{"id":5007,"date":"2009-08-26T05:30:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2009-08-26T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T21:30:13","slug":"itchy-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/26\/itchy-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Itchy Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin: 10px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-temasek-DSC_9317-AIA\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2009temasekDSC_9317AIA.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-temasek-DSC_9317-AIA\" width=\"233\" height=\"351\" align=\"right\" \/> On a related note, there\u2019s a side effect of my getting my interest in photography revitalized after I bought the KM5D in Jan 2007 and then D300 in April last year \u2013 and it\u2019s that I hardly ever get myself in pictures anymore. I mean, of the bunch of vacations and trips in South Korea, Medang, Rawa Island, Phuket, Bali and San Francisco we\u2019ve had since I got my DSLRs, I\u2019ve been in pictures maybe just less than a dozen times on each occasion.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why of late, I\u2019ve started hoarding pictures I\u2019m in. A colleague of mine was one of three photographers at last Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/25\/alice-in-action-2009\/\">AIA Grand Finals<\/a>, so I got a good look at how I look during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh\u2013 I stuck my hands in my pocket this year while addressing from the podium. First time I\u2019ve done that. Usually when I address an audience in speeches that aren\u2019t lectures, I place my hands on the podium stand: see bottom two pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Think I know why. Like last year, I prepared a speech this year. But this time round I didn\u2019t use it \u2013 I was entirely speaking off the cuff, but ironically was more relaxed. Must remember this in next year\u2019s tournament!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-aia-01\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blogaia01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-aia-01\" width=\"298\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-aia-02\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blogaia02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-aia-02\" width=\"298\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a related note, there\u2019s a side effect of my getting my interest in photography revitalized after I bought the KM5D in Jan 2007 and then D300 in April last year \u2013 and it\u2019s that I hardly ever get myself<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/26\/itchy-hands\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Itchy Hands<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","wpcat-644-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}