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i am in love with exploring 'M' and it seems like i can't stop!

shooting spree

saturday morning, i went out running for 9 kms on the hilly road alone. it's what i've been waiting for the whole week. it was a bliss. then i came home and had a shooting spree. sit back and enjoy my photos..;]

i've noticed that the photos i took during the past weekend were mostly blurred. i think it's bc i didn't focus much and wasn't in the creative mood. and when i walked around the house, the light were strong already. i shouldn't have left it that late. and i think if i went out for a long run before i grabbed my camera, the mood and the photos might be clearer.

talking about the mood, i was in hugh foul mood this morning. after sending my 11 year-old cousin to school, i got back to open my shop and found out that after talking on the phone with his mom, my cousin mistakenly slipped my handphone into his pocket and brought it school. i tried calling him but he cut my calls. i supposed he was in his class and didn't want his teacher to know that he had a handphone with him. i found out later that his teacher confiscated the phone and if i needed the phone back, i had to go to school to get it. no, i won't. this is not the first time that he forgetfully brought my phone to school. the previous time, i went to his class and got it back. but this time, i am going to let him solve his own problem. at his school, there is a rule for the childrend that they are not allowed to bring a handphone to school. so, i will wait to see what he is going to tell me after he gets back from school.

i was very furious this morning bc my day was already packed and busy since opening my shop. i don't want any chaos added to my morning and i need that phone for work. but after taking so many deep breaths, i am okay now. i know it's not a big deal but i want my cousin to pay more attention for what he is doing and do not cause me any unnecessary extra works. if his mom or my sister were in my shoes, they would rush to school to fix things for him. but it's not my style of childbearing. i want him to fix his own problems that he has created..

it was the most relaxing weekend for me and all of us. after driving back and forth the hospital for a week, i looked forward to this past weekend the most. when getting home, i aimed to finish the urgent translation i just got the day before by saturday morning and then let myself get lazy. i didn’t want to do a thing after emailing that work to my customer. my mind and body had been wrecked since monday to friday; sleep-deprivation, the soreness from mini-marathon, taking night shifts taking care of dad at the hospital, getting busy at shop during the day.

thus, the whole weekend, i got myself free from work; binged on sweets & had eating spree (i knew i shouldn’t), said no to running shoes (bc my knees still hurt), took several naps, took loads of photos, played with phun and py, slept in and was massively obsessed with ‘girl who played with fire’. it was a wonderful weekend.

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..