Shifted... to Mac :)

I finally shifted to Mac. Thanks to Ryan. Super kulit kasi! :-D But it's very nice really. Maybe I need a day or two to get used to it. I'm good with that. The other exciting part is the rig is FAST! Core 2 Duo at 2.0 Ghz with 2 GB of RAM upgradable (and usable) up to 8 GB. For now, 2 GB is more than enough. The processor is not top-of-the-line but it's very powerful already for my job. I tried multi-tasking "to the max" a while ago and it doesn't consume even 25% of the whole memory. I also tried loading 800+ images I took on an event last weekend and the pictures simply showed smoothly all at the same time. No more waiting. With my Core Solo, 1GB RAM WinXP, it's very sluggish. Not the PC's fault. It's powerful. Memory management is the problem. I won't have problems layouting wedding albums now. No more excuses not to finish them when I need them. :-D A bonus to that is a 22-inch LCD monitor and superb music output by Altec Lansing's VS4121. Sweet. :)

Paging kong Marco... this is the real thing now. :-D Kong Marco is a very good friend who also helped me A LOT with PC softwares before. And we played with a particular program that will transform my XP into a Mac. It's a skin. It's Windows XP but the interface is Mac. It's a cheap software and it instead damaged my operating system (OS). All hell breaks lose and I reinstalled everything. Windows, all my programs, and I even did a bloody hard drive partitioning, which I really don't like doing myself. Trying-hard Mac-ing. :-D But no more of that now. I'm a real Mac user now. Job calls for it as well. :)

BTW, I'm sure Elle will be very happy about this also. She's one of my makulit Mac friends who also tempted me non-stop to shift. ^_^

Coming Soon...

... is mik toldoya photography's own website. :) It's long overdue actually. We've been developing it for weeks already. Version one is currently uploaded somewhere out there in cyberspace but it's on a testing stage. I have some beta testers helping me how to make it... somehow nice. :-D A friend suggested the background color isn't nice. We decided to work on version two then. A completely new design! Sounds crazy huh. Indeed. :-D Hopefully, we can pull this one off the soonest time possible. Wish me luck!

http://www.miktoldoya.com

I just came from a shoot. Corporate event. Very tiring but fulfilling. I'm gonna be busy reviewing the photos tomorrow and I still have one wedding album layout to finish. Just four pages away and I'm a bit lazy now. :-D Honestly, layouting a wedding album is sometimes draining/exhausting. Or maybe I'm just a perfectionist.

My bed is calling me now. Ciao! :)

Moi Paella

It's been a while! I have to admit, it's kinda hard being an event photographer. Projects are usually months ahead! Although I'm good with that. Patience is a virtue. :-D I'm like a farmer waiting for my crops. Anyway, I'm glad I have a shoot this coming weekend. A batch reunion. Is it considered as a corporate event? The last one I had is also a corporate event two weeks ago. Two days of very tiring shoot and I really mean it! I was with my buddy photographer Ryan. There's so many photos that it makes me lazy to browse them. I'll post some photos from it sometime... soon. :-D

Now on to my topic, my wife cooked something special for me today. ;-) And it caught my camera's attention as well. :-D

"Moi Paella"


Do you think it's delicious? IT IS!!! :-D The best paella I had. It's jam packed with ingredients and she knows the taste to look for. :) Here's a secret for guys who wish their wife to get the kind of tastes they're looking for: Treat your wife regularly at your favorite restos and somehow discuss with her about what could be the factors why a certain dish is so delicious. Guys, it's a win-win situation trust me. :-D