I was looking through my early posts just when I started blogging and realise just how depressingly angsty I was then. Whiny and caustic and decidedly sullen.

I hope I've grown up. I hope I've matured.
I look back at my teenage angsty-ness with dread & wonder how could I have ever been so young.
Am I perilously close to being mushy now?

Here is a blue rabbit I did to cheer you up!

The second roll of film came back from the shop (yes, I'm a bit late in this) with smashing results.
Despite my trepidation that 400 might not render well - it performed spectacularly.



It's really strange that when I compare 800 with 400, the 400 film seems just a tad blurrier. How is that possible? Haha - don't know. Schizophrenic film.

I run through film much faster with the cigarrete cam since it's so easy to snap pictures with it! Damn, I haven't even finished a roll with my gakken since school started 2 months ago. Will I even be rid of my plastic camera fever? I think not.

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Oh those days are no more.

Handmade leather bags. Very masculine but so very very beautiful.

here.

I just developed my first roll from my Cigarette box camera~!
Using Solaris film 800. Here are the results.


I love it! Absolutely adore this.
Compared to the gakken which is super light sensitive, I don't have to hold my breath & stay extra still to take a clear shot. Also, the cigarette cam has a counter! No more overlapped shots that I so frequently encounter with the TLR. YAY.

Interestingly - the vignetting is much more subdued compared to the gakken which gives a blurred out perimeter about the shot. Probably because the cigarette cam is fixed focus - not complaining here.

The downside is that you really need a lot of light for the cigarette cam to work. No way will this work even in airy indoors.

Shot of window with ultra bright sunlight streaming through at 4.30pm - yet still dark as hell.

This room was fairly well lit but here it looks like otherwise.


Hello shoo~~ haha - this was taken outside NLB/Hans & it was still pretty bright at the stage area (I was using ISO 800 mind you - that's pretty high) better to attach a flash next time.

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We bought a brand new Yamaha keyboard for our collective birthday presents (My brother & I) *What?* you say *I thought your birthday was in April?*
Yes - it is. No, I don't care to explain.

So, here we are... ... brand new shiny keyboard - so ironic that no one in the household has even the slightest germ of the beginnings of a notion of how to play 2-handed songs - save for my eldest sister who is shockingly talented.

Well, today I walked up to the 3rd level & saw my brother furiously attacking cardboard with a blunt scissors. There was a gigantic needle threaded with thick black yarn beside him.
Curious, I asked,
"What are you doing?"
"I'm making protection for the keyboard"

Let me describe to you what he was creating. It was a large rectangular cover, kind of like a wooden tray but missing the other end. He had cleverly sewn the whole thing out of cut-up bits of cardboard & thread. Like this.

The funny thing is, it doesn't even cover the whole keyboard! He obviously had not heard of that long cloth that pianos usually have above their keyboard to keep off the dust.

The whole thing looked so ridiculously cute & incomprehensible it made my day.

I bought a cigarette box camera!
Spaceships AND cute tentacled aliens? Who can resist? NO ONE!

I've just finished reading Pride & Prejudice & Zombies:


Now on to re-reading this:

I realised that Hitch Hiker's Guide reminds me a lot of this:

The same wry humour, the same incomprehensible time-swaps, the same totally unexplainable endings ... ... Well, it was good while it lasted.

The mysterious Jamaican man from church who bought me a smashing pair of turquois sneakers. He 'found' them on the bus, apparently.

I'm happy again. And I need to eat cake. NOW.

here.

You know the times when you have a lot of things to do - then suddenly stop & stare into blank space?

Your brain stops working and you can't remember what you're supposed to do next.

Yeah, that's what's happening to me now - I think this photo of my sister with a deep contemplative look on her face is an apt reflection of what I'm feeling.

I'm on the left regarding a spoon with suspicion, wearing the same look AAH teachers give to dubious sounding presentations.

Brain caving under stress.

I should go to the beach.