Journal
November 24, 2003
Well this will be part one of my update and I’d like to get this off my mind first. Saw the third Matrix. It had nice eye candy… guns and dragonball-esque fight scenes. Storyline? Simpler than the second, lacked the originality of the first. Predictable ending and fates of the main characters.
This week was your basic work and then more work at another place.
The weekend saw another ELI survivor coming into Osaka. Kyle, whom has been in Japan for the past three months, came way over to Osaka and visited us kansai peeps for a few days. We had a great dinner and rounds of drinks and good laughs on Friday and Sunday (today) saw more drinks and a very patriotic rendition of Oh Canada on the karaoke thing in our room. I also met some new friends who live around here – our Osaka family is growing once again. Today we saw a room of 13 people including me and that was without a few too.
I got to use my camera over the weekend too. Most were just point and shoot shots and I just left the settings on AUTO. It was just easier that way. I also intelligently used the flash to get rid of horrid facial shadows and ridges. I still haven’t got around to practicing but it will come soon. The first thing will be to practice holding still. The shutter speeds are too slow sometimes on AUTO and after having a few beers, it’s fucking hard to hold the camera still. I’m choked that some of the pictures are so blurred because of this. The video files are awesome but once again I hate hearing my voice… I sound so fucking annoying.
Ok anyway – that’s finished. I’m on the verge of writing down another big brain dump but I’m still grinding some gears about some things.
