As getting on to
the 3rd (final) year of my PhD, I need to be more focused on
my studies. Hopefully, I can complete the writing and defend
my thesis as many other successful mates in the school.
Meanwhile, my WebTech businesses are still serving as my
part-time job. Below are a few most recent spare time
activities as the new term starts. You may already found out that most of
them are sports clubs. I haven't been doing any proper physical exercises for
about two years, so this year I must try to be at least a
little more active. :)
Happy Halloween
Another benefit of
living in the city centre, besides shopping and different
facilities, is the festival. The Halloween day is just a
small example. I post a few photos which I took last evening
here, and hope you can share the joy with me. ^_^
Kendo Mates in the Pub.. .
Sports Clubs
My flat is near by
Edinburgh University's two Sport centres, which is very
convenient to find a few good clubs. Currently, I have
joined the
Kendo Club as planned,
then occasionally go to the
Taekwondo Club
on Thursday and
drop into
the
Napier Archery Club
on Sunday.
The Kendo Club
This Kendo Club is fantastic,
much more interesting than the one at Imperial College. The
teaching is good, people are all very nice, all that you can
expect in a good student club. Below is a
video that I captured on the Demo.
Hope you enjoyed the video. Since I
majorly spend my spare time with this club, and have been
there for quite many times by now, there is a special
section in my website for many photos I took with
them so far. Click here:
http://www.wzkfelix.com/friends/kendo/
Photography Summer
School
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Very
happily discovered that Napier has photographing
course, and they are holding a photography summer
school during the holiday. So I booked the advanced
Portrait and Landscape (not active) classes.
I knew you
may ask that why do I still need photographing
course, even I had been doing self-study, reading a
lot of books and albums, taken over dozen thousands
of great photographs. Well, I'd say that it's more
about confidence. I want to go to the class and
compare my photography knowledge with the academics,
and fulfil some blind spots of my photographing
knowledge.
The result,
however, was a little disappointing at the
beginning, because the first two classes are very
basic. However, in the third class, we started a lot
of practice, three sets (outdoor, studio flash and
tungsten light) in one two-hour class!
The photos
on the left and bottom are studio shoots taken on
the second class. The other ones above were taken
out door on the third class. After comparing both of
these two groups of photos, I think my photographing
style is natural like my paintings. Although we can
have more control over studio lights, the beauty and
changing environment of nature is still my favourite
photographing canvas. My skills improved again
through practising and comparing. I am now
more confident as a very experienced and stylish
photographer after these short summer classes.
By the way,
there are many interesting classmates, including:
Yang!! We didn't tell each other before booking the
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Don and Graziella's Wedding
We did photographing for Don and Graziella last week. Using
two Canon 40D body with one 24-105mm L IS USM lens and one
40mm 1.4F USM Lens. The lighting was not great, and it
rained so heavily in the garden. However, we did managed to
get a few shoots.
By the way, Yang was also in the event as our film maker.
Just look below, can't image he could be more serious
anywhere else .. ;P
Karaoke Parties
Some friends may already knew that I have managed to
resource a new technology: The Professional Karaoke
System. I have enhanced my home PC & TV with the system,
with a song database of over 20,000 songs (original
karaoke video clip), in 5 languages (Mandarin,
Cantonese & Minnanese, English, Korean, Japanese) upto year
2008. I also bought a great second-hand home cinema system
(5 pillar speaker, one central and one bass) from the
cash-generators for only £59.99, to deliver the function. So
next time when you come and visit us, let's enjoy a much better
Karaoke singing party! ~ V*^_^*V
Yang Ye and Wang Yang are Singing
Karaoke in our house, using old system ;)
ScotDoc 2008 in Glasgow
Another conference again, and another ScotDoc Equilibrium
Conference, this year in Glasgow University. Did another
rough presentation and still found time to walk around and
have fun. ^_^
Found a bride when I was walking around the Campus!
Instantly captured with my little Sony Compact. ~
Then I found another couple in the Church, and their
wedding ceremony is just about to start!!.. . so I recorded
- (click below)
Finally, when I got back that day, I saw fireworks
dancing happily outside my window!! ~~ ~ ^_^ a typical
"Felix's Day".
Recently Added Pages
In addition, just let you know that I have just updated
another four pages beside this page:
Journal
Page - 2005-2006 London: http://www.wzkfelix.com/journal06seasons.html
Journal
Page - 2006 MSc Graduation Ceremony:
http://www.wzkfelix.com/journal06graduation.html
Journal
Page - 2006-2007 Life in Edinburgh:
http://www.wzkfelix.com/journal0607edinburgh.html
Journal
Page - 2008 Eva's Graduation:
http://www.wzkfelix.com/journal0708.html
Hope you have
enjoyed my photos and these new updates of my life. How about
you my friend? Why not
leave me a message and let me know some more about you &
let's keep in
touch? ~ ^_^
