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When life throws you a curve ball, or you find yourself crawling into a snake pit, unfocus yourself from the problems and see the things around you. It may not be as bad as it seems.

Test shots from the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 IS USM. You heard it right, I finally bought that lens. =) Which costs more than my camera body..

I have a few more shots in the camera yet to be processed.  Check out the rest of the test shots. =)

So far, I love using this lens, and it has been on the body since I bought it (though occasionally I swap it with the 18-200 for the wide angle, else it’s the 70-200)

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When I was bathing, my car came back from it’s service, and my sis sent me this:

Bagu says:
*car back
*car back

*Bagu just sent you a nudge.*

Bagu says:
*come down
*go back up

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Okay this thing about not being employed is getting to me.

Everyone I know is employed. Gahhh.

And I’m getting lazy. Very lazy. Very very lazy. But I’m trying not to be so mou liu go make drama la. I need to work more or find something productive.

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Gosh wait. I’m supposed to take my SAP exam next month. 17th July to be exact. Which I have yet to register. RM2000. T_T Should I pay or swipe it with my dad’s card? *evil laugh*

Wait. I got no money. *eviler laugh*

And I’ve yet to start studying. Damn 5 books to read. 1 month left.

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1 month till Princess is leaving! How to study nowww?! *inserts unreasonable reasoning*

I miss bowling.. Oi when you wana go bowling lah? I’m itching badly now. >(

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I had bad comments from my last job. (which was high paying T_T) Am not expecting any money from there now.. ST’s comments on Hongkies are funny.  But hey, learnt a few things. Getting too much of compliments also not much use to me..

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Played COD4 in 1/4 speed for 2 hours. Now I still feel the 1/4 speed in the real world.

so.un.com.fort.a.ble.

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Had paintball yesterday. Cuts and bruises from the grass and ants and one close range shot to my elbow gave me quite a bruise. At least I shot 6 people! In the back!

No it wasn’t friendly fire.

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Watched Terminator: Salvation in GSC Signature yesterday, in Gold Class. That’s quite a bomb to pay… I could sleep on that chair thanks to the paintball. Sofa and blankie was so comfy.

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Sis forgot to register my Facebook nickname! >( I wanted facebook.com/aaron or aaron.ho but now no more Settled for the usual one. Has anyone taken facebook.com/index.html?

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Gadoh the movie is damn good. If you haven’t watch it, check out the site for the next screening details. Worth watching twice! Reminds me of my old school days.

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BloggerUnited.com’s domain is expired as of today.

Same example like Advertlets back then eh? Don’t these people check their mail for domain expiry warnings? (my bad, i jumped the gun)

Update: rei99, the owner of bloggerunited.com twitted the following at

1134PM 07/06/09:

cc got rejected!!..and no one in customer service can explain to me y!..duh

9:54AM 13/06/09:

@*removed* no..got problem with credit card, blocked by domain provider

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Numbers is such an interesting topic. When I was reading on the statistics of the 9/11 attacks, I stumble upon this article. Here’s an excerpt:

Number of orphans created by the 9/11 attacks: 1,300

Number of babies born to women whose husbands were lost on 11 September: 17

Number of days after 9/11 that Pat Flounders, widowed in the attacks, shot herself, the first related suicide: 91

Percentage of those living within a one mile radius from the Twin Towers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: 20

Increase in PTSD among Manhattanites post-9/11: 200%

Estimated minimum number of New Yorkers suffering from PTSD as a result of 9/11: 422,000

Estimated number of the city’s public school students suffering from PTSD as a result of 9/11: 10,000

Percentage of Manhattanites who increased their alcohol consumption following 9/11: 25

Percentage of Manhattanites who increased their cigarette consumption following 9/11: 10

Percentage of Manhattanites who increased their marijuana consumption following 9/11: 3.2

Percentage sales increase at Toys in Babeland, a sex store in the Lower East of New York, in late September/October 2001: 30

Percentage increase in number of births reported in New York hospitals nine months on from 9/11: 20

Reported increase in church and synagogue attendance following 9/11:20

Taken from Guardian.

Last few numbers are interesting, in showing how the human being consoles itself. Try to understand the numbers and the meaning behind each one.

Check out the final photos of a photographer at the WTC collapse.

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I’m having this problems with my 30D’s RAW files when I import them into Lightroom for editing. Then I had the opportunity to know some Lightroom gurus at ShootFest yesterday and I asked a few questions regarding them.

Firstly, was the oversaturated colours I get after importing. An example would be like a concert stage is being lit up with a light purple spotlight (seen on the naked eye, it was a very light purple). Upon importing, the light purple became solid purple, making the whole photo unusable unless you desaturate that particular colour, which in the end I made it b/w.

Someone at Shootfest suggested that the RAW file details were stripped off upon import and thus losing the some photo data. Markleo also suggested to use Canon’s RAW editor (Canon Digital Photo Professional) to edit before hand, so raw details could be preserved. I tried it out and I could see a difference between LR and DPP. Following are some comparison of LR and DPP:

As you can see, LR saturates the photo making the colours even more darker. (all photos were not edited) *SOME* became over over over saturated till no matter how I try to desaturate them, it’s still unrecoverable.

Also another problem (may be related) is that upon LR export, *SOME* photos turn out to be desaturated when compared to the same photo in LR. If it’s related, then it makes some sense, but it gives me another problem. I cannot judge the right saturation for all my photos in LR.

So how now?

I found a suggestion on a Flickr regarding the use of Adobe DNG to preserve the RAW details (somewhere in the comments). I’ve yet to try this out, but would like to know whether there are any photographers out there that have tried DNG before.+

Update:

Here’s a sample photo generated from DPP v3.5, LR v2.2 and ACDSee v2.5 as well as a jpg extracted from the RAW file. All the images generated were not edited. Notice the difference of the purple spotlight.

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