Cool On The Exterior, Warm Within
Feeling Sisterly
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 @ 12:30 AM
Been a long time since I last spent some time with my bro. How many of us hang out with our siblings? More often than not, we are preoccupied with friends and place them on a higher pedestal than necessary. I, for one, am guilty of it.
We went to town yesterday to catch this seminar on photography. The venue was not too fantastic; it was a pool room converted into a conference area, but the stale smell of cigarette smoke was still clinging. Okay, maybe I'm biased but I never really liked that smell. The stench hit me the moment I walked in but my bro didn't notice it at all. Weird.
Ian and Jonathan from TNP saved the day with their humourous anecdotes on press photos; the risk, challenge and satisfaction. They talked about how a photographer tells the story through his pictures and how that can become a tool of manipulation with an unbalanced perspective. I have new-found respect for photojournalists.
Interesting how they can capture different feels and emotions by varying angles and light. I wished I were exposed to such techniques when I was in sec school. But at least, my bro got to enrich himself at a younger age. And for once, I made the effort to do something that I knew he would be interested in.
Am I a great sister or what? heh.
On another note, my bro shuffled into my room late last night, bleary-eyed. He was heading for chalet the next day and his poor, overworked sis was envious. He claimed that he couldn't get to sleep, so I asked, "How come?"
"I'm too excited about tml..."
Who in the world gets worked up over a chalet?? -_-"
