Lord of Geeks

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Went to the Bintan Islands over the weekend with the guys! It's not exactly a place 4 dudes will fully enjoy themselves in but zy bought a GoPro Hero 4 Silver edition. Having a camera record us doing stupid things made it infinitely more fun.

We spent a lot of time in the water filming random stuffs and I got muscle aches all over on the last day; also had the obligatory HTHT sessions.

Honestly there's not much else I can say, everything is in the videos! (my efficiency of making videos is increasing! the quality though... =/ )

This getaway is much appreciated, it's my first proper break since exercise wallaby! Getting away from the chaotic lifestyle here is awesome as well. Oh well, till the next time.

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Exercise Wallaby 2014

Sunday, November 23, 2014

I have never experienced weather that is hotter than Singapore before, more than anything, this exercise has really opened my eyes to how relentless the scorching sun can be. With daily temperatures of at least >35ºC, and really cold nights. The highest temperature we were notified on was about 39ºC; we barely worked during the noon that day.

Many, many things happened during these 3 weeks. Thankfully I kept a diary to help with my failing memory.

The journey was off to a rough start, I experienced Murphy's Law first hand.
"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."
I reached the airport late thanks to my "over-concerned" mother. Missed 3 buses right from the start, then couldn't board the next 2 that came because it was too crowded. Couldn't flag any taxi down, the bus that we finally managed to get on broke down for awhile, thankfully the bus captain was able to rectify it and get it moving.

Singapore Airlines, fortunately

Last stretch

Obligatory shot of the plane

Yeah, many more panoramic shots coming up. I love the effect

Doesn't get much better than this

The flight was unusually cold. My extremities were freezing and my nose transformed into a mucus factory. Luckily the staff on-board suddenly got bitch slapped by common sense and turned the temperatures up and made the remainder of the flight much more comfortable.

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Phuket Trip; Day 1 and 2 Video

Thursday, May 09, 2013

I have to say that I am rather proud of this video! It turned out way better than I thought it would be. Though my expectations did drop a little when I could get some of the shorts I wanted.

I haven't edit any video since I graduated from High School and I have to say that I have done some rather shitty videos in the past. So the point is that I have to learn from the scratch again, though I have a slightly better idea of what to do now.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5

First time I'm using this software and this is definitely an overkill for what I am doing, wasted so much time finding out how to do all the simple things. Total time taken: 4hours+. It's times like these that make me fully appreciate having a fast computer. I cannot imagine editing on anything slower, it would be the death of me.

I wanted to try color correction and some other stuffs, but then got too lazy to learn it. Thankfully my camera, Sony HX9V takes awesome video so I didn't have to do much to them.

Well hope you liked the video! There's still 3 days left. Time to find another song that fits the occasion.

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Johor Trip | Go-kart, Paintball

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

It was another early start [8am] to a very long day. As I've only came back from Phuket within the same week, I wasn't exactly the keenest in going overseas again.

However, I wasn't dreading the trip at all, in fact I was really looking forward to it. The activities that we have planned was totally my cup of tea. Go-kart and Paintball, who would've thought that I would get to do the both of them on the same day.

Before I continue ranting, I should probably mention that this was a 12 man group. Again, because of my paranoia I shall only give the initials of the people: A, JH, KQ, V, MC, L, J, XK, YJ, C, D. Well, that introduction was stupidly pointless. So anyway, my point was that there was definitely enough people for this to be a really fun event.

Go-kart is definitely my favourite. I say it with such confidence even though I have only done it once in my entire life. (not counting this one)

If you somehow missed the title, these activities were held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. JH helped us book a minivan to drive us around for the entire day. If I'm not mistaken the price was SGD $450. Definitely not a small amount but definitely something we were willing to pay considering that the presidential elections were the next day.
(looking at the news, I'm rather glad we weren't caught in any deepshit)

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5 Day Hiatus

Thursday, April 25, 2013

To: All minions

I am going overseas for the next couple of days until Monday. I am going to bring my laptop so I may update, though most likely I'm just there to experiment certain... learnings.

There will be a long post with all the crazy ass pictures, and one hell of a geeky post, so look forward to this on Monday!

Bye.

p.s. location: Phuket

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