It’s my birthday yesterday and today I’m officially over the 30 year old bracket. Signs of hitting the old age (well for me, 30s is old) is the severe backache I’m still suffering. According to the physiotherapist, it was a disc spinal injury. Having said that there was no no grand celebration, no drinking sessions, no [...]

What a way to start the first day of work (officially office starts today but I’ve been working since last week) in 2012! I hurt my back last weekend when I was (again) lifting and stuffing my brand new bicycle into the car. The pain initially was not present until yesterday morning.It was so intense [...]

I usually opted to work during my office’s official Christmas break (a.k.a close down period) in between late December and early January.
Some of many reasons to do so:

I can save up my annual leave for something else better since going out for holidays during these crazy peak seasons ain’t worth it.
I can concentrate on my work without a [...]

Happy New Year 2012!
I celebrated my New Year on a plane, returning from my two weeks holiday break. The year 2012 greeted me with a very hot summer. It has been high 30s for the past couple of days (yesterday was hitting 40) in Melbourne. My car was heated up like a microwave and the [...]

I’ve seen a fair few of branding on eggs but during my photoshoot at a commercial kitchen last week, I found some with a happy face on it. After staring at the adorable smiling oval little fella, you don’t feel like breaking them up huh?
P.S Of course the chef we worked with didn’t share the same sentiment and [...]

I went to Mornington Peninsula for a holiday last weekend with an old Scoopon voucher that I purchased last year. The short trip was  good; calm weather and pretty sunny day. I also had a chance to experiment around with some panoramic shots there. The weather was a little gloomy so the shots didn’t really [...]

As of last week, I have a new member joining my small family. Introducing Mika, a 10 year old Labrador/Staffy adopted from the RSPCA. To us human years, she’s around 60 and for that age she is still very active!

Had a offsite photoshoot till 10pm yesterday. When you get too tired of it, you’d start thinking something else besides work.
FPS gamer + photography + tiring day = pyscho mode

Just got myself a first generation iPad to fiddle around with this week. I’ve been weighing between the first gen iPad and the new iPad 2 for a while. Why would I choose the former. Probably the first excuse was affordability, which I’ve saved $190 if I chose a refurbished first generation. Either way, I’m [...]

Found a rupiah note in a Kopiko packet this morning. Lucky me. As of today, 5000 rupiah is around AUD$0.20

Update: When I got back home, I found out my kitchen  and living room were fully condensed. Wet floors and dampy atmosphere. All thanks the humidity and wet weather. Let’s hope the mould won’t enter into the picture soon.

(Source: News.com.au)
It has been pretty warm, humid and wet for the past few days in Melbourne. Rain has [...]

Every Christmas week, I’ve never bothered to celebrate nor going out for a shopping spree on Boxing day. Heck, all my years in Melbourne I never thought of going out and fighting for my life to grab a parking space or pushing through the rowdy crowd in a tiny space retail shop. But here I [...]

I’ve always wanted to have a go at the snow mountains and I’ve been pondering about it for years but I couldn’t find the opportunity nor the company to go with. Last month, my mate from Perth suggested that we should take a trip to Mt Buller when his wife and himself drop by to [...]

I attended a Kyushu-based taiko troupe at the Palms in Crown Casino last night. Calling themselves TAO, these awesome people gave me a extraordinary, sounding  performance. It beats my heart away, so to say. : ) I heard about them before and a few  years ago they were in Melbourne to perform; I missed it.
What set [...]

This arvo, there was a power outage in a few buildings, including my office. Big boss has decided to spend us lunch at a pub nearby since we were roaming around freely without anything to do.
I had myself a nice lamb rump and at the end of the lunch, the big boss said if the power [...]