Zhikang's Photoblog

Moved to LJ

2008-10-22T22:36:00.003+08:00

I HAVE MOVED TO LIVEJOURNAL! The blogger community is rather zzzz so... yea...

Visit me @ http://zhikang.livejournal.com

Cya Soon Sarah! (pun intended)

2008-09-21T12:47:00.002+08:00

Haha PSC SCHOLAR! Cya SOON and all the best! =D Have fun la.

rioHC Mega Gathering September 2008

2008-09-21T12:44:00.001+08:00

Of Kids and Babies...

2008-09-21T12:30:00.001+08:00

Oh yes! I'm an uncle already! Welcome to the world, Ayden Goh!

Farewell Cheryl!

2008-09-21T11:49:00.001+08:00

Hey girl! All the best and take care in London yea! Cya back in Sg soon! =D

MAF 2008

2008-09-21T11:42:00.001+08:00

Guess Who?

2008-08-10T14:25:00.000+08:00

Well, was helping Mum to pack the storeroom today when we came across this old photo. Can anyone guess who the guy circled in red is? =D=D=D Happy National Day!

A Tune, A Song

2008-08-06T11:04:00.003+08:00

Ah well... Finally it's over... I really couldnt bear for it to be. It was the best concert I have ever sung in. It was THE concert. Although it's only been 3 years, what Jonny said is really true. The experience transcends time, it's really special what music can do. I never wanted it to end, and i dont intend for it to. We'll see....

And now.... ALL ACCESS BACKSTAGE PICS! =P

Contemplative before the concert...

ET is a vainpot too

Tong pls dont kill me.

LOLZ (damn i missed the better shot b4 this)

Meditating

WTF!?

Batchies wif Ms Ho (and those calefares behind...)

Kees and Shufen

Uncle Ong!

Semi-uncle Clement!~

Grace, Yoke and Shufen

What on earth is Ah Ong doing?!

Fel and Et, melikes this shot

Ruishan and friend. Eh isnt that me?

?!?!

Ruishan and Clement

Jonny and best-friend-Lilin

o.O

Mr and Mrs Usuli

Fel, Shuhung

Yes Jinli was half-squatting

Ok now he isnt.

一老一少

Looks like they're gonna...

Tong and her secret crush

OMG SO SCANDALOUS!

Mr and Mrs..... guess who

Kaii getting high on teh

EH?

Quee is thirsty... very thirsty..

Charm, Fel, Et, Recital studio

Fel: "Eh ET must show teeth!"

Okae...

La Bassos

La Tenores

Inspire 08

2008-07-11T22:22:00.002+08:00

Bde Anniversary @ The Cathay

2008-07-11T22:12:00.004+08:00

Diva La Futbol '08

2008-06-24T20:47:00.002+08:00

Ahhh so I'm back... With highlights from an event wanzw and I recently shot. Dova La Futbol is an annual 1-day futsal competition organised by SMU, with huge support from FAS to promote Football to the female community in Singapore. After watching the girls play, they sure can kick some ass out on the field! Well... Let the pics do the talking! (venue's a great place for footie, but a BITCH to shoot at)

New Camera + Arts Fest + Chillz Outz

2008-05-26T22:51:00.003+08:00

Heh, came across an offer too good to let up... And so happened my sis's birthday was nearing so heh. I bought a Samsung NV10. CHIO camera man... For the price i paid, the pic quality's rather amazing. Hahahaha this whole post was shot wif the compact.

Firstly... Test shots... at the neighbourhood outside camp...

And @ Bt Timah

Went for Arts Fest in school to support jnrs... Shun bian see how this cam performs in low light.

Oho, met choir peeps last Friday and had a wonderful time talking over dinner @ Billy Bombers and drinks @ Harry's thereafter.

It being "Eat with your Family Day", Jonny and I got out of camp early... And we spent almost an hour slacking in Spinelli while i had my coffee...

Kim's freshly manicured nails. She claims it's purple. I just see black. -P

Da ladiees with their drinks... =D

Lobster red as usual...

LOLZ HE LOOKS SeEhHhHh

As usual....

Choir Concert - Voices In Flight '08

2008-05-12T21:38:00.007+08:00

Woots! Concert is finally over!!! I would say it has been a good concert, where all of us (alumni and college) learnt quite a lot i must say... Heh pulling through the 4 songs in one shot on Friday night was not easy seriously... KILLER SIA... Heh anw yup i wuld say it has been a preddy decent concert! =D

FRIDAY!

CHARM takes the role of Chun Li for once with her 无影脚!

Future Doc.

Interllectual?

Another future Doc.

Sigh... Tongtong ah...

Uncle Defeng

Emoo..

Woots batchies were there too! Great to see u girls... and guys... after so long hahahahha

DRUNK?

SUNDAY! (better day i think hahaha)

ACA prac... Now this group is seriously good.... Another negativ on the way... =P

Mr Loy is seriously pro on the piano... Seriously...

BrudderS?

Zen

Dunno why... I just like the following 4 pics

MW and Ber

Da couple we HCV can't live without?

Shaos... Demure eh?

All da best..

ZEN

Da ladieees of HCV, minus a few =P

the irritating bell...

bell?

睡美人

HCV

Huh? 你在拍我har?

Emo

I friggin tore my tie + popped the button on my blazer. Zai.

Back to school....again

2008-05-01T14:12:00.002+08:00

had a day off after the course and well had to go back to school to collect stuff + help defeng with his songs... So happened that it was Sports Day as well... So heh decided to kope a 100-400 and shoot lor. =P Rather crap shots, boring event hahahahaha

And of course, back to choir after that. They are good, seriously good. Pls pls pls do support Hwa Chong Choir @ their annual concert, Voices in Flight 2008. It will be held on 9th and 11th of May, Friday and Sunday respectively @ Victoria Concert Hall. Tickets are priced @ $18, $35 and $36.

NJC Concert 08

2008-04-14T21:52:00.002+08:00

Ok now it's almost May... heh i'm v v happy now! I got my Espresso machine (Krups XP4020), I got my lens (Sigma 30mm f/1.4) and I got great friends... Heh. Well and I got called back for 2nd Round Interviews by the Ministry. =D Anw, went to watch NJC's choir concert with Kaii, Wanzw and Defeng ystd. Of course, weiming was there, joined by Grace, Timo and Jiawen (oOps i mean Ms Ho).

NJC sang excellently that afternoon. Very very nice music they produced on most of the songs, barring 1 or 2 which were good, but not as impressive as the other pieces.

Canossa Convent Pri Sch choir guested for them, and boy were the little girls cute! Heheh they didnt sound too bad too! ;-)

And of cos! My DEAR JUNIORS and GRAND-JNRS WERE THERE TOO! Hahahah how nice to see you guys again... See you on weds i'm going back! =P

It's Almost April....

2008-03-28T18:30:00.002+08:00

It's almost April and I've OOTed. x.X Life is damn boring now... and now that some people are back, it's worse. I cant wait for my damned posting... Srsly dunno wth is happening also... sian shit... anyhow, update of events! (latest first)

First, rioHC gathering @ Nette's for Good Friday Holiday! =D Sold my 70-200 f/4 L and got an 85 1.8 instead, gonna get a Sigma 30 1.4 soon! The following shots are shot using the 85, just playing wif it!

The week before, GUYS NITE OUT at Outback Steakhouse... It was a costly, but happy and really full trip to Outback!

Joel looks naturally murderous no?

Hohohoho... release of A lvl results... didnt take too many pics, no mood =P

Went back to visit my dear grand-juniors... =P

And choir being choir, we obviously had to go somewhere after that... heheheh

Army conference

rioHC CNY gathering @ Sarah Soon's!

Heh super pic heavy, sorry to those with laggy coms =P

Hwachong CNY Celebrations 08

2008-02-06T23:26:00.000+08:00

Heh... Since I booked out last night and i'm sorta feeling well enough, decided to take a little trip back to Hwach with my trusty camera to look for friends, juniors and teachers! Arrived there when the street market was about to start so i didnt get to catch any of the performances... Well I have to say that it just feels different going back as a senior... So many faces you dont recognise, it's just well, weird. But at the same time it feels all too... familiar. Well, this year there wasn't as many people dancing compared to the past 2 years and DAMN THEY SCRAPPED THE FAC DANCES!!! argh... was waiting to see an Ares OWNAGE lor... Anw, it's nice that they have a 'new tradition?' heh scroll down to find out...

YUP! YU SHENG FOR ALL!!! MASS LOU HEI SESSION!!! (jealous)

I Still Miss Choir... and Hwa Chong...

2008-01-26T22:01:00.000+08:00

Well well... Already 8 (or izzit 9?) weeks in service eh... Seriously man, I miss Hwach a great deal... Miss the people, miss the environment, miss everything... So heh after booking out last week (or was it the week before?), chionged down and managed to catch the last 15 mins of campfire...

And sticking to tradition... We trooped down to KAP for supper (i didnt really eat...) with Snr, Jnr and Grandjnr class hahaha.... So it was 05/06/07/08S72!

Da next day... Went for alumni choir prac!!! It's really fun singing with the alumni... I seriously think i learn much more from the Mothership (as fel calls her) and the seniors... =D am really happy... But i really miss singing with me batchmates... =S Happened that it was Tong Tong's bday arnd that time and hence the balloons and stuff... =P

And finally today! Got to see my beloved jnrs (and grandjnrs too!) as i went back for orientation... Stoopid jnrs didnt even tell any seniors... So happened that i managed to find out last minute.... zzz... Stoopid jnrs are damn jian... Just look at the games they planned.. zzz

Heh... and met up with botak joel and botak joe for lunch! Good to see u guys again man... Stoopid Ziyuan went out wif his ASS (Anderson Sec School lah) friends...

Carolling 07!

2007-12-25T11:14:00.000+08:00

Heh got a bit of time before the carolling session itself, so heh was walking arnd and did abit of street photog. I must say I'm rather rusty after not shooting for so long heh but it was fun to start shooting again... =D

Well, HCV was once again, great! Fun to meet u ppl again! Hope to be able to sing wif HCV nxt year!

I'm enlisting...

2007-12-05T17:25:00.001+08:00

Hi all, I will be enlisting into the Army tomorrow morning. and i'm superbly zonked out now due to a whole night without sleep. Thus.... I'm afraid Vietnam and Prom pics wont be up here on the blog. Not to worry though, do visit My Flickr for pics! And prolly wont be shooting much either... =P K... i'm off

Negativ Photoshoot

2007-12-01T01:45:00.000+08:00

Did a photoshoot with Negativ today... Probably one of the best under-20 A Cappella groups there are in Singapore today. Bunch of really talented singers and musicians they are... Good friends too! Nice working wif u all man! It was a damn fun shoot! =D

Coming soon to stages near you...

(P.S. Vietnam days 2 and 3 coming up soon...)

Ho Chi Minh City Day 1

2007-11-27T10:24:00.000+08:00

I must say that HCMC is a really nice place that surprised me. Well for one thing the food there's pretty good... and rather inexpensive too! Well we arrived at the newly completed Tan Son Nhat International Airport which was spacious and very modern.

Waiting for baggage at Tan Son Nhat, note that the flowers are real.

DOH cousin...

First thing u notice on the streets: TONS and TONS of motorcycles. Crazy riders too! Traffic there is bloody scary at first but after a while, u just get used to it. Some people will NEVER be able to cross roads in HCMC as basically u just have to close ur eyes and keep walking at a slow, steady pace across the road and just let traffic avoid u. Nice one...

Look Ma one hand!

Hoho right smack in e middle of a busy street, a manual U turn

See what i mean...

A slice of life at 9am in the morning

Ah yess... They still use overhead cabling and this, my frens, is what it looks like.

Due to the traffic, drivers in Vietnam have developed a whole new driving technique. Right thumb on the horn, left fingers on the lever to flick their lights like crazy. Nice one.

Alleyway along Pham Ngu Lao (backpackers street) to our hotel

A snooze on ur motor beside a street anyone?

MANICURES!

Vietnam has BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL flowers! Many beds like that around.

Dishes @ a hydrant.

Oh many nice nice fruits too!

Some banana cake

Bloody beautiful seafood here in ther market. They prepare it really well by just dunking it into salt water or slapping it on a hot bbq. Simple, fresh food. One of the best.

The Vietnamese mixed grill noodles that we had. Very fresh and nice with lotsa lotsa basil and mint with a sweet/sour dressing.

Fish paste grilled around a sugarcane skewer.

Da pao anyone?

Nice marinated shallots

The street food there was amazing. The next 3 pics show a wonderfully skilled mother/daughter pair preparing a very very soft 'soon kway' of sorts. Basically steamed rice flour slurry on cloth pulled over pot of boiling water to form a super thin layer of soft rice paper, which is then filled with a meat-bamboo shoot stuffing and rolled up. It was amazing the speed and precision they did it at, especially with the rice paper thingy.

Haha... Guess what this is.... Pig's BRAINS

All over the place... Scorpion/snake/lizard wine... Supposedly very good for u...

FRESH lotus seeds! Sth that's quite hard to find in Singapore already!

Business in Ben Thanh Market.

Oh and there're lotsa people who make a living on their bikes. They would roam the streets selling everything from fruits to lighters and do business right in the middle of terrible traffic! Talk about street sales indeed!

Dad eating waterchestnuts while waiting for mum and aunt to finish shopping.. zzz

o.O

Another street hawker... They do produce wonderful food!

Street seller again... Bloody strong people! Not easy carrying that load

Another slice of life moment.

The street was actually a night market so there were lamps and wires all hanging down from the overhead cables.

Heheheh

BANANAS!

This lady sold us EXCELLENT beancurd with a thick, candied ginger syrup. LOVELY. Street hawker again. We were fortunate enuff to get the last 3 bowls that she had. Although i think she sorta knocked us off for like 2 bowls for 20000VND (arnd S$2) but we were more than happy to give it to her cos of the bloody good tau huey.

Good stuff... and basically that's it for Day 1. Day 2 and Day 3 much more exciting as we head off to city tour and Cu Chi Tunnels (where i almost died).

Ho Chi Minh City Preview...

2007-11-25T19:18:00.000+08:00

Ahhh yes... Finally have the time to blog about Ho Chi Mihn City... And I'm still here! Using some free WiFi at some KFC near my hotel here in Saigon. Beautiful place I must say: nice people, nice food, nice shopping, cheap beer... Hahaha wad else can be better?

Liberation

2007-11-22T20:39:00.000+08:00

Oh yes yes yes yes yes... It's officially OVER! My JC life has more or less come to an end!!! WOOHOO!! Bio paper was preddy easy so yeah it ended quite well... These few months have been preddy shitty and heh i'm just glad to be liberated from this oppressive lifestyle! But goddammit my joy will only last TWO weeks before i head to DEFEND THE COUNTRY... yeah... "夕阳西下，海风轻送晚霞，德光岛我的家..." Heh oh wells... Must enjoy these two bloody weeks eh. Will be heading off to Vietnam tmr, might be updating when in Ho Chi Minh as bringing lappy there and got free WiFi @ Hotel. Woots. =D

Post A levels Schedule

2007-11-09T13:55:00.000+08:00

Heh since everyone's jumping on the bandwagon to post whatever they're gonna do after the As... I thought I'd do it too...

22 Nov: Final paper ends!!! Out with choristers!!!

23-25 Nov: Off to Ho Chi Minh city for tour (hopefully) !!! WOOHOO!!!

26 Nov: Go out/rot/laze/shoot

27 Nov: Rehearsals for MFL concert @ TJC

28 Nov: Go out/rot/laze/shoot

29 Nov: MFL concert @ TJC

30 Nov - 3 Dec: Work (if there's any), Prom prep, chiong out, visit choir etc

4 Dec: PROM

5 Dec: Choir chalet

6 Dec: Off to Tekong... -___-

22 Dec: Hopefully book out liao... Carolling! =D

Back to Tekong after that... zzzzzz

8 days......

2007-10-22T23:00:00.001+08:00

Sigh... 8 days to the As... EIGHT DAYS...

Open House 07 AKA Last Official Day of School for J2s

2007-10-12T18:00:00.000+08:00

Graduation Day

2007-10-11T21:12:00.000+08:00

Eh?!

2007-10-06T23:10:00.001+08:00

Eh?!
Originally uploaded by zhikang

Rare to catch her on camera like that! WOOHOO!

Back to School After Prelims

2007-09-25T22:20:00.000+08:00

The Day of Liberation!

2007-09-20T23:08:00.000+08:00

Ahhh yes FINALLY prelims are over.... Past 3-4 weeks of HELL... IT WAS A SHITHOLE MAN!!! Heh... A lvls coming soon... more shit... WOOHOOOOO

J1s still walking so carefree... Let's see.... Hmmmm

Jonny as usual, cheesed off after paper...

Yeah we need more than luck lor... DIVINE INTERVENTION~

Shit forgot it's name... =P

Mr Bugz Ang

Random

06S71 after paper... Random x 2

Relief? Random x 3

Mak Chan Keet... ehh after prelims laxing la...

Love this texture shot... Tree trunk near bus stop.

Don't come in, alth it leads u in...

EH!?

Wanzw the contented fool?

Noobs looking at noob on PSP

SUPER NOOB

George W. Bush's property. (f*** i hope the US Gov doesnt sue me)

In Singapore!?!

Sera's first attempt, quite LOMO i rikes.

Before, During and After Prelims

2007-09-17T23:32:00.000+08:00

Sigh... Prelims have been a nagging pain in the butt for the past 2 weeks... 2 more papers to go and i'm already very very very jaded... Seriously, not easy. Sleep-deprivation, over-reliance on caffeine (doesn't really take any effect actually), bad eating habits etc. is screwing my body upside down. Zzz... So since I have like ABIT of time now... Here's pics before prelims, during prelims and nearing the end of prelims...

Took a day trip to Malacca with my parents, cousins and aunt before the hols. Fun. Much needed actually.

The following 3 pics are taken on a car going 60km/h

Pretty cousins. =D

Da simple life... Wish i could be like that sometimes...

Ok, back to reality. Last week, an incident of cloud iridescence was seen in the sky! Pretty colours eh? Not bad, considering this was during first few days of prelims. Good omen? nahhh

Managed to catch a slice of life in Sg. =D

Sunset... Caught today. No circular polariser so zzzzzz... Says alot abt prelims eh... Dying... Finishing.soon. As.are.coming.

Hopefully we'll all survive... Somebody save me.

Grandma's 70th Birthday!

2007-09-01T12:04:00.000+08:00

Face of the Night

2007-08-31T00:05:00.001+08:00

Face of the Night
Originally uploaded by zhikang

In the chill of the night... Someone watches over all...

Last Day of Formal Lessons in JC

2007-08-24T23:47:00.000+08:00

-tammy will kill me if i did not remove this pic so now it is removed-

Last random post b4 the bloody exams hit

2007-08-18T00:13:00.000+08:00

This is prolly gonna be the last random post before the shit hits the fan eh? The following series (except the last pic taken like today, or rather yesterday) was taken during Scholarship Day a few weeks back. Totally forgot about this set of pics until i saw it like last week. Got down to processing it chop chop after NDP pics and yea. Shit is coming in like hell now... Gotta pia.. Especially for maths... AIEEEEEE HELLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!

WTH?! KUNGFU FIGHTING!

Following pic taken with wanzw's 400D with 35 f/2. As usual Val was totally oblivious to what was happening as she was deep in thought....

NDP 2007

2007-08-11T16:29:00.000+08:00

Tammy's Birthday + Choir photoshoot

2007-07-20T20:34:00.000+08:00

Brought cam to school today to shoot choir stuff.... It's Tammy's birthday as well... So... Happy Birthday Tammy!

Random shots in the morning... Mrs Chan was not here for GP again...

Taken by Zhongwei... His classmates...

Tammy's Cake!

06S72

The girls of 06S72

+ 2 guys

After everything Tammy did sth that i would never have expected her to do!!! like OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look at the 3 pics below and guess wad she did... All for her bag... Hee...

After school.. Play with flash and ST-E2

Wanz

Stunned Yining

Scary shit

Pensive?

Val was making these nice nice hearts for her interact stuff so borrowed some to shoot.

I <3 rioHC

The girl hard at work

Jnr exco photoshoot... Sigh in the end it was a mass randoming session with the juniors cos quek couldnt make it... Sheesh... Oh wells... zzzzZZZzzzz... But it was quite fun! Heh... =D=D=D

Song Boyang ji seh

Liying

Song Bo? Heheheh

Jiawen! (I mean Ms Ho)

=)

Shan ---> sleepy

Cherie pouting wadever for

WAAAAD?!?!!?

Jean WOOOOON

Andris!!! Hawt stuff!

Siewying HIAOing!

Omg omg lame shit, the girls tried to do BALLET! zOMG

And the guys just did 千手观音 WTF?!