So it's been a looong time since I've blogged. Wonder if people remember I exist. I was also informed by Lynn that that tourist picture of me is rather daft so I thought I should replace it as the topmost post :D
To make things simple, I've been stuck in lab. Trying to squeeze out every bit of time I can to get some results before my poster presentation and thesis submission. I'm sure everyone else is working very hard too but it seems to have become some kind of obsession for me. Hm... The strange thing is I know I definitely don't like this and I'll get out of it once I graduate.
Anyhow, I'm sure everyone knows but I'll be going back to Alaska this summer. The last time I was there there was hardly any time to do the things I wanted to do. Went with non-outdoorsey people la. And I was pretty much stuck in the city most of the time. This time I'll be going to work just outside Denali National Park, whose primary attraction is Denali, of course. The mountain is actually taller than Everest! From bottom to peak that is. Here's a picture of Denali with Wonder Lake in the foreground.
More amazing pictures of Denali and all the other US National Parks and lots of other places can be found at this website. This guy takes super nice photos~~~
Terra Galleria PhotographyDenali Photos In order to attempt to capture such scenes I want to get a new camera! Here are the options:
1. Canon S3 IS
2. Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H2
3. Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1
The first two have 12x optical zoom but aren't compacts while the Panasonic is a compact with 10x optical zoom! Compare that to most compacts which have only 3x zoom. (My Ixus couldn't capture any of the wildlife at all... they looked like dots -_-") Quality-wise I'm sure the Canon would win but its so ugly :( Sony looks alright but I'm not used to the interface and don't want to invest in memory sticks which would otherwise be useless. Panasonic is of course very portable but reviews say that it produces very noisy images. Sigh~~~ Unfortunately the prices are in the same order with Canon being the most expensive. Thoughts, anyone?
Die la I'm getting carried away with thoughts of Alaska. Whole day thinking of stuff I wanna buy like hiking boots, a day pack, etc. Haha!
Anyway, wanna wish FM a belated happy birthday. Hope you had an enjoyable time with Jas! I'm sure you did... お誕生日おめでとうございます！
On a related note, I'll be working at the
Denali Mountain Morning Hostel, a place I stayed at last summer.
Pictures I stole from the website:
The hostel is just beside Carlo Creek and is surrounded by pretty mountains. When I arrive in May I hope there's still snow! Will probably freeze to death. The winds in Alaska are cooooold. I'd say windproof wear is as important as warm stuff.
Everyone/anyone who has the chance, please visit because you will not regret it! (I know the chances of this happening are
very remote but I thought I would extend the invitation anyway)
Part II - For Shin
This is what you are supposed to cut and paste if you decide to participate in the tagging game..
Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog.I'm weird because...
1. ...I like to eat the seeds+jellyish stuff in the middle of chilled cucumbers.
2. ...I tend to sleep even later when I'm tired.
3. ...like Shin, I get itchy hands and clean up messy places. When I get really picky, I start bothering about details like whether stuff is arranged properly. That means parallel/at right angles. Hah!
4. ...even though I'm tired and rather burnt out, people around me keep saying I look damn happy and ask why I'm smiling so much. (This excludes my whining kakis)
5. ...I constantly waver between being a complete hermit, contentedly burying myself in anime,dramas and books and not seeing the Sun, and dying to get out there to go hiking/rafting/paragliding etc!
6. ...I like to wear nice clothes but always end up looking kinda grubby because I value comfort and convenience more. Ok that's not very weird but kind of a sad realisation. Haha.
I shall skip the tagging 6 people part cos I bet everyone is too busy. Sigh. One month left, 加油加油！
