Goodbye 2009 and Welcome 2010

A new decade will be dawning soon as we bid farewell to 2009 and usher in 2010! I wish everyone all the best in 2010! May there be peace, good health and prosperity for all of you in the coming New Year! Cheers : ))

GfK 2010 StarTrack Calendar

Earlier in September this year, I took part in our company's StarTrack 2010 Calendar competition and my photo was selected for the 2010 Calendar. Finally the Calendar is here!

My picture is featured in the December page of our StarTrack Calendar. My two colleagues, Ms. Denise Zhuang and Ms. Sherry Safarina, were very excited to see their faces on the Calendar! Now, their faces will appear around the world because GfK is a global company and the Calendar will be distributed to our colleagues and clients all over the world! As for me, life still goes on as usual : ))

The pictures featured on the Calendar were all very well taken. It is very interesting to see the concept my other colleagues came up with for the Calendar. We now have a wonderful Calendar for 2010!

It's time for Goodbye!

As we say goodbye to the year 2009, it is also time for us to bid farewell to one of our colleague Alyssa. She will be moving on to do her own business. Although her last day is 29th December 2009, we have taken some farewell photos on Wednesday because she will be back in office on 29th just to clear some administrative work and thereafter she will leave.

Goodbye Alyssa and all the best in your future aspiration!

Visitor from Thailand

On Friday, an ex-colleague (Maam) from Thailand came over for 3 days visit. Since I was on leave, I went to airport with another ex-colleague (Carol) to pick-up Maam from the airport and sent her to her hotel before going shopping with her.

Yesterday was another day of non-stop shopping and eating and meeting up with various colleagues and ex-colleagues! After two days of non-stop walking around and shopping, my feet are pretty sore now but I have a better knowledge of the shops in Orchard 313, Orchard Central, ION and Vivo City!

I have never imaged shopping could be so tiring! I thought I was a good trekker, since I often walk long distance to various nature parks to take photos but I must I admit when come to shopping, my stamina is lagging way behind my ladies colleagues!

Here are some pictures I took over the past two days with my Panasonic LX3 camera.

Canon EOS Experience 2009

Last Sunday, I attended the Canon EOS Experience 2009 at the Singapore Grand Prix F1 Pit. Unlike last year EOS Experience 2008 at East Coast 360, participants were not allowed to insert their own memory cards into the new Canon 1D MK IV camera to take pictures. Participants could only try out the camera with it built in memory.

The main differences between the new 1D MK IV and the 1D MK III are the 12800 ISO, the HD video feature, High Speed Digic 4 processor, 16.1 Mega Pixel and 45-points wide area AF. It 10 frame per second continuous shooting with 121 jpeg per burst could easily filled a 4 gigabytes within seconds!

The seminar starts off with Dan Chung, a famous photographer-cum-movie maker, sharing his experience as a photo-journalist covering the Iraq war and other news assignments using Canon equipment. Dan also shared his experiences on making short films using Canon’s 5DMKII, 7D and the new 1DMK IV. He said the 1DMK IV is the best camera for making low light movies beating many high end movie cameras!

During the seminar, participants also get to take pictures of beautiful race queens, cross-play models and Mitsubishi car stunt. Each participant was also given a coupon to make one A4 print of their best shots on Canon new Pixma printer and a delicious buffet was provided to fill the participants’ stomachs! Finally, there is a goodies bag for every participant to bring home.

The following photos were shot on Canon 5DMKII with a 70-200f4 IS lens.