Sight to Insight

  Taken from the Esplanade Bridge on the Water Front stage. This is the lighting condition, when the shots were taken without flash (not permitted anyway). So the only way is to use a tripod, and this will not work, as the performers are moving around. Hence, I needed to play with the ISO for the photos on the performers. This photo was taken at 200mm, at 1/2 sec and f/4.5. The camera was placed on the bridge railing to provide stability.

  This is taken at the Singapore Esplanade Water Front, where the LoveWee Japanese young band was performing on May 29. The exif for this photo is ISO 10000, f5.3, 1/180 sec with a 400mm zoom with the Fuji Finepix s100fs. I have never taken shots beyond ISO 3200, and this is my first attempt to see if it can work. The stage is lighted up in the night. I will post several shots.

Everytime I visit Bangalore, India on business trip, without fail, I will go to Forum (just a couple of blocks from my office) to pick up a few books on spirituality. This time round, a new shopping mall (Star Bazaar) has started just next door! Ah, I have not visited India for the last two years, and things do change. I have always wanted to find a book on the "Bhagavad Gita" except that I have seen it written in multiple volumes! I am a reader, but I am not a crazy reader. This time round, I found one, and interestingly written by a Westerner, by the name of Jack Hawley. It entitles "the Bhagavad Gita, A Walkthrough for Westerners". I am no Westerner, although I cannot deny the influence the west has on me via my English education, my post-graduate stay in Europe and having worked over twenty years in an American transnational company. The reason I wanted to read this is to understand the Hindu influence on Buddhism, after all Gautama Buddha was Indian. I have thi...

I have known this saying for over forty years now and it still remains as true as it was then. Why this title? I had lunch with a group of good buddies, all over fifties at Sushi Teh, at the former Big Splash at East Coast Park, Singapore. The discussions were over multiple topics and boisterous for each one of them. They ranged from living in Australia versus in Singapore, racism, globalization, money to Facebook. There will never be enough boredom when we get together, where laughter rang out loud, and each one contributing their experience. Time did pass, and two hours whizzed by without me noticing. If I had not gone to this lunch, I would have missed the fun and the laughter. The two hours will still go by and I could be sitting by twittering my fingers and getting precious little done. The lesson is when you feel like doing something, do it. The worst sin is to think too much over the consequence or what else could I do, if I had not done that. Such "academic excellence...