Archive for the ‘Hobby’ Category

Street of Mongkok on a Saturday Afternoon

I was strolling along the busy street of Mongkok on a Saturday Afternoon about 2 months ago. The street was full of vibrancy. This was very youth street. There are many young people in different attire giving our flyers promoting business. And I can find many, many photographers with their heavy equipment showing the streets, […]


Interesting Creatures found at my Home

I am staying at 17th floor. But occasionally, there will be interesting visitors coming over to pay a visit…. I would call these visitors creatures. As far as possible, I will get my camera, but on my macro lens, and take photos of these creatures visitors…. Some are very co-operative to be my model, but […]


Nature and Wild Photos at Telok Blangah Hill

It was a Good Friday Public Holiday. Walked up to Henderson Wave, Southern Rift and walk over to Telok Blangah Hill. From the Henderson Wave, walk along the path at Telok Blangah Hill, through the Forest Walk and finally at HortPark. Good that my wife was with me. She has a sharp eye for small […]


Completed Kung Fu Panda Game, Lego Indiana Jones is next

After at least an hour for few days, I completed the Kung Fu Panda Game, at least the easy mode…. ^_^ This is basically a simple game. Just required some level of controlling skill, for hopping around to get to places. In some levels, for example in the lake, the Panda has to hop around […]


Back to Playing Computer Games

It was a long time since I last really played computer games. Partly because, I spent most of my free time in Toastmasters and other Internet activities. During the school days, I could spend hours playing computer games in my free time. Recently, my brother (he was playing Lego Batman) suggested that I can try […]


Chinatown Chinese New Year Countdown

I was at Chinatown last night for the Chinese New Year Countdown. It was so crowded, despite that it was raining. I was quite late. I managed to find a spot at Chinatown Complex carpark, where I can park my tripod. I was a bit disappointed by the timing sequence. Just before fire cracker was […]


Solar Battery Charger

My colleague suddenly showed me a Solar Battery Charger. This device would be put under the sun or some other light source to charge up the battery in this device. There is a USB port for plugging in portable devices like MP3 players. Through this port, this Solar Battery Charger would in term charge the […]


Shooting Fireworks with Point & Shoot Camera

When we see look most photos of fireworks, we find that most of these photos were taken using (D)SLR Cameras. Nowadays, most people own a digital point and shoot camera? Can these camera capable of taking good, beautiful fireworks photos? Especially those with trailing lights? I had shot many fireworks with Point and Shoot Cameras […]


Count Down to 2009 at Marina Barrage

Went over to Marina Barrage for Count Down to 2009. Shot quite a number of Fireworks photos. There are a lot of resources on the web on how to take fireworks photo. And example would be this http://pinurl.com/ixg


Shooting at Rain

It was raining very heavily when I woke up in the morning. It is still raining when I am writing this post. At idea came to me as I open my eyes. Why not, I set my lens to manual mode, switch on the flash, set the shutter speed to be very fast and shoot […]