:: daydreamer 8/26/2003 08:23:00 PM [+] ::
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we sent off my brother & his wife to UK this morning 3 am. my sis-in-law is sent for a 12-month study there by MOE. bro accompanies her to settle down there & ll be back this coming saturday.

earlier on in the evening before this, we attended sis-in-law 's mum & dad wedding ceremony. i forget how they call it. coz they never had one 30 years ago where they married, so my in-law & her siblings decided to give them one on their 30th anniversary.

her family is quite the anti-thesis of ours. they are pretty outspoken & candid people. that my bro & his wife are together really show the meaning of this often-used term in relationship, 'complementing each other'. it s like good team work in life.

tomorrow s reservist until Friday. it s a few boring days ahead.
:: daydreamer 8/25/2003 08:16:00 PM [+] ::
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reminds me of the crowd in Hong Kong.
:: daydreamer 8/25/2003 06:20:00 PM [+] ::
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i still dunnoe who put this oil lamp by the street in my neighbourhood, right under a lamp post, & why.
:: daydreamer 8/23/2003 12:34:00 PM [+] ::
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golden lotus

& evening sky
:: daydreamer 8/22/2003 05:14:00 PM [+] ::
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i tried out the stitch assist mode of my digicam yesterday. i didnt use a tripod (as usual) & line up the different sections by eye in camera. with the help of the bundled software photostitch, i joined them up to a panaromic image. the seams are quite noticable though & i ve to touch up in photoshop.

see also sunset. it s intended to be another panaromic but this time round the seams are too hard to touch up so i gave up the idea & let it remain norm size.

:: daydreamer 8/21/2003 12:02:00 AM [+] ::
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restraint No.2
:: daydreamer 8/20/2003 05:37:00 PM [+] ::
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i drew this at primary 6. sure looks like a promising robotics engineer in the making huh.

i like to make booklets & draw superhero teams that imitate after those jap animes like Gatchaman last time. too bad this is the only booklet i kept until now (maybe there are still somemore hiding in some cupboards). i would come up with each member personality, special weapon, vehicle, as well as common gadgets & uniforms. this drawing is the mothership. i would also draw the secret base & their enemies.

i never know what my other classmates would do but this is what i always do during my primary school holidays. if not, i would be writing their stories borrowing from every b-grade plots i get to know of. how come i didnt want to go out & play instead? i must ve been such a boring boy haha!
:: daydreamer 8/19/2003 04:37:00 PM [+] ::
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apple told me that my series of hand photos 'all look sadsad', should take happier pics :P actaully it s just an idea i m trying out but probably most of the themes that works better are kinda intense. nevertheless, looking at my blog page of monotone images is indeed a tad too gloomy haha ... shall restore some color i guess! meanwhile, i ve to continue showing what i ve done :P
:: daydreamer 8/19/2003 02:10:00 AM [+] ::
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Sleep -- Photo Friday
:: daydreamer 8/17/2003 02:20:00 PM [+] ::
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:: daydreamer 8/17/2003 02:20:00 PM [+] ::
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it all started coz i wanted to explore another means of remote linking my photos on my blog. i thought no one would visit anyway ... now it seems i ve to more or less do some updating here.

btw, i named it past tense of this blog title coz i cant think of anything else. daydreaming.is.bad, still.
:: daydreamer 8/16/2003 10:37:00 PM [+] ::
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:: daydreamer 8/16/2003 01:59:00 AM [+] ::
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i wanted to try more times to get a better version but decided to stop at this.

:: daydreamer 8/14/2003 08:44:00 PM [+] ::
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Digital Deluxe Toolbox version 1.0 is an actionset for Adobe Photoshop 6.x, intended for use with digital photography, to aid and assist the photographer in achieving better images. seems pretty cool & especially when it s free! courtesy of T-Rex.
:: daydreamer 8/13/2003 09:41:00 PM [+] ::
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i had a virus scare today. this w32.blaster.worm made an unsuccessful infiltration on my workstation. thanks to norton antivirus. although i do backup my stuffs, this event is enough to make me spent the whole day backing up my files & later digging out every software in my house which name begins with norton.

after installing & running norton utility, i realise that my com system has quite a number of errors, luckily most of which can be repaired, or do not cause much harm.

oh ok ... after typing all this, i recieved emails all over that say it is a worldwide virus outrage. also good in a way, i get to optimise my HD, put on more defences, etc ... things which i ve been neglecting all this while.
:: daydreamer 8/12/2003 11:13:00 PM [+] ::
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i ve this idea to do a series of photos on hands like this one. don't think it s very original there must be thousands of ppl who done it before, but i tried it out just now anyway. it isnt as easy as i thought. many hand positions won't work out unless i m shooting another person 's hands. nevertheless i think i should stick to using my own pair of hands ... it would be rather interesting to find out what kinda extreme positions i can go into in order to get my pair of hands infront of my cam the way i want it to. this is the most successful one so far. however it s too easily achieved, well, maybe for a start.

btw, in order not to make this look too arty & serious, i came up with the idea while i was looking at my grasped hands in the toilet.
:: daydreamer 8/11/2003 10:37:00 PM [+] ::
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i erased the contents of this post accidentally & forget what i actaully said initially! i can only link back the photos now.
:: daydreamer 8/10/2003 02:05:00 PM [+] ::
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i forget why i want to take this pic this way that night ... i m not a big fan of Star Wars afterall.

:: daydreamer 8/10/2003 01:54:00 PM [+] ::
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2 sequences of 3D animatics i ve done so far for my short animation, K I T E. for layman frens, it s not too audience friendly coz it s for previsualisation purpose. *right click, save target as*

sequence 00 (4.2Mb winzip) & sequence 01 (3.9Mb winzip).
:: daydreamer 8/06/2003 05:38:00 PM [+] ::
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thankx to hweeling, i finally find out what s cross processing, after saigonapple brought it up to me quite sometime ago. it is processing slides using the method for processing normal prints (C41 process), & the colors ll turn out pretty different. as to the more detailed & accurate explanation, she has pointed me to photojunkie.

1 interesting thing i find out is that cross process can also mean the other way round - developing normal prints with the slide process (E6). only that the results are unpredictable.
:: daydreamer 8/02/2003 09:56:00 PM [+] ::
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