simpled

loves

2008-07-16T06:57:27Z

garage

2008-07-10T16:21:17Z

i think this is inevitable. i've been contemplating it for quite a while. back then, i was so eager and keen that i ended up buying 20 or so film cameras. they were fun while it lasted. but i'm thinking of letting them go. probably through ebay auctions or something...

it seems the older i get, the easier it is for me to let go of things. even if they meant something to me.

actions

2008-07-09T13:19:10Z

i'm sorry i have to talk about work.

i'm just disappointed at the choices people make in their lives. as much as i'm merely doing my job, i can't help but wonder what made them choose to do something like that. part of me wants to understand why they opt for such things. are they really out of options? i'm not talking about blatant ignorance. i was in a position where i could take it all away from them. yet i chose not to. some are just passing their second decade in life. others you'd expect a certain sense of maturity.

do i project this aspect of myself into my relationships?

should i just let them do whatever they so wish, with disregard to how their choices and decisions could lead to something undesirable?

how much is too much?

how much is not enough?

at which point should someone step in?

who's job is it anyway?

let me pose it this way, who else would step in?

mini

2008-07-08T09:28:16Z

snapped adrian with my ricoh (i still dun get it, the camera shakes are so bad, even though anti shake is on) as he showed me what i can do with his pentax espio mini. yeah another film camera to add to my camera collection. hehehe.

austere

2008-07-08T01:08:37Z

the images captured below were taken circa 2005. images initially captured by the Seagull 205A and double exposed on the Vivitar UltraWide and Slim.

untested

2008-07-06T19:47:47Z

rest of the seagull (double exposed via vivitar) can be found here. film used is Kodak GC 400-8, Seagull 205A.

birthed

2008-07-06T17:57:06Z

the only reason i want to share this is because i enjoyed seeing the pictures through the children's eyes. perhaps the director/producers of the documentary has other agendas and what nots, the debates and criticisms surrounding the film, i leave that up to you to think about.

Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids. i shared this on my facebook. i'd share this here too.

skimpy

2008-07-06T06:25:20Z

the older i get the less tolerable i get with loud thudding, hissing, high beats per minute loud club music.

the eye candy was plentiful. somehow i can't read people's eyes or body language anymore. did i just lost my touch?

on the other hand brought him to catch hancock. a very unassuming movie that's supposed to be all thrill and action. didn't expect it to turn out into a hold hand tight, place my hand over his tigh during the really sad part of the movie kind of movie. i think the reviews out there sucks. i like this movie alot.

pleasant surprise to catch dave_sg_888 at dymk (thanks for picking up the tab). lychee-tini for 2. conversations. candles. board shorts shopping.

woke up super groggy with a rock hard... erm... and thought i was super late for work. smsed colleagues i'm gonna rush down by cab. halfway through i realized its a sunday and i'm kind of early for morning shift today.

forever

2008-07-03T18:28:15Z

driving along east coast at 6am. and catch the sunset at changi beach. not a bad idea no?

boyan

2008-07-02T16:24:30Z

mum and dad went for a week's holiday together with some tour. they visited Pulau Bawean, my mum has roots there. likewise for my dad who's father was from java.

armed with 2 disposable cameras, initially i intended for them to bring along the ricoh r8. but they decided against it for fear of damaging the camera. so instead, i passed some expired agfa slide film, some old film that i've used halfway and the vivitar ultra wide and slim. and told them to take everything that they could.

this has been my first lomo related post (albeit taken by my parents) after so long. film used here are from AgfaPhoto CT Precisa 100, expired and x-pro.

on the floor.

2008-07-02T03:57:58Z

what exactly does fate have in store for us? for me? do you badly want to believe it is true?

infrequent runs is not satisfying. physical build is not satisfactory, but i'm too lazy to do more. breakfast with french toasts lately. that's been quite satisfying though. random meetups and hookups. for movies. breakfasts. and starbucks. a little more. but deep down i know i'm not ready to move on. still.

its been more than 24hrs. battery's still not drained. need to get me some meds to relax.

in the day

2008-06-21T22:02:02Z

let's start with the cats in woodlands. they're mostly very interesting and friendly.

after his coaching lessons, decided to celebrate his birthday a little earlier by treating him to a simple dinner at fish & co. the service we had at the imm branch was great! the server was jovial and candid with us. and she's most probably a teenager still in school!

i'd like to think that we both chat more openly now, than we did when we're together in that seven years. perhaps the benefit of age / maturity and the distance... nonetheless, we didn't want to make his birthday a big deal or anything. i guess we both appreciate the thought and sincerity rather?

get smarts

2008-06-21T01:10:16Z

get smart was a real riot. i think it helps that i've seen many of the tv series as a kid. the cast were great and the resemblance to agents 86 and 99 were uncanny.

watched yesterday with dec. before having supper at east coast. laughed a lot from the start of the movie and nice conversations lasted till sending him home.

clash the disko kids

2008-06-18T01:33:51Z

clash the disko kids
Originally uploaded by kairin.

they sound like justice. but they're all singaporean. kinda start to like their mixes.

get their music from their myspace profile.

http://www.myspace.com/clashthediskokids

broken

2008-06-17T02:45:37Z

its passed 4 months.

the truth was, right after that day. i said some things i really shouldn't have said to baby. and in a heartbeat, i just ended something that meant a lot. for my own fear of losing baby, i inadvertently caused it to end.

and i guess i was in my own denial the past 4 mths. i had my first breakdown a couple of days back.

what would it take to turn back to that moment?

my first 24 hours being alternative

2008-06-10T06:26:18Z

this is my first 24 hours using ubuntu 8.04. it even installs straight from my vista laptop! no partitions no messy changes to my vista system. if you've always been curious and don't wanna risk losing anything from your current pc, this is the choice to go.

next up, test out wine so i can play sims 2 in ubuntu itself.

left a missed call...

2008-06-05T17:29:53Z

i was walking across a beach somewhere. the cloudless skies above were bright blue. sun's pretty much scorching but i felt the breeze blowing on my skin. i recognise it was the scent of sea water carried by the breeze. the soft sand between the toes were nice and warm.

and in the distant, you were there and waving back.

somehow i knew something was not right.

i woke up from one of my dreams. its been months since i had a dream. let alone one in full colour.

i'm not sure what i want to do when i'm on leave end of the month. didn't actually planned to be on vacation, merely took the opportunity to take leave. doubt i'd end up doing anything.

i know deep down i miss you a lot. deleting your number from my mobile does not seem to help with the yearning. somehow, you're the third person who's number i end up memorizing by heart.

experience

2008-06-05T16:31:11Z

i think the iphone will miss out on the asian market.

i'm waiting for the xperia.

on another note... sony lent a touch of its bravia type ads to the xperia's.

a future

2008-06-04T05:56:35Z

let's look at it this way.

everyone uses the internet pretty much for free. and like what was discussed in 1994 in my earlier post turned out to be a fact now. people create content. content is paid for by the internet. users like us benefits from the content. content providers benefit by selling advertising. and when users are attracted to the advertising and buy a product that they like, retailers will benefit.

and then there are people like marc who has a vision to make something that was just text based and actually turned it into something that's visual.

so he added images to the internet, which subsequently allows for the images to be linked to something else. and lo behold, it will definitely be used to link an image (it can be a brand image etc) to information such as a company behind a brand. and when information began to grow, people allowed their content to be searchable, people wanted to be searched and subsequently to be found, and reached (contacted). That's probably what ken wanted to emphasize in his speech in that 1994 presentation.^[1]

that's how the internet was expected to work down the road when marc proposed the IMG tag.

(with reference to vuestar's patent) how innovative an invention would that be? did he revolutionized search? what if marc patented the IMG tag? we'd be coughing out $$$ just to view the internet visually. and we'd be better off with bbs.

so when someone who creates a company like vuestar and expects any commercial (even government and non profits/personal) to be granted a license in order to use their so called innovations, it really takes away the freedom in using the internet. every google image search will cost you some. i'm not well versed in the law regarding this patent so i'm just taking the most lay man's approach.

on the other hand, there will always be other truly remarkable innovations on the internet. a russian developer, Vladimir Slepnev released his creation in the GPL license, and because of that something as cool as this gets developed (although with patents, proper acknowledgement and monies owed through licensing will be given accordingly. so yeah, if used in such a scenario a patent is important)

some opinions i feel strongly towards is on prior art and person having ordinary skill in the art. given that linking images would lead a person who'd want to make his search better create a search function using identifiable images linking to another website with contact information.^[1]

the present

2008-06-03T18:50:39Z

what prompted me to post that little history bit on my journal was due to the fact that i'm still feeling angry over the news the other day. about this vuestar issue...

just some more reading here, alvinology wrote in his blog. another local website wrote their point of views over here as well.

and here are some interesting cases with regards to online infringement, streetdirectory VS SLA over copyright of images.

a wiki entry on Vuestar Tech for the non initiated and some discussions brewing in hardwarezone with more interesting points to note. another discussion here.

the article at zdnet (you may want to follow alvinology's posting as there are more articles referencing to this matter) that prompted me being pissed off.

a local company, trying to be entrepreneurial?

or downright extortionist?

however this reminds me of the GIF patent issues that was a big hu-ha on the internet back when it was still relatively new.

even the popular jpeg file format was under a patent ambush by a tech company. another article from wired

the tech company earned $105mil through royalties from that patent, the fact that they managed to get even large corporation like Sony to pay royalties (but Sony can pay for just about anything anyway). here's some info on the jpeg patent issues on wikipedia.

what worries me is that this local company (a $2 start-up owned by an australian, living in ozzie) will get its way due to how IP rights in singapore may be different (as a lay man's point of view).

is there anyone out there who can shed a light or two with regards to this issue?

a history

2008-06-03T18:45:17Z

when Marc Andreessen proposed the usage of the IMG tag (that's html for allowing an image to appear on your browser) all he wanted was to make mosaic a better browser.

he along with co-worker Eric Bina worked on creating a user-friendly browser, one which allows graphics to be displayed. subsequently, with his vision of the web browser's potential, he distributed his browser for free.

sometime in '95 - '96, i sort of scraped my piggy bank and bought a 56k modem. and i ended up raking my first month's usage with Pacific Internet to a tune of about $400 odd worth of internet usage. my parents were not pleased when they found out i used my ang pao money and tried to hide that fact from them (i totally forgot that the telephone bill also shot up hence they got to know in the end).

i discovered that the internet were mostly created by enthusiasts who learned html on their own. i also discovered porn amongst other things. and that there are so many different things that i have never known about the world i live in.

i created my own "Hello World" using html sometime in that year. and i completed my history project using flash animation, video clips of world war II and put them together as a "website" and showed it to the whole class. i wasn't called innovative or anything like that, but my history teacher gave me a pat on the back and some words of encouragement on putting the effort in my project. i failed my history subject for that year, the project accounts for a small percentage of the marks obtained.

in 1998, the following year, myself and another friend were tasked by our secondary school to create the school's website, to be listed in MOE's school's directory. what we learned was that many other schools actually hired some "professionals" to make their websites. of course we were proud to say that our school's website were done by ourselves.

i didn't lose interest in history however, and got a B4 for the O levels that year which i thought wasn't so shabby.

there were geocities, angelfire, tripod.com and so much other websites that offered free webhosting. i'd like to think i tried them all. that was perhaps the first kind of myspace or facebook ever? a space on the internet which you can create to your own specification and share whatever you'd want to share. and then i purchased my first .per.sg domain in 2000 (i wonder if any of you recalled?). which prompted me to get my own .com as well. it was exciting to be listed in DMOZ or searchable in yahoo. and those were way before google. (ps. google has stopped recommending "if i meant cairn" whenever i search for my name)

like most of us who uses our computer on a daily basis, we have so much to thank people like Marc for enabling us to view the world through our computer screens. information has and will always be visual.

AVE Q. here in SG.

2008-05-23T14:04:37Z

and so i will be watching the preview. but with the media coverage on MDA banning some more porn website on the internet, i wonder if Ave Q will be singing "The Internet is for Porn"?

guess what the postman brought me today

2008-05-22T03:17:55Z

i lost my head when i found my heart

2008-05-20T00:49:48Z

4 by 4

2008-05-10T03:12:16Z

so that's all for the 2 days reservist. they demonstrated some fancy maneuvers, just for our info of things not to do when on the road/off-roads. heh. but it was fun.

somehow we managed to squeeze some time for bowling and billiard in between lessons.