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With my academic life effectively. Finished up my FYP presentation at about 12.40 and then went for a nice lunch at Joe’s Kitchen Thai Cuisine with my brother. The honey chicken and the olive rice are really great! Should go try, just that its quite troublesome to park.

Went over to vivo to read read.. there was this book i found very good just a week ago but today when I returned it got sold out. I can’t believe it. hahaha.. next time I should buy right.. then I was thinking.. so many books are so nice, can’t possibly buy them all.

Anyway, its been such a long tiring day. Now at FBI. haha.. Going to go out a little longer then go back and crash. tomorrow got presentation in the afternoon but not by me.

Today was so long that I thought stuff I did in the morning was yesterday! It went like this.. last night I felt like I needed more time to do stuff so after chatting with YX on the phone till about 1:30 I went to sleep and got up at 530! haha..

So what happens at 530 in my house? For one, it was REALLY HOT. I don’t know why but it was sweaty hot. So I got up, went down and found my mom already awake reading. I shower, and start on my FYP stuff. Tragically I realise my findings are nothing really very interesting today and I haven’t actually got alot done. So on it goes until about 630 when I decide I should take some photos of my place from the 17 storey HDB nearby. I walk there, take this picture and come back down.

So I come home, try and get some work done and finally get too tired at about 1130 so I nap till 1230 and find Hannah in the house when I get up and my parents returned from their anniversary breakfast. Drove to school and dropped my sister at vivocity for a lecture from 2-4 and then head back home. Head out for dinner with YX (oooo… olive rice at thai express I like..) then come back home.

Feels like too little for a 20 hour day! Anyway, I just did some work and tried to find out how people achieve those film effect on their photos.. I also have yet to discover how they do the super vibrant photos which are so soft and pastel like. I found a photoshop action and tested it out.. here are the results.. pretty nice and arty but not exactly film-like. Nice though. Here’s an emo shot.

What do you think? heh..

Off to bed for me! I’ll go hunt somemore actions and stuff down and eventually learn to do it myself. Goodnight one and all!

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.

Voigtlander Bessa R3a w 40mm Nokton f1.4 lens @ $950

After seeing this guy I was hit by a bout of Gear Acquisition Syndrome last night and thankfully it was only temporary (I think). I went to peninsular plaza today to just looksee looksee and I saw a few things that were on my (unofficial) list.

1. Epson RD1 (MY GOODNESS ITS AMAZING BEAUTIFUL AWESOME LA! YOU SHOULD SEE THE DIALS MOVE.. ahem.. *regains composure*)
2. Lotsa leicas (in particular the M6 caught my eye..) – too expensive
3. The Olympus OM1 (That I’ve been eyeing for cheap over ebay because its so pretty and small) – too small.. can’t even fit in my hand. haha..
4. A beastly 55mm f1.2 nikkor lens – $500..
5. Contax G1 – What? another type of mount??
6. Hassy – too expensive

So after the walkabout, I didn’t even feel like buying anything anymore la. hahaha.. was just happy with the Minolta I already have. Then I also thought to myself that I should be taking more photos instead of looking for new and pretty gear to play with. Managed to move the counter to 26. About 12 more shots to finishing this roll of velvia!

Headed to Plazasing and managed to walk an entire round of the shopping center before my mom appeared. Thought I’d rather buy a soprano sax compared to getting a camera. Took the car home, now waiting to go Yixuan’s bday dinner at east coast. I’m tired! and stomach’s weird. Shall go shower.