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http://picasaweb.google.com/danielyeews/MichiganPart1
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so we got into the action plan presentations finals with our musical presentation. it remains to be seen if the people liked us for the songs or for the mistakes. i guess we’ll find out tomorrow.
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im starting to become more and more wary about our train trip. even the train operator thinks we’re wasting time. oh well.
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do us part
us
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i managed to buy a LAN cable and get a password for the network here in the university. so now you will probably see me online between 9am to 1pm Singapore time. which is at night here.
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i was planning to post photos, but i havent uploaded them to my comp and its really late. so i shall leave it till tomorrow, since i cant possibly survive the competition tomorrow if im sleepy. wish us all luck.
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on a happier note, we went shopping today. i love the gap factory store in frankenmurth.
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complications
for firsts
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and this is the first post from the wonderful nation of eagles, computers and waterfalls. im beginning to like our school campus more than ever now. photos will be up eventually, after i get over the jetlag. (:
luck
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the flight is at 6am tomorrow. and we are all set and ready to go, at least i think so. for some reason, i feel infinitely less prepared for this trip than for last year’s one. and whats more, this is the furthest id have been without family. its gonna be an interesting trip.
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all we need to do is hope that we dont get jetlagged when we get there. so that we can bag a convincing win. after all, we ARE going to win, arent we. thats what we’re going there for. well, other than all the sight seeing and niagara falls and shopping. ahh i cant wait.
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my hand-carry luggage is going to be almost purely electronic. all of which are items bought this year. so if i lose any of it, im well and truly screwed. the newest addition to the set: sennheiser OMX 70 Sports Earphones. woohoo bright green.
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to my lovely classmates who just might be reading this: hope you guys had fun at wow. and hopefully you’ll have more time to study than me, because term 3 is going to jolt us straight back into reality with its battery of tests and projects. ahh. dont you wish sometimes that we werent students. oh the life we could have.
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miss me
everything changes
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have fun at wow. by the time you guys come back, i’ll be on a plane halfway across the globe. its gonna be one heck of a holidays. 3 weeks overseas, with less than a week to study for midyears. ah wells. nothing left but to dive straight in.
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see you on the other side
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everyone needs someone sometimes
even superheroes
to aa
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dear sir.
we might not have been the best of students, lacking severely in focus and discipline. still, its been a wonderful time under you, despite the fact that we dont seem to show it. your leniency and grace we so often ignore, taking it for granted that we are placed under the care of such.
even so, i know i speak for more than myself when i say we are thankful for you. the captivating discussions, the simple expressing of opinions, the extending of help.
one thing youve shown me, be it consciously or by mere chance. that school is not just about the grades or discussion. its about the upbringing, the interactions, the experiential learning. though it is never our right to neglect our grades and studies, theres no harm in the lighter side of life. learning to understand people, not just figures and scribbles on crumpled sheets of paper.
for that, i bid a solemn farewell
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you will be missed
stars
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its been a while since i last used my brain in a blogpost. which leads me to wonder. just what did i have in mind when i first visited wordpress.com and clicked sign up. was i looking for a way to tell the world about my wonderfully mundane life? or was i merely looking for a place where i could pen my thoughts down. one might say that the place for such things is a private journal or diary, not a blog on a public domain, where anyone and everyone can read your words and use them against you. where it seems like youre screaming to be noticed, vying for the world’s attention. or in the words of a cynical review i once read on blogging, telling the world “hey look at me, this is my life, i’m important”.
but no. i made this blog for a very simple purpose. memories. those elusive, unimaginable bits of the past that used to stay safely stored in our brains, but have now moved onto computer servers and hard disks as we begin to outsource our memories. but is it not inevitable? with every new technological advancement we hear shouts of joy, yet we become increasingly reliant on external aid. we have machines that walk for us, softwares that talk for us, whats to say we wont ever make something that thinks for us. are we to rely on our wonderful inventions to do everything for us then.
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why do we take photos. to remember places we’ve been, people we’ve met. photographs are memory aids, things that jolt our brains into recalling places people and emotions that we assign to each picture. it scares me sometimes though, that i am becoming increasingly trigger-happy. ask me what i remember about our helicopter ride in new zealand, and the only thing i clearly remember is holding a video camera and looking down at the wonderful view. but no, i cant remember what was so amazing about the view, other than things you can easily find on the internet. and so i wonder. whats the point of helping yourself to remember, if you dont even have anything to recall.
the tragedy of our impersonal world. is there no other way? even when i think back about my childhood, i remember not my actions, but photographs of them. a trip to disneyland? i can clearly see a picture of me, 13 years ago, standing with a man dressed in a costume of donald duck. but no, i remember nothing about what i did there. even when its not a photograph, i see my memories in 3rd person. is there nothing but the present then? everything in the past is gone forever, the flickering flame kept alive only by our meagre efforts to remember. even then, it takes faith to believe that what you remember is the truth, since everyone knows how easily convinced our minds are. and here an image of a computer commencing bruteforce hacking attempts on a system comes to mind. everything in this world breaks under pressure. yes, that include me and you.
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but maybe, just maybe, the world isnt nearly as horrible as we make it out to be
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and i need You
dead
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the entire morning was spent out, at the new treetop walk. although i think its more of a semi-treetop trail, since majority of the journey was made on land, or on real bridges. so we spent almost 3 hours walking i think, although i find it extremely annoying to be walking on a tiny narrow trail when the people in front are walking so amazingly slow. and everytime i overtake them, i pause to take a picture, and end up having to overtake them again. argh. we ended up at vivocity, and at least i got to walk around in best denki. ahhh the technology.
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on a happier note, i have got my replacement camera. it appears i was one of the unlucky 1% to get a camera with a faulty sensor. poor me. havent used it yet though. maybe after i clear all the work.
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http://picasaweb.google.com/danielyeews/Walk
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beating hearts
hell
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the fcking screen has died on me. its giving me a white screen on the lcd AND viewfinder. one day after getting purchased. and whats more, tomorrow is a public holiday and i was going to shoot at the nature walk.
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damn it all.
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i spent the whole day out today. left the house at 1150, reached ICA at 12.15. got a queue number to collect my new biometric passport, and waited. at 1.30, i gave up and went for lunch with my parents. after all, standing i a room filled with 700 people gets boring after a while, especially if there are little kids running around and screaming behind you. to make matters worse, i didnt bring my ipod. of all things to forget. so anyways, after lunch we went back to wait, and it turned out the queue numbers had only moved from 2900 to 3000. so much for not having much time for lunch. so my parents when shopping while i sat there and amused myself with my phone. and of course, a conversation with henry about cameras. till finally, it was my turn and i got the passport. its funny how everyone waited for more than 2 hours, just to spend a short 3 minutes at the counter to collect a few pieces of paper in a tiny book. with of course, a microchip. on a lighter note, the thumbprint they had in their system was the one with a hole in it. i found it rather amusing.
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so. whats more shiny than a new biometric passport? an even shinier new camera. so after 2 hours of contemplation in funan, and getting pissed off by stupid salesmen, i made my decision. despite what the alan photo people said about the fz18 being better, my inherent bias for canon cameras overcame any inkling of preference i may have had for large range leica lenses. i must say, it was quite amusing to see the alan photo saleswoman’s face when i asked her about sensor sizes. she went “hmm. you must have done your research. let me check the box”.
so finally we bought the s5 from john 3:16. paid 650 for the camera and a nice bag, with a 4gb hispeed sdhc card, rechargable batteries and a mini tripod coming for free. not a bad price, i must say. and so, i am content.
http://picasaweb.google.com/danielyeews/NewBeginnings
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homework time
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