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Going to rest! Had a long eventful day..

I found out I need to do another module for next sem. Its all complicated but basically my 2mc seminar thing is not working out because they only have workshops twice a year which I must attend in order to gain credit. Stupidly enough, I missed the last one in may which is even before I knew about the program and the next one is in Jan which is already into sem 2 of this academic year. Since I have to file for graduation now, I have to do another module.. which makes my last semester just abit above full load.. 4 modules and FYP. Sigh. As if doing an extra sem is not bad enough, now I must struggle doing it as well. If I didn’t take 1 module during the holidays, I’d be stranded out in the cold with 1mc short of graduation. Which I can honestly say would frustrate me enough to hit my head on the table until I pass out. I hate this phase of my life. I wish it would pass as easily my sleep does every morning. People say studying is the best time of your life. These people are dead wrong and they only reason why they think so is cos they only know to complain about whatever side of the fence they are on now. They complained when they studied, they complain while they work now and they will complain in future when they retire. I, will be very happy to do anything but study.

I had a great time being sick. I got so much rest the drowsy medicine had no effect on me and I probably managed to catch up on all the lost sleep I missed  since the beginning of the year. Other than the terrible body pains and complete confusion I was in for 2 days, the 39 degree fever burned through 2 kg of me.. not bad huh. Anyway I decided to get moving with my FYP again cos I’m quite behind now..

Just had some stray thoughts about stuff. About Colossians 2:6-23, 1 Samuel 16:7, Matthew 23:27. All this not really in regard to how free we are or what we can do but rather how blind we are to our own state and to others’ state around us because we apply our own set of measurements and metrics to measure another person instead of valuing what God values. How do you measure the immeasurable? and see the insides only God can see? Do we only see what we want to see? The way we only see the good things in our friends and the bad things in the “cannot-make-it cases”? See how someone has hurt us instead of seeing our own over-sensitivity and unforgivness? Hmmm. Time to put on some “Jesus glasses” and see ourselves (and others) how Jesus would have seen them. Here are some things he saw very differently for starters.

• Matthew 14:14
• Matthew 16:23
• Luke 10:40-42
• Luke 23:34
• Matthew 19:14
• Matthew 5:2-11

Well, I’ve never been so proud of myself for thinking of something this amusing (at least to myself). I didn’t even really intend for it to be anything funny.. but as I looked at the toad, it seemed to be leaving forward.. like its expecting a kiss. Yes, I know the princess kissed a frog.. but hey, let it be..

I think I’m hopelessly attached to this camera. No matter how much I neglect it, it still is able to produce decent photos that I like at a much higher rate than any other camera.. Just the favourite first..

and the rest

Oldie but goodie..

..is my c5050

The National Museum of Singapore is really quite an interesting place. You’d probably take a couple of hours to finish going through everything in detail. I only managed to go there from about 1-2am.. one hour is just not enough. Anyway, I was there so late cos after the Night Festival with wonderful fireworks (stupid show and numbing music though) we walked about and chanced upon a screening of 881 at th NMS afterwhich we wandered into the museum which was free admission for these 2 evenings. Go if you can! Its really an eye opener! haha.. at least for me.

So after a million years of living with an old verysion of the photo resizing script I realized the fix is so simple. Now I can just update my plugins whenever I like. Also, I just updated the plugin I use to chuck all the flickr photos in and it doesn’t seem to work at all. haha.. back to the old one then. Lalala.. Off to shower, then sleep.

Homeless man I saw on the way to wakeboard compy

The day was a short one but it seems like it was packed with activity. Woke late, followed my mom out to get the neice, did some reading at the library, went to check out uncle buck’s eye microscope thing to try and make a mount for a camera, went to ikea and did some photoshopping, came home to do the rest! Now I’m going to bed and waking up abit earlier tomorrow so I end up sleep earlier tomorrow night.

Image from the microscope on a G9

I’ve just had the good idea of dividing my day’s tasks into 3. Morning, afternoon and evening. I stuck 3 “post-its” on my desktop and labelled them accordingly and put in tasks I intend to do during those hours. Well, it seems to be quite motivating and organized. I’ll do a physical one on my wall perhaps next time. Didn’t touch my FYP today, so dead. On the other hand I managed to take a picture or two with the camera and strobes. I kinda like it. I’m liking the idea of doing studio photography. Shall try with the Dog and perhaps hannah when I get my shoot thru umbrella and other accessories. Make a softbox when I’m free too (which doesn’t seem to be any time soon).

That’s all for now. Looking forward to another day tomorrow! Many ponderings about how relationships shift and change, about discipleship and how it almost never happens under that name in our culture.