10th Sept 2005 Saturday
Heineken Greenspace Competition

Met with Susie at 9am at Ann Siang Hill to be kiasu and grab the limited numbers of Lomo cameras loaned out for the competition. Was feeling really groggy and half awake when i got there so i was a little quiet when i first met him. One of his classmates, Kelvin took part as well and we had to stand around The Asylum (the name of the place where they held the holding area lar!) waiting for them to start giving out the cameras. Poor Ah Zai couldnt wake up on time to get there by 9am (thanks to both of us yakking on the phone till early in the morning) so he decided not to take part in the end because the loaned out lomos seemed to be running low in quantity...

I got a bit hungry so i dragged both Susie and Kelv to Maxwell to have my teh si from my favourite teh si store and some bee hoon. Need some energy to run around you know. There, Kelv started bitching to me about Susie being such a naggy and bitchy person in class and we exchanged pointers on how to tackle his bitchy-ness. I told him "not-to-give-Susie-face" and just bitch him back........ Hahahhahaa...... He saw how i scolded Susie when he stepped on my foot (which was resting on the table leg), and he couldnt stop laughing.....

After my hearty breakfast, we walked back to The Asylum to get our clue sheets and it was off for the Amazing Race style shoot! Ok la, not really... but had to run around Chinatown in the hot sun for the next 4 hours lor..... Decided to split up from Susie and Kelv and i ran around on my own..... My photos next!

This first shot seems quite interesting but unfortunately it was not taken by me! Hahhaa... I had to con one of the lomo organizers to help me load the film because it has been ages since i loaded film into cameras!!! So she tested it with this first shot together with the colour splash.

Duxton Hill. The clue was to shoot the cobblestones...

Could not resist taking this cat!! He was just lying peacefully on the ground and Susie was super tempted to cat-nap him!! This cat was also the super star for the day because apparently quite a lot of people took photos of it too... :)

First try with the Blue colour splash on the grey wall.

Next, red splash against the clear glass. Quite an errie effect.... And i thought the first mannequin looks quite scary! The hand anyway.

Realised i shot the wrong Tong Ah (didnt follow the clues obviously, haha!) but it was fun creeping up the stairs next to the coffeeshop to take this shot from the window!

Hehehehehe..

Susie commented that all my photos look very architectural! Which is bloody true because i rarely took any photos of people! Im so un-feeling.........

As u can tell my flash couldnt seem to work after a while.

Supposed to take a shot of the rainbow flag for BackStage. I think the flag turned out too dark so cannot see. So sad.

I really felt pai seh to take photos of the people selling Teochew Porriage, so i just clicked on the Lomo as i walked past the store! Im surprised that something came into the photo.... hahhaa

I tried to play around with the flash. I covered half of the flash (the outer part of the flash) to see if there will be any special effect...... Seems like it.

Nice staircase!

I dunno if this was my finger getting in the way or i purposely covered half the flash again.....

Going mad taking photos of authentic tiles!!

One of the clues was to find "something Raw" at Ann Siang. I chanced upon it...... Hahhaa.

This has got to be one of my favourites. Played around by changing it from the Day mode to Night mode to see if there was any difference. Effect would be the white dreamy look........ and could also be due to the fact that my hands were not steady lar. Heh.

As you can see, i exhausted many "unwanted" shots that were totally not relevant to the clues. Thats why i didnt take any photos of Heineken (part of the criteria i think) because i finished taking 36 photos so quickly. And i ended up being the first one to submit her photos as well. Hahhaa!

Took this in the middle of the road. Had to dash to the curb immediately after shooting this.....

Had to take 5 elements of Far East Square........

After running around from 10 to 1230pm, i hopped into a cab and back home. Nua-ed at home till 5pm and decided to go for a Boyanese massage! Felt really oily after that (she applied oil onto my hair too!) and i had to wipe away some oil from my hands after that with a tissue. I think i must have looked really shiny when i first stepped out of the place. hahaha.. Met Ah Zai in town first where he bought some good eye drops for himself and i conveniently used some as well. He was complaining that his eyes were blood shot but after putting those eye drops, it was fine!

He really wanted to window shop so we walked around Hereen and off to Far East to have a Burger King dinner. Ah Zai was super irritated with the cashier boy because he mixed up the orders totally! First of all, he gave me shrimps instead of chicken for my salad. So Ah Zai had to walk back to get it changed. Then he forgot to give him his fries! So he had to go back a second time! Ah Zai was super bitchy after that and he commented that the cashier boy must have just broken up with his girlfriend or something to get so distracted.

While having my chicken salad dinner, Mr Easy messaged me that he would be working at his usual pub tonight. So i went down with Susie and Ah Zai after our Lomo party.... Anyway, the lomo party was at Clarke Quay and they were showing a slide show of some selected photos (i think lar, i dun think they showed all.....) and all 3 of our photos were shown! And the highlight of the party would be that Susie got 2nd prize!!! I told him that he wasnt so CMI after all.... HAhaha.....

After the party, we walked over to Robertson Quay and Susie was super excited to use his new LomoColoursplash (his prize lar) so he walked over to 7-11 to get some film while i got some roast duck rice for Mr Easy who complained that he didnt have any dinner yet. When we got there, Susie started to hound everyone to take photos while Mr Easy poured some orange juice for us. Played pool till Gaz arrived and even Miss Hungry came down! After losing a game of pool to Miss Hungry, Ah Zai, Susie and Gaz left at 1130pm to go clubbing.... The 3 of us stayed on till 12am and we walked out to Mohammed Sultan before we decided to go back to the pub to hang out! Miss Hungry was supposed to go to some pub in Ann Siang Hill for some farewell party..... to a couple that she didnt even know. But she didnt go for it in the end, so the 3 of us were playing a new version of "bluff" that i didnt even know exist!

Mr Easy tried to teach us the dice version of bluff but instead of both of us catching the rules of the game, we were more impressed with the way he shuffled the dice by pulling the cup over the dice and away from the table in a horizontal manner, and back to the table without the dice falling out!! Miss Hungry and I were bugging him to teach us how to do that instead and it was actually super easy! I could not catch the game at all (although he said that its the same as the card version) so i stoned while the 2 of them were playing. Went back at 2am to snooze.

I still dont know what to get for my mum's birthday pressie!!! Any suggestions??