product update

Joe has bought a contax U4r... a verrryyy high end digital compact... with a verryy high price tag. The fool!

he was gonna upload the photos to show the world but his pc won't let him, he sends you his apologies that technology has prevented him from being a pompous show-off who indulges in public displays of self-deluding ex-si-bits of his photography.
(it took him 5 min to try and spell excibition.... joe has difficulty spelling beyond 7 words ... maybe thats why he is into photography)

He also bought a second hand SB-26 flash for his nikon and went to shoot an event an hour after getting the manual (of course he didn't read it he's a man y'know) The fool!

Mr 'i am tired of my high spending middle class life' (a.k.a. joe) will spend sleepless nights justifying his purchase to the 60+% of the world that hovers around the poverty line.
{God bless the rich but heaven help the poor}- isn't that such an annoyingly neutral, pacifist and non-commital moderate statement.
[what? you haven't heard of it? ... yah i just made it up]

joe wishes for all readers to hang loose and God bless (rich AND poor)

allow me to articulate

I think i shd put this in writing.
albeit a tad public.

I would like to make a difference in the lives of the world.
i'm not a gifted orator so maybe one person at a time.
thats a passion i would like to have forever.
.... after ac and drama i sort of miss being passionate about something...

The struggle of the ethinic karen and other ethnic groups in burma interests me.
i would like to see it for myself and document their struggle.
even as the rest of the world pretends burma doesn't exist.
i'm not talking about a short term proj but a long one where i learn the stories and context.
its risky... both life limb and politics... i'm young and have a while.
but i'll really like to go there.

I suspect i'm suffering from a variation of middle class syndrome.
a sort of desire for the intangibles in life borne out of an excess of the tangible.
like if all my needs are fufilled then where do i go?
like 'spend less, live more'

tell me i'm nuts.

swing side the downside

Not a bad day at all....

gym was closed when i went so i did like heck lot of pull-ups
i'm alot weaker than 3 wks ago
heh

went out with quentin ... very good time... photo philosophy... inspiring... muz shoot more
talking and interllect is no subsitute for experience.
rising cost is a pain in the arse still

then met debbie and joel with quen.... very good time catching up and just hanging out.
sorta miss them, we did grow up together haha
must pop by the east sometime soon

oh got msged to day haha

my life is on an upswing... must get my silly ass moving on the uni apps... being a bum has its perks. ability to do nothing for nothing's sake and spend parent's money
where's my fillial piety and social conscience.
i'll be a gooder boy nxt wk

hope all my posts aren't this bloody mundane heh... sorry ppl
i'll try for a better nxt post k

be good

mmmhmmm

here's something fragmented
spent alot on film today .... going to die cos of cost... sigh
looked at the contax sl400r, i think its a damn good buy
-4 mega pix
-mannuel override
-fill flash
-most impt 0.05 shutter lag
730.. its not an slr but bloody hell look at the stats

ppl use it as a backup.... apparently st put in an order at cathay... the guy thought i was with the st (!!!??!!) so he told me. i'll talk to me parents

screaming in the gym is super annoying, there's this guy in the gym who always does dat.
will it kill him not to grunt/squeak every rep or the end of a set.
guess not...
but he bicep curls my body weight so i'll just shuddup
hey if size is proportionate to screaming maybe.... hmmm

for the record .. the 29ths are really not bad... dropped by to help josh do the orientation 2005 video. they are really efficent ... or at least thats what i saw and josh said.
plus they stayed beyond the time we left... thats commitment from the exco and ad-hoc.
i'm impressed.

chillz ppl :-)

first post.

yah lah i decided to declare my life online.... ok i've gone back on my word... paiseh.

i'll try and be honest.

Last night rocked ... but lacked sleep heh... i love my ac friends haha
ate like a pig... thats a big -10 to the 'look like brad pitt' scheme.

crappy street shooting in lot one ... trying to start a new series on christmas in the heartlands.
very challenging... i like ... but too sleep starved heh.
must get back into the swing of street work.

My portfolio is looking meager... ok lah ... but not compelling.
i hope st gets back to me, i really really would like the internship.

y'know ppl, i think theatre is not my calling. Odd that i dedicated 2 yrs to it then i just stop.
i have my reasons lah ... but basically it doesn't feel right.
I want to help and meet ppl (rather than wayang) and thats where photoj has come in, i think maye and bryan are pretty great influences in that... and really great ppl (and very cool) at that. If u read this THank you so much guys!

very long first post ... i stop now and sleep... need to finish my roll and get film.
maybe i shd go to the pottery kiln down the rd it would fill up the arts bit of my portfolio.

i think i'm abit obsessive and that mixes with passion,
i hope i don't end up with saturation

ok that was lame.

....maybe i shd msg

hang loose...