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Not much comment about the album cover.. haha.. not much love for it. Don’t know and don’t care who sang it either.

Oh! happy day.. happy dayyyy… I’ll never beeeee the sammeeee…

Heard it sung in the office today and I came home to search for it. I think I actually like my colleague’s simple guitar skills and almost-but-not-quite-out-of-tune voice better than the original which is abit too heavy for me! lol.. Something stirs when you hear someone singing praises from the heart, even if its not really in agreement with what you’re used to.

Really, what a happy day.. that day the thief on the cross found his Savior! SO many theological truths to be gleaned from a couple of verses and their simple conversation before their deaths (Luke 23:39-43). It’s a simple example that refutes salvation by baptism, works and how anyone can obtain salvation by faith through Christ alone alone.

“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Epic words, in my opinion. Imagine the assurance you’d have if you heard it from Jesus himself! You’d probably never be able to doubt your salvation!

Think this June camp was extremely fast. Other than all the admin and facilities being in order it was also a very comfortable camp physically, mentally, socially and spiritually. I didn’t do a lot of thinking to be honest, because none was really necessary. Everything was simple and straightforward, requiring choosing between obedience or rebellion, re-commitment and reminders of the cost we do not pay because we do not live as we should.

Other than that, I had a pretty good time even as my life changes just a little socially and also as my dad was absent somethings were also a little different. Managed to hang around the town area in port Dickson with family and yx on Tuesday, it was pretty nice.

Shall leave you with some photos. I’ve missed making them and relished the opportunities I had to just snap a few pictures here and there and also try to make some timelapse videos which I am not very happy with actually. Haha.. the stars were nice but my one hour exposure messed up.. no one will ever know why.

Went to pick up YX and then zipped over to victoria concert hall where there was this fire-art-exhibition thing going on sat and sunday. Parked at parliament building basement carpark and you’ll be able to walk there in about 2 min

There were musicians and stuff playing while the fires burned around you in little ceramic pots or on elaborate giant metal structures. There were also these cannon like tubes which spout fire controlled by a guy turning a wheel.. it was really quite an eye opener… I feel like going down to take some more photos! But here are some from yesterday.. check it out if you can today!

Its really not that bad. I was up late 2 nights in a row before day 1 so it took me another 3 to get back to normal sleep patterns but I feel pretty good now in the morning. The commute is not longer than it is going to NUS but its more crowded and I find it slightly idle other than reading or listening to music on my iPod shuffle.

Work is slow but I’m trying to learn stuff day by day. I’m finally understanding all the complaints about no time and all myself but I guess I don’t really mind too much yet. Its 9am and nobody is in yet.. haha.. oh well.. Need a LAN cable to update the fresh install of linux I did last night so I’m just idling outside and catching up on some RSS feeds I haven’t seen in a while. Cool. Now if I could just have the chance to take some pictures outside the office while it is still daytime that would be nice..

Its pretty educational and somewhat amusing at the same time.

Photography 101 from Tony Hoffer on Vimeo.

William made some prints for me, pretty nice! Matt paper and deep blacks are good. There’s still something off though, not sure what it is.

Tomorrow I’ll start my day early again! Very early.. Which brought me to my next thought.

Verse of the moment: Psalm 63:1

Just thought I’d show come pictures from the 5Dmk2. At first I felt it was pretty much the same as my 5D but it really has many little things I didn’t notice. For one, the thing that I most appreciate is that it feels exactly like my 5D but grippier. I don’t feel like I’m using a different camera or have to adapt. It just shoots straight pictures like its predecessor. A few things I noticed after a day or two of using.

1. Video is nice! but hard to shoot stable stuff without IS lenses which are non-existent for full frame
2. 10x live view focusing is a godsend for my Nikon 50mm f1.2! It can focus a million times easier than the viewfinder which is pretty hit and miss
3. High ISO is pretty good

So here’s some stuff I shot over the last day or two. I’m liking it. Now to get more work…