Trying product shots..

This is the better one. :)

Another day gone its Wed

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Wife on MC today. :(
Now seem alot better, got to chase her to bed early tonight. :)

Blogging Sunday.. or Monday

Just a recap on my day.
Nothing fancy, managed to watch midnite - Star Wars III.
This time did better, slept for 2secs before I slap myself awake.

Eyes were half close for 2nd part of the show.
More like a torture waiting for the ending. Wife was sleeping after she finished her Nachos.. hahaha..

Awhile ago, my mum out of the blue came up to me and told me there was an "explosion" downstairs.

Went to take a peek and saw some floating stuffs on river behind my house.


Took some pics, that is after 11pm+ when I just bath.. purposely went down some more with my mum. haha..
me seow photographer I find myself now.

Early Sun..

Just finished watching the FA Cup.
Never expected Man Utd to play so well, but unlucky to lose via penalties to Arsenal.
*sigh*..

Anyway was going thru my stuffs and decide to try a product shot of this present I got for my dad.

Lazy to get a good background drop for me to do editing lazy..



After editing, very rough edges, can't expect good work doing it at 1:40am. haha..



Story goes like this, I was having a meeting in the office with this nice guy.
He show me some samples of his pen, not bad, leather too.

"Don't mind I bite it? Or use something to burn it? Real leather?"
"eh.. real.."

After the meeting was over, I pondered and decided to get one for my dad, father-in-law, myself, some spares for future give away.

"harlo.. its me - Mark, can you bring some of the pen over for our next meeting tomorrow?"
"okie, no problem"
"cash, cheque? btw, you accept credit card?"

Shown to mum when I came back from office, she politely told me.
"ah.. pen hor, your dad prefer cash.. so next time.."
*thought dad like to sign credit card, maybe with this pen.. oh well..*

Hopefully both dads will like it. Father's day coming.. :)
Oh yes, still to book the buffet luncheon for my actual dad birthday 29th May..

Borin Sat

Woke up at 9am, went for breakfast at a Kopi Tiam near my place.
Start to order food n ask wife to locate a vacant seat.
After I got the food, went to the table my wife was seated.

We started eating n I notice ah lau with an empty bottle of tiger talking loudly, more like shouting. kaoz.. damn early in the morning to be drinking.
He was just seated diagonally across our table, wife keeps on talking, n I was wondering - *eh hmm, of all place why choose near this drunk bugger*

I just look around for any empty chair in case he get funny so I can whack him up with it. Wife was happily eating n chatting while I was just half concentrating on her topics, more on the drunk bugger who's getting nearer.

Surprising nothing happens, not that I hope it does. The drunk bugger just slumber out of the kopi tiam. N I finished my Laska in peace, before i commented.
"Do you happens to look around before you seat??"
"No leh, why?"
"Got one bugger who's drunk n just seated across us... anyway.."

Anyway she's not trained like me watching too many Chow Yun Fatt movies, n mixing with bad company. haha..

As we went to get the car, I noticed from far one malay auntie, kaoz..
*only see the head, like giving summon one leh*
I quickly pressed my car remote..

"paisei, went off awhile* n smile at her.. phew.. !!

Another funny incident while driving home, my wife ask me to look at her "new" $300 hairdo from Reds. (Just got to know about the price when I saw the credit card bill)

"how's my hair ah? If I tied it this way..?"
"eh, I am driving leh.."
"Now traffic junction, can see my hair?"
"ah? I waiting to make a turn leh, anytime moving liao.."

Wonder is it my wife behaves like dat or most women..
Complicated.. haha..

Just got myself a blog at multiply..

allows posting of images, so much better than this blog here..
1G!! 1G of data to be used..

check out the link here.

http://bwilly.multiply.com/photos

Just try to edit one of my passport photo..
with recent technology.. no need to take pic outside any more..

some more can use magic of PS..

Damn.. took in hurry, shiak after work, to be ready for my new driving license.
dark eye rings.. flash seem kind of harsh, my hair was brown btw.



PS it, haha.. wonder of it. If you get the balance right.
This seem better, $100 hairdo from Reds.. messy.. when can't
really expect any better after a hard day work. dark eye rings
are gone.. one word - MAGIC!!




Found one office pic.. eh..where am I??

Photos galore.. enter at own risk.. Fishy part 2.

Too little time on the www, got problem having a decent blog attaching pics.
Now posting this in pure HTML, hopefully my memory does not fail me this time..
hehe..

okay, the hero from the other post.. applause..autography? later lohz..
need to rest. Later it complain to MOM, then I jiat liat liao.


My timid tang fish.. its yellow, suppose to be fierest among the tangs, but this one seem to be exceptional, I got to use long zoom to get this clear shot.
Totally worth it, after an hour of stakeout (standing behind my house pillar)



One nice portion of right side of my fish tank.. Seem pack with corals goodies, actually the tank is quite bare except for here..


okay, should not have name this bugger shit eater. Hard working fellow, comes out when the lights are off and move the dung.. Reminds me of some characters from the Star Wars show.. hiakhiak..

Fishy time

Took a break from my studies n played with my digi cam.
From the pic know I am a marine reefer freak.. yes, those uncle u spot downstair at kopi tiam, drink tiger, singlet, pot belly the lot..

anyway enjoy the pics..



Hand held shots..
so the pic abit blur.. hehe..

fishy notice mysis blown by the tunze (wave maker pumping 12000L/hr) just in front of it.. *yummy*



Fishy coil its body n ready to spring at the mysis floating around..


Split second, grab the mysis n makan it.. all the action happened within a sec or so.. tks to my multi shot frame rate cam..

Wednesday n pubbing already

Going on long leave, so bo bian, got to clear my stuffs.
Clear 90% of it, except of the filing when my bro called me at near 8pm.

Time to go drinking n a pool.
Poor form, cold n hungry, reach the pub at 8pm, no time to warm up,
n up against another "zhun ka"..

First shot on the table, the white ball jumped.. after that all the way down..
drown my "sorrow" over a glass of whiskey won from last Friday..

Head back home via MRT n met three of my "chio" colleagues, kind of bad,when I start to "chee hong" them, and ignore my brother. Actually they were digging much info. on how to fix their home virus prone PC n notebooks..

Few days back got to know from this colleague of mine resigning to join another hotel. Sad to hear, but happy for her. Planning a farewell dinner next Friday with a few chaps.. Beer hor fun, durian, long long "yu tiao".. know where?? hehe..

Friday pubbing

Suppose to hit the gym, but my bro ask me to go for a drink near his office.
We decide to go to Blue Banana @ Orchard Tower.
"free pool till 9pm" struck us, we decided to be cheapo n go in.
I ordered a fruit punch (my usual excuse - "sorry, I am driving" and tiger for my bro.

Couple of regulars are playing among themselves, we put our names on the board and waited our turn. My bro and I were knocked out each we played against the winner.
He was pretty good but seem slightly over confidence and impatience at times.
Couple of "foreign exports" were floating around, pretty distracting but not as much to me, but the effect to my bro was quite drastic I suppose. He did not played to his normal standard I presume.

The pub has a tournament among the pubbers, my bro enrolled me n himself.
The top prize was a bottle of liquor of your choice.
I was pretty nervous as I know nuts abt pools, I play more of snooker in my youth days.
I am lucky to pair off with a reasonable standard guy, black specs in black shirt plump guy, who seem more nervous than me in the 1st round. He has chance to kill me off with the last pot of black, but miss, I then polished off the black ball and thank the opponent for his game.

Bro was knock off 1st round as he loses his concentration by a guy call Matthew. The boss has another vacancy at 1st round, and slot my bro name in. 2nd life line for him.
He cleaned off this opponent and hop into the quarter final round. There were cheers all round as he show his standard with some very good pots.

For my 2nd round, I have chance to meet Matthew. Matthew also seem nervous and I was lucky in the last few shots, and finished him off.

Unfortunately bro was still veri affected by the surrounding foreign exports juggling around, in the quarter final, he lose to a player whose skills seem to be beneath him. Losing on the black.

Onto the Semi-final. I marched. I happened to meet the one of the two favourites. He was the one who in the free play time, polish me off. The guy was tall and slim, pretty cheerful chap. I start off the play with many safety breaks and limited his time at the table. He was very good at the table initally with high confidence, clearing most of his target balls.
I started my safety shots, and slowly take my time to clean the ball, then follow by a safety break with a difficult shot come about.
The guy clear all his balls, and start to have a safety break with the black pot.
I took a far clean cushion pot into corner pot. Next pot I tried a double onto another ball which entered too.

Unfortunately could not follow the black pot to clear the table. By this time, I think my opponent is slightly shaken as he miss the pot (which he normally won't) when he returned to the table.
I pot the black, finish winner and thanked him for the game.

In the final I meet another fav. from his stance, I reckon he could be a snooker player like myself. He was full of sway n seem slightly cocky. I tried to get his attention to start the game, n he was chatting with his frens. (dun mention abt shaking hands yet)

This opponent is accurate and has very good positional skills. He clean his target balls very fast, and left about 2-3 balls within a short period.
I again started the game with many safety breaks, and leave him frustrated as his left targets are blocked. I slowly clean my target ball one by one, leaving him with little shooting opportunity on his target balls.
Came to the cruncher, the table was left two of his target balls, three of mine and of course the black. He pot one, but miss his other target, leaving it slightly behind the black. On the table are three of my target balls. I do one long pot, and position to clear a center pot, follow by another corner pot. The strenght of my last pot just bring my ball upz nicely behind the black, unblock by the opponent target ball.

I have a hard look at the black, and thought the angle looks slightly odd to be potted. I can't rememberly what I do, but I believe I added some very slight swerve over cue ball, swerve some bit over the opponent ball and hit the black.. "bonk!!" it never sound nicer when the black drop into the pocket.. !! Job done, winner n slight cheers all round. (me not regular mah.. their regulars lose)

The boss came to me n congras me. I told him I was lucky which I do really believe I am.
I was given a bottle of whiskey which was opened and shared between the pool players..
There's now a half bottle waiting for me when I next go back to the pub.
My bro congras me for the upset victory, defeating two favs on the way to whiskey.. hehe..

Thursday Morning n Bloggin

Just managed to recover some old files that was not gone with my old harddisk.
Sent via registered post to Changi my RIP harddisk this afternoon.
Cost me $2.50 for box and masking tape, another $4.50 postage charges.

Still consider cheap if I purposely drive down - petrol and time value of money.
Though I spend considerable time at the Post Office, with all the E-everything. It has been
ages since I last visited a Post Office.

Nice Sunset, surprising I capture these birdies together with the setting Sun, behind my house.



Another pic -



I lose most of my motorshow pics, sadly.. yeah, those babes shots - they kindly (which I gladly) pose for me.

Nice half moon shot.. wonder of 12x zoom n OIS as shown by my Panasonic FZ20..
how long before I go into a DSLR?? For now, the FZ20 serves my need n more. :)

Weekend stay at Changi Village Hotel

It was a good stay, majority of the guests I suppose belong to Far East Organisation.

Took some photos and only managed to process about 4-5pics.
The photos are taken with my Panasonic FZ20, some shots were taken with a Circular Polariser Len, hence the sky is much colourful. (and some editing skills)

There they are.. one eerie thing that happen there in broad daylight, will post the details when the pic is upz.

Wife and me, enjoying the seaview at Changi Ferry Terminal. Did not managed to get the sunset. Sun was all blocked by the huge clouds in the distance. Manfrotto tripod came to good use now. :)

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Couple of junkie boats "parked" at the Jetty. Remind me of the old "red latern jetty"..


This was took in the morning today while strolling with wife at the beach.
Suppose to look out for the new "Changi Boardwalk", but just bump into the beach at every chance.

Actual pic, unedited, there was a unsightly rubbish bag in the foreground. Edited courtesy of me.. haha.

Sky kind of blue and yatchs pretty line up ah? :)

Actual pic, third yatch in the background was "speeding" off, not easy to alignment the shot, to capture the 1st stationery yatch. Me at work again.. align and colour the sky...

Another shot - Manfrotto tripod at work again.. :)