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.

Closing of IR Exhibition

Sorry for the lack of update as I have been quite busy for the last 4 days. I will try to do a backlog when I can.

After 3 weekends and 10 weekdays (16 days in total), the IR Exhibition was closed 4 hours ago. It had been a busy, yet fun period. It is like the longest time whereby the IR Regulars meet up so regularly and joke and have fun whenever there is a chance. Really going to miss the fun especially today after the closing. I laughed until I was nearly out of breathe.

I sure do hope that there will be another chance for us to hold another exhibition together. It has been a really good exposure and experience especially when we can meet up with other photographers and also to share with others about our passion, IR Photography.

Anyway, I will really like to thank all those who make their way down for the exhibition especially for the last few days. I must thank CheeKeong, Ah Chan, Andrew and friends, Nicolette and all those whom I might have missed out. Thanks for showing your support.

2nd Weekend for IR Exhibition

Just a slight backdating as I have been very busy for the last few days. Where should I start... Maybe let's start from Friday then.

7th September 2007 (Friday)

I slept really late last night (Thursday) as my lectures is on every Thursday night and by the time I reached my home, it is like 11:30pm. I still got to do my laundry and iron my clothes and so on. Besides that, I was working on my Engineering Measurements Continuous Assignment 1 which is really tricky. I was looking at the problem until I fell asleep. I woke up at around 2am just to hang my laundry to dry before heading to bed.

I woke up at around 9:30am in the morning and I just don't feel like going to my lab today as my mind is still thinking about the assignment. I decided to spend the whole day to look at it before heading out for a dinner appointment with Jamie, Alvin and the rest of my university friends.

It is good in the sense that I can take a short break from work to rest myself to recover from my running nose.

At around 5:30pm, I went to HarbourFront to meet up with them for dinner. I passed the album and the CD that I made for Ben and Charlotte for their ROM. Hope that they will like it.

8th September 2007 (Saturday)

I got to wake up early this morning as I am attending to a model shoot organised by Maurice. This shoot was postponed around 2 weeks back due to some issue. Anyway, this might be the last model shoot that I will be attending this year I think as my schedule is getting busy.

Just to share a few shots taken by me. I got to watermark my shots to prevent leeching. For Portraiture/Fashion/Model Shoot, I am very particular about leeching of my photos. Like I mentioned before, I don't want my photos of the models to end up in some sleazy forums/places nor let others do additional undesirable photoshop. 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. :) Anyway, I trust my readers and visitors to my humble blog. 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.

Ok, here are some of my shots of the 3 lovely model Elynn, Jaslin and Candice. Most of them taken without Flash. The lighting condition is not really that good that morning, so I can't really get the feel that I want. Well, the models did their best to pose for me, it is my fault if the execution of the shot is poor.

Elynn




Jaslin




Candice




After the model shoot, I went down to NLB to deposit my backpack in their locker before heading to Suntec to cover the Gaming Convention Asia for my long-time buddy Adrian. Even though I was quite drain out after my morning session, I still went to help him to cover the event as I had made a promise to him already. Anyway, he is my long time pal, that is the least that I can do as an old friend to support him. HuiRong is also working there as a cosplayer for AsiaSoft, hence it will be good to go down and support her too. She had been quite busy and tired for the last few days as she has been running around to do events and so on.

As my memory cards is limited and I haven't got the time to go home to download my morning shooting session to my harddisk yet, hence the number of shots that I can take are limited. Just to share a few.

Man of the Match : Adrian


The artist at work


AsiaSoft


HuiRong at PangYa Booth


After covering the event, I went back to NLB to help out with the IR Exhibition. The amount of crowd coming in to see the exhibition is unbelieveable. Even after the first week of launch, the number of people coming in is still quite a lot. We went for dinner after the library is close and head for home sweet home.

Really a tiring day.

9th September 2007 (Sunday)

I spend the whole morning trying to figure out the CA again. I still won't give up as I believe that I am close to solving it. After 3 to 4 hours of cracking my brain, I finally give up as I need to head down to NLB for duties again. The morning started quite slowly and soon Panda and Poh came in for duties too.

I took a short break and head to the library reference section to look for reference books in hope of finding something that can help with my CA. I finish my search and went back up to help out with the exhibition.

Around late noon, Ben and Charlotte drop by the see the exhibition. I am really happy to see them. Thanks for coming down to support me. :) The next important guest that came is Mr Goh Kim Hui, my PSS instructor, the Vice President of PSS. It is great that he came by to visit and support our exhibition. Really must thank him. Last but not least, to JingSi also, I saw his name in the Guest book, but I am not sure when did he came down. Really thank you so much. And of course, any friends whom I miss out or didn't get to see you in person, my sincere apologies and really thank you for coming to support our InfraRed exhibition. Thank you all.

Wow, that is a long post. Alrighty, time to head to bed. Good night everyone. Cheerz.

A Visit to The Doc and More Exposure for IR Exhibition

Ok, after 2 to 3 weeks of suffering from running nose, I finally decided to see the doctor. It is really nothing serious as I am not coughing nor is my throat sore, just that my nose is like a leaking tap. The doctor give me some antibotics and some common cold medicine. Well, it is better then nothing, just need to complete the whole course and see how.

Next agenda, yes, it is about the exhibition again. Apparently we are getting a lot of exposure in the media for the IR Exhibition, just to share some of the information available.

On Art Central website, http://www.artscentral.sg/sceneinsingapore/index.htm



On ChannelNews Asia website, http://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna/cgi-bin/bizmoves/article.pl/events?id=4484



On "IS Pick" magazine the week. Featured in No. 372, Friday Sep 7, 2007



Of course, I must thank Teck Koon for making his way down to NLB to visit the exhibition. And also, all those who came down to see the exhibition, thanks for the encouragement.

Day 5 of IR Exhibition and Project D Beta

I was asked by someone to review Project D Beta today. It was kind of last minute thing but I told that person that you no need to ask me twice about it as it was like once in a lifetime kind of thing. I can't reveal too much until some time later but all can I say that I am truly impressed.

Other news, ok, I know it is getting old and still but there are still flocks of visitors coming down to view our IR Exhibition. All I can say that it is a great success. The comments from the visitors are encouragement to us to shoot more and share with all. Most of all, we want to get people interested in InfraRed Photography. Today, 2 of my CSers friends came down to support us, they are CYRN and TMC aka Jeremy, really thanks for making your way down to support us.

I guess I can't go down to NLB tomorrow as I am having lectures tomorrow night. Anyway, hope that more will come down. Cheerz. Good night.

Day 4 of IR Exhibition

Yap, it is another post about the exhibition. Well, it is really quite happening as this exhibition is still drawing the crowd even after 4 days of opening. I was there this evening with Ah Zheng when I met Thomas and Janice. Thomas and Janice was about to leave when we saw them, this is a real coincide. I bring all of them up to the exhibition and show them around. Dennis, Bobby, Andrew and Matthew are around at that time.

Besides, Ah Zheng, Thomas and Janice, a few of my secondary friends also came down to support the exhibition. I must really thanks them for coming down especially to Bak Chye, Chee Meng and Hong Yang. Sorry if I missed out anyone. Really appreciate the support. Thank you very much. Cheerz.

Just a quick update about myself, well, I am having quite a busy day with my experimental work and also working on my subject CA which took up quite a lot of my time. I am going to do some lab supervision duties next week which means taking up more of my time. Oh well, time to do some proper time management. Wish me luck.

Day 3 of IR Exhibition

Well, it is back to work again for all those involved with the exhibition after 2 days of action and fun. Teerex will be there most of the time as he is a retiree and the rest will take turn to go down during the evening.

I am having a busy day as I need to meet one of the professor who is taking charge of me for the subject that I am taking. I need to do a mini-research project for that subject. Besides that, I need to fabricate some prototypes for my work.

At around evening time, Teerex told me that a big group of Teacher and Students of Raffles Design School came by today and that the Guest Book only left 5 pages. That is really great to have such a big turn up. I see if I can download some pictures from them and share it on my blog.

Since the Guest Book is almost finish, I went down to Trints to buy some refill and went to NLB and install it in. When I was there, I guess all those on "duties" left for home already. Anyway, it is really great to have such a big turn-up. Hope to see more people there.

Btw, the website hosting the exhibition is up again. Do check it out. The link is here. http://ircity.clubsnap.org/irexhibit/

Day 2 of IR Exhibition and Comex 2007

I guess this is another week without any photos to share again, really sorry about that. My running nose is still like a leaky tap, guess still need some time to nurse my health back to normal and I also have to go to NLB to get ready for the 2nd day of our exhibition.

I was on the dot for the 2nd day opening. When the library open, I went straight up to Level 8 and prepare everything. I turned on the panel lighting, took out the guest book and pens and so on. After getting ready, I just sat there to wait. I felt a bit regretted for not bringing my lecture notes with me as I can do a bit of revision while waiting for people to come.

There is not much crowd in the morning, just one or two visitors that came to took a look. Really a slow start for a Sunday morning. At around 11am, Teerex and his wife arrived, shortly after that, Poh arrived also. It is good timing as I am meeting Thomas, Chye Lai and Ewei at City Hall at 12:30pm.

At around 12:15pm, when I was about the leave, Ah Meng and Ah Meow (Ah Meng aka Kee Meng was my primary and secondary friend, Ah Meow is his girlfriend) came. I showed them around and left with them as I need to hurry off to meet Thomas and the rest.

After meeting up, we had chicken rice at Purvis Street before I bring them to the exhibition, however Teerex, Mrs Lee and Poh are no where to be seen at that time. I believe they went for their lunch. As I was showing them around, the weather took a change and the 4 of us are stuck at NLB. As we are sitting around, Ark's relatives drop by to see the exhibition, I chatted with them and show them around. Not long after that, Teerex, Mrs Lee and Poh came back and so I introduce them to Ark's relatives.

As time passed by, the weather changed for the better and so Thomas, Chye Lai and I went to the Comex show while Ewei went back home as he is still recovering from his illness. Thomas and Chye Lai bought something at the show but I didn't buy anything. Well, not really nothing, I managed to catch up with HuiRong at the Stuff booth and bought a magazine at $2. I wanted to buy a Lightscribe burner but I can't seem to be able to find one as the crowd at the show is terrible.

After that, we went to Dhoby Ghaut for dinner before heading home. Really a tiring day for me. Alrighty, time for a good and warm relaxing shower before I hit the bed. Good night and take care everyone. Cheerz.

IR Exhibition @ NLB Level 8

Finally, after days and months of preparation and discussion, the day is here. Our very own Infra Red Photography Exhibition which is called InfraRed City. On the first day of launch, quite a lot of the visitors and guests came. It is really a happy occasion for all the IR Regulars.

I must really thanks all those who came down for the exhibition especially from NTU such as Karen and her friend, Wee Ching, Mr Yu, Chen Hao and of course, Adrian (not the Adrian that I know from my primary and secondary school but he is Ian's friend who I met at Cafe Domus quite some time back). I couldn't recognise Adrian at first look until he introduce himself. I felt really bad as I couldn't really recall immediately. But I find him really familiar at first but I just couldn't recall. Hehehe... Ok, guess age is really catching up...

At around 8:30pm or so, all of us had dinner at one of the coffeeshop nearby and had a toast for the launch of the exhibition. I hope that there will be more exhibition like this one in the future. May it be group or individual (a bit too far for that, hahaha...), I hope that there are more chances. But if given a choice, I still prefer a group exhibition as this is really one group of fun people to hang out with.

Alrighty, really tired now as I had been standing around for the whole day. Need to catch some sleep. Good night everyone.

Before I go, just to share a shot taken with my IR modified camera of one of my photos at the exhibition.

Hours before My First Exhibition

Feeling rather excited now as the InfraRed City Exhibition will be opening tomorrow at around 3pm. It is my first photographic exhibition with the rest of the IR Regulars. Well, I hope that there will be more in the future but hey, this is my first exhibition, feel really happy about it.

I got to leave my lab early today as I need to go to NLB at Bugis to help up with the rest in the setting up and laying out of the photos on the display panel. Quite a few of them are already present when I reached. I helped by cutting the velcro and sticking them on the back of the photos while the rest proceed with the mounting.

Even before the exhibition starts, while we were still setting up, there are already a few guests who drop by to see the display photos. We roughly explain to them about InfraRed photography and so on. It is really a fun and interesting experience. I am not sure how it is going to be on the opening day but I sure do look forward to it.

Alrighty, that is all for now. Take care everyone. Do drop by NLB if you are free tomorrow at 3pm or any other day until the 16th of September. Cya.

InfraRed City 2007 (Update 1)

The website hosting for our InfraRed City 2007 is up and ready. Do check out the link. http://ircity.exitmusik.com/

I have also editted the web banner on the top so that it will go to the website if you click on it. Do drop by NLB on the 1st of September if you are free. Cheerz. :)

InfraRed City 2007

As you might have notice, I have inserted a Web Banner on my Blog. This Web Banner is for our upcoming InfraRed City 2007 Exhibition which will be held at National Library opposite Bugis Junction.

The brain child of this project is Andy (Vortex) whom had put in a lot of hard work and research to get this exhibition going. Of course we must thank the sponsors Nikon and Epson who make this exhibition possible.

A total of 40 photo pieces will be featured in this Exhibition collectively from 11 photographers which include

1. Lee Lock Weng (Teerex)
2. Bobby Mun (Photoexpress)
3. Tan Yi Chuan (Ark19)
4. Poh Hwee Chwee (hweechwee)
5. Dennis (Dennis)
6. Matthew (Deadpixel)
7. Andy (Vortex)
8. Andrew (Incastasman)
9. Tan Hee Lam (thl)
10. Jonathan Ong (PandaOng)
11. Francis Goh (Francis247) <- Me...

Alrighty, more details as follows. Hope to see you. ;)



Come and see Singapore through the lenses of the Infrared Photography Collective and experience a very specialized and rarely seen photography technique.

Consisting of professionals and amateur hobbyists from all walks of life brought together by a common passion for Infrared Photography, the Infrared Photography Collective brings their specialized craft into the public eye for the first time.

So come down and experience a truly unique Singapore.

Come meet the photographers on the opening day, 1st Sept @ 3pm, and find out more about Infrared photography!

Date : 1st-16th Sep 2007
Time : 10am to 9pm daily
Venue : National Library
The Promenade (Level 8)
100 Victoria Street
Singapore 188064
Admission : Free