In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.


Self-portrait. Aspect ratio - 1.85:1

Moved into my new apartment 1 week ago. Very nice place.

Easter is next week. Time to get things moving. Actually, it was probably time to get moving long ago. Anyway, how's life, everyone?

I lost weight recently because I've been saving money on food. I haven't been able to cook at home recently so I'd have to go out and eat or take home every night, which is pretty damn pricey.

I know He is always with me. But recently, Something's been going on in my subconscious (so to speak). A certain kind of anxiousness. I have yet to find out what this is, but I'm sure the Lord will make good of it. Maybe I'm getting to serious about things here. It is getting easier to get angry of things nowadays. I just see so much wrong on the streets. I'm trying hard to see good things, the kind of things that confirms God's existence and relevance. Perhaps now is a time of testing again. In any case, since I know this, I know that God has already brought me to victory. I guess I just have to get used to it.

Sometimes, I think I have only just enough faith to save myself. It takes up so much of my own spirituality to maintain my faith that now when I try to share my faith with others, I begin to stumble a little. Perhaps this is why, compared to others, I'm still pretty much a loner, though that doesn't mean I'm lonely.

In the meantime, school's fine. We just visited The Age (Melbourne newspaper) today. Quite an interesting tour of the offices. Don't know if you know much about what's going on here at the moment. The biggest news recently is the gang warfare going on in the inner city suburbs. Two nights ago, a man got shot in a pub near Cloris' place. It's the 24th of a long line of shootings. All the victims are related to one of the two main rival gangs. It's a real feud, like the 1930s Chicago days.

People still get shot nowadays.

Some of my still photography film got chewed up at the lab today. So much for taking portraits of my family members. In any case, it turns out that it would still have been underexposed, especially those exposures taken without the lightmeter. Someone chided me for using a lightmeter. They said that all forms of lightmetering (including those that exist in auto-exposure cameras) are cheating techniques and therefore should not be used in terms of learning photography. I find this ridiculous. I don't know a single person that doesn't use some form of lightmetering for their photography. On top of that, I, for one, am not going to waste precious film for under/over-exposure.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam.