good enough to go into my portfolio, if only it was clearer and less blur.

siblinghood

isn't that the sweetest thing ever? such a close bond of siblinghood is really rare among locals nowadays. go japanese families!

sunset

nice backdrop for the festival to take place in.

traditional dance

the girl's pretty, isn't she? she's like the typical stereotyped pretty girl in the campus that everyone loves and wants (ever seen WaterBoys 2? She looks exactly like that) and i can imagine her being really pretty when she grows up though.

another litle girl

this was the one i saw while waiting for the shuttle bus, but i didn't take her picture then. this was taken in the fair itself. however the funny thing was, while queuing there's this middle aged woman, local, who was trying hard to be japanese and when she boarded the bus with the little girl, she waved at the girl.

i swear, the girl looked shocked. so was her mum.

taiko drum ensemble

the drum ensenmble, catchy cool and impressive.

i must cut subs short or it'll take forever to post the pics.

nice lanterns

self explanatory title yea.

lantern close up

Asahi is the beer to go!

the mass dance thing

i really liked this section. kids and adults alike go up the stage while the rest dance in a circle around the stage. there then was no boundary between adults and children, and it really was heartwarming to see them laugh and have fun together. how possible is it really now in our society? sigh.

dance pics 2

meh.

cool kid!

makes you want to pinch his cheeks, doesn't he?

exemplerary relationships

as i said, the removal of adult and child boundaries. note: the child and adult are not related. the parents are off stage.

it's a kids' heaven

happiness and elation permeates everyone, and it even warms the heart of people just to see them smile.

Happiness

one of my favourite pictures. there is no spite or malice in her face, and every pain and torment and crises that she has experienced cannot be seen in every lines of her face. this is the power of the festival, of the joy that pervades them all. much more than religion, even.

people should learn from them, really.

originally she had red eyes due to the flash. but thanks to my incredible photoshop skills, no more red-eyes!

friends infected

rachel, grace, evelyn and poh ying joining in the dance.

siblings revisited!

everyone say "awwwww!"

striptease?

rachel and evelyn having...um fun?

itsby bitsy teenie winnie unicycle re-visited!

2005-08-18T20:02:00.000-07:00

remember the last time i spoke of the small 60cm high unicycle? (yes i measured)

i have pictures!

i managed to persuade huifang to lend it to me at least till sunday. go me!

In the person

isn't it the cuuuutest and sweetest thing evah???

Small meets big

or as they say, Size doesn't matter. yes this was taken in my store room.

up to my knees

it comes up to my knees only! that short!

me riding it

and that's me on it, but you won't get to see my face!

wuahahaha i'm loving it!

see my sparkly new MapleStory Sig!

2005-08-10T00:13:00.000-07:00

woohoo! this is my entry for the darn competition.

cool isn't it? say it's cool grrr you can't deny! took me humm.... 3 hours to do?

frame by frame animation, hence it's abit choppy at times (P.S i like the freeze frame enlarged scroll-by), and contains i think 93 frames if i'm not wrong.

(endorses ENERGIZER batteries! NEVER SAY DIE!)

i suppose if i want to not exceed my bandwidth...

2005-07-30T18:08:00.000-07:00

i should post more random pointless posts for the sake of posting so previous entries can be booted off the main page.

tadaa! a random post.

ok let me see what future pictures lie in store.

1) a unicycling hockey match picture (not confirmed)
2) random occurences that i cannot predict
3) me riding a 2m tall giraffe (2 metre tall unicycle), but not without me removing my face of course.

so meh.

some mistake i presume

2005-07-25T21:51:00.000-07:00

i realize the previous post's pictures didn't turn up because i foolishly used Angelfire, now proclaimed as the world's suckiest provider.

NEVER USE ANGELFIRE.

well i use it to host music files though, so that's kinda a contradictory statement, but

NEVER USE ANGELFIRE.

they don't even allow you to host damn pictures.

geocities are becoming so unreliable. they don't allow me to sign up for a new account dammit! they keep bringing me to a error 404 asses!

teaching demons at Jurong Primary School

2005-07-24T21:44:00.000-07:00

there are pictures!

some random kid standing up

one of the damn trouble-makers.

taking attendance

even that is a hard job, as my cousin takes attendance while Kee controls the riot with heartening bursts of "Shut up!"

warm up exercises, improperly done (part 1)

they seem to think it is a joke not doing warm ups. wait till they get cramp, see who's laughing then.

warm up exercises, improperly done (part 2)

some take the effort though, but end up pushing the ones left, right, in front and behind them for the sake of it.

one of the better ones

Melissa, one who is actually interested in learning and can ride to some degree.

the world's hardest job it ain't

somehow all the kids there magically cannot adjust the height of the seats themselves, when all it requires is just adjusting the adjuster. they didn't even have to use an allen key!

the girl line-up

in my opinion, the most dedicated students among the lot. they can't ride really well (heck, two of them can't ride unassisted) but that's besides the point. the point is, they're willing to learn and show sportsmanship.

a fluke

don't be fooled by this picture. he looks like he succeeded, but it was only due to my 1337 and SUP3RB!! skillz that he looked like he succeeded, which he actually did, but for a second and um, 30cm.

the game

dog and bone on unicycles, the assed-up team with no sense of sporting spirit (incidentally, they won).

a picture of false serenity

while this picture doesn't show, the real scene was much much much noisier and rowdier, as the teammates are screaming obscenities and shit.

i am seriously reconsidering having kids.

the pictures are here!

2005-06-16T00:22:00.000-07:00

i shall arrange according to where they were taken. note this is only a minute fraction of the 45760712345870971.5827 photos i took, so don't go around ranting about why there are only so much photos.

France
Paris

Eiffel at night

This is the Eiffel at night. A thousand foot tall phallus, in the words of Robert Langdon. trust me you don't want to see what it's like in the day. hideous barely describes it. only when the sparklies come out, then it looks palatable.

Good looking guy??

my cousin saw this guy and felt he was good looking. and of course, with my increeeedible voyeuristic camera mad SK1LLZZ, i took this picture even before he knew it and showed it to my gushing cousin. tsk.

Louvre's outside

took this picture from the outside of the Louvre. see the individual light shadows cast on the clouds???? see the lovely tones??? by the way, the Louvre is a museum, a famous one. the one that houses Mona Lisa! you didn't know?????? philistine (betcha don't know what that means either)

Mona Lisa

yes, it is she. that famous smile. da vinci's secret. your guess. in fact, she's really small. not bigger than a vanguard sheet that we buy.

Arc du Triomphe

it means Arc of Triumph. a big-ass arch, for people to climb up and climb down again. you can get a 360 degrees uniterrupted view of Paris from there. well, not for me the other time, because they blocked off 1/3 of the arch for renovation purposes.

Rendezvous!!!!

have i mentioned i was voyeur?? i've never? i'm a freaking voyeur dammit!!!! now you know. =) as per usual, secretly took this picture of a couple kissing on the Arc du Triomphe, with the sunset!! wooo go me! they should pay me for this picture! *slurp*

Napoleon's Tomb

YES it's that crazy French guy who went around conquering places and met his end at Waterloo. his tomb is BIIG and gawdy, filled with gold of all sorts.

Raphael,what have they done to the clarinets???

from the Pompidou Museum, of modern art. i shan't post any of the art pictures here because i just don't wanna. however, Raphael look at what they did to your clarinets!!!!

Notre Dame

yes it's that Notre Dame, the one with the hunchback and stuff.
P.S: The Quasimodo Ristorante Restaurant) has hot waiters (as in male).
P.P.S: The gift shop next door has hot chick attendants, but they bite.

Notre Dame's inside

random candles in the church..ooh fire!

Italy
Venice

Venice at sunset

Venice at sunset, nothing much to say...

Venice at sunset...again

self-explanatory title

Italy
Vatican City (YES IT'S AN INDEPENDANT COUNTRY)

St Pietro's Basillica

this look familiar? it's almost the same, exact picture as the cover page on Dan Brown's 'Angels and Demons'. this is the inside of Vatican City.

Italy
Rome

Circus Maximus

a stadium once, a big patch of field now. held the first horse racing ever, and probably was what initiated the first horse betting too.

Coloseum

you do know what the Coloseum is, don't you? it is one again, a big stadium, but for different purposes. used to stage gladiator fights, executions and stuff. romans watch all these before lunch!

roman 1: mmm...nothing like a good execution to make me hungry!
roman 2: bloodshed....pass me the popcorn will ya?

Roman Forum

the heart of religious and political activity, now pieces of stone gawked by many.

Palatine Hill

used to be the palace of this emperor guy. now it's all shit and tourist bait.

his sexroom

sorry did i say sex? i meant bedroom. not that it is not a well known fact that emperors are promiscuous and have harems.

Pantheon

the Pantheon. Raphael's burial place. used to be a pagan temple, they converted it into a Christian church now. how do i know so? because i'm smart!

impressionistic skillzzz!!1!!

set camera to slow shutter at 1.3 seconds, aperture f8.0, put finger on button, stand in the centre, when you press, quickly swing around like some idiot and hope not to hit anyone in the process. voila! mad impressionistic skillzzz!!1!!

Bocca Della Verita

it means 'Mouth of Truth'. in the past, when people suspect people of lying, they have them tried at this contraption. the liar puts his/her hand in the mouth thingy, and says a statement regarding his/her lie. is she/he is guilty of lying while saying it, someything bad happens to the hand.

ooh the first lie detector ever. not that it ever worked. unless you count the scorpions and snakes people hide inside to frame the trialed.

Miscellaneous stuff

some random church

don't ask me where this is. i don't know.

neatness!!

i drew this myself!! neat eh? it is a window as you can see, duh. drew this from outside my window.

Raphael loves this!

Double decker trains! everyone sits! no more "fuck you give me your seat you idiot i need it more than you grrrr!!!"

some random street

once again, ask me not where this is.

art is everywhere in Paris

in museums, on walls, and even on trucks and trains!

cute car

it's small. it's cute. it's...everywhere. no big deal to them. it's called a SmartCar.

some random clouds

clouds. what else is there to say but to marvel at how photographic i am?

the end.
(all ego you see here is the sole property of yours truly. DO NOT PINCH MY PHOTOS AND DIRECTLY LINK THEM TO YOUR SITE YOU IDIOTS! YOU'D KILL OFF MY PATHETIC BANDWIDTH!!!)
(you can copy and paste the pictures and save them to your computer though)

To all anxiously waiting rabid fans...

2005-06-12T12:55:00.000-07:00

I know you people are waiting for my marvellous photos, i know i'm just that good, but my 478965897346598231 photos have to wait till i return from Europe to be posted see?

and this is just a filler post.

the research on clarence continues!

2005-04-25T23:11:00.000-07:00

not convince that councilorship retardifies one?? these photos do not lie!

if he's yan dao, i'm princess diana

step one observed of idiocy exuded by specimen (clarence)...

now do we really need to see more of his face?

step two, and the saga continues. this was on a billboard on his (grammatically incorrect) passion and why he wants in. into the councilorship.

mr contradictory

you don't want us to look down on you? then why stick your advertisements on the floor then? stupid.

stupid pet peeves number 2 (by clarence)

plastering your name won't get you anywhere, except perhaps giving people vindictive pleasure at stepping all over your name.

------------------------------------------
today, there was a minor councilor-strut-your-stuff thing. obviously clarence had to make a complete fool out of himself. we're not surprised.

nice pose....

...you big gay! nice hip. most memorable speech,

"i will devoted to jurong junior college! vote for me!"

how mrs thai will weep. 2 years wasted trying to educate clarence that 'devoted' is a past tense and cannot come after 'will'.

stoned!

nooo we don't want crack-induced stoners to represent the student body!! waaahh!!!

karaoke, this isn't

clarence making a lame attempt to answer some question from the floor. of course, not without peppering the reply with lots of grammatical and pronunciation errors. my ears bleed.

no sense of shame, but we knew that already

and finally, the ultimate proof councilors have no sense of shame. when asked who thinks they're perfect, clarence did what was shown in the picture.

first there was no pictures...

2005-04-07T02:21:00.000-07:00

then came a slew of it!

jjc has decent enough number of attractive areas to take pictures, so it is not thaat bad.

who am i kidding??

red flower

see the rays of light behind? they area real, not photoshopped on.

bamboo

now all that it needs to complete the picture is a panda...

dance studio

that is the dance studio, and it was taken at 6.59am. see the nice reflections?

some yellow flowers

taken a aperture f8.0, hence the some are clear while others are blur.

cool sky

what color! what vibrance! what amazing photoshop skills! ok all i did was to make it brighter and adjusted the contrast...

this one's not photoshopped

i swear, this was taken at sunrise.

another sunrise

not photoshopped too.

the grandstand

in my opinion, not that grand actually.

more yellow flowers

taken with aperture f2.8 hence all flowers are sharp.

imposing flower

i stuck my camera in the shrubs to achieve this imposing effect. really stupid, really.

enough greens to make a VEGETARIAN go green with envy

what's this thing actually? a mess of bamboo trees. again.

weiqi and deqi!!

two lovebirds. one is called weiqi. the other deqi.

yet another flower???

this goes to show JJC only has flowers to show. the rest suck like shit.

amazing cloud patterns

not photoshopped too, took this at about 7.30am.

monster at jjc

quick kiddies!! cover your eyes!!

cheng hao's love

here's a ditty:

whatever she does, he'd want to too, cos there's no one as sweet as she,
whatever she likes, he'd like it too,
"would you dance with me?" said Jaslyn, said she,
"i'd gladly dance with you."

cheng hao

continued ditty:

"now that was hot, and i was too,"
"wherever's next dance?" said Jaslyn, she,
"whenever you want to."

(rythm and metre taken from A.A.Milne's Pooh poem)

mundane concourse

reminiscent of a prison? exactly.

the civics/geo teacher

mr goh, our civics and physical geo teacher.

group photo

girls are everywhere.

in this one too

in this one too...

not surprising

not surprising, since there's only 4 guys in the class.

the most retarded campfire night!

2005-01-08T21:26:00.000-08:00

and strangely, we never went near the campfire! just watched the fire light up and that's all about the campfire...

overcast skies

sure looked like rain, but the wind blew the clouds away! cool not even a single drop came from it.

flames

that's the fire. hypnotizing... oh and the flames were much bigger, this was when it was just lit up.

sexually ambiguous once again!

once again, raphael proved his gender ambiguity by partaking in a cross-dress competition. maybe it runs in his blood, or it's just him to do so? to show you what i mean, see below.

familiarity

see what i mean?

meant for raphael to copy and paste...

self-explanatory title...

this is one freaky jap

and she/he calls him/herself ayumi hamasaki the second. right...

my group, Bellatrix

from top left to left to right are: aaron, shi han, chanel, terence, samantha, samantha and kang hong (leader). they totally rock socks!

sea of beauties

what a sight! and terence, once a poser, forever a poser?

ms ethiopia and mr something

incidentally, they are the winners of mr and miss gender ambiguity (although the competition isn't named thus). ms ethiopia really sounds...erm...squeaky!

ever the shy one, ms vietnam and basketballer

and the 'ms vietnam' really is from vietnam. she/he looks pretty in pink doesn't he/she? it must really have hurt when he/she tripped from the steps...

auriga and aquila's beauty cum beasts

wow the 'guy' really looks like a guy when shot from the back.

meet the Bootrix's contestants

and we thought they'd be sure winners.

prototypes

2005-01-06T19:06:00.000-08:00

2 prototypes, 1 of the PE shirt and 1 of the formal. i kinda messed up on the PE shirt (the neck hem is waaay too low!) but other than that, this should roughly give you some idea of what i had in mind anyway.

this one is on the formal. meaning this is for formal functions like ceremonies and shit. just imagine there is an innova crest somewhere on the left chest...yea...

this is the inside of the formal, and what we might be wearing as the normal uniform. the school crest will be a metal pin on the collar.

and this one is on the PE shirt design. i know, the hem is damn low but i accidentally erased too much, i think, of the neck hence the error, and i didn't realize it until it came out. blegh so imagine the neck to be higher! also the shirt is suppose to be looser, but somehow the program won't let me so too bad, you have to use your imagination. the orange stripe is the house color, and will be changed respectively. i guess the crest is on the left chest, and perhaps Innova would be written on the back.

photos of the amazingly stupid race!

2005-01-05T02:29:00.000-08:00

yay!

cool flower with blurred background

oh yay, a nature shot. i think this flower was well taken yea... nothing much to say though, it's just a flower.

meet the doritos chips advertisers!

terence the poser. terence the potato chips advertiser. apparently chanel too! group photo, moving on...

terence the slut!!!

in a good way of course. he's slutty, but everyone loooves his poses. leader *ahem* i mean kang kong *ahem* i mean kang hong looks like he's about to faint.

chrissy poo makes an appearance!

fangirls of renown be aware! chrissy poo is here! note: alison in front isn't his bodyguard.

natural!!

woah! a natural (though in shakespeare that would mean he's a natural fool/idiot but obviously i don't mean it in that way)! the girls are swooning already!

sleeping perfume

meet chanel, the perfume brand. and she sleeps. yea i know i'm running out of descriptions to put hence i'm putting in random comments.

another natural?

only this time shot in sepia tone, and this is aaron with a ohmigod so original email. yea i know.

something stolen from a drama serial...

aaron: "leader...i have something to tell you..."

leader: "what is it?"

aaron: "i...i..."

leader: "what is it? tell me!!!!"

aaron: "i..."

(to be continued)

haha that's the end of it. the photos i mean.

unicycling camping trip photos

2004-12-26T06:05:00.000-08:00

here!

nice moon

taken while cycling, so it's rather blurry, but still quite nice...

the beaches at sunset

not very impressive, but still passable. actually, i had a closeup on the couple sitting on the outcrop of rock, but i chose this instead. look closely at the rock outcropping. there's a couple there!

clean sands

now this is hard to find. most of the shores were so darn littered this sighting is rare...

praying mantis

i have to admit this wasn't well taken, but it kept moving everywhere so that justifies it. sort of.

sights of australia

2004-12-16T05:03:00.000-08:00

ok these are pictures of my trips there, and i think they're not bad...

the sky's on fire!!

taken at sunset on the plane, looks like the sky's on fire. you know, i think this is where they got the picture for the australian advertisement that went, "red and yellow and...green and piiink....purple and orange and bluuuuueeeee...."

meet the devil!

meet the tasmanian devil! cute blighter isn't he?

a lazy not-so-hoppy kangaroo

the kangaroo is lazy. so are the other 30++ kangaroos sprawled around. well you can't blame them, it's 41.1 degrees celsius out, and had it been me, i'd have flopped to the ground, rendered motionless too.

everyone loves koalas!

the reason for said laziness explained, i think it's asleep. or dead. geez doesn't anything around the wildlife park move??

nice flower...

but the effort taken to take this is not. i walked 2 miles all the way from the hotel to King's Park, only to realized had i waited 5 minutes i would have been able to take a bus. but i don't really know how to pay the driver and such (when i did eventually take one, he told me it's free, eventhough i'm sure its not).

another beautay

only this wasn't taken at King's Park (i think), it was taken at some winery.

if only singapore was like this...

i'd be so happy. and, if only it wasn't summer. why? read my blog. oh and this was taken at said winery.

my night scene photos!

2004-12-09T05:26:00.000-08:00

these are some of the better photos taken. now marvel at my photographic expertise!

this is my favourite photo, although its quality is compromised now that i've minimized its actual size. i think i did myself justice on this photo.

a so-so shot in my opinion. in fact, i don't like any of the photos i posted aside from the first one you've seen just now.

esplanade (in my opinion, pronounced ES-pla-nAYde, as in fade, because marmalADE, marinADE, accolADE and gatorADE all ends with AYde, as with esplanADE).

the lion that had a fish for a parent. never seen or heard of a lion mating with a fish before...

the fullerton, this picture isn't nice at all actually, but even to my abysmal standards (which could be high for laymen) this picture really stinks.

my cousin's attempt at the darkroom...

2004-12-07T01:09:00.000-08:00

this butterfly was developed by my cousin alice, and she took about 5 to 6 tries before getting it right!

this really nice looking car was also developed by her. in fact, all these photos are developed by her!

2 insects mating, coool.....

really complicated flower, which involves one photo of a flower pasted over the other and then partially peeling it off and taking it again and then developing it...

some fancy telephone line or power line...

all photos were taken by kai lun and developed by alice, and i think i will post mine tomorrow or something like that.

the photos as promised

2004-12-06T18:51:00.000-08:00

star-struck!

i saw Edmund Chen at Sentosa with his son and daughter! yay what a great sighting!!

weird crab

saw this funny looking crab at the underwater world. took me a few tries to get the picture right, because the glass kept reflecting the flash back.

flower

yay my first macro shot, not that it matters...

so darn cute!!

this is soo cute! i saw 3 dogs by Palawan Beach and i asked the owner for permission to snap their dogs.

photographic genius!

don't you think this picture is so lovely? i took it on the Carlsberg Sky Tower or whatever it is called.

photographic genius again!

taken from the same place, but of different place, this was taken at the mouth of the sea or something...

the marvels of dolphins

taken at the dolphin lagoon, of a pink dolphin performing a leap through a hoop. that stupid host kept blocking my view, how inconsiderate.

aww how cute

wonderdog in the life! this cute little dog relentlessly fetched a stick thrown into the sea countless times, and i took alot of photos, pity i can only you one, and it's the cutest thing ever ahh!! i think i overused the word 'cute' to death in this particular entry, but that dog is really soooo cute. haha...

shark fin anyone?

really awe inspiring eh?

that's the end. thank you and goodbye!!!

and all these were shot on my beloved Sony DSC-F828!!!

oh dear

2004-12-05T06:11:00.000-08:00

dammnit 'he' wants to use the com, will update photos of sentosa tomorrow... or later when he is done with it...

Luna Sea photos!!

2004-12-01T15:21:00.000-08:00

yeah just showing you who they are...

Shinya, drummer/percussionist
Ryuichi, Vocalist

J, bass guitarist
Sugizo, lead guitarist/violinist
Inoran, another guitarist

more pictures about unicycling, and some!

2004-11-30T23:28:00.000-08:00

here comes!

the incredible jump

this is kailun (i think i spelled his name right) performing a jump on a unicycle. looook carefully, the wheels are above the ground!

the clash of sticks

3 people rushing towards a single area for the ball, which is...very scary and dangerous...

cooool.....

taken with a wide aperture (i think, its either that or slow shutter) and i achieved this cool effect!

and finally... the most amazing photo i've ever taken...

ghost???

taken with the night shot function, and taken at a flight of stairs. look carefully at the top of the stairs. do you see a white misty figure????

scary!

oh, and all these were taken with my beloved Sony DSC-F828!!! yay!

hexacoto the sculpting talent!

2004-11-27T07:44:00.000-08:00

humm!!

humm....went to the beach, couldn't resist making mounds of sand, and i decided to try sculpting them into statues!!

the results were...unexpectedly good!

meet jenna!

this was the first one i made, and i call her Jenna after my friend! yay!! i was gonna make boobs, but i was afraid it might topple hence i drew circles around the chest, lol.

pity some bastards kicked it over...

the 2nd i made...

meet hexacoto!!!

this was the 2nd one i made, and this is a guy. i name him after me! although this time, i was slightly tired, so i didn't realize the left arm is bigger than the right.

coooool sand people never knew i had it in me eh?

oh DANG!!

2004-11-18T19:04:00.000-08:00

intermission.

oh DANG oh SHIT oh STUPID!!

i exceeded my bandwidth!!!! blegh blegh blegh!!!

all photos will not be displayed until the bandwidth is restored. which wil probably take an hour or so!

really running out pictures

2004-11-14T06:27:00.000-08:00

so i'm resorting to combinings photos! and my, have i come up with a seriously hideous one!

presenting baby raphael and improved chng!

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i am speechless, suffice to say.

some random stuff

2004-11-12T05:55:00.000-08:00

here's a picture from the unicyle site, and this was taken during their trip to Unicon in japan.

quite stupid actually. running out of photos to post. blegh.

Le Maison's Catch of the Day...

2004-11-03T14:24:00.000-08:00

on today's Catch of the Day, we have only the freshest catch.

for starters, we have...

joycelyn 'goldfish' chng

ain't she a beauty???

then, for the entree, we have

shirley 'retarded' wee

since my guess is that after savoring these 2 delicacies, you'd probably can't eat anything else, so watch your step out of the restaurant, there's vomit everywhere.

nondescript couple

2004-10-26T21:10:00.000-07:00

nothing much, just improving the looks of julianah and husband...

new and improved jj couple

now they're everyone's blue-eyed couples!

had nothing better to do...

2004-10-24T07:26:00.000-07:00

so i made another merge... this time with jin ming and a cow!

bovinic jin ming!

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blegh! now that's truly scary!!