Sunday, October 19, 2008
8:34 PM

CANON PHOTOMARATHON 2008

the reason why i didn't blog yesterday!

omg it was tiring shizzz ok, i woke up at 6 plus to reach City Hall at 7.20, and the whole thing didn't end until around 10 pm!
bt then it was a good experience ((:

hahaha i figured it would be a very tiring post to write about.. so i'm just gonna list out the event briefly until i suddenly find a lot of things to write..

met Trina at the train station.. cos no one else in photog signed up!
anw after we met i realised i had left my consent form and registration form in the car -.-
so i called my dad to ask him to bring it to suntec :P
blah.

uh then my phone was like low bat.
but i still got it in the end.
we went to queue to register, when we did, we got our lanyards, vouchers (for a t-shirt, mineral water as well as a free A4 glossy photo print-out).
so we went to redeem our stuff.
except for the photo lah, that was later at night..

omg the shirt had a really weird cutting!
it was black and red with a really odd collar.
but it was made of very silky material and the red part was dry fit (just a small part).
the guy was measuring ppl's shoulders for their sizes, but when he saw us he was like, "S, S." lol
so we went to change.
my shirt was so long that i almost couldn't see my shorts underneath! :/

haha but it was ok.
trina asked me to roll it up, but it kept slipping down. lol.
we waited for a long time for the guy who was talking all the time to talk.

They took a long time to reveal the first theme, which was Change!
we were like.
:O
UH.
how the hell are we supposed to take change?
haha then everyone made their way out to all over Singapore.
oh ya we took a picture for the record breaking of photographers gathering at the same day thing also. haha.

haha we first went to the mrt around there, i don't know we kept walking through some mall (is it called city link?) anyway i got it confused with raffles city and suntec.
so we kept walking there, and i saw and smelled a lot of nice food! :D
haha.
i bought breadtalk. but we weren't allowed to eat in the mrt.
couldn't find any ideas, thought of taking two contrasting buildings but that idea was rather cliched.

uh so in the end, we had some fun taking trina's shoe against the sticker of a shoe exactly the same colour on the floor.
it was like a guys crimson nike shoe, with a bit of his jeans and trina's jeans and shoe looked exactly the same colour! so it was pretty cool. B)
yea and then there was also (in the MRT) the pen vs pencil, and my SLR on top of this silver digital camera (sticker on mrt).
hahaha it was trina's idea. quite fun. but th train kept moving.. yea
i don't think you get what i'm saying, you have to be there or listen to me explain it with movements lah.
haha i don't know what i'm talking abt..

we went to chinatown, wanted to go to this place with many little shops to see if we could find anything, but we went to the mc donalds to eat ice cream (her) instead.
i ate my breadtalk which i couldn't eat in the mrt after i'd bought it.
haahah.
oh ya!!! did i forget to say that we took the train thrice from one line to another and ended up in the same place in the end again and again for 3 times!
it was such a disaster but it was really funny hahaha.
i didn't know she was so blur! (haha she was blur at the start, but later on, i was blur a few times)

anyway after eating this lady with a charity coin tin came up and asked us to donate.
so trina donated and i asked her to do slow mo so i could take a picture.
and i ended up taking a pretty good picture in the end!
so i used that for my picture for change.

OMG. they showed the slideshow of pictures for change, and SO many ppl took pictures of money (loose change), and old plant/ flower vs a new one, or buildings or something along that idea!
hahah it became so boring after a while.
(why am i finding myself lazy to type out all the details?)
i wish i had this thing which automatically would convert all my memory into words so i could just paste the big chunk here.

After we returned, we downloaded our photos and waited for a damn long time and the person on the stage was spoke and Glenn Ong and Yazmine or however her name is spelt, DJs from class 95 fm, came to hold some games and promote canon.
hah the games were quite lame.
lol.
we waited for some ppl who were stuck in a jam, which delayed our time, before the second theme was anounced.

it was..
dreams!
oh man. like ??!
haha.
anw i was really curious to see what ppl'd come up with.
hah.
so we went to clarke quay this time.
haha.
we wanted to find sir stamford raffles' statue to take.
cos he looks like he's dreaming, looking up at th sky.. lol XD

we went out by some exit at the mrt (oh i was getting tired of walking and walking frm suntec through the shopping mall to the mrt and to wherever we went, again and again: it was a very long dist. to walk..!)
and ended up at central shopping centre.
so we walked to see what was there to eat, decided on subway eventually.
and before that, when we just arrived, we took pics of this dream like candy-coloured shophouses/ buildings across the river. and some japanese idol band which was freaking loud..

YUP.. and then we ate, ate subway melts. bought ice lemon tea.
and oh at chinatown i bought a bag of iced gems (you know the little biscuits with either pink, green, white or yellow icing on top? i'm sure you do!). uh huh and i ate so many of them until i was bloated.
i think they put on a few pounds on me too.
hah.
FATS D: i hate feeling fat (which is what i'm feeling now)
ohhhh, after lunch we went to find raffles.
and we couldn't find him! argh!

anyway it was very hot and i was melting and guess what we went to the mrt station hoping to find the right exit which would lead us to raffles, then we climbed 90 freaking stairs (15 sections) up only to find ourselves back at the same place where the japanese idol band was rawrrr;
it was damn tiring lah those stairs
!!!

okay, so we crossed the road to clarke quay, the place was almost a little wonderland itself!
quite unlike the rest of Singapore..
i hadn't been there for quite a while already, or long enough for myself not to remember how the place looked like.
we walked around the whimsical "town" and tried to take pictures.. if they were in any way related to dreams.
well they were colourful and pretty..
does that count?
yea (:

i took these little boys playing in the water fountain there too!
used it for the last theme in the end.
yup.
we sat down after trina bought gulp from 7 eleven.
i continued to eat my iced gems and drink the thank goodness cold iced lemon tea from subway.

then i took pics of my iced gems, inside the plastic bag, and they turned out pretty nice..

used that pic in the end.

okay i'm really lazy to blog so much, so well, we went back eventually, downloaded our pics, and then waited again.
this time chinese DJs from 93.3 came to talk instead of the previous english ones.
but they spoke a mix of chinese and english.
played another game again.
haha.

and then theme 3 was revealed: FREEDOM
HAHA.
aiyah, the themes were all so abstract we were like wth while laughing at the same time after we first got to know them.
it was pretty exciting before they were revealed..
think drumroll.. theme 3 is..
Freedom.

there were 1300 plus people there i think.
anyway this time we took mrt to trina's house.
met her dad and mum and dog..
haha then we went to bishan park, but we didn't manage to take any good photos.
afternoon lighting sucks.

hmm yeah..

we went back in the end.
i used the boy photo, trina used her ice cream photo - freedom of flow.

okay so after downloading our photos,
we went to queue for our printing of photos.
the queue didn't move at all, literally!
i thought i'd lost my printing coupon, and really, i was so tired i didn't really care; i just wanted to flop on the chair and stone.

i suddenly remembered i'd put my coupon in my wallet in the morning.
haha so i was like okay, i shall print my photo then; then trina told me to go to the queue beside the one we were queueing at because it looked like it was moving pretty fast, and so i did
finally got my photo printed.
i couldn't decided between the diamond and the iced gems, but decided to print the iced gems in the end. ((:

and it turned out real nice! :D someone complimented it; said it was a nice photo! :D
ppl were staring at my photo, i don't know what they must've been thinking because i was holding the pack of iced gems in my hand as well as the photo (contrast) and i was holding it because of the lack of space - i only brought my camera bag which could barely fit anything else after my wallet, hp and camera were put inside.
sigh.
i must have looked weird but oh well.
anyway, they showed the slideshow of photos for change for the open category from early just now till night! then it was finally done and they were showing th student category! and i was reallly excited haha :)))
so my eyes were glued to the screen, i was waiting to see my photo.
and when i was waiting for my photo to be printed, i saw trina's photo and i was trying to call her but she missed it.
and then finally, I SAW MY PHOTO! :D
it's such a great feeling really, to see your photo being displayed even if everybody else's is, too
ahaha i was super hyper right after that and i jumped up and joined trina as she queued for her photo.
all my tiredness had washed away.

yay ahahahah :D
okay but my photo wasn't that great, bt whatever!

tee hee.
after her strawberry was printed (i love the paper so glossy!) we went to get our certificates.
they were given out according to surname so we went to the L's.
it was really funny because the ppl there were shouting out all the ppl's full names and all of them were lims or other surnames starting with L hahaha well i found it really funny hahahhahahahahah ((:

we got our certificates, then went to sit down (finally!) and wait for the winners to be announced.
as usual, we waited for a long time.
and even longer.
and then the results were announced, it was really exciting!
i liked the winning photo for change!

and the winning school for overall the most participants and good photos the participants had submitted was ACS (I).
haha.
and well, the winners for the diff themes (3 winners per theme for open category and student category respectively, and 3 themes in total) were really lucky they won a lot of stuff and it was worth up to $7000.
there were 2 overall winners who won a trip to new zealand for a photography workshop and all expenses fully paid for seven to eight days.

haha, all in all, it was really tiring, but a good experience.
but i heard OBS is even worse coz it's this x 5 days and 10 times the density!

went home at ten and was really tired.
realised i left my shirt (th one i was wearing before changing into the canon one) in my senior's bag (i tompang-ed with her because mine didn't have space)!

Today

shall be brief:
woke up late, bathed and ate a little bit of fried bee hoon then went to liang court (the new, renovated one) to eat at this chinese restaurant.
we had shabu shabu it was really nice but i think there was too little food we only had scallops and fish for the shabu shabu part but there was nice soup (fish and tomato, half-half, NOT mixed together) and what they called their "secret recipe dip" which cost $3 bucks per plate (they assumed we wanted it so gave it automatically without asking) ahahhaaha.
we also ate fried pancake and what else i can't really remember just that i was quite hungry and there wasn't really a lot of food.
the part i liked best was the tea, the tea leaves were really unique and never seen before they were young and cute and looked like miniature real leaves, not the dried type haha really nice lah.
the tea tasted mild at first, then bitter, then bitter and sweet at the same time and then mild in the end, with each addition/ top up of water..
the guy's teapot had a really long spout like that of the traditional chinese ones haha cool :D

yea then went to robinsons (it was 5 pm by the time we reached! so late!)
and bought some stuff..
oh yea we bought cool jap snacks from the japanese supermarket at liang court.. novel but expensive.

cya tmr!

♥ her royal juiciness.-