I guess I love my camera. In many ways it is an outlet for me to express myself without words. And since photography are all about interpretation, each photo holds a different meaning to different people, and no one can ever fault me for the meaning of the photos I capture. Yet only I know the personal secret behind each photos. I guess I'm just in one of those nights again. November has never been a good month for me...
Almost 3 months outdated, I found out about David Tao(陶喆)'s new album that was released in August just yesterday. Excited nevertheless, I was downtown visiting music stores so that I could purchase a copy of the new album.
First stop Gramophone. CD was selling at around S$26 with 14 tracks on it. It was over the budget I was willing to pay for a CD (my budget is not over S$20 for 1 CD, with exception made only towards rare CD and box sets). So I made my way towards HMV instead after uncle in THAT CD SHOP couldn't find a 陶喆 cd in his shop in Raffles City. At HMV I found the same CD selling at around S$29! There was also a special DVD edition with a free T-Shirt selling at S$38.
I thought the DVD edition was a good bargain, but since it was wrapped up, I took it to the counter and ask the staff if I could see the design of the T-Shirt as well as the content of the DVD (the title track on the back of the DVD was covered by the T-Shirt). My request to see what I was going to purchase was utterly rejected!
Frustrated and disappointed, I returned home empty handed. At this age and time, why is it so difficult to buy a reasonable price CD??? It is not that I didn't want to buy an original CD, but they made it so expensive and so freaking hard to even know what you are purchasing! Have they forgotten that this is the digital age and that music can be listen to free of charge on simple site like youtube? It's no wonder that CD shops are slowly going out of business!
I do believe in supporting an artist's creativity by buying original, but the extortion price set by the shops are really putting me off buying CD at all! Shouldn't music be free? Oh well, as long it's available on youtube, I guess I can share it here with you all. Here are three of my favorite songs from the album. [available for a limited time only].
You know how sometimes you just do something for a series of no reasons? Well, tonight is one of those nights for me, so let's play "Where's My Yellow Umbrella" tonight! A series of no reason photograph of one very lucky yellow umbrella found at some dirty abandon corner of Dempsey Hill. One scene. Many shots. All the same subject (or so it may not seem). No focus, no reason, just all about a yellow umbrella. I don't know about you, but I kinda like the photos. It reminds me of something so worthless, yet so beautiful :)
Somehow along the way, this blog seems to have lost it's first objective of existence, and that is to share information so others can benefit from it. So after feeling a bit guilty of not sharing a great Halloween information happening at the Asian Civilization Museum last weekend (what with the free Barcadi and Ice Cream given out plus free movie screening), I thought I'll make it up to you guys by posting this instead.
Loy Krathong, a Thai festival is happening this Saturday at Dempsey Road. However, it's not a free event, but nevertheless, if you have time (and money), do come down and join in the fun! For Pete's sake, it's being held in a microbrewery! That ought to attract your attention! For more information, please click on the second ref link given below.
For those of you who don't know what Loy Krathong is all about, do refer to the reference link given below. For me, I grew up singing the song Loy Loy Krathong. Growing up in Penang, just a few hours drive from Thailand, this festival is also celebrated in Penang.
Taking a break from photography, I've been making an average of 4 paper dolls per night daily this week. And this collection is probably the highest cost of materials so far, with most of the paper materials coming from Japan. I figure if I bother to fly there and buy those damn expensive papers, then I better put them to good use instead of keeping them in their original wrapper! And looking at the result of it, I sure am glad I used them! At this rate, I think I'll have enough dolls to sell at the pasar malam soon!
