My dad and I have been on the hunt for a DSLR at a really good price for a while now; and search was becoming a bit more urgent because my convocation is next month (and my parents want nice photos, instead of the blurry ones that our point-and-shoot always takes).
So, drum roll please... *drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* We bought one yesterday!
Taken by my 3.0 megapixel cell phone camera.
The Canon EOS Rebel T4i! We got it for a decent price, and it came with an 18-135 mm lens, the camera bag picture above, and a monopod (which... I'm sure will come into good use at some point in my life).
I took it out for a test drive today when we went to the Jays-Orioles game this afternoon. I am not as enthusiastic about baseball as I am about hockey; and I
don't know a lot about it except for what I learned from playing in
elementary school gym class and Wii Sports. But I went to a Jays vs. Red
Sox game a few years ago with my little brother and his second grade
class (it my second game ever - I went to my first baseball game when I
was 7 or 8), and I found that baseball wasn't as boring as I thought it
was. So now, when the opportunity to catch a Jays game becomes available, I'm all
for it. I just really like the atmosphere of being at a sports game. (It
was part of the reason for why I always wanted to go downtown to watch
the Leafs playoff games... sigh.)
Besides, the weather was absolutely amazing!
KAWASAKIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Bautista's batting again!
Sassy Brett Lawrie taking a walk after the pitcher hit him. I don't know if there's a technical term for this...
Shout out to the brave souls who did the CN Tower edge walk.
Here's why this game was awesome though: when we arrived (late, as always), the Orioles were up 2-0. Slowly, the Jays got back up within one, but by the bottom 9th, they were down 5-2. To the people who left the stadium then, SUCKS TO BE THEM because they missed the epic comeback.
BASES LOADED!
RUN RUN RUN! I believe that's Adam Lind running home and Mark DeRosa running to first.
Audience on their feet for potentially the last hit of the game...
KA-WA-SA-KI *clap clap clapclapclap*
#lovethisteam
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MY NAME IS MUNENORI KAWASAKI. I GREW UP IN JAPAN. I AM JAPANEEEEEEEEEESE! *gets shaving-creamed/Gatoraded*
If you haven't seen Kawasaki's post-game interview, you should. It is the best.
What was this post about? Oh yeah, the new camera, photos, etc. Upon my first review of all of them, I was a bit disappointed by the
image quality - the pictures didn't look spectacular and frankly, some of them looked like they could have been taken by our crappy Sony point-and-shoot on its better days. Then I remembered that I had set it to "medium - 8.0 MP"
on the camera because I am currently using a 512 MB SD card... So
hopefully after I get an SD card with more space on it, and ramp the
image quality back up, my pictures will look better. That, and after I
get some reading and practice done!
May 2-4 weekend! ... even though, you know, May 24th isn't until Friday. I heard that the last time Victoria day was actually on the 24th of May was in 2010.
With the weather looking beautiful and feeling like summer already, I've been compiling a list of songs for summer on my Grooveshark. I might be one of a handful of people who use that site, but it's because I'm too cheap to download music (the actual reason is that my parents think it's pointless to buy music and so they never let me buy iTunes cards or anything).
Anyhow, as one of them came on the radio, I thought I'd just share some of my summer songs, if anyone was curious. I was told once by a close friend that, despite being close friends, he didn't know what on earth my taste in music was (the irony is that we met in band, too). And another one of my friends is under the impression that all I listen to is McFly. This list doesn't represent the scope of my music taste; nevertheless, here are some tunes that I've really liked and that I think are suitable for summer. I'll post three:
1. One in a Million - Down With Webster
This is my anthem for the summer. The extra sunlight and heat make me feel spectacular on most days, and this song just matches that feeling.
2. The Way - Ariana Grande
Not a hardcore fan of Ariana, but I am so happy for her. She is so, so, so much more talented than Victoria Justice... (LISTEN TO THOSE WHISTLE TONES!).
3. Can't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
I like this one much more than Thrift Shop, which, what a surprise, just came on the radio as I type this.
Oh, and here's one more!
Get Lucky - Daft Punk ft. Pharell
The only song I've ever heard by Daft Punk was One More Time, so I was expecting this to sound like it. But, it doesn't. And that's okay.
It's been three days since the Leafs were eliminated from the playoffs in what has to be the most devastating loss in all of history (or, at least in all of the hockey games I've watched, which, honestly, isn't that much since I got into hockey only about two years ago). But, I'm not gonna dwell on it. Sadly, it's over, but on the bright side, they went so much farther than they did last year, and I could not be more proud of my team!
This was a short post. Back to studying... which, I have to convince myself, is so much fun~!...
A week ago, during a little get-together at my friend's house, we all decided to tackle the challenge of walking down to 1 Yonge St on Toronto from the library in Richmond Hill. According to Google Maps, the route we were going to take (which was just straight down Yonge) is a total of 26.2 km with an estimated travel time of 5 hours and 32 minutes.
That is right folks, I've jumped on the med school train. A few years late, yes... but better late than never right? Besides, what else can you do (that isn't research) with a science degree? (rhetorical question). I'm looking at applying in 2014, and (if by some miraculous miracle) I
am accepted, that'll be the class of 2019. Holy crap, I'll be going on
twenty-eight by then. HOLY CRAP. HOLY.
So that will be the fun-sucker of my summer. Also, I'm waiting to hear back from the clinic I worked in last summer to see if they can hire me again; if that works out, boo work, but YAY MONEY! that will be used to pay off OSAP loans booooo...
Sigh, trade-offs.
But! I do have a (mental) list of things I hope to tackle during the summer. One of them is to do some baking, and so I baked some cookies today...
Pillsbury. I know, it's cheating. But it was simple, which was ideal since most of my attention was focused towards the TV anyway (SENS BEAT THE HABS HAHAHA - normally I wouldn't be rooting for them, but I have the Sens taking the series in 7).
Another item on my mental list is to perfect my covers and finally share them with the world! They aren't great, but then again, a lot of covers on YouTube aren't either, so yolo why not just throw it out there and see what happens?
