The week's update

Hmm.. it's been a week since i last blog something here. And here I m, into the month of Sept already.

Nothing much happened last week. Half the time zombified myself wif work. Let's see what happened.

Mon 29/08
There's a half day declared for everyone in NTU. PM Lee was coming in the evening. Roads will be closed. Hence all in the Uni had their schedule cut by half. It was an official half-day for all but no mail was circulated to all the non-academic offices (ie, mine) Anyway all are free to go after 1pm. But we had a deadline of 1st Sept to meet. So i stayed back abit until about 4pm. After that I took the company camera to take some photos of the KPE site near my place. Hehe it was rather cool! Looked like a photojournalist lugging that camera around. Got up close to the site to take pictures. So close that the security came to me and asked what i was doing. :P Hehe.. He asked what dept i was from. And i told him some engring dept who are doing up a model of the whole works.. and i need pics to do up the model. And... he believed me! i guess i looked honest and confident of what i was saying. Or maybe he got confused by what i said. Anyway that's the monday evenign for you.

Tue 30/9
One of our colleagues is leaving for Germany. Ja, he's going home after working here in the company for 6-7 years. He's a nice fellow, l337 programmer... guess we will miss him after he's gone. We all went on a company lunch at Crystal Jade in JP... hehe (Company's tab so we ordered as much as we did) We din over order in the end... leftover of 1 luttuce dish i think.

Had gym later in the evening. Brought Jingying over for the first time, and the consultants wasted no time to sell her the membership. I had a session with the trainer that evening, thankfully he gave the both of us a workout together (trial for JY). Kinda paiseh at the end of it coz I din expect the gym to be so bizness-minded. But anyway, was relieved that JY like it. One crappy thing was that the gym gave her a complimentary member pass until the end of the month.. which is the next day. Duh!!!

Wed 31/09
One day more to proj deadline. I dun think i cant make it. Still have a hellava distance to go. The atmosphere in the office was a little tensed. Good news came in the afternoon, when we found out it was an internal deadline. Nevertheless, it's still a deadline to meet, but at least it wasnt from the client side. Beside, we found out the other dept hadnt finished their part too. Hehehehe... Still, continued zombifying meself with work.

Loaned my colleague's SLR camera. Well, it's something i dreamt to be able to use. Once you experienced it, you can feel the difference between it and a normal point and shoot camera. But of coz, there's still the skill of the photographer to speakth of.

Thu 01/09
It was Teachers' Day. But heard my fren was still stuck in school teaching. Orders from the principal. Poor teachers... :(

Got a roll of film and started snapping some pictures. One thing about the conventional cameras is that u cant just go around and snap any old how u like. Your 'ammo' are limited, thus you gotta imagine how your shots turn out before clicking. In a way, was half visualising my shoots b4 really taking them.

Other than that, still stuck doing my part of the project.

Fri 02/09
Yeah! Friday! Wanted to go around town to finsih up the roll of film. But then, last min schedule changes, and i had to go onsite to a 'client's' place. Ended up ending work earlier than usual. But then it rained, cant do any photoshoots. So went to the IT fair with Paul and Marcus, where i picked up some brochures on DSLRs. Okay, if all goes well with the filmed camera, I will start saving up to get a digital one. For now it's save save save!!!

Okay.. so it din seemed like a nothing-much-happened week afterall! :P