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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