This was the sunrise yesterday.

But I’m more of a sunset person ’cause I just love the orange glow/streaks that permeates the skyline. And that I live by the cheeky mantra of “the night is still young”.

However, I’ll turn to a sunrise person soon. Maybe it ain’t all that bad. Afterall, I’ve always find it a joy to start off a day early ’cause there’s just so much that you can do, and still have ample hours of the day yet to be spent.

So tomorrow marks the first day I sahur dates with a cup of Milo, complete with a sleepy face. I wanna cut down what I eat during buka also. Initially I thought of only dates with air kathira but hahaha I still need the rice/noodles I guess.

Selamat berpuasa semua!

I recently went to borrow a Canon EOS 400D recently as a cure for my itch from a fellow ClubSnapper. For a noob, I was impressed by its performance. The sound of the shutter is just mesmerizing to me; I can’t stop shooting. Colours are good even when I blow the pictures up in my PC - sharp and crisp. The grip feels nice too but that’s because the battery grip was intact.

Some might have gone “Like duuhhh, it’s a DSLR. Whaddaya expect?” right? Heh.

Anyway I found Canon to be really user-friendly, as widely reported amongst its users. Coming from a Panasonic background, I was surprised that I could figure out the functions pretty fast. But I only got hold of the kit lens though, which was a decent wide-angle but a crappy telephoto.

“Like duuhhh, 18-55. Whaddaya expect?”

I could have gotten a Canon 5D, which is my dream camera and my idol’s, but I don’t see the point. I didn’t even hold a DSLR before at that time! And if you must know, cliches does exist even in the photography world.

It’s not the camera, it’s the person behind it.

But it’s so damn true. I realized that while DSLRs pwned my prosumer performance-wise but doing all the composition, the look and feel and the theme of the photos, all boil down to the person whose finger presses that shutter release button. And I realized I still got a loooooooong way to learn.

The lender was kind enough to share his experiences with me, one of which is that Canon lenses are interchangeable with its bodies regardless of its generations, unlike Nikon. Now that’s a headstart for me to sway towards the Canon camp!

But maybe I’ll get my hands dirty on a Nikon D80 first. After that I’ll save up at least $1,000 and see what good DSLR offers there are in the market. What year will it be then hmmm…. 2015 maybe?

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Of course that was just an exaggeration. But seriously speaking, you never know how old that bug(ger) crawling around your house may be right? It may have even touched the Triceratops. Have you?

But I saw a weird looking cockroach just now in the kitchen. It was white. Freaking hell I thought I saw the ghost of a cockroach. Then my mom said that it’s just the outer coating of a cockroach, something that’s part of its shedding process.

Okay that calmed me down a little bit and I continued to admire admire the sight I’ve never seen before.

But a few seconds later the ‘outer coating’ moved its feelers! Inside my heart, I was screaming “Fucking hell! The outer layer is alive! This IS the ghost of the cockroach!

I freaked out like how those who hated flying cockroaches will squeal at the sight of one. Except that I didn’t squeal.

This bugger actually moved! So my sister and I concluded that it’s a white cockroach. I googled ‘white cockroach’ and a whole load of information came out.

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Babe and I went to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve the other day for the first time in our 19 years living on Earth. After conquering a steep hill at the very start of our hiking trip, we were somewhat forced to climb even more steeper steps to reach the summit… which to our disappointment was only roughly 100m high.

We were (over)ambitious and thought that we hiked a grand total of 700m in height. Maybe numerically it doesn’t seem so but overall it was a good body workout for us. Maybe our legs and thighs suffered a little bit more agony.

And as always, the going down is easier and faster than going up. Now I can blame gravity for my weight and not all the junk food that I ate plus the exercises that are pretty much non-existent.

That railway track? Gosh, I was happily snapping away thinking that no train will pass by at that point of time. 5 minutes later, one whizzed by. I swear it looks faster than our MRT trains. Luckily I was already away from the tracks.

But it’s cool to be on the tracks you know? There’s no yellow line that acts as an imaginary boundary for your body.

That thrill is perfect for my dosage of adrenalin rush. :grin:

Dear Panasonic FZ-18,

Why won’t you be mine? I have been courting you for 3 months-odd already but you just won’t budge. Quit playing hard to get will you?

But I won’t give up my chase just yet ’cause I feel that I’ve known you far too much to let you go just like that. Your strengths and weaknesses; your capabilities and potential… even so, there’s so much more about you that I wish to discover. 

You caught my eye the first time I saw you. No doubt there are others that are of the same colour as you but somehow you stood out. No it’s not your protruding, long lens. Let’s just say it’s love at first sight.

I love how you look nice even in low light, make so little noise at night and I’m just mesmerized by how well you fit into my hands.

I’m just playing the waiting game right now, waiting for the perfect time to ask you out again. Hopefully, you’ll be agreeable then. 

Just so you know, I dumped Canon S5IS just because I feel that you are the right one for me.

Please… will you be mine? 

Love,
Fitree