Happy birthday to little Faith! Her parents celebrated her 1st birthday in advance over the last weekend. And I couldn’t join in the celebration earlier because I gotta work until 14:30 hrs, but nevertheless, I reached their house about 15:30hrs. In time for some mahjong session. Can really sense the change in the way Gavin speak now. Changing for the good of course. Lesser vulgarities or perhaps no vulgarities during the mahjong session which is good. I guess it’s good to have children, they give bonding and change your bad habits. It makes the mahjong session a pleasant one. 😀 It’s still a pretty good session even though I didn’t really win. At least, I played. Had dinner at their house and the beef is good! After everyone has left, we chatted with Christine and Alan about our wedding dinner. Alan was giving us suggestions and keep telling Dearest it’s time to hold the dinner soon. Having a customary wedding dinner is a matter of time, so we might as well have it at the soonest possible time. Money is an issue, but I am sure by God’s grace, we will be able to overcome the money issues. =]

Bought something to go along with my new love! Tamron SP 70-300mm f4-5.6 VC USD lens. After many attempts to get quotations from various shops, only MS color and Orient Photo replied my email (can I assume the rest are not keen to do my business?), MS color quoted the best price ($685) whereas Orient Photo quoted me $750 for the same lens!

A big ‘kiasu’ so I bought 2 types of filter, one is CPL and another one is merely UV protection filter so it’s like DOUBLE PROTECTION for my lens. Call me ‘kiasu’ but I rather spend $100 on 2 filters than spending $700 again for the lens. That’s provided if I am really that unlucky, dropped my lens and spoil it. Anyways, CPL helps to ‘improve’ the colors of the photos while UV protects UV. Hahaha. Ok, that sounds a little rubbish and not so ‘professional’. Dearest always say ‘you are not professional so buy cheap one can liao.’. But I think this got nothing to do with being a professional or not. I mean, if I wanna get something, it’s always better choice to get the newer than buying something that’s old which perhaps after awhile you have to sell it for a lesser price, and then buy the newer one. That’s why I always seek people’s opinion when I couldn’t make a decision on which one to buy. However, because he’s not into this, he doesn’t understand WHY I always choose to buy latter. The thing is, cheap doesn’t always means good and durable. But in his own opinion, I should always get the cheaper things. He was comparing the King Koil Silk Royal Bedding series to my zoom lens. He say he rather spend the money on the bedding series than buying the zoom lens because he can sleep on it everyday, whereas I don’t take photos everyday.

Yea, this is my new love. A little on the long side. It’s a zoom lens. =]

And this is the tripod that comes with the camera. Honestly, I didnt really look at it when I got it until last night.

It’s the ball bearing one, with a little compass. How cool is it. 🙂 It’s easier to use than the old school one, and I just mount my camera + zoom lens. Double confirmed that this tripod is not very lousy. This means that I can save money on tripod! Yay~ And now, I have to spend money to buy the remote control for the shutter. Noticed that when I mount on the tripod and tried to take some picture, my focus will shift by a little bit. I supposed the remote control will solve my problem. Asking Suzy to help me with it. And yes, I can go bird park with Suzy for photo shoot! YAY~

And my first attempt using the zoom lens for the moon shoot. The one I posted on Facebook looks a little grainy. Smaller one looks better. LOL. Perhaps I will try again when I got time. 😀

That’s all for now. And I need time to post some pictures I took from Darling’s wedding a week ago. =X