One year ago on this faithful day, I added a counter to track the number of people who visit my blog. The number now stands at around 7600. It means that on an average Blog De Ganz serves around 20 people daily.

Yes folks a staggering 20 people come and visit my blog on a regular basis. Half of whom by the way I guess are people I know. And since the conception of this blog only my dearest friend Michelle keeps living evidence of her visits.

Thank Mitch for all your comments. For without these small acknowledgements, I probably would have been questioning myself on the reason why I still continue to blog. Besides Michelle; Latiff, Mathi and Kailun also frequent the comments section. I also had foreign visits too. Kudos to the internet, it is indeed the greatest wonder of the 20th century.

To tell you frankly blogging is one of most fulfilling things I have done. It just an awesome avenue where I can write and post about anything I like although there are some things that are too personal that I will never allow you as my readers to know. And those little private thoughts are hidden away in my manly diary. Yes it’s a manly diary not those cute diary you pretty gals keep.

On to the issue of Ganz getting a dSLR camera, I managed to convince my dear old dad into getting me a camera. If everything goes according to plan, I could buy the dSLR during the IT show in March.

Right now, I have short listed four cameras, the Nikon D50, the Canon EOS 350D, the Olympus E500 and the Pentax*ist DS.

Different people prefer different cameras and for me I find the Nikon D50 the most appealing among the four because of its price.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

No matter how long or how hard it’s going to be, I will never give up.
- Ganz

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

I have always said that it takes an idiot of certain degree to be in a place of power. Well if you don’t believe me, just take a look at the army.
- Ganz

First up, I have just upgraded my internet connection to maxonline 6500. I took up the Xbox 360 plan and will be contracted for 2 years. It also means I need to shelf out an extra $12 for the faster speed each month. Though I wasn’t keen on upgrading, my Father and Brother keep complaining that the internet speed has become considerably slower ever since I bought my wireless router.

So as a result, I decide to kill to birds in one stone. I upgraded my internet connection and also preordered the Xbox 360 as part of the deal. The only problem I have with this whole thing is that I need to top up $299 for the Xbox 360 core system. I don’t mind paying this amount if they gave me the hard disk rather than a 64 mb memory card and a game I don’t even dream of buying.

The second thing is that I have been planning to buy a DSLR camera for a very long time now. Lately I have taken a great deal of interest in photography. Why the sudden interest in photography you might ask? I really don’t know.

I feel that I need to take better pictures because my I cannot stand the blurring in my camera apart from the lack of features like exposure, white balance, aperture and focus.

I also want to manipulate my images with Photoshop and try to incorporate 3D elements in my photographs. I just want to experiment.

But I think the real reason for my motivation for getting a camera is because I ought to have a good foundation in photography if I am ever going to be a film director.

After all the film schools I checked put has some kind of photography classes. And since I am putting off my studies for the moment, I might as well take this opportunity to learn as much as possible.

But like all noble deeds, I have this lingering thought in my head. I feel it’s just going to end up as an expensive hobby I might get sick of it sooner or later.

If you have been following my ridiculous blog, you would probably realize that I am in a fix right now. There are so many things I need to pay for and without the constant income of my freelance I cannot help but ask myself whether or not I really need to buy the camera.

I even thought of selling, my Sony cybershot camera which by the way I took 8 months to save and buy, my beautiful Wacom tablet and my beloved Xbox just to buy my new camera. Although my Father is against me selling my stuff, I got no alternative unless of course I was to borrow the money from him and buy the camera.

God, why am I a stubborn headed mule.

Hi folks, this was the passage I wanted share with you all on Wednesday.

…Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behaviour in certain ways – and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don’t know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection…

If you ever been in love, you surely have had this feeling. And I can tell you that this feeling is intoxicating. How I wish I could tell her how much I love her, but alas I fear that I might lose her. Perhaps I have to wait but if I waited too long, I might really end up losing her.