A fun evening with a bunch of old friends

After gobbled up 6 pizzas from out favourite pizza heaven, Little Ceasars in Mundaring, we went for a quick photo session around South Perth. Unfortunately, the sun has set by the time we got there and the dwindling light did not help us at all. As a result of higher iso and the use of flash, the shots turned up very grainy and some, unnaturally exposed. Shooting portait is still very new for both me and Wayne, and a lot still need to be learnt. I guess I am probably better suited for flowers and insects photography lol!

Big car, small on comfort

You would think a big car will be more comfortable on a long journey, well, our rental car during our stay in Eastern States was quite the contrary. I know I know, before you say anything, a big fat Ford Falcon station wagon was indeed an overkill for only 2 of us with a couple of luggage and not truely an environmental friendly to travel I might add. But here is the fact, this big ass car is not the most comfortable way for a long journey and a total shocker around city traffic! The driver's seat lumbar support is way too high for my back and I don't consider myself to be a short person the last time I check. Every time I put my foot on the accelerator, it constantly reminded me that I was driving a fat car because it is just too sluggish given that it has a 4 litre V6 in the bonnet. Last but not least, the gear stick is a tad too far for my liking, luckily it is an automatic. However, I did find one rather pleasant surprise though, despite the engine size, it is actually quite economical to drive....or may be the fuel over there was cheaper at the time :)

Only a life lived for others is worth living

I couldn't even remember what was the last movie I wrote about in my blog. Not that I haven't watched any since then but none of them are really good enough for me to write about. I did come across some horribly bad, ill-conceived movies though, and a few good examples are the Babylon A.D. , Max Payne and The Day the Earth Stood Still - nearly 5 hours of my life wasted because of these three movies!

Well, finally I have a movie that's worth talking about - Ghost Town. Starring British comedian/producer Ricky Gervais as a dentist Dr Bertram Pincus who was discribed by his co-worker as "a f***ing prick", who absolutely loathed human race and had zero social skill. He gained the ability to communicate with the dead after momentarily dying during a blotched colonoscopy. Dr P was forced to mend his anti-social ways when he found himself haunted by ghosts who had unfinished businesses in the living world, including the suave Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who remains concerned for the future of his attactive but slightly eccentric Egyptologist wife (Tea Leoni). This romantic comedy is a total stand out from those typical romantic "Hugh Grant" style chic flicks.

It's not the type of "laughing out loud" comedy but it was just so brilliantly made! 4.5 stars from me. Big thank you to Karen for recommending this movie :)

p/s for a LOL comedy, you can't go past Death at a Funeral, it's an instant classic!

Amazing pluggin for PS

I discovered a new pluggin for PS last night while surfing through one of my flickr buddy's photostream. It is capable of creating some amazing high quality artwork from a few clicks of your mouse. Check it out if you are interested!

Short journey to the East

It was a great break from our regular routine and although it was just a short trip, we felt truely relaxed and readied to face the world again! The main reason for the unexpected trip was a fine example of a bureauocratic red tape - the renewal of Jin's Korean passport. Because there is no Korean consulate here in Perth (apparently there was one before??) and also, according to Korean embassy - for security reason, she was not allowed to post her old passport to either Canberra or Sydney, so the only way to renew her existing passport was to go to there herself.

However, my reason to tag along was purely to get away from my otherwise, boring work-eat-sleep routine! In the next few weeks or even months, I will start to post more and more photos from our trip either here or on my Flickr page. We brought 2 slr cameras with us this time, one for me and of course, another for Jin to train up so we are ready for our next round of big holiday photo shoot :) We have between us, 26Gb in total of raw files to sieve through and that will keep me busy for a long time. Jin has been busy posting heaps of shots on her blog too, you can visit her blog here but unfortunately, it's only available in Korean :)

(Thank you Derrick for the email)

Heading off for a break!

I am having a couple of weeks off starting today! Couldn't believe the last time I had a holiday was back in January last year and that's just way too long... Although we have a fairly good holiday planned for later this year but don't really think I can survive that long though... so see you guys in a week and a bit :)