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Proud to be a child of God, a faithful son (I hope lol) a trying to be hardworking student, a part-time worker, a nerf/milsim enthusiast, a crafting and music lover and an awesome friend. to you :) Hope you have an enjoyable time reading about my life, as much as I have fun living it! |
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I am a university student who loves chocolate! Coffee is my best buddy when it comes to taking on my finals. I have a tendency to want to try and do so many different things at once and as a result, I've found my hobbies to be as such!
Nerfing is one of them, but aside from that, I also love arts and craft. I have my own startup, Thumbforlego at: where I sell my works! 
I love to do all sorts of crafting, so you will see me uploading posts of my leathercrafts, thumbdrives, replica guns, nerf gun modifications and gundam models! I'm fortunate enough to be blessed by really supportive parents and given the chance to explore many, many parts of the world and try out a plethora of activities. This is also how I discovered my love for film photography, videography and piano. 
The film photo above is unedited! My family loves cold countries xD. We managed to catch the northern lights twice! 
I've also gotten the chance to experience many of nature's wonders 
And my most freezing experience to date: riding a husky ski sled into the sunset (It was -38 to -40 degrees celsius and the huskies were pretty fast.) 
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Why 36000feetabove? This is the altitude that commercial planes cruise at and I have always loved the view up in the sky, being amongst the sea of clouds. :) Personally, my favourite favourite food has got to be airplane buns! Does anyone else feel the same way?! With a slice of butter and looking out of the window, I have yet to find an experience that can beat that. 
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
What's new of me being busy this week huh. I think that sometimes trying to achieve too many things at one shot is just way too tiring. That surely i can tell myself that the pain would be temporary, but this temporary seems to last forever haha. And then comes burn out stage when it's not even close to the end of the semester yet. November seems like an extremely busy month with tons of plans and hopefully everything brewing will give off a nice aromatic coffee smell at the end when all the grinding and frothing is done.Just this morning, I went to play nerf war with my friend Randall! That marks Xplorer War 27 completed in the calendar. It's really fun to lose yourself in the green while facing all the greys of this concrete jungle that we live in. To see nature with your own eyes and not through a screen. GoPro decided to bail on me today of all times. Sigh. Don't know why that little goblin went kaput on me.  Mandatory photo with the nerf vampire, Drac!  The one thing that I am really struggling with isn't about managing my time and sleep but sitting up straight. For the longest time possible i've been trying to keep my back straight but it is pretty challenging I must say! Without the help of a brace or whatsoever. Over this week, one thing I learnt is that motivation is limited. That after constant "I can do it"s, there will come to a point when you'll go "okay maybe not". Then what is going to keep you moving forward? Sometimes people say focus is the way to go. As focus keeps one, well focused in doing what he has to do efficiently although knowing what to do requires good planning of course. So it's like know what to do, then focus and go for it. Maybe they are right, but I take things differently. What keeps me going is discipline. Discipline to keep practicing piano everyday giving my 100% and treat it as though I am performing. Discipline to know that despite being tired I have a set of goals to achieve. Discipline to get ample rest the night before so that I can spend the day wisely and efficiently. Efficiently not just in the sense of accomplishing many things but more of just being able to smile and be jovial, exuding a positive attitude toward others. Even though this semester of my school is really tedious with weekly work, I am so glad to have such great friends around me who keep our spirits up and really putting those smiles in school! You smile, I smile, everyone just goes through this tedious semester together. On a side note, does anyone actually check Facebook using your phone while typing on the computer? Like wouldn't it be more logical to check it using the laptop instead of having to open your handphone? But somehow I'll use my phone instead. On a side side note, I spent an hour in the midst of writing this post to watch a tutorial video on using iMovie and learnt nothing -.- because they already taught the stuff that I already knew gah now i feel like I just wasted my time, although you never know whether such tutorial videos are going to teach you anything new :/ The internet is really powerful. I never had any formal classes or whatsoever on photography and post processing photos, all of it are just self learning and experimentation. And so last week I went on a photoshoot with Rachel but this week, no photos haha because monday is going to be used to catch up with school work and the various other commitments of mine. Here are some of the shots that I took!      Photography is an expensive hobby. Think you'll stop at just buying one camera? No way. Then you start buying lenses after lenses and different cameras and film rolls and then you wonder why your wallet looks so empty for lunch. Sunday, October 16, 2016
Slow moving sunday, sometimes it feels kind of pointless blogging because its just my life, and even though it is interesting at times, a lot of times does feel like its really boring. In my opinion, it's an interesting blog if it covers something interesting like travel blogs or food blogs. But I don't have the capital for a travel blog because I squander my money on a diverse range of items and I am too fat to actually have a food blog. I am currently trying to find out how to make my life more interesting, although i am pretty sure it's just about adjusting my outlook on things. I am currently listening to Norway Jazz music and typing out a blog post at a St Marc's outlet sipping on the usual cafe latte. There is this thing about coffee that somehow perks me up for the day. So much so that my day feels very dead until i have my first cup of coffee which would be right now 2pm on a way-too-hot Sunday. It is like as long as you don’t have that cup of coffee, your life has a slumber Instagram filter throughout. *edit* After finishing the blog post, the sleepiness have kicked back in the coffee has drained from the cup.
 
Gazing at the teacup lights, freedom doesn’t seem so much of a good thing when you have 4 weeks worth of music journals to catch up on! The past weeks been pretty intense playing catch up with school work although i have failed to catch up just yet and don't see myself catching up to it any time soon. Amidst the busy catch-up, acne-cultivating hectic schedule, I took photos of my friends in school and got pretty decent results! It didn’t look promising at first as many a time, whenever i tried to change the angles, school still looked like school. Wish school was more photogenic but it seems like they paid the architects peanuts. Yup, after being a student for some time in SIM, I have chosen to put the blame on the school and not the architects. The photoshoot was really disappointing initially and it is REALLY hard to find a good shot in school and I was really hoping for a change in perspective that people would not actually realize that it's school, or the usual Instagram places in Singapore, like the orchard gateway bridge. In the end, we did manage to get some pretty nice shots i would say! It all worked out in the end. Phew!
Apart from the breakout that I am facing right now due to the increased stress levels and lack of sleep, life has been extremely fulfilling and encouraging, especially when I went over to MAAD fair this month. My friends make my uni life really fun and seeing the inspirations and creativity from the MAAD fair really keeps me going on. I do wonder how do I actually improve and make the product experience better for customers that they will be keen on purchasing my products. Not that I want to earn money but rather I want to be able to say that yes I understand how to appeal to the customers and provide a more enticing and pleasing experience for them. Moreover given the materials that I am working with for Thumbforlego, my prices end up being on the high side which is what strongly discourages people. But it’s a craft! It’s a handmade craft that takes lots of time and effort and innovation to think of such an idea. People tell me explicitly that they like the idea and they love my crafts but I guess sometimes I look towards my amount of sales as a unit of measure of how much people like my products. Although not an advisable way to look that way, but it happens! Just can’t wait for the December holidays to come to say that I am finally done with university and I get to travel! Okay back to the main topic, making sure that I don’t go Kardarshian and say that this year is a year of realization, it’s been a grossly fruitful year in my opinion having seen how my photography skills have improved. They have come a tedious way of watching youtube videos, reading reviews and lots of practical practicing. Surely there is still so much to improve in but one step at a time is better than taking no steps at all. Even if the step is wrong, as long as we learn and can pick ourselves up, that is good enough. Speaking of picking up, thumbforlego.
Going from undergraduate to unemployed by year end really set me thinking on what do I want to do in future. Even though I have a target industry and some jobs that I am keen on doing, life doesn’t always go your way and sometimes you just got to accept what is in front of you. Which is partly why I am now practicing my photographing and photo editing skills now too. So this week I came across this term “anamorphic format” okay that was two words. But that is the kind of stretched out film effect that you see in cinemas that make you feel that you are more immersed into the film or movie, with different shaped bokehs and lens flares. I have always envied cinematic effects as they look so good and are yet so damn expensive to start on and requires extensive practice to get the “feel” of the clip out. Here is an example of a really nice cinematic short film! Of course I do wish that i can achieve such a standard but am still far from that! Learning really never stops doesn’t it? I can still say so for now but after say 15 years of settling into a job, maybe not?
 Photography equipment are just so expensive. Blogging should be done when I am less sleepy.  Monday, October 03, 2016
It's kinda strange that I thought about what I wanted to blog today but actually forgot about the topic when I woke up. Moreover, I had the plan to blog yesterday but procrastinator me decided to leave it hanging until today, when my mind is so much fresher. Yesterday was a really tiring day! I have this tendency to use "tiring day" and "long day" synonymously. I just ended a Nutrition test on friday which bore the brunt of my haphazard last minute hug-jesus'-foot-studying aaaaand I hope the result can (pleasantly) surprise me later over this week. Amongst the many things that has to be done this weekend, I went to buy a cap. Well that's because my previous one was so worn out! It had no structure to it, the buckle already rusted and so I bought a new cap. Which was not what I intended to buy and this phenomenon seems to always occur whenever I am buying things! When I buy something, pretty much like a stereotypical guy, I would head straight to the shop, buy my stuff and leave. But here and there, I enter the shop and buy something else instead and later on be contented that I made the right decision.  So while buying my cap at Haji Lane, I chanced upon these REALLY BEAUTIFUL turkish lamps! Their beauty caused me to react like a tourist chancing upon never seen before things overseas and I just got puzzled as to how I missed it all these while?! I've walked along Haji Lane countless times as they have a few shops selling my supplies, from gemstones to leather tools to military accessories~ but yet I've never found such a shop?! It was really puzzling how I have been missing it all the while. What's beautiful about them is how they hang in a bunch like This weekend also got really eventful because apart from the three birthdays that we celebrated in church, it was our cell group leader's birthday too! Which was a fun time kidnapping him and seating him in the capsule before sending him off!    To say that this week was an eventful week...I don't know. It surely does not feel like it is, but I know that it's been a really long week judging by how tired my fingers are from typing, and I foresee so much more typing to come. Moreover the photos seem to show that I had an eventful week! Just missing those crazy times of playing bridge with my clique in school. Not exactly looking forward to so much typing, although I must say that I do enjoy doing so! It's like I would dare say that I love to write as I have the opportunity to describe my life and thoughts in words but it feels daunting that there is still so much work left outstanding!! Why can't the work just clear off by itself?! I wish that my weeks were longer, that I had more days in a week without having to grow old at the same rate so that I have more time to accomplish more things and learn. And of course more time to finish my work but God is fair, everyone has 24 hours, I have less because of the time spent sleeping. Does anyone actually think sleeping is a waste of time?! No matter how awesome/comfy/revelational/soul-recuperating it is? Like imagine how much we could do in that additional 8 hours of sleep! That is, taking the blasphemous assumption that everyone gets 8 hours of sleep although the sleep deprived eyebags of ours moan otherwise. At the rate of the little sleep that our society is getting, our eyebags can probably save our lives in a car accident. But still, life's good.   |
