100501 Church Weekend!

This is going to be a short post. Or at least shorter than the previous one. Haha.

Anyhow, good the weekend is here again. Best time of the weekend as usual, but this weekend with a difference.

I’m being transferred to serve in S2 instead of the usual S1 in preparation for Asia Conference. Cool eh? It’s a wonderful experience I suppose. Don’t really get the chance to serve in Expo often except for times like Easter or Christmas.

Luckily, I’m not the only one being transferred there. Zining also came to S2 to serve too! Learning how to use Cam1 and Cam2. Nice!.

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Me and Zining early at Expo to help with the set up. Especially since we just shifted back to Hall 8, there’s bound to be teething issues.

True enough, there were issue by the time we got there. The lobby plasmas weren’t showing anything, and the Nursery’s sound feed was cracking like mad.

So went to troubleshoot the cracking sound first, but initial adjustments didn’t really help the issue, in fact, think it got worse.

Anyhow, went over to the lobby where Attributes was, to troubleshoot the plasma TVs. Turns out the first converter’s adapter was loose. So tried to fix it. But in the process, tripped a switch that turn off power to Attributes too. Whoops. My bad.

Managed to get it fixed eventually. Haha. And get the plasma TV’s to show something other than noise and black. Cool eh?

Then something struck me, of all the people who come to service, how many actually think about the folks who spend so much time setting up the place, troubleshooting problems and stuff? Even though I may not be the one to fix the lobby plasma issue, but someone else would anyway. But it’s still someone who did the job, so that people walking in didn’t see a blank screen instead.

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Anyhow, went to set up the rest of the cameras for services. Played around with Cam 1 and Cam 2, teach a bit of the operations to Zining, since it’s her first time serving at Expo. Haha. Quite cool.

That’s Zining with Cam 1. Compare the sizes of the two of them! HAHA!

But then again, everyone pretty much looks the same way too. Lol. Even me.

Moving on to other cameras.

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Helping to troubleshoot Cam 3′s tilt issue.

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My head looks dislocated in this photo. Haha…

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After the tilt issue was fixed, I had the chance to have a go at the crane.

Tried small slow shots, trying to get accustomed to the controls, counter-panning against a fixed object from a distance while craning as well. Quite challenging, but a good one.

That thing is huge… Beats the jib I used to use hands down.

And the jib didn’t even give me the effect I wanted.

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Swung it over to the other side…

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Ooh, Bryan helped us take this pic.

And Karen says Zining looks like she’s being hung from the crane. LOL. Didn’t even realize it. Haha…

Hung on the wrong side of the crane though. LOL!

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After finishing everything, went back to control booth to FINALLY have my lunch. Haha. Subway sandwich again. Long time no eat.

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And Zining spotter the DSLR! And started to play with it. Haha. Interesting piece of technology it must be for so many people to see it, and get interested in it. Cool.

Control room, the same way it was in Expo Hall 1.

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Anyhow, after that went for service, was on Cam 8.

And during sermon itself, went around the hall to take B Rolls. Random shots of people listening to the sermon, reading the bible, writing notes etc etc. Think many people would have saw me. How not too right? Some lone fella with a camera, tripod and media tag going around the hall, planting himself at odd locations to take a couple of shots? Haha.

You DEFINITELY saw me.

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Anyhow, after service, went back to control, debrief and stuff, then went off with Zining towards town.

While on the train to town, can’t resist some camwhoring eh?

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If I remember correctly, Melvin did suggest that the two of us push the train back to JW. Not sure how we’re going to do that though.

But we’ll be back with ES1 after AC.. Come on, that’s not that far… LOL.

But we miss you people at ES1! Does that help? HAHA!

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More camwhoring. Here’s a very good profile photo for a fashion designer eh? Really natural look.

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And that classic “two hands outstretched holding a heavy camera” shot. Doesn’t really work well on guys though I realized. Perhaps I’ll try it next time. Haha.