escapades of the elusive kat

Not quite an A Day In My Life, but it's more or less, coz it's photo heavy!

It's actually my sister's (kikakat) birthday, but why am I tagging her, she's already abandoned her LJ. Anyway, I had plans to go get a manicure today, but Mom suddenly sprung on me the idea to go have lunch with my Sis. Tough. My manicure is at 11am, and will most likely finish at 1pm. My Sis' lunch hours are 1pm-2pm, so I'm never gonna make it. Mom told me to tell the lady to "do it faster" *rolls eyes*. Let me ignore this in-house Karen.

I took the chance to take some more Paper Shoot photos. This time I used the Wide-angle lens, and I think I figured the lens placement. The black corner is a bit better than the ones from the Fisheye lens. I'll try more later and see if I can figure out the optimal lens placement.

Typical February/March weather. Foggy! The weather board thingie read 97% relative humidity today. It's HUMID! On the left photo, my work building is essentially missing because of the fog LOL. On the right photo, it's the St. Lawrence Church.


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And I hope you enjoyed these random sights and my ramblings about certain landmarks!

In my quest to "use up or just use stuff that has been lying around," I took my Paper Shoot Camera out today. It's called Paper Shoot and indeed the exterior is made of paper, but actually there's some technology within. I bought it a couple years back when I was in Taipei.


So it's essentially a low-tech point and shoot camera. It even works without any of the optional lenses, and after trying out a bit, I actually prefer no lense (despite I love how a fisheye photo comes out as). Next time I'll post photos that have were taken with the either of the lenses I have (fisheye and wide angle).

After lunch today, I decided to take a walk around my office building and shoot some photos with it. I have long-forgotten the despair of using an old school point and shoot and... not knowing if you caught the view well right away! I was impatient the whole day, as my work computer is blocked from connecting to any external storage, so I couldn't look at the photos at work. Imagine back then you had to finish a whole roll of film then go develop it, and if you were lucky, you had a 1-hour photo-finishing shop nearby.

Enjoy!

Military Club. It's a clubhouse and you need a membership to use the lounge and whatever else (I don't know), but there is a restaurant for public use too. The restaurant here serves good authentic Portuguese food (at least, last I've been there). Don't know if they changed chefs or not.


Scooters are everywhere here, it's an easy and convenient mode of transport. I have a scooter license (no, my license is for a 150cc motorbike, so I can actually ride a bike, not just a scooter!). Colloquially, in Cantonese we call scooters 綿羊仔 (little sheep). Here, they are all crammed and parked in a parking area that's supposed to hold... I don't know, half the amount of bikes in here.


The park/small garden I mentioned before. I think I used a filter that was on the camera.


The Octagon Library/Newspaper kiosk.


Random street shot. Hotel Sintra and some super-old buildings in view.


Details of the tiled wall of the Portuguese School (EPM - Escola Portuguesa de Macau).


Mosaic pavements in Macau. Oh so pretty to look at. Don't wear heels, especially thin heels like stillettos. Your shoes will die and kill you with them if the thin heels get stuck. When it's raining it's slippery like hell, even proper walking or sports shoes are still slippery (I slipped a couple times!). Get shoes with good grip!


And that was my super short walk around the area around my workplace. It was practically a 5-10 minute walk.