20080519

Astrofest '08

The day before I was gone to some obscure TCH centre. Indirect buses, which doubled my ez-link fare, and in such a critical period too ):
Then on the way back on bus 154, bumped into Dinie, and since I had nothing better to do (sorry I'm a slacker on Friday nights without astro), might as well crash his NPastro session XD turned out quite fun, and I got to meet and talk to a lot of people too XD
So because of that, I came back feeling quite sian, and was dozing off when talking on MSN. Thanks to those talking and enduring my on and off replies (:

I went to sleep quite early (comparatively), and so was able to wake up at 630 on Sat morning. Prepared everything. Set. Also applied for overnight leave (in case). Went to the meeting point. 1 junior wonderfully went missing. I left 13 missed calls on his phone.
Then went to ACJC ahead without him. Reached at 9:05 or so (like 5min late), and when I stepped into the LT there were already a lot of people there, some familiar faces missing however. We were not so late then XD Out of randomness, I called the missing junior, and he went like "Huh? Astrofest is today?" at me (!) You gotta be kidding me dear, with this attitude you ain't gonna survive. Fortunately he made it to ACJC 45min later and was only 1.5 stations late.
Somehow I became the photographer :\ and popped into the stations at random. Wah the Picture ID one looked fun (: The other stations like Pictionary, or Scrabble, or the Hangman (wait it's not hangman. forgot the name already), or Pyramid were interesting too. Bumped into the BP trio slackers (who, like me, were too lazy to do projects XD) at Pyramid station, and we formed one team for the Constellation category, and we pwned the other 2 official teams at 8-1-1 :D Lucky Kok Hong never put Sextans...
But! They put Sextans for the Pictionary station instead! Worse lah! Can you all not use Sextans anywhere for next year's Astrofest or not...
Then I left for Admilralty to help ferry the public. Also met up with Jovina. Jin Peng as usual arrived 10min late.
Astro Fair. I kicked CJC's magnetic field detector thingy T______T felt terribly guilty lah T______T
Went round and round, up and down, back and forth, from LT to Hub, doing random things, having random talks, and asking for random names :\
The Symposium talks were interesting enough, although some of Rong'en jokes were too cheem to understand =.=
Then it was the Games Final. Jeopardy was okay. And I particularly enjoyed Picture ID round as usual XD Double cluster picture popped up, somemore with the central piece revealed! And no one was able to answer. Seriously ._.
Then I had to leave early for SSC, so unable to watch the Prize presentation ceremony. Actually now when I'm writing this I still don't know what's the result =.=
Then led the public to the Observatory first. The public that was supposed to come, not any random public person. Or was there extra random public knowing the observatory would be open out of schedule on Saturday? :\
I was VERY hungry, not having had lunch nor dinner at all. Dinner arrived a bit later, and I couldn't really taste it :\
Then I randomly went emo a bit, and managed to recover later when I got to use the 16 incher :D Whoo~ Although it was kinda awkward with the way the scope was mounted :\ So I gave up on Jewel Box, couldn't start on Beehive ): and could only catch Saturn. But the view was nice enough :D
By then virtually everyone had already left except for Derek, Jian Yi, Mark, Rong'en and Yongli.
We didn't want to walk the long way, so everyone cut through the building to go back. Empty museum. At night. Somemore there was the dinosaur exhibit. Reminded me of Night at the Museum =.=
Walked to interchange and took bus back. Before I got on the bus the sky looked 80% clear. When I alighted in front of NJC it became 80% cloudy =.=
CMI on MSN, and decided to go to sleep early as well.

Oh yes, caught this on bus to SSC

Talking of pictures, I wonder if there's any standardisation for picture ID (not that anyone is still doing this now for serious compys)
(1)
(2)(3)
They would put (3) as Markarian's chain and (2) as Virgo cluster.
Shouldn't (3) be NGC 4435 and 4438/Markarian's eye, (2) be Markarian's chain (THAT's a CHAIN), and (1) be Virgo cluster (at least include M87)? Hmm...

Ah well it's 6:22AM, I'm sleepy, and I'm signing off (:

20080505

argh...

Most of the time I wouldn't get so emo on blog since this is for the public to view (not that this site's traffic is high in the first place =.=)
Because it's just so contradicting that I half want and half avoid to talk about the incident that upset me, half need and half prevent the concerned person to know about it. That I have been actually very disturbed and need someone understanding enough should be make known too, but who would go around asking for it?
Then the entries would end up looking so weird, incomprehensible, neither here nor there, and left the readers thinking "so she's currently not quite in the right mind". lol.

So I did it again with my superbly terrible communicative skills. Not being able to get my message across, I ended up screwing up things. Now I am upset. The other party might also be upset. Overall things don't look good.
Then I would again wish that you/he/she/they would know how I am feeling without me saying it out loud.
Like mind-reading is possible.
Oh yes, it is. People who can totally read my mind are those whom I don't want my mind to be read by. People who can partially read my mind are generally not so distant but not so close to have such a need. People whom I want to understand what's going on in my mind totally can't comprehend me. Or don't even bother to. Such is the irony of life.

This is more devastating than I thought. Or may be I'm just thinking too much, exaggerating things, while it's actually not even a quarter that bad.
But the fact that I am very very very very very very very very very very upset is true.
It would be very magical indeed if YOU really figured out that this entry is actually about YOU.