Went to the convention on the first day with Kevin and his sister. Initially I thought it was quite good (to be honest, I hardly ever visit these kind of fairs) until Kevin said it was quite disappointing and not worth the $12 entrance fees. (yea, laugh all you want, I’ve wasted 12 bucks! =p)

Decided to make the most out of the trip, I went on to photograph most of the custom-made transformers that were showcased there. Check out the transformers goodness via my flickr or see thumbnails below.

Suggestive name, but Soapy.sg stands for School of Advanced Photography. Seems that this school was launched yesterday, I happened to attend the seminar (largely cause it was FREE!) and there were 5 award-winning (one of them was Russel Wong!) Singapore-based photographers who shared their experiences in going full time.

While I was glad to attend this free seminar and after seeing a real pro at work with studio lighting and whatnot, I knew this path is going to be interesting but a really difficult one.

Thanks to leafie, I just realized I have just missed out on updating my own blog! Things gotten hectic around end Oct with my solemnization, wedding in Nov, massive amount of workload in Dec (since I took a week off just before my wedding, the workload just piled up =\), Jan literally flew by with CNY just cruised along and now we’re in mid-Feb!

Come to think of it, mc and myself has yet to go on honeymoon! Sheesh, no wonder I’m feeling drained out. There’s quite a fair bit of things to update, but I guess I’ll take things slowly hereon. Kenny just got married couple days ago and it was nice meeting the rest of the gang again.

Oh yea, I just bought a new lens! It’s the 10-22mm wide angle and I loved it! Took me sometime to get used to, but I’m sure that landscape pictures will turn out better. I know, I know, it’s the photographer that matters, but sometimes you just gotta have a certain piece of equipment to achieve what you want. So with this lens, I hope that I will be able to take pretty landscapes when I go on my honeymoon. =D

My dear Mee Chee,

I take you to be my lawfully wedded wife. I will cherish our union, support you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow. I will love and honour you from this day forward, for as long as we both shall live. Let this ring be a faithful reminder of my unending commitment to you. I give this ring, as a token – I now marry you!

My days of being a bachelor is numbered.. in just a blink of an eye, this Sunday arrives quickly!

Nervous? yea.. I keep having the constant feeling that I might have miss out something. Even after months of preparation, listing down all that needs to be done, ticking each checklist when it’s done, I just can’t shake this feeling off.

Nevertheless, I hope it will be smooth-sailing, fun experience and pray that the weather will be clear.

anti-apple fans might have something to gloat about, but the death of a visionary is definitely a sad thing. without him, there won’t be a fruit-based personal computer, music player, communication device and a whole bunch of apple fanatics.

in any case, let’s have a silent moment for steve jobs.

Well it’s not exactly new. I’ve just acquired this really old lens, the Minolta MC Rokkor-PG 50mm f/1.4 and its mount has been modified to fit on an EOS mount. Meaning, I’m now able to use this lens on my 60D sexyD!

I’m not able to afford the Canon’s equivalent for the nifty-50 f/1.4 (it’s SGD699 RRP), but I’m glad I found this at a fraction of Canon’s price. Although it’s an old lens that requires me to use manual focus and aperture, it’s kinda great in a sense that it forces me to learn the basics the old-fashion way. =)

Fancy playing a “Sim Tower-like” game on your iPhone? I got hooked to this cool game from Kairosoft and I just can’t get enough of it! The graphics are plain, simple but cute! LOL! Previously from Kairosoft, I’ve also played Game Dev Story, Pocket Academy and Hot Springs Story.

Nevertheless, Mega Mall Story is a game where you’re involved in a building management simulation. In short, build yourself a Vivocity, or an ION Orchard if you like. As you progress through the years, you will get to unlock new shops, upgrades, nearby investment opportunities as well as (in)famous regular customers.

Does the game ever end? Yes and no. Well, literally you get to play unlimited number of years, but to really make it count, the game calculates your game clear points based on the first 16 years. Subsequent games that you start new will have some stuffs unlocked from the previous games.

For a small sized game (the game is only 11.6MB in size) it packs a lot of fun and depth. If you belong in the OCD category, give this game a try!

Read all about it at this link.

My thoughts? Totally awesome.

Time to shift the 42″ Panny plasma to my study room and hook it up to my PC. Then, save up for a 50″ (I could go crazy on the size, but given my living room’s size anything larger than 50″ will be wasted) Full HD plasma with 3D. Just so that the new tv will be able to play 3D blurays and 3D-enabled games on the PS3 =)

Looking for a good solemniser in Singapore is akin to watching blockbuster movies that are released during the first week. Back in February, I was researching on the process for getting solemnised outdoors. We have to invite a solemniser to our preferred venue on the day of our solemnisation. Ok, that sounded easy as I went through the whole list of solemnisers from ROM. For the fun of it, I contacted a JP randomly from the list and I was told that it was still early to book him for our ROM. Hmm, fine.

As I read the marriage filing instructions on the ROM website, it seems be it outdoors or indoors, we still need to observe the filing notice of 3 months before our date. It was also recommended that we should look for a solemniser around this period of time. I was dead wrong.

Having a list of recommended solemnisers (after much crawling on google and singaporebrides) I began to contact each of the Justice of Peace (JP). One by one, I was getting rejected and day by day, I started to panic. MC and me thought to ourselves that we were too late in contacting the JPs, hence all the good ones are not available. What the heck.

I supposed I was refused by nearly twenty JPs until Dr William Chung agreed to be our solemniser. It certainly was a relief. As our date is October 30th, we still can’t file for our marriage as of today. I have to advise anyone who plans to get married to be SUPER KIASU, if you want an outdoor ROM with a recommended solemniser. At least try to contact them 6-8 months before your date. I know some brides book 1 year in advance. =\