New Year Eve

New Year Eve... The very last day of 2008, very warm welcome 2009... Wishes all a great year ahead.. I had a very happy and sad year.. Estella came into my life, and luck keeps shunning me at work.. Nonetheless, I had learnt to cope with adversities and carry on to live my life.. I really hope my new family life can turn for the better.. No more myopic quarrels over little financial issues.. Hmm.. money has always been a root for all evils.. Statistic of divorces resulting from disagreements in finance are growing every single day.. We need to keep this in check... and be real careful on this..

I will try my very best to be a good husband, daddy and pay more attention to my family emotional needs in 2009..

Fireworks... This is the 1st attempt of a novice, or should I say beginner, to capture beautiful fireworks in photos for memories.. I went with my "brother" and his photography kakis to an isolated stairway in Marina Square.. I cant believe that we went to "chop" a place at 7pm when the fireworks are due to fire off at midnight.. Gosh.. I did it.. but the rewards were sweet... I managed to capture three decent fireworks.. Now, I understand why so many people appreciate fireworks photos so much.. Its damn hard to take... First, you have to pre-set the camera settings and set it to Manual mode before firing.. then, you need to anticipate the firing of the fireworks to capture a nice shot not cluttered with too much lights and too many design, overexposing it will spoil the effects.. I took more than 30 shots to get 3 decent ones.. thats the statistics you are looking at..

Oh yar, while waiting for the final moments (the fireworks), I took the Mandarin Oriental Fountain, seems like I've got the "feel" for fountain to capture the effects with such consistency .. hahah.. how would you compare this one to the one I took at Marina Barrage..