RV school value: 精通双语 effective bilingualism

好我还将用华语写。hmmm 可是相机有一些比较技术性的词用华语不好写。。。 用一下英语抱歉。

DPreview.com's review for the Sony Alpha a380 is out. Very interesting camera, weird design. Looks like some kinda Super Zoom instead of a proper SLR. Once look you can tell it'll be quite pathetic. Well it's aimed at 1st time SLR users, so it looks and feels like a compact. I've tried it at the Sony Style showroom, 100% compact-style handling. For a start, you push the left button to pop out the flash, just like on compacts. No dedicated flash button. It's got a very small and light body. This is big compromise, many crucial control buttons are gone, and the Exposure Compensation button is place at a real hard-to-reach spot.
The hand grip is also tiny, any smaller, you won't be able to even tell it's an SLR. It provides very poor grip, though I think the rubber material feels quite good lolz. Altogether, this adds up to very poor handling.
Next, the on/off switch is located around the shutter release, just like the zoom dial around your Canon IXUS or Nikon and Panasonic compacts etc. Real stupid compacts users will probably think that's the zoom dial. "Hey let's zoom in! Oh why did the camera off!!!??? *#^@#!!!". lolz. Yet Sony claims it's meant for 1st time SLR users switching from compacts -_-||| Bit of an irony.
It's got a revolutionary Live-View system, design to provide Live-View shooting just like on compacts. The a380's eye cup is also 'blended' into the design. This adds on the the more 'streamlined' overall look, making it really like a cheap point-and-shoot. I'm not saying it's ugly, it's quite beautiful in fact. But because it's design revolves too much around being compact-like, it greatly lacks the power and feel of a true SLR, so I'll be labeling it as 'TOY SLR'. Yes. lolz. EOS 500D so much better :D wanna post a picture but Blogger seriously screwed zzz.

好的不说相机了。现在是周末，一会儿打算出去逛一逛，骑车去IMM 买点东西，研究一下耳机。现在好忙啊，要处理的事情太多了，尤其是破 cip，还快考试了。。。不过我该乐观一点。星期一学只上到 10点多。放学后可以跟朋友出去逛一逛，得去Jurong Point 买样东西 :D。我也跟 HK 约好一起去健身房。那个人是练到走火入魔了，一个礼拜去三四次。我也可以去 Ken 的家，把可恶的 CID 模型给完成。等他从 npcc 露营回来再跟他约吧。他家有可乐喝 哈哈。 再过一个礼拜也放假了，到时候至少有可盼望的事情。

喝水塞牙缝

哎呀这个礼拜是倒霉透顶，好像干什么事都不顺。首先，上个星期天出去吃饭，车停在从NUS上AYE的路口的红灯，结果后头司机有眼无珠，开者一辆破丰田 Corolla Altis，直接给我 Vios 的屁股来一个亲密接吻。不过撞得不厉害，只是后头的保险杠稍微翘了起来。
好，倒霉的事就从这里开始了。星期二，我爸打算把我送去学校，然后把车送去维修，结果，我迟到了。原因简单 - 又被撞了。这次是在AYE 上 Alexandra Road 的出口，停在红灯，又来了一个没张眼的司机，给我来一个热烈拥抱。这回是辆　现代 Avante。　这次可厉害了，差一点儿没把保险杠给撞下来！因此，我爸和那个缺德司机谈判，我只好坐辆 61 上学，迟到了10 分钟左右。3天之内被撞两次！太背了！
还记得上数学课时做练习，蓝笔没墨了，换个黑笔，没写两个字，也没水了。再换一只笔，结果墨水太多，流了我一手。
今天考物理，我前一天本来要早睡，可就当我1１．３０要睡时突然肚子疼，闹得我１点钟才睡着，早上５点又是因为肚子疼而醒。早上考物理也是肚子不舒服，还困得不得了，肯定没考好...
我这几天出去吃饭，也老碰到莫名其妙的人，见到我就跟我打招呼。一次是星期四，在Queensway 麦当劳，一个某某中学的疯婆，见到我就 halow halow。爷们儿不认识你！！
完了星期五在Vivo也来个疯子，见了我就 HEY! 真是见鬼了，我那么吸引人吗？ O.o?

我这次用华文来写，也是有原因的。昨天发华文理解问答的成绩，我才考了20/40！！！ 太丢人了。得把华文好好练练。。。
倒霉的事情还多的是！就连我为什么肚子疼，也是一个很倒霉的故事,跟家里的锅有关。我就不多说了
真是连喝开水都得塞牙缝！

hi again

wow, again I hav not posted for a very long time. I'm crushed with homework right now, not supposed to be here so i shall keep this short. School sux. And i'm trying to sort out some other matters too zzz

arrgghhh

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...