A new start? How I spent my holiday break – part 1

July 29, 2008

Ok time to try to put more effort to my blog. Sigh. been thru much recently, but glad to say it has been mostly good times.

Firstly, my previously mentioned medical crisis seems to have stabilised for now. Not as intense or frequent as before, but still feels it occasional, especially when i’m going thru bad stress or juz lack slp. my whole right side of the face will turn burning numb >_<. but anyway i not taking any medicine for now, having almost exhausted my painkiller. and my specialist appointment is coming soon, on the 7th.

Sigh. Today, just a few hours ago, i got another family disturbance again. I seriously hope the ones involved can be more matured please. I seriously need to focus on my studies this coming sem, and I cant afford to be derailed again like last year by these kinda family problems on top of my studies. which are not easy, being engineering modules. sigh. the difference btwn A lvl n uni seems so big… or was it coz of the army? >_<

Had a good time at engin camp, thou I hardly took part in anything, but was rushing out videos all day (and night, literally) long. Hah due to various issues, the story vids weren’t ready b4 the camp start, so had to edit them out along the way, fight fire each day. Well at least I survived thru it despite the intense pain due to my condition at tt time. And was satisfied to hear good comments abt them, although certain vids weren’t done to my liking. Had a minor (to me) issue with the finale vid that credits the camp committee at the end of the finale night. Basically I was too shagged by then. and I had to choose from thousands of photos and video footage and try to find n fit the best into around 3 mins else it’ll be too draggy for a credits roll only. worse thing was that the editing program managed to screw with me and mess-up/hung wad i painstakingly put together. and not once, but twice. so in the end i had absolutely no time le and just slap together a few randomly chosenly photos that i could find. I had planned for a unglam/candid cam/NG shot followed with a more glam shot for each comm personnel, so that everyone can have a good laugh while still showing the comm members properly. sigh sadly the program screwup left me no time to finish it.

That’s not all. Oh i forgot to say, for the finale vid showcasing the camp memories, luckily we had the engin club it guy yman to help out. he managed to within 1 night and morning look thru the photos and vids and put together a rather decent effort. kudos to him, i had 1 less vid to worry abt, and can focus on the credits vid. sigh, sadly, when it was time for playing the vids to the entire camp, a few hiccups at the start spoilt the momentum. >_< also the speakers for then-unknown reason sounded very screechy, so the entire music track sounded ear-shriekingly deafening. T_T. i later realised that it was probably due to the invited band that performed before the video screening, having tuned the speaker to boost the bass to the max (and somehow the speaker interpreted my music’s swing jazz/brass instruments as bass and amplified them overwhelmingly). Oh well.

Next I had my own MSE camp. well, i encountered not quite a few problems too. but at this time, i have run out of stamina to write anymore, so i shall leave it for next time.

EDIT: PS: I realised i haven’t update in this blog that what my medical condition is. It is suspected to be trigeminal neuralgia, as preliminarily diagnosed by NUH A&E some time back. given specialist appointment to neuroscience clinic to confirm and treat it.