Dec 14, 2023
I’m back in Auckland. I’ve been at the Vipassana centre. I met some super cool people. It was a really cool experience. It felt pretty different from my other Vipassana experiences. The centre itself was so cool. It was really beautiful. It felt like being on a different planet.
I shared a room with Pierre pretty much the whole time. He reminded me a bit of Bryan. We had some really nice chats in the evening before bed.
I really started to remember the importance of meditation about halfway through my time there.
So I’m back in Auckland. Pierre and I arrived together. We spent one night together in a hostel. We went up the Sky Tower and hung out with another guy we met at the retreat. It was nice to be in the city with friends. It’s so different compared to being alone.
Dad will be here in 3 days.
I took some camera gear to a camera shop today. I took my 24 mm and 50 mm lens, my battery grip, and my lens adaptor. I was hoping to trade something for an RF 28 mm lens. They called me later that day saying they’d only be interested in the grip and the adaptor. Apparently there’s fungus forming inside the lenses. I guess it’s partly because those lenses aren’t weather sealed?
It’s alright. I’ll hold onto them. They still work fine. It’s just that they’re a bit bulky when attached to the adaptor.
I have everything I need now. It’s just about refining things. I wanted to swap my guitar for a smaller and thinner acoustic electric. It’ll be so much easier to carry around. I’ve got a full size acoustic electric now.
I also wanna get a new scarlet solo. It’s slightly smaller than the one I’ve got now. My current one is starting to kinda fall apart. I also wanna eventually get that canon RF 28 mm at some point.
So yah. It’ll be interesting camping with dad. I’ve gotta get a tent and sleeping back and pillows and that stuff. Hopefully it won’t be super expensive.
After that I gotta start working!!