Just to let you all know that I'm off to the UK for a week! I haven't been back to the UK in a good 5 years now so it will be fun to head back and say hi to some family and friends.
I'm not sure if I'll have time to post next week (I'm taking Gerry with me - oh the stress of a 13 hour flight with a 23 month old baby!!!) so you guys can take a break from my pointless rambling.
See ya in December.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
I'm a competitive jerkwad
Did you know that I'm a competitive jerkwad? Also, can you believe that I didn't realise this until only recently (I would be interested in comment on this - does anyone else think that I'm very competitive?).
This revelation was a real surprise to me as I always believed, or rather thought that I believed, that it was more important to participate and have fun and that whether you won or not was not important. The reason I found out is because I have a profile in Facebook. Now some of my friends have huge profiles where they have so many applications installed that it takes over 5 minutes just to load the profile page! This seems to me to defeat the purpose so I deliberately keep my profile page relatively clean and indicative of my interests.
This means that I deliberately ignore most of the application requests I receive (such as werewolves, vampires, petrolhead, hot potato etc etc etc etc etc). However, recently I received a movie quiz challenge!
Now, in my head, I know that the movie quiz challenge works just like every other application in Facebook. Someone played around with the movie quiz and invited me to take part as well. However, the way that it was worded really got to me.
"Friend X challenged your movie knowledge on a quiz called Movie Poster Quiz. Friend X's score was xx%. Can you beat Friend X score?"
This is a great message. I wasn't just invited to take part in the fun. I was challenged to beat his score! At that moment, the competitive jerkwad in me rose up and threw aside all rationality. I had to take that quiz! I had to answer that challenge! And I had to WIN!!
And I did! mwuhahahah.
And now, I've just been challenged to a movie knowledge quiz on the original Star Wars. Can you believe that someone challenged me (no less than a jedi knight on the Jedi vs Sith application) to a knowledge quiz on Star Wars? mwuhahahaha- I shall crush the fool!
I am lion - hear me roar!!
Update: The Star Wars movie knowledge quiz is crap. The pictures don't load. This is especially frustrating for the last question which asks you to identify a character based on the picture - except that the bloody picture doesn't load!! Guess I'll just have to guess it!
Update 2: Crap - I guessed wrong. Very frustrating as that was the only question I got wrong!
This revelation was a real surprise to me as I always believed, or rather thought that I believed, that it was more important to participate and have fun and that whether you won or not was not important. The reason I found out is because I have a profile in Facebook. Now some of my friends have huge profiles where they have so many applications installed that it takes over 5 minutes just to load the profile page! This seems to me to defeat the purpose so I deliberately keep my profile page relatively clean and indicative of my interests.
This means that I deliberately ignore most of the application requests I receive (such as werewolves, vampires, petrolhead, hot potato etc etc etc etc etc). However, recently I received a movie quiz challenge!
Now, in my head, I know that the movie quiz challenge works just like every other application in Facebook. Someone played around with the movie quiz and invited me to take part as well. However, the way that it was worded really got to me.
"Friend X challenged your movie knowledge on a quiz called Movie Poster Quiz. Friend X's score was xx%. Can you beat Friend X score?"
This is a great message. I wasn't just invited to take part in the fun. I was challenged to beat his score! At that moment, the competitive jerkwad in me rose up and threw aside all rationality. I had to take that quiz! I had to answer that challenge! And I had to WIN!!
And I did! mwuhahahah.
And now, I've just been challenged to a movie knowledge quiz on the original Star Wars. Can you believe that someone challenged me (no less than a jedi knight on the Jedi vs Sith application) to a knowledge quiz on Star Wars? mwuhahahaha- I shall crush the fool!
I am lion - hear me roar!!
Update: The Star Wars movie knowledge quiz is crap. The pictures don't load. This is especially frustrating for the last question which asks you to identify a character based on the picture - except that the bloody picture doesn't load!! Guess I'll just have to guess it!
Update 2: Crap - I guessed wrong. Very frustrating as that was the only question I got wrong!
Monday, November 19, 2007
The nightmare before Christmas
I mentioned last Friday that I was rushing to see a movie.
The movie I was rushing to see was The nightmare before Christmas. By now, some of you may be asking "What? That movie came out years ago!!?". If so, then you clearly didn't know that the movie was recently rereleased in a 3D format (and our company gave us free tickets to go watch it - yay!). At this point, I should mention that I have never seen the movie before so I have no idea what they changed in order to get the movie into 3D.
The movie itself was very entertaining. Its basically a musical telling the story of Jack Skellington, who is basically the pride and joy of Halloween town due to his ability to scare the living daylights out of anyone. Despite his status, Jack feels bored and listless and decides to take over Chrimble so that he can give out presents and spread good will. And yes, nothing goes according to plan.
The 3D effect is done very well and really shows how 3D tech has advanced from since when I was a kid. When I was young (admittedly, many moons ago now), 3D was basically getting a crazy set of red and green tinted glasses. Putting them on would make you feel dizzy until you actually started to watch something in 3D. Basically, it was hard to watch any kind of show as the glasses made you dizzy - however, the thing worked well for 3D pictures.
However, the most recent tech is pretty incredible. When we went into the theatre, we were given a set of what looked like black plastic shades. When you put them on, things kinda look off kilter slightly but the effect isn't particularly significant (ie you can wear them without feeling dizzy).
If you get a chance, check out the movie in 3D and the awesome new tech they use for 3D as well!
Oh ... and its a good movie.
:)
The movie I was rushing to see was The nightmare before Christmas. By now, some of you may be asking "What? That movie came out years ago!!?". If so, then you clearly didn't know that the movie was recently rereleased in a 3D format (and our company gave us free tickets to go watch it - yay!). At this point, I should mention that I have never seen the movie before so I have no idea what they changed in order to get the movie into 3D.
The movie itself was very entertaining. Its basically a musical telling the story of Jack Skellington, who is basically the pride and joy of Halloween town due to his ability to scare the living daylights out of anyone. Despite his status, Jack feels bored and listless and decides to take over Chrimble so that he can give out presents and spread good will. And yes, nothing goes according to plan.
The 3D effect is done very well and really shows how 3D tech has advanced from since when I was a kid. When I was young (admittedly, many moons ago now), 3D was basically getting a crazy set of red and green tinted glasses. Putting them on would make you feel dizzy until you actually started to watch something in 3D. Basically, it was hard to watch any kind of show as the glasses made you dizzy - however, the thing worked well for 3D pictures.
However, the most recent tech is pretty incredible. When we went into the theatre, we were given a set of what looked like black plastic shades. When you put them on, things kinda look off kilter slightly but the effect isn't particularly significant (ie you can wear them without feeling dizzy).
If you get a chance, check out the movie in 3D and the awesome new tech they use for 3D as well!
Oh ... and its a good movie.
:)
Friday, November 16, 2007
Streamlining the blog
Don't have much time today as I have to rush to see a movie.
All I wanted to do today is let you know that I streamlined the blog a bit by rationalising the categories. Before, the categories were a bit haphazard and probably didn't make much sense. When I first started this blog, I didn't have any clear idea about what I was going to post about. All I wanted to do was get a better idea of this whole web 2.0 phenom. Now that I've been blogging for a while, I realised that the categories I had were starting to get a little non-sensical.
What I've done is to rethink the structure of my blog. I've then gone through all of my posts since I started this blog and recategorised them. Many of the old categories are still there - however some of them are gone and some of them reworded so that it makes a bit more sense.
Most of you won't be affected by this. The main benefit is for people to more easily find past posts that I've written about (ie me).
All I wanted to do today is let you know that I streamlined the blog a bit by rationalising the categories. Before, the categories were a bit haphazard and probably didn't make much sense. When I first started this blog, I didn't have any clear idea about what I was going to post about. All I wanted to do was get a better idea of this whole web 2.0 phenom. Now that I've been blogging for a while, I realised that the categories I had were starting to get a little non-sensical.
What I've done is to rethink the structure of my blog. I've then gone through all of my posts since I started this blog and recategorised them. Many of the old categories are still there - however some of them are gone and some of them reworded so that it makes a bit more sense.
Most of you won't be affected by this. The main benefit is for people to more easily find past posts that I've written about (ie me).
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Singapore - wouldn't wanna live there
Singapore is, in many ways, a great country. I've been there several times and I've always enjoyed my visits. The place is clean. The food is nice (not as nice as HK though :p) and the people are friendly.
Which meant that I was extremely surprised to find out that the Singapore government is homophobic.
Basically, there is a game coming out on the Xbox 360 called Mass Effect. The game is a role playing game being billed as a space opera. In the greatest traditions of Captain Kirk, one of the things that you can do in the game is romance a blue skinned female alien - even if you are a girl. This then results in a lesbian love scene in the game - which has now resulted in Singapore banning the game. Pardon my language but - wtf?? (full disclosure dept - I am a huge BioWare fan and am eagerly anticipating this game).
Unfortunately, the "steamy" lesbian love scene video seems to have been taken down and is no longer available. The video in the link above is a less steamy version (although you can see a screenshot from the steamy version here). However, even after having seen the "uncut" version, the whole scene was very mild and, imho, very tastefully done. For starters, its not like you really get to see any real pornography (to help put this in perspective - based on the ratings board, throughout the entire game, you only get to see a breast profile - this is considered partial nudity and was part of the reason this game was rated mature).
I actually first read about this a couple of days ago. However, at the time, I didn't give it much credence as it was on a source which I didn't frequent and hence I didn't know if it was reliable. However, this piece of news has now been reported on several mainstream news sites and was also apparently in the Straits Times (a SG newspaper).
And I have to admit my reaction is one of incredulity. As I said, the love scene itself is very tame (you get a lot worse from many mainstream Hollywood movies) and the only reason I can think of for this game to be banned is because the love scene is lesbian in nature.
I had no idea the Singaporeans were so homophobic and I really pity the gay community living in Singapore. If there is something I'm missing or don't understand about the ban, then I really wish someone would explain. As things stand right now, I'm starting to form a really poor opinion of Singapore.
Which meant that I was extremely surprised to find out that the Singapore government is homophobic.
Basically, there is a game coming out on the Xbox 360 called Mass Effect. The game is a role playing game being billed as a space opera. In the greatest traditions of Captain Kirk, one of the things that you can do in the game is romance a blue skinned female alien - even if you are a girl. This then results in a lesbian love scene in the game - which has now resulted in Singapore banning the game. Pardon my language but - wtf?? (full disclosure dept - I am a huge BioWare fan and am eagerly anticipating this game).
Unfortunately, the "steamy" lesbian love scene video seems to have been taken down and is no longer available. The video in the link above is a less steamy version (although you can see a screenshot from the steamy version here). However, even after having seen the "uncut" version, the whole scene was very mild and, imho, very tastefully done. For starters, its not like you really get to see any real pornography (to help put this in perspective - based on the ratings board, throughout the entire game, you only get to see a breast profile - this is considered partial nudity and was part of the reason this game was rated mature).
I actually first read about this a couple of days ago. However, at the time, I didn't give it much credence as it was on a source which I didn't frequent and hence I didn't know if it was reliable. However, this piece of news has now been reported on several mainstream news sites and was also apparently in the Straits Times (a SG newspaper).
And I have to admit my reaction is one of incredulity. As I said, the love scene itself is very tame (you get a lot worse from many mainstream Hollywood movies) and the only reason I can think of for this game to be banned is because the love scene is lesbian in nature.
I had no idea the Singaporeans were so homophobic and I really pity the gay community living in Singapore. If there is something I'm missing or don't understand about the ban, then I really wish someone would explain. As things stand right now, I'm starting to form a really poor opinion of Singapore.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
What can change the nature of a company?
Today's topic is an (extremely) brief exploration of the question - what can change the nature of a company?
Admittedly, this was brought on by the recent acquisition of Bioware by EA (you can read my thoughts on it here). Rather than bashing on EA, I'm going to use this post to consider the question of the "nature" of a corporation. Also, bear in mind that this is a HUGE question - one on which many books have been written. In that regard, don't expect too much from this tiny blog post!
Obviously, the first question which arises is - Can a company have a nature?
Basically, a company is simply comprised of the individuals within the company. In this sense, it seems to me that the company just takes on the nature of whatever people are working there. Note that I specifically talk about the people who work there and not just the management of a company.
Take the case of EA. Either rightly or wrongly, EA is hated by the hardcore gaming community (As I said, this post isn't to EA bash and I won't examine any of the reasons for the hatred - all you need to know is that it exists). EA are well aware of their reputation in the hardcore gaming community and seem to be taking steps to try and remove the stigma which exists against them. For example, the new CEO, John Riccitello, seems to be someone who is very much trying to build bridges to the hardcore gaming community.
If you buy into the concept that a company takes on the nature of its management, then does the new CEO at EA already mean that the nature of the company has changed? Clearly, the issue isn't that simple. Even though the company has a new CEO, I think that John Riccitello still has to report to Larry Probst who has remained as Chairman. If the "evil" nature of EA was caused by Larry, the fact that he is still there and in charge would still impact EAs culture.
Even if John has free reign, how many people are going to be directly liaising with the CEO? Very likely, the staff in EA have a culture very similar to the pre-John Riccitello culture in EA. As such, people who interact with EA on a daily basis may not feel any change in the nature of EA until John has some time to effect a change in culture in EA. This is assuming that John can effect any change at all (I work in Knowledge Management - I know exactly how hard it can be to change corporate culture).
Second question - can a company's nature change?
Given that a corporation does have its own nature, can that nature change? The answer to this question is clearly yes. For you to believe otherwise would mean that a company is static and that seems incredible when you consider the constant staff turnover in many companies (assuming you agree that the nature of a company is equivalent to the nature of the staff working there).
Third question - what can change the nature of a company?
This is the big one. If the nature of a company depends on its staff, then simply firing all staff and hiring new staff with the "right" nature would in itself change the nature of the company. However, in practice, this isn't possible.
So what can you do? Well, you could change the management of the company. Then make sure the new management has the "right" culture and that they then try to impose this culture on the rest of the workforce. In this case, management can give employees a chance to change to match the new culture (and possibly remove those who can't change). Over time, the staff of the company would either all believe in and adopt the new culture - or at the very least, pretend to buy-in so that they can keep their jobs.
At this point in time, the nature of the company has effectively changed. Which interestingly enough, is exactly what EA are doing. Given that EA have changed the CEO and the new CEO seems to be making the right noises viz a viz connecting with the hardcore gaming community, it would appear that EA are trying to change their corporate nature.
However, is this a genuine shift or is it just a PR ploy by the new CEO?. Can EA change from being an "evil" corporation to one being loved by community? I have no idea - only time can answer this question as we look at future actions taken by the company. One thing is for certain - considering the amount of hatred in the hardcore gaming community, EA have their work cut out for them!
PS If you can guess the inspiration for the title, then you are probably a hardcore gamer!
Admittedly, this was brought on by the recent acquisition of Bioware by EA (you can read my thoughts on it here). Rather than bashing on EA, I'm going to use this post to consider the question of the "nature" of a corporation. Also, bear in mind that this is a HUGE question - one on which many books have been written. In that regard, don't expect too much from this tiny blog post!
Obviously, the first question which arises is - Can a company have a nature?
Basically, a company is simply comprised of the individuals within the company. In this sense, it seems to me that the company just takes on the nature of whatever people are working there. Note that I specifically talk about the people who work there and not just the management of a company.
Take the case of EA. Either rightly or wrongly, EA is hated by the hardcore gaming community (As I said, this post isn't to EA bash and I won't examine any of the reasons for the hatred - all you need to know is that it exists). EA are well aware of their reputation in the hardcore gaming community and seem to be taking steps to try and remove the stigma which exists against them. For example, the new CEO, John Riccitello, seems to be someone who is very much trying to build bridges to the hardcore gaming community.
If you buy into the concept that a company takes on the nature of its management, then does the new CEO at EA already mean that the nature of the company has changed? Clearly, the issue isn't that simple. Even though the company has a new CEO, I think that John Riccitello still has to report to Larry Probst who has remained as Chairman. If the "evil" nature of EA was caused by Larry, the fact that he is still there and in charge would still impact EAs culture.
Even if John has free reign, how many people are going to be directly liaising with the CEO? Very likely, the staff in EA have a culture very similar to the pre-John Riccitello culture in EA. As such, people who interact with EA on a daily basis may not feel any change in the nature of EA until John has some time to effect a change in culture in EA. This is assuming that John can effect any change at all (I work in Knowledge Management - I know exactly how hard it can be to change corporate culture).
Second question - can a company's nature change?
Given that a corporation does have its own nature, can that nature change? The answer to this question is clearly yes. For you to believe otherwise would mean that a company is static and that seems incredible when you consider the constant staff turnover in many companies (assuming you agree that the nature of a company is equivalent to the nature of the staff working there).
Third question - what can change the nature of a company?
This is the big one. If the nature of a company depends on its staff, then simply firing all staff and hiring new staff with the "right" nature would in itself change the nature of the company. However, in practice, this isn't possible.
So what can you do? Well, you could change the management of the company. Then make sure the new management has the "right" culture and that they then try to impose this culture on the rest of the workforce. In this case, management can give employees a chance to change to match the new culture (and possibly remove those who can't change). Over time, the staff of the company would either all believe in and adopt the new culture - or at the very least, pretend to buy-in so that they can keep their jobs.
At this point in time, the nature of the company has effectively changed. Which interestingly enough, is exactly what EA are doing. Given that EA have changed the CEO and the new CEO seems to be making the right noises viz a viz connecting with the hardcore gaming community, it would appear that EA are trying to change their corporate nature.
However, is this a genuine shift or is it just a PR ploy by the new CEO?. Can EA change from being an "evil" corporation to one being loved by community? I have no idea - only time can answer this question as we look at future actions taken by the company. One thing is for certain - considering the amount of hatred in the hardcore gaming community, EA have their work cut out for them!
PS If you can guess the inspiration for the title, then you are probably a hardcore gamer!
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Halo 3 comic update
After several posts about Gerry, I figure its time to go back to my usual incoherent rambling! Anyway, you may recall that I am writing a comic. Although I haven't finished yet, I thought that I would give you an update on my progress.
First off, I want to say that writing a comic is a lot harder than it looks!!
Before I even started, one of the first issues I encountered was that I had no idea about how to even start creating a comic. To get around this, I dug up some old comics to read so that I could get an idea on how to storyboard the comic itself. In particular, how to decide the frames, use speech, thought bubbles etc etc. During this process, I also managed to discover that Marvel actually allow you to read some of their old comics online. Very nice!
I also went to a couple of bookstores in my spare time to see if there were any books for prospective graphic artists. To my surprise, there is actually quite a large section of different books giving different advice. Anyway, I spent a short time just browsing some of these books - again to get an idea on how to structure my comic.
The second step in the process was for me to actually start storyboarding my comic. This is actually quite a difficult step. Although I had some ideas for how certain frames would look, I soon realised that I was very constricted by the fact that all the graphics had to come from screenshots. In the end, I went back into Halo 3 and replayed the video of my game several times while playing around with the camera so that I had an idea of the kind of pictures that I would be able to get for the comic.
After I had a rough storyboard of what I wanted, I came across another hurdle. I didn't have any good software to create the comic with! The problem is that I don't have Photoshop or an equivalently powerful photo editing software. The photo editor I use is just a free one which I downloaded off the internet. It was good enough for simple photo editing - but it was nowhere near good enough to create a comic with!
Now Photoshop is incredibly expensive and there was no way I was going to spring the money to buy it. So what were my options? Back to the old internet search!
Actually, I managed to find some really interesting tools used by professional artists. The most impressive one is probably the Wacom tablet - this is basically a giant screen which artists draw directly on and which then results in your drawing appearing on screen. Its a great idea as it means that artists can draw using a pen equivalent rather than trying to draw using a mouse (the tablet is also touch sensitive). Of course, these things are also expensive so not really suitable for me either.
The most realistic option I found was actually a little piece of software called Comic Book Creator. This looked to be perfect to my needs actually. It was a normal priced piece of software which was specially designed to help you create comics from photos! Its like they read my mind! I very eagerly downloaded the demo - or rather tried to. The problem is that I guess the company is a very small company and only has limited bandwidth. It took me 20 hours to download the demo and after all that, when I tried to install, I got an error message saying that the file was corrupted.
:(
Suffice to say, this didn't give me a whole lot of confidence in their product. Also, upon further reflection, I wasn't really sure whether I was going to continue making comics on an ongoing basis so decided that it probably wasn't that good an idea to buy a software solution.
Which dumped me back to square one - how was I going to actually create my comic?
In the end, I put all the screenshots I had onto a flash drive and took them into work so that I could use Powerpoint on my work PC. Thats right! I'm creating a comic using Powerpoint using my work PC during my spare time (lunchtime and evenings before I go home). Now you know why progress is so slow!
Of course, another problem showed up as soon as I started creating the actual comic. The problem was that some of my screenshots didn't fit within the storyboard that I initially created. This resulted in me either amending the storyboard or going back into Halo 3 to retake some of the pictures.
Wow - long post! Don't worry - almost done now!
Anyway, I have now finally finished the storyboard portion of the comic and will move onto text (which incidentally brings up another issue of which font to use!). At this point, I thought I would share a couple of pages from my upcoming comic with you. Enjoy the preview!
First off, I want to say that writing a comic is a lot harder than it looks!!
Before I even started, one of the first issues I encountered was that I had no idea about how to even start creating a comic. To get around this, I dug up some old comics to read so that I could get an idea on how to storyboard the comic itself. In particular, how to decide the frames, use speech, thought bubbles etc etc. During this process, I also managed to discover that Marvel actually allow you to read some of their old comics online. Very nice!
I also went to a couple of bookstores in my spare time to see if there were any books for prospective graphic artists. To my surprise, there is actually quite a large section of different books giving different advice. Anyway, I spent a short time just browsing some of these books - again to get an idea on how to structure my comic.
The second step in the process was for me to actually start storyboarding my comic. This is actually quite a difficult step. Although I had some ideas for how certain frames would look, I soon realised that I was very constricted by the fact that all the graphics had to come from screenshots. In the end, I went back into Halo 3 and replayed the video of my game several times while playing around with the camera so that I had an idea of the kind of pictures that I would be able to get for the comic.
After I had a rough storyboard of what I wanted, I came across another hurdle. I didn't have any good software to create the comic with! The problem is that I don't have Photoshop or an equivalently powerful photo editing software. The photo editor I use is just a free one which I downloaded off the internet. It was good enough for simple photo editing - but it was nowhere near good enough to create a comic with!
Now Photoshop is incredibly expensive and there was no way I was going to spring the money to buy it. So what were my options? Back to the old internet search!
Actually, I managed to find some really interesting tools used by professional artists. The most impressive one is probably the Wacom tablet - this is basically a giant screen which artists draw directly on and which then results in your drawing appearing on screen. Its a great idea as it means that artists can draw using a pen equivalent rather than trying to draw using a mouse (the tablet is also touch sensitive). Of course, these things are also expensive so not really suitable for me either.
The most realistic option I found was actually a little piece of software called Comic Book Creator. This looked to be perfect to my needs actually. It was a normal priced piece of software which was specially designed to help you create comics from photos! Its like they read my mind! I very eagerly downloaded the demo - or rather tried to. The problem is that I guess the company is a very small company and only has limited bandwidth. It took me 20 hours to download the demo and after all that, when I tried to install, I got an error message saying that the file was corrupted.
:(
Suffice to say, this didn't give me a whole lot of confidence in their product. Also, upon further reflection, I wasn't really sure whether I was going to continue making comics on an ongoing basis so decided that it probably wasn't that good an idea to buy a software solution.
Which dumped me back to square one - how was I going to actually create my comic?
In the end, I put all the screenshots I had onto a flash drive and took them into work so that I could use Powerpoint on my work PC. Thats right! I'm creating a comic using Powerpoint using my work PC during my spare time (lunchtime and evenings before I go home). Now you know why progress is so slow!
Of course, another problem showed up as soon as I started creating the actual comic. The problem was that some of my screenshots didn't fit within the storyboard that I initially created. This resulted in me either amending the storyboard or going back into Halo 3 to retake some of the pictures.
Wow - long post! Don't worry - almost done now!
Anyway, I have now finally finished the storyboard portion of the comic and will move onto text (which incidentally brings up another issue of which font to use!). At this point, I thought I would share a couple of pages from my upcoming comic with you. Enjoy the preview!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Canon vs Casio
As promised last post, here are some pictures taken from my friends Canon during his visit in October.
Obviously, you can make your own conclusions as to which camera is better. In my opinion, the Canon seems to be slightly better. I'm saying this based on my opinion that the colours seem slightly better in the Canon pictures - they seem a little more natural.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the pictures on the Casio are bad. In fact, I think they are quite good. Its just that I think the Canon pictures are slightly better.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
A friend comes to visit
As you know, I travel to BJ occasionally and I've mentioned before that I have a friend up there who takes me to nice restaurants and massages while I'm up there. Anyway, during the (semi)recent October holiday in China, he popped down to HK and took the opportunity to visit Gerry.
Below, you can see some pictures taken from my camera. In the first couple of pictures, you can see my friend showing his new camera to Gerry. And yes, he did take my advice not to buy a Casio - he ended up buying a Canon. Good choice imo.
Below, you can see some pictures taken from my camera. In the first couple of pictures, you can see my friend showing his new camera to Gerry. And yes, he did take my advice not to buy a Casio - he ended up buying a Canon. Good choice imo.
Anyway, next post, I'll show you some pictures which he took on his new Canon.
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