Unlike the majority of poly students who are currently enjoying their 2nd day of the new school year, I’ve already crossed that point of no return. Its now Week 7 for me (out of 9 for submission and 12 for ‘official presentation’) and the stress of the past six weeks have started to tire me out. Its like climbing a mountain and being stuck in the middle – hiking up the steepest slopes, you look down but you’re too high up to see the ground, tilt your head towards the sky and the peak too, is nowhere in sight. To make things worst – You’re climbing alone (I’m the only programmer in my team), carrying all the load on your shoulders with no one to share with, no one to give you encouragement when you fall, no one to lean on. Now imagine if you had to keep changing your path, walking backwards and going round in circles, because you have no map and someone else who isn’t in your predicament said so on the walkie talkie and you have no choice but to obey. That’s exactly what I’m experiencing now.
I leave you with this picture I took during a soccer tournament in my school some months back using my 300mm.
Okay, school has already started on Monday and thanks to the wonderful Time table planner in my school, up til yesterday evening, my time table has been changing at least twice a day! And even better, imagine a lecturer who was supposed to teach two classes at two different classrooms at the same time!
Anyway, they got that mess sorted out (at last!)…. but it seems I won’t be allowed to take French as my elective due to *censored* teacher being *censored* and other inter-faculty buearacratic and political crap. So now, I have to take Japanese all over AGAIN! (Rachel, imagine the lecturer going “あいうえお… はい！皆さん、もいちどください!” Can die from the torture, I tell you!) And did I mention I have to fork out money to buy a really lousy textbook (Japanese for Busy People)…
Okay, admittedly, I might have forgotten a good portion of my katakana (I think I still remember my hiragna), but still… And apparently the teacher that will be taking my class hates people who have learnt jap before, so I will need to pretend like I have no idea how to read/write and act totally blur and attend all classes, least I get into his black list for being smart, possibly resulting in my failure/debarment… (You’ve got to hate such authoritarian teachers!)
In any case, I will most probably still attend the French classes (Oh btw, its quite hard to pronounce the French alphabets! But do it right, and sounds really melodic) even though i wont get creditted for it… but that is again subject to some other *censored* crap approval. That’s NYP for you.
In other news… I was emceeing for Club Crawl (just a fancy name for CCA Open House) yesterday and the day before. (Which means I actually skipped two days of school already) And of course, picture not taken by me, photo taken from August’s Facebook…
The first thing you see after alighting from bus 82 at Punggol Road End.
The place
Dao Bin performing the art of Kung Fu Sweeping!
Boon Wai arriving…
To Reflect
We had enough drinks to quench the thirst of a hundred or 2. (not an exaggeration)
Playing around with aperture on my uncle’s D80!
Kel at the Top of the world
Look out Window
Similarly Different
Focus
‘Don’t push me, cos I’m close to the edge.’
We ended up playing Monopoly while waiting for the rest to arrive…
Still
Preparing to start the fire
Horizontally Vertical (Norgel’s attempt at starting the fire)
!!!(The charcoal was lighted and burning!)
Miss-terious
Jay holding up a burning charcoal (it was, a few milliseconds before the shutter)
Ang Rong
A blurred shot at the burning coal (badly blurred… but still…)
Our beloved OGLs
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After this, I cycled out with Jay to his house to buy charcoal and fire starters and to get his wii output cable. (it was a long way out and my bike’s seat was meant for someone at least 20cm taller then me! Argh!) Jeffery took some pictures while I was away…
Side Profile?
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All fired up!
Hmm…
FOOOOD…
The girls (off centre, no?)
Yvonne
Is there something wrong with this picture?
Hong Leong
More food!!! =]
One of our chiefs hard at work
BZ wii-ing
HZ got so engrossed in wii-ing that he failed to notice my camera focusing right in front of his face!
Edwin (dead without the cube
Jay was trying to shock BZ (look where his hands are and imagine the reaction a half second later)
Mini Pretzels (while we are telling ghost stories)
The crib…
The girls (and Heng Zhu) leaving…
It was a starry night! :] (60 seconds exposure!)
We climbed up to the roof trying to take a group shot using a stand (this was a failed test shot), but never got to it because…
THE POLICE CAME!!!! And we all ran down stairs… Apparently they thought we were illegal immigrants seeking refuge (thankfully they didnt think we were committing suicide or anything like that) They asked a shit load of questions and collected everyone’s IC…
After about half an hour of checking our ICs and asking everyone questions, Police 2 (more senior one) ended the interrogation on a very authoritarian note. Dictating that we were lucky to be ‘let off’ and that if he wanted, he had enough evidence to hold all of us and call Eric’s mom (the ‘offical owner’ of the place) down to the station for verification. (Really reminds me of Quah Poh Yong!)
the commotion… (that was as good a shot as i could get, cos I technically wasn’t suppose to take any pictures)
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So after that, we watched some movies until 5.30am and wii-ed for an hour before going out to catch the sun rise by the beach…
BZ refusing to wake up in the morning…
Th
e still dark sky when we arrived with the lights from Malaysian ships…
I took this at the pier (looks like I was out in the high seas =P)
The waves crashing… (okay, so maybe not crashing…)
Some light has started to trickle in…
Those that bothered waking up….
(The idiotic guy raising his hand is Jay)
He wrote this…
I always see this pigeon on beach shots in photo galleries… so I just had to snap
ahh… The sun finanlly rises with an old Ubin boat crossing
The trees here are of a different species from the boring ones you see everywhere else…
fly
bad shot, but the only one I got(i wish those trees weren’t there!!! argh… spoil the picture…)
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After that we went back to get our stuff and took bus 82 back out to the main road. I went for my photography club meeting at Hort Park near commonwealth (See the post above)