Numbers of Our Lives

October 26, 2005 Leave a comment

Just a new concept to
share…(dated 18th April 2005)
 
When I first bought my Nikon 950
CoolPix, I realised the camera numbered every image with an unique ID
number. So, I started snapping the first 0001 back in March 2002. I
cannot remember what is the first shoot and be bothered by the numbers.
But then, I always wonder when will I complete the 9999th shot. Well, it
happened recently. I just found out today.
 
Significantly, Photo
9999 was taken by Siow Wei of Joanne with Elkan. Never
can I predict what will be in this image…(time, venue, faces). But it
did happened…on Friday nite. It is not really a grand and perfect shot
but it is fatefully numbered 9999.
 
I have a strange concept… taking
images is just like living life… everything in life seemed to be
numbered. You cannot predict or plan a specific number for your ideal
image. For instance, I cannot plan ahead and only reserve shot "8888"
for my birthday etc.. So many factors will affect every individual photo
number tag – just like our own IC number. Every face, every event
contribute a number in my photo bank.
 
These numbers react like
"time". It is a number to remind you what are you today and what you
were back then.  
 
I have just scanned my entire
photobank…there is no way I can listed down all 9999 images. Some
images have been deleted for re-shoot or the images simply turned out
too blur or bad. Sadly, I can’t even locate image "8888" or even "1111".
Some of the happiest shots weren’t even nicely numbered – like I had my
last year birthday cake-cutting image at "7892"
 
Then, I started to list down some
important events that I remembered and got these ID:
 
1) Joanne and Ramesh first kiss at
ROM (2189)
2) The last shot before Siow Wei
left for Australia (0868)
3) The moment Duuk took out a ring
and propose (3042)
4) When Juli and Duuk received the
gifts for the Couple Award (9968)
5) First image of Elkan (7938)
6) Caffeine’s first company trip in
KL (8224)
7) My first touch of the Great Wall
(7085) and my first image in Shanghai (1070)
8) When Joanne saw her iShuffle
(9727)
9) Feli tear-dropping Birthday
surprise this year (8946)
 
Want to know what my 666th
image (devil number) looks like? It looks like heaven.
 
Life is never what we imagine.

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