Oh Boogie
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I was actually forgotten. By a little someone. I shan't name who. That'd make things a little be...more fun.
The journey embarked on 22nd of November of the year 2008, have indeed been a fruitful one of self-discovery. There, I've learnt about several things about myself, and without exception, others around me.
Tact is a very important trait. I've come to realize during the trip. Enough of this, and on to what I want to say.
On the plane, I was honestly shocked that I've really made the decision to set off on this trip. It's something I've never expected myself to do. Definitely not the first time I'm in a foreign country without my parents. But definitely, something I expect someone like me to do. To actually help others. Ultimately I find myself labouring away at pounding rocks into the earth so as to compress the soil. Playing with kids who speak a totally different language from the one I do. Walking barefooted into a flooded Padi field to collect a stalk of rice. This ticks against the box: Outside comfort zone. It ticks thrice.
The biggest disappointment I have, is to not have the chance to interact with the kids properly. There's always a barrier. Put aside the fact that 80% of the time I'm at the worksite slaving away as physical help(literally), I can't seem to interact with the kids. I don't know how. Though most might see this as a help, because I didn't get emotionally attached to the orphans. But that changes my entire objective being in Cambodia. I was there on a service learning trip, not on a trip to only provide physical labour. I was there to bring back something that I could appreciate. But I didn't. So maybe I have fulfiled the expectations of the trips, but I have not fulfilled my own expectations.
The 2nd disappointment throughout the trip, was the disturbing reality that my phone IS my camera. Just what sort of shots am I supposed to take with a camera that possibly can't go beyond ISO 500, and the lens' already scratched. I want a proper camera. And I had to endure someone's crap about my photography at work today. Someone who has completely no knowledge about how to maintain a camera. Someone who doesn't know what sort of photography I do. Someone who doesn't know that I can't work on a camera that I'm completely unfamiliar with, and can barely find the "Toggle Flash" button because it's superlative foreign. So I'll make it blatant here. I do ABSTRACT photography, not EVENT photography. Personally I prefer abstract because of the free flow of possibilities that are present. The elements are all over the place, and it's up to one's imagination to act as the limits. Meaning to say, without an imagination, you are limited. Get this straight or I might yell at you at point blank.
Back to the point-The trip. The food is good.
Also, I wish I had not taken some shots I had taken. Especially of someone, because it digs up the past so badly.
The journey embarked on 22nd of November of the year 2008, have indeed been a fruitful one of self-discovery. There, I've learnt about several things about myself, and without exception, others around me.
Tact is a very important trait. I've come to realize during the trip. Enough of this, and on to what I want to say.
On the plane, I was honestly shocked that I've really made the decision to set off on this trip. It's something I've never expected myself to do. Definitely not the first time I'm in a foreign country without my parents. But definitely, something I expect someone like me to do. To actually help others. Ultimately I find myself labouring away at pounding rocks into the earth so as to compress the soil. Playing with kids who speak a totally different language from the one I do. Walking barefooted into a flooded Padi field to collect a stalk of rice. This ticks against the box: Outside comfort zone. It ticks thrice.
The biggest disappointment I have, is to not have the chance to interact with the kids properly. There's always a barrier. Put aside the fact that 80% of the time I'm at the worksite slaving away as physical help(literally), I can't seem to interact with the kids. I don't know how. Though most might see this as a help, because I didn't get emotionally attached to the orphans. But that changes my entire objective being in Cambodia. I was there on a service learning trip, not on a trip to only provide physical labour. I was there to bring back something that I could appreciate. But I didn't. So maybe I have fulfiled the expectations of the trips, but I have not fulfilled my own expectations.
The 2nd disappointment throughout the trip, was the disturbing reality that my phone IS my camera. Just what sort of shots am I supposed to take with a camera that possibly can't go beyond ISO 500, and the lens' already scratched. I want a proper camera. And I had to endure someone's crap about my photography at work today. Someone who has completely no knowledge about how to maintain a camera. Someone who doesn't know what sort of photography I do. Someone who doesn't know that I can't work on a camera that I'm completely unfamiliar with, and can barely find the "Toggle Flash" button because it's superlative foreign. So I'll make it blatant here. I do ABSTRACT photography, not EVENT photography. Personally I prefer abstract because of the free flow of possibilities that are present. The elements are all over the place, and it's up to one's imagination to act as the limits. Meaning to say, without an imagination, you are limited. Get this straight or I might yell at you at point blank.
Back to the point-The trip. The food is good.
Also, I wish I had not taken some shots I had taken. Especially of someone, because it digs up the past so badly.