Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Close Up Shots

Feeling a sense of 'randomness' in me so I decided to take my digicam and start snapping some pics while I am resting at home on MC.

Didn't quite find a subject though, wondering around snapping my poopies pics.
Then I saw a Bougainvillea plant near the drain and decided to snap at its flowers. Have always seen people doing closeup shots at flower petals and leaves etc... decided to give it a try.

Here goes... Snap Snap!




There was no Photoshop involved, except to crop out the size I want from the big pics.

After the Bougainvillea, I suddenly stepped on some Lallang while stepping back. And so I decided to try with Lallang...

This is the result...


When I was about finished, I turned my attention towards my poopies and started snapping away again. Again, it occurred to me there were some small leaves near a crack in the tiles of my driveway.

Snap Snap... here goes...



The area captured is really from part of a cracked tile, just taking it at closeup range. I really love my cam but sad to say, its LCD screen has freaking looooooong rows of dead pixels... if I can count them, the dead pixels should take up approximately 6px by 70px.

Darn it! Somemore no money to buy a new cam. Poor me... :(

NeoPrints 2

I have decided to post a few more NeoPrints from years back. One of my Meis said I didn't put up any with her inside, so I shall. Sorry Mei! I am too busy to crop every single NeoPrint after scanning... this post is for you.

Must be after some band practice or something.
Ridz, Shirin, Me and Wenxin


I think this is at Tampines Mall MacDonalds.
Or was it Century Square?

Wenxin, Me, Ailing, Pei Lin and Shirin


Got my friend of many donkey years, Aron, into the pic.
Ailing, Pei Lin, Shirin, Me, Wenxin and Aron


Another typical lonely guys NeoPrint.
Again my friend of many donkey years, Kelvin, is inside.
Andy, Kelvin and Me


Oh man... this is classic! Asking Horny Gerz to rape us?
Andy, Aron, Kelvin and Me.


Wound Infection

It started as a harmless looking PIMPLE, and so I just did the usual and squeezed it. "POP" it went and I thought it was over.

Come 1 week later and the freaking PIMPLE swelled to the size of a 50-cent coin! Super pain man! Causing me sleepless nights, especially when I am one who tends to sleep on my sides. Turn right sure gena the spot, turn left and my left arm will be numb in no time.

And worse, my mind kept having thoughts that it could be a BOTFLY larvae growing under that darn wound. If you all have surfed around YouTube, you should know what I mean. Disgusting little maggot, growing under human skin and you need to use a pair of tweezers just to pull that freaking b*st*rd out!

Go ahead, take a look at this link!

Anyway, I went to see the doctor early in the morning and to my relief, it was just a very very bad wound infection. I guess the infection must be super bad because the doctor actually gave me 2 types of antibiotics just to bring down the swelling. That's a first for me. I was also given 2 days MC because I couldn't get enough proper rest since last week and I can only limp my way around.

For those who wish to see the infected wound, proceed down only if you are not those type who will be squimish over graphical images. Buahaha....
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Here's the wound without flash


Here's the wound with flash, you can see the infection is soooo darn bad... not forgetting disgusting.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

NeoPrints

I was having dinner with my friends on Wednesday and we started discussing about what interests we had when we were younger. Somehow, my mind flashed back to those days where NeoPrints aka "大头贴" was causing quite a hype probably 10 years back.

I went back and browsed through my old MUJI organiser (the silver silver metal one) where I kept my collection of NeoPrints.

Oh goodness, 10 years is so DARN long! The days where keeping long hair was in fashion after Ekin Cheng's Young & Dangerous movies. 10 years ago was also when I had already finished my secondary school studies and enjoying the life of a tertiary student.

Ooooooh! Flexible rules with dressing, length of hair bla bla bla...
I took that opportunity to try keeping my hair longer than when in secondary school till I started putting on weight and my mom said I looked like an Ah Soh!

Anyway, just some NeoPrints which I decided to put up for this post.
Here goes...













That's about it for now... did not have time to scan every single NeoPrint.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Mongmong & Maomao's Home Defects Check

Today's the day for defects check for our home. We were actually supposed to begin the defects check after getting our keys about few months back but had been delaying it till now.

Armed with the most important tools, 2 SCREW DRIVERS!
You guessed it right, for the tapping of tiles to check for poor workmanship. Had a quick breakfast near our home before the tapping business and headed upstairs.

The most obvious defect before we even stepped inside our home was the wooden main door. Here! Take a look...


The crack is so bad that it appeared behind the door. Totally FAIL! MUST ask HDB to change the whole door man.


Next area we checked were the windows and hinges. A thorough check showed mouldy hinges, missing screws and loose window handles due to spoilt screw threads. Left out pictures for this area. We proceeded to check the bathrooms and their accessories. Most of the metal (Polished aluminum I believe) were mouldy and needed to be polished. Even the covers for the screws holding up the mirrors are mouldy, totally eye-sores to me.


Was out for about 1 and 1/2 hours for dinner and the time is now 9.04pm.
Back to where I left out earlier...

After checking the bathrooms, we proceeded with checks of the tiles and parquet flooring. Out came our handy SCREW DRIVERS and tapping we went.
A tap tap here, a tap tap there, here tap there tap, everywhere... Oops sorry, got carried away somehow. Anyway, we plastered all tiles and parquet flooring which "sounded suspicious". Below are some pics of these "precious finds"...




Other defects include an indent in the wall of the master bedroom, don't think I will put up the pic since it is not so obvious.

Basically, we finished around 12 plus in the noon and went for lunch after the defects check. Will be posting the pics of our home before any renovation. Here goes...


From entrance towards living rm window

From living rm window towards entrance

From living rm window towards entrance


Living rm window towards bedrooms

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Looking at toilet of master bedroom

Upper view of master bedroom

Lower view of master bedroom

Well... that's about all for now. Next post about this would probably involve the renovation works.

Ciaoz!