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Lomography is Not Cheap, But I Like

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 28, 2009 – 2:18 am -

I kept my two toy camera, a Holga and Diana F+ with Fisheye in the cupboard for a long time because I didn’t really have to time to take out to shoot but recently, I brought them out and shoot all the shots I’ve left in the film.

After getting the film to processed, and saw the outcome, my interest came back again. Have been surfing and checking out a lot of toy camera lately and my shopping and wish list increases.

OMG! I am so poor right now. Toy camera is cheap, the build quality is also cheap but I tell you what, it’s not a cheap hobby! Because you will have to spend for films, different type of films, send to shop to process, then scan into digital, it will be expensive.

Well, if you are into it, feeling arts, be sure you save a lot of money, earn a lot of money and never count how much you have spent, it will be a lot.

More shots are coming, don’t wanna post it all once. Not fun. Haha. By the way, the above shot is I did the scan from negative myself. Not bad right?

Tags: Arts, hobby, interest, lomography, Photography, toy
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Olympus E-P1 Pen TVC

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 28, 2009 – 1:55 am -

I am quite into retro camera lately, just an interest that suddenly struck my mind, this might me old but check out the Olympus PEN commercial. Pretty girl and lovely camera. Woo!

Too cool already.

Tags: camera, cool, Cool Stuff, japan, Model, TVC, video
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4 More Days Left Until SPM Ends

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 27, 2009 – 2:35 am -

The SPM is very long, it started from 18th November and will be ending on 14th December which is almost a month, but then the exams are only 9 days and 5 days had past.

Not going to say so far so good now because the last paper I had on Wednesday, Additional Mathematics was pretty challenging, managed to finish all but then I knew I already got a few answers wrong. So hopefully, A it will be.

Tuesday was Moral paper, it was good because I’ve got all the moral values and definition in my head, it still running in there now, I just blah everything out on the paper. That’s the simple part of it, hard part was, a single word different from the definition will result a zero marks, hope I did no mistake.

I had plenty of time after that paper because it ended early in the morning.

Arron.

Wen Quan.

Charles.

Day 6, Additional Mathematics day was like an outing day for me. After paper 1, we had 4 hours in between until the next paper starts. Some went home, to sleep, to read, some stayed in school, some went I-got-no-idea-where and for me, I didn’t want to go home because I didn’t feel like reading, moreover modem spoilt and I couldn’t go online.

Chien Chern, Boon Hooi.

Found friends who were going out and joined them for brunch at Air Itam.

After that, went back to school, finding everyone didn’t want to go elsewhere and nobody wanted to go out with me, so I went to town alone, Prangin Mall, to buy a new modem and to develop my 120mm film. I just got plenty of time at that time, to town, buying, photo shop, and back to school, it just took me an hour.

When back to school, there’s like an hour more till next paper, real bored.

Forgot to mention, that whole day was black and white day, turned on black and white setting and mounted a 50mm lens. Weeeee, and thanks Jing Min for the last shot, skilled.

Tags: Black and White, BNW, chung ling, Chung Ling High School, clhs, Friends, Lifelog, Photography, School Life, spm
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Day 4 of SPM

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 24, 2009 – 12:24 am -

Day 4 has gone and I still have to say, so far so good. Today’s Mathematics paper was relatively easy. What’s challenging will still be the Additional Mathematics paper.

But then I got to say I love today’s paper so much because it’s easy and enjoy doing it fast. Don’t know why I felt so sleepy, after finishing the question, I took a short rest on top of the table. I thought of rechecking my answer after a few minutes of rest, but I fell asleep, seeing that the time left was only 5 minutes, so didn’t get to check everything but still, feeling good with my answer, confidence and my sleep.

The school holiday has began today, everyone is sleeping at home and I am having exam, that’s the standard thing. This also means that the canteen auntie and uncle take their days off, going for a hiatus for two month, meaning too, I don’t get to eat canteen food anymore.

Luckily there’s still one stall opens, trying to earn extra cash during the holiday and they sell fried rice and char siew rice, not very tasty but out of choice and hungry, still have to eat.

Tomorrow will me Moral Ed paper, you heard it right, we have Moral Education as one of our paper in such a big exam, a lot of memorizing to do and good luck for it, hope my mind don’t forget everything. I will be back after before noon because this paper ends at 10.30am.

Tags: chung ling, Chung Ling High School, Friends, photos, School, School Life, spm
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Pillow Fight at Penang Times Square

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 23, 2009 – 10:38 pm -

Last weekend was pretty fun-filled to me. I took my Saturday off, less study but was out for a whole day to see the event organized by the Leo Club. It had been a few months that I have been confining myself from attending Leo Club activities because of exams and studies, another thing is that I have already retired myself as the Vice President of the club.

Basically, I am out of Leo Club of Chung Ling High School, but as in between of transition to a new Leo Club (for high school graduates and young adults), I still consider myself as a Chung Ling’s Leo.

So what happened last Saturday was there’s a first and ever pillow fight party happened at Penang Times Square, jointly organized by Catcheye and Leo Clubs. Long before, I didn’t think I will be there, but the hard part of the exam had past, so I took a break from study.

Yi Jun and Yong Seng.

It’s so good to see the Leo Club friends there and I was there as an observer, not helping on anything, but just see, and take photos, and say hi to everyone.

This was not just a party, pillow fighting, you beat me and I beat you. It’s a fund raising event, and there’s a need of ticket and pillow, which all selling goes to charity. People was allow to bring their pillow but I think getting their pillow is better because they provided cheap pillow with lots of feather. =D

Kenny was one of the official photographer.

Alvin and I-don’t-know-name, his friend.

At first, I thought of helping them on taking photograph, but then turned up there’s like more than 10 official volunteered photographer. So, I’ll stick myself with a little bit of behind the scene and photos with friends.

I got no pillow. >.<

The place was huge, organizer expected thousands of pillow fighter but turned up around 500 unfortunately. Though, I could see everyone had fun at there.

Lion Marcus and Lion Alan Thoo.

Kenny and Victor, trying to capture cottons from low angle.

Another thing that’s lacking to make it a perfect one was flying cotton! I guess there should be a fan, there would be flying cotton, HAHA, there’s cotton falling onto the ground, but somehow I didn’t see many cotton flying up.

Good to see there’s some nice performance like beatboxing by young young boy, dance and being entertained by the funny Baki Zainal. You would know him if you watche NTV7’s Mr Siao Mandarin Class and 15Malaysia’s Meter.

Sin Yee, president for Leo Club of Han Chiang High School and Tict Chyn.

Yng Shin, cute blogger.

New friend I met, Qiao En.

Brothers, Lester and Jameson.

Brother for Lester and Jameson, Victor.

Wallace.

Few of I-don’t-knows from my school. But I know Yong Seng and Jason Ch’ng both on left and right.

Siew Ling, Yimin and Kexin.

The Plurkers, Yijun, Yilin and Chee Yang. Follow me on Plurk!

Him Keat, Kenny and Min Xiang.

Lion Ong Lai Peng, a very cool regional committee chairperson one.

Boon Yan, president for Leo Club of Union High.

Alicia, who was once featured on a Chinese student’s newspaper, Xuehai.

Fun noon time because I walked around, met people that that were long-time-no-see, and also met people that I-didn’t-know.

From Ipoh.

There’s also Leos came all the way from Ipoh but sadly, they didn’t get to join the fight because the bus was late.

Very cute and classic Mini.

Christopher, Chee Cheng and Chia Chun.

GenYong the blogger and Yong Seng.

Chien Ming and Yimei. Just realized that I’ve forgot to take photo with Chien Ming. >.<

Janice from Catcheye.

Emily, president for Leo Club of CDK.

Tags: Event, fight, Friends, Leo Club, Lifelog, Many People, Penang, penang times square, pillow fight, Saturday
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ION and Orchard Road

Written by Nicholas Chan on November 23, 2009 – 12:02 am -

I think I am getting into the last post of my Singapore trip, should be saying that this is the last part of my one day Singapore tour and Orchard Rd was my last stop. We skipped and ran away from Royal Selangor Gallery from the Nuffnang tour and came here by ourselves via the MRT, it’s was just a few stop away, pretty fast.

One thing I got to say that my legs were really tired at that time, had been walking whole day already and it’s evening.

The Orchard Road station was really very crowded with people and this was my first time getting off at that. The times before that I went there few years back were by cab. Somehow, we still have to queue up again at the MRT station to get S$1 refund from the ticket.

I was just so excited about Orchard Rd, especially ION @ Orchard, the main reason I went there. I wanted to see how beautiful the building is.

Look at the LED bar. Pretty isn’t it?

The MRT station is just right below ION and the first thing I saw was ION! It’s so cool, with all the lights and all those huge designers’ label made me saliva drop and it’s felt so not-Singapore, perhaps Tokyo?

I was so amaze and salute to the developer. Before that I thought Pavilion in Kuala Lumpur was cool, but now, I can’t think about that already.

I can’t afford branded, designers’ label but I so like to look at them.

The ION is so round, I like also!

And they got a huge curve LCD screen outside, showing news, weather, info and stuff, just like a small part of Times Square and Tokyo. I think Malaysia don’t have big screens and with sound. There’s big ad screen, but mostly no sound, that’s not cool.

Alvin and I spent quite a lot of time out there “Wah, wah, wah” which made us don’t really have many time to walk around inside, and really we just walked a little and that’s when my brother called me to meet him at Cineleisure. Fast window shopped the first and second floor, then we started walking to Cineleisure, it’s like 10 minutes apart. Not far.

Their Cineleisure and ours Cineleisure at Damansara is also no fight, so crowded, so happenings and like the LED tickers out there.

Legs were tired and was looking for place to seat, then I found the cinema and there’s chair. =D I was like so hungry and didn’t feel like exploring anymore, moreover I’ve went there before, once, 2 years ago, where I was among the first getting the first release of iPod touch.

They came and we had our dinner at Sakae Teppanyaki, delicious and good. Again, Malaysia has it or not?

After dinner, daddy thought of going back to the hotel but I insisted to walk for a little while and to visit Uniqlo in ION. It’s part of my itinerary and I wanted to check out this Japanese store for a long time already. Daddy didn’t feel walking anymore so he found a pub in front Wisma Atria and he got his alcohol.

Walked back to ION and went shopping at Uniqlo and a few stores. Woot! I bought a couple of nice tee at there. Shopping does take away my tiredness. Maybe it’s my first time going to ION, the place inside is like a maze, most of the shops are underground, few floors down. Upper floor would be all those branded and designers’ label.

Me, brother, daddy, mommy. =)

After shopping and getting late, we went to find my dad at the pub. Interesting was, I saw a she-man dancing and lip-syncing with the live band playing. Woo.

Went to Lucky Plaza and took the cab back to hotel.

Next stop? No more. It’s going back home on the next day.

again, thanks to alvin yang for the photos.

Tags: Crowded, Happenings, Many People, nnawards, nuffnang, nuffnang blog awards, orchard, Shopping, singapore, Travel, trip
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