The last three days have been quite busy (which partially explains this collaborated post)- filled with relative visiting, sightseeing and camera hunting. It's great to see my grandparents alive and well; but every time I see them I always get the feeling that their health is on a slow decline... I guess we'll all go through that period some time in our life and it's really up to us to make the most of our time with our elderly and the time while we're young. One would hope that when we reach this stage, we would have little or no regret of the time that we've spent on the various activities throughout the years.
On a brighter note, I've plenty of fun wandering around aimlessly through a few suburbs around Hong Kong: Central, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mongkok to name a few. What startles me most is the rapid pace with which Hong Kong is developing- what once was flat land is now filled with closely packed buildings; and what once were old houses of the 40s have been demolished and replaced by new buildings of heights several times that of the original building! Some lesser developed suburbs have this unique juxtaposition of ancient buildings and lavishly modern skyscrapers adjacent to each other. Tried taking a few picture, but my camera didn't like the cloudy lighting, so I ended up with excessively blurred images that are beyond rescue by photoshop.
Blurred images and poor low light photography are one of the reasons for moving on from my Samsung ES70 Point and Shoot to a more beef-ier Canon 60D DLSR. I mean, the camera is really compact and great for general shooting still scenes or in locations abundant of light (in fact, it can produce some pretty amazing images under the right conditions-- check out my photo blog: Photos on the Orange Wall). Still haven't bought it yet but after going to the Canon Showroom at iSquare Tsim Sha Tsui I'm fairly sure it's the model I'm after: not too expensive but has enough juice to shoot in various locations and conditions. At the moment, I'm still in search of a cheap and decent deal/bundle... hopefully I'll stumble upon something nice ^_^
Anyway, I guess that summarizes the last few days pretty decently-- well, save for the full-on yumcha and food for my palate.
Ciao, Chu
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