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Month: April, 2004

depressing songs?

Ruth started with an entry on the most depressing song she knows: Mad World by Gary Jules (actually, by Tears for Fears… it’s a remake). I heard the Gary Jules version while watching Donnie Darko. The movie and the song go hand in hand. Qinyi goes for Gloomy Sunday.
But this is my pick. It’s not [...]

photographic memory

been going through all my photos to see what i can use in my portfolio. i’ve almost forgotten some people, places and events in the photos. yet some others are permanently etched in my mind – no need for photos. it’s quite a task on one level, just ploughing through all them. for example, i [...]

five basic photography principles

read this on offstone and found it interesting… it’s instructional, inspirational, comforting and humbling all at once.
5 Basic Photography Principles
1. Photographers are not primarily interested in photographs. They have a focused energy and enthusiasm which is directed at an outside, physically present, other. They bring to this subject an exaggerated sense of curiosity, backed [...]

girls of central mall

i’ve been ill most of the past week and also busy with photography, so i haven’t had time to write in my blog. actually, i probably did have the time but wasn’t in the mood to write.
despite being ill, it was a good week. i managed to meet up with joy and felicia, who were [...]

false dawn

a poem i read on a forum i frequent:
“False Dawn”
`merdeka’, they said, pointed the way for all
to a new dawn of a better life and a rosy future.
on this all the party manifestoes concurred,
only on the road to be taken they differed –
for the anglicised-democrats, consult and negotiate;
the socialists planned mass grievances to agitate.
their mandate [...]

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