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I had yet another epic Friday.
I swear I love Fridays.

To start off, I had a pretty depressing Friday morning which was reflected in my last post.
Feeling a need for change, I swapped my 35mm for the Hasselblad's 50mm when I shot for a mini performance in school. Aside from being insanely difficult to focus on a DSLR, I just love how the colors came out even without any major post processing.

It was a pretty fun shoot despite having numerous shots that are out of focus as I played around with that lens.
After class, I had every intention of skipping my entire evening plans, head back home and rent a movie or something as I was really drained. It does not help one bit that I had so many voices flowing through my head.
But the fish won. The salmon was fantastic. Thanks J for the treat.
Next on my plans was to meet S at Mulligans and head home before the last train. I requested for Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton and Jai did a beautiful rendition of it! He even followed up with Fields of Gold which just brought back memories of Jean. T_T sadstory.com Just as I was drowning and swirling in my memory of Jean, I noticed a really familiar back. A guy sitting some 3 tables up, wore a cream shirt and had this head of straight long hair plastered against his broad back. Yessu. I bumped into M and his friend who has really pretty eyes.

By: G<3

Small world much? S and I shifted tables and went all the way to the front. Just when S is about to leave, Jai just had to pick me on stage to sing with him... I had not sang anything in front of anyone in a really long while so why not(: I was not nervous, had a really good singer right next to me and a full house of people I do not know. The only people who would laugh at this for the rest of their lives are S, M and G. Its not like I was an exceptionally horrendous singer who gives nightmare to little kids. With the right song, I was confident. Not too bad a deal aye.

When I went up, he began flipping his song book and I was just hit with this insanely long wall of text plastered against his book full of song names as he began throwing up even more song names to me. So I basically went for the first one on the list that I found familiar only to realized that I just picked something by Michael Jackson.....
Well, he was asking me: you sure you are alright with this? Well yea there is nothing too hard in singing 'Man in the Mirror' by Michael Jackson as its one of my favorite song. Just that for a person who has been with the sopranos since the day I started singing, 'Man in the Mirror' was a total nightmare for me.
I just melted the ear drums of those present in the pub for the verses but thankfully, I managed to save myself during the chorus. Its been so long since I sang in front of an audience and I can't say that I did not have fun as who does not love singing in front of an audience?
I really missed singing but the song choice was a nightmare. I must had been insane to pick that song... But I had fun:3 thankfully there are no video evidence of that so yayness you guys are spared of the horror.

Shot by G. when I am drinking

Aside from the noise I made last night, I slept around 4am and guess which of my favorite couple decided to call me at 6am to see if I am awake and interested in Dim Sum...

While tottering between dreamland and the dim sum in front of me,

G: Alice, we have something to share with you.
L: We are getting married next year!!!!!!

Me: *chewchewchew*

3 minutes later.

Me: Ah. O.O Congrats! Took you long enough!

Took me long enough to even process what they were saying>.>

Anways, I had a great Friday and for some reason, I am really feeling the drive to shoot. I admit that I was pretty caught in the flow of technical what nots during YOG but its time to get back on track. Big and shiny gears are nice but getting rawness, feeling the passion and soul of an image is my vision. To be able to exclude the rest is really hard but can be done. I will get there.