Taylor Swift - Mine

WHEEEE!!!!!!
its finally out.
damn nice <: TAYLOR SWIFT :D


sorry for the lack of updates! havent been really free. rest assured a picture-sy one will be out soon!

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonyslta55/

buy a sony.

this isnt a DSLR anyway. hahaha

Sony's latest interchangeable lens cameras, the SLT Alpha A33 and A55 represent a significant technological milestone - not just for Sony but for the enthusiast camera market as a whole.

all the hype about talenttime!!!!
ever since i uploaded my photos of talent time onto facebook i think i've had 200 notifications and 10 friend requests. and oh wait another 26 notifications just popped in in like 3 mins. i have yet to check my email but i guess its a lot of deleting to do.

anyway its still a good thing to see that: "..... likes your photo"
gives me a sense of satisfaction

Here's what i wrote in my lit essay: "such a discontinous mélange of thoughts and emotions seem to relfect a rather unstable and deranged mind for the thoughts do not appear to flow in a logical and linear order."

So i looked at it and it hit me that it is exactly portraying what im getting through now. Why do they call it portrait if what is show in a portrait is a fact whereas when something portrays another its not often a fact? I rather like taking portraits of people. Maybe its named a portrait because its what is seen through the eyes of the photographer. I rather like photography too. I like it enough to give up basketball to join photography, even though it had it implications. You wouldnt understand what they are. I had to face teammates, teases, teacher's attitudes(hey alliteration!) and i may have gotten what i wanted, but i also lost a significant part of what i had. But its my choice and nobody is making me decide against it. Why? Why is it my ideas dont flow in a straight line today? Tell me what it reflects.

I learned that i can live alone and can do it sufficiently well too. This makes me think of the song Jar of Hearts : " i learned to live, half alive". Maybe thats it, i have learned to live without another part of myself. But the next line reads: " and now you want me one more time".

There, it seems im "deranged". My speech and thought dont seem to flow fluidly. My emotions a terrible state of flux. The word "mélange" means a mixture, a medley of something. It sounds rather food-sy doesnt it. Shawn said he will use the word for the lit essay in promos. I said : "haha." its an interesting word.

No really i dont like talking as though i have coded speak. Because really nothing is coded really. I do not see the point of placing something really abstract and you have to figure it out yourself like most blogs. When i want it to be abstract it would be. But now its explicitly not the case. Take it face value. For i cant quite place a price on what these words actually are worth.

damn they are too good already!!!
i keep on pressing replay when it gets to this song.

"now you get to watch her leave out the window
guess that’s why they call it window pane"

let me tell you how i spent my day.

i turned up in school before 4 pm, and had to shoot stuff like this. terribly warm and stuffy.

and 2 hours later finally it was dinner time. after that i had to go to the Command Centre and figure out how to convert the photos so the SCs can use them. at 7.30 i had to take photos of ppl watching the YOG ceremony at the auditorium! can you believe it, what was i supposed to capture?! but here goes nothing....




and i stayed all the way till 11pm all because of this:

Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh

You were in college, working part-time, waiting tables
Left a small town and never looked back
I was a flight risk, afraid of fallin'
Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts

I say, "Can you believe it?"
As we're lyin' on the couch
The moment, I can see it
Yes, yes, I can see it now

Do you remember, we were sittin' there, by the water?
You put your arm around me for the fist time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing that's ever been mine

Flash forward, and we're takin' on the world together
And there's a drawer of my things at your place
You learn my secrets and figure out why I'm guarded
You say we'll never make my parents' mistakes

But we got bills to pay
We got nothin' figured out
When it was hard to take
Yes, yes

This is what I thought about:

Do you remember, we were sittin' there, by the water?
You put your arm around me for the fist time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing that's ever been mine

Do you remember all the city lights on the water?
You saw me start to believe for the first time
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing that's ever been mine

Oh, oh, oh, oh

And I remember that fight, two-thirty AM
You said everything was slipping right out of our hands
I ran out, crying, and you followed me out into the street

Braced myself for the goodbye, cause that's all I've ever known
Then, you took me by surprise
You said, "I'll never leave you alone."

You said, "I remember how we felt, sitting by the water.
And every time I look at you, it's like the first time.
I fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter.
She is the best thing that's ever been mine."

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing that's ever been mine

Do you believe it?
We're gonna make it now
And I can see it
I can see it now

"The song is sort of about finding the exception to that and finding someone who would make you believe in love and realize that it could work out, because I'm never, ever going to go past hoping that love works out"
-Taylor Swift

does it really ever happen that way? well at least nobody inspires me now to ever, ever start believing it will work out.

Taylor Swift - Mine - Music Video - Tyler Ward Acoustic Cover - Download...

same song, two different covers.
note he appears in his video.. haha anyway both of them sing damn beautifully.

i love taylor's songs :D

a fireworks display is only temporarily, it glistens and streaks in the night sky ever so slowly and then fades away gradually as it becomes consumed by the pitch black night. beautiful as they may be, you can never quite capture the emotions by pictures.


after the lights fade away, the distant "boom" reminds that it was genuine; and not a figment of your imagination.
and that's all you are left clutching to in the end

Reasons i like my telephoto lens:


Pictures speak a thousand words so here.







did i mention the aircraft travelling faster than the speed of sound?

anyway the rings you see at the exhaust is caused by the afterburner and happens when the exhaust is traveling faster than sound.

the white smoke you see in the first picture is caused by condensed water droplets which result from the shockwave shedding from the aircraft when it reaches supersonic speed

reasons i like my flash.
(well i paid 285 for it!)


it can fire wirelessly and has high speed sync(which gives shots like this).

it shoots people well.


we all love flashing it in one's face (just ask qixin).

it looks great on the camera(and on me).

NATIONAL DAY IS COMING!!!
okay im not that much of a patriot.
but it just means more photos to take, hopefully i will be able to get some clear fireworks on monday?

photos of the day! (actually its just the kind of photos i favour: portraits.)







PS: i posted in such a haste.