Christmas, The Start of Something New

It is nearly Christmas, and near the new year. We have all tried to do the best for the year, and many of us have failed, some repeatedly, some rarely. Things have changed, people have changed, some things start, some things end, but the most important thing is we tried. I tried. You're the most significant person I got to know this year, and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

You've changed how I see things, my whole perspective in life altered.

Was it so long ago when we all had hope? The economy crashed, some lost jobs, some got pay cuts, but in general we moved along. Sacrifices were made, some hastily, most after much consideration. The spirit of Christmas is lost. People give gifts expecting something in return, unlike the years past where we would be so happy just having the ability to even give! Is it truly so hard to believe that someone can do a good deed and not have an ounce of greed in them?

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

As Christmas rolls by, we might notice it but the new year has actually begun. We begin to plan for the new year, set goals, however outlandish they might be and work toward them. Christmas is when we start looking back on this past year and see what we have achieved, or lost.

I have lost a lot this past year, but I have to go on. You meant so much to me and although I do not to you, just knowing you're alive and healthy is more than I have hoped for. Your very existence keeps me smiling, daring myself to hope for the future. Even if there is a sliver of hope, I'm holding on to it.

Hope and love are mankind's two most basic needs we need to survive, and although you have never really gave the the latter, the former was present in abundance. The new year awaits us, and I can only hope that it gets better for here on.

No names are needed, you just know who you are =)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year girl! And to all my readers(non-existent as they may be), wish you got lots of presents to dig out from underneath the tree, and may this be a joyous occasion for everyone!

Cheers to a New Year!!

Photography? Or lepak at home FB'ing?

Ok fine, I've been away from my camera for quite awhile now, and I'm raring to get back to it, and to kick it off, probably wkhai's shoot thingy something something... I'm quite looking forward to it cos I believe it will challenge me to think in different creative ways to achieve the result I want.

But then again, I am worried that I do not live up to my own expectations and it would be a waste. But as always, challenging oneself to be better has always been my passion, and I have my own secret reasons to want to master photography =P

So yeah..it will be a good day out (I hope =P ) after my exams, cos honestly, my exam schedule for this semester SUCKS!! Seriously! 5 papers all on 5 different days, ALL 2pm-5pm, the perfect time to fall asleep in class.. First 3 papers are on the first 3 days of the exam period, and the last 2 papers on the last 2 days..WATAFAK?? Babi betul... Can't even relax in between or have an early semester break... The unchanged schedule was FOUR papers in the first TWO days, and that leaves 1 paper somewhere in between.

That would've been better so I can holiday earlier and have an extended sem break but NO... They decided to drag my exams out for the whole duration of the exam period... Cis...

Ok back to photography... I shoot SOLELY with a 50mm f/1.8 on my THIRD HAND Canon 30D (woot!) cos I'm a cheapskate... Ok fine, it's actually the only lens I can afford at the moment >.< But whatever right? I got the lens cos I am only doing portraits now, and it forces me to think about composition more as I can't zoom in/out whenever want to. This wonderful prime lens (Canon's CHEAPEST and LIGHTEST lens....) has I believe, made me a slightly better photographer than before, although I'm nowhere near the level I want myself to achieve.

I've become so used to this lens that if you give me a kit lens for example, I would be stumped on how to fully utilise it... I just go "Huh what?" and then switch back to my 50mm =P And as a prime lens, my only zoom is my legs, and I can say for certain that getting u close with a short lens creates quite a different effect than zooming in tight with a telephoto lens. There's a sense of closeness zooming with your feet, a certain personal connection in the photograph.

But that's just my 2 cents.

Anyway.. That's all for now I guess. Till I have something more interesting to share.

ArmedandDangerous
Samfisher

Panaromic

From Blogger Pictures

This is my first ever attempt at a panaromic shot, so forgive me if it doesn't live up to expectations =)

Next Up

Stay tuned for.... NOTHING. Enjoy.

How to change your WoW UI

You know what, I have gotten really strange traffic from Google searches and decided to see what they were searching for that lead them here.

And lo and behold, It's something I don't even HAVE on my blog!

Go do a quick search, type "how to change my wow ui" into Google. See that FIRST link waaay up there? Wtf? It got bumped all the way to the top for no reason!

And you know what, since there's a million people who see my site from that amazingly common search, I AM gonna make a post on how to change your WoW UI. Full of pics (hopefully) and stupid comments to finally appease the monster traffic from random Google searches.

God is so real!!

God is so real! You wouldn't believe me even if I told you. My very close friends would know that I was having a relationship crisis the past few days, and today, I knelt down and cried my heart out to God.

I said, God, you are a God of healing, please heal this relationship and my heart, you know how much this means to me. I have never asked much from you God, but please show yourself real, right now.

And BOOM! Before I could even say Amen, I received a SMS that solved everything!!! Praise the Lord!!

Let's Make It 7

2008

Let's make this year the 7th year in a row we win our marching competitions. Go go scouts!

2006

My last medal! 5 in a row!

Teh Scout wtf?

So yeah... Today was the conclusion to the Patrol Leader's camp in my former school (SMK Seri Saujana) and what the hell? All the day decided to do is to rain, rain and rain, and after that, rain some more. Everything was delayed and all we did was sit around doing nothing and walking around finding food we could steal from the poor little suffering kids (yeah right they're suffering) and when they don't give us food, we took their flags and punch them in the face.

After the punching, we set off to a far-away land (Ajimal mamak next door) and had our brunch, and I have now decided never to go to Ajimal during the day cos their morning dhall SUCKS! I paid money for that crap.... At least the Iced Milo was better, and still too little ice. It's like Milo Ais tambah panas (wtf right?).. Milo AIS, what part of AIS do you not understand? Arrgghh...

So yeah.. Back to school, steal more food, sat at bilik BOSS (what the heck does that stand for anyways?) steal Oreo, steal water, lepak, and generally not doing anything really useful at all. Basically we just laughed at Daphenie most of the time.

Stupid rain delayed everything so we were about 2 hours off schedule and I couldn't stay past 2+ so I completely missed the closing ceremony of the first scout camp in my school cos mum needed the car... And Daphenie tricked me and Yeak Hon into signing up for Kelana Scouts (I'm looking at you, you smelly girl) and now we have to sell Daphenie in the underground market to pay for our Scout fees. If you don't see her around anymore, it's not my fault. Don't look at me. Look at Yeak Hon.

More pics

Here I am bored and decided to take some pics. Not that great but oh well.




Original 10MP pic - Light flare


Original 10MP pic - Smoldering Lamp


Original 10MP pic - Chess




Original 10mp pic - Sparks of Life