HOYA CPL 52mm

August 7, 2008 | Filed Under Accessories/Equipment, Life in Uni, Photography, Thoughts, Work | 2 Comments 

It’s finally week one of university. To be exact, it has been three days since university started, but I have already missed out on two lectures. I just can’t bring myself to wake up on time to get to campus, somehow.

Work has been really demanding, with me working almost every night and me not having enough time to spend with loved ones. The only consolation is that my manager told me that I will be trained in a new section in a couple of weeks time, which is timely as I have been dreading to leave my current section.

My sleeping hours are still unchanged, and I’m struggling to reverse it to normal sleeping hours so I can use my day time to study instead.

Believe it or not, I just dozed off and had visuals of work in my head. Ugh. Have a good week ahead

P.S. I don’t know if it happens to you guys, but I fell asleep before hitting the “Publish” button. That’s not the first time it happened.

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Where Do You Sit in Class/Seminar?

May 23, 2008 | Filed Under Announcement, Humour, Life in Uni, Questions, Rough Times | 5 Comments 

“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham
www.phdcomics.com

Now that my university life is officially put on hold for another 9 full weeks, I am hereby free from the clutches of assignments and tests. I will be available for work full-time for unlimited hours, without the 20 hours constraint, thus being able to concentrate on paying off my debts and phone bills (yes, that’s plural. Yes, my phone connection has been suspended).

The big question is, who is hiring me? I am willing to be your photography slave for a really affordable price =P

Have a great weekend, people.

ps. This is officially my 100th blog entry in ChanRaymond dot net!

p.p.s Prayers go out to Hwey and Deng’s grandmother who fell down earlier today and is hospitalised. and also not forgetting their family in this time of despair.

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Of Work and Uni

May 21, 2008 | Filed Under Life in Uni, Rough Times, Thoughts | 2 Comments 

I am finally done with two of my three tests, hence the many “Wordless” entries this past week. Still jobless and broke, but things are looking much better after I made a phone call just now, where I was called to go for my second interview tomorrow.

The two tests went just fine, although I really should have done much better than that. With another test to go this Friday before a long, nine weeks worth of holiday for me, my stress level has practically gone from 120% to about 40%. All I need to do now is try to find myself a job before holiday starts this weekend so I can focus on working slaving to pay my phone bills and debts off.

An interesting thing happened on Monday’s test. The emergency alarm went off just when I finished my test, about 10-20 minutes before the test was over. The lecturer thought it was a drill, but it was not so. Everyone was evacuated from the lecture theatre to Bush Court (don’t ask me why it’s called Bush Court, I don’t know either). I honestly can’t be bothered to sit down on the grass with over a hundred students to do my test, so I left. I would say that staying up all night to study for the test really paid off, where ALL questions that came out in the test were exactly of what was studied.

Enough ramblings, expect a few more “Wordless” entries this coming week.

Have a good week and thanks for visiting.

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The Two Singaporean Girls

May 5, 2008 | Filed Under Humour, Life in Uni, Thoughts | Leave a Comment 

There is this two Singaporean girls who sit opposite me in one of my tutorials.

They often look across the room when the tutor is speaking, more specifically, to my direction.

Somehow that is making me feel really uncomfortable, for I know not if their constant eyeing on me is because I had not showered or because of my shabby/nonchalant sense of dressing to class.

The single most unfortunate thing is that, not one of the two are of the supermodel type. If only…

Thanks for reading my crap and have a great week ahead. Proper update soon, promise.

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Mid-week Picture

March 19, 2008 | Filed Under Life in Uni, Photography | 3 Comments 

It’s the middle of the week and I’ve done both my assignments for the week! =) Here’s a picture of a key chain in L’s house.

f/8, 1/60s, ISO280, SB-400 flash fired

Have a great remainder of the week!

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Poof!

March 16, 2008 | Filed Under Life in Uni, Photography | Leave a Comment 

Poof!

That was what happened when I typed an hour’s worth of online discussion for one of my online units and clicked the “Post” button. How do you think I felt? =)

Today, I went to the church with my D60 and the SB-400 Speedlight where the wedding will be taking place in April. I was taking some test shots to record some settings for the best shot, but was unsuccessful due to a couple of reasons:

• the lights were turned off right after mass
• it was 10am after mass when the wedding will be held at 2.30pm
  • these two reasons alone caused much distortion to the metering in the camera

and

• the priest was more concerned about getting the other aspects of the wedding done first

I’ll have to try again next week or the week after.

If you have not read my previous entry, I was given a huge task come end of April to be the photographer for one of our family wedding. My brother had purchased one of the latest entry-level Nikon D60 dSLR for me, with Twin VR Lens (18-55mm & 55-200mm) and a Speedlight SB-400. It was my choice from the body kit to the lens to the flash. I reckon it is good enough for the wedding, with some practise and lots of getting used to.

Anyway, enough ramblings and here’s the Poof! picture I took in the church today.

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The Big Question

February 28, 2008 | Filed Under Life in Uni | 3 Comments 

Waking up on time for work and uni is becoming such a hard thing lately, it is akin to an 89-year-old trying to get an erection. Thankfully, I was not late for work again today.

After work, I drove myself to the nearest Hungry Jacks for lunch (I’m broke), then to campus although there wasn’t any lecture/tutorial today. I finished up writing a couple of pages’ notes and happily drooled my saliva all over the study desk provided in the Reserves section for a couple of hours. It was refreshing.

Although I enjoyed every single bit of the nap (except for the drooling bit, which got onto my shorts), I was quite worried if the old man sitting opposite me would have taken into offense to my idiosyncracy. The big question that bugged me since I woke up is whether I did snore or not, but I didn’t have the guts to ask the old man about it. I reckon he would have clobbered me with his 5kg Mathematics reference book I had asked him that.

I am currently still in campus, waiting for the hands of the clock to hit 6pm, when I will be able to have an overnight loan of one of the media text books. I have 6 chapters to read and I certainly wouldn’t want to spend my time in the library all night to get the reading done. So much to read, so little time.

Have yourself a great week =)

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