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Obligatory birthday retrospective post time!

I still remember what happened on my last birthday. It was during the time of SM Town gathering and I was relatively new in the crew. During one of our practices we were having break and then the lights went out to find that there was a cake for me. It was such a nice gesture and it really made me feel happy.

On my actual birthday I decided to go to Carmen's dessert thing instead of staying at home and study. Despite trackwork I managed to get to the place on time. Shortly Yuki, Huy, Carmen and Elena showed up and we went to Glebe for some churros. They were really good. Afterwards we went shopping in the city and then crashed at Crossover. I was feeling sleepy so I ended up crashing on the couch while the others were jamming.

Haha I started writing this a week ago and now I've put it off till now.

Sunday was interesting. Not everyday you get to do something like that. I enjoyed it. I want to see someone else play the exact games and see how they go. Had cake at the studio where I was presented with a really unique jumper/jersey thing! I should really wear it sometime but I have no idea what occasion would suit it. During a performance? haha.

Went to watch The Dark Knight Rises with my brother and father at IMAX. My thoughts would be that you would need to have watched the other two since the third draws a lot of elements and back story from them. It wasn't as awesome as The Dark Knight and I knew that would happen. Expectations were raised a little too high if you ask me.


I feel like as I have aged, everything around me has aged also. Things weren't the same as they used to be. Where things are going I don't feel like it's going to be good. But I don't know, maybe I'm just imagining the worst but by extrapolating facts it's hard not to. Sometimes I think I'm being biased, while the other times I think I'm the only person who feels nobody is willing to do the right thing.

On another note I don't feel like myself anymore, if that makes sense. Guess I'll have to find it again.

This year has brought me good times and happiness. And I'm grateful for that.

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Thursday I crossed another thing off my list which was to visit my old high school. During the year I've had a lot of people tell me that my old headmaster wanted to see me. So I visited him and we talked about last year and this year, my reasons for leaving UTS after first semester and reasons for choosing Medicinal Chemistry. He thought it was good that I decided to stop my old course after one semester and not longer than it could have been. He seemed to support my education in the medicine field, which I then found out that he did med at USYD back in the day. Not sure how far he went with that but yeah. He had to go from Castle Hill to uni for his first class in the early morning and then go to Westmead in the afternoon. And then go back to Castle Hill via multiple transports. Took hours from his day but he said he learned to study while travelling which was productive. All I do on the train is sleep.

Afterwards I went to the bus stop which I used to take to go to Parramatta. Luckily back then I didn't have to worry about which bus to take since all buses terminated at the terminal at Parra. And it still applied now. I took the next bus and got to Parra. Since I'm going to do some photo work soon, I decided to buy a new lens for my camera. I needed something for low light situations so I got the 50mm f/1.8 lens. The thing can't zoom in or out but that also means it can take generally nicer photos than zooms since they don't have all that extra parts. Also another thing is it's really wide aperture which is definitely good to catch more light in dark places like a theatre. It was also cheap, like the cheapest lens you could possibly buy. Not sure if that's a good thing actually. Now I need to do some practice shots, I suppose Friday will be good for doing that.

Walked home in the light rain, and pretty much spent the day reading everything I could about using my camera and all the functions. Turns out I need a program to work with all my photos and convert them from RAW to jpegs or something similar. I could use iPhoto but I feel like the program is doing more harm than good to my photos, which I previously used to work on the RAW photos I shot at Yuki's birthday when I forgot to set it to not shoot in RAW format. So far the two programs that I could use are either Apple's Aperture or Adobe's Lightroom. Aperture is cheaper I think but everyone seems to prefer the editing power of Lightroom. Sigh and I wanted to save money for upgrading my kit lens.


Guess that's all for today's blog. I should sleep. My sleep pattern is all over the place, especially when I was sick. After I had dinner I had a nap and I had no idea how long I slept. Perception of time is lost to me.

This episode looks promising.