In today’s episode, I managed to

1. blast thinner into my eyes and not go blind
2. clear coat my bike with urine colored clear coat
3. have dinner with the Wangs and Mincys (this one was completely normal thankfully)

Went over with the cousin to the shop to clear coat the rest of the bike. Unfortunately the clear coat is really a light shade of urine colored yellow so over the white bits you really can see that someone pee-d on my bike. Blue is fine though! Its a dark enough color to hide the yellow tinge of the clear coat.

Spent quite a while flushing the airbrush, checking if the cup is the problem and seeing if the clear coat had yellowed but we don’t have an explanation. Well at least the bike doesn’t smell like urine. While flushing the airbrush I blocked the outlet to kinda allow a little air to backflow and bubble into the cup but… it blasted a large amount of thinner into my face. Ouch! It really burned quite bad! flushed my eyes with water for a couple of minutes and felt fine again. Not gonna look into the cup again in future… zzz..

Been working on video editing and am pretty excited at what can be done! just that it takes ages and I’m not too creative with moving pictures. Trying to work on some basic technique to piece my own video together for next year! Hope it turns out fine. Some pictures of the painted un-coated bike.

I should pick up the “Your work matters to God” book just to have a read. Anyone got a copy? haha..

There were musicians and stuff playing while the fires burned around you in little ceramic pots or on elaborate giant metal structures. There were also these cannon like tubes which spout fire controlled by a guy turning a wheel.. it was really quite an eye opener… I feel like going down to take some more photos! But here are some from yesterday.. check it out if you can today!

Today I spent most of my day with Oswald. Finished our work together in the morning which involved climbing roughly a total of 30 storeys each with all kinds of boxes furniture and stuff. Up and down and up and down.. my legs were trembling in the afternoon after we got done at 1230. Ate lunch at the curry rice stall at maxwell.. sooo good. Then we went sls to buy a router, BK to wait for the rain to stop and then sungei road and the antique store opposite raffles hospital/medical center.

Its nice talking to him cos we are very different but still have worked closely together before as musicians. I also always find it amusing to find that he’s related to Alvin and Stanley. So to give him a feel of what I felt like I told him I was related to the other Alvin.. haha.. and then he understood.

Anyway it was back to home for dinner for both of us. I hurried out to sell a Canon Snappy 20 at Eunos then came back to sell the Saitek joystick at my place. It’s pretty good that I managed all this, I’m quite happy that people bought stuff. I still have quite abit of stuff to sell but I guess it’ll be slowly slowly. I gave up on the LOMO LC-A and am going to send it in for repair tomorrow at sunshine plaza. I’m wimping out because I don’t have the parts for it, anyway even with the repair I don’t think I’ll exceed market price. So much for an easy fix..

I still have quite a long way to go. Tomorrow’s going to be a short day I think. Maybe I’ll get a call.. I need to cast my nets wider for a job.. but I don’t know why I don’t want to. Perhaps I want this one too much. hahaha..

As a side note something that stuck from before camp is that I’m also reading much less google reader now and the stuff piling up (1000++) is a reminder as to how much stuff I used to read. hahaha.. I usually just click on the blogs I want to follow like this and then skip the rest. Time saving! heh.. now to carry on doing something with that time.

I got up at about 8 today, left the house at 830 and went over to YX’s.

Opened up the present and left at about 1030 (waiting for her mom to come back with the car) then went over to hatched for a nice eggy breakfast. The food there isn’t spectacular, neither is the service but it was still pretty nice.  I managed to get very nice shots at the window-side seats where we were.

WB set to cloudy for extra warm-ification.

Then since we were at bukit timah, we thought of going to the botanical gardens! Just to take a look around and to catch some more snaps. I didn’t bring a tripod so I stayed behind the camera all the way. It was an interesting walk.. went all about, to the cool room, the symphony stage and evolution garden.

It was getting pretty warm so we left for cooler pastures and thought to visit Cheryl at her V for Vase exhibition. She so happened to be on duty to jaga the exhibition.. how coincidental is that! haha.. So we got to see all kinds of amusing concepts of vases and stuff. Took some snaps. Again. Why not?

She finished her shift at 330 and we went over to ion where Cheryl got some sweets for YX! and we walked around for abit getting stuff done. Picked up YX”s watch, wandered around for abit more at borders then went to black angus for dinner. For the first time in my life, I think I left quite abit of food untouched. Wah man, either getting old, feeling fat or both. Still, I quite enjoyed it. A little over-done though. Ate nice vanilla ice cream with brownie, sent her home, took bus back to my home and called it a day. It was a really unscripted, pleasant and enjoyable day.

Happy Birthday!