Belgrave was great as usual. Great teaching from Chris Chia and Peter Adam this time round and not to mention a great time with some of the newer OCFers. On top of all the poking fun at people, playing cards, Scattergories, word games late at night. Such fun times.
But it was also a very unusual time for me mainly it's one of the more embarrassing times in Belgrave so far. On the first night I had trouble sleeping, in fact, I had only 2 hours of sleep. The night before we went to Belgrave I slept for 3 hours so things should be really interesting. On top of that the sleeping bag that I was given to use for the camp couldn't open. Now the sleeping bag was inside another zippered bag and that zip failed to open. For those who are familiar with Belgrave's weather, you know that at night it can get pretty cold there. The good thing was that I was sleeping in a small tent with two other people so there's still residual heat trapped inside the tent but it was still cold for my liking. So I slept without a functioning sleeping bag and used that zippered bag with my sleeping bag inside of it to cover my feet and wore an extra hoodie jacket.
2 hours later I got up and never went back to sleep again. Thinking I'd rather do something than just lie around trying to go to sleep for the past hour or so, I went out and grabbed my camera gear and went off to see whether I can do some night shots on my film. Oh yeah, I've decided to shoot pretty much everything on film except when it comes to people. So the shots that you are about to see are all from the digital. I still got another 12 more shots to go before the roll is done so for those waiting on the film shots, you have to be patient. 2 more hours have passed of photo taking and the sun has just about risen at this point. It's another half an hour before everyone is supposed to wake up and so to kill time I hooked myself up to my iPod and listened to music. As usual, the first thing that came out was John Mayer and I was happily humming and very light singing along to it. I've unplugged one side of the earphones just to check that I wasn't too loud or anything.
I thought I was fine until the only guy who was sleeping in a hammock basically told me off. Felt kinda stupid so I went to the other end of the area where no tents, caravans or cabins were within a good number of metres away. All seems fine and dandy until I went for breakfast and apparently the guy in the hammock wasn't the only one who heard me. In fact virtually everyone who is half awake heard me even though I thought whatever sound that was coming out of my mouth was pretty darn close to unnoticeable. There goes my face.
So lesson number one, don't bring your iPod to Belgrave. Things can go wrong. Lesson number two, if you think you can't be heard in the morning, think again. Lesson number three, John Mayer in the morning is annoying to most people (apart from the few of us who listen to it to our graves). Lesson number 4, check sleeping bag is in functioning order before proceeding to bed. I didn't and I didn't want to wake up people.
Fairly frustrating Bible study leaders' meeting last night. A record time of 3 hours of discussion. That really killed me.
I've had a lab exam today and it was supposed to be a good day. Key word is should because the magic poached egg said so. Unfortunately, either the magic poached egg is no match to pure unfairness or that I didn't make enough magic poached eggs. In 100 minutes, we had to write 5 programs. Apart from one program, everything else was monumentally big given the amount of time. I was working away, clicking window to window, coding on keyboards that just simply annoy the life out of me and thinking at the same time. I felt like one of those Korean StarCraft players playing 3 matches in a row (or more). Non-stop clicking and typing. And on top of that, I still didn't finish the exam. I think no one really did. It would be a miracle if I can get 60% of the total marks. On the possible plus side, apparently this is how it has been for the past years and normally people would make it up for the assignment because normally the assignment has bonus marks because seriously no human can finish the exam questions on time. Well it is all up to God now.
And now for the news:
Damn you Hollywood on the misconception of geeks.
The psychology of a penalty shot. Interesting stuff.
Go ahead. Take that nap. It will reap rewards later.
The difference between learning new songs and being stuck to just one is in the genes. Hmm.
Think twice before searching anything in Google. It's not as green as you thought it is.
Comparing this to my own workings, I am a shy guy.
Not quite news with a link, but I need more ideas on the shoot that I'm going to have soon. I think I pretty much need to storyboard my ideas so that I won't forget them and at least I know what I want (and hopefully what they want).
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