Petal Power

Ah.. Sun Flower.

So nice. And yellow. With elegant petals, holding a kingdom of pollen.

One day, you'll grow big and strong...

......... just like this MASSIVE one!!!!! DUDE! It's like the size of my head! You could probably knock someone out with it. It's that HUUUUUUUUUUUGE.


Fascinating. O-O

By the way, did you know Sunflowers turn around to always follow the sun?

Koffing

I've had one lesson with a friend trying to learn a manual car. Today, I had another lesson trying to learn a manual van today. Why? I'll explain a bit later.

Right now my throat is itchy. Coughing a bit. I think it's because of the sticky (maybe old) lolly I ate from someone's place last night. Erkk...........

Okay. Guess rest would be good for the body. ACKS>

The WTFOMG fly/key moment

OmGoSh! I saw a fly as big as a jelly bean today. FREAKING MASSIVE!!! I didn't take a picture because you can't really comprehend how big it is from a picture taken from the camera phone. And it's not like I could have got a ruler and placed it underneath to show the size. lol.

Hmm...... wonder where it is now.......?

Also in preparation for the upcoming Chinese New Year, I did a bit of house cleaning today. One of those tasks included cleaning my keyboard. I vacuumed the keys, and I still thought it was clean enough, so I took out the keys, and found a kingdom of dust bunnies. Absolutely scary and yet, so fascinating.

Phone Camera Fun - Qantas Man

I saw this really cool billboard advertisement for Qantas today. It's just outside the Domestic airport entrance.

Yup.... 1337!!

NOW UP UP AND AWAY~!!!!!

Dropping the phone can be scary

I nearly lost my nice mobile phone today !____! As I got off the bus at the bus stop, stepped on the grass, and checked my pockets, I realised my phone wasn't inside. I frantically searched my pockets, checked my bag, twice, and then realised that it was probably on the bus. I ran after the bus, pounding the side. Some elderly person saw me, and yelled something to the bus driver. The bus didn't stop, and it kept going.

I was devestated. The bus wasn't going to stop, and I really hoped I was wrong. Maybe it was somewhere in my bag. Sometimes I have a tendancy to put my phone into my bag automatically. I searched a third time, and it wasn't there. It had to be on the bus, because I received a call on the way back.

So instead of heading home, I ran to a friend's place and asked to borrow his phone. He lives on the other side of the street. I was panicking. I was thanking them, apologising, and cursing myself (not swearing of course), but still apalled at my stupidity. I looked pathetic in other words.

I rang my mobile constantly, and no one picked up. I was very saddened. And I knew there were two people sitting close to me on the bus. I rang a 2nd long ring. No one picked up. After the 2nd long ring, I was ready to give up. Maybe someone wanted to keep my phone. I made one more last ring, and someone picked up.

It was some lady, and I asked her where she was. She told me "I'm at the bus stop".

Yeah. Guys. Laugh. I'm stupid @_@ Sigh.................

$40,000 worth off why did I buy this again?

When they invent clothes that stay clean & fresh forever, the Emperor Workstation will be the place you'll find me any time of the day.

I sure hope they also install a handy toiletry in it too.

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On a random story.....
One night my computer decided to stop running. I freaked because I didn't back up some important information. I unplugged everything and opened my computer case. Inside was very dusty and it smelt like smoke.

I suspected the dust bunnies, so I got a balloon pump, and gave it an air-bath. I pumped the motherboard, graphics card, hard drives, cables, etc. After cleaning, it worked, and I was relieved.

The next day, it happened again. I unplugged and plugged the power supply and realised something was missing. There was no start up sound. I suspected the power supply, and took it out. While I was waiting for my dad to scrounge around in his room finding a spare power supply, I decided to air-bath the power supply. Pumping and pumping, a few roach wings flew out. HOW SCARY @_____@!

I've heard of cockroaches living in the computer, but my friend, that's proof~!!!

Well, the computer worked again, and it hasn't failed since then. So that's good :D

Mini-it

What would things look like if they were miniature.

Tilt Shift Maker tries to make it quickly possible for the general public. By choosing which areas to focus on, it blurs everything else, giving depth of field, and hence, the illusion of miniaturism. Check it out!!

I did a couple of tests, and here's how it came out:

So what do you think? Do they look convincing?

I had to process them a little further in Photoshop because the online application has limits, such as, objects in the foreground that fall into the "focused" areas will remain focused, and break the illusion.

I think the program works by increasing the highlights, reducing the shadows, and bringing the saturation to +25. It then does a Gaussian blur and masks out the focused areas. A tip is to use nice landscape shots. The illusion doesn't work for portraits or macro shots.

I guess it's quite interesting. Kept me entertained for a half an hour. I guess you really have to make yourself believe they are miniature though, especially for the ones you made yourself.

But nevertheless, good fun :D

VLC disappeared

@____@ WHAA???

Something really strange just happened. My VLC Media Player just disappeared, but I was just using it a a few hours ago.

I can't find it in the Start Menu, but when I checked the Control Panel, the program is still registered. I open a .mov file, and it still opens in VLC.

It's just ... disappeared from the Start Menu. Is that possible? Has that happened to anyone?

Happy 2009 =D

!!!~ Happy New Year ~!!!

I hope everyone had an enjoyable New Years Eve.

I watched the fireworks this year from Pyrmont, and WOW, I was still amazed by the view of the place. It's a marvelous site, and it's not very packed, so that's definitely a good thing.

This year's celebrations was spent with Florence's brother+family, who came all the way from Adelaide to see the majestic Sydney fireworks. I chose Pyrmont because it was the most "family friendly area" without sacrificing a great location. So win on both balances.

This image pretty much shows how vacant the area was most of the day (until 7pm-ish when it became moderately packed)

Of course we weren't alone, and our 'neighbours' gradually filled up around us. There are some worth mentioning too.
We named the yellow shirted lady on the left hand side, "klitty woman". Basically she undresed herself for a sunbathe, except for her skirt, layed on her back, and therefore, revealing her "klitty" towards us. We were wondering if we should go tell that she was revealing herself to the world. We decided to let her be, and hope that she would clothe up before the kids arrived.

Then there were the 3 people further in front. I thought the person in the green singlet was a guy. When they finally turned around, it was a girl~!!! Okay... not important. But hey :) ... goes to show never judge a person by their clothes.

Anyways, more 'neighbours' came in, and set up a really huge area.
They reserved it all with those two big tarpolines, and I thought to myself. Hey!! I should do that next year. One tarpoline was pretty much the size of my 3 picnic blankets together, and.. it also means I need less objects to weigh down each corner.

There was also this guy on our right with two full chip DSLRs, each with an awesome 400mm lenses, mounted on tripods. I was so intimidated/dribbling-over-it that I forgot to take a picture.
When I saw it, I was like "dude, I gotta get me one of those lenses." Second thought was "DOH!! I forgot to bring my tripod"

Later on in the day, a sky writing plane spelt out BOSE across the sky. I later checked it out, and it's some Audio Equipment company. (oh, by the way, if you are working at BOSE, and see this blog entry, can I get some money for giving you advertising?)

Another advertising campaign was from Telstra, spelling out "Call Mum". The message worked, and I did call my mum later that night, but I don't think it made me think of changing to Telstra.


I thought it would be funny to take a picture of the harbour bridge passing time. From the same spot, using relatively the same exposure, I shot an image of the bridge every hour starting from 3.23pm. The time varied, and at times I forgot to take the picture, like the 7ish, 10ish, and 11ish.
And it's quite interesting to see how a matter of 12 minutes, between 8:18 and 8:30, made the sky go much darker. Just surreal!!!

Staying there for practically most of the day gave me opportunites to take pictures I usually couldn't be bothered too.

Such as this shot.

The wonderful moon in the clouds.

And I guess I wasn't the only one who realised the beauty of the sky.

When heading for a toilet break, I managed to take this shot. I don't know, it just seems lovely to me. It also reminds me of an Italian city. Can anyone tell me why?

Anyways, then came the spectacular fireworks.
The ones below are from the 9pm family fireworks, which were a blast~!!!

During the 9pm fireworks and the midnight countdown, Florence and I spent it playing with the little kiddies. They were insane. lol. But cute at the same time.

Then came the new year, and sure was it spectacular. I spent half the time taking shots of the fireworks.





And yup. That's the pictures :D~!!!!!! Hope you liked them.
Also, thanks to Florence who had to put up with my jokes all day. You pawr girl (XD).... Hope you and your family had a blast anyways :D

This year I'll be blogging up photos just as a way to showcase my work. Also, it's easier because I don't have to think of anything to write. lol.

Okay, looking forward to the new year!!!