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Victor Gan

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Welcome to my msn space for my blog and best photos.


Here is my life in a few words: Raised in Kuala Lumpur Chinatown by a pastor father and an IT manager mom. Went to Chinese elementary.


Spent my teen years in a housing project. Hated high school like hell on earth. Went to university and changed from introvert to extrovert. Now straddling the two.


Finally, at the end of 2004, I moved here, to Melbourne. Now living as an Aussie.


I belong to a very small minority in Malaysia: Chinese educated and fluent in both Mandarin and English, highly educated parents who earn lower middle-class income, raised the Christian way but grew up in the ghetto. It don't get much weirder than that.


Conversation is my favourite past time, don't hesitate to add me to your msn list, but do make a comment first so I know you're not a spammer.


I am an amateur photographer, so do have a look at my work!
My Gear: Nikon D80, Nikkor 17-55mm DX, Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 D, 3x2GB SD cards, SB-800.
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Frozen, Framed and Forwarded

Sanctuary for Sick Photographs, Rants of an Ill Mind
September 20

New Blog

Hello dudes,
 
  Just writing here to tell you that I've gone to a better place, where I can hide the stuff that I don't want peeps to see.
 
 
  Same old content, different playing field.
 
See you there.
September 08

My Decision

Time is up. Blog closed. Permissions re-opened to everyone.
 
For anyone who cares, the following are the reasons why.
 
1. Lack of privacy.
 
As it stands I'm the most clicked link under "Victor Gan" in Google. Anybody looking to dig up some dirt on me would be able to do so ridiculously easy. I've had a couple run ins with people who I didn't want to read this, and I just can't risk anymore, nor bare my soul freely while knowing how open I am to everyone who knows me.
 
2. People don't read my blog.
 
My sole reason for maintaning this blog was for entertaining people. I'm not redundant enough to write my personal thoughts for myself to read and upload them to waste internet space. But since people don't read it, screw it. I've given up debating with myself whether people are just too busy, don't give a shit, or too busy to give a shit.
 
3. My thoughts are too dangerous.
 
To myself and my community. You figure this one out.
 
4. It sucks my confidence.
 
In my writing skills, in my worth as a person, and the merit of my actions. No thanks, I already have school to do that for me and more.
 
 
 
So good riddance people, no more shall you be burdened with the annoying obligation to read my boring, worthless crap. I might come back if I become a blockbuster superstar with the adoration of millions, but what are the chances of that ;)
 
dirtee1
 
ps: I'll keep my photos up for dpreview.com member viewing my profile.
September 02

Ultimatum

I've had enough. I'm officially p'ed off.
 
I'm sick and tired of talking to myself. Sick and tired of spending time and effort on things that no one will ever see or benefit from.
 
In the last post calling for feedback, I got one reply, ONE reply, and that was from Neo who surfs every day. FOR BLOGS.
 
I don't give a flying f*** whether people don't bother, don't know, or are just too damned busy to care about this place. It is DONE FOR.
 
I'll give it 7 days. If I am not satisfied with the response I get, I am officially **CLOSING** this blog. Time to end the sadness.
 
dirtee1
 
ps: I will keep the photo part up for dpreview.com members who care.
August 14

I'd Like to Hear From You

Hey dudes,
 
  So it comes to that stage - feedback. I've recently starting updating a lot more than usual, giving you extra content like audio, images and videos. What do you think? Do you like it? Are there ways to improve? I'm I too boring? And so forth. I don't maintain this place to entertain the 2 people who usually visit, so I wanna know exactly how many of you actually bother to come READ this blog.
 
  Please please please leave a comment if you do!
 
  Just to make sure this isn't another useless post, here's a song I recorded as a favour to Carment. Not perfect, suffering from a tired throat, bla bla. But ok.
 
***Update***
  Another thing, from this post onwards I will not be making any direct references to myself or give blatant clues as to who I am. You may address me by my real name, but I will not do the same. The reason for this is because I'm getting too many hits from google for comfort. All you have to do is type my name in and this very blog comes up as the second link down the list. I usually make a point not to offend anyone or say anything controversial here, but one day I might change my mind. So I'll be using my online alias, dirtee1 from now on. It's really pathetic how nobody can say what they feel.
 
***Update***
I just got another hit from google by the "Victor Gan Framed, Forwarded" phrase that was searched. *Someone* is on to me. This is serious. On one hand it's sad thing to lose touch with google by going anonymous, but I have to do it for my own safety. These people who apparently know me don't bother leaving comments even after seeing this. I take that as a sign I don't want them to be reading this at all. You go figure out why yourselves.
 
dirtee1
August 13

Video Blog - Beautiful people and their videos

Microsoft oh microsoft can you please get this one right - MSN spaces is now Live Spaces? MSN messenger to Live Messenger? I'm already getting confused with how to introduce this place to my friends. What do I do when people ask me for my MSN contact? Politely correct them that it's now my "live" contact, but then again I don't know if it will be in the next evolution? Yeah sure that makes sense. The new layouts are seriously too cluttered and Those two new toolbars are *information overload*. Being too user friendly is not friendly at all. TOO MANY LINKS AND BUTTONS. Oh and lastly, please fix your video embedding support. I am very frustrated from putting in the HTML codes for videos and seeing them working fine in the preview, only to find them completely disappeared from the final publishment. Raw links are NOT nice to look at.
 
So dudes, video blog:
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsnKB3M8CW0

Its my first time so obviously a little shaky, crappy audio and more but be warned, this won't be the last time!

This is why I do not eat seafood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYyj3v7vS_I

Enjoy!

August 10

Bittersweetness

Home, Melbourne, 13C
 
Every time another friend of mine says or shows that he/she doesn't need no-one, I panic and wonder if I'm on the chopping board once again. Am I really desperate and friend-starved? Is it weak to need friends? I find that without them nothing I do means anything. Heck, I'm not even bothered to *concentrate* in class when I am alone in that one. Yet some people say they do certain things better without friends, like concentrating in class. Have I committed a grave sin by not having a single aspect of my life considered fulfilled without friends? Am I putting too much burden on them? What I do know is I would gladly carry the same burden...but I feel more lonely every day because precisely no-one does that. Or at least haven't said it.
 
On the other hand, I feel much better now that I know I don't have anyone to lean on. It's a great feeling that maybe more true friends are waiting out there, instead of wondering why the friends I thought gave a shit don't give as much anymore...
 
This is the bittersweetness of my life.
 
Edit: I may have offended some people in my post. Please take this with a grain of salt as it is the relative view of my life from my perspective. If you think you are exempt, let me know. At the moment I have come to realize I can exlude two people from this : Tiara and Carment. Thank you.
 
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