{"id":776,"date":"2006-12-16T01:46:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T01:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2006-12-16T01:46:42","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T01:46:42","slug":"surprise-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Surprise In Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog post will have no pictures, and you will find out why later.<\/p>\n

Many surprise birthday parties have been thrown for friends; often, out of unsuspecting dinner invites a few days before the actual date, to avoid suspicion.<\/p>\n

And so, I knew damn well that the days before my birthday were those I should be most aware of, so I don’t sound as hysterical or dumbfounded as any of these friends. (But I certainly avoided “Throw me a surprise birthday party will you guys? As many celebrations as my age?<\/i>“)<\/p>\n

Probably the only person I know who didn’t get majorly surprised (or had a hunch) was stim-girl<\/i>. Boohoo.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I sat at my office workstation, cursing the slow Internet connection, when the lights tripped and a cake came out. I turned back and sung along, “Happy birthday…” thinking it was Aaron or Rizal’s birthday or something.<\/p>\n

Oh, right. Me!<\/p>\n

There it was, a… smaller-sized cheesecake. (Thank my diabetic tendencies that it’s tiny; finishing cakes is hardly in fashion.)<\/p>\n

I got 6 rolls of ISO 400 film as a present from colleagues. Thanks dudes!<\/p>\n

Now, what was sublime and ethereal about these 6 rolls was that it was not a want<\/b>. It was almost a need<\/b>. I was going to buy two 3-packs of ISO 400 film anyway, for Rock The World 7.<\/p>\n

They could’ve given me that to find out that I’d already gotten film. But no! Such perfect, perfect timing! God bless them, and God blessed my wallet!<\/p>\n

Very practical, too! (I don’t know what to do with functionless memorabilia. Damn pink elephants.)<\/p>\n

Jenifur<\/a>, if you masterminded such a gift suggestion, I salute you. You’ve had a track record of choosing the most matching gifts for friends. Go start a service and charge people, yo.<\/p>\n

After work, I got off at KL Sentral. Walking past a camera shop, I figured I might as well develop the two rolls of film I had, and get them to burn it to CD.<\/p>\n

When it was time to collect, I saw two strands of blank film hanging from their machine. “Uh sorry sir, your film didn’t advance.<\/i>” When I loaded the film, I put it over the notches and under the uh… advancer, but I didn’t make sure that the film was stuck firmly in. Sure, the film advance lever would crank and make a sound, and the film counter would increase, but the film didn’t move.<\/p>\n

There goes my Moonshine-in-film shots. \ud83d\ude41 (Of course, there’s always Moonshine-in-infrared, Moonshine-in-slow-shutter-flash…)<\/p>\n

I got them to show me how to load the film and lock it in place. When advanced properly, the film rewind lever would turn together with each crank. Oh, and I got the Olympus OM-2000 back, and the shutter-clicking-after-advancing-film bug was fixed. However, a new one came – even when the film advance lever was in the lock position, I could still press the shutter and take a picture! (So now I don’t advance the film until I intend to take a picture.)<\/p>\n

Well, at least I learnt it then, rather than after 6 blank rolls at Rock The World 7. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blog post will have no pictures, and you will find out why later. Many surprise birthday parties have been thrown for friends; often, out of unsuspecting dinner invites a few days before the actual date, to avoid suspicion. And so, I knew damn well that the days before my birthday were those I should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}