Then, I learnt html programming from this hilarious website tutor. His explanations are so darn funny, it wasn't hard at all to learn the basic from his webpage. But I stopped after the Frames and Tables, as it was too confusing for my humble little mind.
After learning of the basics, I went to create my own webpage and surf the internet to look for a free server to store my files and publish my website. And here it is, I found out it's still around, notably gathering dust. At that time, I had even bought a domain name and named it w w w. storyinpixels. c o m for USD5. That was all for the sake of fun and it died a natural death after one year, as I didn't have time to update it much and the traffic, I think consisted of 1 visitor only, that's me.
But heck, I was happy with my little achievement, for someone who's not very IT intellect, and gaining household name as a see-lai, it's not any see-lai in the wet market, yeah?
Then again, I had this dream of turning my hobby into a business venture, just like most business models which started from just a hobby or a passion. What I wanted to do was to compile pictures of memories and personalized it into a book, a story, which would be able to convey to the next generation. Everyone in this world is the main actor or actress in their own story, waiting to be unfold to the next generation and after. Isn't that good?
I mean, if I had a book which my granny or great granny wrote in her lifetime, that would be such a treasure.
And coming to this point, my 2nd son just proved how right I was. One day, I felt "hiao" and took my old albums out to look at, my son was so enthralled with the pictures of me para-sailing in Penang, shots of me putting on the vest, to flying up in the sky, and coming down after a round. He asked me what I was doing at that time, and I told him the entire process from beginning till the end like we were reading a story book. And his deep interest in it was clear, he had to look at the pictures all the time for a few days straight. Kids' gestures are really funny at times.
I could be rather sure there are many people, especially sentimental women, are like me. And that's why we are here blogging, writing stories, partly for enjoyment, partly for our children, partly for entertaining, what's your reason for blogging? Well, that's another story for another day.
Back to this dream of mine, sad thing is, it just remained a dream. And the dream was materialized, but for some other people. I was shopping the other day and found out that this idea is IN business.. We can be ordering our own books from Photobook, and the book is really of good quality indeed. Not to mention its price, it's relatively affordable, depends on how you look at it. And I'm not even advertising for them. *Sob*
Thing I want to say is, this is just yet another moment of "seeing things happen" instead of "making things happen". How ironic is that. And that's also the difference between the normal person and the other. So sad. So sorry. Sorry that I felt sorry for myself.
I'm considering to order a book for my 3 little ones, telling the story of their birth, childhood, parents, or maybe meanwhile this blog would do for the moment?
Meantime, I stumbled upon some of my own creations stored in my hard disk from some years back.
It meant nothing to you, but it is everything to me.
10 comments:
Photobook is my fav!! Lucky for me, i discovered it last year while they were still new and thus got good bargains ler.. Like buy one free one. So ok lor, I have like 6 buku lucah lor. I go load the pics for u to see.. Really very very nice.. it tells the story very well.
wow! hkk so advanced. gimme see gimme see. what's the porn storyline? oooh.. can't wait.
fai tit fai tit. go see.. at goolypop's
so nice la, those magazine. i think i'm going to order one already, don't care!
acherli ah.. i kira kira (but dun trust my mathematical skill lar), if u fit in many many gambars ah, it's cheaper if not same as developing them lor. There was one, I so gila babi, i made small small prints of gooly's mth by mth until he was 3. So 36 x 40 sen.. how much oredi leh? Ngeh ngeh ngeh. Keling soe..
But can see how his features changed lor when the pics are side by side :) Priceless man these images.
i do agree with you, 110%.
They offer quite substantial pages in 1 book, and you can put as many pictures as you wish in it. Since developing these pictures are not cheap nowadays, makes more sense to print it in a book like this.
then again, i store all my pictures digitally woh, didn't keep hard copy also. as such, i'm struggling within myself to justify paying for the custom made magazine.
ah.. susah la like dat.. if u don usually print out. But now got 3 kids.. togedder put in one album, ok lar.. say if Rm300 divide by three, rm100 oer child.. ok ma. Or if got loekung's and ur face.. lagi cheap. Rm300/5! Wan to put waipo in or not? Wakakakak.
I help u prepare argument.. sure win!
buy one only for 3 to share? nanti i die, i give to which one? not nice la if they all fight for the only copy of self made magazine.
anyway, thx for your support. since i have supporter already, let them fight for it la.
(p/s: put waipo ah? then the other granny jealous and lau-kei, very jialat one, dunwant la)
Next time got any idea, faster tell me first, I will make it happen, and not see things happen, ok?
S.Y,
You so good at scrap book ur family photo , no nid go studio like me loh.
Next time you survey first, check the pricing, sign up then tell him."I signed up oredi ..I couldn't reach you to tell you earlier! Make sure everyone has enough sleep and well fed before the photo session. That's a lesson to learn if u dont want turmoil during the photo session at studio.
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