Photophile

BEST NIGHT. SO FAR. Really.

Went through 6 hours of mindless editing, I need new tricks. How to edit pics?!?! Is my perspective of decent, decent? Gah. I have no confidence whatsoever with this batch.

I must admit, I didn’t go to Graduation Night prepared, I didn’t think about what I’d need, I didn’t care if the battery would go dead or not, I’d even brought the wrong battery. Perhaps part of me don’t want this to end in a formal way that I’d been avoiding thinking about it.

So disasters happened, flash battery went dead, I kinda liked it though, the thrill of not having everything perfectly sorted out. I’d wanted to relax and enjoy the event actually. LJC’s getting to me.

But still, great shots, since people have been SOOO enthused about the night, snapping away most of the time.

Look at her laughing/smiling away. And me in pain.

chio bu! sneaked this shot. She wouldn’t know anyway. :x

LOL. This picture reminded me of …

Yeah.. Somehow.

Though I suppose I got the colour wrong, model wrong, pose wrong, the shadowy feel to it I did get though!

AHAHAH. Bride to be. my ass.

=.=

Sorry lah no pictures of them, I don’t feel like taking pictures these days, it feels so automatic to pick up a camera and snap, like there wouldn’t be any surprises if I did and shoot, although there certainly will be surprises every time you pick up the camera.. But it’s not as exciting as lomo!

LOL. One minute you could see her hating certain stuff and people, the next thing you know she does things like these.

:D flash banyak bagus… haihs

Was supposed to be… Looking out for the groom or something. But my back turn out to be this slimey icky blob.. :o

We were travelling through time! WEEE

Outside banyak nice!

We weren’t the only ones late, well, betarians were most of the ones late. haha

At one point we all stood up and went out, every one from beta LOL. Turned out we weren’t supposed to.

I’ll leave the lining up pics and etc to the professionals, look at ms. shieh responding to Kavin’s speech, well at least that’s what I think she was doing.

When you take pictures right, you detach yourself, from the emotional world and whatever’s happening, so I wasn’t as observant as I could have been that night but looking back at the pictures, Shelly was stunning! Her pictures were the ones needed least work done. Haha.

But this picture is about the teacher behind photobombing. I found 2 photobombers.

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Back to the future scene! “I’m disappearing!” lololol.

I realize there isn’t much to that night even though I had to filter 600 pictures.

OH. It was soooo cold! Freezing! My jaws were chattering and I was shivering without knowing it. :s

Overall it was pretty much charity dinner’s prequel, charity dinner being the sequel because sequels normally suck. What am I talking about? Graduation night was the best night 5 Beta has had so far!

The highlight of that night was definitely when our own MMP aired, lol aired, when it showed.

We didn’t have high hopes you see, with xn complaining all the time about it and seemingly not much effort done for the production of the video,

But ugh.. it really really triggered emotions leh.

I didn’t pay attention to it because it was hard paying attention to it and trying to photograph reactions at the same time, look at Shelly multitasking.

But ya la, so nice to see the girl behind the video happy about it. :D

You really did a great job!! If that’s something :p

The video made them huddle up together and all of that, that ought to be something right?

If you need proof that everyone appreciates the mmp, there you go I suppose.

Can we have a copy of that video or something? YouTube? Is it on?

People got emotional or whatnot and I didn’t know what was happening really, Ms. Kova came over and stuff…

The next thing you know…

AHH. How can you look at this picture and not feel a little sour inside?!

I’d wanted to cry looking at this!

Awww. I’d actually rushed to the person who was holding my camera and sort of snatched it from him because I heard someone was crying. Sorry to that person lol.

So yeah this is what I’d gotten when I got to the scene, Aaron’s loved. :D

Don’t exactly know if the girls wept…

Look at the guys!! Ahh!!

Sigh.. This bunch will be missed for sure, who am I gonna take crazy pictures of now?! Oh my goodness! It’s like midlife crisis! Or retiring, ahh!! This isn’t happening, back then I took things for granted but this could probably be the last time we all got together and take pictures like we do… :(

lol crap wardrobe malfunction.

Good thing she reminded me of a picture together! Haha. Camera buddy :D

I’ll remember you !! Brand new owner of SB-900! We don’t exactly have much memories together eh? Well, there were those times under the stage enthusiastically taking pictures. That’ll be etched in my memory. Nice to have met someone who shares the same passion!

Ahh! You people, my gateway to all things girly.

How fortunate I was to have met them during my first year, I remember Xi Ning as I waited for her to end her phone call complaining about people in our class so that I could borrow her phone. LOL. I remember Tiffany being oddly friendly, it scared me a little, telling us about languages. I remember Bianca’s birthday party, the swing.. I remember Wan Xuan being there now and then, then became a fixture during our meals together. How could I forget Yi Xin, I think I asked her straight away if she spoke Chinese and hence…

It might not seem so but I suppose we’ve built this rather strong bond. You guys are my best friends lah okay, the text still haunts me lol. I tend to take good things in life for granted so you guys, I’ve taken for granted. :x

But yeah, nicest people you’ll ever meet. One’s gonna fly down under next year, others think I’ll disappear, WHICH I WOULD NOT! Jeez.

At the moment I can’t think of anything farewellish to say leh.

Oh yeah, shopping with you people is one of the greatest joy in life. XD

Will never find people like you people. :(

This is a little odd though, they always say things like, it’s not like we’re not gonna meet soon! They’re no touchy feely people. haha

But still, leaving school already, we wouldn’t be able to go through things like we did the past 2 years. There’s this thing lah. haihs. Saddening.

We wouldn’t be able to laugh at their antics and such, things like that wouldn’t happen again for our enjoyment!

Where and who else could you expect pictures like these? Haihs

After Sri KL, there’ll be…

No moreeee.

No more friendship offered to befriend the photographer in order to get good shots…

No more spot on moments…

No more, “bel jie ni de camera yi xia..”

No more, “BEL! BEL! HELP US TAKE.”

As unappealing as it is to be the photographer, it’s like a maid’s job no? But the sheer joy as you click and get to freeze the moment and then go home and process it, the happiness is worth it.

At times I do wish to get paid for the torture, the late nights due to my little principle that it wouldn’t be the same if I did it later. The reactions are my pay I guess.

Muzium teapot.

But somehow yesterday was the best night I’ve ever had in years! The togetherness thanks to us being a class, the mmp moment. My goodness. I had this funny feeling when I saw the pictures I’ve taken on that huge screen. My work being used le! Then again no other people’s work can be used. Meh.

I suck at this leh, talking about people, at this hour, I’ll write about the class some other day I suppose. No I don’t really want to talk about it.. So saddening..

Went for a little drink drink after graduation night eh? No Hoegaarden. Ish.. It was more enjoyable than I’d expected I guess. When you don’t tell people the price of the instax film, they tend to snap away. WHICH IS WHAT IT WAS MADE TO DO. Jeez. 3 bucks for memories, I’m fine with that…

Okay not really it’s a little hefty but I didn’t buy it for it to rot its life away right!

I was waiting for the pictures to upload right? Because it failed a few times then I somehow woke up at this other place without any knowledge of going there. =.=