Fresh pasta with pine mushrooms and freshly grated Parmesan. The camera gets worked a lot at home with taking pictures of food. This was made before we moved to the new place and you can get fresh pine mushrooms at Victoria market at the organic section.

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Recently I’ve had the tendency to sit back and cruise along with the things occurring around me. I had the excuse that I was preparing for my CPA exam, or that I was making arrangements to move house. It mainly revolved around the house, scurrying up and down over the weekends to get things done. Now I’ve got all my furniture and being comfortable in the routines, I think it’s time to start rocking the boat again.

It’s time to start pushing boundaries again, doing things that I enjoy. I’ve spent a couple of hours the last few nights on my computer playing games over the internet with friends. Heh, we used to need to huddle in the same room over bulky CRT monitors with cables everywhere just to play games together, now broadband is quick, and wireless leaves your space clutter free. As much as I enjoy shooting zombies or building armies of alien races (playing Left 4 Dead 2 and the Starcraft 2 Beta of late), it’s a consumption activity and after leaving my camera at home these days, I long to exercise the creative part of my brain to produce something.

The camera will probably not move much, since I drive and unlike the times when I used to travel by foot to work, I can’t really manipulate the camera behind a steering wheel as I can while taking different routes home. So I’ll channel my efforts into other endeavours. Need to learn how to use the new functionality of Lightroom 3 (which seemed a bigger jump from 1 to 2). Need to redo this website. There’s new web standards to play with. When I first started CSS2 was still barely supported by browsers and Firefox was a brand new browser back then. Now we have so many other browsers competing for market share and many of the standards in CSS3 are starting to receive good support from the major browsers like Chrome, Safari (both were non existent back then). So it’s time to get cracking on something new.

I bought a whole stack of books on various topics, need to start reading those as well. Heh, need to populate the bookshelf in the study, so it will be a good time to review the stuff I’d like to read up on first.

Will also need to tidy up the other areas of the house and I have this phobia of leaving all the things I packed from my previous place in boxes. That’s not going to happen as the items will either find a home in a drawer or a shelf, or it gets thrown out or donated. Heh, this is just thinking ahead for my next house moving, I don’t want to accummulate stuff I don’t need or want.

For most of these things, I’ve set them in motion. Now it’s just moving along and finishing the race. Time to get cracking.