Some amazing photos of people on this photoblog. Each face IS telling a story, but frozen forever in an instant. Wish I can also shoot some half-decent portraits like these in the future!
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Now this is what I’d call good advice for the determined traveller… 😉
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
Glenn Clark
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis, Danish-born Journalist, Photographer and Social Reformer
After hearing some rather worrying tell-tale sounds* coming from my PC last night – specifically, from the harddisk with the Windows operating system – I quickly made up my mind to replace it today. After all, the said harddisk is about 3 years old. Unlike all the problems I had in the past when hardware failure always occurred at the wrong time, hopefully I am doing the right thing to head off any impending problems. It goes without saying that I then spent the rest of the day reinstalling all my softwares…
While I was at it, I also splurged out on another 1GB of RAM. Since I am doing quite a bit of video and audio work, and RAM being as cheap as it is, I figured that there was no harm in having 2GB of RAM! However, it was right after settling the payment that I realised that this was indirectly saying that I wouldn’t be upgrading my PC in the near future. The current DDR RAM I am using is be pin-compatible with the latest standard of DDR2. In other words, a future upgrade will definitely mean spending extra cash for new RAM.. 🙁
*For those who have not heard this before, it sounds like a spring winding and unwinding and usually precedes a complete break in the harddisk.
Life gets pretty predictable when the hot buns lady knows exactly what you want to order as soon as you walk up to her stall, then hands you a full bag of stuff and collects the money, all done without a word exchanged.
It’s like going to your favourite bar and ordering your usual drink – except, without needing to utter “The usual for me, Pete!”.