Damn posting this once a year! New year new me right? So I have a couple of songs I really wanna leave down so that in the future I can experience this again! As usual they will be at the end.
So since June last year, I have turned 21. No big change there. Started to develop a love for photography, especially portraits and landscapes. Seeing all the people doing vlogs and photography really make me wish I picked this up earlier and actually got good at it then maybe I can do that as a side thing to uni. That would make me much more organised I think, however, I suck at it. Seeing that I have been living here in Adelaide for the last 13 years, I really do not thing there is much interesting things here. Having an interesting subject is so important in photography. So at the moment, I am waiting for Canon to release an updated 6D, either that or I will probably get a second hand 5D mark III. Why Canon? Cos that red ring. Honestly, I think the ergonomics on the Nikon is better but that maybe because I have really only ever shot Nikon, A change is always good, just like phones, I used android for a bit and now I've been using iOS for a bit. Next might be a Windows phone, but right now Windows really isn't making a big improvement so I may just go back to android after the iPhone 5s. I have been trying to save up some money through a part time and also the internship that I got at ElectraNet. Unfortunately I keep thinking to myself, it will be a while before I buy a camera so I keep spending my money! Once tax return comes, it should be time to buy a camera, all the new ones for this year will be released then due to Olympics. Most likely going to be buying a second hand full frame.
So I don't know how often people question their relationships, there was a period of around a week that I really questioned mine. Due to her parents being really restrictive and naggy. However, I never once considered separating from her. That's weird, right? I think we have gotten to the point that the only way we will break up is if one of us as an affair. Which is highly unlikely. So right now, my parents just left on a holiday for one and a half months, soon her family will also be going on a holiday. BUT unfortunately the nature of her parents is that they will most likely be calling their house phone every day. How to beat that? Well I shall soon be researching how to redirect that phone call to her mobile. That way it will solve many problems =]
Back to photography, I think I have been an asshole lately to her. Why? Because I have been watching a lot of videos on portraits and the model is always.. well a model. So I have been pushing Li Yen to lose weight, even though I know she has been exercising. Sorry! I will stop that now!
Everytime I write a blog, it is because I hear a new song that makes me feel a bit lonely I guess. Also the fact that I can have it blasting, usually in my superb headphones but since my whole house is empty I moved my computer upstairs and I can turn it up and have the bass pumping. This blog is all over the place! No structure what so ever! Usually I will start from where I left off, but this time I think it has been just too long since the last blog.
So Li Yen and I are now in our 6th year together, and I never thought that I would be dating someone for so long before getting married. Everytime I hear someone having dated for 10 years before getting married, I always think it's so weird. BUT usually that is because those people are already older eg. 30. What is my relationship plan? Graduate uni at 22, work for a few years and save up money for house and holiday and of course that ring right? Get married at around 24-26 depending on how our finance is. Sure, I agree 24 sounds a little young seeing as Li Yen will be 23, but I think that if we are doing good/great financially I do not see the problem. Definitely start a family before 30, ideally around 27/28 after having gone on a couple big holidays.
Jobs. Currently I'm working on weekends at a coffee shop at Burnside village and it is pretty shit. Planning to look for a job closer to home. Engineering job wise, I did an internship at ElectraNet and that went pretty well, also they have decided to sponsor a final year project which I am apart of. So if I do good and ElectraNet has space for graduates then I think I already have my foot in the door. However, being an introvert, my supervisor says that I am too quiet. I guess it's not a good thing in Australia where everyone is brought up to be so outgoing. Mom thought that I was great, because I would just shut up and do my work, which is what I also thought. One thing I'm scared of is that if I do get a job at ElectraNet, I'll be stuck in Adelaide for too long. I always say that Adelaide is a nice place to settle down and start a family, but after getting into photography. Adelaide sucks. I wonder if I would be brave enough to go overseas to Canada or somewhere else to work. Right now in my brainstorming time I am definitely ballsy enough. But with balls like these can a plane really take off?
So I have also started exercising to get a little fitter, unfortunately I haven't exercised for the past week. Reasons? Too busy getting back into gaming a lot and after an incident at the park where I exercised. That incident included my killing 4 mosquitoes and still having another 5 flying around me. That REALLY put me off going to the park to exercise. Also I went to costco for the last time and bought snacks that I really shouldn't have. I can already see the stomach coming back, the bit that took me a month to lose has taken 1 week to come back. That sucks.
So if successfully redirect the phone calls from Li Yen's house to her phone, we maybe able to go away for a weekend. Interstate or something. However, not sure how to deal with the unlikely chance that her aunt comes over to have a quick check on how she is going. With both of us having families with the "no sex before marriage" is tough. There is no such thing as going on holiday with just the two of us. Though there is always going with friends then splitting for a few days. But then if we do go with friends it will most likely be really close friends, which means we won't be splitting up not that I really mind but it's totally different from having a holiday with just your other half right?
Even though I'm living alone, I still have yet to cook for myself, why? Because mom cooked a shitload of food before leaving even though I told her she didn't need to. Originally I was looking forward to this experience to be my way to learn how to cook, but I didn't mind that she cooked for me. But a big part of the reason of why she cooked, is so that she can brag to her friends about it, and also to use that against me. Even though I told her she didn't need to. Just because her friend's family cooked a shitload of food for her kids doesn't mean she has to do the same just to try to be on the same level. But at the same time I'm glad that I always know there is food in the freezer for the times that I don't want to cook or didn't go grocery shopping. I'm guessing in a couple of weeks I will be cooking a couple of meals for myself, after getting used to going back to uni. My body has certainly started to switch to uni mode. During my internship, I would wake up at 7:30 automatically. However right now, I'd wake up occasionally early, but today I slept til 12. Strong indication that I am back to my normal self! This is probably the worst trait for an aspiring landscape photographer. Since landscape photographers really only have 4 hours a day to shoot, 2 hours after sunrise and 2 hours before sunset. This doesn't include star trails.
Alright that's where I will leave it for now, I will try to cut down on gaming. Then I will have a bit more time to exercise and also motivate myself to go out and shoot some photos and of course to blog. Whether it be street photography or landscape or portraits. So there are weekly competitions with a theme to shoot, I will try to get myself out there in the vast world to complete those themes. Unfortunately this week's theme is film photography which I obviously cannot do.
Here are the songs. Big list!
Modl - Years From Now
Alan Walker - Faded >>> Both vocal and instrumental versions are good
Stolensnares & SteLouse - Drusilla ft. JJ
Candyland - Speechless ft RKCB
Gemini - Time To Share
Vincent - Her
Illenium - Fortriss ft. Joni Fatora
Imagined Herbal Flows - Evolve
Adam K & Slander - Breathe
Chainsmokers - Roses ft ROZES
Sean & Bobo vs A Billion Robots - YOU
Hermitude - The Buzz ft. Mataya
Pegboard Nerds - Swamp Thing
Dabin - Hold ft Daniela Andrade
Hermitude - HyperParadise
EXGF - We Are The Hearts
Kungs & Mozambo ft. Molly - To Describe You
Lane 8 & Lucy Stone - Nothing You Can Say
Major Lazer - Lean On
