Outing Day 2

Well, i promised to bring them out, but never kept my promise cuz i always thought itz a pain to bring both out, but bring one then it seems unfair to the other, so always ended up not bringing.

Finally, i am on leave, so, decided to bring them out.. Left the girl with my mum and sis after the visit to the chinese doc at Golden Landmark Shopping Centre. Anyway, the shopping center really resemble Upper Serangoon Shopping Centre. And the boys like the old water fountian thats stops and starts suddenly. Ha.. itz quite fun to see how children sometimes gets attracted to simple things.

We went to Bugis first, intending to let them play with some toys at the toy's department. But in the end they were stucked at the Wall E computer game thingy, for the the whole half an hour, before we proceed to city hall to meet ap.

When we reach penisula, ap went to change her Spyder thingy, and i brought the boys down to the foodcourt to buy a drink for myself. Daven says he wanna Da Bian.. and he urgently need to.. So i quickly bring him to a search of a toilet. In the end we found it, and he proceed with his business. When he said he is done, i saw hmm.. that ermm.. some shit was still dangling from his .. erm.. body. so i asked him if he is really done, cuz i really can still see some hanging. I asked him to use strength to "squeeze" them out. To break them.. but.. he say's nothing liao. So no choice... i had to do it lo.. cuz itz really doned, but cuz he erm.. he produced a quite big piece of it, and left some stucked.. so no choice.. i had to clean it for him. ha. ok. After that Dylan also wanna do the same.. haiz. lucky thing is his is much less messy.

Brought them Raffles City Robinsons and then to Suntec ToysRus after that. I promised to buy them a toy each as long as itz not too expensive. So they had a hard time choosing. Ha. Dave complain say "U never let us choose one!" "Everything also too expensive...." haha. funny. i was abit soft hearted and almost bought them a 30$ tranformers, but Dylan doesnt wan that. So in the end, a Hot Wheels car for each, nothing for mei mei. haha. Well, they seem to like their car (dylan) and motorbike (Dave) alot.

After a coffee break at Wang Jiao, we went arcade, i played my recently addicted game, the basketball game, the boys joined me also. haha. After that, had a long walk back to Cityhall, with the boys complaining and wanting me to carry them. Went to Bishan in a squeezy train, then to Da Zhi Ran to for dinner with family, where i keep falling asleep. haha.

Overall, a happy and tiring outing. haha

Outings

After the youth camp, i had a 2 days outing. One was yesterday, out with harold to change the size to me&ap's xmas gift, the Doraemon T shirt / polo, then at night met Ryu at orchard to shop for his stuff. Second was today, brought the boys out on an outing with ap, at bugis, penisula, suntec, then up to bishan for dinner with their mum, my mum and dad.

Had a trip down to Chinatown Point to meet harold at 3pm, after we changed the shirts (which was actually in a cool dora shop with some other dvd's etc for sale), we went to a shop at Pearl Center to alter his newly bought pants, . There, we had dessert while waiting for his express alter. Interestingly, we talked abt reincarnation, rights of animals and insects, whether should i be reincarnated into a pig next life, will i still remember that i was a human b4 in my past life. I use to think that the animal will remember, cuz in that case then he/it will know that he has done wrong in his past life thats y he becomes a pig. But thinking slightly more deeply, i think it might not be the case. Cuz since we as humans do not know anything abt our past lifes, y should animals do? Okay, if i do not know that i use to be a human in my past life, and i am a pig now, then comes the question on the brains thingy, will i (the pig) know that humans are better off then me and i am a class lower and am the unfortunate ones that need to be slaughtered? If the anwser is "no", then, well, seems like nothing matters anymore isn't it? 2nd thing is do animals know that they are "alive"? I think yes, at least i know they feel the pain when they are slaughtered. And i think they sure hv brains, and they communicate, maybe not like how they do it in Bolt, but sure they communicate, and they hv feelings (emotions), and if they communicate and hv feelings, then definately, they know they are alive. But sorry there are not much rights for them. I mean, yes, u might get jailed if u kill a dog, or torture a cat, but, yup, u can eat chickens without getting jailed. Thats the irony part. But thats what the world is all abt. 弱肉强食. I mean i also am part of this, cuz i eat eggs, which are produced by the poor chickens in the cages.

Okay, enough of this Side B tracks. Anyway, after that went simlim to see computers. Then after that met Ryu. Went shop for his stuff, his friend's stuff, b4 that went kino, where i for the first time, looked thru thoroughly the comics on the shelf cuz i thought i wanna find a new comic to read. There was one comic on Dogs, the cover has 3 dogs, hmm drawing is like quite old school, the amazing thing is, itz episode 52 and 53 on the shelf. Wow.. i mean u can hv comics on 3 dogs gg up to number 53... phew... anyway, did not buy that. Something caught my eye. 结界师. Up to episode 15 liao. I saw that it has those special edition that explains the story, so i thought maybe it might be good. But, too bad, no number 1. So i had to give it up for last night. But, today, i went back to kino at bugis, and got the comic. Itz good! i like it. Itz abit like Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師). Quite funny also. My type. good man, finally found a comic to collect again.

Yeah, thats abt it, one thing worth mentioning is outside the male toilet, i saw an uncle who deserves a Mega Mac. Cuz he was holding his wife's handbag. I was tempted to give him the thumbs up sign. But well, after that i think i deserved a MegaMac too. cuz i pratically held all of Ryu's stuff while he was in G2 Black Label trying out his new pants and shirt.

Okay, thats all for today, will talk abt today tommrow. Itz been a great day out with the boys and ap. I was shaged out cuz i was hving flu also. Keep falling asleep at the KopiTiam during dinner. Will talk abt the boy's backside experience next round. Ciao

Errata

In the previous posting, we mentioned Gap as "The Gap", it should be "Gap", not "The Gap". We are very sorry for this embarssing error and apologise for any inconvience caused should u hv tried to locate a store called The Gap in Vivo.

Pixey Piggy INVEST

Finally, itz out.

Issue Dec. Well, this cover is not easy k, lots of work from Ashton. Pixel Art. The idea behind it is like SIM City, portraying the creating of an investment portfolio as building a virtual city in the virtual world, itz got to hv the right stuff to be the right city, and yr very own "city". Alots of stuff, read it yrself.

Okay, the cover was done by Ashton, but mind u, the human beings are done by me. The car was a last min stuff. Okay, itz really not easy, so gotta give Ash thumbs up. My humans can barely pass the pixel art standard i guess.

Rushed the mag out in really like a week. Not easy. i was tensed up badly cuz i wanna meet the deadly deadline. Been in a bad mood so over that few days, had some smalll "clashes" with some colleagues. Bo bian, the stress is quite big this time, cant really manage it. But at least i manage to send for print on time.

Inbetween this hell of rushing out the mag, i took time to do up 3 Little Pigs. Spent like a day doing this. Itz Harold's crappy idea, but I did not let it slip and thought itz a great idea, so this is the output.

Well, now the tough period's over, gg to start on the next issue very soon.

Weather is good these days, hot at noon but cool at night. Came to TPY today, now at Ya Kun writing this. Gonna fetch mum later from 249.

Ciao

The Series Phenomenon

It always happens.

When u read or see or learn abt a new word, a brand or anything, this new thingy will appear infront of u again the next day, then, maybe yr friend will mention tat new word or thingy. Say if today is the first time i heard abt the US brand The Gap. The next day, i will pass by this shop in Vivo, seeing the retail shop for the first time in my life. Then, in the next day, maybe my other friend will tell me he just bought a gift for his bf and it is a The Gap shirt. etc etc.

It happen again, i was reading a comic by Slam Dunk author, the comic is Real. Itz abt diabled ppl basketball (briefly speaking, but itz more than that). So there was a guy in this comic who suffered from some muscle dieases, such tat he will from being in the wheelchair, to being bedridden, to say in a year, he will not be even able to lift even a ball. Something like Morrie in the book Tuesdays with Morrie.

Okay, then today, i wasing at my sis house reading My Paper, and i read abt this man from HK, now in SG, he has this similar diesease also, where he knows in a short period, he will be wheelchair bound, and so on... sad.

Then i came home, on my laptop, wanna save some stuff, then saw on Yahoo! News.. MediaCorp's Chew Chor Meng is suffering from this disease.. Muscular dystrophy (MD).

Well.. what can I say. Itz sad reading the comic, knowing abt this disease.. then see on papers, saw real faces, saw photos of ppl suffering from it, then now, knowing some celebrity also suffers from this.

The next day I was at AP home, happen to see this TV commercial of a program, i think a reality program abt a handicapped couple, they were playing tennis and the wheelchair they are sitting in is jus the same as the ones i saw in Real.

I mean this kinda things always happens, u never heard of this one thingy b4 in yr whole life, and after u hear it the first time, u see it again and again for the next few days. Interesting.

Wide Angle Fetish

Recently spent abt 600$ on a 2nd hand lens. Tokina Wide Angle lens - 12mm. Digital has this crop factor of 1.5, therefore itz a 12 x 1.5 mm lens. Still considered wide angle. I got it extensively used in my Malaysia trip (Genting Highlights & KL) last weekend, and it turned out interesting. Colors are quite nice and i quite like the wide angle results. In the end, my 50mm stayed in the camera bag for the 4days.

Wide angle lens are normally not used for portraiture as it causes some certain extents of distortions to the human being's features, depending on how near the being is to the lens. The nearer, the greater the distortions. The thin face becomes fatter, the fat, needless to say, become, hmm, well, bigger. t depends on the angle the portrait is taken from also. shooting downwards, the head is big, the body is small, shooting upwards, vice versa.

Still, I managed to get some volunteers for to be in this experiment. First on the queue is Mr NeoBooBoo

Second coming up is Miss AP



Finally, itz Mr Monk I met in KL, below KLCC (Twin Tower), i had to donate RM2 for this shot, but i guess besides getting this photo, it also earned me some merit points for my next life.

Recovered

Finally.. recover from virus blues.. internet back to normal. it has been a very sianz 2 weeks. not tat i cannot live without internet, but it is quite difficult to do work from home without proper network. Searching for images for references has become such a pain when i got network proms.

Okay, like to hv an errata,

Errata:

In the previous blog posts, we mentioned that the internet proms faced by booboo was cuz by his service provider. This has been found to be untrue, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused but we do like to use this chance to condemn Trojan. "Damn U Trojan!! To hell with u!"

I will be posting some photos of my Genting trip very soon. Meanwhile, i got to be busy with INVEST for this few days (yes, itz sat sun and mon, a holiday) cuz we are behind time liao.