The Sennheiser HD25, my dream DJ headphones. Always wanted this pair. For a long, long time. Now on my wishlist.

A fragment of my notes.

A friend of mine shared a lesson this evening, and much of it is frighteningly relevant to me and I am so humbled by His message.

Romans 12.2 (The Message) Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (Read in context)

I pray that I will continuously be transformed everyday and recognise what God wants from me. I pray that I will be quick to respond to His call and let Him do His work through my person. I pray that whatever God does in me, it will be a sign of His love that is visible to others, so that others, seeing that I have been transformed, will turn to God for their own transformation.

Psalm 115
¹ Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to
your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love
and your faithfulness.
² Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”

³ Our God is in the heavens;
he does whatever he pleases.
⁴ Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
⁵ They have mouths, but do not speak;
eyes, but do not see.
⁶ They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.
⁷ They have hands, but do not feel;
feet, but do not walk;
they make no sound in their
throats.
⁸ Those who make them are like them;
so are all who trust in them.

⁹ O Israel, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
¹⁰ O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.
¹¹ You who fear the Lord, trust in
the Lord!
He is their help and their shield.

¹² The Lord has been mindful of us; he
will bless us;
he will bless the house of Israel;
he will bless the house of Aaron;
¹³ he will bless those who fear the Lord,
both small and great.
¹⁴ May the Lord give you increase,
both you and your children.
¹⁵ May you be blessed by the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

¹⁶ The heavens are the Lord’s heavens,
but the earth he has given to
human beings.
¹⁷ The dead do not praise the Lord,
nor do any that go down into
silence.
¹⁸ But we will bless the Lord
from this time on and forevermore.
¹⁸ Praise the Lord!

The Apple 12" PowerBook G4 with SuperDrive has dropped a thousand bucks overnight! I have been waiting for this to happen since January. My ideal notebook is selling at a really decent price. Most beautiful. But I still haven’t got enough cash. So anti-climax, right? I need to get cash.

So . . .

If anyone is interested, I’m putting my Apple PowerMac up for sale. Specs are: 867MHz G4 dual-processor, 512MB RAM, 2 × 60GB hard drives, ATi 9000 Pro graphics card with 64MB VRAM, DVD-CDRW drive. If you’re interested and want more information, send me an e-mail! Or, if you know my phone number, give me a ring! Make me an offer I can’t refuse.

Talk about computers.

Assembled a ‘shoebox’ PC for my dad today at Sim Lim Square. It’s small but, for its size, it’s mighty powerful. The casing’s nice and sleek too. Makes me feel as though I should also get a PC as my secondary computer, even though I really don’t need one.

A friend of mine sent me this photo to upload to a website that I was working on. It’s pretty funny isn’t it? Here’s the link: The NUS European Studies Society aka. Eurosoc. The design is quite boring for that website, I know. But later on, maybe I’ll improve on it.

Was at Little India on Saturday night with some people from Sonic Edge. We were celebrating Marcus’ birthday. Ate at this place called Komala’s (the one closer to Little India MRT Station). Vegetarian. Quite nice. Banana Leaf Apollo was also not bad. I ate there about 1 year ago. They serve a different kind of Indian food, though.

Still looking for people interested in coming to me for a portrait photoshoot. The deal: Come get your photos done by me, you don’t pay me, I don’t pay you, I keep the negatives, you get Photo CD of the session. The photos are for my portfolio. have a look at some samples in this link: The Lonely Eye.

Let me know if you’re up for it. You can send me an e-mail, which is that e-mail address on the bottom of the column to the right.

The new iPod.

Apple releases a new iPod today. Again. Last month, they came up with the iPod Nano, which really made the rest of us iPod Mini users out of fashion. You know, it’s like software. Every six months, a newer version is released and then they say that if you don’t get the newest version, you’re hopelessly out of date.

This makes me feel that we’re living in an increasingly ‘disposable’-anything age. Disposable like paper plates, paper cups, forks, knives, spoons, socks, underwear, handkerchiefs, contact lens, spectacles, manual hair shavers, combs, toothbrushes, wipes, plastic bags, Tupperware, CDs, DVDs . . .

Seems like everything also has an expiry date too. Anything from electronics, fashion, food, sports, music, and even relationship trends. There’s just so much going on that I wonder if humans will ever get out of this endless cycle of materialism. (Or, at least, I speak of myself.)

Even my designs for this website have expiry dates. And those are the dates that I feel that I need a revamp. Always, I’d tell myself that this next design is the design that will last a long time. But after a few months, I get really bored with it because there are always other websites better than this.

Hopefully, I’ll stop designing and start writing more, so that my writing skills can improve. Because, nowadays, I need to pour out the infested stagnant water and allow in pure rivers of flowing water in order to write well.

How do you like this revamp of my website? There are some changes made: Image is now Design; the B-Sides is replaced by Writings; the tag-board is customised so that the font featured below can be used (only for Macs, though). There are quite a few other changes too but they (i.e. Profile, Links) generally stay remain in their own arena.

Design emcompasses all graphic artwork as well as still photography. Later on, examples of Genshi-designed websites will also be linked there. Meanwhile, you can view my monthly graphic designs, as well as the photography works that I’ve done in the last one year or so.

Writings, as you already know, is the new name of the B-Sides, but it’s no longer in blog format. Not all the posts are up yet because some of them are going through some editing.

Also, you may already note that this website is made on a Mac for Macs. While the priority is for this website to look okay on a Mac, I've made some effort to make it look okay on most other browsers. Later on, however, I will be incorporating PNG image files on this website. This will cause problems with Internet Explorer (which is the most outdated browser today). My suggestion is not to use Internet Explorer. Use Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari.

There is one more thing: the font I used in the text is not common. If you are a Mac-user and want to enjoy this website in all its glory, download this font. Sorry, but this font isn’t available for Windows PCs.

Enjoy!