Recess week = Eating week.

Today was another FML day. GG!

I slipped down a flight of stairs today, injured my FINGER.

My US Visa had an error, so I have to go down to the embassy another day to collect it again. That means that I'll have to do the whole queue-and-wait-forever routine all over again.

Then I was almost late for my French test. All thanks to the Visa problem.

Then I became totally broke. All thanks to the Visa problem which too so long and I had to cab back down to NTU in time for my test. 

See la! GG man!

BUT, nothing's that bad when you get a to eat a nice dinner after a terrible day. 

Dinner was at Miss. Clarity.

Call me sua gu, but I've really never eaten in this place before.

Well, it's not too bad.

Yum yum food and yum yum talks.

Recess week!

I have to spend this time wisely on catching back my sleep.

I counted, I slept less than twenty hours in all since Monday.

That's mad la. Edelyn used to be a pig that sleeps more than ten hours a day leh.

Joke of the day:

Me: Yay! It's recess week next week and I don't have to go to school!

Liz: What? So you're going to eat the whole day?

=.=

14 Blades 锦衣卫

I am so tired; I can sit in front of the com and fall right into sleep now.
This morning, at an unearthly timing of 2.30am, I found myself at HSS building doing night watch duty.
My duty: Sit around and look after the tables and chairs. WTH?!
Any person with at least a single working brain cell can think of better and more efficient way than to plant people around an empty square to look after foldable tables and plastic chairs. Heard of a storeroom, anyone? They’ve effectively wasted precious (sleeping) time of many students. I can only shake my head in disbelief when I heard that I have to go for night watch duty from 230 to 530 am to look after the ‘booths’.
But I left duty earlier at 5am, because I have a VISA interview at 7am. Tricia and I rushed and waited for the first bus to get ourselves out of this secluded area called NTU. But the bus came only at 6.25am. We boarded the train and reached Clementi at 6.55am. How can we get to Novena by 7.15am? We took a cab. A total waste of money. Interview at the US embassy was quite fast. The guy just asked me a few questions and it was approved. Yay! USA, I’m coming in May!

Then, Tricia and I met Dewi and we went to watch 14 Blades. I fell asleep the very moment I sat down in the cinema. I think I missed out quite a bit of the movie and Tricia kept nudging me in attempt to wake me. I can’t even keep my eyelids open; it was seriously involuntary closure of the lids. Then, she nudged me again real hard, and I popped open my eyes in shock and saw this handsome figure on the movie screen. WU CHUN! Goodness! He looks so dashing and charismatic. His character looks a bit like Captain Jack Sparrow of the Pirates of the Carribbean, super cool and hawt. HAHA! Donnie Yen is quite cool too. Qi Yu Wu’s character is okay la. Vicki Zhao looks really old. Kate Tsui’s character just makes me hate her even more than before. Overall, I think Wu Chun’s character left the most impression on me. Partly because he is extremely handsome and drop-dead gorgeous, another is because he plays a bandit who has a righteous heart, the kind of characters which everyone likes. Too bad his character died, all thanks to Kate Tsui’s character. BLEH.
This movie is of okay standards, not a blockbuster and not anything near Donnie Yen's awesome portrayal of Ip Man. The movie movie hovers round a few characters only, and the storyline lacks. One may leave the cinema not understanding the gist of the show. But all is compensated with Wu Chun! Haha.

HAHA! I deliberately put up pictures of Wu Chun only. Handsome man!

Tricia, share with me leh. HAHA.

HOLGA 135 BC

My HOLGA's pictures are out. And, like always, my pictures aren't very fantastic. They basically scream 'NOOB' when you see them. HAHA. But I like them many many:)

I am quite amazed with the darkened corners result on the photographs. I read multiple reviews of the Holga 135BC that the 'BC-Black corner' results are faint, and often lacking in the pictures. Mine turned out fine and the pictures have a slight vignette touch to them. Wahaha. I love my camera:)

Golden Halves

I collected my developed photographs of the Golden Half. But sadly, half of the pictures didn't turn out nice at all. Here are some of the pictures!

These are taken with the camera held normally.

The black half on the right is some a picture of something taken indoors. Fail la.

Mummy~

Ken and I.

The black picture on the left is Tricia in the hostel. Can't see? That's the whole point. haha.

The picture on the left is over-exposed! Argh.

Below is a classic example of losing count of the shots you've taken horizontally or vertically.

These photos are taken with the camera horizontally.

Kenneth

Cool eh? Can't wait to collect the pictures of the holga once they are done. But I'm hoping that they will turn out fine.

Those pictures that mean a lot.

Remember how restricted conventional cameras were? You'll always lose a few photos in the beginning of a new roll of film, and always have to take pictures wisely because films are expensive.

Blurry pictures, dark pictures, unwanted expressions and unprepared faces are some things you'll not want to see in your newly-developed photos. You’ll curse and swear for having destroyed those photos and needing to pay to get them developed.
Now, with the digital camera, ugly photos are just a delete button away and will never be seen ever again (unless you are a tech junkie and can retrieve deleted files as seen in some scandals). You start having random shots of random things, like the passing clouds and that ugly insect on the floor in your camera, because your memory card has lots of space and you can just delete them as and when you want. You also start having people who cam-whore non-stop and have a thousand photos of themselves in the same particular angle because they insist that their right face looks nicer than their left face (when in reality nobody even realise you have an asymmetrical face, and neither do you go round talking to people with your head turned aside and looking at them with slanted eyes like how you do while cam-whoring).
Last time, it was more of ‘pose and shoot’. Now, it’s ‘anyhow shoot’.
Well, we had daddys and uncles then that double up as discerning photographers capturing those priceless expressions and scenarios. Pictures indeed spoke a thousand words when they were restrained to 36 exposures per film roll. People made full use of them, pressing down the shutter like a button to lock up memories.

I spent an entire night flipping through some old photo albums, smiling unknowingly and occasionally laughing to myself. Yellow, most pictures have turned, but those smiles remain.
Oh, how I love the time when photos HAD to be developed.

Go, take out those old forgotten photo albums in the cupboard and take a good look at them. You will enjoy it, I confirm guarantee chop.

:)

Quiet CNY

Surprisingly, this year's CNY is way quieter than I expected it to be.

I had so much time to sit around and stare into space.

But, how can I complain? It's holiday! heehee.

Pictures over the days from 除夕onwards:

Reunion dinner at M Hotel's Cafe 2000.

These are Mum's fingers. I vandalised them. hahahaha.

Which other mother in the world will be so crazy to let her daughter do that to her nails?! 

My mum rocks. haha. 

Pitcure with Grandpa and Grandma.

A rare sight caught on TV! 小虎队！

Now become 老虎队already...

Then, in jiuma house. With Avril.

Avril surrounded in Tiggers.

At 万佛林。

HAHA!

The weather was mad hot.

Lunch at a vegetarian restaurant. The food is good.

Then more food in grandma's house again.

捞喜~

Yup, that's about all of my CNY.

:)