Just took delivery of this lens. Hope it will lives up to the hype.
Here is another picture of it.
7 artisans 25mm 1.8
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
Optifast
It has begun. My first meal supplement. Objective is to shrink my liver. Makes it easier to reach the stomach. Taste like biscuits in strawberry milk.
Hard meal
The last hard and proper meal I had before going for my soft diet. Getting ready to go for my bariatic surgery at the end of the July.
Redmi
Monday, July 02, 2018
Children
The girls are my wife's cousin daughters. I don't know what they are to me but they are ever so sweet.
Pictures taken when they came over just now. My two sons really enjoyed their company.
Xe2 with 7 artisans 25mm 1.8
Minolta 40mm f2 m.
URL to refer to one of my most missed lens. Bought it twice and sold it twice. Missing it so much.
Price has gone up. If I ever get another one that will be the last lens that I will ever buy.
Idris. A few weeks old.
Breakfast.
Today, the plan was to wake up early and then go for breakfast at our favourite breakfast haunt. Its at bedok corner. We have been going there even before we were married. And the food, although I can bet some would say not the best in the world, is friendly. Friendly people that sells you food that results in the food being twice as nice.
We woke up quite later than expected. We had brunch instead of breakfast and from there we went to KTPH to deliver my urine sample.
I had prata for brunch.
Prata for me.
Bedok Corner Food Center
Enjoying our brunch.
Enjoying our brunch.
Taken with the 7 artisand 25mm 1.8 and the xe2.
Sunday, July 01, 2018
7 artisans 25mm 1.8
Shot on my Fuji xe2.
From the longer lenses, I have chosen the 7 artisans to be my xe2 partner. I had this lens for quite some time already and I really like it. Maybe I was lucky but I think I got a good copy. Many on the net gives disparaging remarks on it's corner sharpness etc etc. I think it's performing admirably.
My son, going to school on a Monday.
Nikon 50mm f2
One of the cheapest lens that I found on eBay. Read up on some reviews and decided to jump in and get one for myself.
I know I told myself to concentrate on the Carl Zeiss collection but for $60. It's a Nikon and I already have 4 of their lenses.
1. The 85mm f2
2. The 35mm f2
3. The 35mm f2.8
4. And the Carl Zeiss 85mm 1.4 planar Nikon mount.
Should be here soon. From Japan.
Bibik Siti
This is my Bibik. Another one of my aunties. From my father's side she is the second eldest of my father's siblings. I was told that she had helped my family in times of needs in the past. Because of those reasons, my late mom willed it that we will help her however we can.
Just like her husband, she is never without a smile on her face.She had to go through cancer treatment and Alhamdulilah, she came out on top. The gentlest Aunty, she loved to bake and when I was younger, her pineapple tarts are the bomb! Delicious.
Pentacon 135mm 2.8
Pentacon 135mm 2.8
Uncle Mat
This is Uncle Mat. Short for Selamat. Selamat, in my language means safe. Picture is a bit soft because of a lack of focussing skills. Not because of the lens.
Uncle Mat is married to my Aunty or Bibik Siti. A loving couple and have 3 kids of their own they still are ever so loving. Their youngest is about to be married to somebody who I am sure would be fun to be with.
I remembered when I was younger, much younger, I would sleep over their place even though their place is ever so small. From them I learned that space is what you make it out to be and I would always feel warm and loved whenever I was there. That place used to be in Toa Payoh.
What I remembered most about their place was their unique fridge. It had a digital clock on the door and four small buttons on it. I really don't know what those buttons are for but I would not stop pressing them everytime I am there.
Uncle Mat used to be a drummer in a band. Serious. Now he walks with a cane with a smile ever present on his face.
Pentacon 135mm 2.8
Pentacon 135mm 2.8
Cherry filled donut.
Took this using the Pentagon 135mm. If not for the fact that this is my very first 135mm lens, I would say this lens is very under priced. I got this for $80. Amazing. There are others which are more expensive but I think this is a good starter kit. It has a built in lens hood and its built is amazing. It is metal and glass. No plastics and yet its not that heavy. It is heavier than the Super Takumar 105mm but that a different focal length altogether.
There is another version, made by Pentagon too, also 135mm. This other one has 16 aperture blades and can be had quite affordable too. I wished I had known then about this other 135mm, but now after getting the 6 blades version, I wished I did not.
Pentacon sample images.
Lots of reviews on the net states that's it's soft wide open. I found the pictures from mine are quite acceptable.
Anyway shot mainly in black and white today. A picture of aunty sunah. Sooc. Xe2. 6 blades pentacon 135mm.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Pics from my pentacon
Might be bringing this lens out for the kenduri later although my first choice will be the em5 with the 17mm and the 45mm. You definitely cannot cock up with that set up.
Could not sleep
Did not sleep well yesterday night. Right ankle had this throbbing pain. Too tramadol this morning and predinosolone. Seems to be working.
To delivery of my pentacon 135mm 2.8 yesterday.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Alone.
First time being left alone while I am on the wheel chair. I think I can manage it. Usually I will be on the bed.
Monday, October 30, 2017
It's late.
It's almost eleven pm. My left foot is throbbing. Not in much pain, just uncomfortable pain. But pain nevertheless.
Can sleep because it's bothering me.
Drizzling outside. Love the sound of the rain drops as it hits my windows. But it's not cold. It's warm.
I can only imagine those who are still working at this hour. I used to. Working in a 7-11 during my late teenage years. Can't find meaning in it. Glad I left.
Me.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Idris. Now what.
Picking up su from the airport this late evening. The 4yo can't for his omak to be home. Told him to take a nap after lunch so that he would not be asleep when it's time to go to the airport. And lo and behold, he did.
Half an hour later he woke up, went to the toilet and asked if we could go to the airport. Told him to nap a bit more. And he did. This from a boy who seldom nap.
45 minutes later, he came in my room, hair totally dishevelled and with a straight face,
"Abah. I have taken my nap. Now what?"
I can't possible tell him to nap again right?
Abah
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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