Abir Chowdhury's personal website.

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Anything to do with my personal life.

  • Honesty & ADHD

    I find it difficult to stay still.

    I’ve been this way ever since I was a child. In school, at home, or at the park – you’d always find me fidgeting in my seat, talking back, or running from equipment to equipment.

    ADHD is the reason.

    I only got diagnosed this year, by a psychiatrist (best person to do it) named Dr. Murugesh Nidyananda.

    One of the only mental practitioners who actually listened to me since I started dealing with them in Year 12.

    I’m doing better now.

    *After leaving two jobs and almost losing my house.*

    I really, really regret not getting diagnosed earlier. I wasted ten years at university. A further four-and-a-half afterwards working. More than fifty thousand dollars in HECS-HELP debt ensure that I never forget my inability to be organised and productive in the way that society expects. I don’t wish that on any of you.

    Anyway, thanks for reading.

    Also, this is the first real blog post that I’ve written in more than four years. I wrote this as part of my CopyThat copywriting training at Retain Media.

    It’s a great company to work for.

    If you want to support me, you can do this: follow me online (I will NOT bother you) then choose to listen to my podcast (SCREENCHEATS) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, or Amazon Music Unlimited. Then you can follow my work, listen to my work, or ignore my work. Whatever you want. After that, you never, ever have to think of me again. Unless you want to.

  • Thirteen Days…

    It’s been three weeks since my girlfriend has been out of the country and man, it doesn’t get any easier. I miss her so much and even though we chat with each other and speak to each other every other day it just isn’t the same. It makes me appreciate just what we have when we are together in person. Distance doesn’t do any relationship favours, but what I’ve found is that our fights are resolved much faster than usual. I guess it’s because the distance makes things hard enough and so we don’t want to add anything to. She’ll be back in thirteen days and I can’t fucking wait til she is back in my arms!

    —

    The music school I attend is having a showcase concert tonight with the theme of “Australiana” ie. songs by Australian artists. I’ll be performing “Never Tear Us Apart” by INXS; one of favourite my songs and something that is really powerful. I hope that I can do Michael Hutchence justice, either way it’s a bloody fantastic song and it’s a lot of fun to perform!

    Oh and I will be posting my initial experiences with the Nikon F4S either tonight or tomorrow. I’ve taken some photos of the camera so all that is left to do is write my impressions. I will also try and get my photos developed and scanned so that I can upload them for you guys to see. Most of em probably look like ass but I don’t care, it’s all a learning process after all.

    On a side note, Google Plus looks like a pretty comprehensive alternative to Flickr as a photo-sharing hub. It presents its albums nicely and the uploading process is painless. I’ve actually been using it to host the images on this very blog. Anyway, that’s all for tonight folks. Good night. 🙂

    This post was originally published on Tumblr.

  • Film, film, film, film, film photography…

    Fuck oath I’ve been obsessed with film photography this last week. First I bought a used Nikon F4S (more on that soon) on the internet, then I borrowed a 50mm lens and some film from a friend and have been thinking about (if not actually shooting) film photography. I have a few books about photography in my collection, with two more added just yesterday, and have taken one of them with me when I am house/cat-sitting for my girlfriend.

    Man, working in a second hand store really does have its perks!

    I am now planning to purchase the lens that I have borrowed, and also a 24mm prime lens in addition to some proper graduated ND filters for landscape shoots. I’ve always been keen to shoot landscapes but have used a telephoto zoom lens because I like the perspective you get by using one – that and I have always sucked at composition using a wide-angle lens.

    I also intend on getting my hands on some Fuji Velvia slide (positive) film as I have been told that the colours you can get from that film are phenomenal!

    I really, really want to get the photos that I have already taken developed, printed, and scanned so that I can show you guys something instead of just blabbering on about it.

    Anyway, that’s enough from me for tonight. I really need to brush my teeth and get back to Batman (our cat).

    Good night people.

    PS. I’m sorry if what I wrote yesterday came off a bit brazen, I really was not in the best of moods.

    This post was originally published on Tumblr.

  • First!

    I made this blog on a whim. I have made blogs before but haven’t really committed to them. I wanted to make a blog that looks nice and that will make images and videos look nice. I’ve seen tumblr before but had always dismissed it as a site for just relaying other people’s work and not really showing off anything that is your own. Then I saw a few blogs that use tumblr that are mainly text based and made me consider tumblr as the suitable place for my idle thoughts and proclamations, hell, even photos that I take! And on top of that, I too can relay interesting thoughts, pictures, and quotes that I find on the intertubes.

    Yeah, I may end up being like every other blogger out there but I seriously could not give a fuck. I started shooting photography on film, fuck you. I mainly play games on PC, fuck you.

    Oh that reminds me, I’ll post some stuff about my new camera soon. I’ve had it for just over a week and I love it. I’m looking forward to seeing how my photos have turned. It’s pretty exciting if you ask me. 😀

    For those of you who have managed to make it this far, hello and welcome to my blog. I trust that you will enjoy my ramblings and may even like some of the photos I post here. Thank you for reading this inaugural post and good night. 😉

    This post was first published on Tumblr.

  • #TeamBrad

    Another day spent in bed being down.

    I didn’t go to uni because I was going to “do my assignment”.

    Why do I kid myself?

    At least I kept sane by watching Giant Bomb’s Brad Shoemaker play through the final levels of Doom II, and talking to my girlfriend.

    I wish I was a productive member of society, I feel like a bum again.

    Enough of this depressive shit, hopefully I feel better tomorrow. I’m having lunch with the missus.

    Can’t fucking wait!

    PS. They sure don’t make games the way they used to. I know it doesn’t seem like much today, but the original Doom would’ve fucking BLOWN minds when it first came out! Imagine finally playing a game in first person when everything you had played before that (okay, Myth did it first, but c’mon) took place in two dimensions! I guess my generation is the last to have experienced that revolution, man I kind of feel sorry for the kids growing up today. God dammit, my kids will be educated about this shit! 😀

    PPS. Doom is still scary.

    This post was originally published on WordPress.com.

  • Hey ya!

    Finally getting some homework done tonight. It’s been a while, feels weird but good in a way. Feeling much better since having a talk with the missus, hate miscommunication and misunderstandings when talking via text or kik. Listening to her in person feels much better. I can see the pain on her face when she can’t quite get through to me and the relief and love once we finally agree on something. She really is beautiful, both inside and out. She’s much more than I deserve but she’s mine, and I will forever be grateful for that fact.

    Anyway, that’s enough from me for tonight. Now to finish this work and play some more borderlands yay! 😀

    Night!

    This post was originally published on WordPress.com.