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From: Ong, Yew Lai - Syntegra SG
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Subject: RE: THE REUNION -- ORIGINAL version

Hi HPS Friends,

Sorry for the long delay. This is the original version of our reunion from my exposed film, managed only to save the last four photograph. 3 attached here, the fourth one is cake cutting by the teachers same as on the website.

Lessons to learn from my exposed film and I wanted to share with you for awhile. I finally did it ! I have finished all my film on this REUION day and my automatic camera when into rewind mode. It stopped rewinding after a very short while. Thinking that it have finished rewinding & anxious to change a new film to photograph the happening, I opened the back cover. To my surprise, the film is not fully rewind...WHY ?? It could be due to weak battery ! (LESSON 1 -- CHECK YOUR BATTERY BEFORE USING & MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD & STRONG ONE -- i.e. RECHARGE YOURSELF ALWAYS)

And my mistake No. 1, I did not check the counter before opening cover..(LESSON 2 -- MAKE SURE THE COUNTER IS ZERO BEFORE OPENING BACK COVER - i.e. START A NEW IF REQUIRE). I quickly closed the cover and went into one of David's toilet. I looked at the counter and snapped one or two photograph, the counter shown ONE or TWO, thinking only 1st few photograph of the film were exposed only as the counter shown ONE or TWO, I opened the cover and to my shock a big portion film was not rewind. (LESSON 3 -- THE COUNTER RESET TO ZERO WHEN YOU OPEN THE COVER -- i.e. TRY NEW THING IF REQUIRE, need to learn from Geok Choo - she is trying nursing now). I should have used the very small rewind button at bottom of the camera to do a full rewind before opening the cover again but due to my "old man" eye I could not see clearly. (LESSON 4 -- KNOW YOUR CAMERA EQUIPMENT, I DID NOT KNOW IT TOO WELL & COULD SEE & FIND THE REWIND BUTTON -- i.e. KNOW YOURSELF & SURROUNDING). (LESSON 5 -- IF YOU COULD NOT FIND OR DO ANYTHING, KEEP YOUR CAMERA & BRING IT TO THE NEAR PHOTO SHOP -- i.e. SEEK HELP, call your HPS friends if you need help). (LESSON 6 & THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE -- i.e. BE COOLED HEAD, DO NOT BE OVER ANXIOUS & WORRY IN VIEW OF UNCERTAINTY & ADVERSITY!!!- this apply for current SARS Scare) Hope this is a good lesson for me to learn and apply it to my life !

Sorry for my nonsense again.

I will send my other photograph to our webmaster soon, hopefully he has time to put them up. WATCH THE HPS WEBSITE SPACE !

So keep clean & healthy and in touch.

Cheers UP,
Yew Lai

 


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