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Was just reading the news on Today online and found this article rather interesting.

 

Excerpts from Today Online (5th Nov 2007)

 

NEARLY 3,500 CHINESE CHILDREN NAMED ‘OLYMPICS’
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BEIJING – The Beijing Olympics is more than just a point of pride for
China – it’s such an important part of the national consciousness that
nearly 3,500 children have been named for the event, a newspaper reported
yesterday.

Most of the 3,491 people with the name “Aoyun”, meaning Olympics, were
born around the year 2000, as Beijing was bidding to host the 2008 Summer
Games, said the Beijing Daily, citing information from China’s national
identity card database.

Names related to the Olympics don’t just stop with “Olympics”. More than
4,000 Chinese share their names with the Beijing Games mascots – the “Five
Friendlies”.

The names are Bei Bei (880 people), Jing Jing (1,240), Huan Huan (1,063),
Ying Ying (624) and Ni Ni (642). When put together, it translates to
“Beijing welcomes you”.

Chinese have increasingly turned to unique names as a way to express a
child’s individuality.

In a country with a population of 1.3 billion, 87 per cent share the same
129 family names.

That’s why 5,598 people have the same name as basketball player Yao Ming
and 18,462 share a moniker with star hurdler Liu Xiang, according to the
Beijing Daily report.

Parents have turned to unusual combinations of letters, numbers and
symbols when choosing their child’s name, Mr Li Yuming, deputy director of
the National Language Commission, had told the Xinhua news agency. – AP

 

“Ni Ni” sounds crude man. Reminds about one of the youtube videos that I saw a while ago.

 

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvtWAXoZjTc[/youtube]

 

 

[tags]youtube, random articles, Olympics[/tags]

 

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posted by wansheng on November 5th 2007 in videos, voices





What’s good, what’s bad, what can be improved?

 

Just hours after rolling out the new website, I got some friends to look at it and got some comments. One of the things that bugged me was that the images may be a little too big for some of you who may be using smaller monitors or on laptops (yeah… isn’t it nice to view wedding sites at work?:P). I may be doing some tweaking in the next few days to make site navigation a little easier.

 

Any comments or feedback will be very much appreciate. Thank you!:) You can drop me an email as well.

 

updates: Ran some checks after receiving feedback and realized the site isn’t optimized as I overlooked the issues on screen resolution as well as the image sizes. Spent the entire night, flushing caches, resizing and thinking how to put up a new design asap (while the world sleeps). Finally got it fixed this morning and now it’s good to go:) Also reduced the number of clicks to get to the images. *sweats*

 

[tags]Photography, Wedding, Website, feedback[/tags]

 

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posted by wansheng on November 3rd 2007 in @news, voices, weddings





New website

 

Was deciding if I should say it’s new or updated:)

 

It’s been a long one year since I touched anything on the website. After few weeks of trials, I finally settled to use the flash slideshow for the site. It’s so much easier to maintain and update. The new site is not quite complete yet, but rest assured it will be done in a couple of day’s time. For now, it’s pretty functional, with alot more new photos.

 

Next up, the pre-wedding photos and I’ll include an “updated” section. But since the website is new, this section will probably be empty for a while. As for the missing “about” section, I thought it looks kinda cheesey, so I took it out. I’ll probably continue writing about my journey to where I am now in my blog instead.

 

For now… the new website is officially launched!:)

 

http://www.feldberyl.com

 

[tags]Photography, Website, Weddings, Updates[/tags]

 

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posted by wansheng on November 2nd 2007 in @news, voices, weddings





table-2-table photos?

 

What do you do when people ask for table-to-table group photos? I’ve got a good example here:P

 

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posted by wansheng on October 30th 2007 in images, voices, weddings





The wait is over

 

The boys (Kenji and Kago) came knocking on my door this morning once they heard the sounds of my mouse clicks. I thought it’s pretty unusual because I just fed them last night and I’m very sure they won’t be hungry that early in the morning. So I decided to check it out, they might have found some new leads after a whole night of searching. When I got to the kitchen, nothing there, no dead bodies, no dismembered parts. Then these smarties looked up the window grills and started barking. And there I saw it… the elusive one. It’s huge, body length about 6-7 inches.

 

Since it has appeared, I have to do something. So, I looked around, noticed something the dogs did that I thought was pretty darn smart. They actually dragged a pole into the house, hoping to use it to bring down the rat. Man, how smart is that? Although I think they “have the will, but don’t have the physical strength” (just like what my housemate said):P Anyway, I looked around and decided to stuff up the area around the fridge with newspapers first, in case he runs in there again. Then I decided to leave the backdoor open for it to escape. Next, I ushered the boys to the living room and lock them out there… I don’t want to witness bloodshed, not today. Lastly, I took this shot :)

 

Then, the supposedly easy “free the rat” operation became a little frustrating. When I started to nudge the fella, it moved down to it’s position (shown in the photo), then it did the unimaginable, it pee-ed!!! I cursed and swore. Here I’m trying to free you and you make my life difficult. Anyway, after a while, it jumped onto the kitchen floor and scurried to the backyard. I hope he left this place and go tell his friends, don’t ever come back cause the boys will be waiting.

 

The boys did well. Commendable effort. Shall bring them to the beach one of these days:)

 

 

[tags]Rat, house, Kenji, Kago[/tags]

 

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posted by wansheng on October 29th 2007 in images, voices





Smelled a rat

 

A couple of days back, my housemate woke up and found a dead rat in the kitchen and the two dogs happily standing beside their kill, waiting to be praised. Well, they did get their rewards as he was very pleased with their performance. Good thing he cleaned up after that.

 

After that incident, they seem to develop an extra sharp sense for rats (or have they been around all these while?). From yesterday, they have been trying to sniff something out from the fridge and the drain. While the maid was cleaning today, she said she heard noises coming from the fridge, so I supposed, the dogs must be right. Now the problem is, how do I lure the rat out? It’s not stupid, it knows that the dogs are waiting to pounce on it. I just don’t want it to starve and die inside, neither do I want to clear the dead body if they catch it. I think I’ll fence out the boys tomorrow for a couple of hours and hope that the rat will make it’s escape and never to return again, preferably go tell his/her friends that our place has no food and is freaking dangerous with two mean looking guards.

 

 

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posted by wansheng on October 27th 2007 in voices





King of the…

 

…cages…

 

 

This was taken in Bali, at Titiles (shop famous for pork floss), Denpasar sometime back in Oct 2006. These large cats were kept in metal cages and it’s one of the so-called “attractions”. Among others are snakes, exotic fishes, tortoises and birds. You can stand really close to these huge animals, and yes, they are HUGE!! Did the unthinkable, I put my handphone very near to the cage and took these images. Nothing compared to the caretaker, who hand fed these big cats…

 

Anyway, the lion look really sad. What happened to the King of the Jungle?

 

[tags]Bali, Travel, 2006, Tigers, Lions, endangered, Titiles[/tags]

 

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posted by wansheng on October 24th 2007 in bali, images, travel / landscapes, voices





In case you are wondering…

 

Besides spending abit of well deserved private time with the TV, I’ve also been digging up all the wedding photos from my first shoot till now (yes, it’s been a while…). Picking out some of my favorite photos and categorizing them. Man, this task alone take DAYS!!! (ok, granted, some days I work less harder). So now I’m done, a portfolio folder with hundreds of images, what’s next? Re-edit? O c’mon… I’m just going to pick out some that I’ll be putting up on the new website (yes!! new!!). Ok lah, the overall design is still going to be more or less the same… except for some new photos (been awhile ya?:P).

 

Let me see… *takes out calender*… 1st November then, new website launch! First 10 to visit the website will… be the first 10 to see the new site…duh! 😛

 

 

 

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posted by wansheng on October 24th 2007 in @news, voices, weddings





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