I know it’s kinda pink, but just bear with me for a while. I don’t really have the time to do up a new theme, so I’m just gonna hang with this for a bit.

There’s something wrong with my blog comments moderation thingamajiggy - it suddenly let through like a couple of thousand spammalot style comments which obviously didn’t rock my boat. So I turned the comments to a different setting and now I’ve got roundabout 10,000 comments in moderation and it’s making my wordpress seize up and have a little field day when I try to moderate it, so unless you’ve had a comment approved before, chances are yours isn’t going to get through. Bear with me for the time being, I’ll try to get it sorted soon.

22 April 08 Update: Alrighty this is mostly sorted. Please do bear with me if any of your comments get caught in my ardent spam-fighting, and email me if they don’t show up. Cheers!

The biggest problem that I’ve found with this photography hobby of mine is that whenever I travel, I spend about 15 minutes packing the clothes and other amenities but about 3 days deciding on what camera gear to bring with me. Do I bring my 30D or can I bear to just fly with the film camera? How many rolls of film do I bring if I’m going film? How many less can I bring if I’m bringing both? Which film camera should I bring - one of the little ancient ones or my 1V which has the added benefit of sharing lenses with my 30D. Or do I just focus on the travelling and screw the cameras…….. nah. Maybe just the Ricoh. Flash, tripod, which bag can fit all? It never ends.

Now that my camera (body) collection has hit 6 - and will increase to 7 on Saturday, also bringing the total number of brands with interchangeable lenses to 4, which is the biggest problem I forsee - my shoulders are getting tired in anticipation of where my indecision usually leads me: bring as many as I can heft around. (Let’s not even talk about whether or not to bring my laptop, which I do on longer trips.)

Come August, I’ll be bidding goodbye (for a while at least) to my Asahi Pentax ME, which I’m permaloaning to a dear friend who flies off to Hong Kong for the foreseeable future. I’m flying on the 14th on a short pre-Vietnam trip to Hong Kong, and will be bringing the Pentax up with me to permaloan to her. It’s also just occurred to me that I should probably fly up with the Pentax (and its 2 lenses), the Ricoh, and a couple of rolls of film, which would mean that for the first time in my multiple-camera-owner life, I’ll be travelling with my Crumpler 4 million dollar home, instead of the 7. My shoulders rejoice!

So I’ve got a couple of new toys (and possibly another one coming soon *crosses fingers*), of which 2 belong in the kitchen - my Tefal Pro Fry deep fryer (which I have no idea how I lived without before this), and my Cuisinart ice cream maker. Now, I don’t know about you, but it seems only logical that when two really awesome, sexy kitchen toys appear within 24 hours of each other, there must be an underlying message: Deep Fried Ice Cream. Read the rest of this entry »

I probably owe you guys an explanation for what happened to my blog, especially those of you who happened to appear just when it was somewhere in the middle of being done up. I was actually just trying to change the theme of my website when one of the asides I was using caused a malfunction in Wordpress (then v1.5, ‘cos I’ve been too lazy to upgrade and hey - why fix what ain’t broke?), so I figured I might as well just reinstall my Wordpress (and upgrade it to v2.2.1, the latest stable release as of this week), and then slowly do my designing.

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iPhone’s out (for those of you living in a box with no tv, no internet, no newspapers, no magazines, no EARS) and I’m so jealous. Already people are posting pictures of their phones and their initial thoughts and their first reviews and GARGGGHHH.

PS: vick, I’m still speaking in the weird vicki-w accent. hiaop. i’m beginning to think in it!