到机场，欲过夜，被赶。四公里城区之行，好心人步步相伴。
到城中，地铁站野菊无家可归之众，危险至极。酒店，两人入内询问，起价7000。二人意见不定，互相商量之际，柜台见售出无望，自我降价，直至5000+。我等大快！六人入一室，两两上楼，略商讨明日行程，均困已，睡之。
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2013-04-11
啊……日记。也许是Clementi Camp的原因，待这儿一会儿就开始不自觉地手痒，想写东西。
一句醒一句睡得挺着军官讲着有关训练的事宜，看着他们使尽浑身解数也不能让我们心中提起哪怕一点点兴趣的无奈，我嘴角浅笑。我们都是两年了的老兵，激励士气这种对付新兵崽子的东西对我们这些老兵油子没用。
午饭时今天让我最向往的活动。吃了一年多半温不冷，充满纸盒气息的“外卖”，新鲜出炉的吃食让我感到无比幸福。而有了它的点缀，这三个星期的训练至少让我感到那么一点点的乐趣。
一点一横长，一撇到南洋，南洋两棵树，长在石头上。无论是南洋还是那一个“磨”字，都非常适合我现在的意境。
笑儿凌晨的一则信息让我突然觉得自己好对不起她，让她苦等。我惊讶我居然还记得怎样列队。看来作为列队比赛的一员还是让我学到了一些东西的。
2013-04-15
这是我对她最不舍的一次，也是她对我最不舍的一次。虽然有一脸短茬茬扎人的胡子，她还是亲了我两次，留下一堆软软思念组成的唇印。
幸好我花了30块买了一组iPhone5充电器，解决了这段时间手机电池的问题。我不知道我要怎样活在一个完全没法跟她联系的世界里。
A Confession of A NS Boy
I had a wife.
2 months and we were forced apart.
I served her well, but I was happy to part her.
Another 2 months, I switch between girlfriends.
Though relaxing, it was boring like hell.
Then I had another wife.
Decades older than me and we were together only a few hours every week.
We spent 1 year and 6 months, but I was happy to part her.
Now, I have another girl.
She has attachment though, a kid with explosive temper.
For a month we'll be together and after that, I would part her.
In the end, I decided to do some social work.
Give some love to a woman just like my last girl.
Once every year, a few weeks I'll spend.
I hope by then I would consider that a nice break.
2013-04-18
今天真的“chongshua”了……右半边身体已经完全不听使唤。看来明天的4公里是没戏了。不过着疲惫的心情在听到night out之后又瞬间高了起来！我也许能见到她；捧着她的脸；感受着她的体温，嬉笑。
就算是我，也只是一个恋爱中的人。
I've always thought that the idea of this would disgust me. It is really quite nice.
你碰到了我最害怕的一件事。我怕我身旁的一切都是假的。我是一个充满幻想的人。有时，我怕自己竟无法分清幻想和现实的国界。如果这一切都是一场美梦……我要看着你，把你印在脑海，走遍天涯找到你。
2013-04-24
腿伤了。不是特别疼，那是一种类似牙疼般的痛感。小笑笑来我家看我，还备了礼物。本来说她要是再住院我一听要去陪她，倒是我先中了。幸好不是医院。
幸福的同时也有点担心。我没有她的敏感度啊。
本来以为这几天不会出家门了，医生说尽量减少移动。但我这个热恋之人哪忍得住？
哈！被亲了……嘴哦……感觉根被一根大棒子在脑袋上打了一下似的，昏呼呼的幸福~
2013-04-24
榴弹，三粒。本来没多想什么，觉得不过三声响音。当然，现实永远比想象更精彩。
轰的一声巨响，气流迎面而来，一瞬间肺中的空气被压出。短暂的窒息让我感到些许无助。自我毁灭绝对是人类众多专长之一。
爱情。
看过很多有关爱情的哲理和故事。其中，“我爱你”应该是经常挂在嘴边的三个字。但只有在说出时，你才发觉这三个字有多么的重。每一个就好像一块大石，在原本幽静的心湖上留下一片片涟漪。但它落底低沉的声音却又那么让人觉得心安。
我真的恋爱了呢。
You are the path of this wind.
啊……日记。也许是Clementi Camp的原因，待这儿一会儿就开始不自觉地手痒，想写东西。
一句醒一句睡得挺着军官讲着有关训练的事宜，看着他们使尽浑身解数也不能让我们心中提起哪怕一点点兴趣的无奈，我嘴角浅笑。我们都是两年了的老兵，激励士气这种对付新兵崽子的东西对我们这些老兵油子没用。
午饭时今天让我最向往的活动。吃了一年多半温不冷，充满纸盒气息的“外卖”，新鲜出炉的吃食让我感到无比幸福。而有了它的点缀，这三个星期的训练至少让我感到那么一点点的乐趣。
一点一横长，一撇到南洋，南洋两棵树，长在石头上。无论是南洋还是那一个“磨”字，都非常适合我现在的意境。
笑儿凌晨的一则信息让我突然觉得自己好对不起她，让她苦等。我惊讶我居然还记得怎样列队。看来作为列队比赛的一员还是让我学到了一些东西的。
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2013-04-15
这是我对她最不舍的一次，也是她对我最不舍的一次。虽然有一脸短茬茬扎人的胡子，她还是亲了我两次，留下一堆软软思念组成的唇印。
幸好我花了30块买了一组iPhone5充电器，解决了这段时间手机电池的问题。我不知道我要怎样活在一个完全没法跟她联系的世界里。
A Confession of A NS Boy
I had a wife.
2 months and we were forced apart.
I served her well, but I was happy to part her.
Another 2 months, I switch between girlfriends.
Though relaxing, it was boring like hell.
Then I had another wife.
Decades older than me and we were together only a few hours every week.
We spent 1 year and 6 months, but I was happy to part her.
Now, I have another girl.
She has attachment though, a kid with explosive temper.
For a month we'll be together and after that, I would part her.
In the end, I decided to do some social work.
Give some love to a woman just like my last girl.
Once every year, a few weeks I'll spend.
I hope by then I would consider that a nice break.
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2013-04-18
今天真的“chongshua”了……右半边身体已经完全不听使唤。看来明天的4公里是没戏了。不过着疲惫的心情在听到night out之后又瞬间高了起来！我也许能见到她；捧着她的脸；感受着她的体温，嬉笑。
就算是我，也只是一个恋爱中的人。
I've always thought that the idea of this would disgust me. It is really quite nice.
你碰到了我最害怕的一件事。我怕我身旁的一切都是假的。我是一个充满幻想的人。有时，我怕自己竟无法分清幻想和现实的国界。如果这一切都是一场美梦……我要看着你，把你印在脑海，走遍天涯找到你。
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2013-04-24
腿伤了。不是特别疼，那是一种类似牙疼般的痛感。小笑笑来我家看我，还备了礼物。本来说她要是再住院我一听要去陪她，倒是我先中了。幸好不是医院。
幸福的同时也有点担心。我没有她的敏感度啊。
本来以为这几天不会出家门了，医生说尽量减少移动。但我这个热恋之人哪忍得住？
哈！被亲了……嘴哦……感觉根被一根大棒子在脑袋上打了一下似的，昏呼呼的幸福~
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2013-04-24
榴弹，三粒。本来没多想什么，觉得不过三声响音。当然，现实永远比想象更精彩。
轰的一声巨响，气流迎面而来，一瞬间肺中的空气被压出。短暂的窒息让我感到些许无助。自我毁灭绝对是人类众多专长之一。
爱情。
看过很多有关爱情的哲理和故事。其中，“我爱你”应该是经常挂在嘴边的三个字。但只有在说出时，你才发觉这三个字有多么的重。每一个就好像一块大石，在原本幽静的心湖上留下一片片涟漪。但它落底低沉的声音却又那么让人觉得心安。
我真的恋爱了呢。
You are the path of this wind.
It has been a week since she went on her overseas trip and I miss her dearly.
Personally, I always regard an overseas relationship to be one that I will probably get into. Afterall, I am overseas. I also regard an overseas relationship to be one that is not very hard to maintain. As people say: as long as the two of you love each other, nothing can get in between you. My parents too are prime examples of how an overseas relationship is entirely possible. Now that I'm experiencing it myself, a mere 7 weeks one, I am completely torn. The sense of longing and loneliness is almost unbearable. Knowing that you are there and I am here, knowing that no matter what is happening, I can't be there for you and help you, it feels bad. Well, 1 week down, 6 more to go. Let's hope that the rest of the weeks will pass quickly.
Now, some things I used to distract myself with recently, PS. I've been finding out a few techniques in photo editing and trying them out. They are pretty fun and amazingly effective.
The best way of removing blemishes is not by blurring. In general, there are only two type of occurrences on the skin that people consider as blemishes. One, lack of smoothness. Two, redness. Healing brush is used here to remove shadows and highlights.
A Lighten layer was used first to remove shadows. Lighten should always be used first since we aim for overall white skin tone rather than darker tones. After that, Darken layer to remove highlights and unnatural lighter tones created during Lighten layer. Finally, another Lighten layer to ensure overall skin whiteness.
This maintains skin texture while remove spots, unevenness and unwanted moles on the skin. It is crucial to remember that this process is a "dot" based instead of "patch" based one and if imperfections were to be widespread, covering up would be most difficult. In other word, only for people with decent skin.
A Hue/Saturation layer is used to remove redness. Standard dropper at normal skin colour area while minus dropper at red zones after changing the channel to red. After that, make hue negative full and adjust the right arrow in between the two layers of rainbows until result is satisfactory. Finally, just put hue slightly above 0, somewhere about 10-15 should be good.
Finally, desaturate, give a brightness of about +20 to +30 and trace out the teeth. A 40% opacity should do.
More or less the same done here. Though as the people are not taking up most of the frame, editing became easier.
This shot is problematic. Lighting was really bad so I resort to putting it black and white both to stress our dress and to hide the bad noise.
Much better lighting.
美女你一路注意身体哦！
More practice sessions, I'm getting better both at shooting portraits and Photoshop. Although I am still bad at posed shots. Mmmm... Time to learn some new poses.
It was an amazing day! Right after starting our fire, the rain came. And it poured for almost an hour before the sky cleared. Everybody was feeling pretty hopeless about the BBQ and suddenly, we realized that the fire didn't die! After fanning for a while, it came back to life and everything was on the right track! Hahahahahaha! Really hoped XiaoQi would be there but she has her own things to do... Oh well!
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Overall a really pleasant experience, with new and old faces. I am really thankful for being invited1
It was an amazing day! Right after starting our fire, the rain came. And it poured for almost an hour before the sky cleared. Everybody was feeling pretty hopeless about the BBQ and suddenly, we realized that the fire didn't die! After fanning for a while, it came back to life and everything was on the right track! Hahahahahaha! Really hoped XiaoQi would be there but she has her own things to do... Oh well!
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Overall a really pleasant experience, with new and old faces. I am really thankful for being invited1
