Monday, September 01, 2014

I can't believe that I haven't written anything here for over a month (nearing two). It's not that there isn't anything happening at all but most of the stuffs are just related to the army so it's kind of boring in a sense.

Regardless here are the stuffs that happened while this blog was stagnant.

I bought a new CPU cooler, top of the line, premium Noctua NH-D15. As air cooler goes, it's as  good as it gets. You can tell by the sheer size difference between it and my old cooler.

Who said size didn't matter?

Mounting bracket

It's taller than my 760!

With it I never went above 53 degrees celsius under 100% load, which is pretty darn amazing considering that I live in a rather warm environment.

Went to the River Safari for our unit cohesion day. It was boring as hell, and I got bitten by a small monkey; but I guess it's better than spending Friday in camp working. Only took a few photos but it turned out rather decent!

This fish just keeps swimming like this

Either jiajia or kaikai, no idea

First time seeing a polar bear, it's damn huge

no idea what it's eating

Looks like it's praying

Back packing

Dugongs, they look like giant shrimps platter

I'll leave you with some panorama goodness.




Moving on, the title of the post; I just ran 10KM yesterday at the Safra Bay Run. It's the first time I ran a marathon, also the first time that I ran so far. Got a timing of 1 hour 24 mins. Not good by any means but it's good enough to me!

Front | Back

I didn't take any pictures at the event because... I didn't run with my phone and I felt like dying after the run. Kind of wasted but oh well, it can't be helped. The worst part of the run isn't the run itself, but that I've only had 2 hours of sleep due to some admin cockup, followed by my growling stomach throughout the run.

My friends all disappeared within the first 500 metres. Either too far in front, or too far back. It's one of the rare times that I truly felt lost in a sea of people.

To be honest I really didn't felt like running, I initially planned to just walk for the most part, but when there's a few thousand people running with you, it's hard to just say, "I give up." So for better or worse, I did run most of the distance. Which no part is due to my own motivation. I thank you, the pretty ladies who wore skin tight clothes and ass hugging tights.

And the driving force is way more than I anticipated. There was this chick I noticed since the start line, and I chased after her for 3 km before hitting an obstacle. Stairs. Pretty much lost sight of her until the 6 km mark where she suddenly ran past me. I am honestly shocked that I actually passed her, but the rest of the run was just me not wanting to lose to her in the end. HAH!

Every time she passed me I will make sure I put enough distance in between before slowing down. It's kind of stupid racing against a girl who is probably younger than me, but then again I really had nothing to do and no one to talk to. Passing all the people in the last kilometre felt really awesome though.

I wonder when will be the next time I post something, but I guess... wake me up when September ends?

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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Valentine's Day, one of the most commercialized day designed to painfully force single people to understand their situation. Thanks to that, it has made disillusioned people like me to make up days like Friendship Day to compensate for the lack of love.

But guess what, it works. And we got to eat some pretty good food with people we like to hang out with. It's kind of impromptu but we (my army mates) decided to go have some xiao long baos.

Anyway, these are all shot on my Xperia Z1 and I swear the pictures are amazing for a phone.

Paradise Dynasty - The legend of xiao long bao

What I chose for myself!

XLB FTW

Well, apart from the food; the February 14th was a really interesting day for us. We got turned out and had our initiation. I probably shouldn't expose the details of what happened and the things we did but it was definitely acceptable and within reason.

It still doesn't change the fact that we're really tired after that from waking up early in the morning.

After the initiation was done, we received our black beret and a badge from the 41SAR CO and 1AMB CO respectively. Yes, we are under both units. It's rather confusing but we'll see how it'll work out over the course of my army life. This also means that I have 2 berets, one blue and one black. I have to say that I'm rather proud of it. The badge... well I left it in camp but my friend took a photo of it (at home)


This day also officially marks the end of our training. We have finally fully graduated as technicians. This also means that we're going to have a lot more work to do in the weeks to come.

Every week I come back home and all I want to do is lie down and rest. Often I feel that it's a waste of time but you know, I don't think that resting your mind and body counts as wasting time. Sure I could go out, mingle around and make some awesome memories, but ending up being really tired after all of that isn't a worthy trade-off for me. Or maybe I'm just plain lazy.

Back to Valentine's Day. Honestly I can't remember one where I spent it with someone I love. Either there isn't any, or that for some reason it fucks up before this day. Though receiving brownies from my close friend definitely makes me feel like romantic love isn't the end all be all. The greatest part about having female friends are days like these man.

That said, I really shouldn't settle in my own bubble.
Maybe it's time for me to find some one.

Labels: army, food, life, paradise dynasty, valentine, xiao long bao, xperia z1

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

FED 5B (russian)

I have some time before I book in again, so I decided to take some shots and further test out my Xperia Z1. It's amazing to see how much cellphone cameras have improved in a couple of years.

Anyway... my bro likes taking photos too. And he acquired these two film cameras some time ago, which made me green with envy. Not that they are really expensive or what. But well, it takes a bit of commitment to go into film cameras, not something I can easily do seeing that I came from the digital era.
p.s. my bro is almost 10 years older than me so... yeah

Btw these are really old cameras that he bought 2nd hand. Both which are manufactured in the 1980s.

I think I missed my focus here...

Love the orange accents

Oh yeah, give those artificial grain some lovin'

The FEB 5B is actually kind of a clone of the legendary Leica cameras, which explain why it looks so friggin' similar. It was a poor man's Leica back in those days.

Canon A-1

The frontal assault

Who doesn't love some sexy dials?

Vintage cameras just looks so sexy, not like any of the plastic bullshit we get these days. These old cameras are made of solid metal so there's some heft when carrying them. The marvel of camera engineering seated comfortably in your hands.

Maybe one of these days I'll borrow from my bro to actually go out and shoot something. Developing them will be a pain though. Ah well, I'll just be satisfied with my phone camera for now.

Labels: daily photo, film camera, phone, vintage, xperia z1

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