{"id":2845,"date":"2010-02-06T23:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2010-02-20T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T12:11:04","slug":"non-stop-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"Another Busy Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Woke up this morning and was greeted by a message on my phone &#8230; saying that there will be a &#8216;photo clinic session&#8217; (more like a talk\/intro) about film\/toy camera photography at Orchard Central, organized by ThirtySix. Well who wouldn&#8217;t wanna go take a look at what Jimmy (the boss) has to say, so I brought my family (yeah &#8230; the entire army to go support!) to check out the session at 3:30pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s a couple of shots taken at the &#8216;photo clinic session&#8217;. Click on the image below for a (slightly) larger version.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/exposure01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/exposure01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/exposure02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/exposure02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After quite a long time &#8230; Fitzand gets to meet his favourite &#8216;jie jie&#8217; (sister) Noreen again. As usual &#8230; the two kids were clowning around and this time &#8230; their toys were in the form of giraffes &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Noreen trying to show off that her giraffe is cuter and smaller. Little did she know that doing so was a very &#8216;risky&#8217; move &#8230; as Fitzand might wanna confiscate it. True enough, Fitzand asked if he could bring the little one home. Thank God &#8230; he has quite a few other little giraffes at home and I managed to tell him that he can&#8217;t being back Noreen&#8217;s giraffe. Hmm. I thought she&#8217;s into camels? Nevermind. It&#8217;s a personal joke. \ud83d\ude1b<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think I&#8217;m kinda addicted to using the Sweeping Pano mode on the camera. Maybe it&#8217;s time to dig out my Horizon cam and feed it with a roll (or two) of film. Hmmm &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We had some beer but I had to refrain from drinking too much. The darn carpark at Orchard Central takes a very sober person to navigate &#8230; and my wife was afraid of the super many sharp turns to get the car from level 7 to the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Few more randoms &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the early dinner (and beer), Fitzand got lucky because there was this live lion dance performance (from Taiwan) at a mall nearby. He was thrilled! He&#8217;s a big fan of these lion dance thingies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/orchard09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Luckily managed a (at least little) decent shot of the &#8216;lion&#8217;. Taken in auto mode without flash &#8230; with one hand! Quite amazing eh?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/fitzand-3-years-old-album-1\/fitzand-06-feb-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fitzand clowning around after the performance \ud83d\ude00<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are a few other random photos I took today at Upper Pierce reservoir using the Sony DSC-TX1. Now I&#8217;m really impressed what this little point-and-shoot camera can do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/upppierce01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/upppierce01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/upppierce02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/randoms-with-sony-tx1-and-ep1-06-feb-10\/upppierce02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been quite an eventful Saturday. From bringing Fitzand to shop for some Chinese New Year decorations and some clothes (they&#8217;ve to wear those ermm &#8230; funny and weird looking Chinese style clothes to the childcare on next Wednesday for an early celebration) &#8230; bringing him for a short walk\/run at the reservoir &#8230; to putting up the decorations and later zoomed to Orchard Road for the photo clinic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ll probably try slow down the pace tomorrow, rest more &#8230; and hopefully be able to finish some rolls in my cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morning and was greeted by a message on my phone &#8230; saying that there will be a &#8216;photo clinic session&#8217; (more like a talk\/intro) about film\/toy camera photography at Orchard Central, organized by ThirtySix. 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