Finally! My Tripod Head Is Here!

Hey guys!


So it's been a week since my last update and well... Last week was pretty tiring with quite a bit of stuff to do. I now have some weird dry skin at the base of my neck from carrying my shoulder bag for like 3 days straight. It was interesting covering a dinner similar to a wedding dinner except its more to event than dinner and dance kind of event. I also did part of my first corporate shoot which was quite nerve wrecking but it went pretty well.


I've gotta find some time to go back to my secondary school to talk about prom night and dance photography. And chase some people with regards to the portrait shoot. Many things going on this year, but somehow I feel I'm not shooting much (personal shoots and personal work, not related to what I'm doing now). Quite sad about it but regardless! I pray and ask for more this year!


Before I go on with my usual unboxing, I hope DHL somewhat sees this. Please get what you want to say correctly... Seriously, I called in the morning to arrange for delivery on Sunday evening and they said they can only do on Monday. When just last week, they said ok, then when I called again, they said there were problems at the warehouse, yet they still can deliver my stuff at night. Yesterday was unable to, and yet deliver at night. Not being an ungrateful bastard, but seriously, if I wasn't at home, or anyone for that matter, I'd still have to wait for the next day. Before anyone goes "but you still got it that day", fact is, its just like trying to do something stupid, someone tries to stop you but you didn't listen and did it anyway. And when you fail, you blamed the person who tried to stop you for not stopping you.


There... Now that it's out of my system, back to my unboxing.


3 Packages came

From Adorama, came my 77" by 77" translucent fabric which I'll have to measure for the frame, and my other umbrella head. All I'm missing is the PVC frame for my DIY Light Panel

The thing I've been waiting for! My tripod head! Box looked like crap, but the head was in a condition that seemed new. All for USD 135! I just saw the price on B&H and it was USD 160+, I think should be the same price as Adorama

Impressive 10 year warranty

Contents of the tripod head box

A Western Digital 2TB and a Samsung 1TB hard drive

Basically, I got myself another 4.5TB worth of hard drive over the week. I feel quite sad having spend so much money, but at least I earned some in the first place and I'm upgrading for the future. And now everything runs fine on my desktop. I'm quite cash strap now, but I've got to trust that I'm blessed. In fact, I'm already am and I'm thankful for it and I'm honestly looking forward to doing more jobs.


Since now my tripod head is here, I can do the reviews of the tripod head and the lens as well as update my Nikon F5 review when I develop more pictures. I've also learnt a little bit of Adobe InDesign and have started to rewrite my story. Quite excited to see how this would go. I just realize I had an idea for it some time back, but I forgot to write it down and now have forgotten what that idea is... Sad... Anyway, Hopefully I can shoot the book cover and then show the book cover as well as write the story over the remaining of the year. Till the next entry, have a great remainder of the day everyone!

Visit to my childhood playground

Hey guys!

So recently, I took a trip down to my childhood playground, sort of. It's the place why my primary school is located at that's my childhood playground. I would go to a lot of places to play after school until its dark before I go home. Dark as in literally dark, regardless of the time, like later part of the year, around 7, it would be very dark whereas earlier on, its not as dark at 7.

The place has changed quite a bit since my last visit back when I was in Secondary 2? Before we had to study on teacher's day before we're released. There are some familiar sites as well as some which I don't recall.


My primary school, closed since it was s Saturday, and the traffic light which I used to "guard" since my CCA at that time was road crossing monitor.



The other side of the road, where Hillock is, I remember going there once for PE and a few times to play. Can't remember what I played though.



When I was younger, Bukit Purmei seemed bigger, in this picture, can see that it's pretty small. I don't recall that sign being there though.



Not sure if this taxi stand has always been there or not, I processed it to have a more film look, I find it looks ok, though I've been told it doesn't look convincing, but whatever.



From the top of the hill next to the school where all the rich people live, showing Bukit Purmei. I remember getting scared by the dogs who live there when I was younger while exploring with my friends.



Some seats that have been there for a long time, no idea if people actually sit there, especially since it was hot when I shot this that day.



The basketball court where I played basketball with my friends.



I had an overwhelming sense of nostalgic that day. So many things have changed yet they have not. The pond, hut and fitness corner were all gone. I remember watching the terrapins at the pond, jumping around in the hut like monkeys, and playing hopscotch at the fitness corner, running around like nobody's business.

I went to the dentist yesterday to have my teeth checked and cleaned. I need to remove my wisdom teeth on the top jaw. I'm not going to do it unless it starts to hurt without any provocation of any sort, at the moment, it hurts when I eat ice cold food or boiling hot food. I seldom eat ice cream so no biggie, not good for health anyway. And boiling hot food is normally too hot to eat so doesn't matter either.

The other day I sent my slide films for processing. Finally finished the ISO 100 Provia in the Nikon F5 and ISO 400 Provia in the Olympus OM2n. However... I shot 39 frames in the Nikon F5 which was weird, and I couldn't rewind, opened the camera in the shade to find out that the film completely out of the cartridge. I have a feeling some photos won't turn out. It cost me $19 to have it developed only! No mounting! From now on until I work full time, I'm going to shoot negatives and B&W films. Since from now till I go back to work full time, I'm saving up for the photography equipment and driver's license. As well as a little for studying.

That's all for now, will post more pictures after I get my film back from the lab and will do the Nikon F5 review then! Till then, have a good day everyone!