April 10, 2010 - Jeffrey Lee

Hello, this is Jeffrey Lee. A close friend of mine who I've known since Elementary School (woot woot, Mckee). He's always been close even when we went to different middle schools. Even after 3 years of no contact, we were able to talk again when we went to the same high school. And now yet again we now go to separate universities but thank god technology makes communication so much easier.

We've had ups and downs together but luckily we've survived the worst. I'm glad his down phases are finally over and it's uplifting to see that he's enjoying life at this moment.

We still need to get you into a happy drunk Jeffrey =]

-Canon Ma

April 9, 2010 - Home

Finally back in Toronto.

Area where I used to live. Even after years of construction, I still remember how this was never a major street, and this neighborhood used to be so quiet. I remember the dominion BEFORE it got renovated (anyone remember the huge parking lot?). I remember Mckee before it got renovated. I remember being 7 and not having a care in the world. Now with the construction, it seems as if I'm going to be forced to forget everything.

Does everything old always have to be taken down and rebuilt? What if we want the past to stay as it is?

-Canon Ma

April 8, 2010 - Paths

Rained again in Hamilton (Damn you bad weather. Hope it's better in Toronto). But this time i still brought my camera out to try to see what I can take in the rain.

Paths. I just started wondering if it is better to have a path given to you to follow (such as your parents wishes), or should you try to embrace the freedom given to you by life and try to build you're own end?

I personally will never wish to be given something on a silver platter to follow. I'd hate the fact that I didn't work hard for it and at the end of the day, would be unable to appreciate it as much as I should (for example, parents). Even the person who won a lottery must take at least the effort to, not only pay $2 or however much it is to get a try, but also put all their hopes and dreams onto one ticket. 

And say for love. Would I like it if it dropped from the sky and we gelled perfectly? No. I'm starting to be convinced that the little fights are what you need to keep the relationship stronger and without them, you guys shouldn't be together, just be friends. But when you finally meet the person you know you love (all of them, the good and the bad - Valentines Day[Film]), then fight for them. Fight like hell to make them realize that whatever you guys have is worth it, because as cliche as it seems "True love conquers all". (Which is why some friends piss me off when they throw it all away for absurd reasons.)

Message of the day: Don't be shaped to become who you think you need to be, just become who you want to be.

Sort of makes me glad how my parents don't own a company now. I'd hate to be forced to continue the family business.

-Canon Ma

April 7, 2010 - Back to Origins

I'm not going to manually post this on facebook to see it'll fix the double posting. However, if you don't see the photo on facebook, please click on "View Original Post" near the comments box!

WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING?

You know a photography project's gone haywire when you have to resort to self-portrait(NO, NOT CAMWHORING) to get the photo done.

Edit - If you knew me long enough, you knew why the title is that. I started self-portraying right when i got a digital camera so I thought about going back.

I'm sorry, it's just that today it rained and i didn't want to risk damaging my camera, and also it's hard taking too many pictures in Hamilton, especially if you have no car, and limited transportation.

You wanted something fun right? this should be fun for you....

LET THE FLAMING BEGIN.

-Canon Ma

April 6, 2010 - Celina Chen

Hamilton isn't the most interesting of places, and because the only place I mainly go to is campus...not a lot of creativity can stem from a learning facility.

So I decided to take a picture of a close friend of mine, her name is Celina. She's awesome, I can make fun of/slap/hit/abuse her anytime I want and all she does it shake her head like a bobble-head and laugh about it. She complains about her life to me and I listen, and I talk about how perfect my life is and she turns bitter, everyone wins.

Even though that wasn't the complete story of her, at the end of the day, all you need to know is that we're close friends, and she has my back while I have hers.

And no, we're not going out, and we never will (no matter how much Celina wants it, lol). I think it's best I clear this up because too many people think too many things.

-Canon Ma

P.S. - So I promised a fun picture... yeh... not going to happen. There are no fun stuff in Hamilton to do unless it's clubbing or Karaoke.. with alcohol. Please wait till I get back to T dot O to get some sort of less-emo picture. Until then, get used to the DEEP AND EMOTIONAL~

April 5, 2010 - Take a walk with me.

Hey, today was a slow day for me so I apologize for not sharing a great photo. Why did I upload this though? Long story

I had a couple of other photos that I manipulated and it came out to be either pretty bad compositionally or similar to what I had yesterday(pretty colours everywhere), and I also had no story for them. The only reason I had to post them was because you might've liked it more.

However, a friend reminded me that these photos should be about my interests, so tadaa, decision made.

This is a photo of a broken path that me and Natalie(a friend) used to take when walking to school. But that was in the beginning of university life. We stopped taking it just because neither of us had a need to walk with each other to school anymore.

Am I emo about it? No. It's just something I wondered about when I walked past this path today. Wierd how we used to walk each other to school a lot and now even when we're only 5 metres away from each other(house mates), we don't even talk.

Oh well.

I promise to post something funny/amusing ASAP. I know a lot of you don't know this side of me, haha.

-Canon Ma

April 4, 2010

Phew, I made my promise happen. Would've sucked if I failed the first day.

Anyways, why this photo? I walk past this single friendly looking electric tower everyday when i walk to school, and for people who've followed my MSN dps, I have taken pictures of this before.

I don't know why i like it so much though, maybe it's cause this photo is something that I want to be like in the future. It keeps tons of family connected, is needed by a lot of people, but is forced to stand alone connected to others like it or else everything will fall apart.

Wow... that was more emo then i thought.

Oh, I only uploaded so close to the due date because i had to wipe my whole entire computer and reinstall Photoshop (yay, got CS4 now).

Hope you guys like it.

-Canon Ma