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I feel so tired these few days especially with school. Its a terribly lethargic kinda feeling that I cannot shake off with sleep and coffee. I think its cos I’ve gained alot of weight since my bro came back. Its made me very slow, out of breath and lazy. Thats where all the running comes back in..

Anyway, I’ve switched back to the olympus for now and I must say.. I can’t take any decent potos with it now again! haha.. I feel like that time when I first started using the Canon. Now I must say that the Canon is really quite something despite my initial protests. For one the noise is less and the lens is possibly abit faster.. or maybe its the IS technology. Still.. The photos from the airport are terrible!

Anyway, here’s one from Eugenia’s send-off from the Canon

And here are the ones from the olympus

Yes, my lenscap ended up in the chilli. sian. haha.. I like this photo

I sent in my headphones and my camera in for servicing. My two favourite pieces of tech la! Thankfully both should be at no cost.. Its like Missing an arm and a leg. Looks like I have to break out the olympus for a while. Also, I’m looking to buy a nice lensmate for my camera along with a good filter to protect my camera in future. Problem is my camera seems to be getting bigger with so many gadgets.

-one hour passes-

Yes, I’ve checked everything out and am getting the lensmate. haha.. Now waiting for everything to just come back soon.. Going to pack my room. The two little girls came over to bake cookies. Some photos later.. from ye olde olympus.

A BIG DUST IN MY CAMERA LENS! ARGH! SIAN!

I’ve been trying to take some over the last week or two. Have to say some of them were decent but not lovely. Now heading to airport to send the Eugenia off. Later upload!

I got a B for the module I took during my holidays. So now my cap is 2.05, a 0.03 increase. haha..

I haven’t really had anything going on but still am quite busy. Weird. I think its more like I don’t have activities of my own. Usually someone else calls me out. Waiting to the next lecture, have a headache because I might have woken too early at 530. Still, a relatively less packed train is worth about one hour of sleep. Shall post some photos later after I upload them. They are all still in RAW format.

I still find it hard not to do anything and just rest at home. Even when I’m resting at home, I find I cannot do what I want to do which mainly includes reading (books) and drinking coffee. A few things I really want to do and shall stick somewhere in my room.

• MORE
  • Read
  • Run
  • Rest
  • Study
• LESS
  • Computer (actually, its very little nowadays. Restricted to uploading photos and reading)
  • Going out
  • Music (It dulls my perceptions)

So there, I have yet to pack my room into the conducive study environment that I want it to be but I have managed to clear my table. Tomorrow’s the marriage seminar. I’m kinda sian about it already for other reasons. I guess things throw you off balance so quickly that you just want to hide somewhere and not come out until the sun shines again. I’ve been thinking about gratitude too. I never actually realised its value I think. Also how we usually thank everyone except those which matter. Which makes me wonder if its only a formality/courtesy we extend to people who are not family or as close as family. I’m tired. Of my life in this state. I suspect dissatisfaction is an indicator of your rested-ness in God and is to your spirit what pain/thirst/tiredness is to the body. This state exists (I notice) whether or not sin is close by or far away. Can external circumstance force stress into your spirit? I think not. Yet, to believe that I have no hand in my circumstance is exactly what causes the dissatisfaction. The feeling of unfairness. Maybe, finally, this is what gets to me and the thoughts of myself being invincible are further away than usual.

I might just get up for a run tomorrow.. just maybe..

So I came back from a supper with the usual 17/01 people. It was amusing because I only summoned Eugenia out to sound out her plans cos she was headed to the UK to work and I managed to get 250% attendance (Riz, Jerome, YJ). haha.. Compared to the 2 previous failed class outings in a single week, thats pretty good. More amusing is 5 people 4 cars. lol.. and the only one who is saving the earth (not by choice) is me. I would think this group always ends up doing the same thing. Meet – Joke – Eat – Joke – Wonder what classmates are doing – Talk about life in general – Joke about Politics and Current Affairs – Go home in many seperate cars. Life seems to catch up with us so quickly. I think this is a bunch I will see until I’m old despite us being just slightly closer than the rest of the class.

On a side note, I have gotten a Nike+ thingy with my bro. I figured about 100 bucks for tracking our runs and calories burnt is quite decent one time cost. I am honestly appalled at how fast weight comes back. When I look at it closely though, the weight came and went at about the same pace. 3-5 months off, 3-4 months to pack the same weight (7kg) back on. Well, I shall start with a modest goal of 30km this month. Should be easy peasy, 7-8K a week. Once my muscles warm up and my foot stops aching I’ll run abit more each month.

I feel like my life is a smear of events now. haha.. want to stop but just unable to. Shall go take advantage of the super cool weather to sleeeeeeeeeeeep till the cows come home. Hopefully the sun rises tomorrow.

Family!

There’s always something about family thats so much simpler than the rest of life which makes me never want to grow up, never want to leave.

This more or less summarises the 2nd half of the walk. Got tired of taking photos so I took a time lapse video! Put the tripod on my back and faced the camera in front, above my head. haha.. it was fun.