Ripples

Did some experiment at home. The shots are taken with an 18-200 lens and the picture is then cropped and edited with lightroom =)

Trying to mimic blood.

Cheers =)

The Paradox Of Choices

The world as we know it offers plenty of choices. From buying a pair of jeans, you’re bombarded with an array of about 4-5 choices of cuttings and fits. When purchasing a laptop, you too are bombarded with so many different colors and specifications for it.

Gone were the days when people are only given two choices and making a “right” choice is much easier than it is right now. I was just watching a video on TED talk by Barry Schwartz, where he talks about the “paradox of choices”. He said that when we are given so many choices, we often give ourselves false expectations of what we should get. Let’s say if we were to buy a pair of jeans, and it’s a slim fit, and it was a good choice. But we may have expected it to be perfect given the number of choices, but we might end up regretting and thinking to ourselves, “Well, I like this slim fit, but perhaps the tight fitting one would be better”.

It wasn’t like that those days where all jeans were standard cuts, so now even when we get better jeans, our satisfaction level is lower because of what might have been, but not. So the dilemma is whether to give customers a high satisfaction level or by giving them the best of jeans.

To loosely quote (by loosely I mean I can’t remember the exact details) Barry Schwartz, he made another example about companies offering investment opportunities. When the staffs were given two options of investment, more people invested. But when 10 options were given, each with its own benefits and drawbacks, the number of investors dropped because many put off till tomorrow to make a decision and as you know it, tomorrow never comes.

People spent too much time being unique while God has already made them unique.

Too many choices may be counterproductive.

Some uber cool images I got from my mail

Yea the Chinese can do anything, by Chinese I mean those those from mainland China. But I don't mind taking that credit. haha =D

He paints himself to match the background. That is one heck of a talent.

The end of the world or so they say

Done with exams, finally I could breathe a sigh of relief. But I still feel I didn't give my all for this exams, so hope it won't come back and bite me. hurm..

But well just watched 2012, not exactly how I thought it would be, would be expecting some show where everyone died and the world end as you know it. The part where they chose the ark seems to be copied from the Bible. Hurm. Even with protecting the animals.

But I guess that isn't how things are going to be even in the end times, though there will be pestilences, great natural disasters, but there will be those who survive the tribulations.

Foo Koo

Yea in the midst of my exams I went out to celebrate Eugene's birthday and it turned out to be secretly planned for me too. For which I'm grateful for =)

And by the way, thermo and fluids are a pain in the neck. The thing I dislike about university; you know when you think you're over with the paper and you can forget about it. As if you'll never need to know about it ever again. It's wrong. It's a stupid misconception that I've programmed into my mind from high school and pre-u.

Everything you learn in university from year one, builds up till you leave. Even more when you're gonna work in that particular field. So whatever it is, you've to suck it up and really understand it. But well that's life I guess. It's not easy and some people really put in a lot of effort understanding the dynamics of the flow passing through your car, except for the Proton Juara which I think is so mathematically wrong.

Pics:

Dislikes orange lights!

Paul and Ryan

Half of Natalie

Jamie and Paul

Setting up the cake. Which we blown once without a picture being taken. So it was blown twice. Some say it's a taboo to do it. But well, I could care less =)

Mom doing her thing, oh I mean Nat =p

Yea the cake was once nice until this happened =S

Jamie

Paul and Joel, Paul don't seem too keen in a picture which looks gay. Hurm..

Taboo.. thank goodness we didn't play boy vs girl. Hate losing. GAhhhhh

Eugene

Natalie

Cheers =D

Gap fillers

Hey guys, as you know. Exam period now. Here are some random photos that I took. I'm trying to find the "beauty" in the daily things and also because I don't have the luxury of going out to take photos yet. haha =p

So yea, I've been quite interested in black and white photos lately. I'm quite amazed at how with just two colours and many shades in between can give such a dramatic effect and thought provoking at times.

Silent yet loud.

Rememer those water guns??

Did you know that a Nuclear scientist designed the "super soaker"??

Nerds are cool =) ahha

In 1982, a nuclear scientist named Lonnie Johnson came up with an ingenious solution to this problem. In his spare time, he was working on a new heat-pump system that would use moving water to regulate temperature. Late one night, he attached a model of the pumping mechanism to the bathroom sink, and was startled by the powerful water blast that shot across the room. In that instant, he was struck by the idea for a water gun that would use compressed air to provide pressure for a water blast.

The CPS 1200 Super Soaker has two water reservoirs, an expandable water bladder and a hand-operated pump system.

To make his idea a reality, Johnson enlisted the help of an accomplished inventor named Bruce D'Andrade. Together, D'Andrade and Johnson came up with the basic design that would become theSuper Soaker.

Taken from www.howstuffworks.com.