Photos recorded (from before 2000 to 2010)
The nice thing about keeping all the images in a shared server? Keeping track of 30 years+ of photos.
Before 2000 (about 1k+) : all the photos were film and digitized during a house move
2002 (250+) : first digital camera, a Fuji FinePix 2800 Zoom
2003 (500+) : Canon Digital IXUS 400
2005 (1k+) : Canon Digital IXUS 400 and Panosonic DMC-FX5 (Yh’s)
2006 (5k+) : Canon Powershot A80 (still working now) and later a Canon Powershot S3 IS (still working now). I also started geo-tagging with a Sony GPS-CS1.
2009 (almost 4k) : Canon Powershot A80 retired but still used Canon Powershot S3 IS but later to a Canon Powershot G11 (my favorite so far)
2010 (5k) : Primarily G11 and iPhone took over almost all photos.
2011 (80+ to date) : iPhone 4 and I see G11 primarily for travel and maybe a G12 or S95 as an upgrade.
Various handphones along the way also took some shots (Sony Ericson W800i, W700i, iPhones 3 and 4)
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Counting down to Taiwan Trip and Not that looking forward to First ICT!
Going to be off to Taiwan with family for a couple of days. Taipei and Kaohsiung are on the agenda so will need to start planning where to head off to. This will be our 3rd visit to Taipei and 2nd to Kaohsiung.
On more serious note, going to be heading for first ICT (in camp training) right after I get back from the trip. Guess my unit finally caught up with me! Will be back to familiar grounds in the West so just like good old/bad? times.
Remedial Training or how to get $11 for your time
Just entering Phase 2 of Remedial Training at Khatib Fitness Conditioning Centre (FCC). I was somehow assigned to the running group even though I am horrible at chin ups (i.e I can’t do it anymore). Being in the Cat Y1 group means that there’s slightly more leeway to getting the passing score but its still a struggle when one has not been training very much. Phase 1 consisted mostly of lots of running and chin-ups to get people back in shape. By my estimate (regret not using Nike+ to keep track), running on average 6 * 400m (per lap) and 12 chin ups (1 particularly memorable session the PTI made us do 30, I truly had difficulty lifting arms for a few days) for 8 sessions.
An IPPT (Individual Physical Profficiency Test) was conducted during Session 8 and it seems that a good number of people passed but Phase 2 still seems very packed. Most people are probably going to labor through the next 12 sessions which will be more running (interval and speed training). Counting down till the last session and Taiwan trip already.
Fringe goes Star Trek
I’ve been following the series Fringe for sometime with fascination. J.J. Abrams bring yet another series that reels you in bit by bit. After nineteen episodes, I must say this show has turned from being a distraction to jumping up on my attention scale.
The latest episode has references to the latest Trek movie (also by Abrams) with “renegade Romulans from the future here to change the timeline”. Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek II – Wrath of Khan also gets a brief mention and Emmanuel Grayson “Spock” gets to makes us all laugh at the references. This all leads to surprise surprise, Leonard Nimoy (THE original Spock) who plays William Bell!
Experiencing Dune (and more) again
For the past few weeks, I’ve been reliving Frank Herbert’s Dune universe. I read the original saga way 10 years ago when a friend loaned me the six books that started the journey. Interestingly, I first encountered Dune in the form of a game “Dune 2”. This was THE game then that started my love for real time strategy (RTS) games. Some years later, I got my hands on the “Predude to Dune” trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin. J. Anderson (one of my favorite Star Wars authors). Atreides, Harkonnen and Corrino, names that invoked memories of long gaming nights and now they had come to life in the novels.
Today, I’ve just finished the last book in the “Legends of Dune” series. Had to re-read “The Machine Crusade” as my last read was couple of years back and “The Battle of Corrin” rounded up the trilogy nicely. For now, I’m just starting on “Hunters of Dune” and am looking forward to “Sandworms of Dune” and the “Heroes of Dune” series.
What’s weird is that all this old “stuff” is coming back into my life. Trek, GI-Joe !, Transformers… Can’t help but feel nostalgic when your childhood memories come back stronger and with more bang 