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Start of something new?

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Posted 17 Oct 2009 — by jotwein
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Right then, I’ve officially ended my stint at Youth.SG for now. I’ll still be a contributor writer but for obvious reasons it can’t be full time anymore and that means… NO PAY!

I must say though that it’s been tremendous fun writing for a youth magazine for a change.

(disappears for 9 hours)

(reappears)

Okay so I’m back! Where was I. Right, tremendous fun writing for a youth mag. Well it was nice to be able to write in a relaxed fashion (which I never do except on my blog) and more or less not have to worry about style or tone.

Anyway, school starts on Monday. I guess I’m prepared. Not much else I can do I suppose, that’s what I mean. I only have a couple days of freedom though, and today’s already over so just one left.

I did a terribly awesome bit of shopping today. Okay it was hardly a bit, but shopping with Mum makes it all better!

It’s a long story though so I’ll cut it short. In a nutshell I ended up buying 3 things: a shaver (‘cos mine broke), a dry cabinet (‘cos they’re awesome and keep my camera stuff dry and HELLZ YEAH) and a voice recorder (as an investment ‘cos well, I’m tired of writing. So there)

On a separate note, may be time to update my wishlist. But no rush on that I guess. Not like I’ll ever run outta things to want.

So yes! I’m all set for the new and last semester. Kickass! The next post might just be the back to school first day post. Not that I’m obligated to write one.

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And it was all yellow

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Posted 28 Sep 2009 — by jotwein
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At the risk of wasting money on this domain because I’m not blogging, hello!

Life’s been a rollercoaster these last few weeks, last week especially because it was F1 week and there were events going on left right centre. It’s been two weeks since I last wrote a post but the time’s really gone by phenomenally quickly. So here’s my life in a nutshell.

I’m into my fifth week working for Youth.SG and am totally having a blast. Despite the long hours (9.30am to 6.30pm daily), I feel pretty good about what I do and what I get to do. I mean just on Sat I took a media tour of the Ferrari F1 Garage (read more here). Who else gets to do stuff like this?

Of course it’s not all peaches and cream. I do feel an almost depressing shortage of rest and a social life these days because I spend most of my time working. Am also contemplating cutting short my stint by a week so I can get at least some break before school starts. But I don’t quite know about that. Seems too late now if you ask me.

Contemplative matters aside, I’m really getting the hang of doing an online magazine. I think it’ll really help if I get online journ for one of my electives. But y’know, we’ll see in a couple weeks. By then I think timetable would be out? Hopefully.

In other news, Canon has announced the EOS 7D and I have to say I’m excited. I probably won’t be able to get it anytime soon (if at all) but it sounds really good to me, and no surprises here, I want one. It’ll even put off my upgrade to a FF right now. That’s how good it sounds to me. Only thing is it’ll probably be around S$2.5k when it’s out. Bummer.

That lens looks pretty good too, but let’s not get carried away here. I do have my 24 – 105L and that’s not going away. I just need to get it fixed and it’s a pain that Canon’s service centre is only open on weekdays. Not cool.

Anyway school’s starting in about 3 weeks’ time. I guess it’ll be nice to see everyone again. But it just draws on closer to the end and we all know what that means. National Service!

Right so I guess I’ll come back here every now and then to lay down the word but most of my time is (again) spent on Youth.SG (bold and orange because that’s the website’s housestyle) so you can see my stuff there. I could always blog twice though. I do so prefer my own blog’s admin interface.

Until next time then.

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