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Holidays ending le. Tmr's the last day... School's gonna suck!!! Hate being Yr 3, yr2 so fun lolz. Just shoot me now zzz... And again I haven't been posting here.

Ok bout the holidays. 1 word. Boring. Busy doing Physics project and some bloody chinese presentation thingy. Just finished the latter haha. But thn there were a few nice days. Went out to do test runs for the new 500D, all sorts of conditions. Night Safari for high ISO performance, Sentosa for daylight, airport for fast moving subjects lol. Ok i think there's a design problem with the AI Servo AF mode. The AF points do not light up, and it make you wonder if the camera is focusing at the right place, that why One Shot AF is better, and i prefer to set it to the centre point. This is an awesome camera anyways, but thn it somewhat likes to overexpose sometimes, thn i hav to tune down the exposure compensation zzz. Still good though, beats the crap out of compacts wowza.

And i went to the gym on Thursday, with HK, Wong, Ken, and his 'soul mate' hehe. That was a fun day too. Bout the picture down here, i took it in sentosa. It's a bit off-focus, and there's a bit of a subject blur cuz of the wind blowing the flower around. But i think it's great, love the shallow depth of field!

Holidays...

ps i very long nvr post le, was very lazy, sorry lolz.
Anyways, exams over, and guess wad? I did the seemingly impossible, GPA 3.8 whoots! And my bio percentile 99, language arts percentile 96, and 95 for chemistry :D did I mention I topped level for my language arts in year 1 lolz. sorry. bragging again. Hopefully can get my EOS 500D...

Anyways holidays now. The first week has been quite eventful. Monday i went to changi beach with WKS for aircraft spotting. It's a very good sport. Logged down my first S'pore Air A330s, and 2 British Airways planes, a 777-236ER (G-YMMH) and a 747-436 (G-CIVR).

Then on wednesday I got on Super Star Virgo for the fifth time, on a trip to Pulau Redang, M'sia. The ship was still as awesome as it was, but the redang place was like bleh! Very sian , nothing much to do, not even jet skis man!!! But it's really a very beautiful place. Went on a snorkeling trip, the gear they provided was good, but the site was not as good as Phuket. And the food, they claim it's 'international', but it tastes malay zzz. I'm not against malay food, but eating it for 3 meals straight for 2 days, it's gotta turn bad. And these pictures are quite nice i think. Tripod stands are real irritating, and too bad no SLR

reality substitution

Was flying FSX the other day. Didn't fly for quite a long time, so my skills are bit rusty. So i decided to do some leisure flying. Picked myself a nice 747-400, set the location to a random gate in Changi, and started all the normal procedures. Took a long time before I was actually cleared for take-off. Then there was the pre-flight check, not to mention the 'no-smoking' and 'seatbelt' signs. lolz.

Finally, clearance. I just planned to do some practice flying, so I maintained runway heading (i took off from 02R, so heading's 23 degrees), at just 5 thousand ft. Flew till I was about 45miles out, then I consulted the charts, looked for a place to land this thing. I saw Tengah Airbase, that was cool! So i contacted Singapore Approach, requsted airspace transition, then contacted Tengah Tower, requst landing. Adjusted heading and made my way back South to Singapore.

I'm not very familiar with the area, despite tower directions I couldn't see Tengah. I was already only 20miles in, without visual i had to abandon the approach. Then, I saw Changi. time for some extreme flying! I was near the western side of Singapore, I swung the nose around, 30 degrees bank, speed 180, flaps full, gear down. Tried to line up for runway 20R, without ATC clearance lolz.
I thought all i needed was 140KIAS, but when I slowed to 150 i was already sinking like hell, and way below the glide slope, and off-course. I blasted the throttles, banked to the right, and whoots! Perfect touchdown! the ATC went like "World Travel 1420 Heavy, u r not cleared to land. Get off of the runway!" lolz

OrcaShadowX owns!!!

Hahaz a few recent screenshots from Wolfteam. Click on them to see how pro I really am lolz. My skills aren't that consistent, it's unpredictable, for example I wasn't very good tonight, at my best was 10/5, not King...

Gun master

Wow! Played Wolfteam just now. So long nvr play le, I have no idea why is suddenly became so pro. 2v2 Arrival, in the beginning i got like 9/0, that's double Perfect Wolf, and I still had 200HP bloody hell!!! Everyone was like saying I so pro lolz. But then I died on my 10th kill, that was a simultaneous death. I was wolfing with this guy and well, we died together, striked each other same time. He took me by surprise, he had the advantage anyways. I'm not that good at wolf 'dogfighting' though, but still quite decent. :P hahas. blah.

Studying like mad for exams... Running brain at max. capacity, but still not good enough. Wad's my goal? 1st in class!!! err that's a bit impossible, but hopefully. Other ppl seem to have started studying long ago, I'm lagging behind...
And I'm gonna find a new blogskin after the exams...

Best thing a guy can have...

Went to Vivo yesterday, checked out Canon's showroom, it's in a corner adjacent to the cinema. Anyways, was trying to select a DSLR for myself. Well, i wanted to get a new camera, cuz I've seriously stretched my compact to the fullest possible potential. I shoot stuff flying past at almost 300kph, and with compacts there's ultra-high shutter lags and the terrible slow focuses and the zooming goes with all the speed of continental drift!!! All these means that 1, either u have the aircraft off-center, headless or unfocused; 2, u can only shoot each passing plane at a single zoom distance, cuz u have no time to zoom in or out. What's more, the 1.5 fps burst mode is total rubbish, so is low light performance. In short, it's like a kid's toy. No choice, it's a compact. So, to solve all the performance issues, I chose to get a DSLR, cuz Super Zooms face the same problems.

So anyways, i found the most perfect camera, the EOS 500D, it's only entry-level, but it's best in its class, and it truly is AMAZING! It's on a whole new level compared to its predecessors, like the 450D.
Firstly, I love the ClearView LCD, super high resolution, same that on the professional 5D mk2!
Second, it uses DIGIC 4 processor, also a boost from the 450D's DIGIC 3. In conjunction with the CMOS, it totally rock hardcore!!!
Finally, the BEST thing is, FULL HD VIDEO RECORDING man, same as the EOS 5D Mk2!!! Total ownage!!! I dun have to carry around a compact for the sake of videos anymore lolz! And also many other good stuff. Yea u cant compare compacts with SLRs.
It's also supports my EF 28-80mm lens, from my dad's old EOS 50. And i have a Speedlite 380EX flashgun and remote switch, all from my dad lolz. In short it totally thrashes compacts, makes it look like a total pipsqueak toy, but dun get me wrong i still like my W120 :D

What I need is perhaps telephoto, the EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS USM would work perfect, but that costs thousands. dream on o.O

Life: get used to it

After 2 months I've finally received my b'day card lolz! I am so touched, thought I had to wait till next year's b'day, ppl wrote funny stuff in it o.O Thanks 3c, preeshiatit.

Anyways, about the weather. Previously it was raining pea soup everyday, now it's like living in a fusion reactor!!! The classroom is so hot and stuffy, to concentrate is like impossible. It's hellish even to copy down mr ong's solutions, and I couldn't take in a word he said. o.O

And again, exams is like a week away, and I haven't even started studying! To complete homework on time is already a huge task. I owe 2 weeks 简报 le, but then other ppl owe more lolz. Have to rely totally on the 5days to revise. Damn i hate it.

The fourth thing, my pc's monitor is still under maintenance, it just refused to start up one day, it's already a week gone. Wah i have to use laptop now, i dun like to, can't play games, and I have no access to Nokia Music Store now DAMN! So many songs I wanna download!!! Anyways, I'm still proud of my Nokia 5800, despite it having some small software glitches. Have to send that for repair too, after exams, got some prob with the alarms thingy. Things just nvr seem to go my way doesn't it?
Anyways, goal of GPA >3.7 muz study hard!!!
still finding blog skin...

err... help?

I can't find a good music widget, this one isn't playing, it just preloads forever...

Anyway I'm running competitive for cross-country this year, mr teo force me to go. Damn man it's gonna be like so fun whoots!

1st post

Ok this is my 1st post. Deleted my other blog. Latest post there was in like 2006... I'm still trying to make this place look nicer. I'm bad at this lolz.
Anyways, exams coming, and it's like hell man. In this class every one is like so godly, previously I just have to read a bit and I can get top, now that's like impossible. I've already got a 3.6, to get even higher is something really difficult bleh...
There's still a geog test and zuowen tmr. I hate that!

But then, life's cool. Can't just complain, can't i? Just keep working
By the way, that picture behind the heading, I took that myself =D