My New TOUGH Camera

Lumix Panasonic DMC-FT3 Camera

Metallic Electric blue

comes with clear silicone cover

Full HD recording

28mm wide lens

4.6 Optocal zoom

12.1 megapixels

Lithium Battery

GPS via Satellite

but most importantly...

WATERPROOF til 12m

SHOCKPROOF from 2m

DUST/SAND PROOF

FREEZE PROOF til minus 10 degrees

Fucking gangsta. A durable camera that I can throw around and no be precious with! A camera that'd suit my style! I hate feeble things and having to be precious about my belongings. This camera will definitely be put to the test.

Ebay Tips I Have Learnt Along The Way

I worked for 12hrs last night at jwow. I like 12 hour shifts. I maximise my money earnt in one day (since i usually get 1 shift a week). Also I feel hardcore working a 12 hr shift. It's a very physical job and I can hack it =] I slept for 12-14 hours last night. I slept from 4am to 6:30pm. I think there is something wrong with me. I want to get my sleeping pattern back to normal. I reckon the reason for my fucked up sleeping pattern is i have nothing to wake up for, unless it is school or uni. Sigh. I need to stop being so content with my life and find a reason for living that will compel me to wake up! It's 7am. I'm still awake, I wanna stay awake til about 11pm tonight so I can correct my sleeping pattern. It's so boring when no one is awake with you. I've been on ebay the whole time, writing up descriptions of new items to sell, editing and takingphotos, uploading them on photobucket.. It's all ready to be cut and pasted into a listing when the time is right.. that is in about 12 hrs time. someone make the time go quicker! Scroll down to the very end to check out the items ive got to sell. I'm making a business out of ebay. Learning marketing for 2semesters in a row and working at Femme for more than 1 year has influenced my mind to think more customer-based. I reckon I have developed a technique to sell girl clothes more effectively, even guy clothes perhaps. Closely monitoring my ebay listings, i see how many views my item has. If it doesn't have many, I alter a couple of words in the search title or change the photo to a more interesting one. I believe:

• Without 'watchers' you may not sell the item or get a good price for it
• You need as many 'watchers' as you can get so they compete and bid for your item, and increase your daily profits!
• Once a potential buyer is on your page, dont let them escape! Encourage them to look at your other items for sale. I not only do this, but put a slideshow underneath for the lazy or uninterested people. Maybe one of the pictures will catch their eye. That being said, lazy/uninterested people won't sit there and watch your slide show, so put the items you want to sell the most at the start.

Success all starts from the page views. Having me and ate post our clothes at the same time also increases buyer awareness. This girl even bought TWO items which is a good indication that our buyers are checking out our other items. Here are some tips about taking the photos:

• Attract initial interest with a well lit and engaging photo that would appeal to the intended buyer
• Sometimes a close up detailed photo is more engaging than a full scale image. A couple times I have changed my full scale images to a close up image and gotten more people watching/viewing my items.
• Take many photos of the object. Repetition will drill the idea of buying into the customers head. Think of it this way, if they are undecsive about a top.. seeing different aspects of the top multiple times will convince them they DO like the top. Every photo is a confirmation of 'yes, i do like this top'.
• Photograph the details that make your product unique. Flaunt this.
• Ensure the quality of the photo, this is very important.
• If the item doesnt look good on a hanger, model it. And vice versa. But dont model it if the item doesnt look good on u, it will make the item look bad. then no one will want it.
• Do not upload your 2nd, 3rd etc photos via ebay. You're not gonna pay 25c for additional images. I load them up on photobucket and cut/paste the links into the description sections.

Here are some tips i've learn along the way:

• Customers are generally shy. If the information is not presented to them, they prolly wont ask for it unless they are compelled to. To encourage buyers to buy, put in lotsa details of your items. And write something friendly to encourage them to ask if they want questions answered.
• Meaningful, not 'cut and paste' messages, are greatly appreciated.
• Customers want the product to apply and appeal to them. So try to build a connection between them and the item. You can do this in many ways e.g. tell them how it looks, what you can do to make it look better, what they can wear it with, how nice it looks, how their daughters/sisters will also like this

This is actually the back of the dress. I used it as the listing picture because the zip made it more interesting than the front.

This is a close up photo of the shoulder detail of the top.

After I found my full scale photo wasn't attracting enough attention, I posted this photo in the listing. These rips were the most interesting detail of the jeans.

Good quality photo. The background compliments the colour of the pants. A full scale photo would be boring so I folded the pants. The stripes and logo are visible.

I modeled this shawl because it looked boring on the floor. (see photo below) I can show people how it looks when its being worn. This shawl is a size 14. People who are size 8 might click on this listing anyway. This shawl also looks like a dress. People who like this as a dress might be interested in buying too.

This is how the shawl looked on the floor. BORING! No one's gonna click on this if they saw this from afar, especially when there's other shawls for sale

Mum's Day

Mum's another year older today. We spent the day together at home in separate rooms. She cleaned the dishes and pantry downstairs while i was upstairs on my Mac burning bentot some music, researching things and reading the manual for my Pentax Me Super SLR i bought the other day.

I'm so rapted i know how to use the camera now, before i had my doubts that this thing wasn't gonna work on me, but now that i know how it should work i know what needs to be fixed. i have already written a list of things that arent working for vman to go through and fix at work when he has no areoplanes to fix. other than that i find it in okay condition, i have sent off a couple rolls of film at Big W to get developed, when i pick em up tmrw i will see if the camera is working well inside. Also at Big W i bought my mum a cute red flower pot plant. it cost me $5 but it looked 30$.

I also went to Office Works to get my 230 photos of my SYD and QLD holiday developed. cost me about 35$ for 227 6x4" prints and 3 8x6" prints. 227 photos, i cut that number down from the actual 604 photos i took. photos were surprisingly ready in 1hr but we had to be at Foodstar, Sunshine by then. I'll just have to wait for tmrw.

After finishing up at Officeworks we went home and picked up mum, then went straight to Foodstar where we meet Ate. She gave mum a massive bunch of flowers, they were heavy too. I couldn't even eat two plates when my tummy started grumbling "PAIN!". My throat had to fight back the vomit that wanted to come up. The last two times ive been to an All You Can Eat i vomited from over eating. But since i'm such a trooper, i'd give my mouth a wipe and rinse and go straight back for a plate of desert. But I didnt wanna vomit this time. Oh no no.

These are the many things I ate:

- fried chicken

- fried fish

- fried chicken fillets with honey sauce

- half a vietnamese spring roll (those ones full of rice noodles and some minty leaves)

- lasagna

- red and green jelly

- mango pudding

- a slice of beetroot

- broccholi

- steamed bokchoy

- steamed fish

- fries

- pumpkin soup with soggy croutons

- half a fried crab stick

- 1 muscle

and i think thats pretty much it. I didnt even get to hardcore dessert. =( next time ill start with dessert first to compensate.

I brought my trusty side kick, bentot, with me. he was trusty in ways which invovled carrying things, opening doors and taking our photographs. he's sucha good boy =]

Ate, Mum, ME

with the heavy bunch of flowers

ME screwing up my face because Mum's holding me

My Benfot

eeeehehehe =]

I was just browsing the Sneaker Freaker website. I found out they were running a competition to win double pass tickets to see Talib Kweli perform at the Espy. I just had to answer a question, and the answer was 'Mos Def'. can you guess what the question was? the few times i entered a competition on this website i won a pair of gold/black Creative Recreation Sneakers with the street value of $200 even BEFORE it hit Melbourne streets. I was rapted, and whenever i wore them out on the street i was paranoid i'd get jumped for em. Let's cross my fingers and toes i win this competition. I'd take my trusty side kick...

Bentot Banana Rabbit

Some guy's shoe collection taken off the Sneaker Freaker forums.

Whatever. He's probably broke right now.

Take look at these shoes. I have fallen in love with another material item.

Undefeated x Converse Poor Man's Weapon

A cross between military and street wear. It's genius, its Wowee, its ME.

That is all.

My Savers Hit

Finally went to Savers in Footscray. Spent about 1hour browsing through the store and scored myself some bargins. I really shouldnt be spending my money, i aim to save at least half of my weekly wage and spend on the rest. seems fair, seems like a reachable goal. but its not when you see many pretty things for a cheap price. The black mini Kookai dress is spotted with white, light brown and dark brown silk circles. I purchased it for $7.99 It's beautiful and i love it already. the only problem is the silk circles are beginning to fray and that cant be helped. The Pentax old school SLR camera cost me $7.99 whether it works or not is another question. Vman said he could fix what was broken. Before i gave it a quick wipe with alcohol and a brief clean with a cotton bud. The camera doesn't look like it has been taken care off. The lenses are dirty inside with dust and small specks and what looks like water dried up. there is no cover for the lenses and whenever you rewind the film it feels like there is sand inside the camera.

The picture frame features egyptian mummy art. it cost me $4.99 I have already hung it up on my bedroom wall. There are now 3 pieces of art ihave bought from savers that are hanging on my wall. I do expect to find more.

The pink heels are the only thing in the picture that i didnt buy at savers. It cost me $20 at globalise, its similar to the green pair of heels i bought at sydney (pictured below). I love the shoes already, even though i know some of my heels i havent worn more than once. They are the 1st sling back heels i have bought, and the 2nd pair that i bought for $20. cant go wrong. maybe a lil big but i slipped some party feet in them to make them more comfy.

These are the green heels i was talking about. they cost me $50 at General Pants & Co in Sydney. where they had a buy one sale item, get the next sale item for free. omgosh, i was in heaven! with these green shoes i got a One teaspoon top for free. I also bought a pair of ankle high converse shoes for 70$ and got an orange tshirt dress for free. The other shoes featured in this photo i bought from a shop on George Street called Raben Shoes. They cost me $50 which i think is a fair price. At the time i was so confident with wat id wear it with but now im unsure.

its more fun when ur in another city, u can be whoever you wanna be, and dress how u wanna dress. no one there that you care about is gonna judge you.