Map of the Problematic

I've had it with my mother. 

Enough is enough. 

Knock 'Em Out

I got scared shitless last night. Yeah scared.

A Su does not get scared easily. 

But someone succeeded in scaring her. 

See she's been having insomnia for quite some time so she'll be lying in bed; looking like she's sleeping when actually she's having alot of crazy thoughts and situations playing out in her head at the same time.

One too many shandy she's had that day. Could that have been the cause of her mind's unrest? Or the bedsheets aura clashed with hers causing her many sleepness nights?

Whatever it was we'll never find out.

Beer + Sprite= Shandy

Beer + A Su= Lots of Pee

When she's gotta go; she's gotta go real bad.

She sits up in a daze blinking blindly in the dark feeling around for her glasses while remnants of her daydreams fade away into the approaching reality around her.

She needs a piss real bad. 

Ambling towards the kitchen, the bathroom light clicks on and for a moment she was distracted by the floor mat she's stepped on. 

Its crumpled.

No shit sherlock there it is sitting there in a tousled heap on the cold floor. 

"How odd, doesn't mother always leave the mat straightened out before she goes to bed? Somethings not right her-"

When suddenly from the corner of her eye she sees this jet black mass come cannonballing towards her!

Holy Shit What The Fuck Was That?!

A Mutant roach with 4 stubby legs?

Her mind snapping awake immediately our surprised heroine backpedalled fearfully. Was it going to jump her? Rip out her jugular and eat her kidneys? 

It ran full tilt.. . . . . 

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guilty that it had been sighted in the house of humans

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Past her,

and out the front door. 

A reproachful Meow echoed from outside.

Sorry or Please

I was doing research and checking out ideas for a wedding shoot soon see?

Browsing through websites to ponder and choose a standard lens for the wedding (I'm torn between the 35mm prime and the 17-55mm darlings @_@) 

and while browsing through this guy's work, you can browse his work here, interesting website name: thepeepingthom.com :D

I came across this really cute candid

Picture belongs to him and not to me.

Here comes the Rain again

T'is the start of chinese new year. 

Was browsing through some photography works and I realised rather smugly and exuberantly.. 

that

I am proud to say that my skills have improved. Good enough to take good pictures after some planning and stuff. But always with lots of room for improvement and more lessons :D

Actually what I'm really smug about, is that I have finally rivaled someone that I disliked intensely in polytechnic. HA!

I take better pictures than you~ 

I take better pictures than you~

Nya Nya Nya Nya Nya Nya~

So you watch out now,

and get ready to eat my dust.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

okay I gotta stop masturbating my ego. 

Photographer assaulted at Fort Canning Park

Referenced from the thread that I just came across on Clubsnap, a local web portal for photographers.

takada:

Today (24-Jan-09) i went to chinatown alone to take some pictures. I went there around 13:00 and i took some shots and i decided to go back at around 15:00. SO i took a walk towards bugis direction and i saw "Fort Canning Park" just across Funan Mall. Because i planned to go back to chinatown at the night so i think a detour to Fort Canning Park might be a good decision instead of go back to where i stay and come back again to chinatown.
I managed to circled around the park, it's a nice and beautiful park, made some shots. Soon i decided to take a rest inside the park because i felt pretty tired from walking, so i just sitting on a bench and reviewing my picture and typing sms to my friend. When suddenly someone (from a youngsters group) hit me from behind with a pretty solid wooden branch and made me bleed. I tried to chase them but i came to my sense and prioritize my condition over those youngsters. Luckily there is the western couple a bit further, so i screamed for help.
The male westerner immediately lend me a hand while his wife looking for assistance from the park security. The male westerner also helped me to call the police. I didn't managed to get his name but if you happened to read this i want you to know that i'm very grateful for what you've done for me.
I cover my head with my hand tried to stop the bleeding.. the bloods keep flowing down and spilled on top of my camera. I few minutes later the local security came and gave me first aid and soon enough the police and ambulance came to handle the accident and took me to hospital.
The took me to SGH and immediatley got taken care by the medics. So i ended up lucky, no bone fracture but i got around 10 stitches on my forehead.
OK that's the story.. now we want to take a look at the culprits and their motives behind this assault
The culprits happened to be 4 Indian's youngster.. When i say Indian, i'm not generalizing it, i just said that it happened to be.. so don't make a fuss over this. OK, i met them twice on different spots inside the park and they didn't do anything suspicious.. they just seem to be hanging around and of course i didn't pay any attention because i'm busy looking around for a good spots.. just want to tell you that i'm a type of person that just don't care about others as long as they don't bother me.. so whatever they do when i met them for the first 2 times doesn't concern me. So basically what i want to say is that they didn't hold any grudge and so do i.. 

This no grudge things made me confused.. why they hit me when neither of us got something to do with each others.. i don't suspect anything until i get back home and start thinking and i realized something.. I think that my digital camera attract them.. if that's the case then everything become understandable.
So somehow the reason is that they were attracted to my camera. They decided that one person would hit me hard on head with something blunt, hoping that i felt unconscious and they could snatch my camera and most likely my wallet while i unconscious.. they would kill me just for my camera
Just be careful you guys when you are taking a shot at a non crowdy places! do pay attention to your surrounding, instead of getting pictures you could get stitches or worst you get your burial ceremony. Just take my incident as pre-caution.. doesn't matter what your camera type is.. for a commoner, DSLR is something extraordinary for them.. as you can see i only use A200 and 1680 kit lens.. doesn't care whether you had D3X or just plain A200 like mine, your lens is a top notch lens or just a kit lens.. DSLR is DSLR and it does attract attention 
This incident made me feel insecured. The next time i'm going for an outing will be with someone/group

Wah lan eh. Infuriating isn't it? Thank god the TS(threadstarter) didn't suffer any severe trauma to his head. It does bring to mind several questions though.

• Who're the people who assaulted the TS
• Why did they assault him( is it really over the camera?)
• Some of the replies touch down on what they believe might have been the act of gangs( if so then maybe it might shed some light to why the TS was assaulted)
• The crime rate in Singapore nowadays( how safe is Singapore?)
• How safe are you in broad daylight?
• The nationality of the assaulters ( might seem xenophobic but hey, we Singaporeans are becoming THE MINORITY in due time and judging by the news articles the foreigners are not really presenting the best in them much. Sure there's alot of foreigners who're really nice and stuff and I personally know quite a few. But still, its the few assholes in the press that sours the whole cask of wine. For all you know the deed itself might have been committed by Singaporeans itself. *Great we're wiping each other out now in addition to not fucking enough to produce more babies for our nation*)
• Should I start fearing for my life now and carry peppe- no wait I want The Taser.     *cue ominous music*

This should make quite an interesting discussion with friends. 

Jeez a double post in a day... Just after posting up some jokes my mood gets killed by a bunch of people who might have been out to kill you so that they can loot your body and sell it for some moolah. 

Asswipes I hope the same thing happens to you. See if you like having doctors stitch up your frickin head with big needles so that you can look like Franken-fucking-stein. 

A lil old lady

A little old lady is walking down the street dragging two large plastic garbage bags behind her.  One of the bags rips, and every once in a while a $20 bill falls out onto the sidewalk.  Noticing this, a policeman stops her, and says, ‘Ma’am, there are $20 bills falling out of your bag.’

‘Oh, really?  Darn!’ says the little old lady.  ‘I’d better go back, and see if I can find them.  Thanks for telling me…’

‘Well, now, not so fast,’ says the cop.  ‘How did you get all that money?’ ‘You didn’t steal it, did you?’  ‘Oh, no’, says the little old lady.  ‘You see, my back yard is right next to the football stadium parking lot.  On game days, a lot of fans come and pee through the fence into my flower garden.  So, I stand behind the fence with my hedge clippers.  Each time some guy sticks his thing through the fence, I say, ‘$20 or off it comes.’

‘Well, that seems only fair.’ laughs the cop.  OK?  Good luck!  Oh, by the way, what’s in the other bag?’

 ’Well, you know’, says the little old lady, ‘not everybody pays.’

Once upon a time lived a beautiful Queen with large breasts.

 Nick the Dragon Slayer obsessed over the Queen for this reason. He knew that the penalty for his desire would be death should he try to touch them, but he had to try.. One day Nick revealed his secret desire to his colleague, Horatio the Physician, the Kings chief doctor. Horatio thought about this and said that he could arrange for Nick to more than satisfy his desire, but it would cost him 1000 gold coins to arrange it. Without pause Nick readily agreed to the scheme. 
The next day, Horatio made a batch of itching powder and poured a little bit into the Queens bra while she bathed. Soon after she dressed, the itching commenced and grew intense. Upon being summoned to the Royal Chambers to address this incident, Horatio informed the King and Queen that only a special saliva, if applied for four hours, would cure this type of itch, and that tests had shown that only the saliva of Nick would work as the antidote to cure the itch.

 The King, eager to help his Queen, quickly summoned Nick to their chambers. Horatio then slipped Nick the antidote for the itching powder, which he put into his mouth, and for the next four hours, Nick worked passionately on the Queens large and magnificent breasts. The Queens itching was eventually relieved, and Nick left satisfied and hailed as a hero. Upon returning to his chamber, Nick found Horatio demanding his payment of 1,000 gold coins. With his obsession now satisfied, Nick couldn’t have cared less and, knowing that Horatio could never report this matter to the King, and with a laugh told him to get lost. 
 
The next day, Horatio slipped a massive dose of the same itching powder into the Kings underwear. The King immediately summoned Nick.

Gotta love bacon.

"Dude it was gnarly. I thought I was dead"

More details have emerged about the crash involving downhill mountain bike world champion Rachel Atherton and a pickup truck in Santa Cruz, USA, on January 19.

Atherton was training on her road bike with brothers Gee and Dan when the collision happened. She said in an interview following the crash: “Got in a fight with a truck … and ended worse off than I imagined.”

Hugh Holden, a California Highway Patrol officer, said Atherton had been riding on the wrong side of the road and it looked like she was to blame for the collision. He said it was unlikely she would be prosecuted.

Atherton, who was not wearing a helmet at the time, said: “I was pinning it down the road listening to AC/DC. Head down, looked up, there’s a truck coming. I was like, ‘Oh my God, what’s going on?’ So I swerved and he swerved the same way. And then we swerved left. And then I was like, ‘This is not good’, so I just … braced, tensed as hard as I could.”

Atherton hit the car head-on, with her bike taking most of the impact and her face and shoulder hitting the windscreen. Her shoulder is dislocated and severely swollen, and is due to be operated on soon.

Gee said: “She was just lying there and ... because I saw the pickup, I was like, ‘Mate, my sister’s dead”… I honestly thought I’d lost her at that point.”

Investigations into the crash are continuing.

Poor lady. Hope she gets well soon. Jeez... to ride on the wrong side of the road... Head looking down... and listening to music! She must've had a death wish or something. How ironic... The people who already ride on the wrong side of the road is really riding on the wrong side of the road this time.She must've been listening to AC/DC's Highway to Hell. Good song! Check it out in the music section (Nightmares & Soundscapes) if ur interested. 

When life gives you lemons

lighten ur day.

Fucking him over.

Check this out. Clicky on the linky and then clicky on the thumbnail to see the full image.

Sugee Cookies

Mommy was making cookies for CNY see?

and she asked me to help shape the batter.

I asked her how... and she said anyway is fine as long as its rounded

"Like how you shape your ladybugs lor~"

so I shaped one and showed it to mommy

"Aiyoh! NOT SQUARE LADYBUGS! THE ROUND ONES!!"

ME: *Snicker*

So fine I shape em rounded like my ladybug figurines. 

When they got baked, they got realllllllllllllllllly round,

Like Igloos!

It amused mommy very much to see rounded Sugee Cookies.

A reminder to myself.

So many things wanted.... Yet I can never remember it until I feel inspired to really save up for it again... Expensive hobby indeed.

• Light Tent 75 X 75cm from StudioOutfitters - $50
• 650W Studio Mini Lights from Tago Tech - $128
• EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens from Canon - $600+ for a good second hand
• EF 70-200 f/4.0 L Lens from Canon - $750+ for a good second hand
• Hardtail Bike (Raleigh? Giant? Scott?) fitted with Air Zound, Bottle Cage and Blinkers
• A nice Peaked Cap that is small enough for my head for once - Priceless
• That swanky pair of boots I spotted from Americaya - $199
• Eyebrow Piercing
• Tattoo (Nechannnnnn are you done with the design? )
• Another haircut. (My stylist left and the noob fucked up my hair. Doesn't even look cut)
• A new poster for my room( I'm eyeing This)

idle ramblings.....

So many things going on.... so many idle stuff to talk about yet I haven't a fricking clue on which to start on...Like my aching back... or the window shopping at Haji lane with Inez... or... actually I forgot what else I wanted to ramble about.. I've really short memory attention span...

I think I shall post pictures and then just talk rubbish...

spotted this torn picture stuck on a drain pipe outside NAFA... ironically mommie and I + a pair of grumbling twins overshot our stop and we ended up outside NAFA.. spotted a bakery selling baking stuff..... and mommy dragged us in saying ''Haiyo mummy wants to take a look only not buy."

mmph ended up lugging several packets of flour and almond and vanilla essence in my backpack... how heavy... my poor aching back... 

This was just outside the bakery. Wanted to go upstairs to explore... but naw... 

In the centre of Rocher square its been tradition to put up yearly predictions for the 12 zodiac signs. Here's the bunneh one.

Mom: (after reading the chinese text) tsk! Rabbit year not good for you this year. Better stay away from hospitals and be more careful.

Me: (double take) huh?! The english one never mentioned anything about hospitals... Only that there's possible accidents and bloodshed from cuts and injuries. (wow bloodshed.. I see myself in the middle of a battlefield with only a sword to fend myself while the rest of the world is using guns and stuff... >.>)

Sisters: (musing) its interesting how 2 chinese sentences can translate into so much including telling you about staying away from the hospital.

Went off to get chinese new year munchies.... managed to find the shop that we frequent every year.... to cut a long story short, alot of shops relocated or moved after the King Albert Hawker centre was got closed for renovations. 

Spotted this bottle of sea cucumbers soaked in brine... 

My mind saw it rather as rotting bottled mouldering dicks soaked in brine..... quite a gross sight for my minds eye actually... Blegh!

This year has been really tight...because chinese new year is normally in the february period. Its rather Rather early this year... So poor mommy doesn't have time to prepare the usual goodies of almond cookies and pineapple tarts... or rather pineapple tarts... I believe she'll still be making almond cookies... So we're buying most of the snackables this time....

well late noon came and mommy+grumbling sisters decided to go home... met up with Inez to go shopping at haji lane... More stuff for me to photograph yay!

I feel sorry for the owner of this shop space... The sign has been put up in vain... 

I do wonder what the leaves are for....

I keep having this mental image of angry spirits hovering irately outside the shop door unable to enter because the leaves are holy and form some kind of barrier preventing them from going in.... but I'm sure the leaves mean something else.

Found this charming lil shop on the second floor.... Quite fascinating actually.... An antique payphone... but it doesn't work of course... more for display purposes....

Plus they seem to like nutcrackers..... they have loads of it everywhere! Just that I was too lazy to photograph it.... 

Apparently they have Kimmidolls too!

Quite cute isn't it? I've one at home too... I think she's called Miyuki. 

Plus the light fixtures! So fascinating! For me anyways.... There's one that looked like innards? All we gotta do is have it emit red light instead and we're good to go. 

When I bought my 50mm it came with a CPL filter... I never used it at all as I didn't really know what it was for until one day it literally just dawned on my... while I was cycling with my shades on...(the sunglass lenses were brown you see and so was the CPL filter...) So I more or less figured it out after that... On maximizing it for usage... I learnt apparently its really good for objects which has reflection that you wish to remove... or sometimes its good also if you want to bring out the blue in the skies... but I'm sure an ND filter might do the trick... tsk... I have alot of theories I suspect I've finally comprehended... But no money to get the equipment to test out the theory. ;P

Anyways yeah Inez got her Fedora at last... The picture was supposed to be in color but unfortunately it was rather underexposed and I was too lazy to adjust the in camera color balance so I set everything to Auto White Balance... I did shoot in raw but even so there was quite abit of noise in the picture which I simply dislike... So i figured okay lets play with monochromes instead.  Resulting in this.... Quite nice actually... 

There were lots of balls in the room... lots and lots of balls hanging from the ceiling.

I inverted the colors by accident and I got this funky picture... 

strange but cool...

Lastly, Guess who we spotted when we went for dinner?

Wonder where's Oscar.... They left him out! :<

I like oscar the grouch... He's such an ass.....

Omg Win.

Which Companion would you choose?

Which would you choose? and why? :P