Nov
25
Only few seconds!
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This is about the time you have to take a good photo in real life. Photography is fun. A lot of satisfaction when you get a very good shot. 1/225 sec was the time I had to get my perfect water drop! I am very happy with my photos yesterday. I will go and wander around Brisbane for more pretty pictures. It is a bit heavy to carry the Nikon around (1.2 kgs!). I just love my nikon d200 though. It has a little name: Niko! I am reading a lot about the theory of light for now and more about the art of photography as well. This is a time consuming and very expensive hobby! I should find a photography meetup in Brisbane! It should be funnier to have more people with SLR cameras to take pictures with.
Nov
24
The Beast came out!
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And here are few stuffs we came back with. Out of 200 hundred shots, only a few good one as usual.
Nov
24
Sunday good resolutions!
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Well… half of them are gone by the time I woke up. I wanted to walk around Brisbane city with my Nikon D200 and add some fancy pictures to my blog. I cannot convince myself to buy the nice bag ($120) I saw at Harvey Norman. I should buy it though because it is the main excuse to why I would not go out with my Nikon. Also, I am undecided about the tripod, the ones with a decent price ($88) are a bit too long. The really good one that would fit in my bag is like $200. Photography is definitely not a cheap hobby! I downloaded a book to help me with photography: Digital Art Photography for Dummies (Wiley, 2006). I would like to put my hands on the one designed for the nikon d200.
By the time I finish writing this post, it stopped raining and the sun is out again. Do I still want to go out? I’ll need a lot of motivation, I will wait for lunch time.
Nov
23
Relxing Saturday!
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The apartment is all clean, the laundry is finished! After a short stop at Indooroopilly to eat my favorite Vietnamese dish, I went quickly to Toowong on my way home to grab my dinner and a bottle of Bailey. All the duties are finished, now I have the rest of the weekend to relax. Saturday is my favorite day of the week. I had Lane 5 all by myself for most of my swim. Yippie! Maybe people realized now that the only purpose of my intense swim session is to relax. They leave me alone. Maybe they get annoyed also by the number of laps I do :)! Who knows!
I will take care of my Asus today and install most of the programs I had before. I want to take pictures of water drops again!
Nov
22
My Finis underwater mp3 player went silent today during the swimming session. It felt really strange! I am so used to swim with music nowadays. The battery was out. It is good for 6 hours I remember. I hope it will work for a while because it is quite expensive and it takes sometime to ship it over to Australia from the US. I do not want to buy another one yet because I am hoping they will upgrade it sometime in the future.
I tend to swim faster when there is a good tune I really like. It plays randomly my list and there are about 50 songs on there.
Nov
22
Why do all good things come to an end!
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Interpreted by Nelly Furtado and written by Coldplay: LINK
I love this song especially when it is played in the shopping center. Very strange but I listened to it one time around 6 pm in the evening in Toowong shopping center and I just stopped walking and I enjoyed the metallic sound coming from the speakers. Most of the time, people do not care much but the song is talking to me so deeply. I just love it. Today, one of the woman in the refectory told me she is leaving for good and she won’t serve me again! She said it was a a pleasure meeting me and serving me all this time. I was very sad to hear that but it seems that she got a better job, so all is good for her! I told her we will probably run into each other in the future because Brisbane is a small city.
Because of my routines, people tend to notice me. I always do the same things at the same time of the day. Also, I tend to be very original in my choices, I always ask people for something different than what is proposed on the menu or a mix of things that are supposed to be part of different meals. Most people are kind enough to oblige (not always)! But in the end, the result is the same, it is hard to forget me! So far so good! I won’t change my behavior. It adds some spice to my boring routines.
Nov
22
This is my state of mind right now. When I am not feeling good mentally, I usually picture myself being in a nutshell, isolated from the rest of the world! In these moments I really try my best to avoid any human contact. Yesterday, my dinner felt on the floor. So annoying! I was so upset! I forgot to take a picture of the mess I had to clean.
I am going to do some yoga stretching exercises to flex my shoulder and to relax.
Nov
21
Getting better!
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My mood is improving. All the little annoying things seem to go away by themselves. Good! In these moments, all I need is to do things I like. I reinstalled my laptop. It was time to try to fix few things. Well nothing has changed but I am happy I did it. At least, I know now. I wiped out at the same time the D partition in the process, there was nothing important on it. All important data are on my backup HD. Everybody should have at least one backup HD. My wordpress blog was up and running right after. Yippie!
Looks like I will be all alone this weekend since Nils will be at a friend’s place until Monday. I have no plans so I guess I will play with the Nikon and do some HTML coding for Kegel! His request seems not hard but I never did some serious html coding besides fixing my own blog. We shall see.
A chick tried to chase me at the beginning in the fast lane. She touched my foot once then I increased my speed. I did not know if she had the intention of passing me but after 2 laps I think she gave up on that idea. I do not swim really fast by myself as long as I can relax and cruise along. If someone jumps in the fast lane, then I will just match his/her speed since it is a FAST lane. After few more laps, I took the lead and passed her several times until the end. I like swimming on Tuesday and Thursday when Peter is in the same lane. Very challenging! I wish someday I can be faster than him on 2kms. He does not swim as fast after 2 kms. It will be my goal before I leave Australia for good.
Nov
21
A run and a swim
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It seems that doing both helps my body to re-equilibrate itself. I am just too tired to push myself after the run to get my shoulders hurt during the swim. Nice combination anyways! Yesterday, I resumed the run after a long hiatus (2 weeks) I was all stressed out because of the conference and then my Nikon came, so not much time to devote to running. Now I am back on track. I had to walk home for the last km, both of my legs had cramps. I wasn’t tired or anything …damn cramps!
I am not in a good mood, many little annoying things came at once. I should just focus on what I like to do and forget about the rest! That’s the way to go! smile smile smile, that’s life!
Nov
20
A thief of time!
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We had a discussion with Nils yesterday about our personal conception concerning photography. I was a bit deceived when he told me he didn’t have any picture of him or his brother from their trip to Noosa. I personally think that if you can take a perfect picture. Go ahead! Take as many as you can! But try also to add some pictures of yourself in the beautiful scenery to make it more personal and to show people you love, that you were there! This is also very important.
“Life can change with every breath you take” Capture a moment of it is my goal, make it mine forever! Be a thief of time! Being in the picture allows me to fulfill this quest of mine. Besides there is no limitation to digital photography anymore so why not? Just do it because you can!
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