Tasmanian Film Festival

Monday, July 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM | Posted by Juwen
Wow! it's been more than 3 weeks since the last time I posted something substantial. Came back from July Camp and of course previously, Tasmania and it was all good. As always, here are the pictures from my film camera but the digital one is going to have to wait. My laptop is dying and I'm going to get a new computer so I can start editing stuff on Lightroom.



Decided to try the slideshow feature in Picasa, see how is it like so for those reading this on Facebook, I don't think it will show up. Gives even more reason to come here *cough* . I have to say that I wished that more shots on film that I would really really like. My current favourite is the second night shot, the one with the building. But there are some pretty good accidents and mistakes that came out of film which I would have never dreamed off in digital (or at least it wouldn't have crossed my mind). There is a ghosty picture of all of us in the background of snow capped mountains. That was a double exposure and it happened because I was a little ignorant of the number of shots I have already taken. I had a 24 exposure roll and the film seemed to stop at 22, 2 less than what I'm supposed to be getting. So I manually override it and continued shooting. And it turns out that it shot on the same frame, giving this lovely result of a ghostly picture. Cool.

And now I shall leave you with articles of the three weeks. More to come after I get a new machine...
Big huge labs. It's sort of like Picasa Extended.

This is something I've read from time to time since I found this because I think it's pretty true here and now. Especially over these couple of weeks where stuff like these happen and as the author said, it's annoying and sometimes painful (that's my bit). I've mentioned to a few people that I am on the quarter life crisis after looking around my current situation and relationships are one of the factors in that crisis. Not that I don't want one or am uber longing for one, but it's just that everywhere I turn there are couples doing semi-couply stuff and leaving me in the corner because there's someone else. That again is not wrong in anyway, but sooner or later pretty all attention goes to them leaving people like me feeling like they have no friends, making feel like they are lacking something or someone. I guess what I am trying to say is what the author said in his title, we deserve props.

Very old news but I'm still shocked to hear that 3.7 million viewers watched the final episode. That's like 15% of the total population of Australia!! Too bad Poh didn't win, otherwise Malaysians all over Australia will be shouting "Malaysia Boleh!"

Something that my parents should have done when teaching me any of the dialects especially my mother tongue, Hokkien. I now find that not being able to speak any Chinese dialect has disadvantaged me in more ways that I thought possible.

I guess there is some truth whenever someone says to you "You have a certain glow on your face. Seeing anyone?" They say that the light is too faint to be visibly seen, but I wonder if subconsciously the light gets to the eyes and still is registered but not enough to form necessary information to make you aware of it but the subconscious does. Hmmm

Cleartune on the App Store is the best guitar tuner for the iPhone ever. I bought and love it already...and it looks retro

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A short blurb

Friday, July 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM | Posted by Juwen
Back from Tasmania and have kick started Superman mode. Tasmania was very picturesque but too bad it was raining most of the time and the fact that the sun goes down so early kills the joy a bit. But other than that, it was great. I'll probably say a bit more after I come back from July Camp and hopefully with pictures.

Off to July Camp...

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Tasmanian Devil in the Details

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 2:02 AM | Posted by Juwen
I've decided to go on a roadtrip to Tasmania despite a few things that I was concerned about (some even quite concerned). I ultimately went ahead with the trip based on a few lines of thought. One, is that I'll just have to be really thick skinned about some of my concerns regarding the trip and just go. My concerns are how you would call mere speculation based on current known and not-so-known facts and as I usually always am about these sorts of things, overexaggerate my own speculations. Two, I've been feeling very disconnected with the OCF people for the past year or so and it is sucky that my then regular friends are no longer with me now. So, in an attempt to reforge bonds, I'd figure why not get cramped in a car for 7 days on a roadtrip. Plus, if there is anything I noticed about roadtrips, is that those same people form their own cliques well after the roadtrip almost all the time. Three, I've been in Australia for what, 6 years now? And I've only been to two places outside Victoria (four if you count a 6 hour visit to Sydney for a test and a half day excursion to play paintball in Echuca). And those two places weren't exactly for leisure either. One was Perth for OCF Convention in 2005 and I didn't go on the roadtrips because I had no money to spend and so I only was enjoying Perth for 3 days and the other was OCF Convention 2007 in Adelaide, again only having to see the area for 2 days. Both of those places need several days as places of interest require quite a fair bit of travel. This would be my first truly leisurely trip with no strings attached outside Victoria. Sad but true. So in summary, I'm looking forward to experience two positive things and to disprove my overly exaggerated speculations. In particular, I am really hoping my speculations are really false otherwise it might ruin my trip altogether.

Having said that, because I am going to Tasmania which has some pretty good sight seeing spots, tourist-y stuff etc., I should be taking more photos especially scenery ones like our pastor does. So I'm quite psyched up for that and suddenly I was looking at longer range lenses/primes. I don't know how that came to be but it is. Stumbled across a slightly used Pentax DFA 100mm f2.8 Macro on Ebay. Was a bit hessitant about but after looking around for awhile I found this Flickr site with a tag on her 100mm. Her full Flickr site is here and also equally as good. Those were all of her shots with that same lens and I was like *jaw drop*. Found her official site and seriously I was sold getting that lens and I love her pictures. After more sleuthing on Ebay, there's one going for $500. Bye bye $500...So I bought it and hopefully *crosses fingers* it comes before I leave for Tasmania. It was about time I started playing with macro after handling Khai's Sigma 17-70mm and it is also about time I had a longer range lens and wanted to play around with macro on film. This lens kills all three birds at the same time. Feel so excited...

News break:
I lack these three things now...
I know it but it is good to be reminded about what I'm going through...
Photos taken by lenses made out of ice. Cool (pun intended)...
Nuts, I missed the dolphins on the Yarra River...
Some-what cheesy Christian T-shirts. No prizes for which one I would like to have...
A slightly counter-intuitive idea to approaching the problem of damaged DNA in reproductive cells...

I'm still loving the bass lines for Tissue Hime...

The two sports that I recently want to do thanks to Youtube videos are pool and chess. Despite what you guys may think, there is actually quite a lot of things that are in common with the two sports. One being the obvious is no intense physical activity is required. The second is that there are a lot of tactics involved in the games. Chess is quite obvious but when you are playing pool seriously, there's a lot of tactics that you can use anything from safeties, cue ball positioning, forward thinking when making the shots and more. Thirdly, there's skill involved in both games. Pool is quite obvious but for chess, there's a lot of skill in using your pieces to execute and coordinate a focused attack against your opponent. There are also skill levels associated with prefered openings in chess. I should find time and "kaki" to do both.

I miss bowling...

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