Yin San is coming back tonight! If anyone out there wishes to welcome her with me too, the details are provided below. See you there! :)

I just wish to share with all of you my joy, my joy, oh my joy! If you did not realise, I actually turned PRO on Flickr just yesterday after much contemplating on whether I should fork out a portion of my income just for this premium account. It did not cost me much heartache to part with the sum but it really meant alot to me — afterall, I am serious about photography. Flickr has already been a useful platform for me to share my photos to the public, and coupled with Twitter, I have actually gained an exponential growth in the number of followers to my photography. I am happy to say that I have thus been greatly satisfied with the progress I achieved so far.

(Got this book from the Lomography section in Kinokuniya. Great buy, really.)

All of a sudden, my love for analog is reignited! Film cameras have once again become the objects of my desire and my desperate wish to own another one is actually bugging me so much. I tried asking Denise for her Dad’s Nikon SLR but I have yet to get to play with it; I asked Justin if he owned one, and he mentioned his family had this Fujifilm SLR which were no longer in use. Looking at the current situation, I highly doubt I will get either one of them anytime soon — and that is sad.

The GF excited me though when she showed me photos of her late Papa’s Canon and Minolta film SLRs!

And my advice for her was to clean and maintain them, and to hold on to them until I finally get to lay my hands on those two beauties — not sure when that will be but at least we have one more thing to look forward to.

Oh, and a photographer’s GF should own a camera too right? But of course! I definitely cannot wait to purchase and send that sweet thing over to the GF. Chocolate, chocolate! :P

(The only photo from Yin Fei I could salvage!)

Come back home soon San! Everyone’s missing you already! :(

“Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.”
— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing much has been happening here lately, I have only been focusing on my Project 365 at Flickr to practise a little bit on my photo-discipline and dedication. This will definitely be beneficial for me, like seriously. I want to achieve things through the hard but proven method which is to practise, practise and practise — so I do not see why Project 365 is futile.

(I had this for my break of fast the other day: Roti Kirai! Tomatoes are nice, REALLY!)

Just yesterday, Niki Torres aka Nikipaniki invited me to contribute for her XHATCH (pronounced “crosshatch'’) site which is a collaborative work with David Hoang. XHATCH is a community of artists where everyone is free to contribute and share their works and expertise and aims to benefit absolutely anyone who has interest in these five areas namely drawing/painting, 3D art, photography, best practices, digital design. This site looks promising and I cannot wait to be a part of this lively community so full of knowledge, love and passion!

“They stood before the altar and supplied
The fire themselves in which their fat was fried.
In vain the sacrifice! — no god will claim
An offering burnt with an unholy flame.”
— M.P. Nopput

I just hit the 200th mark on Flickr yesterday and after today’s ‘Burnt‘ post, Flickr automatically cancelled out my very first photo I ever had there — all because I am not subscribed to their pro account. But the good thing is that they did not delete my photos rather just had them hidden to allow only two hundred viewable images available to the public.

I have mixed thoughts about going pro there though and I am still considering.

But having reached the posting limit, that did not mean I will stop my daily photo posts altogether. Thanks to Twitter, I was introduced to a new host for my photoblog and managed to set up ‘Mostly 3X2, Mostly F/2.8‘. There, I will be starting my first ever 365 photoset! Sounds interesting right? Well I am excited to see as to how this will turn out knowing the number of failed attempts before but for this one, I will surely dedicate my heart and soul.

Also, I had set up a Tumblr account for my photo inspirations that were gathered from all the other great photographers out there.

Do check them out. Hopefully by doing this, I will be able to learn more on the art that is photography.

Poosiang had a job opportunity for me that would pay me well and he asked if I have a portfolio of all my event
shoots. And he received a negative from me.

I guess it is due time for me to selectively compile photos to be included in my proper photography portfolio. This
will definitely help me in the future in case my clients decide to have a look at them — which will always be the case —
before they decide to hire me.

I frequent Zack Arias’ site where he used to post videos of him and his wife doing critiques for other photographers
of their submitted portfolios — that will be a great place to begin with.

I should also focus on the type of photography I want to be in. So far, all my photos were more diverse than anything
that is why I need to be more specialised in a certain field eg people, architectural, nature, etc. That way, at least
I have the chance to be truly exceptional in an area, instead of just mediocre in everything.

I am still looking at becoming a photography assistant first though — that will be best for me.

What I really need before I can start anything: A proper storage disk of at least 1TB, and a Speedlite. Anyone?

(I decided to give this kitty a name, and her name happened to be Joonies. LOL.)

When I grabbed the paper this morning, the cover page got my attention:

(Already twelve deaths this year..)

You young photographers are creative but can you be less reckless? Justin used to talk to me about having
a shoot at the same railway and I was thinking Evon could be our model but I guess there are better locations
now like the edge of UOB Plaza One’s roof or the Henderson Waves Bridge where we could possibly suspend
below it and start going crazy with Evon. She will be thrilled, I promise.

This girl, she told me she recently had her wardrobe ‘updated’ and ‘filled’. Give me some attitude girl, and then
Justin and I will bring you out and do some serious damage, no, business. After the exams, when your nerves
are settled from the mugging, when this gayboy comes back from his Genting trip, we will rock the nation —
Oh I love this, what an ambition! But seriously, we are serious about you — your crazy nose and delible nails.
Oh yeah.

Stay safe alright?

If nothing had happened back then — if he was still beautifully gracing this Earth — it will be his birthday tomorrow.
Been a year already.
You are truly missed my friend, hope all is well there..

Love you Tapa..

(..is also his loincloth. LOL!)

Life is certainly much better now, thank you.