Points of Today

1. I was thinking nothing about God.
about His greater power.
In fact, I was ready to give up.

until some annoying announcer in the radio-for-the-middle-aged mentioned so.
about not giving up and how we have an obligation to strive until the day we die.
We owe it to God as the one that isn't giving up on us. ever.
Shiiite...

Not even for once, would He let me brood and despair for more than one commercial break.
Yet I thank Him for this.

An instant answer, in as much as anything that is instant is dim, is now what i need the most.
Not unlike paracetamol, which I strongly doubt as something more of a serious substance than salt and water.
But if you need it, you need it.
salvaged?
just a bit so.
i have more to do. Such as convincing myself that the struggle isn't over till He said it's over.
Which leads me to:

2. This editorial article in Real Simple which mentioned about what good it brings to do simple yet significant things,such as listing five things you're most grateful at every morning before you even get out of bed.
so i'm doing it now.

1. i'm learning two of my favourite (ok, important, someday, hopefully) things, German and Photography.
2. I still have time to add more language. namely : Italian. even if i might not ever use it with anyone. chances are, like german, i'd be dead by the time these languages are about to go extinct. So i'd still have a dozen or two italians to speak to.
3. Now i know the secret to de-frizzing my hair. (!!) Very, very important.
4. The world has still got the Brits to inject us with dark humor with.
5. I have entertaining friends, despite not being British, they're never ever boring. Incredible.

Hope this lists go a long way.

Excerpts From "War Photographer"

James Nachtwey on unmediated pain in justice and misery:

If everyone could be there to see for themselves the fear and the grieve just one time,
then they'd understand that nothing is worth letting things get to the point where that happens to a single person, let alone thousands.

But everyone cannot be there and that is why photographers go there, to show them to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they're doing and pay attention to whats going on
to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media,
to shake people out of they're indifference
to protest. and by the strength of that protest, to make others protest.

Photoshop Talk

OK..
before I forgot. Let me elaborate how they make those cool monochrome multicolored images whatevs.
B/W it first, on adjustments.
pick gradient map.
Reverse or not. Whichever suits it.
change the color there as well.

*phew*

hoping the future me would understand this blog note.

for an old weathered photo effect :
overlay a photo with its monochrome image of red to yellow gradient, tweak the opacity/fill number on the layer options. Voila!!