Pinhole Photography.

School has finally ended last week, so I don't have any official reason not to blog anymore. Haha. So here I am! Shall probably attempt to update more regularly, and since I only have (a horridly inadequate) 3 weeks more of holidays left, let's hope I continue to update something when school starts again. :)

Anyways, these photos were taken with pinhole cameras as part of a module. Pinhole cameras are actually just boxes with a pinhole (shocking right) in them, and a piece of light-sensitive paper affixed to the back. The boxes we used were mostly metal tins and stuff like that.

Yu Hao and Alicia with the pinhole cameras. :)

 The photos were all shot sometime around the end of December to the start of the new year, which was technically our term break. I still remember going back to school on new year's eve, because for some reason all the pictures I 'tried' to take didn't come out. :( I must have wasted about 50 odd pieces of light-sensitive paper.

Okay wordy post to come. :)

Today was a good day.
I liked today. :)

Christchurch.

With hundreds still missing, and 75 already confirmed dead, rescuers struggled to find survivors on the second night after a devastating earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city Tuesday. Buildings crumbled into the streets after the 6.3 magnitude earthquake, which geologists consider an aftershock to a 7.1 earthquake that caused no casualties in September. Tuesday’s temblor was more devastating and deadly because it was centered only six miles from the city's center and hit during the middle of a workday. The Government has declared a national state of emergency. Officials estimated there could be 100 people trapped in the CTV building alone.

What if this had happened slightly less than a year ago. Kind of shocked to see the places I went to and visited in ruins. :( And I didn't even know about this because I was too busy preparing for presentations. :(
Anyways, sources of the photos and information on the earthquake here.

Punggol.

There's a relatively calm lull in busyness for me now. Because I just finished a crazy hectic block, and it's the beginning of another crazy hectic block. Haha. It's not like the previous few blocks where we had deadline extensions carried over and then work is just never ending. This time it's more like a waiting period before we start doing work like crazy again.

Okay so anyways a couple of weeks ago I had to create a publication based on a topic of my choice. And so I decided to do a photography book with pictures of Punggol. And because the majority of the pictures I had of Punggol were insufficient, I went out to shoot more pictures again. This is what I shot.

Lord of Lords.

Now unto the lamb who sits on the throne
Be glory and honor and praise
All of eternity echoes the song
Worship and praise him the Lord of Lords

2010.

It's been 10 days into the new year, and I haven't blogged a retrospective post about the last year yet! :/ It's something I usually do at the end/start of every year, but I think the past few weeks have just been getting busier and more stressful with each week, and I don't see the list of work to be done finishing anytime soon. :( Don't get me started on the number of photos to process. Haven't even done my birthday photos which was in October. :/

Last year I did 2009 in 9 pictures, which I decided I shall not do this time because it'll get all very repetitive. Hahaha. That's not to say that 2010 wasn't filled with awesome pictures though.

So here's what I thought was the most significant parts of 2010.
In 2010, I went to New Zealand with Ryan and Lenson.
My hard drive crashed, meaning I lost most of the pictures I took in 2009.
I brought a teddy bear around Singapore to shoot.
I brought a new hard drive, which will hopefully never ever crash now.
I went for Combined Youth Camp, which was an awesome experience.
I shot pictures for the Youth Olympic Games, but no one shall get to see them because I can't post them HAH.
I caught the Sunrise at East Coast with awesome friends.
I ran a marathon.
I went for Youth Camp, which was another awesome experience.
I read 36 books this year. Of these I think the best fiction I read was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, and the best non-fiction was Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
And this year I got to know someone more. :)

The start of 2010 was really really horrid. With everything crashing and going wrong. But I think the end was good. :) Very good. Haha. Eee most people reading this would know what I'm talking about, if you don't then you probably don't know me very well and hence shouldn't read this blog anymore. :P

Running and Walking.

This has probably been the longest time I've ever went without updating this blog. Haha. And I'm leaving for camp tomorrow so I figured now would be as good a time as ever to update. I've been really really busy the past month or so. I mean, it's not like I ran a marathon or anything.

Oh wait I did run a marathon. Hahaha.

This is (a hastily shot picture of) my finisher medal. Proof.

 I totally ran the marathon just to be able to use that in a conversation. Hahaha. Anyways my timing was horrible, I alternated between running and walking most of the way, I suffered from knee joint pains for a week after the marathon, and I felt like dying towards the end of the marathon. But it wasn't that bad I think.

It wasn't as tiring as I expected it to be. Like, I was bracing myself for a terrible psychological battle to finish the race, but it was more like a small argument with my mind when I was running. Haha. I did feel like giving up towards the end though. Even though I was walking most of the way by then. But I still finished it. :) And one and a half hours before the 8 hour cut-off timing as well.

Wouldn't do it anytime soon again though. I think triathlons are more fun. At least that one don't have to run for so long!

Anyways, I've been really busy for the past month, besides running a marathon and all that. Thanks to some leaking pipes in the school's dark room, my module has been extended so I now need to continue going back to school even during the holidays. And I have a million and one photos to edit after shooting a million and one photos this month, and this is after two photography modules so I'm kind of sian with the whole photo-taking/photo-editing thing already.

I think the past week has been extra hectic because it was rushing here and there juggling between schoolwork and other commitments like worship practice and meetings. And I don't like rushing for something because I'm late. Okay it depends on what I'm late for; I think I'm very relaxed when I'm late for school hahaha. But if it's something important to me then I don't like the feeling of knowing I'm going to be late and not being able to do anything about it, except rushing to the place and hoping time goes by slower. :/

Okay off to pack bags and prepare to shoot and process another million and one photos for camp.