Mysterious Ceremony

Funny how some things turn out to be surprisingly interesting photo opportunities. We'd spent the night trying in vain to somehow enjoy a movie or some TV at home. Somewhere outside near our condo, there was some sort of ceremony going on with cymbals and drums banging away. It really is amazing how all these sounds waft upwards and by the time it reaches us on the 18th floor, seems to have lost little in the way of volume!

I originally had no interest in it at all, and actually thought of it as a real nuisance until for some unknown reason I thought to take a look at what it was that was going on, and was rewarded by quite a spectacle:


Info: Fuji S2 Pro, Tamron SP 24-135 at full zoom, ISO 200, 12mp JPEG, 30 second exposure, f/5.6

Unfortunately, I was able to capture only the one photo of the event as they packed up soon after I took the shot (very quickly too, I might add!). Interestingly, it seemed to have been a Chinese Hindu ceremony.

Electronics project getting off the ground...

At last, more than a month since I first started buying the necessary parts to build a few electronics projects I had in mind, my first electronics project is slowly under way. When embarking on microcontroller-based projects, the first project you have to build before you build the one you had in mind, is the programming circuit (a circuit that enables you to download the program into the chip in the first place). Here I'm prototyping the PicBlaster programmer (no, it's not complete yet). Already though, I have reached a stumbling block - I bought what I thought were 6 4.7K Ohm resistors, but it turned out to be just one 4.7K resistor and 5 470K Ohm ones. Gaargh! Lesson learned - check exactly what it is they are giving you before going home! Resistors are cheap, the real problem is the incredible inconvenience!

Forgotten CF Card

When we left the house this morning to do the usual weekend errands, I grabbed a camera as I always do in case I see something interesting to capture along the way. In this case the Nikon CoolPix 995 as it is the most compact digital I have.

Sure enough, I did find something interesting to capture while we were out, but I fired up the camera only to discover that there was no memory card in it! I had removed it the night before to download the images from it and forgot to put it back in the camera after I was done. So all I have today instead of the interesting scene I saw, is a photo of the card still in the card reader.

Lesson learned: always keep a spare memory card or 2 in the bag just in case, even if it's only a tiny 32MB one coz it's better than no card at all!