Today

There was the prolonged downpour every now and then...

And then, there was a massive airbrush Op, with AL, YH and the General seeing some heavy action.

Nostalgia

It's coming close to a decade since this picture was taken (I finally got around to scanning it into the system from the good ol' fashioned PRINT), and back then, it was with a 35 mm film compact, a Rollei if I recall correctly. It was a long trip in the making, and the train ticket had cost me close to ₤40. As a student, that's a lot! And so starting from London Waterloo, I did eventually arrive at Wool, along the outskirts of the Bovington Tank Museum. The trip was definitely worth the trouble, and it was nice to be able to chat with Mr. Fletcher, the man behind a great deal of brilliant reference books on Military History...I quite miss that place really, but the summer in that part of town, well, they have a term for it...that, I don't miss too much. It's close to midnight, time to hit the sack.

Weekend Out

Weekend out with SK and JK.

They're Here

Writing's on the wall. Day 01. What a start :)

Instant Photography

We're used to toting out digital cameras around, but going back to the 60s, Edwin H. Land's invention did capture the essence of the power of spontaenity. He was pretty much ahead of his time really, and whilst he isn't around now, the spirit of his invention sure lives on. Come to think of it, he was REALLY capturing the essence of instant photography - nowadays, you can preview the image, but unless you have one of those compact thermal printers with you, you'd still need to make your way down to one of them print shops to get your prints (or upload them somewhere, somehow). Hmm, now Da Vinci too, was pretty much ahead of his time but well, that'd be another story all together...

Comeback

There are times you get blindsided by events that you never thought would happen to you...like someone you know who's loved one has passed on and it's effect on you, a carpark accident, or a silly parking fine...and when you compare the scale of the event that has transpired over that split moment to what may sometimes be considered a grander scale of things, then well, you go "Pack up and move on" instead of mulling over it too much. True, things like this are sometimes easier said than done, but nothin' quite beats the feeling you get when you patch up that wound, zip up, and carry one toward life's finer moments, of which there definitely will be. Consider Resilience, Tenacity, and dare I say, even Legendary. Almost off tangent, but I'd risk a little of a contemplative excursion. That being said, new week beckons, and they say May Day's coming soon. Can't wait. Time to contemplate.

Sunday Times

第一百日记

Since this was supposed to be the 第一百日记, thought I'd make it a little different. You'll need Chinese fonts to be able to decipher what the characters are saying, but failing which, the picture speaks for itself. +K spotted this, and the Greasemonkey whipped out his '40 to take the shot of the Audi....er...no....wait, Volkswagen....er...Gallardo Lambo...oh whatever. The semblance was, for the lack of a better word-uncanny... colour wise that is.
Good night people. Service starts really early in the morning.

Post 九十九

Thought I'd test the fonts a little. More later tonight.

Weekend Review

Auf Wiedersehen: JLz

It is with a tinge of sadness that we bid farewell to JLz. He's been part of the congregation at COR over the short few weeks that he was here. But at least it is just auf Wiedersehen and we hope that he'd be back in this part of the Equator in due course.We're all praying that he'd get another tour of duty here in the Tropics. See you soon JLz.
(At least we made sure that he was fully decked out with some of the hottest Dim Sum in town topped off with some local dessert that should hold out till he returns). Gute Reise!

Impression, Saturday

I'm not quite sure Monet had our present day digital medium in mind (nor could he have possibly imagined) when he did his Impression, soleil levant. But well, 146 years on, here's what happened on one digitally prolific Saturday ...




... and so begins Impression, Digital (well, at least that's what I'd like to THINK of it as...). And whilst Monet and his fellow Frenchmen are credited with one of the most notable artistic movements of our time, we move across the Channel to visit a most clever invention brought to us by the English that broke the stalemate along the Western Front almost 90 years ago, brought to you right here on my table top in all it's 1/35th scale goodness (and almost 70 years of evolutionary changes)...

Weekend Crops

The weekend in reverse order.