A great deal of stuff has happened lately but I'm not exactly sure of the potential of things to come. So many new opportunities has been popping up like mushrooms which seems to detract me from what I wanted to do originally. Whether it is a good thing or not is yet to be determined. At times, it is very exciting and can't wait for me to jump into it but at the same time scared because of the whole long list of Asian tradition and conservatism that goes against some of the things that I want to do. Plus everything that I've studied up till this point might have been all gone to "waste". So hard to think of what to do.
Last Saturday was one of the craziest days I've come across in a long time. Quite random actually but at least we had a good laugh at it in the end. At least for me. It started off with a bad sleeping start Friday night/Saturday morning when I couldn't sleep until around 6:30. Woke up two hours later to go for a friend's graduation. It's been a long time since I've caught up with this friend of mine so it was a good chat plus photo taking. I thought my graduation had a bad turnout (Ok, to be fair, I kept it to a low profile), but her's was less than mine. But I'm sure it doesn't really matter as long as there are friends and family on this occasion. Went back and tried to start on my work when a rather desperate request for help from a friend who is involved in doing an event here in Melbourne. Basically, we had to transport drinks and instant noodles from point A to point B. Sound simple enough until I saw 51 cartons of packet drinks and about 20+ cartons of instant noodles. That was no joke. On top of that, because we couldn't find a vehicle from friends big enough to transport all of this stuff in one shot, so we had to rent a car. Not the most spacious of cars but it will have to do. In the end, we had to make two trips because the drinks alone put so much weight on the car that the back tires were starting to touch the underside. Fierce man. Each trip takes half an hour one way. It is a good thing that I had my friend company/keep me awake when driving. 2 hours of sleep plus warm late afternoon sunlight facing you are prime factors for putting me to sleep while driving. Not something you'd mess around with. Thank God we managed to get everything together in one piece. Along the way I met some pretty cool people involved in the event which is always good.
Had dinner outside the city since we had the car for the day and ended up going on a random drive around. We were pretty much turning at a whim until someone noticed that I was really driving to my friend's workplace despite never driven there at all. Quite fail but still fun. Came back home at around 10 something and just as I entered my apartment, another call came for hanging out. Since I've been out like literally the whole day, I might as well make the most of it. Hanged out while some friends have food before I still decided to be crazy enough to go and perform my church cleaning duties. At this point I'm like super tired and when I entered church, there's rubbish everywhere and bins were filled to the brim. Great. Finished cleaning before I realized that it's another 4-5 hours before I have to come to church for music practice. So tempted to sleep in church but I didn't.
And there you have it...the craziest day so far. I hope not to break that level. Ever.
The other good thing is that I'm looking forward to my friend's wedding next week. I guess it is because that I've poured in effort in doing my part for their day (or the days leading up to this day) that it is natural to just look forward to it. I think it is also the accumulated expectations from various things that contribute to how it is all going to be. It is also the first time that I will be taking the photographs for one side of the wedding party. Plenty of things to get excited about but like all things related to my photography, I'm just going to be scared shitless. This is THE big day, miss something and you won't be able to recreate it. While the last two weddings that I've shot, I was merely the ninja shooter where there's not much of that kind of pressure going on, now I will be going into the nitty gritty things of the photographers that do this for a living. Not something I'm comfortable with first time round. Also not helping in the self-confidence issue (I've always not have any but it can still make it worse). Will see how it goes.
And now the piled up news on my ApiMusang browser...
Awesome photos of New Orleans post-Katrina
Judge Judy earns more than David Letterman? Seriously?
Why is there a research like this, I have no idea. That means I should be getting a lot of it. That's clearly and obviously far from the case.
Are we wired for cute?
Iron Chef Australia? They better not kill it with unnecessary pointless drama like the US version.
Democracy in churches is not the way to run a church.
Sam Mendes. That is sooooo not cool.
So it seems that the American education system, in some sense, is no different from our "lowly" Malaysian/Singaporean system. Ultimately, we still suffer the same thing. The funny thing is that my mom keeps praising the States or Australia for having a much better system than the crappy system back home. Reality is that we are pretty much on a level playing field. Ish.
Roald Dahl = James Bond? Who'd knew?
I'd never noticed the rather dark themes of Mary Poppins even though I've only watched it just this year. Interesting. And I should have a look at the musical here. Hope it's not like Wicked, I loved the music but never got to see the actual show.
Why are people so stupid? Just because there's a lot of people on Facebook doesn't mean that you can hide behind the numbers.
So wrong on so many levels. And this is seriously not the way to do it man. What is wrong with you?
Superman saves the day. Literally.
Singapore hating Anwar? Whoa.
There's a purpose that I have a sister...to keep me sane.
Quitting job Win! But colleague fail.
I've always been on the side that photos have to taken with deliberate intent to convey a story. Lighting, facial expression, framing etc all taken into account by the photographer to produce one photo that tells more on the image than words can do. This however makes me rethink that strict policy. It's not enough to abandon my core beliefs of how I approach photography but rather be more open to the idea that the deliberateness of intent of the photo is not so much in the photo but what surrounds it, before and after the shot. And that may be enough reason and consideration to take a photo of a potted plant.
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