we had a post-internship seminar on friday, really just a goodbye thing for us, but it was nice talking to rajan! funnily enough, ping said "we'll take this last walk together" when we had to trudge to the vanda room for our lunch reception, but after the seminar she swiftly drove her honda over and ferried doris and lll over to the vanda room, leaving us behind. hmph.

so that was that. goodbye seminars are nothing much to describe, just speeches and career talks and songs like if we hold on togeeetheerrrr trying to squeeze tears out of us. much non-kudos go to doris and ping who dug our student ID photos from the depths of hell and collated them into a montage displayed to every student and lecturer present, the only consolation was that everyone looked just as ugly as the next person.

then it was saturday.

i attended a voice recording session with my internship company, as i had been part of that project. it only lasted an hour, for a five minute script. our voice talent, ellen chu, was definitely no celebrity. i had expected somemore more sophisticated, with perhaps a hint of ang moh features but when our talent emerged from the studio, she was just... blah. she looked like she was going to the wet market after the recording.

my colleague and i stay for a mid-morning teh-o afterwards. she's very pleasant, and more patient than i had initially expected as she confidently handed me her projects during my internship. my company is politics-free, as i discovered yesterday. it's almost like a family business, almost making me wish i had stayed on when my director offered me a temporary position, to tide me over till school starts.

saturday afternoon was a flurry of activity at home. i had a photoshoot for a poster i was doing, my subjects were inanimate, though, a pair of safety goggles and a hard helmut, those worn by construction workers. dad got those for me from his colleagues, so nice of him right?

all i did was to take the shot i wanted, because every other chore was done by my dad. he set up the tripod, switch on the lights, place the objects and handled the board i used for my background. did i mention that my dad used to be a semi-advanced photographer? well, dad is also a tried-and-tested diver, self-taught fisherman, and qualified lifeguard. what a jack of all trades, and good at 'em too!