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What is it with life that everything seems to be greased with money? Sitting in a punjabi wedding last saturday, i could not help thinking OMG, how much this wedding would have cost the couple. How long ago would they have started saving? and now to only blow it all off one day? Really? did our ancestors come up with the idea of a wedding just to make us poorer? Many crazy things wondered in my head as i could no longer tolerate the depth of the boredom i was drowning in.
I m not against marriage, No i m definitely not, i would like a simple wedding, a decent reception and of cos i definitely need an awesome photographer to capture the moments. So anyway, why does it have to go the extent of one has to take a loan to throw such a bash? I wonder are people falling for the kind of marriages u see in a movie? Its scary to see how the marriage institution has driven to the stop called expense and is only digging itself way deeper into it.
Not being a hypocrite or anything, i still enjoy looking people's wedding photos on Facebook, what i m trying to say is to try doing it to what u can afford, why spend £35 per head for a wedding lunch, when u cant afford a £5 lunch on a normal weekday...
I leave this atrocity for now, but i wanted to get back into writting, and i will try to write a little more often than 6 months once.
My age would have been 7, when my parents thought it would be good to send me for art class. To those who dont know what an art class in Malaysia is, it is basically a class where they expect u to draw some sophisticated picture. My drawings normally turned out into blobs as human figures and green for landscape and blue smudge for sky and water. So u can see, to any normal person, i m not exactly a talented artist, unless i pass of as some modern day Picasso, actually to think about it, i dont think i m one, LOL.
So moving on, appa and amma thought, rite lets send this son of ours for music lesson. That did not last for long neither, i sucked at music theory and worse at listening skills. When I say sucking at listening skills, i dont mean i am deaf or have any sort of physical damage to my hearing but, i could not identify the note that my teacher played. So once again, i revealed that I lacked any sense of art.
Keeping my interest for poem and literature aside, one could pretty much conclude that I am not going to have a bright carrier in art. This idea grew and did me no good for a loooooooong time, so long it lasted, i was soon 19 and was in UK. It was when I started taking photos......
I realised there might be an artist in me. Really? You might be wondering what am i getting at? Well, i took photos, i started thinking, hmmmm, maybe i can edit this photo in a way, i can tell a story or what happens if i change the colour scheme of a photo? what if i arrange these photos in an order to make it tell a story, or maybe even make some one laugh. Soon, i was cropping photos in a different ways, making collages, basically a whole lot of things in photoshop (BTW, i m no Pro in photoshop, i merely know the basics.)
Having relatives and frens who can paint, quite often i hear people ask them; WOW, did u paint/draw that? Then came this day, people asked me; WOW, u took that photo? WOW, u edited that photo? Such is this picture below, it was one of my experiment of shaving my head off for Halloween and then, figured i should take a mugshot of myself. And that thought process gave birth to the composition below
So what do u think, is this cool or what? Maybe this picture does not reach out to u, i dont care, not everyone likes Picasso and its not like donkey knows the smell of camphor (that's a tamil phrase) So, if not for my accidental discovery of photography, i would not have found the artist in me. If you were like me and sucked at art class when u were small, think again, it might not be the end for u, there might still be an Michael Angelo somewhere in you, waiting to step out....
p.s maybe i should write about how i ended up with a Mr.T hair cut, LOL...
Its been too long, is there anyone out there to even read what I am ranting anymore? Well I guess its just my fault, maybe, I should have got myself to write more. In the begining I did tell myself, I will not be one of those bloggers, who leave their blog collecting dust and only been visited by someone only because they wrongly googled something.
Anyway this is me trying to reconnect.
SO whats new with me? Lets see this chronologically
It was an amazing summer in Edinburgh, filled with hikes, kayaking, outdoor activities
A breakthrough achievement, when my photo made it to BBC Scotland.
I passed my 1st year viva and now into the 2nd year of my Ph.D. SCARYYYY!!!
Went back to Malaysia for a month long holiday.
Rekindled an old relationship ; )
Did more crazy photography
Got more busy with work, now that I am in 2nd year of Ph.D
Asked my high school ex out, yes I am back in the game, oh yeahhh
It started snowing in Edinburgh, and only made things more miserable to commute to work
Experienced driving in the snow, only to realise summer tyres r not suitable.
And not to forget
Got back into blogging.....