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I share all my sporadic and toilet thoughts in here, because I am random like that.
Missing the target (Not!)
So, after a reeeeeally long time (think six years), I finally tried my hand at archery again – at DM Archery in Suntec City.
Well, the last time I tried – my arrows landed on the floor most of the time. A few did hit the board, but they were in the ‘out of bounds’ region and nowhere within the target at all. (There was also one point back then where my arrow landed on the neighbouring person’s target but let’s not go there. Needless to say, said person wasn’t too happy.)
So, I somewhat expected the same result today. Like, you know – dropping the bows and the arrows flying all over the place?
I surprised myself, though.
Bulls eye! (Second round.)
Look, ma! I hit a bull’s eye!
Okay, so I only hit one bulls eye out of the 36 arrows I shot. Quit laughing already! It’s still a pretty decent result, okayyy? (;
Plus, none of my arrows landed on the floor!
On my third round (the last 12 arrows – not shown in the above picture) – my arrows nicely circled the red portion around the bull’s eye (although there were none in the yellow bull’s eye region, argh) – which means most of them arrows were ‘getting there’ but not quite.
Decent results for a noob. Haha. Quite happy.
Archery can be pretty costly, though.
Pointless rambles
So, I was supposed to have a meeting at 3ish today and the other person forgot. (Tsk. Heh heh.)
But all’s good anyway, because I have a mountain-load of stuff to do on my list and some free time will always be nice.
I got drenched making my way here, but it’s all right. I’m surrounded by people. Some noise in the room is always welcome, unless it borders on the point of being a major distraction – think wailing kids. Yes, that kind of extent.
And there’s free air-conditioning, electricity and wireless access for me to use!
Oh, did I mention that I got wet in the rain?
My shoes feels all slooshy, and my jeans were sticking to my legs like crazy. Plus, my umbrella was so abso-teeny it wasn’t enough to cover me and humongous haversack.
And well, I was also tilting the umbrella such that it covered my haversack more than me (because my precious ol’ laptop was in that haversack) – not that it helped, though, because the haversack was still soaking wet anyway – so yeah, you can add that on to the list of silly stuff I’ve been doing in recent days.
I am craving chips. Sour-cream and cheese Ruffles’, to be precise.
And I should be doing my work now.
Maybe I’ll get my chips later. Hmm.
New DSLR toys!
When I bought my spankin’ new Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS USM lens a couple of days ago (my previous lens went completely kaput – so it was the perfect time to upgrade), the very helpful store owner at John 3:16 Photo Supplies picked it up and took the very first (test) photo.
No prizes for guessing who the test subject was.
Watcha’ staring at?! o.O
The strange thing was – I love it! I have no idea why all the self-portrait pictures I end up liking most are those of me with quirky expressions. That’s just the way it is!
I see this as a nice start of a new beginning with my new lens. (;
I’ve stopped photography for quite a while due to my previous faulty lens – which went slightly bonkers on September last year and subsequently became near-complete kaput last November. (It serves as a good reminder to myself never to buy second-hand lenses again.)
With the Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS USM, along with the polarizing and UV filters I got – it’s time to get back at it again!
Whee, so eggciting!
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