I am very busy right now.

These are the pictures from my 1st holga roll. I wasted so much film because I do not know how many clicks i have to turn.

I don't really like it.

And uncle mike's scanner, apparently, has a little fibre. You can spot it at the left hand sides of the photos.

Watching movie now so... no words. Julianne Moore is gorgeous.

I have a common cold and a parched throat so the day has been spent with tissue tissue and more tissue + 123456 bottles of water + lozenges. That feeling is... disgusting. Like you desperately want your throat to just feel NORMAL, nothing else, but it's so tight and dry so you cannot stop clearing it although there is no phelgm. I think my pharynx is dying.

I remember reading that while warm fluids feel good to a sore throat, is a a cold drink that will shrink the swollen tissue. Had lots of iced water today.

Bye.

...and I do mean the 2nd part of my title.

Today, class was only from 9-10. So I finally brought Kolga out.Kolga is er.. Karen's holga... Lame, but Holgas are beoming omnipresent so I have to make mine distinct. Anyway the origin of the Holga name is silly. Damon said it came from the Chinese words "Hao Guang".

So on my homebound journey I took a total of 10 pictures. But the firstroll=testroll always promises to be accident prone. I forgot to TURN THE DIAL. Which means I forgot to advance the film i.e unintentional multiexposure. Therefore I have 2 images on 1 picture. For the first few shots I dutifully went through the whole Remove lens cap Advance Film thing and then I saw what I thought would be my fav shot, kiasued and had to take it both vertical and horizontal....on the same, on the same shot. URGH.

STUPID I SHALL NEVER USE 35 mm ON A 120 FORMAT CAMERA AGAIN WHY AM I SO STINGY. Ok I lie. The whole thing is too expensive.

Yes I must talk about the money involved.

Film: 4 - 12 dollars. ( 35mm 36shots, 120format 12shots. )
Processing + Scanning: 10 dollars. With sprockets 15 dollars (!!)
Developing: 30 cents ea for 35mm, 80c-2 dollars ea for 120 format ( i think ).

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It is very disgusting how my complaints have been rolling but...complaining is everyone's guilty indulgence although you bore your friends endlessly.

I like to listen to D's rants about Bboy though. It is the first time I have witnessed her liking a boy, although she refuses to slip out of the denial stage.

Now that it is April I hope time will pass by very, very slowly. I don't want to turn 20 in 4 months time. 20! No way.

Very busy.

Anyway contrary to what all the hype is supposed to bring, I haven't used my holga yet. So the first roll is the test roll and I expect shit results hence I am very disinterested. ALso, I have to bring my laptop and books out everyday because of the projects ( 5 ) which leave me handless and also strengthless to carry it around so... oh whatever.

I don't quite understand how I did it, but I counted one week less for this month of April. For the oddest reasons I kept thinking this week's the last week of school, next week is study break and after that the exam period. Actually there is school the whole of next week, so yes the April in my mind was only 3-week long.

We had an arduous accountancy tutorial today from 4-640 p.m.
Howard: " Can we stay back to discuss? Do you have to rush back?"
Me: " Erm. Yes I have to be back by 7."
Me: " Because, my mother prepared lamb steak."

6.45p.m
Calls dahniela, whose film art ends at 6.
Me: "Hello! Where are you. "
Dah: "Clementi. "
Me: "Ok. Wait for me."
Dah: "Okay!"
Me: "I am in school now. Waiting for bus."
Dah: "I will see you another time."

IDIOT.

On the same journey back ( alone ) I dropped my green purse at the top of the escalator, something only idiots do, and my reaction was to remain paralysed and wait for the guys who knocked into each other to rescue my purse. I hate situations like this when I am surprisingly calm and only realise how embarassing the situation was after like.... 3 hours.

By the way. That tedious Accountancy tutorial. Next week it will be extended. 4 to 8p.m. I have no idea HOW anyone survives a 4 hour tutorial learning about Income Statements Balance Sheets Shareholders Equity Minority Interests Amortization Writebacks Bad Debt. Okay I shall not amplify my misery by blogging about the upcoming tragedy.

A quick one before I sink. I am really sleepy.

Saturday afternoon I visited Chan's church, I spent it reading feminist Japanese literature while Chan studied Wong Kar Wai. I remember Oriki of the Kikunoi and The Mountain Witch the best. We read and talked as much as our hungry stomaches could carry us before meeting Dah & eeLeen at Food for Thought where they had soup and interesting dessert. We had Thai food for dinner and dessert was at Liang Seah Street. Ying Yang and thick purple yam paste.

Our photo-concerns vary too.

Me: Centre parting.
Chan: Angle.
eeLeen: Arms.
Dah: Eyes.

The Sunday heat was unbearable and I hated it. I collected my camera, went to Ruby to buy film and found it CLOSED. Messaged Eunice in frustration who corrected me that it wasn't a saturday as I had thought but a Sunday. Still, I was treated to see a whole range of beautiful cameras on display. Although I could only identify the Rolleis and Leicas, it was still exciting.

Some pictures before I end. They are ugly btw. I suck at taking photos recently.
























Nightttttttttt.

dah says:
happy arpil fool's day

arpil. nice.