Birthday Surprises

I absolutely love birthday surprises. Especially if I'm included in the planning. And even more so when they're a complete success!

Today, we managed to surprise one of our college friends, Soon, for his 20th birthday that happened 2 days back. Bought a cake (Chocolate Cream Cheese!) and met up at the bus stop so that we could catch a bus to his house.

We waited for about 40 minutes for the bus to arrive? From about 9.30am till 10.10am. *sigh* The Malaysian buses don't really follow any fixed schedule. I guess it would be kinda hard to stay true to the timetable as there's the jam to handle in the morning and evening. Wish the public transport was better though. But I'm thankful that we even have public transport =)

So yeah, since it was our first time heading there, we were quite clueless as to where the place is and what bus to take. Fortunately, one of our friends, Ant, lives close to him, so he guided us there. Skipping the bus drama, we got to the apartment around 10.30am =)

Ant already knew where he lived (having followed him yesterday, haha) so he lead us to the front gate where we lighted the candles and rang the bell. That sleepyhead took so long to answer the door; Ant had to call him with the pretence that he wanted to ask Soon something, haha.

Anyway, he was REALLY surprised. And he JUST woke up too! Which made it even better because I caught his bed hair on video! Hahaha. I'm gonna try to edit it as soon as i can (in about two weeks time). I've to get a head-start on my video editing or i'll be lost sometime in the distant future when i'm doing my assignments ._.

Long story short, we ate the cake and walked back to have lunch at Manhattan Fish Market (because they have a promotion! =D). Now, i don't always eat there, but after the service that they gave us, i'm not sure if i want to go back there again.

Okay maybe i'm being a little oversensitive here. The staff weren't rude to us, but they weren't exactly super polite either. It seems to me that they're a little impatient. It's not really much of a big deal, but it was a slightly unpleasant experience for all of us. The food was alright though. Not the best, but it was edible =)

So we ended the day with a happy note of promises to go out sometime soon. Yays.

Tata,
Wenzes

Photography Exhibition

Setting up photos

Our class had to set up out photos on display in the exhibition hall today! It was really hectic; in the morning, most of us bought our materials from the art supply shop and started cutting, slicing, sticking and decorating in accordance to our respecting themes. There was rubbish flying everywhere.

You can see how considerate we are about the cleanliness of the college.

And you know what DIDN'T help? The fact that the exhibition hall was so narrow and you could smell the sweat everywhere cause it was so cramped. Seriously, i kid you not; the second you step over the boundary into the corridor, you could feel the mustiness clinging to you in the air and there'd be this hot, stuffy feeling all around you, like the feeling of wet socks. Ew.

But on the bright side, we got everything done by evening! =)

My photography assignment was about the night market. Or as we call it in Malaysia, pasar malam. Initially, my idea was to capture the contrasting elements in the night market, but because of the way i edited it, my lecturer said i sorta 'forced' people to look at the point of interest. The way i edited it was by desaturating the entire image, but only leaving the point of interest in colour. Sorta like the colour splash method, but i left in the object of interest instead. So..yeah. That kinda ruined the whole assignment for me.

I was really, really, really, REALLY disappointed at first, but i tried to accept it as a learning point and move on from there. So i asked my tutor to help me check through all the photos i took during the past 6 weeks and recommend the photos i should choose. In the end, the topic focused on the shopkeepers and their products in the night market. Most of the composition consists of repeating patterns and leading lines.

I titled it 'Minders of the Market', because the photos focus on the shopkeepers = shop-minders.

This is my spot! =)

This was how we booked our spot. By sticking our picture there =D

Some of the decorations were really crazy. Here are some of my favourites!

Follow the chains for the storyline.

 I really like this one cause of the chains, eventhough the storyline went haywired towards the end. You can see how everything clumps up, haha. It portrays the storyline of the Black Rock Shooter OVA(or was it anime?) with photos of chibi figurines. Or nendoroids, as my classmate says.

Mamak Store!

 I particularly like this one because of the banana leaves that my classmate used. I think the combination of the banana leaves and newspapers really contributes to the theme of the mamak store. But the leaves will probably turn brown by the end of the two weeks, heh.

A number of people commented about how unfortunate this bear was. 

Heh, i took that portrait of my friend and edited it! =D I like this one because there's a bear!! Haha, no really. I only like this because it's funny. The bear is a girlish item and yet it's holding the photo of the photographer, who looks like she's about to kill someone. In fact, that one photo is completely in contrast with the whole theme of this shoot. Heh. But it wasn't my fault that we had to shoot according to first impressions.

Lego people! =D

The classmate that was shooting this focused on Lego people. Hence, the whole yellow colour. I think i like this one because of all the effort put into it. Eventhough the finishing was a little rough, i really liked it because he took the time to stick all the Lego people inside the frame for display. He even cut out plastic sheets and stuck them over the frame so that no one could steal them! 

Camera!

This topic was about street photography. The camera display is interesting, but you can see that the buttons are cut off because there's not enough space. I really really like the instagram box, though. Heheh.

Crinkled up brown paper!

Somehow this display gives me this warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Sorta antique. And i really like the photos cause they make you think, too. It shows the relationship between the mother and the son, but through objects. Quite interesting =)

How the exhibition hall looks like after most of the displays have been put up.

My classmate, painstakingly cutting out frames for each of his 12 photos out of cardboard.

Poor guy. I heard he stayed up all night to do this. But it turned out quite lovely in the end =)

So yeah, that's basically a summary of our first individual exhibition! =) I'd write more, but if i did, i'll be going on and on about how i felt and that would be boring.


Signing out,
Wenzes

Empty

Whoa, this space is empty.










(See what i did there? Hahahahah. Okay lame.)
No matter, it'll start to fill up soon enough =)

Basically, i created this blog to start anew. I needed to hone my writing skills more (my English is deteriorating, seriously!) Not only that, i really wanted to record down my memories and thoughts as i go through life.

Looking back at the past year, i just realized how much i've forgotten when i don't write it down. So this will be a new start, another attempt on cherishing the events that have long gone past. So that when i look back, i can relieve it all over again and say: 'Ah, those were the good/bad ol' days'. Damn i sound like a grandma.

Till then, cheerio!
Wenzes Yap