Here goes a free-flowing story. (To differentiate who is saying what, what I say will be
italicized while what anyone else said will be
underlined.)
So it was a Friday night after
Tracy's gig. I had to pee, so I walked down from Plaza Damas to Desa Sri Hartamas, as Plaza Damas was closed and there were no other toilets around. I did not intend to flash anybody at the playground so I kept on walking.
Since I had a good holding capacity, I reached Coffee Bean and bumped into two dudes I knew. Went to Breakers to pee. Came back out.
"
So how come you guys are hanging out here instead of there?" *points to Hartamas Square*
"
Oh it's very crowded man. Plus this place is less noisy." (Cue thumping music blasting out the balcony of the
infamous Soda Club.)
"
Hmmm, but the scenery there is better. Here we get the Soda crowd... it doesn't feel like the Hartamas of before, y'know what I mean?"
"
Yeah but here you pay a bit more for the quiet."
"
Hmm yes, but I think I'll head over to Hartamas Square and see if I bump into anybody. I almost always do! There are always a few regulars there... plus, the international school chicks!"
"
Well fine then, leave us then. Don't blame us if you don't bump into anybody."
And so, I walked to Hartamas Square, and sure enough, the first table I see had two familiar faces! (And a hot chick!)
"
HAYYY ALBERT!"
"
Dude! I see you every time! I saw you here yesterday, and here you are again..." (I came the day before for
Alda's Low End Assasins gig.)
I told him how my other friends said I wouldn't bump into anybody, and he forced me to sit down instead of surveying how likely I was to bump into more people. I was introduced to the chick. YAY!
They were smoking shisha, and I took the oppurtunity to
sample it, repeatedly. The shisha shop dude then came over, saying how he could blow shisha smoke into a bottle and change its color.
I whipped out my digital camera to take a picture of the yellowed bottle.
The guy to my right went, "
Cool! A digital camera! Can I see it?" I then passed it to him.
The chick went, "
Wow, you carry a digital camera around wherever you go?" "
Yeah I do!" "
Cool!"
The guy fiddled around with my camera and asked, "
Dude, does this have shutter speed?" I said yes, and showed him that it was the
Tv mode on the dial.
He then took pictures of everybody smoking shisha, YAY!
Now you may wonder why I would be overjoyed. Simple! He saved me the trouble of finding an excuse to make the chick do something photo-worthy with the shisha. (Of course, all I wanted was a picture of her, shisha or not.) Inside, I was thinking, "
YAY thank you for taking pictures of her, with flash even!" Since he knew her, it wouldn't be so awkward.
My friends from Coffee Bean passed by. I went, "
Wassap! What did I tell you? What did I tell you, huh? You said I wouldn't bump into anybody! Haha!"
She then looked at the pictures. All this while, I didn't, playing it cool. We then played foosball at Breakers till they closed the coin change counter, and we all went home.
It wasn't until I reached home that I realized I should've checked the pictures.
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 to block out normal light and let only infrared light through. On my Canon Powershot A520 however, the warranty has not finished and I do not dare operate on such a digital camera that is not cheap, so I use a Hoya R72 filter (infrared pass filter). Internally, its infrared cut filter still lets a little infrared light in, so I can get <a href=)
sunny exposures in less than one second.
Arlia's car. I set the white balance to the clouds, making the sun tint. The above branch came into the picture by accident.
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 and the diameter of my pupil (63 pixels). 109 divided by 63 gave an aperture of F1.73.<br><b>Right</b>: I pointed a table lamp at my face and took a picture without flash. This was F4.48. Thus, I could conclude that my range was approximately 3 stops.<br><br>What about shutter speed? It is said that humans can only really distinguish up to 30 frames per second.</div><br><font size=)
Tracy's This Is Acoustics! Part II gig!
Lionel to ask if 
Peter Tan, saying, "Eh, you take a picture of my bald head have to pay now! I am a celebrity you know!" So we put a Starbucks cup holder there, no royalties!
before...) These were from Hamley's London. Impossible to get in Malaysia, Singapore even.<br><br>My averages are 49-55 seconds (on the standard original 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube), 260 seconds on the 4x4x4 Rubik's Revenge (330 seconds if I get stuck) and 700 seconds on the 5x5x5 Professor's Cube. As for the Rubik's Shells, please do not ask me to do it as it hurts my fingers and locks often. That one takes about 7 minutes if I don't lose count and screw up (plus I accidentally locked two wheels, making it permanently on Tough mode; I solved that under 3 minutes so I went for Challenge mode by locking the other two wheels.)<br><br>The original is nowhere near anything I expected. Smooth, orgasmic over-spinning, not-locking cubing.</div><br><font size=)
