Life's crawling faster and faster...: February 2013

Monday, February 18, 2013

Last weekend was a great one.

Saturday and Sunday, both was out for gathering for the whole day.

Saturday
16 Feb 13

Went out for my Wushu Seniors' new year gathering. Don't know how I got close to them, but I was the only "junior" in my batch who ended up in their gatherings every now and then. Had steamboat at one of their house. Met 3 new friend too. One of my senior got attached when he went for a SDN event (Social Development N... something haha).

At night, went to watch Ah Boys to Men 2, seriously had a good laugh to end off the day.

Sunday
17 Feb 13

Ai Ling organized a CNY gathering for the whole Lehbin group. Another full day of fun.

12.45pm was the meetup. eat till 3pm.

3.30pm Lao Yu Sheng at Chinatown.

We all talk talk talk...

The group talked, while I and Lao Bao Niang Ai Ling talked about business on the laptop.
Till 6.33pm, Boss end the talk, so I can eat, or I would have died. haha.

7-11.15pm, was Karaoke Session at 10 Dollar Karaoke Club.

Mon
18 Feb 13

I am getting more and more dreams each night. Anyway, I slept at 2.22am last night, for about 9.6 hours and work up at 12pm. Had lots of dreams which, if I have a choice to be "aware", I wouldn't want to dream about it.

Time flies... it's 7pm, and I feel quite demotivated that I done "nothing" today, so decided to start a post to list out the things that I have really done, if not, I would never ever recall and I will just label myself as a lousy person and get more demoralized as times goes...

So what I did today....

- Sent out sponsorship email to my NTU CAC OC (Orientation Committee).

- Edited the photos from yesterday CNY gathering, uploaded and tagging everyone.

- Digged out 4 CCA contacts from online, sent Ernest (Ai Ling's friend) to link up to, for him to publicise his handphone repair service.

- Help a old NTU friend who's doing her last year FYP, a survey that took about 15 mins, with videos within to watch. Time flies.. first I knew her, she was my junior, year 1, while I was in Year 4. 1.5 years after graduation, she is now is Year 3. Business schools are 3 year courses.

- Dig out old photos of couples and send to FlagAHero partner, so she can attached it along with the contest. Exchanged some emails and facebook messages.

By whatsaspp.... lots of little little messages can easily burn off 1/2 a day. This have always been labelled as a mega time waster on my list for the passed 1 year, but today had to attend to it more.

- Continue talking (and explaining) to a friend whom I asked for help, regarding my friend's whereabout, since he was lost yesterday after an argument with his girlfriend. Glad that he went back himself last night.

- My NTU friend asked for my wedding prices for her senior.

- Someone asked me to support a student concert production by donating $4, and asking if I can help to ask my friends.. recommended some other ways.

- Owen asked me about shooting family portraits of his family and the KK twins family at home.

- reading and replying (a bit) to lehbin's group 200-300 messages.....

That's why I will sometimes choose to ignore my constantly vibrating handphone, almost totally, unless it starts to ring, or I won't be able to do any work.

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Hmm.... so these are what I have been busy with today... not too bad la...

For now, I am going for dinner soon.

Tomorrow, going to Shifu house to "Bai nian", and he invited me to his house. Will need to be earlier to help "wash" plates etc... he's been a little asking for too much favours and teaching his "respects" that we should have done for him... but since he is up on ages, I hope I can make him happy too.

Ok, onwards to finishing my to do list for the night!

- Finish a passport photo from my Uncle.
- Going to send out emails later, to all schools stating my resume shoot locations in the 2 main area, North spine and the south.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Full force working thru the weekends.

sunday, my whole time was spent on creating these CDs, each taking 5 mins to change design, 26 mins to burn the design, and 10 mins to burn the data.

and 10 mins to get the data links and uploading and updating the site with the details.

Also not forgetting that it takes about 3 - 10 hours to upload each event from my home (depending on how SINKtel speed, but at fastest, it's only 0.5 mbps for uploading through Mio.

Presenting, some other things that BURNS my time besides photography and editing those photos.

The site.

Maintaining these things give me headache, especially with a idiotic uploading speed and software errors, sometimes I have to retry these for days and checking it again and again, for every event, I have to repeat this.

The "customised" disc.

These are lightscribe disc, supposed to be out of stock to Singapore already, anyway, doesn't look too impressive for the amount of work to me already.. since I see it everytime. So is it attractive and leaves a good impression to the clients?

I don't know.

Oh, and these cover prints are newly designed, just during Sun. White envelope is just saying my company is noob... couldn't have time to go down to a referred shop which customized CD covers for professionals, in City Hall area.

So ended up trying to design something, and printing it using the house printer.

The cover when it's closed.

After opening. Ta da! To continue the words from above!

Thought it's quite cool of my brain to be able to come up with these, but it's after like 3-4 hours of design and test printing? To make sure it prints within the area, I realised the printer is not accurate on this kind of paper which is not even in thickness (due to the plastic cover, thickness when folded etc..)

Hmm... recalling back, my Wushu Shifu "taught" me to also add in 6 Mandarin oranges, to wish our relationship to be 六六大顺，长长久久。。。since he already said it, I can't turn down. And I got to go get it before this Tues when I go down for training, but the main thing is to deliver the card before new year.

So...

This took another 2 hour I guess. I am slow with art work, and even trying to get the colour "orange" in my old stationary is a problem... anyway, I ended up using a old dried highlighted... colour incomplete... so got a orange lead... but it will fade in time... so I ended up finding the almost drying glue, and smeared it over, hoping the colour will last longer and not fade with exposure to air, after delivery to Shifu.

Oh well, time for a 30 mins nap which I promised myself, gonna sleep, wake up to 2nd dosage of Chinese medicine later.

Hope I will be feeling well and fit to work soon, been feeling like a Level 2 zombie since 2013 started?

The previous years.. a level 1. This period I can't even get my IPPT results right with a body which doesn't recover by itself after rest, not to mention about improving the fitness level.

Ok off I go after a long post haha.