edmundwee

Busy and stress week…sleeping late everyday…hope that freelance can be completed on time, not much time left…whenever i dun have have enough time, i will be reminded by a joke that my secondary school maths teacher says, quite cold one.

In secondary school, normally will have classmate who don’t hand up homework, then their typical excuse will be not enough time to do…then my teacher will say: ” Buy a watch from 25 hours, then you would have 25 hours a day.” haha…quite cold.

Gathering at Billy Bombers

Photo is taken by tryphena’s iphone. I feel like buying one after testing it.

By now, Singtel had already won the rights for selling iphone, and coincidentally there’s this latest news that mobile subscribers will be able to to switch operators without giving up their existing numbers. So it replace the current solution where a mobile subscriber needs two numbers, so that calls to his old number are forwarded to a new one.

When iphone is released, I think quite alot of users will switch to singtel just for iphone, dunno whether singtel will also sell them as no contract, if not users from starhub or m1 will have to sign up a new plan with singtel if they want an iphone. But now not much is revealed, think they will only be selling in sept during the F1 race period, also i will be enlisted to army by then, so if i buy, i can only use it on weekends

Latest trick

was at kallang stadium yesterday with my friend, nv expect it to be so high-scoring game…$8 for a entry ticket and 80cents for one goal…when can singapore get into world cup?…but they can learn from this ad to dream big…

adidas “dream big” campaign for euro 2008(countdown 4 days)

When i received the photos from the shop, was surprised by the very strong contrast in colours because it’s using cross-processing, some turn out good but some too dark but i will post all of them below…

Malacca-Classic old houses.

Romantic-looking church

Dutch-influenced design-The Stadhuys Square

Classic Malacca street which is more classic than chinatown.

Satay stall and shops, but too dark cannot see the people eating inside

Quite scary how it turns out, is actually a mask on a mannequin display.

I dunno why i took this picture, but it reminds me of the kit-kat advertisement on tv where the guy help the girl to crush the drink cans, while the girl enjoys her kit-kat!

Hokkien mee-my favourite food

Back in S’pore

Today i just received my enlistment letter, i will be enlisting on 16 September! Finally! Btw also want to ask who interested in going Malaysia, back-pack or weekend trip?

Met up with OPP Chengdu friends on Saturday for outing, and it is nice to see all of them again. It is also the 6th day after the earthquake in China, and by now the death toll has increased so much. Heard from my friends that during the earthquake, there were students from our school there, but returned home safely later. If it is one year ago during this time, we would be facing this earthquake in our office after coming back from Jiu Zai Gou during the golden week holiday…

Finally, we should have another outing next time before the rest of us go army, and more holga photos coming

As I switched on the TV, came news report of earthquake in Sichuan, Chengdu China. The epicenter of the earthquake is 汶川 a place only 92km from Chengdu city where i used to stay during attachment, and vibrations can also be felt from Jiu Zhai Gou to Shanghai to Taiwan.

The earthquake strikes around 2.30pm measuring up to 7.8 on the Richter Scale and equals to 251 atomic bombs, thinking of it is quite shocking. The traffic in 人民南路、一环路、二环路(roads surrounding chengdu) also became congested when people left buildings for open space. Wondering how is the situation over there…

The situation seems to get worser as death tolls increases…then on TV, Tianfu Square of Chengdu is crowded with people staying there overnight in case earthquake strikes again…

Some of the developed photos…

Taken with Holga 120N

Haha thank you everyone for reading my post! btw tml i can get back my developed photos…dunno how they will turn out, because sometimes it turns out with defects since each has their own camera problems with light leaks and blur, but the good thing is each photo taken will be unique in its own way, so sometimes imperfect is also beautiful, haha

More photos coming…

I have been trying out Holga, i have never tried using film cameras before, and is also quite curious about the quality by this toy camera. Here are some of the photos, the others turns out blurry, no choice cannot delete the film…this is what traditional photography is about

Taken in Malaysia:

Sea

Fishing

Street-Retro Car-Nissan 13OY

Highway Speeding

What is a Holga?

From Wikipedia:”
The Holga is a cheap, medium format 120 film toy camera, made in China, appreciated for its low-fidelity aesthetic.The Holga’s cheap construction and simple meniscus lens often yields pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. The camera’s quality problems have become a virtue among some photographers, with Holga photos winning awards and competitions in art and news photography.”

Will upload more next time, no more film left