I’m finally freed from all the fever and cold I had last week, and also my garden is finally done. The contractor was surprisingly nice, I had a great communication with him, and he’s done a fantastic job in merely two days. There was some problems during the brick paving like the ends of the last row of bricks weren’t touching the fences so they they might slide around…etc. and the guy spent all his time cutting individual bricks to make sure a tight fit. Overall I think it was a $650 well spent. I already have ideas building a small water pond with bricks that can hold some water plants, but that seems to be a pretty tough job after looking up some info on Google..

Anyway, I’ve also finished building version 2 of my custom made light box for taking photographs of small objects. It uses 3 Ikea desk lamps ($9.99 each), bunch of gift wrap tissue paper ($0.5), a carton box (free), and a lot of work. I have filled up the inner surface of the box with white paper so that the brown color of the box wouldn’t be reflected onto the objects being photographed - this wasn’t in place on the first box I made. I think it’s looking pretty good now I will take a couple test shots later on when my headache goes away…:(

Have been sick for a few days and it’s not getting better…it’s not getting worse either, getting stuffed nose and cough like hell…and a bit of a fever. I think I caught a cold at the Reifel Bird Sanctuary where I went to with Peter 2 days ago. It was so cold even though I’ve worn a huge jacket. I got some crazy huge canker too, I think I got two of them, one on the left side of the tongue and the other painful one is on the underside of my upper lip…. I don’t have the energy to deal with anything now, just want to get some more sleep…

I’m getting more contended with my purchase of my new Olympus E-3 camera after reading more reviews on it. It’s completely weather/water/dust proof meaning I can take pictures under the rain or in the snow. Well not likely to happen too often but at least this makes it a better camera overall I will not hesitate to bring it out to the snow or rain

Got my Olympus E-3 yesterday! The top-of-the-line pro DSLR by Olympus~ I got it used off Ebay for around $1350, body only (it’s around $1600 new), but the deal also includes a Zuiko 14-54mm F2.8-3.5 lens (worths $400 new), a Olympus HLD-4 battery holder/grip (worths $200), and a couple other goodies like an extra battery, a diffusion filter, a HUGE camera bag (looks bad though guess I’m not gonna use it), a 4GB Transcend compact flash card, and a USB card reader. The whole thing would have costed me around $2500 new (after tax)! So it was really a huge savings. Now I just hope that the camera won’t die too soon, even though the ebay seller (she’s really nice) told me that it’s only been used to take around 30 pics of her kids (I did find a couple pics of her kids in the memory card, lol).

I’m still thinking whether to sell my current Olympus E-520 or not, if I do I’d probably sell it with the Zuiko 14-54mm lens that I just got (for free, kind of). Or maybe I can just keep it since it’s MUCH lighter and smaller to carry out for a casual photoshoot…

Anyway, I’m super excited now to start using this pro camera. I hope that I can produce some really outstanding imagery with it in the upcoming months.

I had to threw away a pair of old socks that I’ve worn for the past few years since they were too small and also they were getting worn out. When I did that I was feeling bad, since U was getting rid of something that had been loyal to me and worked for me for many years…I missed them (lol?). I then wondered, did the pair of socks feel bad because of what I was doing to them? Were they getting hard feelings? I told myself that it wasn’t possible as they were not living beings, thus did not have any sense of emotion or anything. I pondered again… Well even if the socks themselves didn’t have feelings, what about the atoms that existed at the cellular level? They were kind of “alive” as they move around and stuff…they could possibly have their individual souls…no? If that’s the case, since they have been stuck together in the form of pair of socks for many years, wouldn’t they have became friends of each other? If I throw them away they would probably get torn apart in either the dump truck or at the dumpster site… they would probably be separated with their friends forever. Also they might get squeeshed and be painful or die during the process and I would have become the murderer?

Would some of the particles in the pair of socks had been looking forward for so long to be worn by me (in the form of a pair of socks) and just now I threw them away and thus turning their wishes into ashes? All these questions and new ones are coming out of my mind in a continuous fashion (It was about 30 minutes now since I did it and I’m still thinking about it).

I don’t know, I feel weird throwing away a pair of old socks.

I want this boo from Mario Brothers but it is sold out! This is the most realistic boo I’ve ever seen…