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15 Comments » With some sadness, I put down my twin fighting batons in EQ2…
… in order that I may take up new weaponry.
My friends groan and tremble each time I whip out my fearsome dual-wielding objects of terror.
They shiver in the cold dread of waking up one day to find themselves unwitting stars of YouTube.
Bwahahahaha!
I think I need to buy a tripod.
Why can I never get a straight answer from a man? We’re planning a trip to Guernsey (an island) dead early tomorrow morning, so I need to know what time we have to leave so I can set my alarm.
Me: What time do we have to leave home?
Piers: No earlier than an hour before the time we have to be there – which is an hour before we sail (6 am).
Took me 11 minutes of questioning, during which time I got more riddles, before I received the answer: 4 am.
Piers “invented” a really delicious Asian snack combo: Prawn crackers with hoisin sauce! So proud of him!
I also found this awesome lemongrass-flavoured prawn crackers at Tesco. From Netherlands, but makers were Indoneisan settlers. Tastes so great when you dip into hoisin sauce (sparingly)!
Yeah I know my photos are missing from my blog header. Looks very funny, doesn’t it?
Nanny Wen (aka Buggy Wen aka Davienne) says it reminds her of Harry Potter’s moving picture people.
Guess my photos are taking a break. They’ve gone into hiding because it’s been raining a lot in England and the weather forecast says it’s going to hail tomorrow.
IN THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER!
Crazy or not.
I thought I’d be in discomfort for a year because I was finding it impossible to get used to Invisalign in my mouth. But just 11 days into it, I hardly feel it anymore.
Was playing on my iPad before bed last night when I suddenly couldn’t feel plastic in my mouth and for one horrifying moment, thought that I had forgotten to put my aligners back on after dinner, which was ages ago.
Turned out it’s just my mouth has started to adapt.
Quote of the day
Me: I want a pet duckling!
Piers: LOL why!!!
Me: Cos they’re so cute.
Piers: All baby things are cute! Except babies.
A transport provider in the UK just sent me an e-mail asking me to take part in an online survey to help improve services.
So I go there and answer two questions (age and last time I used the service) and they say:
“Thank you for your time. Unfortunately, you do not qualify for the survey as this time around we are looking to survey our more senior customers (over 60) only.”
WTF fail.
Was googling the difference between biscuits and cookies and got linked to a Yahoo! Answers page. This guy’s answer made me LOL.
“The difference between the biscuit and the cookie is the Atlantic.
Plus, American biscuit more like a savory scone
Plus English biscuit is an American cookie.
Plus English or American cookie is in your computer to do stuff that no one really understands.”
Being too ambitious (or greedy). Two heaped bowls of ricotta and spinach tortelloni in bolognese sauce, with six sausages and three baby zucchinis thrown into the mix. A roll of garlic bread and a bottle of wine. Delicious!
Yay I got white tulips! My favouritest flowers. :)
England has the most beautiful flowers. Tulips and roses in white with pale pink. Gerberas in strawberry milk pink. Makes me happy!
Just read in detail about foot binding in ancient China. I always thought they just wrapped up the feet during infancy to stop them from growing.
But, no! They wait till the girl is 4-7 years old, then break her toes and arch bones so that the toes can curl under the sole. Without anaesthesia.
After wrapping the monstrous creation tightly, the girl is then forced to walk on her broken feet so her weight can help crush them into shape. The feet are crushed and rebound daily for like two years! WTF is wrong with people?!
Sheylara “The Human Tripod”.
I see you have mastered the two-camera shot!
“My friends groan and tremble each time I whip out my fiersome [sic - I think you meant "fearsome"] dual-wielding objects of terror.”
Especially photographers who have worked long and hard to AVOID being in film or in pictures… Then we get conned by some sweet talking actress…
Saw on a Taiwan variety show how they improvised without tripod. Take a water bottle (the pri school type with a sling), sling it across your shoulder, adjust the strap length so that the top of the bottle meets your elbow when you’re filming. This way your elbow rests on the water bottle and doesn’t shake as much. It works somewhat.
reminds me of….Wolf in AVP:R
the predator with 2 shoulder cannon!!!
hahahaha
Arrrrrr!!! Get to the CHOPPA!!!
Sheylara is hunting!!!
*start predator’s main theme song*
modchip: Haha. It’s really very tiring for the arms…
Mike M: Well, I can’t claim to have mastered it. Some of the footages came out pretty shaky, lol.
Jesta: So I did. Thanks for spotting that! (What’s wrong with being in film and pictures anyway?)
Derrick: Wow, that’s pretty handy. Haha. But I’ll probably look even more retarded than I already do holding the two camcorders. :P
Ashtar83: Hmm, I never watched that. Nice ah?
now that i realized something.. they never make a left handed cam.. O_o
i dont know why one would need 2 handycams..
the only thing with dual cam that i know is the object recognizing cams on my university lab..
2 cameras at certain position capturing the same object.. and using the relative position and angel of one cam from the other.. we can measured its distance.. know its shape.. etc..
it works like our eyes..
AVP:R so-so
storyline is bad, lucky for there is gore and killings, if not probably a show we can wait for TV to show. Watch it if ya fan for predators and aliens. Else just watch something else.
anyway dual cam means…2 times damage on cam shy ppl lol
zield: Yeah, I realised that when I was trying to dual wield. It was so awkward holding the cam on my left hand, I was getting cramps, lol.
That night we were at the karaoke, the two cams were handy because:
1) I could point one cam at the singer, point the other cam at the TV. So when I edit my video, I can intercut the singer and the MTV at any point I like
2) When there were two singers, I could shoot close ups of both singers at the same time for more editing options, rather than move the camera from one to the other (might miss moments) or do a two-shot, which doesn’t look good especially if they weren’t sitting close together.
There are really many moments when having two cams are handy, like when you want to capture spontaneous moments.
For example, parents watching their babies crawl for the first time. You want to capture the parents’ expressions closeup and you want to capture the baby closeup, but you can’t do it at the same time with one cam. You will lose moments if you keep moving the cam to one or the other! ;)
Ashtar83: Haha. Ok. I think I remember hearing reviews along the same lines, too. I’ve never watched Predators. Seen the first couple of Alien long time ago. I suppose they were pretty good, but I was never a big fan. :P
I wanted to ask why does anyone need 2 cams… until you replied. So do you bring the 2 cams out ALL THE TIME?
i need 30 camera, i need the Matrix effect.
30 camera for Matrix effect? That will only be about 1 second of footage, you need more! LOL! :D
rn: I don’t bring the cams all the time. Just most of the time. Hahaha. You never notice that everywhere I go, I lug around a big sports bag? :P
binary_001: Er… ok. Good luck with your Matrix movie. lol. :P
Everquest 2, I used to play that :)