Incidentally, the first photos I've taken in my life that have orbs in them were taken with a Fujifilm digital camera, model F450. Quite a reliable camera and has rarely failed me. Shots taken are of decent colours and crisp most of the time.
First shot is of Wendy gleefully leading the birthday song singing and the second picture has two orbs right in front of yours truly. Only these two out of dozens of pictures we took that night at K-ster Lucky Chinatown have orbs in them.
For clearer, bigger pictures please go to http://mdazlan.multiply.com/photos/album/28
Honestly speaking, I'm rather unconvinced about the dust particle explanation. I mean, dust is everywhere. Why aren't they in ALL the pictures then? And just two or three dust particles in a picture? Can't be right.. Another possible reason given by skeptics is that orbs is the result of lens smudges. Again, the consistency issue I'm worried about. And not to mention that, smudges can't possibly be perfect spherical shapes, can they?
Sigh.. lots of us, I know, would want to believe in something much more intriguing than just dust particles or lens smudges. And that includes me. Most of the time, I'd just say - believe in what you WANT to believe, if it makes you happy. As long as you don't hurt other people or that you don't practice WANTING to believe that everybody is up to no good, everytime.
Here are some links to information to orbs, in case any of you are fans of all things paranormal and as we all know, there will always be scientific studies to explain these phenomenons but somehow, there will always be some reasons for us NOT to believe certain things and to believe in certain things. First link is to Internet's free encyclopedia, second one is a rather detailed one involving lots of technical trying-to-explain information and also a vague conclusion (but still worth reading) and last one is a Fujifilm website just explaining the anomalies in images produced, without any indication of any paranormal activity whatsoever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_%28paranormal%29
http://www.parascience.org.uk/misc/method/orbs.htm
http://home.fujifilm.com/products/digital/shooting/flash.html
Touching on paranormal stuff, I haven't had any visual experience but I've heard and felt things before which I cannot explain at all. The first time was when I was working in the now defunct Fire Disco. I was in my teens then, waiting to be enlisted in the army and I worked as a service captain and one of my responsibilities was making sure that all the doors are secured properly every night. One night, the banquet manager and I were doing our rounds when the electronic panel indicated that one of the doors on the mezzanine floors was not secured properly. So, we went up to check and only after a few times did the door finally secure properly. And as I passed by the toilets, a very clear sound appeared in my head. It was the sound of children playing! I thought I was tired and it was not an audible sound that was heard with my ears but in my head, so I dismissed it. Imagine the shock when we reached the first floor at the office and the banquet manager asked me "Did you hear the children playing?". He was serious as hell and there's no way it was a joke because we were the last ones in the disco and he couldn't have cheekily 'made' the sound himself.
A few other times in Fire Disco, I had my name called (very clearly) by a female voice. On Mondays, the upper level will be closed while only the first and the mezzanine levels were in operation and one of my other responsibilities was to lock all the KTV room doors after they were cleaned. Usually, there will not be a single soul up there as everyone's working on the first level, so I knew something was not right because I checked all the rooms, including the toilets, store room, changing rooms and KJ rooms. Nobody.
Another very strange incident was when I was signing in for the evening shift after working an extra afternoon shift with my ex-girlfriend who was a service staff and this old Indian security guard, who was on good terms with me, gave me a black (pardon the pun) face.He asked me why I did not respond to him when he called out several times to me and my ex when we were in one of the KTV rooms. Puzzled, I told him I did not see anybody at all through the window and I'm pretty sure my ex didn't because we actually making out in a kind of closet in that KTV room (room number 1, the biggest). So, she would have told me if she saw anybody because we were doing something we were not supposed to do.
Another type of encounter in my life was that 'you-can't-control-your-body' type when you were about to sleep. Again, there have been numerous explanations but if you don't experience it yourself, you will NOT know what is being talked about. I stress that I know I wasn't sleeping and was fully aware and conscious of what's happening. I was just lying around on my bed waiting for sleep to come when I suddenly realised the world has became dark and I couldn't move! Then I started to open my mouth and tried to shout but no sound came out! I had several of these encounters but the scariest was when I heard gamelan sounds (indonesian bronze percussion instruments) while I was struggling and after it suddenly stopped (after I prayed and prayed and prayed), I saw my father come into the room but he didn't come in because he heard me shouting. He just came in to get something.
The most recent strange encounter I had was three years and that was when my late, beloved mum passed away (Xmas eve) after suffering for a year of pancreatic cancer. In the final days to her demise, she appeared to me in my dream and just sat there lookin at me with a sad face. On the day of her death, she did not breathe her last until my auntie reached the hospital ICU ward all the way from Brunei. And she was not conscious, she was put into an artificial coma weeks ago. So, there we were - all my late mother's sisters, waiting for my auntie from Brunei and shortly after she came, the line went flat and my world came crashing down on me.
C'est la vie.
