Our parents were out for the night, so my sis and I ‘turned off the lights‘ and tried to do our little bit, having our dinner in the semi-dark dining area (the world out there was still quite brightly-lit) and away from our compts. Having no candles in the house, we used torches when necessary [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
New park in the city
I’m not sure where my mom got that idea from, but it was a welcomed move. Last Sunday, she carted the family off towards PSA along Alexandra Rd where she heard there was a new butterfly farm or something. I was asking friends before that, about a ‘new butt place in town’ but they were [...]
Spyware/bots on MSN
Three weeks ago, I received a few suspicious messages from one of my friends in Sydney. They go:
“hey whats up? check this out !!!
http://cool.smy9.info
brb…”
And then I started getting these from a number of my Aussie friends. Looks like a bot would send a message from their account just before they went offline, and since I [...]
Ubin on Good Friday
There were crowds at Pulau Ubin last Friday. Crowds! We actually had to queue to get on a bumboat, the bicycle rental shops were packed and the restaurants were full even when lunch hour had long passed. Don’t know if it’s a good thing or bad. Most weren’t locals though. Mainly bunches of gweilos and [...]
It's not just a bird!
When you’re beyond calling a bird a ‘bird’, you call it a ‘Pink-necked Green Pigeon’ or a ‘Pacific Swallow’ or whatever its species is.
When you have pets, you tend to call an individual of that same certain species by the name you give your pet, even when that individual isn’t your pet.
I was looking out [...]
Is 'gay' ok?
An interesting article from BBC, published in 2003 but recently gaining popularity as one of their ‘Most Emailed’ selections, on the Church’s divided view on homosexuality:
BBC :: What does the Bible actually say about being gay?
It presents quotations from the Bible and discusses both the pro- and anti- stances.
Part of the reason the views diverge [...]
Shooting to impress
Perhaps more than just so that I can improve on the quality of my pictures and not be limited by adverse lighting conditions all the time, the drive to get a f/2.8 mid-range zoom lens – which costs almost as much as my D200 body – was spurred in part by a need to protect [...]
Bad colours
The quality of the photo shops here is horrible. I think I’ll need to take my images to a professional photolab to get printed, or do it myself.
These are samples of photos printed by three different shops… using the same files. I took care to ensure that the white balance was accurate when I photographed [...]
Tibet – Support the Dalai Lama
Dear friends,
After decades of repression under Chinese rule, the Tibetan people’s frustrations have burst onto the streets in protests and riots. With the spotlight of the upcoming Olympic Games now on China, Tibetans are crying out to the world for change.
After decades of repression under Chinese rule, the Tibetan people’s frustrations have burst onto the [...]
On the universe… in Children of Dune
The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument. But the intellect cannot react thus without involving the entire organism. Such an organism may be recognized by its burning, driving behavior. And thus it is with a society treated [...]
