22 November 2009, Sunday, 11.44pm

Ugh. Back to work tomorrow. But the week will be shorter.

Just finished Code Geass R2. Watched almost half of the season through the weekend. I like the ending very much. Tragic, but it's still a happy ending. Similar to Blood+. Code Geass has officially made my list of favourites~ Whee~

Finished Battlestar Galactica 2 also. On to season 3!

Ugh. It's Monday tomorrow.

Never knew my room could look so... spacious. Took the afternoon to clean it out (with strong self-control not to watch anime). Making space to accommodate new furniture: table for sewing/cutting fabric, shelf for my samla boxes of random things, and a smaller table to put my drybox (and some other random things).

Then it'll be back to a cluttered room.

Ugh. Monday...

20 November 2009, Friday, 9.37pm

This week went by pretty quick, but today was slow.

The viewing on Tuesday wasn't all that bad. Client liked my cut, which was good.

Feel like typing emo stuff, but I shall leave those for the end of the year.

I demand (a few) free tickets from USS! or... I want free rides for at least a year!

The flood along Bukit Timah Road yesterday was havok. But it added some excitement to our mundane working/editing lives over at MB. For a couple of hours, we were busy taking photos.

All my paragraphs so short. Nothing else to say, except I feel very tired. No mood to do much.

I shall leave you with some nice pictures (screenshots, actually), of Akanishi Jin. :D

From Gokusen 2:

He's so funny...

16 November 2009, Monday, 9.41pm

Today was such a lousy day. And it's only Monday!

Worked on the same small project for the entire day, burning DVDs and CDs like mad, only to have the client keep changing their minds about what they wanted. So much time wasted. And then it got to a point where we got so fatigued with the project that we made mistakes. And then more time-wasting burning new discs.

And this is going to keep happening for the rest of the week since the deadline is this week. So you know, clients will always be changing their minds until they have no more time left. But even when the project is due, it will not stop them from making more changes afterwards. Only when you tell them they need to pay for edit hours, then they'll think about it.

Love the weather today. It's so cold.

I have an edit session with a very nasty client tomorrow. Really don't like him... He's an old meanie... In January this year, he spoke to me like as if I was one of his students. I felt like I was in secondary school or something, being scolded for breaking rules... It was absurd...

And I found out that if I drink too much green tea, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Stupid me; drank two cups after dinner yesterday... This morning couldn't wake up. Had very weird dreams but can't remember what they were about...

15 November 2009, Sunday, 4.04pm

This week has been super busy. Big Project is seriously getting out of hand.

The funniest part about it was I decided to do my own mandarin translations for one video:

Fun for the whole family!
饭佛德猴发米力！

Okay, actually Glenn helped.

Ah... I'm halfway through the 2nd seasons for Battlestar Galactica and Code Geass. What am I going to do after I finish these shows?? Wait for Kuroshitsuji 2. Haha... And sew... something...

I cleaned a bit of my room today. It never seems to get done. Things pile up faster than I can organize them.

8 November 2009, Sunday, 6.47pm

Oh no. Code Geass is such a depressing anime. I remembered watching one very depressing episode, but couldn't continue because there were no more updates on Crunchyroll, leaving me depressed. But now after watching the entire first season, I feel more depressed.

So depressed, I have no appetite for dinner. I seriously let myself go while watching the anime; just got so 'into' that world that I feel really lousy after watching it, because everything's so depressing.

CAN'T PEOPLE JUST GET ALONG?!

Okay, on to season 2!

But while I wait for it to download, I shall watch something funny.....

7 November 2009, Saturday, 10.10pm

The bonus song in the repackaged SHINee album is GREAT! I love it. =)

Forever or Never

This song was done by Cinema Bizarre long ago. But I kinda like the lyrics for this SHINee version. Love the overall 'feel' of the SHINee version, too.

Was around Funan Mall today to check out tripods. Didn't buy anything.

I usually have this habit of buying things that I set out to buy. If I don't buy it, then I get all uncomfortable and emo. But today I set out telling myself I'm not going to buy anything on impulse, and it's okay to go home empty-handed. And most importantly, don't buy something just because I don't want to offend the nice salesperson.

So I didn't buy anything. But I visited two places to research tripods. Went to Cathay to find out about the Manfrotto and Slik tripods. They are too expensive. But the Manfrotto 190XB is pretty good. I like that one. Can't afford the carbon fiber tripods, so I was looking at the aluminium/alloy types.

Then I went to Benphoto to ask about the Benro tripods. They are having offers for that brand now; tripod and head for under $200. The A-300EX wasn't as sturdy as the 190XB but it's probably good enough. My only gripe is the head that comes with the set is not nice. That's it. It's not nice.

So Benro is within my budget, whereas the Manfrotto is not. But I like the Manfrotto one better.

So I'll spend the next week thinking about it.

Wanted to buy the Sto-Fen omni-bounce for my flash, but it costs $30. Might as well just buy tracing paper and paste over or something......

And I must remind myself that flash accessories is for next year. No buying them this year.... Nope....

5 November 2009, Thursday, 11.00pm

Thinking of giving up something on my wishlist. Most probably the 10-22mm lens. And the flash accessories. Will keep those for next year.

Was at HMV to buy the latest SHINee mini-album. 2009: Year of Us.

Minho, Key, Onew, Jonghyun & Taemin. Key's eye makeup is . . .

And I said I wouldn't buy it, but I couldn't help myself:

I already have their first album, but this one is the repackaged album with new single AMIGO and a couple of other remixes/new songs. The bonus DVD was the main factor contributing to the purchase. There're three MVs (all of which I've downloaded from the net but in poor quality). I haven't watched the DVD yet, so I hope the quality's good.

I also got the Romeo mini-album. But forgot to take photo... Then everything put back in drybox very lazy to take out again...

The two photos above look quite different, right? The table colour different. And the second photo was a lot more noisy, so had to tweak the colour. Shot with the 270EX flash.

This week like I did nothing at work.... So bored.... Have three projects on hand but nothing for me to do yet. Soon it'll be Christmas!

Orchard Road decorations are boring, btw.

2 November 2009, Monday, 9.44pm

Other things on the wishlist:
1) Tripod
2) Hood for my 17-85mm
3) Hoods/Filters for the 10-22mm and 50mm f1.4 (that's provided I buy them)
4) Remote clicker thing
5) (Optional) Optical-slave-flash-thing

1 November 2009, Sunday, 10.41pm

November already. Still working on the same project(s) since May. Not my fault.

Feeling emo about things. Not depressed. Maybe just coming to terms with my current situation. Not sure how to phrase it. I guess I'll elaborate when it's the end of the year and it's time to make resolutions and all that stuff.

I finally got the manual to my sewing machine. But somehow I've managed to come up with a truckload of excuses to not sew. I've been itching to make something, but my brains just keep telling me to watch Battlestar Galactica (I'm at Season 2!), and Code Geass R1 (I'm re-watching because I forgot most of it and I want to go on to R2).

Over the weekend, I also watched Green Lanturn: First Flight. Another DC animated movie. It's pretty good. Just that it got quite gruesome at some points. To me. Weak stomach, you know.

And today I saw Superman-Batman: Public Enemies. Not that bad. The best part was they got the original voice actors for the main characters. Tim Daly and Kevin Conroy and Clancy Brown.

Anyway, I'm thinking of making a boxy pouch (for fun and because they look cute), and a drawstring pouch for my battery charger (also for fun).

It's already the holiday season. Christmas music was already played when I had lunch with my colleagues at Turf City last week. Can't wait for December. Most of my colleagues will be on leave, making the office quieter. I like it quieter. I'll be on leave too, for two weeks; same as last year. Don't think I'll make any presents. If I haven't thought of anything to do by now, means I won't be doing anything at all. Learnt that last year too. Will spend the Christmas season in quiet reflection and photo-taking.

I wonder if there's any other place to take Christmas photos aside from Orchard Road? I'm thinking of heading down to this Christmas shop (near PL MRT) to take some shots. That's provided I have the 10-22mm and 50mm f1.4 by then. It'd be nice...

31 October 2009, Saturday, 4.29pm

It's already November tomorrow. Man, how time flies!

I've edited the SHINee Ring Ding Dong song, by taking out all the Ring Ding Dongs and Fantastic/Elastic portions. I repeated the bridge twice, too, since I love Jonghyun's voice. But after taking out all the parts I didn't like, I basically removed the 'breaks' in the song, so it's not as 'smooth', 'dramatic'... Not sure exactly.

Ran the video by Robin and he could tell where I edited so I guess it's not so smooth. Haha... Here it is anyway!

Yesterday, we had an MB outing to the Canon showroom at Vivocity. It was a 2-hour session where we got to bring our own DSLRs and try on all the lenses available... I only tried the 10-22mm, 50mm f1.4, and the 50mm f1.2.

10-22mm (Wide-angle lens. Very nice, I like...):

50mm f1.4 (On my wishlist now along with the 10-22mm):

50mm f1.2 (The most expensive of the lot. Don't think I need this lens. But the focusing is very fast):
 

Can head over to my new Flickr page to see more.

I only tried the lenses I was thinking of buying before. Don't want to land myself in a situation where another 10 lenses were so nice I must buy them too. Just another two for now. Along with my 17-85 kit lens. In the future, I'll get a macro.