Big Blogger Meets are where bloggers meet up to sit and discuss worldly topics, and ways to solve problems that plague humankind.

However, when the conversation dulls, we take pictures!

Amanda and I. Spot the commotion in the background!

(Insert conversation between Rames, Joshua Foong, Su Ann/Pinkpau and Asyraf Lee.)

The other Jen, a green snake.

Introduction session involved people throwing the duck at other people. The victim would then come up and introduce him/herself.

Claire Khoo presenting the prize to Erin. I must thank my cheapo UV filter for providing the ghostly effect.

A blur (but adorable) Su Ann/MiszMilk about to enter Wizard Cafe‘s haunted house.

We had to wear 3D goggles of the red/green variety, which made the painted glow-in-the-dark marks on the walls appear to float. As the Daring Dude In Front it was my task to point out curtains where ghosts could possibly jump out and attack you.

A benefit of being that dude was that most ghosts did not attack me. 🙁

The end of the haunted house was awesome, dizzying shit. Ingenious.

I stole this picture from Boss Stewie. I stole this Pentax K100D with 100-300mm lens from Dylan. And yes, Pentax’s CCD-shift Shake Reduction works like a charm, getting a sharp image at 1/30th of a second at 300mm. 4 stops!

Random shot of the crowd at such low resolution to hide whichever aged blogger wants to conceal his or her identity (Christine will you please own up?)

…and another.

It’s also said that Frostier and Wingz were there. For all we know one of them was in an ape suit next to organizers Tan Yee Hou and Jolene Lai.

Penny Chow and I. So pretty. Wow my right chest was so lucky to be graced more by this hot chick’s presence!

Su Ann/pinkpau and Albert Ng doing a Johnny Depp doing a pirate impression (okay I wasn’t feeling piratey because I just shaved).

Pat and Mikel from the East Side, yo. For some reason I think both of them look like Nickelodeon characters.

Su Ann/pinkpau and duck. So cute, sooo pinchable (though probably not in public.) Just turned legal yay!

Wai Fon, Nazrul and Su Ann/pinkpau.

Wai Fon: You know what? I need to get laid.
Nazrul: Oh sorry, I wasn’t talking to you, I was talking to your boobs.
Su Ann/pinkpau: Anybody likes paus? Pink paus?

I like paus, but I don’t like pink. That is a problem.

Penny Wong says it’s emoticon time! Spot the Josh Lim.

Another low-resolution crowd shot.

Cheryl and I. I look like I’m molesting a wax statue.

Stone versus wax.

Eve and I. Cute!

From left to right, back row: Calvin Tay, Rames, Cherrie, Jenifur, smashpOp, Eugene (I’m sorry, I don’t remember your memorable URL. Sins deeds something argh.)
From left to right, front row: Kel Li, Natalie, Slinky, Bryan Chin, not-such-a-wax-statue-eh Cheryl.

Su Ann/MiszMilk, the other Jen and big-headed me.

Slinky the lounge singer.

I wonder how much he got paid to have his lower body ripped off in addition to having to wave at people all day.

As Xian Jin and I took the stairs down, we discovered that the hidden cafeteria in Sungei Wang was still alive! I thought it was taken over and demolished once the 6th floor was built. That, and the open car park were still there!

And now, for some camera geeking.

Yee Hou finally brought his Seagull SA84 Twin Lens Reflex medium format camera. He loaded the 75mm F3.5 China-made beauty with 60x45mm 120 film. The shutter release was at the bottom-left side of the front plate, with aperture and shutter speed dials on the sides of the film lens. (The film lens is the lower one; the upper one is just for focusing, which means no mirror blackout or mirror slap.)

With eyepiece magnifier popped up.

The film advance crank was on the right side. The focus crank was on the left side (not pictured) which drives both lenses nearer/further from the film plane. I used to think that focusing was by turning one lens (where the other lens would turn the opposite direction.)

This is what you see. An almost holographic 3D-like projection!

More pictures and blog entries are at Tan Yee Hou‘s blog.