Wantunn mee

Got my microdrive back from IBM (now taken over as hitachi storage).
Got a new 2gb Hitachi microdrive in replacement. Yeah.

A moment of blue sky that occured between a thunderstorm and a blazing hot afternoon.

Accidentally shot in ISO 1600 so I had to run the image though Noiseware first.

Everyone looking for a shady spot under the tree?

P.S. No motivation to shoot since my Microdrive died on me. Still waiting for it to come back from the shop.

I just made an important discovery today.
I’m having a nice cup of after lunch green tea (teabag) when I look down and.. *gasp* … it’s not green! What gives?
Or is the inside of my cup turning brown?
Update: Just realised it’s green when you first pout in the teabag.. it becomes brown later

I think my blog is feeling neglected so I’ll be cross posting some of my PAD posts over here sporadically (i.e. when I’m not too lazy).

Starting off today with

Had an extended discussion in the office yesterday after I mentioned the term SFLM. FYI, SFLM stands for see-fatt-long (which means a-hole in cantonese) mow (hair)… it’s a long running joke.
Anyway, one thing lead to another and I found out the a merkin is actually a pubic wig. I’m like… what??? these things actually exist??? Well, apparently they do and now I know. Kinda odd considering the amount of ads in the papers, magazines etc nowadays advertising brazailian wazes and what have you to take it off.. and once upon a time, people wanted to put it on. Go figure.
P.S. maybe someone can start a full service salon where they take it off… then offer you a wig so that it looks like you have it on! Genius!

Thanks to some *peer pressure* at work , I finally signed up a pbase account and started a photo a day (well, I’ll try for a photo a week at least) project as well.
My galleries can be viewed at http://www.pbase.com/wantunn

Today we dropped by funan during luch as a collegue had to get some inkjet paper. Let me tell you that is a baadddd baadddd place.. almost as bad as Sim Lim Square… even worse when you consider that it’s next to peninsula plaza with cathay photo, eastgear etc.
Anyway, a short short walk through some of the shops have left me with a craving (not necessarily a need though) for the following:
1. Graphics tablet. The one I’d been eyeing (Wacom graphire 3) seems to have dropped about $40 to just over a hundred bucks now.
2. Canon’s new pixma printers. As the ad says, pro features at low prices. I’ll probably get this when the ink in my current bubblejet printer (also a canon) runs out. The ipx3000/4000 looks tempting.
3. Creative Soundblaster Live USB. No idea why this is tempting me.. maybe because it’s fairly cheap.. about $89 I think.
4. USB Bluetooth thingy.. so that I can surf the web using my ipaq via bluetooth .. no idea why anyone would want to do such a thing though.
5. A Chai Latte… cos as my collegue said.. “if you gotta buy something, buy me a chai latte”
Good thing we didn’t go to cp.

After much thought and helpful(?) advice from collegues, I finally decided against getting the new 17-85 IS EFS lens from canon. Couldn’t justify spending >$1k for a lens thats not pro-grade glass and only works on 2 canon bodies at the moment.
Therefore I picked up one of the (many) 2nd hand 28-135 IS lenses instead for about half of what I would have had to pay for the other lens. Condition was great and now I just have to get a wide angle to cover all focal lengths.
On a seperate note.. got a craving for luncheon meat these few days… l.u.n.c.h.e.o.n. m.e.a.t…….

Ok, I’ve gone and done it. I sold off all my lenses in a sudden flurry of “I need to consolidate my stuff so that I can carry less”.
I am now left with the 80-200/2.8 (too big to carry around) and a slightly wonky 50/1.8 (throws up an Err 99 on my 300D every third shot…according to Canon Singapore, it’ll cost me $60-70 to fix it. Not sure if it’s worthwhile for a $140 when new lens).
So now I suddenly find myself with no lens that I can carry around comfortably and trying to decide what to get in replacement. You’ve heard of compulsive buying. Bet this is the first time you’ve heard of compulsive selling huh.