Getting there is half the fun

wooo brand new digital camera!!

Yup, that's right folks, I have now officially gone high-tech with my own laptop and brand-spankin' new digital camera! Samson, Misha, Lisa, Cindy and I went into the city today to go electronics shopping. Samson is in Fizz also, but in 3rd year, and Misha, Lisa and Cindy are all pharmacology students from UBC doing 8 months of Co-op here. Today we went to the electronics megopolis Sim Lim. It's a gigantic mall catering just to cameras, cell phones, and computers! I think there are around 7 or 8 floors, but I couldn't fit them all in my view finder.


After shopping around for a while and me and Misha really haggling hard with the merchants I ended up with a Canon A520 for a decent price! Misha can really drive a hard bargain! Misha also bought an uber-nice cell phone for about $450 that comes with everything imaginable!

So tonight I tried my hand at some night shots. I tried to take some pics of all the beautiful plants around here but none of them turned out in the dark. The rest are just shots of buildings. Here are 2 pics of my residence. They are surprisingly the best ones out of about 40. I think I need more practise.

You can see my kitchen window in this one. It is the bottom left window with the light on. The front building is the general store here, called Georgie's. And the highrise is actually only 1.5 blocks out of a whopping 26 at this residence!


This is just a walkway around the building, nothing special, but I thought it looked nice.


Tomorrow the five of us are going to the zoo. It should be fun! Funny, though, that there are five of us again, just like in Germany.

Posted by Evan at 11:18 PM