Silver lining in the clouds

Spotted along Marine Parade.

D90 using 18-105 kit lens

This photo is not about the camera settings, it’s about being there.

Home cooked food

Nikon D90 ISO1000

24-70 @ 48mm

f3.2, 1/40

Nikon D90 ISO1000

24-70 @ 70mm

f2.8, 1/80

Alyssa on 10 Jan 2010

Doesn’t she look different?

Her looks change everyday at every shot.

But always smiley.

Nikon 24-70 f2.8

It’s really a case of the lens dwarfing the camera body but i did it anyway.

Searched high and low for a good price for this lens and I am satisfied with what it delivers.

The drawback is the Weight – this lens is almost 1 kg, even heavier than my camera body. And if I add on my flash, we are talking about 2.5kg. No joke.

Anyway here’s what I have.

Mingying will love intentional blur effect of the lens (in camera jargon, we call it bokeh) as a result of this 9 bladed lens.

Very soon, it might spark an interest into macro photography.

But for now, I am just happy capturing small intricate details of things with a little bit of that pinhole visual effect, like a tied up rope here.

Or lots of leaves

Let’s not be unhappy

Let’s not be unhappy

Over everything

Let’s not try to

Perfect the world

 

For there’s everyone to please

Millions to satisfy

We’ll just try to

Please as many

 

Yet not doing it

At the expense of self

For how can one please

Without feeling pleased

 

All can differ

In their unique ways

Yet the flowers

They can all bloom

All ants get sweet

Cats yearn fish

And dogs love bones

Can humans be satisfied?

 

8 Jan 01

A life led

A life led without essential

nourishment of love

dulls it, deadening it

Like a flower without colour

Yet when one gets love

Life becomes troublesome

Chaining up the ankles

Like an ancient convict

So can we go on living?

If we find another passion

or meaning to life?

Otherwise, while time away

No achievements is an achievement

That’s hard to achieve

Yet too much achievements

Leaves one empty

Contradicting lives we lead

Where best of both worlds

Exists not to reality

Yet we yearn for it daily

8 Jan 2001

I don’t know what went on in my mind during the time I wrote this. 2001 I was serving the army and on 8 Jan i have not started burning weekends to study accountancy. Funny how when I read my old poems, I am surprised how the words flowed on those incoherent thoughts. What was I thinking? What plans did I have for my future?

And most puzzling of all, having a title to the poem was never my habit.

The rain has stopped

The rain has stopped

The magic seeped off

No more rhythmic pelting

No more music to thy ears

The birds can sleep

With their feathers dry

Worms they can rest

In dry warm soil

Rain has stopped

And gone away

The rain that came

Had stayed within

I did this blog with the intention of having poems and photos but ended up with an imbalance of more photos. Trying to balance it now with some poems, previously written.

Alyssa in smiles

Not my baby but my niece. Yet I have taken so many photos of her.

Spent hours editing these photos and never seem to stop.

Imagine what happens when I have my own baby.

The Garden Slug

Mingying and I went to Garden Slug at Telok Kurau for lunch (not today, that was sometime ago, just that I am slow in posting)

Cozy place, very indie, very good service (they know when to be around but leave you to your privacy most of the time)

The pizza, ooh la la, using very fresh ingredients. Worth the wait.

Tiger Beer Parade at AMK Kopitiam

We were having a late dinner at a kopitiam in AMK. Lots of old men drinking beer and surprise surprise.

Dozens of tiger beer quarts in parade standing tall and proud.

And one of them stood out of the crowd.