dreaming Artemis

13th October 2007

Yesterday weather’s was perfect! Not a single sign of haze, rain or just plain old Malaysian misery. (Although it seems to have come back in full force now today morning)

I was one of the official photographer for the event, thanks to AndyTan who knew the organisers so for the first time we don’t have to worry about getting kicked. The event was at autocity on the mainland and would showcase every type of car customization available in the market as well as an event for people to showcase their modify cars.

There was also a beauty pageant which is one of the main events so it’s not all cars. The even last for 2 days so today is the last day with one of the ladies being picked as the best one for the miss mean machine title.

But looking from the weather I’m now a bit reluctant to go unless it stop now so it has enough time to clear up by the start of the event. There are no photos yet and even if I did I’m still facing that flickr problem.

So until then pleasant dreams~!

For the path 4 days I have been having problems uploading my photos to flickr even though I am using a paid account. I will try again to upload the remaining photos but if once again it fails, I will have to contact flickr on the problem.

I don’t think it’s because they’ve put a cap limit on me as I am using a paid account which gives me unlimited uploads.

12th October 2007

After a good night’s sleep, we felt like a million bucks and could take on Tokyo properly. We woke up at about 7am although we had agreed to only go out at 7:30am but I was too excited now to contain my excitement and wanted to make full use of that day.

I had also set myself a challenge that day, I would only use my 17-35 lens on my film building making it truly a wide angle lens (using my 17-35mm on my film body removes the crop factor of digital camera but if you want to know what it was like think of putting a 12mm on Nikon camera and you know what true wide angle mean) and an 85mm or higher zoom on my digital body.

at about 7:45am we set off, the streets were quiet and peaceful. It was at this point CC told me that he would be going to Nagoya for that prefecture’s Matsuri (festival). I decline as I don’t like events with a lot of people. Although in retrospect I should have if I wanted to see actual Japanese culture. I then decided to make a trip to Kamakura if I could see the majority of the places I wanted to go in Tokyo today first.

Here are some shots of the street in Tokyo early morning.

11th October 2007

We finally set down at Narita airport and had just gone through a lengthy immigration line. Though the wait was made incredibly longer due to the fact I had checked in luggage while CC didn’t.

CC went on ahead while I waited for the conveyor belt to spit out my trolley bag. In retrospect I’m glad I did bring it since I bought a lot of stuff on the day before I came back from Japan and would have died if I had to carry it.

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