Backdate from 14th Sept to 16th Sept

The time now is 1:32am on 17th Sept 2007 morning. Usually I should be feeling really tired and will be on my bed sleeping, but yet I feel very much awake now although I was feeling very sleepy during the afternoon.

Maybe I will take some time to do my backlog for the last 3 days of happening.

14th Sept 2007 (Friday)

Today is really an action and activities packed day. My schedule is packed from morning until the wee hour of Saturday morning. I woke up really early this morning as I need to go in to my lab early to settle some part of the experimental results so that we can submit it to the ICRA conference paper.

At around 10am, Kwang Yong, Dong Wei and I have to head over to NIE side to do some leg muscle testing for our drop jump experiment. The testing is no fun as we are to support 2 times our own body weight which is dropped onto us so as to measure the strength of our knees. The 3 of us really had hurted our shoulders and backs during the testing. Geez...

After testing, we are to continue writing our paper. I need to leave early today as I am meeting Peng Eik and other Nikon users for a short meeting at 6pm and I got a meeting with Mr Goh Kim Hui from PSS at 7:30pm and I stayed for his photo clinic session and left at around 10:15pm.

I head over to Adrian's (my primary and secondary school friend) house to play his Playstation 2 as we haven't meet up for quite a while. Clement was there also and so we played until 2am in the morning before Adrian drove us back home. Really a tiring and packed day.

15th Sept 2007 (Saturday)

I got a model shoot with Maurice this morning at 8:45am. I was feeling really tired as I only slept for less than 6 hours since I arrived home 2am this morning and I woke up at 6:30am. Another reason is that I might have substain slight injury on my back when doing the leg muscle test at NIE.

No matter how tired I am, I still attend this shoot as Adrian aka AJ (yes, this is the Adrian who is Ian's and Theo's friend, I think I will address him as AJ from now on.) is joining Maurice shoot for the first time, it will be great to have someone you know to shoot with you. Another reason is that this will be officially my last model shoot as I will be taking a short break to study for my exams which is exactly 2 months away.

It has been an enjoyable photo shoot with 3 lovely models and also with the company of some fellow photographers whom I know such as Adrian (of course), Arthur and so on.

As of again, since I don't have any landscape photos to share this week. I will just showcase a bit of my humble model shoot photos. The same rules will always apply and I mean it. Unless you are the model or the organiser for the shoot (Maurice that is), you can't use these photos without my permission. If you are the model subject and will like to get the photos, just drop me a message on my tagboard. I will see what I can do for you. :) Just in case if anyone of you saw that my pictures been leeched by other people other than those that I granted the permission or saw that my pictures are posted in other forums or so on, please inform me. Thank you very much.

Here are some of my photos taken today. Enjoy.

Elynn





Hannah





Nikki





Some after thought for this shoot. I didn't get some of the shots I really wanted. Well, the weather is not really that good and also miscalculation on my side. The location is really where I always wanted and the models are really great. Maybe I was worn down by fatigue, so I wasn't performing at my peak. Maybe after exams, I will like to redo this shoot again. Hmm...

Ok, so much for model shoot. After the shoot, the time is around 1:15pm. I was supposed to meet John (one of my lab mates) at Bugis MRT as he wanted me to bring him to get a dSLR. I brought him to TK Foto to let him choose what he want. I actually recommend a D40X at first as I was considering on a budget for him. But I guess I had influenced him too much with my D200 that he wanted to get a D80 instead. That is really a bold move.

After buying the camera, I spent the next few hours teaching him about the basis of photography and how to operate his D80 so that he can get some good photos when he is in Arizona to present his conference paper. Well, hope to see his photos so that I can also plan for a trip there.

We parted at around 6pm as he got to attend to a function and I also have to go and help out with the IR Exhibition as today is the 2nd last day. I stayed with the rest and when for dinner at around 8:30pm. During dinner, I then remembered, other than the chocolate bar that Adrian gave me when he was buying some drink at 7-11 which is after the model shoot, that dinner was my first proper meal for the day. Oh my...

16th Sept 2007 (Sunday)

Today is the last day of the IR Exhibition and I was there early to do the opening. I waited for the rest to arrive as I need to attend to Melanie's birthday lunch at 1pm, at Teochew Seafood resturant which is located inside Centrepoint.

After lunch, Peter, my sis and my cute little nephew Derwent came with me to the library to see our IR Exhibition. It is great that they can come down to support me. :)

After that, I stayed throughout the exhibition with the rest of the IR Regulars until the closing of the libary which also marks the end of our first IR Exhibition.
It has been really a tiring day.

Wow, can't believe it, I have finished backdating 3 days of activities within the last hour. Hmm... Ok, time for bed, good night everyone. Thanks for reading.