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Rest For A Day

This is the first time since a long long time that I get to stay home and rest for the day. To make this rest day more meaningful, it's pouring now and I love the smell and sound of heavy rain! Especially when I'm not caught in it and am warm and dry indoors.


I'm currently in the midst of reloading all the pictures in my blog entries because all the links I had with imageshack had been broken. This is quite a painful and slow process though because I have to upload pictures to Flickr and then manually click "Add Image" in the blog entry to add the URL link. To make things worse, the "Add Image" screen takes forever to load up. As of today, I have only completed March and two entries for April. Think it will take me forever to complete reloading the pictures.



When I was loading the images, I realised that I have never uploaded any of my graduation pictures. This is because I did not take any graduation pictures on convocation day itself using my digital camera (only took pictures with my family's film camera) and relied on my friends' digital cameras. This is not because I forgot my camera - I even bought fresh batteries the night before and brought my camera along - I saw no need to use mine since it's mostly group pictures and it is really a waste of resources and time making the photographer take two pictures with the same people but with different cameras. Decided it was much more efficient to use my friends' cameras for the pictures and then to download them myself later on. The same applied when a group of us went to Esplanade and Chijmes to take outdoor pictures. Since I'm now in the mood of doing all these picture administrative stuff, I decided to download the graduation pictures from my friends' cameras.



Ah Lian Resting (Special)



Came across this picture which was taken on that outing to Chijmes and Esplanade. When this picture was taken, I had already been walking about in my gown for about 3h, lugging my graduation gown bag (ok, I had no lugging because Alex helped me with mine as part of a deal we made) and my legs were hurting from all that walking in my heels. So when we finally had a chance to sit down in front of the Esplanade Library - this was how I looked.


"Wah! Minyi Ah Lian ah!"

Just because I sat with my legs apart (and I honestly do not think my legs were that apart) does not make me an Ah Lian. Besides in my opinion, Ah Lians do not sit with their legs wide apart, but they squat. Right? So technically, I do not qualify to be one.


Unfortunately, my friends do not agree and now I'm the official Ah Lian in the group.




Which brings me to the point why I posted this picture:

  1. Show everyone a picture of myself in my graduation gown
  2. Gather feedback based on this picture that I do not qualify to be an Ah Lian (please post your comments in my tag-board)
  3. This picture aptly illustrates how I feel today - finally able to rest after working hard for the longest time ever

Disclaimer: I do not always sit with my legs wide apart. I only do that when I'm wearing pants. Most importantly, I have absolutely nothing against Ah Lians. My Ah Lian and Ah Beng friends can vouch for me.




min on Sunday, October 16, 2005