Today has all at once been a most frustrating and satisfying day.

If you’ve been following my blog, you will know that these days I do little more at work than hole up in my bunk and play FF-X with my colleagues. Today spammed close to 5 hours on those confounded mini-games just so we may unlock the characters’ legendary weapons (dodging lightning 200 consecutive times? getting a 0:0.0 timing for the Chocobo race?)……and managed to beat not a single one of them. NABEI. I can’t decide which is the most irritating mini-game thus far. At this moment I’m veering towards the irritating butterfly-chasing one but the Chocobo race is a close contender.

So after work, 兴致勃勃地 trooped down to Lot 1 to pick up my processed and scanned photos…only to find out that the fucktards there had processed my film but have NOT scanned my negatives!

Retarded woman: But here only write ‘processing only’, it never mention…

Me (irritated): My exact words to the girl was “process and scan the negatives”; if I asked her to scan the negatives, obviously must burn and put into CD right? Otherwise how I view the pics? Telepathy ah??

Ok to cut a long story short, they offered to do it for me and have me pick them up first thing tomorrow (but I’m not free tomorrow); but I refused, and gathered up all the 骨气 I had and went all the way down to Jurong Point to get them scanned.

All I can say is, Jurong Point’s photo shop = 砍菜头 one! 10 bucks to scan my negs and burn the pics on to a CD (this is exclusive of processing cost cos I’ve already processed my film), and an additional 5 bucks if I want to collect them on the same day. FUCKED UP! So who says neighbourhood shops are necessarily cheaper? Hogwash!

But regardless, when I went to pick up my CD, I looked at the contact sheet (ok it’s not really a contact sheet but I don’t know what else to call it; it’s the card with thumbnails of all the shots you took on the roll of film) and had a moment of pure, untainted feeling rushing through my veins because they turned out so much better than I’d expected them too. I had seriously keh-kiang-ed and had gone to tweak the ISO settings on my camera for EVERY single shot I took and so I was half expecting the exposure to be all helter-skelter, but they turned out Just The Way I wanted them to, bar a bit of blurriness because I am noob and have unsteady hands, that or I used the wrong shutter speed. The expression here to use is 钢中带柔 - the clarity was generally great, but there was a sort of graininess to it that lent the shots a lovely nostalgic softness, which is exactly the way I like my photos. Oh dear, I’m gushing like a total noob but please bear with me; I am always like that when I shoot my first roll on a new camera.

I can’t wait to get the current roll developed. I’m shooting on slides which means I am almost certain to cross process them, by default, but on the other hand I have taken a lot of rather straight-up non kitschy portraits, which might look funny if I cross process them. I am veering dangerously into geek talk territory. I should stop here.

Woah French homework not touched (Y)