Thailand Trip

I have just gotten back from my thailand trip and if I had to write down everything that happened during my trip, it would take out at least the whole webpage. So I have decided to just put in my best take away for the trip.
That is us before leaving Singapore.
A typical street of Thailand.
Good number for a house.
A rare sight of electric distribution. At least for Singaporeans.
I think kids there looks really cute. Can't help to stop taking pictures of them.

Thailand is a religious country and so Temple visit is a must not miss in Thailand.
One of the temple that we visited is the Fifth King's Temple, King Chulalongkorn. It was a very steep temple and apparently it has many different cultural ornaments in the temple. And that is me at the peak of the temple.
It was a city tour that included the temple visit. However it was these fishes that amused me. They are catfishes which I think is as big as my legs!A Typical Streets of Thailand
One of the best takeaway was the shopping trip, not that I have bought a lot of things, but more of the skill of bargaining. I got away from Thailand that if almost any items there which is more than 200 Baht is expensive.A typical shopping street of Thailand.

They sold a wide variety of colorful stuff there.

Us getting some cheap bargains.

And of course going Thailand you can't miss the girls. There is much more....Terence Yap's Favourite BBQ girl.

Of course there must be an end to everything.
That is us leaving Thailand.
And the clouds that accompanied us while being airborne.
Isn't this a familiar sight? Ring a bell?

Some nice picture I thought I should share.

Testing Out of Camera

I signed up for Murdoch University and University of Western Australia today with IDP in Orchard Hotel. I guess I am quite fixed on the idea of studying in Australia already.

While I was queuing up to check out on UWA, I met this girl who is heavenly gorgeous! I cannot determine where is she from as she has good english accent as well as chinese's. I did not have the guts to take out my camera to snap her. How disappointing. But I hope I can see her again. Haha.

Besides making the decision on Australia, I made quite a good discovery today. I found out how to play around with shutter speed and apertures!
I was speaking to my cousin about camera effects and he gave me an example of a waterfall, with adjusting both of those factors, we can make a misty effect. This was purely taken by a camera and that it was in Orchard after I went for IDP. I never knew camera can do this! How mountain tortise.

More of such thing will come for sure. I will try out more.

Sentosa Outing

I was out at Sentosa with my guys on Friday, it was our branch cohesion. This is the family.

Well there is time for work and there is time for play.
And of course Photography.
I never knew Sentosa had changed their monorail system to ezylink card system and that you can reach to the beach in two stops. Convenient.
With plenty of sand and the sea, this is Singapore's well known beach. I guess there is the only good one around. We had a great game of volley ball. It was enjoyable and I thought I am quite good at it. With a little more practice, perhaps someday I should join Jacklyn for volley ball game.
Before we left, we met up with three girls who took our group photographs. I had a cheekiest thought at that time to take down their numbers. But well, I got MSN email, but she has yet to add me... Sobz...
Ending off the day, we had a Luge ride. It was expensive but for the first try, I thought was worth it.
We had to take this sky ride up to a top of a hill before taking the ride.
Evidence of Luge Ride.

Meaning of Photography

It was a eventful evening on Sunday when I met up with an old friend, Ai Ling. Being artistically inclined, Ai Ling suggested that we go to a photo gallery behind The Cathay in Orchard.

Initially we wanted to walk the inner gallery but it was closed. How unfortunate! But it was a blessing in disguise, there was a outer gallery with quite a good spread of photograph. We spent about half an hour looking through the photographs.

We shared our feeling of the photographs thereafter and we had different views of just one photograph. It made me realized that a still picture, though picturing stationary image, it can have many interpretation. It made me realized that one can see stories behind pictures. It was a captivating beauty that had rekindle my flame for photography, which was lost a month now.

She carried on to share with me the use of her DSLR. It had added oil to my passion of flame.

I went on to research the next few days. I looked into many photographs and had different light to them.
This is a picture from Cosmin Bumbut, a fashion photographer. What would you see in the picture? What I saw was helplessness. A women being robbed in the tunnel and there is no one else to turn too.
Take look at the picture, what do you see? I saw a lady, probably happy, running with a dog.

The truth about the picture is that this lady is running for shelter during a air raid. It was a picture by Robert Capa, a Combat photographer during WW2 peroid.

"A Picture Speaks for more than a Thousand words." A picture can say many things, it is how you perceive.