January 2010 Wrap Up

It’s been a while since my last update and a lot has happened in my life in the past month. New Year’s Eve was pretty much uneventful, but we did have a great time at Jewel’s place. Jewel is our new friend and she’s a teacher at an international school here. After the New Year’s the days crept slowly then it was our wedding.

Yes I finally married my lovely Vie, after 3 wonderful years with each other. We finally pulled everything together and threw a small wedding in Nusa Dua on January 11th, which was also her birthday.

Before, during and after the wedding, in a span of 2 weeks time, we had a surge of friends staying with us. That kept us busy and knocked our routines off track for a while. Two of our friends, Jen and Momo had their DSLRs with them. Jen had a D3000 and Momo had a full frame bugger, the D700. Playing with their cameras sort of resurrected the frozen photographer in me that’s been sleeping for years. After they left I started reading up photography in order to relearn the trade. I wanted to start taking pictures again.

Then something hit me. My Canon PowerShot S3 IS wouldn’t allow me to take the kind of photos that my friends DSLRs did. Tough. I’ve always wanted a DSLR, so much to the point I forgot about it because I didn’t have money to buy one in the past. So the beast came back, and the craving began. I started nagging to Vie for the camera. At first we were both hesitant because we were quite broke after the wedding and a new DSLR camera would shoot our budgets through the roof. But after days of sleepless nights, I decided I really wanted it and Vie decided to support my new found passion. This is why I married her.

I came down to Nikon D90 and the 50mm f/1.4 lens. It’s something good enough to contain my growing needs for a while without making an overkill. Ordered it online and got an email from tech support the next day that they’re out of stock. Great. So I called my friend Cin from my hometown and turned out he’s a photo nut head too and he offered to help me get the camera and the lens from a local shop before I even asked. Two days later, my D90 arrived in the mail.

I sold my Canon PowerShot S3 IS to my friend Joe, along with a 2GB SD card, batteries and charger, for $200. It’s like getting a cash back coupon for my D90. I also reactivated my flickr pro account, and started fooling around with it again.

I don’t know what it is about me but it feels like my inner child is coming out and I really want encourage it. Who knows I might get lucky with photos and it could work as an outlet of my constantly spinning mind.

I trust that you’ve all had a great start this year. I plan to turn this into some sort of a photoblog so I have something to post more frequently that doesn’t take too much efforts to publish. It will also once again give you a window into my simple life here without draining too much thought.