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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Library

I returned my 1343pg book to the Central Lending Library today, coz I thought it would be too cumbersome to lug it around everyday. In return, I borrowed 3 other books titled:

Darwin's Origin of Species, by Janet Browne
Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World, by Richard Cornniff
Life in the Undergrowth, by David Attenborough

I'm gonna read Origin of Species first, coz that was the original one I had wanted to read for a long time. But I just saw that it says "A Biography"... so maybe I won't find what I want to in there after all, after which, I'd just return it. No big...

Anyways, as I mentioned last night, I brought my camera and tripod along in anticipation of a beautiful sunset tonight. But the skies this afternoon were kind of a disappointment. The west looks so gray it seems the clouds are enveloping the island. Nevertheless, I shall bring all my gear to the reservior tonight and hope that the rains, if it does fall, will stop and the skies will clear enough for some evening rays to pierce through. Combined with the element of water and trees in the foreground, that's gonna make for a dramatic sunset! Hopefully, the skies will be red as yesterday. Haha! I'm guessing maybe it's the time of the year that causes the angle of the sun's rays to refract into such magnificent colors.

Just before I started blogging, I was trying to draw some humans. Women, to be exact. Ladies... Their curvy body forms seem so elegantly simple to draw; so gracious, so beautiful. But it's not easy to draw... After years of always drawing (not very nicely nor proportionately nor realistically) brawny men with muscular bodies, arms and legs, it's tough to draw, in a couple of strokes, the slender, smooth body of a woman without adding too much muscular bulges here and there. And I can't draw their breasts properly as well! They always seem too high on the chest... as if they were balloons of air stuck to their chest and they're swimming and the balloons just keep wanting to stay afloat. I think a woman's body is much harder to draw than a man's... Sexy babes need the correct proportion of everything, arms, waist, breasts, legs, hair even... You can't have slim arms and legs, then add in super-huge F-cup boobs. They'll look slutty. Haha! And you can't have plumpish arms and legs and waistline, and have tiny boobs, coz then she'd just look like a feminized man. *shudders* In essence, my ladies look like freaks. So I folded the paper horizontally into eight, folded thrice vertically, and dumped it into the dustbin.

On a more technological note, I've been looking up ultrazoom cameras. I really like the manual functions of the Panasonic FZ50, but both it and its predecessor (the FZ30) does not have image quality comparable to their big brother, FZ20, which I own. I need higher resolution!!! Fuji cameras doesn't seem to accept any modifications for optional accessories. Canon can, the S5IS. But I never really liked Canon. They have so many cameras that have such similar specs that I think they're wasting their line-up. Then again, S5IS has got pretty good reviews. *sigh* In the end, I still like my FZ20. At only 5MP, its shots are beautiful. Maybe I'll borrow Melisa's S5IS to test test... but how? Argh! She wouldn't have the accessories I want for macro. Should I buy a 100mm Macro lens for my dad's 350D? Would it be as versatile as my 12x zoom Lumix? I highly doubt it. That's why I am still sticking to prosumer models rather than moving up to the dSLR family...

Oh! During lunch, I found out that I-Ning used to shoot slides! So cool! And She offered to lend me her slide projector should I ever want to borrow. Then I asked if she's selling. Haha! She said gotta ask her husband first. But no la... doubt I'll buy a slide projector. Will just take a few rolls for its vivid colors, then if I really really like slides, I MIGHT consider good scanner. =)

Oh wells... back to sticking red stickers!

Love me if you dare... 15:22
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