| Nahbei~... |
[28 Nov 2009|02:09am] |
Is my photography really that bad? Why do the bosses say the file is not shining? I have done nothing but cracked ideas on shoots but that is not enough.
So you say I am not world class enough? Well, I disagree. I am good and I know. It's just tiring rising up to the challenges time and time again for you to always have an opinion about something.
I have always done better than the competition so fuck it. I know I am good and better than what you say I am~....
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| Hello~! |
[27 Nov 2009|01:33am] |
Hello? IS anybody out there? Does anybody read livejournal anymore? Haha!
Well... if there is life out there.... I just updated my website.
It's www.nickyloh.com
Something I forced myself to do because of the lack of work I have in Taiwan.
Sometimes I wonder if my life was different. If only I was one of those Ah Sia kias that I so despise. Then I would not have to worry about paying a bank loan for the HDB flat for my dad. Then I wouldn't have to worry about paying off my car loan. Then I would have all the money in the world to do any artistic fuck shit photography I want and not take any shit from anybody.
I need inspiration again~....
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| Taiwan groom drinks too much at wedding, dies |
[25 May 2009|02:55pm] |
Published: 4:40PM Monday May 25, 2009
Source: Reuters
A Taiwanese groom died on his wedding day after having too much wine and beer to drink, police and local media said.
The man, 35, an insurance company worker surnamed Wu passed out at home after drinking too much on Sunday at a high-end restaurant in Taipei among more than 100 wedding guests, the Liberty Times reported.
It was not known if he had health complications.
"Everyone was having a great time," said restaurant party organiser Linda Chien. "We don't know what happened after that."
Wu was hospitalised after his face turned black, the paper said. A hospital spokeswoman said he died despite treatment.
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| Religion~ |
[12 May 2009|05:59pm] |
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"The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others. Rather, we must criticise ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life." His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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| 17 Again~! |
[10 May 2009|03:42am] |
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When Weiyi asked me to watch 17 Again starring Zac Efron, I figured it would be like one of those High School Musical kind of movies with high school romance and cheesy song lyrics about love at first site. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised at how relevant the movie applied to me and how enjoyable it really was.
Matthew Perry stars too as the grown up version of Zac Efron (Mike) who in the movie, gives up a college scholarship by running off midway during a major basketball game in high school (much to the dismay of his coach and the talent scout) to catch up and kiss the love of his life, Scarlett, whom before the game had actually admitted to him that she was pregnant.
If I were 17 and my girlfriend had just said that, I would be very afraid. Very! Technically, my life would be fucked wouldn't it? But love prevails and he asked Scarlett to marry him. The end.
Well not quite, if we all could survive on love, we wouldn't need jobs would we? Well, zoom in 20 years later, Mike is a disgruntled man who just lost his promotion in sales to a sweet hot young thing and has basically been blaming and angry at his wife, the adult Scarlett and foxy Leslie Mann, for holding him back all these years.
So yada yada, after feeling depressed, he goes back to his high school and meets a janitor whom I supposed is God, the devil or the genie from Ali Baba, and is aptly asked "Would you do it all over again if you had the chance?" To keep the story going Mike of course says "Yes!"
So while driving home he falls into a ditch and is transformed once again to the young and charismatic 17 year old version of himself and decides to enroll himself in high school to fulfill his dreams and then later realise that his destiny for going back to high school was to actually help his constantly bullied son and troubled daughter.
I liken Zac Efron's screen charisma to Leonardo Di Caprio's charisma when he first appeared on screens for girls to swoon. The purposely thought out scenes featuring his dance moves, sporty image and cheeky side seemed kinda cheesy but hey! This kid's got screen presence! Well at least if you were in the demographic of 13-17.
The sexual tension between the young Mike and adult Scarlett was really the highlight of the show though. The awkward moments seeing a teenager dancing with a cougar like Leslie MAnn (always been a fan!). Her inappropriate attraction to a younger boy just seems so sexy to me. Haha!
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| You have been Terminated~! |
[27 Apr 2009|10:17pm] |
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Wot's this shit I hear about the Fox network deciding to cancel season 3 of The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Cheebeh, they leave it at such a cliff hanger and then cancel it for no good reason at all? MAchiam massage without happy ending... Bwahaha....
Ho well... Guess I just have to wait till MAy 18 to see their Fall program lineup. Till then I will be crossing my fingers.
To be honest, I don't know many Terminator fans in Singapore, most are usually fans of Xmen, Spidey and Batman. My interest in the story took place maybe when I was like 12 and the LD, yes you heard me, LD = Laser Disc, for the movie Terminator 2 had just came out. At that point of time, Arnie was the good guy already, a different role from the first movie where he played a straight face cyborg terrorising Linda Hamilton.
You see my mum and I back then only had weekends to spend time with each other since the divorce. And spending weekends at her house eating her super yummy maggi mee (I insisted on eating maggi mee... Kids, what do we know) and watching Terminator 2 over and over again.
Patrick Wilson portrayed what I believe was one of the most unforgettable villains in 90s cinema as the T1000 liquid metal killing machine bent on the destruction of John Connor, future leader of the resistance against Skynet, an entity, if you think of it, got ripped off by the Matrix.
So in the distant future, unlike in the Matrix movies, the bots just simply want to exterminate us instead of habouring our natural energy to sustain their lifeform. The movie is kickass, the cyborgs just want us dead.
So I grew remembering clearly how efficiently the T1000 in Terminator 2 could kill things, I actually wondered what if one day that scenario really happened? After all, there aren't a lot of molten lava factories to throw him for melting purposes.
I also really like the connection between Sarah Connor and her son John Connor. A woman who didn't really care how important her son would be in the future, but someone who just wanted him to survive. That was really enough for her. In Terminator 2 and in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, you really see the moral dilemmas and sacrifices she literally makes John. Sorry if it sounds like Disney's Bambi, but I really think the gist is the same. Just that Bambi and her Mother weren't weren't chased around by psycho Arnie or Liquid metal bots.
So naturally when I heard the sequel of the prequel (understanding time travel is confusing) was coming out and directed by McG, director of Charlie's Angels, I was estatic!
So far, the trailers rock (but trailer's are always nice) and Christian Bale, in my opinion, one of the best actors of our time, is in it.
Rumour is that even Arnie agreed to let himself be digitally added into the movie in a cameo if the technology allowed it. IT is still being researched but that would really rock man!
What can go wrong? I am still incredibly biased, so even if the movie sucks, I would probably still love it! For memories sake, for Sarah Connor and John Connor and for my weekends with my mum watching Terminator 2.
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| Great Crevase Edgar Mueller~ |
[27 Apr 2009|03:11pm] |
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Great Crevase Edgar Mueller. Hard work: Together with up to five assistants, Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset. The picture appeared on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, as part of the town's Festival of World Cultures.
He spent five days, working 12 hours a day, to create the 250 square metre image of the crevasse, which, viewed from the correct angle, appears to be 3D. He then persuaded passers-by to complete the illusion by pretending the gaping hole was real.
'I wanted to play with positives and negatives to encourage people to think twice about everything they see,' he said. 'It was a very scary scene, but when people saw it they had great fun playing on it and pretending to fall into the earth. 'I like to think that later, when they returned home, they might reflect more on what a frightening scenario it was and say, "Wow, that was actually pretty scary".'
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| Strange how time flies |
[26 Apr 2009|01:29am] |
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Strange how time flies and it's almost going to be two years since I left Singapore for this strange cheena nation of Taiwan. I constantly evaluate my level of happiness and satisfaction here and am very saddened to say that it has not always been a high.
I mean I appreciate the experiences that the new job here has given me but sometimes when I think of the lost opportunities of significant events that happened in my friend's lives, I think, fuck this shit.
Yet, if I know that if I had stayed in Singapore, I would have yearned and wondered what it would like to cover protests, typhoons and earthquakes. I believe God create all of us with a yearning and that yearning turns into passion for something else. I have for years now tried to stay away from the lifestyle that I very much detest taking by most Singaporeans; the kind of life where you have to drag your feet to work every day in a mundane existence where nothing you do ever matters.
Somehow, somewhere I have lost my direction and my passion for photography. It has just somehow become a means of supporting my basic societal compromise of having a normal life. For once I am really afraid because I feel for nothing. Nothing in photography excites me anymore, work does not excite me anymore.
I look at my soul-less pictures, a pre-determined set of techniques that I apply all the time and I cringe. I cringe at the lack of energy. I am a farce.....
I want to be inspired again, to feel alive....
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| Stars - Calendar Girl |
[26 Apr 2009|01:27am] |
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"Calendar Girl"
If I am lost for a day; try to find me
But if I don't come back, then I won't look behind me
All of the things that I thought were so easy
Just got harder and harder each day
December is darkest and June is the light but this empty bedroom won't make anything right
While out on the landing a friend I forgot to send home
Who waits up for me all through the night
Calendar girl who's in love with the world Stay alive
Calendar Girl who's in love with the world Stay alive
I dreamed I was dying; as I so often do
And when I awoke I was sure it was true
I ran to the window; threw my head to the sky
And said whoever is up there,please don't let me die
But I can't live forever,I can't always be
One day I'll be sand on a beach by a sea
The pages keep turning, I'll mark off each day with a cross
And I'll laugh about all that we've lost
Calendar Girl who is lost to the world
Stay Alive
Calendar Girl who is lost to the world Stay Alive
January, February, March, April, May I'm alive
June, July, August, September,October I'm alive
November, December, you all through the winter, I'm alive
I'm alive
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| Technology week~! Sorta... |
[08 Mar 2009|09:49pm] |
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This week has been most rewarding for me in terms of technology! I have always been a bit techno-phobic but I think most of it is actually attributed to my laziness to learn new things.
My dad for one, when he first used the computer in front of me, it was attrocious. Simple things like scrolling a mouse over an icon and double clicking seemed to be a mountainous task for him. Now here I am, aging in a society where kids create websites and iphone softwares at the age of 8, fearing if one day my existence will be obsolete simply because I cannot catch up with the times of technology.
A few months ago when I discovered rapidshare, the speed of downloading was so amazingly fast that I though such technology of bandwith would only be available in ten years time, yet here it is, at my doorstop, the convenience of a link and password. Voila, you have Watchman in Dvd quality.
Which brings me to my second technology achievement this week. Linking my imac to my new (Ooh lala) LG 32 inch LCD TV via HDMI. The quality of the downloaded movie files seem enhanced on the LCD tv, or maybe it's just my imagination. Nonetheless, it's sweet! Suki!
Then there's the Nintendo Wii which my darling Alvina bought for me for my birthday in January. Apparently, the games are totally free if you download it from the net. Fuck the 60 bucks per original game. Cocksucking gamemakers earn enough money from us in the 90s when everything had to be original and a 4 mb game cost 90 bucks.
So the way to go is to download the ISO game file for Wii, then you gotta convert the region to USA so that it matches your modified Wii set. Burn the image to disk and there you have a totally new game for free! Woohoo!
Finally, a little old meets new. I managed to install an emulator in my Sony PSP to allow it to play original PS 1 games like Final Fantasy 7, which is probably the second best Final Fantasy story compared to 6.
Technology is so convenient when we have the time to grasp it. Anything is possible!
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| Dream |
[03 Mar 2009|10:40am] |
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I had a very nice dream two nights ago which absolutely meant nothing but I still like it very much.
I dreamed that I was meandering through Borders Singapore, like the last scene in Titanic, through shelves of books and finally ending up at the photography section. A place where I used to spend my weekends just sitting on that bench reading up on photography master wondering whether I would ever get to travel to places like Tibet or Mongolia to shoot pictures like them.
Five years later in my career, I have been to places like that really are like heaven on earth but with the dawning of the purchase of my HDB flat with my dad, I am beginning to wonder if this career path I have chosen is enough to ground me down to a life of marriage, the Singapore lifestyle.
Let's all not be ashamed of wanting that. It's pretty much a good thing too actually. The car, the apartment and the lifestyle of being able to afford something expensive just by saving for it. What's so bad about that?
On the other hand, I wished I could be as free as a bird without any responsibilities sometimes. Not caring about everything back home and just go travelling with whatever money i have for a few years and come back with nothing but just spectacular photos and memories to live with.
Do the issues of settling down really conflict with taking no responsibility? And is there a compromise?
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| Top 20 gaffes by outgoing president George W Bush (by Sarah Baxter) |
[08 Feb 2009|12:02am] |
Top 20 gaffes by outgoing president George W Bush (by Sarah Baxter)
Here are a list of our favourite gaffes by George W Bush. Add your favourites to the feedback panel below
1. "Will the highways on the internet become more few?"
2. "It’s a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life"
3. "I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq"
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4. "I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office"
5. "We’re concerned about Aids inside our White House – make no mistake about it"
6. "I’m honoured to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein"
7. "I’ve coined new words, like “misunderstanding”
8. "I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances"
9. "It’s in our country’s interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way"
10. "One year ago today, the time for excuse-making has come to an end"
11. "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn’t here"
12. "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test"
13. "I don’t particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it
14. "[The Taliban] have no disregard for human life"
15. "When the governor calls, I answer his phone"
16. "Those who enter the country illegally violate the law"
17. "I think we agree, the past is over"
18. "America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienalienable right of life"
19. "My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions"
20. "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures"
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