I feel like I’m coming down with a flu or something. Weather is not helping at all. I hate feeling like this! :yuck: Especially when I got so much to do at work!

Like

Unlike

I got a day off work today to help out a friend, who is a photographer, setup his shoot for his portfolio down in Maidstone.

It was so refreshing not to be thinking of servers, RFPs, utility billing and demo scenarios for a day. I’m glad I took this day to recharge my batteries as it was on full power these past month or so, albeit a short notice for my boss and it was not exactly a nice timing since I was in between meetings with different people. Had a meeting with some people from Kansas City over the internet last Tuesday and I have another WebEx meeting tomorrow, this time from Minnesota.

Anyway, he wanted to shoot this sort of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon concept with a girl in traditional Chinese fighting costumes is swishing swords left and right. We set it up at this warehouse where they stock and sell Chinese antique furniture – Qing Dao. We moved the furniture around and he setup the lights (also with me helping a bit mounting them on the tripods) and tried different mood settings. We started about 11am and by the time he was happy with the backdrop, it was almost 3pm. Talk about attention to detail! Off we went to see the model and picked up some real weapons, i.e. swords and spears from this gym who specialises in these Oriental arts. We also sorted out what is she going to wear and with what other items could we put on to get the full flare effect. When that was done, he started to take shots of her in different fighting poses and my job there is to control the wind machine so it will blow in the right direction. He took several shots until he got the one he wanted. This was around 5pm. It was so cool!

Then, as a token of thanks, he needed to take a still life photo of the furniture for the antique shop owner. Of course, he had to adjust the lighting effects etc as we added more chests and drawers into the frame. He got a bit frustrated with the light reflecting off a candle holder made of glass but after meticulous adjustments here and there, he was able to get the effect he wanted. We finished at around 730pm.

It was so good watching a professional photographer at work. I did take a course on photography back in Cambridge so seeing how much effort is put in to get that one shot is so interesting for me. That is why I volunteered to help, in the first place. I did tell him that I hope that I was able to help and that I wasn’t in his way. He did appreciate my assistance although he did admit that he wasn’t used to having an assistant when he does these photo shoots. Told him that next time he needs an assistant, especially when he does these jobs in the Carribean :tongue-in-cheek:, I’ll be there for him.

I will post the finished photo here of the one we did today once he sends it to me.

Like

Unlike

This morning, I heard about this ringtone on the radio that was developed in Japan that when listened to more frequently could actually increase a woman’s breast size! How about that? So, I Google’d it and here is what I found out.

Excerpts from Mainichi Daily News by Ryann Connell…

Hideto Tomabechi — who first made headlines in Japan almost a decade ago after he cured brainwashed members of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult that unleashed deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway system — claims to have developed a tune for ring tones that promises to increase the breast measurements of those who listen to it.

And Tomabechi’s brainchild for better busts has boomed, with chest challenged chicks swarming to transfer data to their own phones.

“I listened to the tune for a week expecting all the time that I was being duped,” says Chieri Nakayama, a 19-year-old pin-up model, tells Shukan Gendai. “But, incredibly, my 87-centimeter bust grew to 89 centimeters! It was awesome!”

Read the entire article here.

Aahh…maybe there is hope for me! He he he!

Reminds me of the joke I heard when I was in highschool back home in Manila…

A woman went to an arbolaryo (herbalist…Karen, tama ba?) to ask for a way to have bigger breasts.

She was told to simply sing “Sa may bahay ang aming bati…” (for you non Pinoys, this is a very famous Filipino christmas song) everytime the clock strikes at noontime. So, everyday since she sang that song every 12 noon.

One day, she was riding a jeepney (Filipino mass transport) almost falling asleep. When she jumped up and asked the man sitting beside her of the time.

“A las dose na!” (it’s 12 o’clock) the man said.

“Ah, ganun ba?” (is that so?) “Sa may bahay ang aming bati. Merry Christmas na maluwalhati…” She started to sing quietly.

Then all of a sudden, she heard the man beside her, “Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells! Jingle all the way…”

Like

Unlike