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by master choco in dry ice at 11 27 am 1 comment tuesday may 13 2008 honesty someone posted a comment on one of my galleries in pbase recently see above lena nothing special you are not real photographer you are just button pusher probably your camera is better and does not fit with you wasn t really bothered by this kind soul but what kept me wondering was what s on the mind of him her frankly lena has uttered a lot of truth i m not a real photographer just a button pusher hahaha how true all i did was really push the shutter button to record the shot i was quite amused really that lena actually even bothered to comment and i guess there just could be a few possibilities a lena is a professional and real photographer and if so this really is an extremely constructive feedback for me to think about b lena is not a real photographer and merely drops by randomly and happen to hantam my gallery with this comment and if so i should just brush this comment aside and move on i ve seen this quote somewhere which says a camera helps the photographer record what he sees but the photographer must first be able to see i like this quote a lot because i m a believer of a photo is only as beautiful as the photographer can see being a partially geeky guy i have gas gear acquiring syndrome as well i e i m fascinated and has a tendency to acquire better and newer gear but these quotes as mentioned above have kept me on the ground and i ve lost quite a lot of craving to keep up with the latest and newest camera bodies out there my current eos 20d has been my regular workhorse for the past 4 years 4 years in today s pace of dslr development translate to at least 3 generations of upgrades and better cameras but i still can t find a good reason to upgrade simply because i still can get what i want to capture with my 20d anyway i m glad this lena character popped into my gallery this way because it s a timely reminder of what photography means to me as well as a reminder for me to keep seeing things around me in ways that are special as i ve done so in my reply on my gallery thank you once again lena for your brutal honesty hahahah o btw my button pushing photos can be see here posted by master choco in dry ice at 11 25 pm no comments friday may 02 2008 iwonder a recent short conversation with a padawan went something like this me hey i think as long as you take part in this xyz activity you d still qualify to attain the most prestigious and highest attainable pqr badge padawan i m not interested in these attainments and badges anymore i just want to go through and experience as much activities there are and learn the most out of all of them because at the end of our life everything will end up in dust that reply shook me it really did because it reminded me of how i used to look at life too i remembered during the time of my jedi training a fellow trainee asked me what do i aspire to become in my work as a jedi and i replied that i m not sure i couldn t see very far how good or bad a jedi i could be but deep down i knew that the path of the jedi is what i want to be and i knew deep down that this is the path that i should and would tread i don t quite care if i d just be a basic jedi a jedi s jedi a jedi of all jedis or the jedi all i wanted to be was to be a jedi to train and bring up my padawans well what s in a name to the jedi anyway i play the guitar i learnt it almost all by myself having been greatly influenced by the great mr a i read up on music theory i read on up guitar playing techniques i listened to lots and lots of guitar music i watched guitar videos but i just didn t have the formal training to play the gutar and most naturally i do not have any formal qualifications nor certifications to ascertain my ability to play the guitar but i enjoyed it thoroughly learning to play the guitar opened so much possibilities for me it gave me my much lacking self confidence it gave me my much lacking sense of achievement and most importantly it gave me the exposure to a wide genre of music so qualifications certifications or not i enjoy what i was doing i enjoyed and grew the most during my 3 years university education those were the days which shaped so much of my world view and perceptions and thinking and ironically the education i received most wasn t from the books in fact i did not manage to attain a good degree that we so often see being published in the classified sections i remember a good friend asked me after we graduated if i have any regrets for not having spent more time in studying to as to attain the good degree and i replied that i have no regrets at all because i learnt so much more lifeskills during my 3 years there and now iwonder i wonder if i have lost some of that very pure and purposeful pursuit of my passions i have a very strong conviction still that there s a great difference between doing things right and doing the right things the former i feel is almost always easier the latter demands moral courage or maybe i m just being ignorantly naive but recently i came across a very interesting definition of what a mind is a mind is just a construct of a great many thoughts and thoughts are temporal in nature a state of mind at any cross section in time is but a fleeting moment in the multitude of criss crossing thoughts and it s almost always due to all the thoughts that bring us all up and down in our roller coaster life and all these attachments of life which come in the forms of attainments achievements ranking and qualifications are just part of the temporal construct of our thoughts and i thank this padawan for reminding me of this reminding me that life is to be lived rather than just a pursuit of achievements or attainments no doubt the world we live in usually and generally do not help remind us to live our lives but i hope i could gain some assurance that such is also the temporal nature of the world we live in too posted by master choco in dry ice at 11 47 pm no comments saturday april 12 2008 photos galore attention one and all photos of school events are now available at my picasa gallery events such as npcc ccu competition 2008 npcc cadet leaders camp 2008 singapore flyer experience and growth camp gunung panti all future photos of school events will be posted up there enjoy posted by master choco in dry ice at 5 00 pm no comments tuesday april 01 2008 where is the truth it was once a sacred land a peaceful and holy land the rooftop of the world where prayers were sent up to the heavens by the winds where the people take refuge in the buddha the dharma and the sangha it is a piece of high altitude land which demands the hardiest of people the most courageous of humans and the deepest of faith in order to survive and thrive where mother nature exposes the inhabitants of this land to extremities its people has learnt to live in moderation and practice the middle path such richness in culture such depth in tradition tracing back to ancient history its people has occupied this high altitude plateau but then in the 1950s a neighbouring land began to liberate this holy land as far as i m concerned this liberation is such a vulgar and dirty word who on planet earth has the right to liberate another civilization i now begin to slowly appreciate how another civilization in the middle east develop such immense hatred towards the west and how unfortunate it really is for humanity for the oppressed civilization to react in such devastating manners and i m very afraid that the same would happen to this sacred high land their spiritual leader has inadvertently been blamed for starting all the chaos but in all honesty and true faith who really is the trouble maker here how could history be warped just to claim their rights to liberate how could the stronger civilization expect the oppressed to keep still and remain oppressed definitely not so considering the manner in which the liberation took place tears flowed out of my eyes uncontrollably when i stood in front of a buddha s statue in a monastery in this holy land i could not explain that feeling with words comprehensively but i know it was a feeling that i am being completely accepted and that i have arrived at a place where somehow i belonged it could be some kind of a connection with my previous lives or something because i could not otherwise felt compelled to visit this special land and with what s happening to this land right at this very moment all i feel is exasperation and helplessness that inexplicable connection that i have for this land saddens me i don t know why i can t explain why but i do understand that what i m experiencing in this lifetime is a culmination of my previous karma may the strength and faith of these great people pull them through these nonsensical turn of events and may the truth present itself for all the see posted by master choco in dry ice at 11 04 pm no comments saturday march 08 2008 turkish little fellas these little fellas were supposedly from turkey or rather this fish therapy thingy was supposedly originated from turkey saw this at kenko singapore flyer a couple of weeks back and decided to give it a try very tingling i must say with probably a hundred of these little fellas nibbling on my legs they re supposed to help with my blood circulation clear away dead skin and smoothen my skin not sure if my legs became smoother as a result the presence of my leg hair got into my way whenever i tried to feel if my skin was smoother but i do know these fellas seemed to savour my legs quite a great deal see my colleague s leg on the left and compare that with mine and it s not hard to see whose legs had more dead skin and these fellas do hands too pretty fun qian hu next posted by master choco in dry ice at 3 10 pm no comments the next big voice such a talent such a big voice such a joy hearing her play the guitar such a joy hearing her sing joanna wang 我只在乎你 my favourite things posted by master choco in dry ice at 3 06 pm no comments friday january 25 2008 accountability once upon a time a man named greenfingers was employed by a nursery owner to look after and help his orchids grow and bloom when greenfingers first reported for work he realised that the few pots of orchids were not given enough care for the past year or so and were very much frail and almost drying out he found out that he had a lot of work to do to re pot the orchids and give them the right amount of sunlight but greenfingers was determined to give his all to ensure that the orchids under his care were well taken care of and he hoped that they would blossom into beautiful flowers and so he slogged for a good year but at the same time the nursery owner added new species and introduced new technologies with the hope of making the nursery become the most productive and most beautiful nursery in the region but with the added demands on the need to care for more species and to cope with learning the newer ways of growing plants and flowers all the other helpers employed by the nursery owner found that they had more and more tasks and plots of plants and flowers to tend over there s only so much they could do weeds started to grow at corners over looked time were taken away from these helpers in coping with new changes by the end of the year greenfingers realised that despite his orchids which he had diligently tend over had blossomed nicely and beautifully he couldn t say the same about all the other plants and flowers in the nursery one look across the entire nursery the sight was kind of messy and disorganised so greenfingers began to wonder if he should be happy that his orchids finally managed to grow beautifully or be disappointed that the nursery as a whole has not been well tended over greenfingers also began to reflect in what other ways he could have helped get the whole nursery back in order again posted by master choco in dry ice at 12 34 am no comments saturday january 19 2008 patience pretty darn long time that is since my last post here wonder if anyone s still bothered to come here been occupied occupied much occupied being occupied is good being occupied in the right way is more important though very eventful last couple of months learnt a lot about myself about my health about my deep self realised that i ve lots to learn lots to unlearn dizzying at times ecstatic at others time flies is never enough still yet even as time flies so quickly quicker than i d like it to be i realised i still need to learn more about the virtue of being patient patient with myself patient with others close to me patient with others words patient with others actions patient with things i do not see patient with words i do not hear patient with everything that i do not yet understand patient with myself learning ever so slowly to understand and the greatest virtue that i also need to acquire is none other than be thankful to people around me who have been patient with me while i learn to be patient and be hopeful that their patience do not end just like i ve not given up on learning to be patient posted by master choco in dry ice at 5 32 pm no comments thursday november 22 2007 getting close j ust when i though that there s only so much joy i could explore to derive from the kinds of photography that i ve been engaging in in came the world of macro photography o nly the sharpest of eyes would see the beauty of all things so close yet so small easy to miss easy to take for granted a lthough it has taken me oh so long to discover the beauty so near me i m so glad that i ve done so n o doubt there s this regret that i should have made this discovery much earlier n o doubt life often has its very unique and inexplicable way of unveiling itself a ll i know is that i ve taken that first step to our lookout point go as far as you can and you ll always see further from there and i do know from deep within that i have found something very special something that i ll treasure and sustain for a lifetime posted by master choco in dry ice at 12 03 pm no comments monday october 29 2007 running into the starry night so glad that i finished the 15km real run yesterday and after the race i can somewhat appreciate why it s called the real run runway road trail and beach all the run able tracks were covered in this race to be honest i was quite worried before the run since the last 12 km s pore bay run in aug i really attempted to condition myself after numerous reminders by my close friend too by going for long runs to bishan park i didn t want to end up collapsing from the rigorous heart activity but having completed it there was an immense sense of satisfaction running is an out of my comfort zone activity i ve always felt that human beings were not designed to run otherwise why do we have to design shoes to protect our feet and knees from the impact all along the race i kept having to push myself and encourage myself not to stop i could run slowly i could walk briskly but giving up...