I was heading to Mentiri to send Q after jogging/touch rugby in UBD and we had the windows down to cool down. Unfortunately. And as we passed by Sg Akar roundabout, there was a whiff.. no.. not a whiff, a BLAST of disgusting smell of.. well, I don’t want to say it here. But you get the picture. And this was our soon to be finished park? No way I’m going there!! O__o;; Something has to be done about the rubbish dumpsite next door and way before launch date.. -_-;;

On other news:

- My adapters arrived! Woohoo… !! Photos!

Taylor & Hobson f1.9 lens

The Taylor & Hobson f1.9 lens I got from evilbay. This was an old lens used in cinematography, now in demand after adapters were made to match the micro 4/3rd cameras. Examples from this lens on flickr was awesome!

Here’s my example:

Tree-keh

And the adapter for Nikon also arrived.. Unfortunately doesn’t AF (autofocus) at all.. =/

Olympus Pen EP1 with Nikon 50mm

And example pic:

Maggi

Nice separation, I like it. I’ve yet to bring it to test the wonderful fairylights around Bandar for His Majesty’s birthday celebration tho! Its been raining and  poor Oly is not the underwater camera! :P

Yes, a contradiction – but the only way to lose weight HEALTHILY is

1. to start eating the right food

2. knowing what metabolism type

3. and some exercise.

After going thru a quiz, I found out I’m a Mixed Type (Carb Type and Protein Type) so I can mix my mealplans from these two types. I get hungry at different times and I feel satisfied and full (not sleepy/not craving) at certain foods as well.

The principles to follow:

1. Sugar is evil. Artificial sweetener is evil too (its processed “stuff” yeck!) this includes carbonated drinks, tinned / bottled drinks..

2. Hydrogenated Oils, Margarine, Canola Oil – evil. Go for real butter, coconut oil

3. Any processed food – SUPER EVIL. Your liver too busy to get rid of this chemically-factory-made “stuff” to do its work and break down body fats. Dont eat anything with corn starch, fructose, anything with chemical names.. yeck!

4. Eat natural food – eggs, lean meat, chicken, fruits, vegies.

How?

1. Manage your calorie intake – eat often but not heavily – this will manage your hunger

2. Eat fruits (apples, oranges), rice, eggs, boiled chicken, beef. Green vegies.

3. Drink green tea and something I mixed (ginger, lemon plus honey) to detox and flush toxins, fats out.

4. Daily exercise, just a short one to sweat it out and tone your body.

I’m on Day 7 – and I’ve lost 1.6kg so far. Hmm.. have to work harder!

Hellooooo~ I finally have CS5 ! And just a quick rundown..

- Content Aware IS AWESOME!!

- Masking / Selection is much more easier!

This is going to be easier on me to cutout and removing unwanted distractions! Its not a perfect logarithm but its definitely an improvement

On other news:

- My Alyze is done! She’s at a customizer having her face done. She looks perfect .. can’t wait to get her home.

- My c-mount Taylor & Hobson lens is here already. Now I’m just waiting for my adapters.

- I am on leave til 24th for a much needed break. Sooo… hoping my adapters would arrive quick so I can play XD

- Am also on a Disney binge.. watched Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast and Aladdin so far =D

- Started my diet / health / slimming – aiming to lose at least 5 kg :P

But the reason why I started a blog in the first place was for ME. Not to please readers, but to please me, so I could look back and read about my days and remember about my days, no matter how boring it was. I wanted to re-read about what I was doing 2-3 years ago, remember that book I read or a movie I watched.

So yes, here comes the “dear diary” entry (after the cut) XD

In the spirit of making my blog personal again, here’s a few things I did lately:

- I received 2 new dolls I was waiting for. A Minifee Shiwoo girl and a PP Pong, both from Fairyland. Yes, I luv that company. Now I’m going to start making dolly clothes for MNFs again!

- I bought 2 adapters from evilbay. A nikon to micro 4/3rd and a c-mount to micro 4/3rd for my new toy aka Olympus Pen EP1. Can’t wait for its arrival!

- I bought the latest “Wimpy Kid” book, been waiting for a year for the paperback version! And within a few hours I finished reading it. Darnit! Well, at least I still have the Bartimaeus books to read as my habit before sleep. I’m now at Book II

- Having been frustrated with the iphone I bought second hand for Q’s bday last year (he wanted an iphone) but that phone has serious signal issues. After TWO trips to AV Electronics, costing me $40 and $80 .. also a trip to Rizal (Hanisham’s brother) to get fixed and still having signal issues, we were about to throw in the towel and just sell it off and buy a brand new one. Two days ago, what do you know, the iphone took a dive (fell from Q’s hands) onto the carpet and fearing the worse, he found the opposite instead. The signal issue miraculously got fixed! And its still ok til today. I hope it stays ok .. :’(

- On dolly news. I received a crapload of furniture and rement I got from evilbay for my tiny bjds. Photoshoot soon I hope! I also received a commission from Nas for a pretty outfit for his Alyse.  Will work on that soon as he’s coming back in 4 days time!

- I also started a .. emm diet program. I wanna be happier with my body!! Haha.. we’ll see how this goes..

And now I close with: My favourite blog right now: ndroo.com ! What’s yours?

I wanted a light camera but unwilling to sacrifice the bokehness. Along came the Canon S90 with its f2.0 lens and super light pocketability and in the pipelines the Samsung TL500 with the f1.8 lens! Great potential! Samsung has a flash hotshoe addition, but so far I haven’t seen anything like this from Samsung, so I’ll have to wait and see. (The camera was set to come out end 2010 and I would have to wait even longer for user reviews..) At the same time the new micro 4/3rd cameras were out already, Pana GF1 and Olympus Pen EP1 .. not long after .. the EP2 and not long after again.. EPL1 with popup flash!.

More research.

So, after some fangirling, and more poison by various flickr peeps, I have finally decided to get Olympus EP1. In terms of functionality, Pana GF1 wins, but I went with Oly as I wasn’t too bothered by the focusing, the body has IS, and I’m going to use it for experimentation with manual lens anyway so.. and I totally love Oly’s retro look!

Meet my new toy ..

Quick review:

The body feels solid and I love the sharpness and contrast of the photos with 17mm f2.8 pancake lens kit. (I have not even glanced at the 14-24.. hehe). I’ve carried it everywhere in my bag and the thought that I still have a decent camera when out and about without my D90 is a reassuring one. I spent the first few minutes being “sakai” over having bokeh from a compact camera!

Some of my test shots of the first 24 hrs…

Contrast!

Night time test

Rocking the Bokeh at f2.8 !

What’s next?
I’m getting some adapters from EvilBay and will test out Sigma’s f1.4 with it. I want an f1.2 anything! And for my birthday an f0.95? Hahaha~ This is taking a big chunk out of my savings for NZ Rugby WC 2011..