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July 12, 2009

Singapore Night Festival at National Museum of Singapore

Filed under: Christianity, Singapore — hendrikch @ 12:13 am

After missing last year’s Singapore Night Festival, I made it a point to drop by National Museum of Singapore last night to see what the night festival is all about.

The main event started at 10.30pm, but there are fringe shows nearby which started at 7.30pm. After I had my dinner in Asian Kitchen, City Link (which has better noodle than Din Tai Fung), I went straight to the park nearby the museum with Evie and Rafi. The other folks later joined us there. One thing you know when you go there is you gotta bring your camera, and so I went with full gear, Canon EOS 450D with 17-55mm IS f/2.8 lens borrowed from Jowena.

The fringe shows started at 7.30pm, and these are the performances which I bothered to take picture of.

They call themselves Deng

They call themselves "Deng"

Some dance

Some dance

At around 9pm, we started walking towards the museum so we could get a better spot to take picture from. Unsurprisingly, there are already LOTS of people setting up their tripod around the museum, so we tried to find the best available spot from whatever empty spaces available.

The wheel of fire

The Loop of Fortune

The show started with some lady walking around, dancing, but I couldn’t see much as she was too far away, then it was these two men who continued playing drums in rotations, upside down.

Men playing drums

Men playing drums

Then, the real loop of fortune show started in front of really cool backdrops of various decorations to the museum’s face.

Loop of Fortune in action

Loop of Fortune in action

Finally, it was fireworks galore. Not as great as those National Day fireworks, but these are stage fireworks, so it was so close to you, you can feel it.

Fireworks

Fireworks

They ended the fireworks show with this great fireworks coming down from the museum’s building, really good stuff.

I love these fireworks the most !!

I love these fireworks the most !!

The crowds who were there soon left after the whole show ended. We waited for a while to wait for the crowd to clear up a bit before we head our way back home.

The crowds

The crowds

On our way back to the MRT, I saw this poster.

The Cross of Christ

The Cross of Christ

In the midst of Great Singapore Sale, it reminded us one most precious thing, human salvation through Christ, though free, is not for sale coz it ain’t cheap.

June 21, 2009

Photos from Europe Trip

Filed under: Europe 2009 — hendrikch @ 2:27 pm

It has been a LONGGGGGGGGG while since I wrote here, and for good reason. I have been busy on and off work. Many of my off work time was spent going through photos that we took in Europe and of course going out (it’s GSS after all).

There were five cameras that went with us on the trip, and as expected, we came back with roughly 16,000 photos. That’s enormous amount of photos. So far I’ve only run through half of them, and still waiting to go through the rest.

Truth be told, I was planning to finish going through the photos before I started jotting down our travel experiences, but a month since I came back, and I probably have not remembered as much as I had last month.

We shall see if I’ll ever find enough time and more importantly self-will to start writing about our Europe trip. The last complete blog on my US trip took me a couple of weeks to complete. Maybe I should just write one summary blog post?

April 30, 2009

Updates

Filed under: Europe 2009, Travel — hendrikch @ 7:20 pm

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April 29, 2009

Europe Trip 01-15 May 2009

Filed under: Europe 2009, Travel — hendrikch @ 11:27 am

This will be my first backpacking trip to Europe with six of my friends, and this trip was planned to be more educational rather than the usual i come, i see, i take picture, i go type from tour agencies.
There will be more museums to visit, to enter, and to explore in. There’ll also be palaces, opera houses, and sleeping on the train and 4-bed and 8-bed room in hostels.

We’ll be covering five countries this time: Germany, Austria, Italy, Swiss, and France.

The full itinerary are:
May 01: Munich – Salzburg – Vienna
May 02: Vienna – Venice
May 03: Venice – Rome
May 04: Rome
May 05: Rome – Florence
May 06: Florence – Interlaken
May 07: Interlaken
May 08: Interlaken – Geneva – Paris
May 09: Paris
May 10: Paris
May 11: Paris – Rothenburg
May 12: Rothenburg – Munich
May 13: Munich – Newschwanstein – Munich
May 14: Munich
May 15: On flight back to Singapore

All the stuff I need have been bought, and the latest packings I have weigh at slightly over 8kg, not that heavy I would say. Girls in my group seems to pack only 6kg in theirs. I always thought girls have more stuff to bring on travels haha… :p

Seven of us will be bringing a grand total of FIVE cameras, no pocket cameras. Out of those five, two are prosumer cameras, and the other three are dSLR (two 450Ds and one D90) with a total of five lenses (18-200mm, 18-55mm, 55-250mm, 18-105mm, and 80-200mm). I will be bringing a total 40GB of SDHC cards, so when we’re back and have consolidated all of our photos together, expect LOTS of photos in my blog.

For now, I’ll be away for holiday for two weeks, so won’t be updating blog. I will still try to tweet whenever I have free Wi-Fi around, so you can check my Twitter (http://twitter.com/hendrikch) to get the latest updates from my travel.

April 19, 2009

Bahagia

Filed under: Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 11:52 pm

Bahagia, walau mungkin tak sebebas merpati.

March 31, 2009

Jackie Chan and Daniel Wu at Plaza Singapura

Filed under: Uncategorized — hendrikch @ 9:16 pm

It was crazily packed Plaza Singapura last night when Jackie Chan and Daniel Wu made their cast appearance around 7.30pm to promote their latest movie, Shinjuku Incident. It was already SUPER DUPER crowded from 6pm, and by the time they arrived, the crowd went wild, and camera and flash are the very obvious things around.

The moment Jackie Chan arrived, the first thing he did was to take pictures of everyone around.

He probably got photos similar to this one I took.

Daniel Wu himself was just a cool guy, letting Jackie Chan took all the spotlight.

Too bad, all the talk were in Mandarin, so I understood nuts about it.

After letting people waited for 1.5 hrs, the whole “show” only lasted less than 30 minutes. At the end, they were given caricatures of themselves.

Before they left, each of them signed on the advertisement board behind them, then left the crazy crowd behind.

Taking photo under the most difficult circumstances, with LOTS of hands going up with camera, phone, and people’s head everywhere, I think I did quite a good job in getting these shots. All in all, I took 185 shots in that hour, and after heavy selection process, only left 25 of them in my album.

March 22, 2009

IM$avvy

Filed under: Singapore — hendrikch @ 1:50 pm

CPF currently has an IM$avvy financial-literacy quiz in their website, complete with a lucky draw.

Im a financial-guru, CPF says :p

I'm a financial-guru, CPF says :p

Do try it out, and let me know what’s your score? :-) I’m sure some of you would be able to get 100% full mark.

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