Since the recent purchase of a new lens, I started looking for interesting objects or event to shoot, and happpen to see this event at ClubSnap.

Spent the previous night at friends’ place for a birthday party with only 1 hour of sleep, I head down to Circuit@Tuas straight away with YG in the morning.

The circuit there is new, with no permenant shelters yet. The event organizers set up a row of temporary tents for activities. 7-11 and Shell, the major sponsors of the event had their own booths, showgirls were there too.

Despite the early downpour from 8 to 9am, the sun is extraordinary close to Earth yesterday. And he had an clear view of what’s going on at the circuit and my exposed skin.

For safety reasons, we were asked to wear a bright yellow vest before positioning ourselves inside the circuit for photoshoots.

Shooting in progress, photo courtesy of YG

Race in progress

During the demo session, professional drivers brought in their own vehicles and they even made me feeling like a professional photographer shooting a F1, hearing the engines booming, smelling the tyres burning, totally new experience.

Professional driver

I noticed a teenager among all the adults in the professional demo. His small size didn’t affect his drive skill at all.

Young driver in action

The organizer was very kind to add in a test drive for media, and we photographers get to try go karting as well! Although there is a speed limiter behind the accelerator pedal, I believe the top speed is fast enough for me, a first timer. The tyres have rather good grip on the track, thank to the seatbelt I was not swung out of the kart while cutting sharp corners.

No pain no gain, I ended up receiving a ‘Certificate of Participation’ on my right arm by the red hot engine while trying to unbuclke my seatbelt at the end of the race, unvoluntarily. Ouch.

Here is the complete photo collection of event photos. For original size photos, please click on image or go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/azcy/sets/72157605369100014/show/

He can sleep all he wants.

Well, if you insist to add in the crop factor, it is 80mm.

Terminal 3, Singapore Changi Airport.

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Seriously, I think it is time to redesign the pedestrain traffic light located on Vistoria Street outside Bugis Junction. The crowd during peak hour have way exceeded its design limit.

People are stuck at the narrow passage way in the middle of the road and the bottle neck sets limit to the moving speed of the whole crowd.

Looks like an accident is waiting to happen.

The Beijing Olympic torch reached the top of Mt Everest (Mt Qomolangma) at 9:18 am on Thursday. The torch was ignited by Norbu Zhamdu at 9:12 am local time on Mt. Qomolangma.

Olympic flame lantent was brought up to the attack camp located at 8300m on 7 May 2008. Early this morning, mountaineers start to reach for the peak.

Attack camp at 8300m

Mountaineers getting close to the peak

The Beijing Olympic torch was ignited by Norbu Zhamdu at 9:12 am local time on Mt. Qomolangma on Thursday.

As my ‘new girlfriend’ is still on loan, yet again I tried to explore the inner potential of my Nokia 6500 Slide.

Featured model is my beloved Mont Blanc Starwalker again. This time with Starwalker Junior - the 5ml travelling pack.

Yes, this photo is taken by a camera phone. Don’t believe? Let me share with you few key factors on taking great photos using your camera phone.

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I took this shot at Sheng Siong this afternoon using my handphone (Nokia 6500 Slide) . It’s not a product of photoshop, I merely adjusted exposure and contrast.

There two kinds of apples were put on the shelf next to each other. Having such a strong contrast in colour made me wanna shoot something interesting. So I migrated one from the red platoon over. Continue reading this post…

This is a very small action that people do. Just add (l)China [love China] in front of your MSN name. It’s our way of showing support to our motherland, especially from those who are staying overseas. It is also a silent demonstration against the ‘Free Tibet’ Extremists and certain western government and media who look at China in a prejudicial and discriminative perspective, both caused the recent disruption of Olympics Torch Relay in Paris.

I felt so touched to see a list of names full of red hearts. Even 3 of my foreign friends added *heart* China in their MSN names. It is also one of the few times recently that such a large number of Chinese unite and react to a certain incident together.