| 小夜鳴鳥 ( @ 2008-10-05 20:40:00 |
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I... wanted to sit down today, have a nice drink, and start typing up a few entries I wanted to post very badly this week. Then I wanted to post alot few pictures I made this week. But then, I also wanted to clean up my room today, iron my laundry I piled up in two weeks, unearth a bakery that sells more than the usual ultra-soft toast-bread to eat with an omelet (instead of the nth spaghetti menu since my arrival)... and do most of my homework for my classes.
Instead, I was idly staying in or on my bed and at least finished that Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney game on my Nintendo DS that had kept me occupied for way too much time. Finally, I can relax now and concentrate on more important stuff from now on, like my kanji. Or my grammar. And no, I can't help this sarcastic tone, why do you ask?
Well, for not making this entry a totally gratuitous one, I'll squee a bit about my new baby instead!~♥ Say, isn't it sweet? How long have I been dreaming of a neat camera to take pictures of Paris, my surroundings, Japan, you name it, and then I finally finally returned home on thursday, after the longest day of classes, sandwiched on the bank of the Tôkyô metro on almost-but-not-quite-yet rush hour, clinging at my baby against my chest in it's brown Bic Camera paper bag. The people must have thought that this crazy gaijin was on some kind of trip, with that stupid smile tackered on my face, but at least my next-door neighbor and friend Claire seemed more than understanding when I attacked her happily that evening.
Speaking of coincidences, we discovered that Claire and me shared the exact same dream when coming to Japan:
First, buy a really good camera.
Second, charge for the legendary World Outside and terrorize poor Japan with this camera as best as we can!
The only slight difference we have so far is that I'm primarily interested in taking photos of landscapes (helloooo waking up before sunrise in order to use the best sunlight at dusk and dawn, lucky me that at least dawn is at about 5 p.m. by this time of the year), Claire likes macros (small items like flowers) best. Now I just need to choose a good and light tripod(?) so we can start our bigger photo safaris through Japan...
And yes, of course I did take quite a lot of photos since thursday. And yes, I did want to figure out how to upload those many many photos on my computer with this new software from Canon, but, uhm, my hard-drive is almost bursting with unneeded stuff and I'd need to tidy that up first and, uhm, well, I didn't do anything of that kind yet. Yeah, I'm lame, and rest assured, I'm the first one to know that. *sigh*
But as a teaser, have this photo of my room that I took with my old (sweet, but crappy) camera (compared to my new one): I have more of them, but as I took the exact same spots with my new camera as well and 2 million pixels vs. 12 million pixels are that exactly, 2,000,000 vs. 12,000,000 after all, I guess it's more interesting for you and me to wait for the better pictures.:) That, or I'm just searching for more excuses for being lazy today, you choose. And, uh, sorry for displaying my laundry like that, although the messy room on the better pictures might be even more embarrassing after all...

I... wanted to sit down today, have a nice drink, and start typing up a few entries I wanted to post very badly this week. Then I wanted to post a
Instead, I was idly staying in or on my bed and at least finished that Gyakuten Saiban/Ace Attorney game on my Nintendo DS that had kept me occupied for way too much time. Finally, I can relax now and concentrate on more important stuff from now on, like my kanji. Or my grammar. And no, I can't help this sarcastic tone, why do you ask?
Well, for not making this entry a totally gratuitous one, I'll squee a bit about my new baby instead!~♥ Say, isn't it sweet? How long have I been dreaming of a neat camera to take pictures of Paris, my surroundings, Japan, you name it, and then I finally finally returned home on thursday, after the longest day of classes, sandwiched on the bank of the Tôkyô metro on almost-but-not-quite-yet rush hour, clinging at my baby against my chest in it's brown Bic Camera paper bag. The people must have thought that this crazy gaijin was on some kind of trip, with that stupid smile tackered on my face, but at least my next-door neighbor and friend Claire seemed more than understanding when I attacked her happily that evening.
Speaking of coincidences, we discovered that Claire and me shared the exact same dream when coming to Japan:
First, buy a really good camera.
Second, charge for the legendary World Outside and terrorize poor Japan with this camera as best as we can!
The only slight difference we have so far is that I'm primarily interested in taking photos of landscapes (helloooo waking up before sunrise in order to use the best sunlight at dusk and dawn, lucky me that at least dawn is at about 5 p.m. by this time of the year), Claire likes macros (small items like flowers) best. Now I just need to choose a good and light tripod(?) so we can start our bigger photo safaris through Japan...
And yes, of course I did take quite a lot of photos since thursday. And yes, I did want to figure out how to upload those many many photos on my computer with this new software from Canon, but, uhm, my hard-drive is almost bursting with unneeded stuff and I'd need to tidy that up first and, uhm, well, I didn't do anything of that kind yet. Yeah, I'm lame, and rest assured, I'm the first one to know that. *sigh*
But as a teaser, have this photo of my room that I took with my old (sweet, but crappy) camera (compared to my new one): I have more of them, but as I took the exact same spots with my new camera as well and 2 million pixels vs. 12 million pixels are that exactly, 2,000,000 vs. 12,000,000 after all, I guess it's more interesting for you and me to wait for the better pictures.:) That, or I'm just searching for more excuses for being lazy today, you choose. And, uh, sorry for displaying my laundry like that, although the messy room on the better pictures might be even more embarrassing after all...
