A Weekend Away from Reality
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Last weekend was different from the usual weekends I have. My cousins came to visit!!! Yey! I have missed them so much! It's been too many years now since I last saw them. They've been living in Switzerland, that's why (they're Swiss, so obviously they live there). My cousins, they've grown so big now. The eldest, Daniel, who was just a little boy, is now biiiiig! But not that big yet, I'm still bigger! HA! I had fun especially with Gabriel, the next in line. He's so
makulet. And of course, pretty little Anette! She's so cute and she keeps on hugging me. Aaaaaaw...
While staying with them for the weekend at Oakwood, I had a little photoshoot with the kids. It was for my Photography class; we had to re-create an ad from a magazine. Mine was a boy reading a book under the bed covers with a flashlight. So set up in one of the rooms and had Daniel and Gabriel alternately pose as the model. It was a challenge because posing was a tiring thing, but they had fun! And I had fun! Anette had one shot, too. She's just so cute!! Adorable!
Sadly, the weekend must come to an end. And they're only here for two week, and this is the second week. They'll be leaving this Saturday. There won't be another opportunity for me to see them again. I'm sad. It'll be for another couple of years before they come visiting again. But, maybe, just maybe, after graduation I'll go and visit them at Switzerland. Then they'll take me to Germany! Wooyeah! =P haha! Oh well, I'll post some pics of them from the photoshoot when I get them developed.
--PatitayHAD a little lamb--
5:48 PM
Of Sleep and Money
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Finally, "Discover" Robinsons Magazine is finished. Today, I have sworn to myself that I won't step foot in any Robinsons Mall for the next 2 years. That is the result of having Robinsons in your mind every waking hour, even in you dreams, and it's usually not a pleasant one. With Robinsons in my life for this sem, sleep became a 2-3 hour session on early mornings during production. I've gotten so used to it that I even developed a way of keeping myself awake! First, I minimize Adobe Photoshop. Next, I double click Microsoft Reader shortcut on the desktop. Third, I click and e-book and sail away.
I call that "taking breaks".
Every one agrees, right? Riiiight? Of course you do.
As most of you who are reading this might already guess, Robinsons is one hell of a big pain in the ass. Not only did it deprived me of my precious usual 5-7 hours of peaceful sleep on my comfy bed with my cow, Moo, and my kitty, Kitty, it also took away a chunk of money from our own pockets. In a very subtle way. I won't go on explaining, since it'll seem like I'm complaining again, and there's really nothing, absolutely nothing that I can do about it.
Oh, and speaking about money, another guilty of making us spend money is Photography. It's really hard to shoot pictures that you don't know what it looks like until it is developed, so you totally have to rely on instincts....and luck. We're using manual SLR cameras, not digicams.
Old school rocks!!!
A roll of film must be developed into a contact print, it's a big piece of photo paper wherein little thumbnails of your photo are printed. Since we're a bunch of sadistic perfectionist, we want all of our shots to be in the right exposure. And since we're not ultra mega super lucky, it's a 90-10 possibility. Yep, that bad. So we kept on shooting and shooting until we ended up with two rolls of film *whisper* that means two sets of contact print, too, which costs a bout 90-130 depending on where you take it to be developed. I'm going to print another one, it's a combination of the two rolls. Yay.
So the gist of this post is, I'm in dire need of sleep and money. I just elaborated some things for the pleasure, if any, of those who are crazy enough to read my blog.
--PatitayHAD a little lamb--
10:05 PM
