Sunday, April 29, 2007
I'm Back...
Yes... Landed at 20 mins before midnight.... But, left airport at 12.30 am... Too enthusiastic about getting some wine... Meantime... Will have to start sifting thru all photos... Getting pressure to get it out ASAP! Sigh...
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Trip, Camera and more...
As with most of the photos that we have seen of previous mission trips were of those when we were travelling, and not so much of the preparation part... So this evening, I took a couple of photos in one of the pre-trip meetings that we are having before the actual trip starting on 20th April - Yes, it's time to head for Cambodia again!
Today, we had SW and his wife to help with the preparation. The group learned how to make the gospel beads and one group will be getting the rest of the gospel beads done. SW demonstrated some different balloons sculpture like sword, hat, etc. He also showed how he uses the balloons to help in the gospel lesson. Some of the members of the group tried their hands on it and did quite well. Then they split into their groups to prepare for the ministry work that they would do... SW's wife was there to help with the English lessons preparations.
Was downloading the photos to my PC just now and discovered that... Yup! My cam has now hit 10k shots (yeah, the photo numbering has reverted back to 0001)! Hmmm... Not too bad, since it has taken 2 years and 5 months to get there... So, I guess that shows I don't use it as often as I should... Never mind, I am certain I would hit at least 500 more in the coming trip... Meantime, I started to try taking shots in RAW instead of JPG; wanted to see what can be done in RAW but not in JPG, and found that for RAW, a 2GB can only hold approximately 360 shots only as compared to 586 for JPG. Will have to test out more, to see if the switch is worth the amt of HDD space, especially when I am running out of HDD space...
Talking about HDD space... I am in a lookout for solutions as my internal SATA connections are fully utilised. Anyone got any suggestions? I was thinking of getting something like a NAS product so that I have a file storage system, but the prices are making me think twice... So that is still in the pipeline somewhere down the road... Meantime, I think it might be a good idea to get another 2GB CF card as a backup since I don't have any as yet.
Looks like this is a year of spending.... 2 Trips, lens, CF card, cam bag and not forgetting the new Plasma TV in Dec to start with... I hope when I start travelling for work again I would not be spending that much... Think it's the lack of activities in my travel where I don't have time to think about spending $$$$ which is allowing this to happen... Heh... Not to fear... I forsee for the next half of the year, I would be too busy with work to bother about anything else... I am dubbing the upcoming work as a blackhole since no information of those sites have been forth coming and they expect the system to go live in July!??!?! They should be happy to get it up and running by Sept! Server area is not even ready, the users are not even informed of the upcoming changes (new IT systems etc)! How to do site survey with such situation? I can only admire the way my colleague pester and pushes her way into getting things started (well, like I say, it's not physically possible for me since I am at a different geographical location....).
Meantime, because of so many sites coming at the same time, I am working on getting some powerpoint slides up to let the field engineers learn how to install and configure the system... So, this week I am basically spending all my time getting this ppt done and ensuring it's comprehensive enough for them to comprehend! To add to the pressure, this is a new product as well - Not that I have been well trained in it, although I had some experience from the last site installation that we did late last year...
Not looking forward to after the trip... I am certain it would be chaotic...
Today, we had SW and his wife to help with the preparation. The group learned how to make the gospel beads and one group will be getting the rest of the gospel beads done. SW demonstrated some different balloons sculpture like sword, hat, etc. He also showed how he uses the balloons to help in the gospel lesson. Some of the members of the group tried their hands on it and did quite well. Then they split into their groups to prepare for the ministry work that they would do... SW's wife was there to help with the English lessons preparations.
Was downloading the photos to my PC just now and discovered that... Yup! My cam has now hit 10k shots (yeah, the photo numbering has reverted back to 0001)! Hmmm... Not too bad, since it has taken 2 years and 5 months to get there... So, I guess that shows I don't use it as often as I should... Never mind, I am certain I would hit at least 500 more in the coming trip... Meantime, I started to try taking shots in RAW instead of JPG; wanted to see what can be done in RAW but not in JPG, and found that for RAW, a 2GB can only hold approximately 360 shots only as compared to 586 for JPG. Will have to test out more, to see if the switch is worth the amt of HDD space, especially when I am running out of HDD space...
Talking about HDD space... I am in a lookout for solutions as my internal SATA connections are fully utilised. Anyone got any suggestions? I was thinking of getting something like a NAS product so that I have a file storage system, but the prices are making me think twice... So that is still in the pipeline somewhere down the road... Meantime, I think it might be a good idea to get another 2GB CF card as a backup since I don't have any as yet.
Looks like this is a year of spending.... 2 Trips, lens, CF card, cam bag and not forgetting the new Plasma TV in Dec to start with... I hope when I start travelling for work again I would not be spending that much... Think it's the lack of activities in my travel where I don't have time to think about spending $$$$ which is allowing this to happen... Heh... Not to fear... I forsee for the next half of the year, I would be too busy with work to bother about anything else... I am dubbing the upcoming work as a blackhole since no information of those sites have been forth coming and they expect the system to go live in July!??!?! They should be happy to get it up and running by Sept! Server area is not even ready, the users are not even informed of the upcoming changes (new IT systems etc)! How to do site survey with such situation? I can only admire the way my colleague pester and pushes her way into getting things started (well, like I say, it's not physically possible for me since I am at a different geographical location....).
Meantime, because of so many sites coming at the same time, I am working on getting some powerpoint slides up to let the field engineers learn how to install and configure the system... So, this week I am basically spending all my time getting this ppt done and ensuring it's comprehensive enough for them to comprehend! To add to the pressure, this is a new product as well - Not that I have been well trained in it, although I had some experience from the last site installation that we did late last year...
Not looking forward to after the trip... I am certain it would be chaotic...
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