i still pull out some photos i took during the weekend. i've self-learned to use 'M' mode, instead of using 'AV' all the time. i've tried it before but found out 'AV' was easier to use and so i sticked to it onwards. but now i told myself that i've known 'AV' for a while and it's time to learn something new.

saturday morning, i walked around the house looking for something to snap and at the same time learned to use the 'M' mode and get myself used to it. i am a slow learner. i've read/owned books teaching photography. i read them all, got confused, put them at rest and learned photography my own way. only when i want to know something, i got back to the books, clear myself out of it and do it my own way again. i don't like sticking to the rules. it's depressing. and i don't like to depress myself out of my hobby.. and here are my exploration/experiment from using 'M' mode.

anyway, how was your monday morning? mine was spent unexpectedly at the hospital. at 6 am, i got a phone call from my sister saying that dad needed to go to the hospital again. he would be coming with mom and auntie who came for their doctor's appointment in another hospital and i had to pick up dad on the way and bring him to PSU.

after sending Kla to the school, i drove to pick up dad and brought him to emergency room in PSU. we went to the emergency hoping to get things done urgently. still, we had to wait for the young, just-graduated and inexperienced doctor to show up and make a fuss over my dad. i wanted to tell him that if my dad was not in pain, he would not rush in to town in the rush hour to see him in the emergency room. he finally prescibed some medicine for my dad to release the pain and cure the disease while he is waiting for an appointment with other doctor next month. we came home with a bag full of medicines but unsure with what the young doctor prescribed to him. this evening, we've decided to bring him to see another doctor, old & experienced, in a clinic in hadyai.. we were back to my shop an hour before lunch and then my work started..