Wabbit's World

hongkong fotos

2010-07-23T09:24:00.002-05:00

HO ship has been soooo busy.
hardly haf time to myself.
here's some fotos of my grad trip to hk:)

6 fotos to tell you all abt hk:

braving the cold peak's wind and takin this night shot from hk's highest point..

ocean park's up up and away attraction..

hk sch gals..

macau's extravagant..

nongpying fishin village..

a performin art in itself..

on e streets of hongkong

2010-05-09T08:25:00.002-05:00

grad night 2010 at sheraton towers

2010-04-30T11:35:00.002-05:00

jiayou batch of 2010:)

mae pang opening dae @ parco marina bay, millenia walk

2010-04-01T03:19:00.002-05:00

i haf a fren named pang ai mei.

she has a shop at parco marina bay, called MAE PANG.

she sells awesome designer clothes, comfy and fits like a second skin.

Go buy. level 2 - 30L of the newly opened Parco marina bay, millenia walk.

congrats aimei!

the directory with MAE PANG on it.

her label.:)

her shop..

her shop with her cool booth in color focus..

her line, all handmade, amazin stuff.

one of my favs, if i had someone to buy it for, i would! haha

wad a crowded store!

look at how happy aimei is with e crowded store..

another color focus with e rest of the backgrd desaturated.:)

congratulations aimei :)

after a long while! happy bdae ny.

2010-04-01T03:02:00.002-05:00

ningyan's post mbbs bdae supper at harry's.. nice warm feeling, after going thru 5 yrs of med sch with these bunch of people, realli fortunate to haf them ard at the beginnin and end:) those flyin off, enjoy ur hols!

all of us, missing wenkien:)

after exams when im more free perhaps?

2010-01-14T06:23:00.001-06:00

haha, takin a break from postin for now. my final exams are soon, so need to do some serious studyin.. do pray for me if u can!

sunday school dae:)

2010-01-02T07:50:00.003-06:00

last sundae of the year, item put up by e little children of our church:) sang a song called "fruit of the spirit" :)

compared to the children, the teens and youth are standing much much straighter. haha.

jem's bookmark of me!

2009-12-17T09:48:00.003-06:00

jem drew a cute bookmark for me one dae:)

so i did a collage for her one dae:)

fishing kaki @ ngee soon longgan

2009-11-06T09:29:00.003-06:00

after geriatrics eopt, went fishin with e fishermen of med fac. lol. all e lures, reel, popping, park versus luring, stella and ban hock. haha, terminology of the fishermen. it was somethin realli refreshin.. always wanted to know wad fishin was like. thanks to allen and gang who let me try castin with their precious rods. not a bad hobby at all:)

it started when we reached ngee soon long gang at 6pm. apparently e fishes, esp tomans start feedin at dusk and dawn. todae was a special dae for the gang too, cos they were meetin this pro fishin guy called ban hock who was gonna impart some skills to them.

ngee soon.

preparin their rods and lures..

e 2 pro fishermen consultants..

allen being taught e ways of e rod..

allen's colorful pop lure. selective coloring and undersaturating done here.

sometimes e lure wil get stuck..

e sky darkened a bit more as e fishin went on. and many many mosquitoes started feedin instead of the tomans..

our proud fishermen with their treasured rods:)

jem!

2009-10-24T08:00:00.004-05:00

my weekend highlight was bringin jem and likuan to sembawang shoppin centre's splash pool. it was post call, but it was all worth it:) had lotsa fun with this giggly young girl. this place is realli kid friendly btw, bring ur kids there!

this is the adorable jem:)

we started with dinner at aston's.. sat at the outside where it linked straight to the splash pool area. very family and kid's friendly!

i quite like this foto.

fav foto1.

this was when she was forced to eat vege.

fav foto 2.

after dinner, we went over to ministry of Food to have icecream!

e cheeky smile!

kissed by e blue dolphin:)

monsters in my bedroom!

2009-09-14T04:35:00.002-05:00

first room warmin by you guys:)

preparing for the shot..

look in all directions shot..

cosy foto:)

zhihao's concert:)

2009-09-11T10:39:00.000-05:00

was appointed fotographer by my brother, for my brother's string ensemble concert at NUS.. i personalli culdnt realli appreciate classical music.. but i culd see e hardwork they put into practising for e pieces:)

my brother!:)

another of my selective colorin fetish..

my cute parents and brother:)

dead sea scrolls exhibition

2009-09-06T09:36:00.001-05:00

popped over to the arts house museum to catch e exhibition on e dead sea scrolls.. this tour showcases 4 real fragments of the scrolls discovered in qumran. e scroll dates back 2000 over yrs ago, e earliest scriptures available to us now.. e language is written in hebrew, e original language of the scriptures:) besides this highlight item, there are also various old edition bibles on display, including the first king james bible ever printed etc.. scroll on to read more! hahaha..

took many fotos of e exhibits, but gonna show some of it only.. esp those that explain e historical value of the bible:)

one of the posters showin one of the fragments.. e real thing is below, laters..

john bunyan's pilgrim's progress.. apparently john bunyan had no official theological training, was a drunk, ex convict who read e scriptures given to him while in prison alot alot of times, and came up with this book after synthesising wad he read:) classic book for children and adults alike.

very subtle selective coloring of the thickness of the bible..

the geneva bible:)

there was this room dedicated to the famous 5 pple in the history of how e bible was translated from hebrew(e original languag e old testament bible was written in in the time of Moses) to greek to latin to english and various languages of the world todae.. it started with john calvin:

e second famous person is Erasmus, who translated the hebrew old testament into greek-latin:)

then it was martin luther king, our famous monk who translated e bible from hebrew and greek into german..

e fourth person and prob e most unknown one, is responsible for e translation of e greek/latin bible to the english language.. william tyndale had so much difficulty doing this becos the roman empire forbid e translation of the bible to the english language.. e reason was e church believed e scriptures shuld be ministered to the people by the priests, thus e ordinary people shuld not be able to read e bible as such.. he was eventaulli burnt at stake for his translation:(

burnt at stake..

"Lord, open e King of England's eyes".. are we sometimes too blinded to see what God's will is?

e fifth person is john bunyan, previously mentioned le:)

next, we come to the room that exhibits the fragments of the scrolls:
this is how e scrolls were discovered..

e scrolls were in 18000 fragments, and e restoration of the scrolls into 800 books took many many many yrs.. it employed e help of DNa testin of the animal skin that each book was written on, so exact matching of the fragments culd take place.. the amazin thing is that even after so many yrs of passing down via copyin etc.. when we compare the modern dae version of the scripture and the scrolls discovered (e 2000+ yrs ago version), they are almost identical:) shows how God's word stands e test of time and God's hand in preservin His scriptures.. imagine u writing a book and e only way of passing down to the next generation is by copying manualli.. human errors would have changed e book u wrote by alot if u are talkin abt thousand of yrs!

fragment number 1:

the leviticus fragment.. see e next foto for explanation..

number 2:

see next foto of explanation!

number 3:

not all the 800 books were scriptures.. some where books on other stories, day to day manuals, etc.. this number 3 fragment was a non biblical fragment from another book..

number 4:

e only scroll that was preserved in its entirety was that of the book of Isaiah.. as mentioned above, e rest of the books were in fragments..the followin is a replica of e book of isaiah.. in e old daes, the scrolls were made up of sheep/animal skin and written on by vegetable oil and sewn carefully next to each other..

hebrew writtings..

e last exhibit worth mentioning is how e first bible was brought into space, in e form of a tiny microform..

1248 pages in that small small thingy!

wil leave you with e last image, of a verse that i hope none of us wil cry out in the last dae.

oriton cafe chefs

2009-09-05T09:34:00.000-05:00

guys only outin to deen and dilan's sch of pastry, e place where they are learnin to be culinary chefs.. their speciality? pastries and cakes:) if u are goin wow now, hahaha, yes their cheese cake is realli great!
this is at a secret corner of chinatown point, b1:) their sch has a cafe where e students cook:)

called to book b4 hand.. when we arrived, i was jus shocked.. they had actualli reserved a private room for me.. it was quite atas! and like we had 2 waiters that waited on us e whole night.. (students in waitering course there also, dilan and deen's frens! haha)

e room they booked for us! with my name.. how shockin la..

apetitizers.. i think it was prawn salad, realli nice:)

i ordered beef steak:)

there was other choices of mains also.. fish and chips, grilled fish, etc etc..

the nice american cheesecake i was talkin abt:)

e other alternative for dessert was warm choc mud cake with macaroons and icecream:

brother's outing:)

iluma

2009-08-26T11:27:00.003-05:00

been to the new iluma? its this shoppin centre jus adjacent to bugis village.. pretty nice restaurants, rather spacious layout and cool random lights that race up the tiled exterior of the building...

went to one of the jap restaurants to grab a bite, the way to order here is rather unique, it involves a electronic pen that voices out commands and involves you using the pen to point at the dish in the menu. this wil then be sent directly to the kitchen:)

and this is our ebisboshi hero of the dae that truimphed over the evil red monster, sensei wong..

dae out!

2009-08-24T09:22:00.003-05:00

dae out, our 2 week break together, we started our outing with a trip to pine court, meritus mandarin level 35 to get some timsum buffet.. realli good food, good service, even changed out plates twice!

some of the tim sum we ate:)

then after, we went to teoheng to kbox, realli warm and cosy in e room:)

we met steph, yinghao and company at teoheng too!

selective coloring adobe

2009-08-23T11:48:00.003-05:00

selective colorin is one of the new thing's i've learnt since i started using adobe fotoshop.. haha, its quite a useful tool when u want a certain focus on ur fotos.. 2 examples below that i edited recently:)

walk..

flirtatous behavior.. (haha, jokin kae nettes!)

model shoot

2009-08-23T04:44:00.000-05:00

haha, post buffet high, we decided to pose for a boyband foto at a random sofa in meritus mandarin:)

graduating batch foto taking!

2009-08-20T09:21:00.002-05:00

off camera flash sync cord

2009-08-20T09:13:00.002-05:00

invested in a flash sync cord, now i haf lots of different lightin effects to try out.. my first fotos with off camera flash.. light comin from the side!

a dae in the shoes of a tiny fotographer

2009-07-12T03:14:00.004-05:00

ever tot wad a young kid saw thru her eyes? meet jem jem, soon-to-be professional fotographer:) this happened in church while i was keepin her occupied during camp debrief.. passed her my fone with e camera function and let her roam free and take wadever she wanted.. lots of potential i tell you.. and even as a young gal, she is alreadi fully matured in the area of "zhi pai" haha.. i din even teach her how.. she jus flipped e fone ard and took some of the pictures of herself, and me.. lets examine jem jem's fotos in more detail.. but before that, this is jem jem, as taken by me b4 i lent her e fone:

so after meetin our star fotographer, here's her gallery of shoots, 12/07/09..

her first zhi pai effect.. more to come later!

this is taken by her, not me!

1st successful zhi pai:)

her colouring book.. she colored aladdin brown-skinned and told me he was indian!

all works were self inspired, thanks for viewing e gallery of jem jem.. in the shoes of a young fotographer.:)

baffalo chilli challenge

2009-07-08T10:21:00.002-05:00

haf u BCC at sunset grill b4? haha, there's level 0 to 35 at sunset grill, east camp of seletar airbase.. the other time i went, level 3 was enuf to send me runnin to the toilet the next dae with a familiar burning sensation while i sat on e toilet seat.. but this time round, we were armed with 7 cartons of milk! i think milk helps after eating.. at least i din get diarhorrea this time round:) yes, we tried level 20.. some had one full wing, some had half.. i had half haha.. enuf to make me remember for a long long time to come!

can u see the undeniable hotness of this thing? even lookin at this felt nauseating.. level 20!

passin it ard..

dousing the chilli with milk and more milk!

luke's attempt at finishing his wing..

this is the roll of honor that is now on top of the ceiling wall at sunset grill!

haha, if u look closer at our lips, u'll see similarities!

and at the end, we even had individual certificates with our names on top of it, and our names are now in the restaurant, on e ceiling, together with the brave silly souls who tried level 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, ,, 35..

jss children's picnic @ marina barage!

2009-06-09T10:32:00.002-05:00

it was a fun dae at marina barage, i think kids are realli cute when they play in fountains and pools.. i think e children enjoyed themselves lots, thanks to the fun games and nice place that was provided:) for those who din go for e picnic, here's e fotos:)

e dae started with a time of singspiration..

then the first round of games started!

it was e pass e hula hoop down e line game..

haha, e sticker is for temperature clearance!

then we played guess the bible character game..

i like this foto.. mummy quah helpin vera with her headband..

e next 3 shots were taken by caleb, 7 years old! of cos he took many many shots, out of which 3 came out pretty nicely.:)

then we played hunter, fire and earthquake game..

then it was free time! this was when e children went straight for the fountain pool! it was so happfying to see e children playin w water.. i joined in e fun too!

yes, she was merlioning the fountain..

another fun moment captured.. fav shot of e dae!

i asked permission b4 i took this, tt's why they smiled for me:)

red team finishing e amazin race tasks! all happy and rosy faces.. then it was macdonalds for lunch!

kilimanjaro

2009-05-26T00:16:00.002-05:00

this probably marks the end of my tanzania posts.. this last post wil showcase some of the most beautiful landscape i've ever seen in my life.. so beautiful tt i wanna share it with you.. if u ever haf e chance to climb kili, pls do! its a once in a lifetime experience to be so high, even if its only for 5 mins:) although we stayed at the peak for only a fraction of the whole trip, it was enuf.. and moreover, it wasnt e gettin up to the top that mattered, it was e entire journey, e breathtakin scenary and e outdoor experience.. another honeymoon recommendation, but only for the no-faint hearted, cos its def not a stroll in the park!

some backgrd knowledge first.. kilimanjaro has 5 main zones.. e first zone is the cultivation zone where the villagers live, where the base of the mountain is.. as u go higher up, the second zone is the rainforest.. this is where we started our journey.. we spent abt 1 dae hikin up the rainforest and next, you'll see the moorlands.. this is where the huge raintrees give way to the shorter scrubs and low vegetation.. the fourth zone is called the alpine desert where there are less creatures, more rocks and sand and where it starts gettin cold.. then there is the sumit zone, where u see e snow, glaciers..

there are many routes up to kilimanjaro, the popular one includes the coca cola route, which most europeans take.. there is less scenary, slightly easier and u get to stay in proper lodgin along the way up.. but for us, we chose the machame route, which is much more scenic according to the guides, harder (the 2nd hardest route apparently) and we get to sleep outdoors in the tents.. so our 6 dae journey begins:)

this is us at the gate of the rainforest, our tour guide is the one of the left, with e multicolored beanie.. he's oh so cool! haha, he's got dreglocks as u will see later on in e fotos.. he's realli great, most totful and supported us all the way up.. if ever u need an excellent guide, find him.. his name is robert and he freelances with mauly tours or hyena tours.. the assistant tour guide is the one on the right, tall, and very gentle african.. he sets the right pace for us all the way up.. wonderful guides:)

rainforest trail.. for now, its a trail, but as u wil see later, e trail disappears and gives rise to rocky terrain.. haha, initialli i tot it was gonna be a trail all e way up, but i guess we got more than wad we paid for.. there was some actual dangerous rock climbin, scaling down from heights.. definitely adventurous!

one of our porters.. called abieli, he is a from a tribe called mesiaah..

our first campsite:) if u look at the vegetation, tt's the moorland zone..

for our meals, we have it in a tent specialli prepared with table and stools for us.. there wil be a waiter to serve us as well.. excellent service too! haha

this is the foto of all e ppl we wuld be relying on for the next 5 daes.. all 14 of them! so plus us, tt's an entourage of 18 people! haha.. they carried our tents, our food for 5 daes, e gas stove for cooking, our sleepin bags, our clothes, etc etc.. haha, so tt's why 14.. of which one was guide, 2 ass. guides, a cook and a waiter.. e food was excellent.. e cook, our lifesaver, used to work in a hotel!

our 2nd campsite after much walkin.. foto taken at about 8pm, long exposure, 25 secs.. on average, we walk abt 8 hours a dae, our record was 13 hours non stop on the night of our summit!

3rd dae, realli realli tiring dae, it was the dae we had to climb high to about 4600metres and come down to camp at 3800 for acclimatization.. most of us felt sick after the climb.. but it realli helped the next few daes..

yup, tt's mount kilimanjaro!

here, u see that there is no more trail..

this taken at our 3rd camp site.. gorgeous mountain..

tt's me!

tt's our tour guide with his dreglocks, let down.. and our waiter!

at this campsite, we were alreadi at the level of the clouds.. tt's our tour guide's silouhette.. i like this shot:)

us!

e porters were so strong! like we would wake up and haf our breakfast b4 setting off an hours early then the porters becos they would pack up e tents and stuff.. then by 1 and a half hrs they would have caught up with us.. and overtake us.. and they would reach campsite 3 hrs b4 us.. haha, so by e time we reach, e tents haf all been set up and food prepared for us alreadi.. this is the way they carry e stuff.. on their heads, with their hands in the pocket.. and if u look at the 2nd foto, he's wearin sandals! amazin ppl..

wow?
oh and if u are wondering why we are so dressed up, haha, its at least 5 degrees now.. and e coldest was on e last night when we summited, it was -15 degrees i think..

u see the small stones on e big rock? those were put there by e guides to show that we were going e right direction.. kinda like a signpost, ancient one.. and it was all along e route we went:)

so e night of the sumit came.. e 4th night.. e weather was not ideal, e wind could easily blow sabrina off her feet la! haha, even david lost his balance a few times.. we started our ascent at midnight.. we had to use headlamps.. it was realli exciting.. and so many times, e tot of giving up was so real.. this was e night it felt like NOT makin it up to the peak is highly possible.. until i saw this:

it's the sunrise while we were about 3/4 way up.. well, we were supposed to be up at the peak by sunrise, but we were slow, so when e sun rose, we stopped for a while to take it in.. it was from that point on tt we started psyching up.. i was super determined to get up:)

glaciers, while we were nearning the top.. if u realise, there is not many fotos of the top journey, cos i was simply too tired.. its realli exhuasting.. like i was taking one step one second and for each step, i had to breathe 3 times.. imagine tt!

after 5 daes and lots of determination,

thank God for this experience!

we stayed for only about 5 mins on the top, cos any longer and we'l get mountain sickness!

we made our way all the way down to e rainforest in one dae.. goign down was easier on e lungs but harder on e knees..

and this is us, at e gate again, happy faces of e 4 singaporeans that conquered kilimanjaro, and our new found kilimanjaro family, with e fog mist in e backgrd.:)

shall leave you with a panorama of e mountain from our 3rd camp site..

4 dae safari fotos

2009-05-22T10:45:00.006-05:00

one of our weekend getaways included a 4 dae safari to 3 different national parks to see the animals that we saw on national geographic documentaries on okto.. haha.. i never imagined somethin like this.. ever.. its realli an eyeopener, our zoo or night safari cant come close to this.. realli did draw me closer to nature and e beauty of the animals that noah took into the ark.. u'll come to realise that most of e animals in e fotos come in pairs, jus e way God created them, jus e way its meant to be.. i strongly recommend tanzania as a honeymoon country.. altho we camped in tents at night, there are other packages that a couple can choose that consists of stayin in hotels and lodges that look absolutely 5 stars.. of cos being young and non-coupley, we took e camping and tents.. but e safari is beautiful.. heard from the guide that there are couples who hold their wedding in the safari itself..

we viewed the animals while in a 4 wheel drive that had an openable roof.. it was such an experience to be so close to the animals and watch them in their natural habitat..

first national park we went to, called lake manyara:

something interesting i learnt abt giraffes.. when they are together, male and female, they like to neck each other.. meaning they like to entangle their necks ard each other like that.. and e galloping of a giraffe is so elegant and graceful.. when they ran across the plains of the park, i felt like i was watchin "land b4 time" live..

mum, dad lookin on to baby giraffe..

that's happy us at the end of the first dae, end of the first national park:)

second dae, we went to this huge national park called serengeti.. it's miles and miles of plains.. u'll see wad i mean when u look the e scenary fotos later.. u can drive for miles and hours and cant see beyond the horizon.. realli amazin.. and e first animal that we saw there was the lion and his pride.:)

zebra crossing!

this was e happy foto of us with our hair blown by e wind due to the speed of the 4 wheel, we were sticking out of the roof! exhilarating feeling..

this creature (cos i dunno the name!) likes to stand on high ground to watch for predators:)

bambi!

this foto has a story.. so we were driving ard and we spotted this hyena.. and e guide told us that e hyena is one of the animals that have a male-female role reversal.. that in e case of a hyena, e female is the one that has many males around her.. e male hyena is henpecked.. hmz, chiara, sounds like something familiar to you? hehehe

pumba from "lion king"!.. did u know that simba realli means lion in swahilli?

little warthogs.. their tails shoot straight up when they run!

for the stayover, we had to camp in enclosures like these, cos its not safe to pitch tent outside!

dinner was chips and chapati!

then e sunset..

and the sun rose e next mornin.. we had another game drive in serengeti early in e mornin b4 going to our 3rd park in e afternnoon..

one of the first few animals we saw in the morning light..

this is wad i mean when i saw its miles and miles of plains.. sometimes with a solitary tree.. wow

then we met mrs cheetah and her 4 cubs.. mrs cheetah was teachin her cubs to hunt.. they tried to encircle and trap a gazelle but failed terribly.. sian-ed, they came about 2 metres away from us and sat on a rock, lettin us snap away at this rare fotographic opportunity..

yup, tt's e cheetah sprinting:)

i like this, mrs cheetah standin proud..

i like this shot, kinda accentuates how tall the giraffe is.. i like how e tree casts its shadow and shades e feeding giraffe..

tt's e end of serengeti.. we next moved onto this crater called ngorongorong.. something abt this crater: its e size of singapore and when we were on its rims, we were able to see e entire crater at one go.. can u imagine seeing all of singapore at one time? e animals lived in the crater we would go down inside the crater the next morning..
but for now, we set up camp at e rim of the crater..

panorama of our 3rd night campsite at the rim..

a huge raintree when we arrived in the evenin at the campsite..

the same tree in the morning when we woke up.. e foggy background made everything mysterious!

even zebras have to pee..

my creation: zebras in heaven.. haha, kidding

so we were down at the crater itself.. and there was this huge lake that had thousands of flamingos.. a pity we could only see from afar..

scenary in the crater.. macham like teletubby land.. realli.

then we got fortunate.. we met mrs lioness and her cubs.. many many many of them..

motherly love guys..

like mother like cub..

yup, tt's most of the animals we saw in the 4 daes.. out of the big 5, we saw the elephant, lion, buffalo and rhino.. we din get to see e legendary leopard on e tree, but tt's okaes.. i think we saw enuf to glorify e Maker in our hearts..
i shall leave you with panoramas of the crater from e rim, stitched together from many fotos, including the last foto 360degrees panorama of the crater from within.. remember, you are seein the expanse of singapore all in one glance!

thank you lyn, bree and david!

2009-05-22T10:31:00.003-05:00

this post is dedicated to my sweet companions.. it so happens that dr tan has e same birthdae as me.. so during the first 2 weeks, we were plannin a surprise foto collage for him.. we developed e fotos in town (yes we managed to find a printer) and we cut out a shape of africa, cuttin and pasting the fotos and writing captions and little msgs to them.. it turned out pretty well and they were so happy that they hung it on their wall! but e sweetest thing is that, my sweet 3 frens did a miniature foto collage for me without me knowing as well! tt realli isnt easy, considering tt i lived in the same house and saw them e entire dae everydae.. they must have done it after i fell asleeppp.. thanks thanks you:)
this is my minature africa foto collage!

gorgeous isnt it? its goin on my wall too!

e parish next to the hospital

2009-05-22T10:25:00.002-05:00

our kibosho hospital is run by the sisters of the roman catholic parish.. e parish architecture is realli beautiful, a pity we never had a chance to go in and look at the stained glass:)

and this is a random foto of one evenin as the sun was settin, our porch outside our home:)

and another random foto of a coconut grinder that they use in tanzania.. tt's bree's hand doing e grating..

children of tanzania juu..

2009-05-21T10:42:00.003-05:00

portraits of tanzanian kids!

racial harmony foto! they were comparing heights:)

fighting over a folded aeroplane..

a group of them came over to our window and peered in, saw the bottle of sweets, and asked.. of cos we gave.. and as lyn was giving, i was camera-ing.. foto of this little boy when he received the sweet..

absolutely adorable!

the walkin angel

2009-05-21T10:17:00.003-05:00

this is one of the stories that showed the providence of God's mercy while we were in africa.. the dae that the rainbow appeared, we were plannin to walk down to town, wad we tot would take 3 hrs.. normally, normal ppl take the dala dala (local bus) down from the hospital to town.. tt would take abt 1 hr bus ride.. but we decided to be healthy.. so we started out the dae walking down:) after abt 1 hr, we decided to confirm we were goin the right way.. so we asked him:

his name is john joel wilson.. we later found out he's trainin to be a teacher in swahili and geography.. at first he was realli surprised that we asked him if it was the right way to town.. and he asked if we were walkin.. "are you sure you are walkin down?" .. we were so sure and said yes.. so he pointed us in the right way and we left him..
after about 15 mins, we heard hurried footsteps chasing after us.. we turned ard and saw him runnin after us.. he came up to us and told us he was inspired to walk with us down.. that if we, foreigners could walk down, why couldnt he, a healthy local, do the same.. it happend to be easter saturdae, and he was goin to town from his hostel for service.. but he was late waiting for the bus that never came.. so when we met him, he was stil waiting for the bus.. he also told us he felt the urge to walk with us to exchange ideas and cultures with us, as well as help us shuld we need any help.. which proved to be realli realli helpful, cos he showed us ard town, where to get things, and offered to bring us to the bus station where we could find e correct bus back to the hospital.. wad a godsend.:) and so he was our first angel we met in tanzania:)

as a trainee teacher, he has big ambitions and hope for tanzania's future, and he knows the future depends on good education for the young.. and he's committed to stayin in the rural to provide the education to the village children.. we met him again to tour his campus jus before we left tanzania.:)

this is a foto inside the local bus.. its actualli a mini van that is a 12 seater.. but of cos no dala dala would leave with only 12 ppl.. haha, close to 25 ppl would be inside.. and tho this foto doesnt show it, normally e entrance of the bus would have 8 ppl standin in e small small space..

and one dae, there was a rainbow

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yup, one of the mornings, we woke up to a great big umbrellic rainbow that stretched right over the hospital:) remember God's promise?

a dae at the marketplace

2009-05-20T10:05:00.002-05:00

kirima -- that's the name of the market place that all the villagers go to every tues and thurs to buy perishables.. takes us about half an hr walk to get there.. the market place is a colorful place, mainly cos the women wear "sarongs" called kangas that are multi colored and of all different patterns:) u can get all sorts of fruits and veges there.. we discovered this wonderful tasting fruit called custard apple there too! our fav..

tt's mrs tan bringin us down.. children there are most fascinated by our presence.. and when they see us, they can follow us for a long while, jus giggling and laffing, followin closely behind but never too close, always a safe distance away from us:)

the market place,

one of the many things they sell at the market.. i think these are corn.. and the bees come free haha

i think the african face has lots of expressive potential.. mayb its cos they look different from me and you.. takin ppl portraits never fail to bring a smile:) some of the ppl in the marketplace:

one of my favs:) all i did was to ask her "pictcha pictcha?" (means picture in swahilli) and she posed for me.. and when i showed her her foto after that, everyone ard her who also saw jus burst out laughin, including her! probably the first time seein themself in a foto? anyway i think she's beautiful:)

hidin behind her baby.. tt's a first! haha, usualli the baby hides behind the mom?

this happened the first week there.. haha, i walked to the market and my shoes din survive the roads and rocks.. so when i reached the market, the sole was flapping away.. the locals and dr tan had to pluck banana leaves from the trees there to help tie them back together! apparently banana fiber is realli tough.. my shoes never made it back to singapore..

this is another story.. i never knew his name.. but everytime we go the market, and he sees us, he'll take our hand and follow us everywhere we go.. the first time we saw him and he followed us, we were of cos feeling uncomfortable.. dr tan then told us his story.. when he was young, his dad killed his mom right in front of him and then committed suicide.. from then on, he has been mentalli disabled.. he lives in the market and when he sees foreigners, he would tag along, hoping to get something to eat.. so the next few times we saw him, all we did was to give him food and he wil be so happy, and he will walk away.. for a while haha.. then after keepin his food elsewhere, he will come back and hold our hands again! we stil dunno who takes care of him.. i jus pray whoever's takin care of him wil continue to do so..

this is how they carry their marketing all the way back home:)

next post, another story and fotos of tanzanian children!

easter sundae

2009-05-19T02:23:00.001-05:00

the first weekend that we were there, it happened to be easter.. and the ppl there are mainly roman catholics and christians, so easter was a important holidae for them.. so on sat and sundae, we attended church with dr and mrs tan.. they go to this expatriate church called st margaret's.. service was in english.. we also attended another church called Haggai church in the subsequent week jus to see how it went, but i have no fotos to show tho.. easter sundae's message was great and remindful of why this dae is so important.:)

tanzanian home!

2009-05-19T01:39:00.006-05:00

most fotos are edited le! i jus hope that u'll enjoy e fotos.. hope to share a bit of tanzania with you, so that u'll get to see a different side of the world we live in:)

kibosho is the hospital that we learned at, and it happened to be at the base of the mountain.. there, e air was so fresh, away from the town's pollution.. e weather was much cooler and at night, it culd hit 15 degrees:)
fotos of our residence at the hospital.. dr tan, e doctor we followed for exchange, managed to get us an apartment jus below his.. haha, so we lived in this gorgeous house meant for doctors of the hospital.. e house was supposedly built by the germans, so it had realli high ceilings, high enuf such that we din even have to open any windows and it wasnt stuffy:)

this is a foto of our apartment.. we lived on the bottom floor, the right corner where e two cars are:)

foto of the garden next to the apartment that grew ALL kinds of things.. from lettuce to onions to carrots.. and of cos, kilimanjaro in our backyard.. can u imagine waking up every mornin to kilimanjaro in ur backyard?

closer look at the vege garden..

panoramic view of the view outside our steps..

this is the rubbish hole.. everyone ard jus puts all their household refuse into this hole.. and if it is full, then they cover it up:)

us on top of the huge water tank! from the water tank, e view of kilimanjaro was even more awesome..

a better view of kilimanjaro, about 1 hr walk away from our apartment.. we were out exploring the place, and e villagers were so frenly.. e children especially.. haha, i think cos we were jus so exotic to them...

inside,

lyn and bree's room!

david's room..

our sink with e water heater, the bathroom and the toilet.. not too shabby eh?

the conditions were much much better than i expected to be living under:)

the living room/dinning room, and the corridor..

and finally, my room!

sometimes, in the night if it rains, there will be tons of these insects called sausage flies that find their way into the house.. they will come in and jus die inside the house, and e next morning, we'll find them all littered on the floor, with their unattached wings sprawled all over the place.. sweeping them up were the guy's job.. haha

during our stay, we would usually haf dinner with dr tan and his wife, mrs tan.. mrs tan is a n excellent cook, and she never fails to over provide for us.. haha, and its customary that we finish up all the food on the table, so if u know the bree and lyn's appetite, and mine, u'll know that david was the man la.. when it came to finishing up e excess..

one of the dinners, tt's our dearest dr and mrs tan:)

dinner that night was curry with beef, vege, salad and banana fritters.. banana is one of the staples of the tanzanian diet.. e other staple is maize flour which they smash up and make into something called ugali.. macham like rice but rather tasteless:)

there was another rule in the house, that "cookers are not washers".. so the children would have to wash up and dry the plates aft every meal, while dr and mrs tan would go and rest..

on daes that we dun join dr and mrs tan, we will cook up some simple stuff to eat, like french toast and sausages, mainly becos we only had a cookin pot and no stove..

dr and mrs tan tickled by my gorrilapod on lyn's head..

family foto.. all of us felt like they were family thruout our stay.:)

this page is gonna get busy!!

2009-05-13T05:57:00.002-05:00

hello, im back, not sure whether u guys are back on this page tho.. hope u wil eventualli find ur way back here, cos this page is gonna get busy!! only one third way thru editin.. and im enjoyin it lots.. wil pole pole (slowly slowly in swahilli) blog e fotos as and when im done.. and dun expect me to explain all e stories behind each foto ( yes, every foto blogged here has a story).. if i meet u and go thru e fotos with u, mayb i will tell many stories.. but this is a fotoblog, so less words, more fotos.. if u are curious, u can ask me personally:) and of cos, its crazy to upload all e fotos, so its selected fotos and selected stories.. and of cos there wil always be secrets between us 4.. that only we wil understand:) alright, enjoy, and karibu (welcome) to tanzania!

plane flight to dar esalaam:)

arrived at dar, slept over at a hotel, and took a coach to moshi town where dr tan promised to pick us up:) e scenary during the bus ride thru the rural highway was simply "shi wai tao yuan".. but as we came to realise, tanzania was full of this paradises everywhere.. this was our first encounter with beautiful tanzania.. jus right outside our bus window!

this was taken by e olympus panorama function.. and stitched up when i came back.. so e color's a big different, cos its made up of 3 different fotos:)

on e bus, there were 3 kids that were travelling alone.. on a 8 hr bus ride! haha, we were instant frens when lyn gave them gummy bears:) here's one of them..

thru e bus window, i used my manual 135mm carl zeiss jena to fotograph a few tanzania faces we met that dae..

one of my favs:)it was taken by lynette while i was takin to this man trying to sell stuff outside the bus thru e window.. even tho i din buy anythin in e end, this was stil the smile he gave us:) post-editin decreased saturation:)

goin on elective!

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off to africa for 5 weeks.. haha, dun think i'l be updating my blog whilst there so pls take a break with me and revisit here again in may!:) hopefulli i'l get to take many nice fotos and post them here.. take care everyone! God bless:)

shall leave you with where i hope to be enjoyin God's sunrise in 4 and a half weeks time! the summit of mount kili!

weddin part 2-- "you and i both"..

2009-03-30T10:34:00.002-05:00

part 2, yes, its e "you and i both"edition of fotos, featurin fotos taken of the couple only.. when e pinhole has just enuf space for two of them.:)

pre-weddin, at the bride's place..

leavin for the church..

at the church, in a small room..

a prayer said b4 e whole weddin started, led by the pastor of the church..

one of my favs..

almost din capture this cos my flash doesnt recycle as fast!

mr and mrs..

wedding part 1- moments of magic

2009-03-29T12:05:00.005-05:00

fotos taken at a recent weddin.. din particularly like weddin fotog, but it was a good experience.:) you can ask me why if u realli wanna know.. anyways, spent lotsa time editin e fotos.. only gonna post some of it up.. gonna spilt them into 2 posts.. tonight's post is gonna be abt some of the more special moments durin the weddin (mainly not of the couple).. the post tt follows wil be a "you and i both" edition of fotos, where e couple is featured and no one else:)

my first weddin fotog, comment if u wish to:)
at reception.. of cos children are nicer to fotograph at reception:)

the bridesmaids..

waitin at the start of the aisle, eagerly..

waitin at the end of the aisle, patiently..

flower girl and bridesmaid looks on..

"whenever wil it be my turn?"

i particularly like this foto.. e right top corner's rays causes the bridesmaids to somewad leap out.:)

two little girls look on at e just-married bride..

hort park outing BASICS:)

2009-03-23T08:13:00.003-05:00

fcf yf outing to hort park.. its e 3rd time i've been there.. felix managed to book a nicely airconditioned room for us to hang ard for lunch and singin.. we also had a tour ard hort park by one of the staff there.. learnt many things abt the horticulture there that i din know abt.. but i guess i was there more for the ppl, so u'll notice i took mainly portraits.:) haha, carinne, lois and others overseas, hope this helps make u miss home more! haha..

this foto, tho blurred, stil had a nice soft feelin to it.. shows tt not all blur fotos arent nice.. and not all sharp fotos are good.:)

classic faces.. marvin was smellin a curry leaf tt the tour guide picked for us:)

haha, much cuter face of smellin the leaf!

on display this time round was a section on the wizard of Oz..

marvin posing for me:)

we took the chance to celebrate the march babies:)

slightly more arty foto below.. taken when everyone was lookin at different directions and the sign board in the backgrd.. tt's how we look without Christ in our lives, lost!

reposting kboxin:)

2009-03-16T05:19:00.004-05:00

reposting ended and the 5 ttsh reposting repostees went to kbox for a well deserved outing!:) haha, the girls initially were to shy to sing, and kept saying they wuldnt sing.. but in the end, when we switch from chinese to english boyband songs, the girls were hoggin the mikes!

no idea why you were so stunned guanhong!

weeming doing his classic hand-over-the-ear while singin..

this foto looks like its been joined tog by two fotos.. but it so happened that the corner of the room was jus nicely inbetween both of them.. its one foto!

kelly emo-ing..

saving a space for me,

the reposting cg of ttsh!:) i realli enjoyed doing med reposting with you guys! thanks mpcy, klbb, pwm, ogh:)

the living netters..

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cards hand drawn by ms m. pang cuiying herself.. for the amazing repostin tutors at ttsh who taught us all!:)

for dr adeline lam..

for dr chia c.k...

for prof Loh..

for prof alan..

set 4!

2009-03-14T08:52:00.001-05:00

tried out some shots that turned out pretty well.. kudos to liyana who tot of putting the sunglasses infront of the lens:)

now for the silhuotte fotos that i realli like:) thanks to all my models!

yup, hoped you had much suspense and fun viewing the fotos:)

set 3: jump jump!

2009-03-13T10:46:00.001-05:00

jump jump fotos taken by my kit lens 14-42mm.. ningyan and lijia, i like ur sky foto the best! in order to take the jump jump fotos, we had to lie prone on the grass like that.. super itchy after that!

my cg mates are quite good at this.. haha, can u see the moon and the 4 love birds in the air?

as promised, ningyan:)

tt's all for todae.. tmr's set 4 is more exciting!:)

set 2:) group fotos and single shots

2009-03-12T10:50:00.001-05:00

hello, set 2, fotos are mainly night shots after the sun setted and familiar faces at their most candid and unglamness:)

candid shots while they were not looking.. haha, tt's e power of the 135mm, ppl dun notice when u are taking them.:)

end of set 2.. excited about set 3? haha, set 3 is gonna be the jumping foto set:) ningyan, u're gonna love ur sky foto tmr:)

thank you for waiting for my fotos!

2009-03-10T11:54:00.003-05:00

haha, okaes, i've stayed up till late to edit this set of fotos.. its the marina barage fotos.. and there are many many!! too much for one dae of viewing pleasure, so i've decided to schedule blogger to publish them one day after another.. there are 4 sets of fotos, so from todae onwards, do check my blog everydae for new sets of fotos:) haha, and i think the last sets are realli nice, some realli artistic shots.:)
kae, first a big thank you for waiting!

now for the 1st set of fotos:) adults and children at marina barage.. all taken by 135mm jena carl zeiss manual lens:)

so happy that there were so many families that brought little kids there to run around and fly kites..

a few kids decided to turn their backs on me, but tt din stop me from capturing them.. the wind blew their hair in a very kodak manner haha..

i have always wanted to take the followin fotos.. not cos im sadistic but cos i feel that the emotions we often capture in our subjects are happy, joyful moments or cute moments.. very rarely do fotographers capture sad teary scenes..
this little boy's kite string snapped..

alright, tt's all for todae, come back tmr for set 2:)

macro with 135mm

2009-03-10T11:53:00.000-05:00

jus trying out macro mode with ext. tube for 135mm.. not too bad:)

135mm carl zeiss jena trial shots:)

2009-02-22T10:57:00.001-06:00

finally got my 135mm repaired and in good condition.. first time tryin it out this week.. since it's meant for shooting further objects, i decided to test it on the birds that landed on the retaining wall outside my window.. if you havent heard of this 135mm carl zeiss jena lens, its acclaimed to be the sharpest 135mm lens ever made in history.. at f3.5, it is relatively fast too.. really amazed at how sharp the images turned out.. and most of the fotos seen below are cropped from the original.. a great lens at a realli affordable price as well.. but not easy to come by:) alright enjoy the fotos, i think my next post will be 2 weeks time, after my medicine reposting test.:)

oh and the bokeh of this lens is soft and soothing:) i like it quite a bit;)

vdae's tim sum lunch with basics

2009-02-22T10:48:00.004-06:00

long overdued again.. sorry, studyin hard:) this was vdae, when felix brought the lonely hearts to eat tim sum buffet, in bid to drown our loveless sorrows.. hahaha, hotel miramar, tim sum buffet on the 3rd floor.. not extraordinarily good though.:) but the company was great:)

i quite like this foto, leaning couple foto.:)

felix and amy gave the gals each a rose.. and the guys jus got nothin..

happy valentine's dae tmr.. settler's dae out

2009-02-13T09:18:00.003-06:00

long overdued, sorry guys.. haha settler's dae out with you guys were super fun.. we're def going back there for our free meal from our lucky draw! :)

one of the games we played that required us to make funny animal noises..

bree with her "u know i know im gonna get it all" wryry smile.. hahaa.. and the gesture's cards can be easily substituted with a mahjong set haha, she has the "im going to hu" posture and look.:)

yansheng, jus classic la.. heh

CNY

2009-01-26T08:26:00.001-06:00

one more dae to repostin:)

a fallen tract, a fallen people

2009-01-25T09:29:00.005-06:00

last sat,
i went down to holland village, a particular block of flats, it was saturdae tractin session in the afternn.. i jus started joinin this tractin session recently, cos i know its somethin impt.. for those who are unaware, tractin means going door to door, and givin out tracts (little pamphlets regardin christianity, or in the case of my church, givin out an invite to the monthly gospel mtgs tt we hold in our premises)

initialli, i was all psyched up, cos we had many blocks to cover, many tracts to give out, but as the doors knocked, and were opened, and were closed.. i started feeling sadder and sadder, there was jus so much on the line, yet so merger the response.. by e end of the session, i went home feelin more burdened, sadder, but strangely more encouraged.. i jus hope the 2 differnt grps of people readin this entry would do somethin abt wad i haf to say, the professing believers and the non-christians.. i jus hope this stirs up some, burden more and help lots to realise God's callin todae..

halfway thru 14th storey, with 14 more levels to go, havin covered the top 8 levels, i pressed on to deliver these precious tracts.. then i heard somethin fall.. it came down from the top level, dropped to the parapet on the same floor i was at.. i drew closer, and i felt tears well up.. i took up the fallen tract, the crushed and unwelcomed tract that i had slotted into, perhaps, one of the closed doors a level up.. there it was, lyin stil and crumpled, fallen..
i wasnt sad tt my efforts went to waste.. i was sad by the extent of resistance to God's word, to the christian faith and the good news we had to tell.. and the response of the world to us, was entirely embodied in that one fallen tract.. that the fallen people had rejected every piece of good news.. even when it was deliverd to their door step..
i was thinkin how God felt.. if i culd feel sad, how much more intense that rejection wuld God feel?
i never knew who was the one who threw the tract down from above, if i did, i would go back up and place another tract into that very same door.. cos i know God loves him, and however frankly and terribly he might reject God, God wuld stil be dere to welcome him in His arms if he were to jus accept and turn back.. to my non-christian frens, are u like this person todae? are u not even botherin to stop, take a look and think of the possiblities, the notion of salvation.. even when the tract (in the form of frens tellin u abt it, books that u read etc) is deliverd right to ur doorstep?

and it isnt only one person tt threw down the tract tt made me sad.. there were countless.. and im sure the others who helped out that dae have many other stories.. some violently slam the door at ur face, some politely reject ur tract.. rejection is rejection, no matter in what form, in wad way..

i put it to u, that this rejection may not be good for the emotional heart, but it certainly is great as encouragement.. firstly, if u think abt it, why do some people openly reject these tracts.. they must have had some bad experience, or seen a bad testimony of christianity somewhere.. yes, tt's us, tt's u and me, not doing our part, not bearing good witness for our faith.. is it then their fault that they openly reject? do we not share in part the blame?
secondly, if u have never felt this rejection b4, i encourage u to try it.. u wil only grow stronger and u will greatly feel the love that is much lackin in these people's lives.. if u never tried sharin with people you know abt ur faith, do so.. and make sure u do it prayerfulli, and properly.. with all sincerity. at least give them the chance to reject u. for if u dun, u wil be held accountable (its written in the Bible!)

the ministry of evangelism has never been more important in this last daes.. may this 2009 be one of much rejection, much tears and much burden for the people ard u who matter.

i picked up the fallen tract, brought it home as a reminder and an inspiration..

little children in cheong sums come to bai nian

2009-01-23T07:38:00.004-06:00

soo cute! the child care centre near my place sent their little children ard the estate to bai nian todae! dressed to smitter the aunties in the estate with their vibrant costumes, cheerful smiles and big orange oranges, they marched 2 by 2 to every gate.. all except mine! i was alreadi waitin at the door with raisins for them but they skipped my house! haha, they apparently got tired le, so it ended at the house b4 mine:( wanted to take fotos of them when they came.. haha, good thing i took out my 300mm and started takin fotos of them as they went ard, haha, all from my 2nd level bedroom window!

2 by 2..

haha, i think the next few fotos are realli cute.. and they tell a story too!

little boy:" mayb if i dun look at her, she wun know im holdin her hand.."

little boy:" she's the most beautiful girl i've seen in class so far.. wonder if she minds holdin my hand.."

little boy:"oh no, she's lookin at another boy.."

little boy:"if i walk faster and pull her along, mayb she wil follow me whereever i go.."

kooi fei and lunch at xin wang hk cafe

2009-01-23T07:36:00.001-06:00

mornin at e forest, afternn at vivo, evenin and stayover at the island of sand-toe-sa.:)

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had loads of fun, the forest adventure at bedok reservoir turned out to be quite interestin and fun.. we buddied up as pairs and went on the tree trails n flyin foxes.. if u haf the time, go try it:)
then we went to bedok food centre where there is the $3 chengting, expensive but lots of ingredients and lotsa nice syrup.. but realli too expensive..
went to sentosa for a nice evening chill at siloso beach, played beach volleyball and did some crazy things like ambush foxtrot romeo, leopard crawling in the sand etc.. we had plans for the evenin at the kampung huts at costa sands resort.. its really a good bargain, we paid 72 dollars for an overnight stay for 8 beds(double decker) and aircon.. pretty decent conditions too, clean and simple..

forest adventure fotos (din take too many cos we were climbin and all..good thing yansheng u were there to help!)

this was when we were at the vivo arcarde playin the bball and throw ball games:)

then we went to sentosa to check out our huts.. went to the beach but a pity i din bring my camera down.. wenkien did tho, can check out his blog for fotos:)
e next few fotos were taken at the huts that we stayed at during the night..

the "B" hut for the Boys

the "A" hut for the gAls

cos there were 5 guys and 4 beds, so we ended up drawin lots to see who sleeps on the floor (cos everyone wanted the floor sumhow)

why chinese i dunno, ask qiantai..

the next morning b4 we checked out..

this post is dedicated to my mummy

2009-01-19T05:30:00.008-06:00

i feel guilty..
my mum, she's a unique person.. im not gonna be too private here on my blog, but she is realli the greatest woman i haf met so far in my life.. she's smart, very very smart and resourceful, and sometimes i fail to realise how much she loves all of us..
she doesnt jus say she loves us, she shows.. guess that's somethin i realli wanna pick up and inherit from her.. last sat, i watched a video about "what is true love", by joshua harris.. altho it talked abt how true love in the sense of a boy gal thing, but i think one of the things that struck me was how the bible defines love as love that lays down its life for others.. the word sacrifice jus jumps at u.. the example given was about how his fren and his girlfren then sacrificed things such as kissing or intimate gestures till the dae they married each other, becos they knew it was for each other's best interest.. their kiss at the altar was their first.. can u imagine? if i were to think sacrifice and apply it to a mother and son relationship, then i can give u another example.. this example happend last sat:)

u see, i've been thinkin of getting a camera bag to store my cam AND at the same time, my other daily stuff like notes and stuff tt i would bring to sch, to work, to play etc.. cos one of the things i wuld love to do is to bring my camera everywhere i go.. so i searched ard for camera bags that wuld suit my purpose.. considered crumpler and domke etc.. but all din quite fit.. then i tot, why not DIY my own interior, lay it with the velcro material, and use the camera inserts of my current camera bag.. and jus buy a normal lookin bag tt cost less and looked better:)

so i went to bugis village and bought a nice lookin leather bag, and tot of a design.. i told my mum, cos i knew if i were to succeed in using the sewin machine, i wuld need her help..
everything happend in 2 daes: the buyin of cloth, of velcro, making of the base, the sides.. i wuldnt' have done it without her..
she even stayed up til late to sew up the last few velcros on sundae night.. and the next mornin, she stil vaccummed the whole place, springcleaned for CNY.. hmz, i jus sat next to her, thinkin of how old she is alrdy and like how her eyes were getting longsighted, how she must be feeling so tired and she never said a word..

thanks mum.:)

fotos of mummy at work, haha, and my mum's old antique sewin machine! fotos were edited to give a 1960s feel, e era that my mum was born in! haha

now for the patented DIY interior of my bag!
a simple lookin leather bag from bugis village:

my DIY base of the bag, sides, and camera inserts!

this is the base and the sides!

this is the base, attached sides, and the inserts in the right places!

the whole DIYed interior with all my 6 lenses and flash!

now for the whole thing in the bag!

and for daes when i go to sch, work or play and i dun need all my lenses, i can jus bring my camera with one lens, together with all my books, files and notes!

i am realli lookin forward to carry this mummy and me sewn camera bag! yes, i did sew too! haha, ask me to show u the wounds on my fingers.:)

bree and qt @mount sophia timbre

2009-01-15T00:59:00.004-06:00

dae 2 of post exam celebration, together with celebrations of my 2 cgmates' bdae.. went to timbre old sch.. e pizzas were great, company was great, e walk up the long flight of stairs leaves u panting.. bought them a cute box of little presents, haha, hope u'l get to use it eventualli.:)
some fotos from the evenin with you guys,

this was an experiment.. done by firstly decreasin shutter speed so u haf a longer time for exposure, then using the slow sync 2 flash mode, so that the flash fires jus b4 the shutter closes at the end.. so u haf all the time to move the camera then jus b4 e shutter closes, u stay stil with the subject in the centre of the foto and let the flash freeze the subject.. haha, u also must haf lights at the backgrd la.. or else no lighting effect.. this was done with a swirlin semicircular motion.:)

after the dinner, we went to the cathay to walk walk.. ended up doin wad we do best, haha, finding a comfortable spot and jus chilling and playin afool, posin for cameras, and havin nice conversations..

kinda like the f.r.i.e.n.d.s foto haha.. a couch and many best frens together:)

scary heads fotos.. there is sabrina the frenly ghost, yiuming and lyn the hairy ghosts, wenkien the ghost with the shoulders, qt the frenly ghost, yansheng the sad ghost, lijia the torticollis ghost, ningyan the macroglossia ghost, and david the boyband ghost.. hahaaa

caught in the web of spiders

2009-01-05T05:09:00.003-06:00

got bored of studying.. tt seems to be the case pretty often these 2 weeks.. yes, and if u are reading this instead of studyin, u must be bored too! haha..

this edition is abt spiders.. and their webs.. realli intricate stuff the Lord has made:) e first black spider appeared on my table while i was muggin, so i had to put everythin aside and shoot it.. it din die, but i froze it in time tho.. the next few spiders was taken on a bright sunny dae in my garden.. i ran my feet along e grass next to the pavement and a few hundred of them jumped out onto the pavement, much to my delight:)
enjoy e closeups!

look at His creation, haha, the two 'eyes' at its butt, all part of His way of protection from predators..

brings to mind the verse:"even solomon in all his glory wasnt clothed like one of these" :)

promura 300mm f5

2009-01-01T05:39:00.002-06:00

jus some random test fotos, bought this lens off ebay rather cheaply.. quite happy with the quality of the fotos.. not exactly e sharpest, but enuf for those lions, elephants, giraffes and hyenas in africa! haha, cant wait to:)

s03d christmas gatherin:)

2008-12-24T10:52:00.004-06:00

venue: jon chen's place..
people: awesome classmates and 2 awesome teachers

last dae of cg 26:(

2008-12-24T10:31:00.005-06:00

last dae of paeds also marked the last dae of our big cg 26.. took e opportunity to take some cg fotos.. but sherlyn wasnt dere with us! a pity.. haha, would have been so fun with her in e fotos.. gonna miss the post-eopt settler's at moks, the newman's doom!, the brenda's sorry, sherlyn's"ooi, wad la, go away, want to die issit!" and mok's many secret life stories.. this post is to honor CG26, e cg tt passed emed, psych med, ortho, obsgyn and paeds tog!:) cheers!

mok's cheeky look.. classic!

newman's "do i look like a fish to you?" look..

tried to take a kissing shot of 2 ambigious ppl.. but turned out wrong.. they humoured me..

happy bdae natply! re:biz outing to settlers

2008-12-22T10:13:00.003-06:00

post paeds activity, biz gang gathered at settlers for a serious mindboggling intense fight to the finish game of blokus.. never tot tessalations culd be so competitive.. and yes, the guys (ben and dennis) won all the 2 rounds we played.. next time gals..
and happy belated bdae natascha putri! hope ur candles of youthfulness never gets blown out.:)
and watch for a donald special in one of the fotos!

can u figure out where don's eyes are gazing, even tho huggin nat? hahaa..

post paeds theory fotos:)

2008-12-12T09:07:00.002-06:00

long time no post.. picked up my cam from my dry cabinet aft a long while and took some macro shots.:) this time, its all abt textures of 3 common things i found ard.. tryin to find words to describe, but i think u jus haf a look la.. haha

lyn's bdae, happy bdae;)

2008-12-04T09:49:00.002-06:00

happy birthdae to such a wonderful and caring fren, thanks for everythin nice nettes.:)

there was some funny rectangular lights coming down from the ceiling of the room we were eating in, so tt blocked out the flash partialli.:( haha, explains funny lighting of the followin fotos..

made them right in the middle of the lighted area!

lynette and hanfeng's shoes.. her shoes are like tellin a story, the way they face his shoes, the angle at which it is tilted in, a flirtatous manner.:) haha

shoes.:)

2008-11-21T07:27:00.001-06:00

sunray spicules codman's triangle

2008-11-14T11:42:00.002-06:00

some fotos i experimented a few weeks ago, tried to take the sunrays spicules.. haha.. for those interested, first to take such rays, u need a bright sun! haha.. and the place u take has to be dark.. expose for the outside sky brightness.. make sure the sun is partialli blocked by a subject near to ur camera (most impt tip!) for eg, the window grills did the job of partialli occludin the sun in my fotos..
then increase ur aperture, possibly up to f22, dun point direct at sun, focus on somethin nearer.. angle the camera abt 45 degrees..
different lens give different spread of the sun's rays.. the followin fotos taken by 2 different lens.. so the patterns are different.;)

intra fac touch rugby

2008-11-14T11:31:00.002-06:00

some overdued intra fac rugby fotos.. some vigorous field exercise we had tt dae.. the m4 team:

the m4s and the m5s:

biz outin to steamboat bugis

2008-11-07T07:03:00.001-06:00

quite a cosy chinese steamboat place, e food great, e company, greater.:)
and if u are readin this, and can afford to, pls pray for this little girl with cyanotic heart disease who is goin for operation next week.. my heart jus broke when i saw her sad..

playhse production

2008-11-05T08:49:00.005-06:00

no time for words, jus look at the fotos yea? :) want any particular ones pls msg me:)

post playhse fotos at xinwang hongkong cafe first.:)

makeup in room 6..

fotos from the play proper..

tt's all!:)

fotos taken for cast epilogue

2008-10-25T10:05:00.002-05:00

some fotos taken for how e story ends happily ever after.:)

mdm x became head security..

koh wan retired to e speaker's corner..

hunney and peggy married consultants and worked 3 daes a week at neurosurgery camden medical..

something happened to him but i cant remember..

yong lulu and duke married and had 5 children.. see, lulu's gravid uterus!

and finally, dr phua goes round e world signin his unrepeated mind book for his many fans.:)

playhse 2008

2008-10-25T08:01:00.005-05:00

im proud of you guys, i think this yr's playhse is gonna rock.:) rehearsal at crc todae cheng gong! this yr's gotta be the yr tt has so many ppl helpin out and acting.. below are some shots taken during rehearsals, amazin props, amazing ppl, amazing crew.:)

bbq at ecp

2008-10-17T13:43:00.004-05:00

its post paeds post obs and gyn and post shorts for our grp, and what better way than to celebrate it w a nice cosy bbq.. din take too many fotos, cos lightin was jus bad haha.. culdnt even see our cooked meat on e grill sometimes..

then it was macro time, haha, qt and lijia took turns at e corn..here are some of their works:)

i took interest in yansheng's watch and did some closeups with his amazingly crafted watch..

macro-ing

2008-10-15T10:18:00.004-05:00

this time, its called an extension tube.. i think i haf no more use for the macro filter lens tt i played with a couple of weeks back.. becos this is way better.. awesome.. its a tube like thing placed in between the lens and the body.. dunno how it works, but it does.. too lazy to read up how jus a tube can cause this effect.. someone who physics-es pls..

first try of macro shots, all taken outside in e garden.. rather random shots actualli.. just found little little stuff textured and small enuf to take..

windy plant bark of a windy plant..

this is a small fern bud..

cactus bud.. haha, u realise everythin is a bud or a shoot or a mini something..

bouganvilla erm inside..

as many fotographers have done this classic b4, the droplet off a leaf foto.. my fav fotos of the dae..

i tell you, ants are realli hard to shot.. cos they are forever scurryin ard.. never still.. took many shots b4 gettin a few clear shots..

more to come! the world of liliputian awaits.:)

btcampus

2008-10-15T10:08:00.002-05:00

met up with azi and amogh and saw lotsa familiar law faces like gn, eugene luah, shenrong.. btc has quite nice archi.. but time spent catchin up rather than fotog is time spent well jus as well.. haha. jus 5shots from that dae..

played with all diff colors..