the junkyard...
I'm so freakin drained out..
went to the warehouse on monday to check out if i could buy anything... bought a film dryer..for 80 freakin bucks... haha.. where can i find such things manz..
Shot a wedding yesterday...hope i made some good contacts and referrals.. for some jobs next yr tho... was pretty tiring... and the bride's gown was from vera wang... sigh.. wished i didn't quote them peanut fees..~! but then again, i think this wedding is the highest i've ever charged.
Going back to the warehse to collect my dryer.. and maybe buy somemore junk..was suppose to collect a sofa from nicky.. but his gorgeous sista gave it away to the movers.. so .. sigh.. no sofa for bday party then!... hope i can find some bricks on the way back..
Anwayz.. waiting for spencer to come pick me up... but i guess i'll head off to drop off the 29 rolls of film that i shot yesterday... first... boy... after 2 yrs of not shooting weddings.. i'll have to trade it off with so many rolls of film!.. ha.... okok...
It's gonna be a busy business.. apparently, my mom set me up with some advertisors on xmas day itself.. some dinner at some restaurant.. looks like i'm working on xmas day too!... wat to do....?
ORD LOH@
I'm back from ROC.....
Just got my pink IC.. i'm totally OFF the freakin army... and it's time to start working..
Stress... is a word that we usually use.. and most of the times... ends up somewhere having a drink and having some smokes.. that usually cures the 'stress' for that period.
However, sometimes, when life is really stressed.. and no amount of alcohol and ciggys can take your mind away from the things in my mind, i think that is real stress. I'm going to start a business. That's freaking me out. I have no business training, management skills, and absolutely bad at making judgements. The only thing that i'm holding on is the dream that it'll work. It's an industry that is almost at it's sunset. It's a dying arena. And hell.. i'm moving in - in hope that it'll turn around to a brighter future. I'm talking about black and white, film photography, developing and printing. The plans are now slowly taking shape.. and the entire business plan is slowing being formed. Now it's getting my lazy ass to type some emails and do some work.
Alot of times i think to myself... hey.. no fucking one knows wad i'm going thru now.. a young punk putting in half his life's savings into this uncertain business. A young kid that has no credible training or qualifications trying to break into this aging market. Everyone else is moving on... going overseas to study... getting a new job.. or at least something that ensures them that they are actually moving..... on.....
But like what ivan said a while back... 'it's not which train that you get on or where it's going.. just get on a fucking train that brings you somewhere'.
Anywyz.. i'm going to visit some junkyards tomolo to see if there's anything good for me to get... and if anyone needs to get rid of any old furniture... let me know.. industrial... factory... kind of stuffs.... yupp!..
have a merry month..!
training end
yesterday was the last day of the exercise. All of us are currently banned from using the computer terminals in camp sue to some stupid dumb fuck that tried to cheat the system by pluggin some cables out. Anyway i'm at this "white house" opp the camp that has internet services.. but pretty fucked up connection and keyboards.. having trouble typing as such.
All of us are now confined to camp the next 2 days due the the taiwanese elections. Already in taipei, there have been reports of a busbomb. So we may not even head to taipei.. that means i'll be stuck in Kaoshiung for my rnr. Not too bad an idea coz my frien is there and she drives.
There have been some major developments in business, i may be opening a shop afterall. But i dun really know the kind of support i;ll be getting once i get bck to sg. oh well..alywin's a truck driver now.. that's pretty funny. And nicky getting a job in japan..??!! that's a bombshell.. man.. i feel detached frm all of them already.. sigh
everyone's happy?
I've been updating myself on events bck home thru the blogs and all. It seems like everyone's doing good~. Just like wat nicky said "things are quiet back here, coz dun have you to stir shit". man... feel so wanted.
We are confined to the barracks today, but scheduled to move out first thing tomolo.
Meanwhile, i just finished reading another book called "the curious incident of a dog that happened at night" it's a book writing from a spastic boy's view - like how people view him as strange and weird and 'special'. But how he feels that everything he's doing is normal in his own rights. Quiet alrite book.. i was amazed that i finished it in a day.
I'm also in the midst of planning for something big that's going to happen to me. Some new business ideas have came up, and it seems that things are firming up. The initial idea of starting a studio with nicky and johan has... dithered? Or rather i feel that it's not going to work out. For one, Nicky has already has a job of his own, and second, johan's not even in NS yet. Somehow i've gotta start to move on to do wat i want to do. It may not be the best, but i've willing to give it a shot without endangering the careers of my2 other good friens.
okie then.. i'll be out in the field for the next few days. Just wondering if there's anyone back home lefT?? haha
take care you guys.
Typhoon medium Warning
Just heard news about the typhoon in Phillipines.. Just heard news that another typhoon will be hitting this place where i'm at in 2 days. It's already raining the past hr, and it's getting chilly. In 2 days, i'll be out in the field with the cadets. Hopefully it'll hold and the training will end in time.
Things in my head has been clearing up. (finally?) maybe. But someway somehow, after speaking to nicky, it became a little clearer. 'it's not a feeling.."
Then it's a decision?
Yes... as i came to know. And sometimes decisions comes with consequences. Many times we let the consequences cloud the other promises...the more ...'positives' ones?
I can't forget my Shring Shring.
I just ran out of money set aside to use in the base.. i had to 'draw' money from the reserved envelope...
Hope everyone's doing fine... it cost a bomb to call back..
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