Photo Printing Frenzy

Well there's a new computer appliance in my house recently.
It's a Canon Selphy CP760 compact photo printer.
Dad bought a new HTC phone and got this as a free gift,
it's been on the working desk for about 2 weeks,
so I thought I'd give it a try.
I have absolutely no idea about the capacity of the ink cassette (aka ink cartridge),
I have no idea if there's other brands out there that sells the same type of ink,
I have no idea on anything,
and so happens I gave it a try,
so here's the first photo,

It came out beautifully... Love it!

I thought I never needed it, but hey I'm in love with it now.

Let's make some photos...

If anyone has any extra info regarding the ink cassettes and photo paper do let me know.
I'd like to learn more about it... lol.

IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE

I guess everyone who lives/visit/study/outstations in Penang couldn't agree more when I mention that the weather is seriously hotter than ever.

For so many years I've lived in Penang, I have to admit that there is a fairly large change in terms of weather here... It's so much hotter and dryer than it should be.

Mother-nature has signaled us, are we gonna make a change? Those who doesn't know about the change of Penang weather, well I don't have the figures though, but the temperature has risen for a 3 to 4 degree celcius hotter (which is a lot).

Some people claim that their places is hotter than Penang because we have sea breeze -- Alert! The sea breeze is not breeze anymore... Breeze is suppose to be cooling. I think a better term for it now is called HEATWAVES.

So it's hot from the ground and from the sea, which makes Penang Island is like Hawaii in USA... Sahara desert minus the sand...

*sweating*

Talking about global warming, I guess most Penangites would feel it first hand right now... go green, people, make that our remedy to mother-nature.

Stay cool,
Bowie.

Everybody Loves Ah Har

Took a walk around my living area yesterday morning with Jill.

As I walk, I've reached the area where Ms. Ng Choei Har lives in. I headed to her house. But it's nothing like what I remembered. The tan-colored MyVi is not there anymore, the whole place still looked more or less the same, but the red palm outside of the house wasn't there, could it be that she already moved to some place else?

She was my English teacher during Form 4 and Form 5. Well everybody loves her back then. She prefer to learn things with us rather than teaching us, she lets us express our own points of view rather than confining our minds within a given parameter. For that, I respect her, all the time.

She guided me, Jerwin and Steven in the debate competition. In which led us to the final round, which we ended up losing to Convent BM, well one of the opposition was our friend, Grace-Lynn. I miss those days.

Not so long after we graduated from high school, a few of us including Wei Xiong still managed to ask Ms. Ng out for a drink or something. In fact, she's everywhere. Regardless of which private college or government universities the students went, they will call upon Ms. Ng. "Ms.Ng ah drop by Tanjung Bungah when you come la I'm in TAR now; Ms. Ng call me when you're at Sungai Dua la I'm in USM; Ms. Ng are you in? I'm around your taman now."

Yes, she was, and she still is, that popular. Well, why not? When she can talk to you like a good old friend, advises you in every way she could. I don't know how to put this, but back then, when we were away from home and at school, she's like a mum in school. Haha!

When she's not around, we often call her as 'Ah Har', without the title and first name ahahaha.

I have her number in my cell, but it is weird because, I don't feel like giving her a call. Maybe not now. Maybe tonight. Haha. It's been so long. And given the fact that she may have already moved to some place else.

Happy Chinese New Year, Ah Har.

I'm drowning in this song now:



sing along, people.

Love and be loved in this valentine season.

I'm Officially Missing You

挂电话的时候还以为她也要睡了。

我好玩地在Facebook说希望我睡醒的时候就要看到她的vid xD
结果她花了整晚edit,之后再upload去Facebook．
整个video都蛮自然的说，当然也蛮好笑的　xD
辛苦Debbie了

在这里顺便comment两句。
Debbie的嗓子是不错的，音准可以锻炼，可能有时候她真的是像别人常说的musically deaf,但并不是musically inclined!　

为了赎罪，我也边练着Tamia的Officially Missing You了．．．越练越喜欢的说．


I'm Officially Missing You...

VIDEOS : Of Sailors, 'hot choc ice', guitar, DSLR and cannot-eat-one Apple

地点: Starbucks -> Segafredo @ Gurney Plaza
时间: 二月二日晚上十一点～二月三日凌晨三点钟
参加聚会的是两位水手： Bowie 和 Debbie
Bowie - > 吉他手，主音
Debbie - > 合音，摄影师



旁人的眼光我们不管。
作品如下。。。







快乐。。。
是可以分享的。。。
看了之后，你也是不是觉得很快乐呢？
xD

Enjoy the vids.

Gears

Amateur practicing tools of mine
I just wanna share...

Well what I did when I'm practicing, I'll have my guitar plugged into the Line6 Micro Spider amplifier that I have, which is a pretty cool mini amp...

Have the microphone plugged in as well...
Notice the PHONES/RECORD OUT port, I plugged a 1/8-to-1/4 converter there.
Unless you live in a bungalow or a place where the distance of one house to another is quite far away, you wouldn't wanna listen to the mic output directly right out of the amplifier's speaker while you screams and squeaks and strums and have the whole neighborhood complains about you being a singer-wanna-be and have people to sue you for disturbing the neighborhood,
a pair of headphones is required.

Set the modeling output of the amplifier to Acoustic, depends on what guitar I'm playing, the rest of the models like Clean, Crunch, Metal and Insane are strictly for electric guitars.

Here's the headphone I'm using, PHILIPS SHP 2000.
Its good enough for me, considering listening to myself while practicing.

And the mic with the performance that worth its price and specifications,
Shure's SM58

As of the demos that I always record and some people told me that it's quite clear, even what I did was just recording using a normal multimedia microphone, then play and sing directly to that microphone while record the whole thing.
I guess the clarity of the raw recording is contributed by the sound card itself...


Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi 5.1 External Sound Card

everything you need for the sound... but it is DEFINITELY not a proper recording sound card, I used what I have.

Yes, its just like any of those audio panels you have at your laptop or PC.
I noticed a contrast in between recording directly using the laptop sound card and this external sound card. The noise level is pretty low, and every bit of sound is captured, even the bass of the guitar is not that boomy. The gain of the vocal and guitar are balanced.

Furthermore, make sure that the multimedia microphone is a stereo microphone, which means it's able to capture the sound in a higher dB, more sensitive.
So if you think that my suggestion is the best way to do so, do make sure that the room is quiet, even the sound that the ceiling fan makes counts.
But do aware that recording this way is strictly for producing demos and raw recordings only.
Do not attempt to do or expect a studio-quality recording out of this. Haha.

Good morning ;)

I thought it was my last breath

...

The reason that I'm sitting here writing blog is because... it's not my time to go just yet.

The incident that occurred in the afternoon almost timed my years of life.

I'm glad that I'm still alive...

But I'm afraid to go to sleep now, afraid that it might occur again when I'm waking up.

But I have to sleep.

So help me God.

你可以改变世界

今天在例常和jam歌结束后，和Patrick和Jia Xi他们去吃chendol。

很不幸的，Patrick的车竟然没电。结果我们跑去Sungai Dua那里的修车行借了鳄鱼夹，把我们的车的电箱连接传电下。还好没事了。

还有，今天才发现到，原来Jia Xi和Lip Heng俩都不吃榴莲。结果谐星Wei Hong也做了一连串引来爆笑的事情。

以上我所说的，都不是重点。

今天的例常，我发表了一首新歌。由于在准备不足（背不到歌词) 等等的情况下。犯了好多错误。但也多谢 Andrew 帮我用钢琴来 fill in。

由于刚刚在场的大部分人对于英文词都感到陌生，或者不熟悉。我觉得，我的信息始终还是没传达到。

其实很简单，整首歌的歌词，最重要的一句话就是

One Life Can Change The World.

看看你们的双手，看看你们的手掌。照下镜子，看看自己的模样。

你并不渺小，因为你可以改变世界。

从头到尾读一遍，我的用词真的很烂。。。

糟糕。

我的中文啊啊啊啊。

Random

Good morning, world.

Rise and shine!

Picture Collages

This is what I love doing lately - creating picture collages.
Everything lasted forever in the picture.

<3

... damn, caffeine on high, wth.

搁下面具的小聚会

今晚，偶将用中文来写部落格。呵呵。

地点: Starbucks -> Segafredo @ GP
时间: 二月二日晚上十一点～二月三日凌晨三点钟
参加聚会的是 Bowie 和 Debbie
参加条件：搁下面具，以真正的自己现身。

就这样，一把吉他，一个DSLR数码相机，一‘台’不能吃的苹果，两杯巧克力冰，和两个在汪洋中相遇的水手，以音乐和欢笑度过了一整晚。

两个人，
厌倦了身边许多自称“朋友”却又无法给予身为朋友应有的【真诚】，
厌倦了被【为何人们总是看不透我？】这个问题盘绕，
厌倦了人们接受不了真正的自己，
厌倦了为他人的期望和批评而改变原本的自己却又满足不了他人，
厌倦了种种，
而我们的要求其实很简单，就是做回真正的自己，搁下面具的自己。

其实我本身还蛮佩服Debbie的。
她说她很习惯在必要的时候，带上面具和微笑，带过某些其实令她很沮丧的事情。
她说完了，我把自己放在她的位置，我觉得我做不到。那种感受，谁能懂。当然，当你说“谁能懂”的时候，身边肯定会有人来说：我明白...，我了解...，很想问他们一句：真的吗？你真的懂吗？你真的明白吗？你真的了解吗？。。。

人性的弱点：人们在乎于判断一个人，多过于如何去好好认识和接受一个人的种种。
你连一个人的性格都没法完全看透，那你又怎样去在一个人身上做出所谓“正确”的判断呢？

更可悲的是，所谓的“判断”，变成了“定论”。
人云亦云，你说啥，我跟着说啥。
一传十，十传百，假成真，错成对，要去纠正或为自己誊清，简直就比登天还难。

那当然，我们改变不了整个世界和社会的动态。相信每个人私底下都会藏着很多副面具，在不同的时候，面对不同的人，跟着情况而【变脸】。这让我想起了一部很著名的电影里的其中一句金言，这部电影是V for Vendetta，那句金言如下：

"You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it."

当然，我们的情况比这个还糟，我们不是"a mask", 而是"a few masks".

身为凡人的我，不懂Debbie赞成我的提议与否，如下：
做回真正的自己，是我们的人生目标。当然，我们还有很多目标的说，事业啊，想做的事情啊，等等。当然，途中肯定会遇到很多障碍，同样的，要为了他人的目标和期望而活，我们手上的【面具】就派上用场了。面具归面具，我们还是要记得自己的原貌。途中遇到的种种绝望，就当着是人生中必经的煎熬，煎熬中自己也会成长。煎熬中，目标也越来越接近自己了。煎熬中，你变得更坚强了。哭过，跌倒过，一切都是值得的。人生本来就是苦的，你煎熬过了，苦尽甘来，回头一望，所有的煎熬都是形成了一个阶梯，一个一直带你往上走的阶梯。

我跟她说，要在【为他人的期望和目标而活】和【做真正自己】中找出平衡点。
我找不到一个合适的方法或比喻来为她解释。但我相信，她肯定可以领悟得到。
我答应她，当她需要任何支柱的时候，我一直都存在。
虽然昨晚和她才见面第三次，但这三次，都是可贵的三次。
三次而已，她就好比一个我认识了很多年的老友。
两人间的友情就是那么直接，那么投机。

以前的我还觉得说拥有一大班朋友还蛮“酷”的说。
可那时候连自己都搞不清楚【朋友】真正的定义是什么。
当然，朋友多绝对不是坏事，想想下，我交的朋友不是以数量来算的，而是以圈子。
可能现在渐渐长大了，思想多少也改变了，数量也渐渐不重要了。
朋友我当然珍惜，但更要珍惜的是，
那几个可以完完全全接受不带面具的你，
愿意无条件付出真诚和帮助的知己，
知己难寻这句话不是白说的。
当然，我才走到20岁的阶段而已，将来还会遇见谁，我不知道。
啊。我的中文卡住了。算了，用英文了事。

--

When people think that it's cool to have a lot of friends around them,
I'd prefer to always have the special few who's always around,
Who can accept the whole of you,
Who defines the meaning of friend,
Sailor, you are definitely one of them.
To Sailors, with ♥