School Week 3 -- "Shinne" Lot 1

Going towards the 4th week of school, the stress has begin to emerge like a monster growing day by day.. Not to mentioned much abt the organometallic test on friday, but it is the main source of my stress now arghh!!

Anyway during the mid of 3rd week, an uninvited guest popped by, named Mr Grasshopper:

Erm.. correct me if I am wrong if this is not a grasshopper. haa =X I doubt myself too. Anyway I tried my best to zoom in to this guest of mine, however as usual, there is always a limit on how far/how close my lens can zoomed into. Nevertheless, is a good practise for me to learn about shutter speed especially this guest of mine was so camera shy and was "running" around.

However, nothing can be more messy and chaotic then this:

Just imagine once you stepped out of the control station and you are welcome by this crowd of people. And do note that the weather is super duper warm. Let me remind of the days I was queuing for S.H.E too.

Thinking outdoor is so chaotic and warm, I decided to hide indoor so as to get some fresh air, but I was so wrong:

Apparently, the Korean boy band named "Shiny" or "Shinne" had turned the whole lot 1 upside down. Note all the shop beside these crowd closed their door and imagine the amount of losses incurred.

The following pictures I named as Crazy girls 1, 2 and 3, you shall see why:

#1: Crazy Girls 1

#2: Crazy Girls 2

#3: Crazy Girls 3

Apparently, I am not being gender biased here. They are really all girls! okie la, 95% girls. And the last picture really make me laughed so badly la while I was taking it. The girls ran like there is a disaster coming like that or being chased by loanshark like that just to catch a final glimpse of their idol at the middle of the road!!

Okie after the korean boy band left, lot 1 quickly was restored back to its original self. Peaceful and quiet, hence both of us decided to take some shots of ourselves:

#4: Ban guei lian

#5: Gong xi Gong Xi

#6: Enjoying a cool drink @ a hot hot weather

#7: Guei Lian 2

#8: Under the tree

#9: The afternoon sky was bright and beautifully decorated with white cottons:

Although, we spent a short afternoon together running around lot 1, being pushed around by the crowd, but we did enjoyed ourselves a lot.

Tests are coming, that will mean we will have lesser time spent together. Nevertheless, is becos of all these busy schedules that we have that make all these short moments percious. I treasure every seconds that we spend together, be it a short afternoon or an enjoyable Japanese dinner we had after a tiring school day.

Dear, once again, the below picture is dedicated to you. Is my first attempt with photoshop. Hope you like it! We shall jiayou for our revision k!

With loves:

School Week 2: Family dinner @ Crystal Jade

Today, my daddy decided to treat all of us to Crystal Jade for dinner. It is meant to celebrate for the birthday boy:

However as usual, such restuarant will take some time to serve their food, so its time for pictures!

#1:The first thing we ate when we settled down:

#2: Picture of my daddy and mummy :)

#3: My happy grandmother! Guessed she is happy also because of my filial brother had given her an angbao as a token for his first recieved salary. Think she was touched by his action.

#4: My sister also cannot resist the photo taking temptation that she took out her own camera to take some snap shots too.

#5: Both of Us!
#6: Quite a funny scene, is quite a nice candid photo that we agreed to be acceptable.

#7: The 'shocked' face

#8: Finally food is served and yesh! we were all starving at that moment!! Itadakimas!

#9: Dish 2

#10: Dish 3, Which is the last food picture that I took, cause after which, I was so hungry and just wanted to concentrate eating my dinner.

#11: After payment, we were excited about the surprise lucky scratch draw. And of course, lucky draw should let the birthday boy do the job. We gotten a free spicy chicken dish voucher. Not bad not bad :)

After dinner, we went for some shopping although most of the shops are in the midst of closing. Nevertheless, dear gotten herself a nice pair of shoes from Charles and Keith. It was then time to go home. But still, we never stop our photo-taking! haa!

Dear say wanna try to take blog-shop alike photo. So I tried to fufil her wish. haha. Is a nice suggestion too cause it makes me appreciate my camera even more! haa

#12:Blog shop alike photo 1:

#13: Blog shop alike photo 2:

It was really an enjoyable dinner. Especially for the whole day I was doing my research for lab report, so boring and sianzzzz. I do enjoy family gathering and I think is important as a part of family bonding too!

Looking forward to more family dinner coming up especially we are close to chinese new year! But of course, closing to chinese new year will also mean tests are coming.. Guess have to work hard again and hope for the best! :)

School Week 1

School has started for a week. Although 1st week meant to be a honeymoon week, most of us still can feel the stress and workload awaiting us for the subsequent weeks ahead. Think of it makes me shiver down my spine...

On Tuesday, went to Canon to exchange this:

for this:
Pictures do speak a thousand words right? I mean even any rational person will think of exchanging it. The black one cost $20 dollars and the tote bag cost $80. so you get what I mean?

It has been a rainy day... The rain is so heavy that I only managed to capture this (notice the raindrops on the ground) :

Study is important but must be balance with play and fun! haa..

#1: Get dress up and ready for outing after revision

#2: Spotted the friendly neighbourhood cat named Garfield:

#3: Below is a okok shot.. cause this flower belong to neighbour. We roughly took it cause we were so afraid that they would open the door and shout "HEY!"

#4: Her sis despite on the way to catch a movie, catch up with me for a photo :) How sweet she is.
#5: Testing on what shutter speed should I use in order to capture/freeze the movement. And realised 1/160 seemed to be a nice balance btw light intake and movement freeze. Credits to her for jumping so many times.. hee...

Below picture is dedicated to her:

Dear, hope that time will be our witness for our love. I will hold on to your hand tightly with every sec tickling away. We will spent our time happily together. Love you.

Time to start school lo~

Alright time for those er xin chemical compounds again. haha. Every semester seemed to be a challenge and in order to pass this challenge, everyone will have to work super duper hard. Mug like there is no tomorrow.

Nevertheless, Chemistry is still something that I like. I am glad that after all these yrs of torturing it still haven diminished my passion to learn it and appreciate it.

So ya... back to school will mean back to those stacks and stacks of notes :

And of course, hair volume will be in threat too =X. haa. Being a person who somehow paranoid (or you can say kiasu), My damage today was the below stimulating growth shampoo from France:

I hope this semester will be a smooth sailing one although the modules i have chosen doesn't seemed to be "learner-friendly". Jia you ba! :)

Random walking @ orchard central

Before walking went to lucky plaza food court to settle our lunch first. While waiting for dear to order, I decided to practise my food shot. Not very fantastic though, still got a lot of room for improvement:

#1: Claypot Rice

#2: Ban Mian

After our lunch, we decided to head up to orchard central roof garden and do our surprise it changed a lot!

#3: As usual, we need to take the long long escalator up, since got time, practise shooting again! haa

#4: Hmm.. tired 3 times before this shot. Previous few was too dark. Hence testing and playing around with the exposure setting and turn out to be quite satisfied w/o any flash.
#5: Testing the wide angle range of 18mm, Not bad but however for our Japan trip, i think i will bring along an Ultra Wide Angle (UWA) lens along (range 10-12mm).

#6: I took the below shot using a digital camera before. But I guess only SLR can give me the feel that i want it to present.

#7: Macro Shot on flowers 1

#8:Macro Shot on flowers 2

#9: Macro Shot on flowers 3

#10: Macro Shot on flowers 4

#11: Macro Shot on flowers 5

#12: Protrait shot +Landscape. Btw is drizzling, poor camera and us have to endure the raindrops in order to take nice photos.. hee

#13: Protrait + Landscape 2

I walked at funan alone for quite long after dear joined her friends for dinner. I walked pass John 3:16 at least thrice just to think whether to get the 2 lenses or not. Haix..

But in the end, I told myself, I shall refrain myself for now. Shall save up more first before investing in new lens. In the meanwhile I shall focus more on bringing up the potential of the kit lens provided and practise my photography skills :)