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Today @ a glance

2007-02-22T23:32:00.000+08:00

I can see the difference between these two pics

50mm f1.4 lens - $460

50mm f1.8lens - $165

AIYO. Not a big diff. I'm getting the cheaper one.

Some stuff really requires alot alot of discipline. Only then can you see or feel the results. I must push on harder! :) For a bigger and harder reward! haha.

I got my bag at last. And I cant bear to use it cos its just so beautiful. haha. Yes. The sinking barge by crumpler. :) It can store my darling camera, flash, tele, and my apple ibook G4! So proud of it. I got the dark blue one while xianjie got the black one. Yar we went to get it together! haha. $180. Haiz. So expensive la.

I realise that I've been blogging in a very singlish manner for ages, and I guess its almost time to wake up from this disgusting habit and actually start to blog in proper english. What do you think people? Pls tag your response. :)

Sample images from crumpler website.

I LOVE MY BAG. :)
You cant even tell tt its a camera bag lor! hahah. YAY. I'm bringing it to Beijing.

I'm gonna change my blogskin soon. Its like, ancient la.

Oh. heres the timetable for these few days:

Friday:

9am - Wake up! :)
11am - Shooting near Clementi Woods
12pm - Meet Gary
1230pm - 3pm - Shooting nearby?
3pm - Meet Lydia? (not confirmed)
3pm - 6pm - Shooting ( ARGH. WHERE!!! )
6pm - JE MRT meet Jess
10pm - Home sweet home

Saturday:

9am - 12pm - ????????????????
12pm - Meeting TXY at VIVOcity.
1230 - Proceed to Sentosa
1pm - Shooting origami competition -_-"
2pm - End of origami competition
3pm - Head back to VIVOcity
330pm - Proceed towards Pasir Ris
415pm - Arrival at destination
9pm - Home

Tempura

2007-02-28T16:51:00.000+08:00

What a day. Tempura anyone? :)

A reappearance

2007-09-27T00:20:00.000+08:00

Interestingly, you've stumbled upon this old blog of mine.

Full of memories, good and bad.

Its been so long since I've blogged on blogger. SO many things have changed since I've done so. I've been through so much that is left untold on my wordpress account, and many of you would wonder. What happened to the real Kai Wen? I've been caught up in a facade which is totally not me, and perhaps one day, the colours of which have been hidden by a curtain of darkness will be revealed.

Visit www.yeokaiwen.wordpress.com

Thanks!

Shifted

2007-04-02T10:55:00.000+08:00

After 2 years of blogging here on this blogger blog, I've decided to switch to wordpress, which is much more professional and clean. Therefore, relink me at

www.yeokaiwen.wordpress.com

Thank you for your kind support here...

P.S: You can still tag here though, this blog remains open to the public. :)

BLOG hiatus

2007-03-27T00:02:00.000+08:00

BLOG CURRENTLY ON HIATUS.

Visit www.yeokaiwen.wordpress.com for posts.

updates

2007-03-20T11:53:00.000+08:00

Yes yes I've not been blogging here as fervently as before... Lotsa stuff have happened that I've not updated you guys with... Basically, I've one thru quite alot this week. Taking part in TXY orientation as AV i/c and videographer cum editing video guy... To dropping my lens cap at sunsetway bridge... ARGH. That lens cap cost at least $15. Might return to try to retreive it some day. haha. hoho. Yar. Well, I got new printers as well. Free from Starhub la. ahha.

Might be popping over to NH tmr to shoot the careforce investiture. I dun usually like to pop over to see people who constantly bug me for photos. esp when they dun credit me after using them. *hint hint* **points to 5th floor**

sian

2007-03-18T22:54:00.000+08:00

refer to wordpress account for updates! :)

2007-03-15T23:37:00.000+08:00

Where's kw? Erm I'm not too sure myself. Busy @ baoguan. VERY busy.

Wordpress account

2007-03-09T13:39:00.000+08:00

I've opend a wordpress account for formal photo essays and etc. Take a look here:
www.yeokaiwen.wordpress.com

blahs

2007-03-09T00:09:00.000+08:00

Soon it will be time to decide. Should I continue leading my life like this, or make a change? I cannot afford to rip myself apart like that... I find rest in God.

Its been a very busy week, preparing for yingxin (SYD orientation), New paper resume (Might be sending in application for a job there), Mypaper student corespondent application (maybe asking xianjie to help me in this), and photography.

In a nutshell, I might get to work for the electric newpaper, mypaper, in the midst of doing work for zaobao and friday weekly. I think this is cool. :) And it all started with a small newspaper article on the way home from NH. Thanks Steph.

Recently I've been really messed up by alot of things... Perhaps I should just take a break.

2007-03-07T22:54:00.000+08:00

Hmmmmmmm.

today @ a glance

2007-03-06T18:20:00.000+08:00

People nowadays are truly going overboard. Obviously making use of me... But I shant say anything here.

hoho. Went to Istana Woodneuk today with Darwis, Haze and Xianjie. Pics can be found on my flickr account. Its hitting 200 pics already, and I think I will purchase a pro account soon.

Erm. Yar that's abt it. :)

yawn

2007-03-04T20:31:00.000+08:00

There were quite a number of random schedule changes this weekend, and I was quite astonished at each change. I was supposed to go serm on sat, but ended up at long john silvers having a treat from weichong. And I was supposed to go to someone's house today, but ended up going to sph to see interviews of the newbies. I was also supposed to be in church today, but ended up at sph later on. confusing.but anw, heres my weekend at a glance.

Saturday:
My morning was spent sleeping. hoho. Then rushed over to riverwalk to take photos for some evangel event for subzone. Yup yup. nothing much to describe here, but theres a series of pics of this gal who gave that huh? erm "pray for me ah. okay. sian." look. maybe will post it up on my photo blog. haha. x.x. shes cute tho. the expression she gave that is. after that it as 4pm lerr. so i was like, erm. okay la. LJS la. then go home.

Sunday:
Woke up early at 7am to go out. I guess tts abt it.

I ponned all the yinxing meetings witha reason that the leaders will find invalid. I put God first, cos all the meetings fell on weekends. Therefore, I had church. And obviously church comes first. i do not see the importance of such meetings compared to church. But of cos, i m guilty of ponning. so, i m gonna make it up to them.

2007-03-03T22:14:00.000+08:00

Went to shoot an evangelistical event at riverwalk. photos can be found on my photo blog. :)

meanwhile. i need some sleep. :)

yay

2007-03-03T10:07:00.000+08:00

next sports evnt to shoot: NHHS road run. :) followed by RV weekly track practice. I need more sports shots.

Notice

2007-03-03T00:56:00.000+08:00

The Lord is my sheperd. I SHALL NOT be in want.

Rain

2007-03-01T10:57:00.001+08:00

The rain is having control of the island! It just keeps raining...

Meaning, I cant SHOOT TODAY. But with faith and inspiration, I think I should be able to get a few shots. Test my creativity ya! :)

I realise that I've got TOO many friends that I tend to ignore some friends when I get bombarded. Really sorry abt that. Especially if that's the reason why certain things came to pass that was really upsetting at the beginning of this year.

Visit my flickr! :) CLICK HERE

Stuff I bought these 2 weeks:

1) Crumpler sinking barge - $180
2) 50mm f1.8 lens - $180
3) 3rd party battery - $0 (Special thanks to Xianjie for giving me that unwanted battery)

Burnout: $360

I wun be buying camera stuff for awhile.

Time to shoot some stuff!

Rain

2007-03-01T10:57:00.000+08:00

2007-02-28T20:12:00.000+08:00

Your grace is all i need. Your grace is all I need. Your grace is all I need.

All I know is I find rest in you.

OH no. I dunno what to do tmr.

Whole day free till 6pm meeting BS grp at bukit batok macs.

today @ a glance

2007-02-27T00:13:00.000+08:00

Met 2 grps of weird people today.

At the national library:

An old man suddenly makes a big din over a teen who apparently coughed a few times without covering his mouth.

He jumped up to his feet angrily. Looking at the boy with a fierce glare he managed to tether him to the chair with invisible yet powerful tendrils. "THIS IS A LIBRARY. CAN YOU HAVE THE DECENCY TO COVER YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU COUTH?" The words flowed out of his mouth like verbal diarrhoea, catching everyone's attention. The atmosphere was tense. Finally, the boy opened his mouth in retort, "What's your problem?" Realising that his attempt to strangle the boy with his fierce stare had failed, the old man screamed, "You are very rude boy. YOU WATCH YOUR MANNERS!" Silence followed as he stomped out of the library with a face that one would die to have.

Second incident at underpass near east coast:

Xianjie and I were snapping away, trying to do a zoomburst of the lights in there. A couple came along and shouted.

"Why are you taking pictures of us ah?" A fierce and threatening tone echoed through the tunnel. We lifted our heads to see a burly youth with his chick, swaying from side to side. "We're taking pictures of the lights!" came our reply. They seem to be deaf, and thus, we repeated," Taking pics of lights!" The chick, apparently not debeaked yet and was feeling buaysong, as the hokkiens would put it, shouted," Don't need shout so loud!" Feeling irritated at getting pecked at by a stupid chick, I said,"You were the one who shouted first." The chick, being yougn and immature, screamed,"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!" A childish respnse at that, we decided not to stoop to that pitiful level. Her boyfriend stared at us with an evil glare, yet backign off as we had the best of weapons. I was armed with a 1.5kg tripod and potentially blinding flash. Xianjie on the other hand, was armed with his tripod as well as a very old hardcore film camera. They backed off and we continued with our work. :)

TODAY:
Went for a swim. Yes indeed, I am not a devoted swimmer. Nevertheless, I went with much persuasion from my dad. After the 30lap swim I hopped over to meet xianjie at the national library. There, we spent an hour browsing thru photography books. Nice books they have in there! After all that, we went to ECP to take pics. Check out our flickr accounts! :)

CLICK!

today @ a glance

2007-02-25T23:25:00.000+08:00

Today was okay I guess. Woah. My BS grp is pretty enthu abt it eh. We're meeting again on Thursday evening to continue where we left off. I notice that the YF forum is DEAD at the moment. Sad but true. Must revive it ASAP. :) Anw, I realise that I have alot to do this year! Major events include the Beijing trip in Sept, Cruise to Tioman in March, New modules in April, and lots more in store. I went over for comm comm meeting after YF, and presented the essay to Alena, the i/c for communications. I'm now the so called unofficial "minister mentor" of comm comm. diao.

I shot alot yesterday. *zooms into the past*

I met XianJie at 645am, Clementi MRT. We took 52 down to the reservoir where we actually tried to shoot sunrise. Unfortunately, there was not any sight of the sun at all (covered by clouds). So we treked. At least 15km sia. Cos we took the wrong route by accident and walked about 2.4km extra. At the end of it all, we treated ourselves to TAXI and FOOD REPUBLIC at VIVO. Check out our pics here.

www.flickr.com/photos/yeokaiwen and www.flickr.com/photos/blogist

We both got out crumpler bags on the same day too btw. Check it out. He got the black one while I got the blue one. :) It can be used for our beijing trip in Sept! :)

It can contain

My D70s
18-70mm lens
70-300 tele lens
The ibook G4
Chargers and wires
Books / Files / Magazines / Papers
Water bottle
Jacket
MP3 player

I'm going to East Coast tmr afternoon till night to shoot. :)

Today @ a glance

2007-02-23T23:05:00.000+08:00

Jeanice's punch must have did me some damage. I tio stomachache for the rest of the day.

It was the milk. I drank about 550ml of milk non stop, claiming that it was good for me. (I was happily looking at the nutritional value and OMG. 2.4grams of protein in one bottle.)Happily drinking it down despite the taste of it all, I finally realised my folly when the rumblings began. ARGH.

Anyway, this was how my day went by today. I popped over to the photo shop to get some of my new year photos printed, after which counselling time came. I walked briskly to Nan hua, where I had a nice lunch that cost only $1.50. Yupp. Gary is such a nice guy; nice to talk to and I think there's this inner him thats waiting to be discovered. Chatted for some time, after which Lydia came. She was in a poking and touching mood today. -_-" haha. Jeanice too, who later gave me a couple of punches. I wonder who got injured seh. It tickles! :)

The rest of the day was the usuals. Lydia was gorgeous in her casual wear. Gary and I were drooling. Okay kidding. But she was real pretty in it la. haha. :)

Yupp. Thats abt it. BYE!

New spots to shoot

2007-02-20T23:04:00.000+08:00

New places to shoot:

1) HSBC Treetop walk
2) Sembawang Swamp
3) Abandoned house @ Punggol
4) Abandoned house @ Botanics
5) Singapore Zoo
6) Upp Pierce reservoir
7) Kranji Wetland Reserve
8) Singapore birdpark
9) East Coast Park

I've got 9 places to entertain me. Lets describe them.

1) HSBC Treetop walk.
Will be hot cos its above the canopy. And full of monkey droppings.Its hard to reach cos its 4.5km away from the usual fishing spot at the park. A walk thru the forested area with insects, spiders and the occasional mildly poisonous oriental whip snake.

2) Sembawang Swamp
Like the name suggests, its swampy. Will need to walk barefooted and risk occasional leech attacks, or get a pair of boots. Totally swampy. Will need to bring special bags to prevent them from getting wet.

3) Abandoned house @ Punggol
An abandoned house thats rumoured to be haunted by resident spirits. Really old architecture thats located somewhere deserted in the middle of a grass plain in punggol. Will have to climb in cos its probably fenced up.

4) Abandoned house @ Botanics
Another abandoned old house that lies in the forested area. Full of brightly coloured poisonous spiders and quite a number of local scorpions. Will require hard footwear and lots of water. Again, rumoured to be haunted.

5) Singapore Zoo
The usual sights and sounds of the zoo. But in a new perspective.

6) Upp Pierce reservoir
Another reservoir that's near forested area. Full of insects and birds. :)

7) Kranji Wetland Reserve
Highly inaccessible by bus. I need to take mrt, then a bus, and walk thru abt 3.2km of forested area. Might need to pay to enter. ALot of swampy animals such as mudskippers. :)

8) Singapore birdpark
What else lies in store here?

9) East Coast Park
The beach and the sea. :) Ahhh. paradise.

All these will take about 3 weeks to shoot I guess. Finally.

But I will get my new stuff first before heading out to shoot these. :)

I'm really upset with something la. Its like. I really got scammed twice la. But my heart remains unchanged. haha. somehow.

visit www.flickr.com/photos/yeokaiwen for photos

Stuff to buy

2007-02-20T09:16:00.000+08:00

I WANT THESE:

1) The sinking Barge - $209

2) f1.8 50mm lens - $200

3) Spare Batt - $50

4) Laptop protection - $20

Total: $470

Savings to date: $300

Lydia rawks. oops. haha.

I WANT

2007-02-20T00:11:00.001+08:00

http://www.crumpler.com.sg/Cart/index.php?catId=22

OMG I WANT THIS. YES. I WANT.