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Internship is finally over!

2010-10-11T21:15:00.007+08:00

Yay! SIP is finally over! Though I cannot really relax just yet, I still have SIP report to do during this 2 week break. Also, after the break is our FYP period, and I have yet to come up with a story idea to do for the project.

It is not that I have not come up with a story idea, but the current problem I am facing is how to balance story with the technical things and also all the things that I would like to put inside. To make it simpler, I would need a proper 'story', something like a moral or something to make the audience 'feel', and balance that out with things that I would like the lecturer (or whoever is marking) to take note of and then base my grades on. Also there is also the problem of whether I like it or not, I'd rather do something I like rather than something I don't, common sense yes? *Sigh* I'm currently at idea x and I'm still churning out more in hopes of getting the perfect blend. It seems that there are some people that already got their story ideas... It just makes everything seem so hopeless. So far all my ideas are heavy on just one side, and I'm having some problems coming up with new ideas. Though I do not really have to have a 'story', it's just a plus to have one, maybe if all else fails I'll just stick to the technical side (which I am not exactly strong at...)

Tomorrow I have to go back to school for some NAPFA training to prepare me for the actual NAPFA. I hope to get some money out of that $ $ but chances are slim. Apparently the sit-and-reach is still there and I suck at that. My pull-ups have also dropped from 3 to somewhere around 1. Sucks. I hope that this training will help. If not, then I'll be back to complain on how I could've spent better time watching Anime than going for the stupid training. Well, until then! (Or sometime sooner...)

and the cycle repeats itself...

2010-09-26T10:16:00.006+08:00

Long time no blog again... *sigh* I'm getting sick of it myself.

Lots of things happening right now, or has happened already, thus making me feel the urge to put them down... One main thing that has happened, I went to Comex and got a Wacom tablet! Woohoo! Finally! I got an Intuos4 small wacom tablet which truthfully, I did not like very much at first because it was hard to use. I guess I am too used to the school's Wacom which is either a large or extra large... Anyway, the Wacom looks like this!

I'm loving my Wacom tablet now, it allows me to do work at home or elsewhere. Which reminds me, I'm currently having SIP! The Design school SIP spans a period of 3 months, and we're currently at the last 2 months of SIP, how time flies... Before we got into any company, we'd need to go for interviews, which I have been through... ALOT I might add.

It says something, either that my work is not that good that I have to go for so many interviews or just that the type of work that I do is not what companies are looking for. Both aren't really good things... - - Anyway, here's a list of companies that I have been to interview for: GAMBIT game lab, Creative Halo, Singapore YOG media team(not really a company but...), MICA (Ministry of Informations Communications and the Arts) and Oak3 Films.

Within the list, I have been working at YOG first, for a month and 2 weeks, since after the YOG we'd have nothing to do... then we went back to school and waited for another possible interview, then finally after 2 weeks, I got into Oak3 Films and I'm currently having an internship there doing mostly illustrations and storyboards for new media stuff, and this it is when I was at Oak3 that my new Wacom tablet came into handy. I really love it now. I'm also currently working on some personal stuff, don't want to say more because I believe in all the "losing its magic once said" saying, if there is that kind of saying...

Despite being rather busy with SIP and stuff I still make time for my Anime. Can't live without it! Currently watching Clannad with my sisters, and this will make it the third time I have watched it. It's really nice I really recommend it, especially After Story. Before I go all Otaku-ish which I declare I AM NOT! I will stop here and once I have more stuff to write and note about I will be back. Oh yes, suddenly remembered something, You all should go to youtube to watch the Pokemon Apocalypse trailer, though it looks a little erm... but it looks pretty cool at the same time. I'm actually quite looking forward to a real movie, though I doubt there will be.

What's happening now

2010-06-05T10:06:00.009+08:00

I'll add in more things that happened during the time I was M.I.A next time (if I have the time) but what exactly is going on now?

"Project 3 is all the rage right now with many students busting their butts to meet the deadline on the 10th of June. I have gotten into this as well and I have to say, it is pretty exciting stuff."

Not! Well, it IS project 3 now but it is hell all over again. Everyday is 9am to 9pm for me, with no lunch for most days, and the thing is... I'm not even half complete! In case you didn't notice, the deadline is next Thursday. So... what am I going to do? Whatever I can. I'm going to finish as many scenes as I can today and chart exposure sheets at home tomorrow. Monday would be finishing my Animation 2 assignment which is the opening titles and Tuesday and Wednesday would be the SFX and editing. Thursday, deadline.

I was planning to do well for this year to try to get 'something' before I leave school, you know, an award or something... But I'm not that sure if I can do that now. But! I am looking forward to my FYP (final year project) and I have listed a whole lot of things NOT to put inside my project... (At least I'll try not to).

Let me list them down:

1. Not too realistic. (realistic is a pain in the butt to do but I have a story that I would like to do and is probably pretty realistic...)

2. Voice. (Again, the story I have in mind probably needs that, but I'll try not to put that in)

3. Horror. (Man, I really should've learnt my lesson the last time... When was the last time again?)

The list would be edited and added on whenever I think of new things.
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Well, as I was browsing the net just now I saw this:

Real cute flies.
With that I end, I have to do my work... >.> It probably is more accurate to say that I should've been doing work.

Edit: Probably going to change my blog, name and background and all. Just a reminder for myself.

Image gotten from: thefrustratedteacher.com

Long time no post ^n

2010-06-05T09:50:00.006+08:00

Woah! Would you look at that? When was the last time I posted something? July 2009! Now it's 5th June 2010, it has almost been a year since... A lot of things have happened in that time frame, my uncle whom my family had bad experience with (refer January 2009) during Chinese new year was less of a *ahem* than the last time we met him.

What happened was that my mum decided to bring my siblings to visit him and my grandma a while back (my eldest sister used the excuse to study to not go). Well, I wasn't informed and I had project 2 the last time (I think) so I came home rather late. BUT! I met my mum and my siblings as they made their way to the bus stop, so I decided to tag along.

Skipping all the things that happened in the middle ~~they are not too exciting~~, my uncle came back home and well... at first he ignored us but then he sat down and well, had a chat with my mum and us, asking about things, you know, studies and stuff.

Oh, he had also wanted to give us a bunny since they had more than enough and was planning to sell them away. My younger sisters were looking at my mum and me with sparkles in their eyes, but we refused the bunny. We had hamsters the last time and I was the one doing all the changing of bedding and stuff... *rant* *rant* if only they helped* rant*

Bad block

2009-07-23T03:57:00.004+08:00

Long time no blog. Why? Because I was busy, well, add in a tad bit of laziness... OK, maybe a lot more than just a little... But seriously, Consumer Lifestyle Research is just horrible. Horrid horrid. It is because of this module that I have ventured into the world of 'past-midnight'. I have had several occasions of sleeping at 2++ am. And now, it's almost 4.00am already and I haven't even gotten my sleep. It's partly because this module has loads of group work. Schedules between group members clash and well.. horrible planning of time, loads of AFK moments and time wasted on meaningless chatter. Graghh! (I feel like scolding vulgarities...pointing the finger)

Even now, I'm waiting for a file to be sent via Msn chat... and it's taking forever... which is why I have time to blog. To try to make time fly, though it is very much futile... No matter how time passes, I'm not getting my sleep back. The only good news is, this module ends on Friday.

School week

2009-06-29T08:13:00.006+08:00

Great... school's back. >.> Oh, as to why I am blogging at this time when I normally would be in school is simple, I don't have lessons today. When school is back tomorrow, I would have to stay in school for 3 extra hours everyday again. So my schedule is as such, 9am to 12noon is Consumer lifestyle research and from 12 to 3pm... nothing, waste time, then finally 3pm to 6pm would then be Professional Communicating Design Ideas. Man... they should really plan timetables better, I hate it when there's 3hours of nothing to do. This semester especially, I've got loads of 'waste time' on my hands and have to think of ways to entertain myself.

I've got a new drawing up by the side. Looks good, if I do say so myself again. When I was done with the drawing, I realised that the girl in the drawing somewhat looks similar to a character in an anime I've watched recently. Hmm... Anyway, I'm proud of myself for a job well done. It's probably one of the better drawing out there that I've done. =3 Oh yes, the lines weren't supposed to be this dark, I've edited the picture in some photoshop-like thingy or else it would be a rather light shade of grey, since it's drawn using pencil.

Oh well, I guess I must go back to my anime again as I wouldn't have that much time for them anymore when I go back to school for lessons tomorrow onwards.

Censor..?

2009-06-25T16:15:00.003+08:00

I have been using the laptop for most of the time at home as usual. Anime anime anime. That is especially true for the past three days as all of my sisters are not home until late afternoon or evening. My eldest sister has... work, my younger sister has some workshop to attend to (Adam Khoo's, since she's sec 4 already), and my youngest sister has Chinese dance. Now that I think back, it doesn't feel like it's Thursday already.

Re-watched some anime that I watched before and noted something... It's some censor thing that could be found in some anime. An example would be the one found at the bottom.

That lady looks as though she's lying in a pool of ~~shit water~~ liquid waste but it's actually blood. Yes, black blood. I don't understand much point in that since it makes the blood look... shitty. But I guess it does 'desaturate' the bright red into a less... contrasting colour thus making the scene less disturbing.

There are many other types of censoring that could be found in anime including some very very unique ones. If I come across those, I'll have to remember to blog it in. Which also reminds me, my previous post on the dead ~~loli~~ girl, the crows also act as a kind of censor don't they? So, it's one unique way of censoring down.

2009-06-21T17:37:00.005+08:00

On Friday, 19 June 2009, I was unable to use the internet until about 12pm. Maybe it's because of not paying the fees or something, but the cable TV seemed to be cut as well. So, I informed my mum about it for her to tell my dad and then, I waited... It was a long boring wait. No internet... no cable TV, terrible terrible. What's worse, there is a subject selection thing opening at 10am, which meant by the time I got to use the laptop, I was already 2 hours plus late. Luckily it did not drag on any longer and I was able to continue reading my manga online.

I have watched before some anime with pretty bloody scenes. I guess I have became more 'used to' watching the blood fly all over the place, but it does still make me feel uncomfortable, even though it is 'animation'.

A scene from the anime I watched recently. Pretty horrifying I must say. Adding the fact that the one dead is a ~~loli~~ kid... That said it's still anime, I doubt I'll be able to 'adapt' if it is 'live-action'.

What to do...

2009-06-18T07:47:00.002+08:00

There was APEL 2 yesterday from 1 to 5pm, talked about stuff... quite a lot of information since it was a 2 session combined to one. One of the more interesting topics was the "Love Language" thing. It is said that we have different ways of showing affection to others and receiving affection from people. It is also said that there are 5 Love Languages, namely: Quality time, Physical Touch, Service, Words of affirmation and Gifts.

Just a brief explanation for each so that it won't be so long winded.

Quality time, obviously is spending time with either loved ones or friends, shopping... or just spending time together.
Physical touch, is people who like to touch others to show affection (in a healthy sort of way), either, a pat on the back, hugs, holding hands etc.
Service, doing things for the one you love. Be it chores or stuff like that.
Words of affirmation, encouraging words.
Gifts. Says it all.

I'm more of a Words of affirmation person, so I expect Words of affirmation from others to show affection. That is for the giving part, one may have difference when giving but I am also someone who gives Words of affirmation to show that I care.

Anyway, that part pretty much sums up what I remember from APEL. So, after APEL, my dad came to fetch me home. When he was 'unloading' stuff to bring home, I saw a lot of durians at the back and I went "Wow! That's a lot of durians!"

My dad unloaded all the durians, 5 bags of them. Five big red plastic bag-ful of them. It's a bit exaggerating to have so many bags of durian, no matter how much we like durian, we can't finish THAT much. But after my dad went out, my mum said to my siblings and I that my dad probably got some of the durian for others. But because of my hollering... he had no choice but to unload all so that my mum would not be... 'upset'.

So... Now that the fridge smells of durian, and that we have bagful of durians at home is... my fault? *sigh* So, what to do with all the durian?

5th week!...?

2009-06-14T07:51:00.005+08:00

Sunday being the first day of the week... so today is officially the first day of week 5 of the holiday? *sigh*

My PSP is now officially back in action! After going to Sim Lim on Friday and walking around for hours and hours, I finally got to a shop on the ground floor and asked whether they know how to do the stuff. And they did, so... yeah! It's not 'free' though, they charged me $35 for the 'downgrade', an 'upgrade' and a screen protector. Kaya's guess on the value for fixing my PSP was $40 so it's $5 cheaper!

The trip to Sim Lim on Friday left me an urge to buy a console... a PS3. But the money!!$$ *sigh* Though I have the money to buy one... But the money!...

Yesterday evening, dark clouds covered the skies and fierce winds howled. I had noticed a rather 'light' distribution of clouds so I had guessed that there wouldn't be any rain... AND! I really forgot if it rained at all that evening... But earlier that afternoon, there was some rain activity and that air-conditioned the place. This morning... for once, I am using the laptop without turning the fan on. Instead, I am feeling rather cold... But this is definitely a nice change.

4th week already!

2009-06-10T09:42:00.006+08:00

Somehow... It's already the 4th week of this holiday... Feels like I didn't really get to enjoy this break much since most of what I've been doing is... anime, manga... Oh yes, the housework as well...
I was browsing the web and came across something interesting...

Some people might have come across this on the web and knows what this is... Yes, it's a mousepad. The breasts are 3D'd so it acts as a rest for... the wrist? I don't know because I don't have one. Anyway, there's more...

A loli mousepad with smaller breasts! xD It's fairly amusing how they come up with things like that to 'satisfy' the lust of the male population out there. So... what's up for the female population? I have no idea, I've never seen anything for the girls... maybe also a bust of a male or something lower down...? =P Anyway, the ones up there are only mild at the 'perverse' meter. I think there are some topless mousepads as well...

I'd like to have one of those... (not the topless ones) But I've never seen any on sale before so... BUT! I doubt I'll buy one anyway since it'll be awkward... having all the other females in the house and all... >.> Argh... just forget it.

great...

2009-06-07T08:12:00.003+08:00

I had thought that yesterday there was APEL and... I went to school. Turned out that there weren't any, and I only realised that an hour or so after waiting.

There was supposed to be an email sent by our careperson to the people in her caregroup. But I didn't receive any. So, wasted an hour ++ alone and bored. What's worse, I didn't even get to use the laptop yesterday! Even after I got home, the laptop has been booked by the two of my younger sisters. So, I watched TV... >.>

Oh yes, I remembered something. While I was walking to the school bus stop to wait for my bus to get home, there was an area with no shelter from the sun. That brief period exposed to the sun was horrid. Though it was only 10+ in the morning, the sun's rays felt like it was already noon and man...

The warm climate would only be expected to get worse, so... drink water.

3rd week!

2009-06-03T16:40:00.003+08:00

Darn, how time flies. It's already the 3rd week of my 6 week 'holiday' and somehow it doesn't feel like 2 weeks had already gone past...

I did a stupid stupid thing yesterday. I went to 'update' some thing in my Psp and ended not being able to play my games in my memory stick. > > Luckily for me, there are solutions to that. I just need to get something called a 'Pandora battery' or something like that and it is said that I can change the state of my Psp back to when I first bought it (Which means I still can play my games from my memory stick). But to get the stuff needed for that, I'd have to make a trip to Sim Lim and I asked if Greg can go with me. He said that he'd be free from next week onwards so... I'll just have to wait till then.

Speaking of Psps', I saw a future model of Psp online.

I think it looks nice, but my youngest sister states otherwise.

Oh well, I guess it's back to back to anime for now and I'd have to wait for next week to arrive before I can do anything to my Psp.

2nd week!

2009-05-29T14:19:00.004+08:00

God... it's so hot the past few days you wonder that the talk about Global Warming may be true after all... What? It is?

Nothing much this week as well... just more anime, manga, anime... Finished with some anime and now I'm currently reading manga. I'm spending most of my time in front of the laptop, living a somewhat hermit lifestyle.

But I have gone out this week, for that Tuesday meeting on the selection on whether to go Animation or Video. Some people might have guessed correctly, and yes, I did choose to go into animation. I believe that there will be a large group of people still wanting to go into video and many others will be kicked out of there and put into animation against their will... Well, I'd just have to wait and see...

I have been informed that there is a 4E1 meeting later next month. I have been considering whether to go or not since it'll most probably be at night. And as usual, I am not a 'night' person. I've never been out late very often, probably only a handful of times, so it'll probably do me good to go. I'd also like to meet my old classmates as well... it's been awhile anyway. So... still considering.

My sisters got their report book back (Not including my eldest sister duh). My youngest sister got an OK grade overall... The best among us four during Secondary One first semester. It's amusing since she got the lowest score for PSLE... and adding to that, the whole thing has been reversed. My younger sister scored highest during PSLE, but got the lowest score for sec 1 first sem. I'm second lousiest for sec 1, my elder sister is second best, and my youngest sister is best.

That aside, I'm abit worried for my younger sister. Her grades for the recent exams have not been very good. She's secondary four already and the O's are in a few months time. I wonder if she can score for her O's. I can help her with some of her subjects but certain things I have long forgotten so, there's also a limit to what I can help with. Just hope things turn up well.

Oh my... Look! It's already the second week of the holiday! Next week Saturday and the Saturday after that I will have APEL class and would need to go to school. Well, it'll take a few hours only so...

Anyway, back to manga.

1st week

2009-05-20T11:03:00.005+08:00

I have been cooped up at home for the past few days since the last day of school. Like the usual schedule: it's anime, anime, anime. But now I'm also into manga, so I slot in some manga reading in between, but that's only when I've finished watching my anime series.

While I was surfing the net, I had an encounter of the horrifying kind. OK... it's not THAT exaggerated but... I felt that it was a bad experience. >.> Not an experience of the perverse kind as well... Anyway, I'll explain it now.

So, like I was saying. I forgot what site I had been to, but there was a youtube link at that site, something about a live-action version of CLANNAD. So... being a CLANNAD fan and all, I went to check it out. Somewhere deep inside I knew that I would regret it... and I did. It's some live-action spin-off of CLANNAD, named CLONNAD. (You can go to youtube and search it if you want, but I highly recommend you not to) Well, I could not really comment on the video because I have only watched like... 30 seconds of it before I stopped to prevent any further damage to the name of CLANNAD.

I have no idea why... but many live-action spin-offs all have a similar feel. They feel like... bleh. Horrible. Just horrible. But there are some cases which aren't really so, like the few live-action movie adaptations.

That said, I probably should not 'explore' deeper into the realm of live-action if I want to be able to keep my mind intact. Total mind degeneration~ Added note: somehow it looks like some odd cosplay AV of sorts...

6 weeks!

2009-05-15T19:18:00.006+08:00

Alright! Now that the first block is over... I can relax for... 6 weeks! Yeah! 6 weeks! Oh my god~ Ahahahaha (laughs a high pitch bimbo-tic voice) <<< >.> Sounds real odd in real-life but you get what I mean. Well, I still have to go to school for 2 times (I think) for APEL class so it's not totally free for 6 weeks, but it's close enough.

Anyway. The Storyboarding presentation in class today was not all smooth sailing. Our video refuses to render out in time in the correct ratio (which is 16:9), widescreen. So... we presented using a very very very very low quality video which is also in the wrong ratio. Newell's the one presenting for the team and he 'crapped' rather well. (He said that he crapped a lot but I think it was rather good)

Anyway, I went to school early today at around 10am to do the posters for the 'collateral' section. Did 2, rejected 1 which sort of didn't fit the mood of the song. (We're doing on an MTV by the way.) The song being "What if she's an angel" by Tommy Shane Steiner. Go have a listen if you're interested, it's quite nice. Meaningful lyrics and such.

First one that I did. Rejected this but I think it's rather nice. (If I do say so myself)Second one that I did. Accepted this one.(Obviously, since I rejected the other one) Potrays a more melancholic feel to it. Both done using photoshop.

1 last week

2009-05-10T19:56:00.002+08:00

Storyboarding and project pitching (StoPP) is just... arghh! The final 2 assignments are giving me a hell of a time. Previous assignment... storyboarding stuff for a script on 'The secret of El Zorro", I have to draw some 30 over frames on the storyboard, though I assume some people have more to do but still it's crap. Not to mention drawing 4 frames in an A3 sheet of paper... some people put like 6 in one A3 which is supposed to be 'exceeding the limit" because the lecturer gave a 'maximum of 4 in one A3" limit. But I think he accepted those as well, so it's rather frustrating. Also, there are othe classes taking storyboarding as well and are doing the exact assignment as we were doing then. Except that they have half the length of our script... Sigh* the world is just so unfair sometimes... Stupid lecturer... >.>

So. Now we're doing the final for storyboarding as well as creative writing. We're suupposed to get a draft ready by tomorrow for peer assessment, but my draft has not been so much as complete yet. So, after this... it's back to creative writing assignment. Before this, I was doing the storyboarding thing for the final of StoPP... I have been at it for almost the entire day! Well, excluding the numerous breaks in between...

OK! No time to waste! I have to get to my creative writing now! Or perhaps I should go read a couple of chapters from my manga first...

1 hope

2009-04-19T18:12:00.003+08:00

*Sigh* School will be back tomorrow. I'm not exactly looking forward to it so... *sigh* I've got that horrible horrible feeling again whenever it's the day before school. Tomorrow's schedule is... 8.45am for Student Comm, then 3pm would be time for lessons StoPP (probably storyboarding and project pitching) taught by my least favourite lecturer (so far... who knows what the future might bring?) So I have a lot of 'free' time... I was hoping that there would not be any StoPP tomorrow but so far, there are no mails indicating as such.

I'm still clinging to hope that an email will come sooner or later but I doubt it will... but maybe... just maybe...

2nd week

2009-04-06T08:06:00.002+08:00

Bad news! Bad news! It's already the second week of the short short holiday (for design school anyway). We have the block system which... eats away a lot of our holiday time and so... we only have 3 weeks of holidays before the new semester starts. And it's already the second week! Oh my god! I'm not particularly glad that I'm going back to school. I'd rather be bored at home than be busy in school. But, the truth is that the break will eventually end and I WILL have to go back to school regardless...

I have no idea why, but I was REALLY tired yesterday night, probably because 2 of my sisters are using the laptop and I don't have any modes of entertaining myself. So, I went to sleep at around 8+pm. Strangely enough, I wake up not feeling any much 'refreshed' as when I sleep at 10+pm (which is my usual bedtime), and honestly, I feel a little... 'still in sleep mode'-ish right now.

2009-04-05T10:54:00.002+08:00

My family went to pay our respects to my grandfather at the cemetery yesterday, it is an annual chinese thing. My parents got back rather late so we left home at around 6++pm and by the time we had reached the cemetery, it was around 7pm (I think). When I got off my dad's lorry and stepped onto the ground of the cemetery, I felt rather dizzy - probably as I was sitting in 'goods' compartment of the lorry (along with my elder sister and my youngest sister) and... So, we 'unloaded' the stuff and got to where my Grandpa was at. Scanning the area, all I could see was... grave after grave after grave. Well, duh, since it's a cemetery.

But since there weren't any tall buildings that are blocking the view, you could see a very large portion of the sky. I think that I had spent awhile staring into the sky before actually helping out with the things that needed to be done. My dad arranged all the things in front of my grandpa's tombstone, things like food - chicken, duck, pork and stuff. Then we offered joss sticks, folded joss paper, offered more joss sticks, folded more joss paper and finally, one last offering of joss sticks before we burn all the joss paper we had folded. I believe that was around 8.30pm or so. The area has gotten dark since there weren't any streetlamps around, and the only thing illuminating the area were the flames and the light reflecting off the moon. After that, we packed and left for home.

When I got home I was very very sleepy. So, after eating dinner and brushing my teeth and stuff. I fell asleep almost immediately upon reaching my bed.

Like a moth to a flame

2009-03-28T21:52:00.002+08:00

There's the Earth hour 'event' today so we had our lights switched off at 8.30pm today. It lasts for an hour so we had to think of an idea to somehow light the house up without switching on the lights. And so, I used candles-Left-overs from our previous birthday celebrations, these candles really lit the house up. Though I had only lighted up to 4 at a time, it was rather bright (since the TV was on the whole time) but I had fun, and I believed that my family members had fun too.

When I was checking on one of the candles in the living room, my younger sister who was sitting there watching television was making a fuss about a bug flying about around the candle, it was a -you guessed it- a moth. Well, I saw the moth (a rather tiny one) fly straight into the flame and 'crash landed' onto the 'ferrero rocher' cover I was using for the base support of the candle. Apparently, the moth had burnt itself to death. It was a suicide mission with 100% fatality. Well, it was my first time watching a moth burn itself to death so... it was rather amusing. But... sad moth is sad, may you rest in peace.

2009-01-28T08:11:00.002+08:00

It's chinese new year... I am supposed to be happy to receive Ang Pows and stuff but this year isn't exactly a good year for those born in the year of the ram and I can see evidences of it already.

Yesterday, my dad brought the whole family to visit the relatives and when we got to my Aunt's (father's second eldest sister) house, almost the whole family (my father's side) was there, what a coincidence. Of course we greeted everyone and while we are about to take a seat, my uncle (father's brother) started his... ranting. He 'replied' to my aunt's words of "that's grandma, do you remember her?" using "of course they do not, it's been a year over since they visited her. And to think she looked after them since young." something like that.

Though it's true we didn't visit grandma last year for Chinese new year but still, my dad sometimes bring grandma to our home. It's not like we haven't seen her for a year... OK, so we let that slip. Now the house is silent and filled with an air of 'murderous spite' and awkward-ness. BUT! It didn't just end there, he repeated his words again in Teochew (I understood a little Teochew and I know he was ranting again) but then my dad couldn't take it anymore and rebutted, telling him that my dad does bring 'mother' (grandma- duh) to our house once in awhile. Then my uncle finally shuts up after saying "if only that were the case". After that, the whole house was silent again, only after he left then we we able to relax a little.

It's like a nightmare turned real, you expected a rather joyous atmosphere during chinese new year and you get crap like that. Well, my uncle has always been like that- a little petty and stubborn, the expression on his face never changes- it's as though he is never happy. Maybe he's in a bad mood because of the recession (he lost his job some few months back). I wonder how it feels like to have a father like him, I pity my cousins a little. Well, after hearing his words I did feel a little uneasy, afterall it is true that we didn't go visit grandma last year (grandma is staying with him) but only because we don't really like him, or rather, my siblings and I are afraid of him.

Well, we did manage to loosen up abit after the incident yesterday by visiting another aunt's house (my father's eldest sister). My aunt, this aunt, isn't on good terms with my uncle. they had an argument several years ago and now they don't speak to each other. We went to my aunt's house and somehow the adult's conversation went to my uncle. They were like... talking bad behind his back about stuff he did before. There were MANY cases and so, knowing we are allies made me feel a little better.

Finally, when we are back home and at around 10pm, my aunt (father's eldest sister) came to visit. Along with my cousin, whom I have never seen for years. He still has several piercing on his face but it's alot less compared to last time. This cousin of mine used to be.. bad. He had beaten up a classmate and had been on probation by the police before. But he's changed for the better. He told my sister and I things about the 'outside' world and some things about his past. Our chat was rather enlightening, and it was fun. It reminded us of the times we uused to play catching outside my grandma's house when we were young. He is the same age as my sister, a year older than me. Well before he left, of course we complained about my uncle to him and he shares the same thoughts, saying his siblings (4 of them) all don't like him. He left at around 11pm, leaving behind his 'wisdom' and knowing that we had several allies made me feel glad.

2009-01-01T11:19:00.002+08:00

It's the 1st of January and officially 2009! Woo~

There's the countdown thing on TV yesterday but I started watching only at 11pm after the documentary on Okto ended and I stopped watching at around 11.40pm. The countdown thing wasn't really that nice, maybe because it's on TV and the LIVE thing may be nice (I won't know) but yeah, I didn't really felt a need to watch it.

School starts next Monday for me, and after several weeks of break... I seriously don't feel like going to school. Oh well, at least this time it's 2D Art Fundamentals and there'll probably be drawing. Any lesson involving drawing won't be THAt bad... I think.

2008-12-22T07:18:00.002+08:00

Even though the day has barely started, I have already gotten my share of bad luck. In the morning when I have just woken up and had just opened the room door, I heard some (freakish) cries of a bird. I looked at the window and saw a bird (mynah)standing on the window grills and right beneath it's feet was my towel that had been hung up overnight to let it dry. Since my elder sister had already woken up (I think she has school later on) I wanted to call her over to see. But when we had reached the scene (of the crime) the bird had already left. But that stupid bird had made it's presence known, it left poo all over the place. < (Ok, that was a little exaggerated but moving on...) What's worse, as some of you might have quessed, there was poo on my towel!Darn you bird! I'm going to spiral you to death! (if I ever find you)

So, let this be a lesson for all. Do not place any towels that may look like a potential toilet for birds on the window grills.

2008-12-16T07:27:00.003+08:00

... Long time no blog again. Been busy with final assignments until yesterday and from today onwards, it's officially the holidays! I guess I'll be gaming most of my time away for the holidays- I don't actually have any plans and so far that's my only 'plan' for the holidays.

I've just checked my TP mail and saw something about choosing CDS and electives for block 8. I don't even remember there's a need to do anything like that so it's kind of surprising to receive that mail.

As you all know, I'm back to Trickster. I've been playing with my sisters lately (until my youngest sister got bored) and so currently I'm only playing with my younger sister. But it's a pain to wait for her to wake up (since I wake up everyday at around 6+am to 7am and she wakes up at around 10am to 11am). Her record for late-waking-up is 4pm... and that is why I always ask her whether she wants me to wake her up the next morning.

OK, I'll be going to Trickster now. Oh yes, Happy Holidays everyone. =3

2008-12-05T15:33:00.003+08:00

OK, long time no blog again and here I am. As I've posted last time, I don't have a lot of free time at home, I leave the house at 7.30am and reach home at around 7pm. My 'bedtime' is around 10-11pm so I really don't have much time. So... why do I have time today? Good question, because I don't have AniFun later in the afternoon, another reason is that I feel bad for leaving my blog dead like this and that's why I'm here.

I've got a new display picture up as some of you may have noticed, and as usual it was done by yours truely. It's something I drew using a Wacom tablet available in the 2D animation lab. Yeah, it is rather messy. The tablet is fun to play around with but it has got a different feel to a pen or pencil on paper, it's abit too 'smooth' and sometimes strokes using the Wacom pen on the tablet is hard to control. Well, I do feel that it is easier to put in highlights and shades using the paintbrush in photoshop though. It seriously is a pity that my CS4 is a trial and it has only 16 days left.

Oh yes, I'm currently back in Trickster. It's been awhile since I've last played and loads of things hhave changed, so it does have a rather 'new' feel to it. OK going off to play Trickster Online. =3

2008-11-28T07:44:00.002+08:00

Last night, I had a rather long chat with Greg on Msn, long time no chat. It started off with me asking for online games to play and it appears that Greg hadn't had any to play so didn't get any recommendations. Eventually, the topic shifts to cosplaying. Apparently, Greg seems interested in cosplaying and would like do try it the next year. To be honest, I too have thought of cosplaying but I've not exactly thought of experiencing it for myself. I've seen several cosplays (though all of them are on the net), and almost all of them are like... Bleh. I've roughly made some statstics which is probably: 1% of cosplays are good, 9% are OK, the rest are crap. I may be wrong, since I've never really seen them 'in the flesh'. Maybe most of the cosplay pictures uploaded on the net are crap, who knows? And also, my statistics are roughly based on cosplays, which means, not including the crossplays. Then came the topic of crossplaying (in between were several deviations from the actual topic, like how I'd spiral some people to death etc. Oh yeah, this topic IS a deviation from the actual topic on games, haha...) I was told to try crossplaying (I was thinking about that at that very same time) and well, who knows? I may actually look good crossplaying. xD And yeah, soon it was my 'bedtime' and I had to log off.

The weather looks great today so I'd probably be off to the pool later at around 10+/11+ am.

2008-11-27T19:55:00.002+08:00

It's been like 4 days since I last blogged. I've been busy the past few days (as usual). Specially since this block wastes like 3 hours of my life everyday in school (6 hours in class= not really wasted). And since I leave home at around 7.30am and would come back at around 6.30pm, I don't really have much time to use the laptop or the computer, I don't even have time to watch anime on the weekdays, it's been like 2 weeks since I watched any anime at all. Luckily for me, there's only 2 weeks left in this block. There won't be any lesson tomorrow and I'm planning to go to the pool again.

I tried playing Trickster Online again just now, it was fun... for awhile that is. Then I got bored and uninstalled it. I feel like playing an MMORPG again, it's been awhile since I had decent one to play, but I've been spending so much time in school I doubt I'd be able to play much even if I did find one. I also want to get a new drawing up but I don't have any idea what to draw nor I have the time to draw. Yeah sure I can draw on the weekends, but after spending so much time in school everyday (longer than usual anyway), even I am starting to feel tired and would like to rest during the weekends. I'll see how thing goes...

2008-11-23T09:02:00.002+08:00

Tada! New image up! As usual, it was drawn by me and I used adobe flash to do vector the image and coloured it, and after exporting it into JPEG, this is what I get. I know, the shading is... lousy. I still haven't grasped the true 'way' of shading naturally so...

Speaking of Adobe Flash, I downloaded the CS4 version and well... it's a trial version so it'll expire after 28 days. It's a pity though, I want to use the program for other things. Furthermore, it'll be freaking expensive to buy. Sigh*

It's Sunday already and so... tomorrow's another 9am to 6pm 'session' in school. I haven't really completed the things needed for Colour & Light so I'd have to complete them by today. There's also a Journal thing that I need to do so it's a real pain. I didn't go swimming yesterday because my younger sister didn't feel like going. Not that it matters anyway since I've already gone on Friday when my youngest sister suddenly felt like going for a swim. Next Friday's going to be free again so maybe I'll go for a swim again this week.

2008-11-20T18:04:00.002+08:00

I've been told that my posts are 'emo' (KAYA)and well... I don't really think that so. Maybe they are a little whiny but... I don't know how to change it less 'emo' so... can't be helped eh?

Just received my first assignment for AniFun and I have no idea how to complete it. Adobe Flash is needed and so, I'm downloading the trail version. We weren't taught much during AniFun and that's why I'm having some trouble. As for Colour and Light, planning for assignment 1 is currently underway and we have to build a model of something that shows form, shadow, etc (Example: buildings and statues). It sounds interesting but it'll be a pain to do.

My youngest sister got her PSLE results back- 209. A somewhat decent aggregate but with that score she won't be able to get into East Spring (like me and my 2 other sisters). Though she said she didn't want to go to East Spring, even if she wanted to go, she won't be able to enter express(212 for express). When she got her results back and I SMS-ed my eldest sister the score, her reply was a 'WOW!'. I had a similar feeling too (frankly speaking) when I saw the result. While I was waiting for my youngest sister outside her school (ChongZheng Primary School- All my siblings went to the same primary school, I too went to CZ) I was worried if she'd come out crying. xD I had thought that she'll get at most 190 but she got over 200! I'm pleasantly surprised.

I'm also planning to use Adobe Flash to do a vector image of one of my drawings and (if possible) save it as JPEG and set as my background picture. I'll try to get a picture done soon so... Look forward to my next 'project'!

2008-11-17T19:43:00.003+08:00

It's the start of the new block! This block, I've got Colour & Light from 9am to 12noon and then from 3pm to 6pm, there's Animation Fundamentals. Colour & Light is an elective and many of the people in there are those in the same class as me during the first semester. Well, the lecturer isn't exactly... 'good' if I have to describe him. Not that it's for certain (since I wouldn't be able to see that just from the first lesson) but during the first lesson, he appeared to be 'not that good'. He was reading from the powerpoint slides and sometimes he even asked us to read it ourselves. As for AniFun, it's rather strict. It's the only subject so far that has rules like 'no slippers, no shorts, no short sleeves, etc'. Well, not that it bothers me since I always wear jeans and long sleeve shirt. Well, it's about time that I've gotten to the basics on Animation (I want to do animation in the future) so I'm rather looking forward to the lesson.

I've heard from people that Video Fundamentals isn't as tough as it sounds (video= horrible <- my interpretation), the final assignment is a group work so the load of the work would be spread out. But since VidFun this block is at the end of the block, it clashes with MOI project 1 so... it'll be rather difficult to juggle the 2.

For the next 3 weeks, my schedule would be 9am to 6pm (with 3 hours from 12noon to 3pm 'free'), so I'd have to find ways to entertain myself for the 3 hours. As for today, I went to the library and spent 2 hours browsing through books (just by mere browsing) and I borrowed 3 books relating to 'drawing manga/anime'. I hope it'll help me improve my drawings.

2008-11-13T09:08:00.002+08:00

I've been thinking of what to draw for my new background but I've got no idea at all. Well, I thought of drawing a christmas one like the last time but christmas would not be here till next month so... is it abit too early? Hmm...

Many people would probably think that since it's such a pain thinking and drawing new stuff, might as well not do it. That's true but I like drawing, I want to draw, I want to improve. So... by drawing frequently, I 'polish' my skills. So... yeah. I think of what to draw and hope to get it up soon.

2008-11-13T08:50:00.002+08:00

Tuesday was the last day for this block and so I'll be at home for the rest of the week. Maybe I'll be out on Saturday, I'll just have to see whether the weather is fine that day- since it's been raining for the past few days.

Recently, I've been playing my Psp (Yu-gi-oh tagforce 1). It's surprisingly addictive, even though I know that the actual card game is fun. I just didn't expect the game version of Yu-gi-oh to be that... fun. Well, games are like that whenever you first started playing them, I know that I'll eventually get bored of the game but I hope it's not soon, since I'll have to find another game to entertain myself with.

The 'charred' skin on my shoulders are starting to flake. Now, there are lighter patches of skin amongst the brownish dry skin, it's like skin from some kind of shedding mutant. Ok, maybe that's abit of a exaggeration but whatever... I just hope the 'shedding' will be done by Saturday, then I can fry another new batch of skin under the sun. xD

2008-11-12T08:40:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was a bad day. The skit that I had mentioned in the previous few posts, well... it didn't go well. Not at all. My group members had forgotten most of their lines, I'm not sure how well I did but I'm very positive that I got all my lines correct. It was hell, shameful. I just hope that the lecturer did get the few 'correct' phrases of Japanese out of that freakish skit. I had to take some of the blame as I didn't urge my group members to have more rehearsals. I should've known that the lack of rehearsals will come back to haunt my group.

Well, what happened in the skit was hell, but before that, we got back our listening test for Japanese. I've scored a 40/40 (20% of overall Japanese grade)! The only one in the class I might add, yeah sure sounds like I'm bragging but let me, my skit (30%) had crashed and burned. I had wanted to try and get all A's for all my subjects this block but I guess that won't be happening now.

2008-11-11T09:05:00.002+08:00

Today's the last day of this block and the official date for the skit. As I had predicted (pretty accurately), the group that I am in, we are going to have our first (and last) actual rehearsals today! We're going to meet in school at 12 but, there's the problem of location. Classrooms are probably being used for classes and I doubt we'll be able to get any available rooms to practice our skit in. We're going to rehearse from 12 to 3pm and... my class starts at 6pm so I'm going to have to find ways to entertain myself for 3 hours. My PSP would probably do but still...

Yesterday was pretty horrible, I had to go to school carrying my bag in my arms as I wasn''t able to 'carry' them on my back as my sunburnt skin hasn't healed yet. Clothes are real irritating as well since they create friction with your skin. Just so you know, I've been going topless at home since Saturday and well, I can't be going topless outside so I'd have to bear with the 'pain' clothes are giving me.

Speaking of clothes, I have to wear something nice for the skit since I'd be playing the role of a 'Japanese popstar', but knowing me, I don't really have fasion sense- I just wear what makes me feel comfortable (most of the time). Suddenly asking for me to 'wear something fit for a popstar' I doubt I have clothes like that in my closet. Gah whatever. I'd just have to wear what I think is fit for a star and... I'll just see what happens after that.

2008-11-09T07:32:00.003+08:00

Gone to the pool yesterday! It's been a long time since I last went to a pool, how long was it? Uh... 3 to 2 years? (Not counting water theme parks) It was a great experience to be back in the pool again, and me being stupid had thought that I didn't need sunscreen and well... I got burnt. I was red, well I still am but not as bad a yesterday. I was red from chest up including my hands, though my hands now are back to a more 'natural' brown colour, my shoulders are still stinging. That goes to show, please put on sunscreen if you want to swim during noon (entered the pool at around 11.40+am and left at 2.10pm). It's the first time being sunburnt (for me) and I can't say I enjoyed it.

Group skit presentation is on Tuesday and there's a test on Monday. But, my group hasn't had any rehearsals and I doubt we'd have any until Monday. It's really... Worrysome.

2008-11-05T11:02:00.002+08:00

Today's the due date for the role-play script (Japanese assignment 2) and for the group that I'm in, we split the script into several scenes and each of us focused on their part of the script. We're to compile them later on by 2pm, but there were some problems. I'm not sure if the others noticed it but since some scenes requires one character to leave (the scene I was assigned to), I need to link it to the previous scene when all the characters are there. But since I have no access to the other scenes of the script, I'm unable to do that. I've been assigned to the last 2 scenes of the story and I have to end the story... 'Lucky' me...

That said, my group is rather efficient. We started discussing on Monday, did the work on Tuesday and compile it on Wednesday. It's very efficient yes? I'm lucky to be put in an efficient group like this, furthermore, the lecturer did like our script idea (I gave almost no comments during discussion for the story). Yeah, so I'd have to do my best in the tasks I'm assigned to.

2008-11-04T08:38:00.002+08:00

My group had finally started on discussions for the Japanese assignment 2! Hurray~! Today's the final day to confirm EVERYTHING in the script and since more marks would be awarded to groups that have 'Japanese Culture' in the script, we have to do research on what things to put in the script. There are things like shopping, eating and the places in Japan. I'm in charge of research on food and I have no idea where to start. Even though I have several results, I just don't know which of them are so called 'good' and suitable (I've never even eaten a decent japanese meal before)

I'll try to manage somehow, today IS the last day available afterall...

2008-11-02T07:31:00.002+08:00

Yesterday, I had actually planned to go to the swimming complex but when it suddenly started raining in the morning, I had a bad feeling about it. But, soon enough the sky cleared and when it was afternoon the sky was perfectly clear. But, my sister suddenly did not feel like going to the pool anymore, and thus... I didn't go. -.-

I had a haircut yesterday, getting rid of my rather long hair once again. This time, I was the one who wanted my hair to be cut like that. Sure... long hair is 'cool' and stuff but it's real irritating as well. When wind blows, the 'curtains' keeps getting into your eyes and sometimes they get into your ears. So, now my hair is cut short.

We've been told to start on the Japanese assignment 2 which is role-play, it's a group project and well... my group hasn't started any discussion yet. I had hoped to be placed in a group with more females as well... females are (normally) more 'kiasu' and would want to finish their work ASAP but... I guess that really isn't the case for my group. My group (I'm not the leader by the way, there just isn't any way to say it) consists of 3 females and me being the only male. Well, we're to submit the script for the role-play by Wednesday, which means that we have 3 days to go (that including today) but I hadn't gotten any word from my groupmates and I'm abit worried.

I really hope things go well...

2008-10-31T08:59:00.002+08:00

Recently I've been into horror anime and now I'm still on the hunt for more. Well, most horror anime would (I presume) contain gore and stuff which isn't exactly my favourite but as long as they don't show heads being ripped off, half mutilated bodies flying about, then I'm happy. Which brings me to a rather bad experience with an M18 anime of violence and gore- the first of those that I've watched. It was a horrible experience... furthermore, I had to prevent my younger sisters from watching because... well, they are underaged (so was I at that time).

Now, I've still come across some anime that are like that but I do not flinch everytime I see the flying body parts, partly due to me being more 'used to' seeing things like that in the anime and secondly... the other anime were nothing compared to the first M18 anime I've watched. Scary~

2008-10-30T09:35:00.002+08:00

Alright, today's the presentation for our topic on Japanese culture. I've gotten most of my items together, but I'm still wondering whether to add any new pictures to help my presentation. *Sigh* Powerpoint sucks but not using Powerpoint like usual feels rather awkward. There's also a need to wear formal for the presentation later on, what to do...

There was a quiz yesterday for Japanese lesson, our group nearly won though... When our lecturer Shigeta-san was showing pictures on the question for Anime, she was standing closer to Newell's group so Newell was able to see both Anime pictures correct (Though their group didn't win in the end, but 1 more point was all we need to win). Darn... Not that I'm complaining about it (I am aren't I?), but the prize is a CD that teaches Japanese characters. Now that I think about it, I'd probably not have the time to learn all that anyway so... Whatever. >.>

My topic for the presentation is Judo as you all know. After watching several videos on youtube and doing the research on Judo, I feel like going to take courses on Judo. Well, I know of 2 Judo academies in Singapore... but they are like far~ One is at Balestier (Toa Payoh!) another is in Bukit Timah! Well, I don't know... sounds like a pain... And it's probably just a sudden urge to learn due to all the research thing. The heck with it, I'll see what I'll do about it.

2008-10-27T13:37:00.003+08:00

Since it's Deepavali today, there will not be any school today.

Friday's student comm. is sort of like a 'motivational talk' kind of thing. Most of the talk consists of GPA scores from all the levels and some sort of 'confession'. For example: "I was born with talents, gifts and abilities." (We were required to say things like that... it's rather Adam Khoo-like though we weren't required to pay for the session.)

I'm currently doing research for my Japanese assignment but... I have no idea how to start. It's a presentation thing which deadline is on Thursday, but no powerpoint presentation is allowed. So, we're to give everything in hardcopy (it's going to drain my ink). The presentation iis about 3-4 minutes long, any longer or shorter will mean marks penalised. My topic is Judo by the way.

School will resume tomorrow but I'm still in a rather 'holiday-like' mood...

2008-10-23T15:58:00.005+08:00

I didn't fall asleep during class yesterday! Hurray for me! But I was freakin' tired especially after noon. Yesterday's Japanese lesson was mere introduction so not much was taught yesterday. We were taught some Japanese stuff (numbers, greetings, etc), but those things I already know so... it acts sort of like a 'recap' of sorts. We were also required to get come book by today (Thursday 23 October) from the school bookshop for today's lesson, but apparently class starts at 6pm so I can't possibly be going to school earlier by 'god-knows-how-many' hours to get the book and spend another 'I-don't-know-how-many' hours in school doing nothing. So, I asked my elder sister to get the book for me. BUT! Due to some communication error along the way, I didn't get the book so I guess I'd have to go to class empty handed. Maybe I'll share the book with somebody in the class...

Oh yes, East Spring's cut-off point for express is now at 212 points. It's absolutely amazing how the points get higher and higher each year (even though I don't remember what the number is for our batch, I bet it's higher). It'll be pretty tough for my youngest sister to get into East Spring, and it'll probably be a pain to look up for other schools that are nearby... *Sigh* I wish her luck (though it's futile now that her PSLE is long over).

There's Student Comm session tomorrow at 3pm, so I'd have to go to school earlier. But I guess I'd have to go there even earlier to get the Japanese book from the bookshop. I've been having this irritating hearache for the past few days now and my body's real sore. I think I'm about to fall ill. How stupid, fancy falling ill just when the school term starts. But even if I fall sick, I still have to attend lessons... Man, what a pain...

2008-10-22T07:52:00.002+08:00

There will be Japanese lesson later on in the evening. *Sigh* That makes me want to skip school.

I spent a few hours yesterday night drifting between 'sleep-mode' and 'awake-mode', but eventually I did fall asleep. Now I'm not sure how I feel, I'm, not exactly tired (in fact I feel more awake than I was yesterday). That may change however as time goes by, I just hope I don't fall asleep in the middle of class.

2008-10-20T19:06:00.003+08:00

I reached school at around 5pm (my Japanese lesson starts at 6) and I headed straight to the classroom, only to find "CDS Jap Students, there will not by lessons on 20th October Monday and 21st October Tuesday. Lessons will start on 22nd October Wednesday" pasted on the door. Feeling rather pissed, I went to the sixth floor to collect my DrawEss assignments. After that I went back to double check the stuff written on the paper pasted infront of the door and went back home.

I've checked my E-mail but there weren't any E-mails informing us of the changes. Because of that I've wasted a total of an hour plus back and forth from the school. Darn...

2008-10-20T08:12:00.003+08:00

It's been awhile since I last blogged. I've closed my blog for a period during the holidays as I was lazy to update, and now I'm back! I feel that I need a way to vent my frustrations and I figured blogging is one way to do it, though it's probably not the best way to do it.

It's the start of the new block. The new block starts off with week 27 and ends at week 49. For the next four weeks, I'm going to have Japanese lessons from 6pm to 9pm! OH MY GOD! 9PM! Even though it's just 3 hours of lesson every day, but that arrangement sucks, going to school at 6pm and leaving at 9pm, only to reach home at around 10+ pm to 11pm.

*Sigh* Whatever, I could go to ADD/DROP to change that but it'll be a pain so I guess I'll stick to this timetable. (I think).

2008-09-19T07:43:00.003+08:00

I wonder where I heard it from... that the final assignment is 'video'. Well, it's not exactly wrong, but it's not exactly right either. Yesterday was the last lesson for DMFun, and the day we hand in our homework. The final assignment was more of a VIDEO-EDITING assignment (or adding of videos together and finally adding music), the final assignment was fun and not troublesome like I thought it'd be. Man, I've seriously wasted a lot of time worrying about the assignment.

I've presented my video in front of the class, and I must say that I'm happy. I thought that my piece was one of the better ones, frankly speaking. After all the presentations are complete, some of us went to ask for the lecturer's personal opinion of our work. He said that mine was good, music ('Karma' by Bump of Chicken) and timing of the videos were well done. But my fonts used in the video was too 'fun', as some of my words used were 'Glory', 'Passion', etc. So, they were not very suitable. All the rest were fine. Oh, I think I hadn't said anything about this, the 'theme' is on the 2010 Youth Olympic games using the words 'Youth Spirit'.

It's finally the holidays for me! Yay! I'm going to isolate myself from the world and dive into the world of games and fantasy... NOT! =P

2008-09-14T20:17:00.002+08:00

I've not been blogging much recently probably due to my laziness. I've been 'busy' with games from the 'Tales of' series, and of course anime.
Next week's the last week of this semester and the last week for DMFun which would mean a final assignment coming up. Darn it, I seriously hope the assignment would not be that troublesome, I just want to get this week over and done with.

2008-09-07T17:43:00.003+08:00

Long time no blog again and it's September already. The past few weeks of DMFun has been 'ok', not much work, not much 'pressure'. But the thoughts of the final for DMFun makes me feel 'uncomfortable', knowing that it's a video project I wonder what we'd have to do on. I'd need to get video-cams when the time comes, sounds like a lot of trouble.

I've been getting into "Tales of" series games again, and I'm getting signs of addicition. I just want more games to play, and now I have an urge to buy an XBOX360 just for the game. I have the money, but I'd rather not spend it like that. Now I just hope that my mum would strike lottery or something, so that I would not have to feel bad for spending money.

2008-08-30T08:06:00.004+08:00

Yesterday went back to East Spring but I had only managed to meet Mdm Noreha. I reached there at around 12.20+ and by that time, a lot of people in my class were already present in the foyer. Some of them hadn't changed much (well most of them), some of them had changed- they look more mature, girls prettier and guys more macho. I had also gotten my testimonial and the school year book from the General Office. After that we went to talk cock like last time, by 2+ KL and I had to leave for class so we did.

Class yesterday was rather empty, 5 people were absent. We had to do some MTV thingy and we got a homework that is due by Tuesday but I had completed it before leaving for the class reunion dinner, so I won't need to go to school on Monday! And speaking of that, my sisters are now on school holiday. AH!!! NOT FAIR~~~~~

OK, class dinner. Seoul Garden. THIRTY DOLLARS!!! EAT ALOT!! That's what we had planned anyway but I doubt I ate a $30 worth meal there, but it was nice. (First time being in Seoul garden) While eating, we chat (talk cock again). Man, how I miss those cock-talking days. Then after the meal we went to celebrate Mike's birthday, everyone forgot about it actually =3. Later at around 9+ pm, we went to the arcade. I met some of the MOI people at TM, small world huh? I just watched some people play, because I have never really played these kinds of arcade games before (pitiful huh?). I got to play air hockey for the first time (haha) and I suck at it. I left the place at around 9.50pm.

Overall, yesterday was fun, I was glad I tagged along. I hope that we're able to have more of this cock-talking sessions, it was darn good time. xD

2008-08-28T09:21:00.002+08:00

It's been awhile since I've been here, for the past few days I've been 'busy' watching anime. Now, lessons are back to 3 to 6pm and this time it's DMFun- Digital Media Fundamentals. For the past 2 days we've been doing photoshop. The day before, Tuesday, it appears that I didn't bring my brain to school and I've been struggling to catch up with the things that were being taught for photoshop. Yesterday was OK, since it was a group project. The first lesson of DMFun, Monday, we've received our first small excercise of giving meaning for 6 words and then going online to find the real meaning to them. I can't really remember what some of the words are so...

Yesterday, my voice has gone all weird due to a sore throat and I keep going 'out of tune' when I speak; truely horrible. There's a 4e1 gathering on Friday so it seems, I'd like to join the class for the whole day but I have lessons that day. I feel like skipping lessons but my marks are in assignments and excercises, so if I skip, I may skip an excercise or an assignment and that'll cause my marks to be penalised. I'd think of something by today.

2008-08-21T07:22:00.002+08:00

I was working on the story for CreatSt final assignment for most of the time yesterday and I finally managed to complete the whole story! I have written at least 2 1/2 pages worth of the story yesterday (of the total 6 page story). After I am done with my work, I did a word count on Microsoft Word and got 4k+ of words. That's the longest story I've ever written.
I think I'm falling sick. Yesterday when I got to bed, I had this bad headache and when I woke up this morning, the headache was still there. Currently I'm having a slight fever and I'd have to go to school later on to hand in my homework, tch... I had actually wanted to go buy some stuff after handing my homework to the general office but I guess that will not be possible. I've also realised, the envelope I bought was too small to fit all my work. What to do?

2008-08-16T16:01:00.002+08:00

I have been rather busy the past 2 or 3 days (busier than usual anyway). There's the script for the skit to be done and the CreatSt final assignment which I am probably 1/5 done. The script is going rather well, though there have been different opinions and preferences but it should be done by tomorrow if all goes well. I can't say the same for the final assignment however, which I am having problems with. I've been trying to get ideas on what and how to get my story down but... the ideas just aren't coming. That was specially the case yesterday, and I was fidgety and unable to sit straight when I'm thinking of ideas. I had wished for my story to be completed by today but I'm not confident that I'll be able to do that.

2008-08-14T15:04:00.003+08:00

There is no school again tomorrow! Hurray! The CreatSt lecturer has got a meeting to attend to so we're free tomorrow (kind of). We've got many things to do so we have to use our time wisely. We have a personal Biography to do, the script for the skit and finally the final assignment for CreatSt.
I'm going to be busy for the next few days but I think that I'll be able to manage, somehow...

2008-08-13T15:56:00.003+08:00

It was my birthday yesterday! So, now I'm officially 17 years old! I've had my birthday celebration on Sunday so even though it was my birthday yesterday, it's like any ordinary day. There wasn't any lesson for CreatSt yesterday as well but we were noticed only last minute so after finishing a survey in school, I went to Tampines Mall. I had planned to buy a psp game (since I don't have any left to play) but I didn't want to waste my money so I didn't. So... throughtout my 'trip' to TM, I'd only bought a slice of cheesecake.
We were informed of an exercise we had to hand in by next Tuesday during our lesson in CreatSt today. It's a group exercise and we have to do a skit that is at least 5 minutes long involving 'humour'. But during group discussions, the group members are not really enthusiastic so we had to leave to do the work at home, then compile them at a later time.
There are loads of things to do so I'd just end here.

2008-08-10T09:36:00.002+08:00

It was National Day yesterday, I'd watched abit of the celebration on TV but then I got bored and went back to watch anime. I've been doing several re-visits to anime that I've watched before as I'm running out of new anime to watch. Also, my birthday is on Tuesday but we'd probably be celebrating today since most of the people in my family would probably be busy on Tuesday.
For school, we've handed in the assignment 1 on Friday. Next up is assignment 2 which is the completion of the story in hardcopy. It's a headache to choose which story idea to build on since I like them all.
No point worrying about that now, I'd just to take things as they come.

2008-08-06T17:19:00.002+08:00

The second day of 'comment-giving' day, but we still could not complete giving comments for everyone of our group's story as some people still hasn't gotten their stories ready yet. Mine are all done, and I've been through the consultation with the lecturer and my stories are accepted, all 3 of them. The lecturer would also want us to do a documentary and we're to write a paragraph on it. Documentaries aren't exactly my thing, but it's a must so...
CreatSt has been my favourite lesson since I've entered TP, so far, it's a rather slacked type of lesson and the only work is to find a story per day and journal writing. Like I've said before, I like thinking about stories so CreatSt really helps me to put my brain to work.

2008-08-04T17:11:00.002+08:00

No CreatSt today! I've spent the whole time (from morning till now) using tha laptop, mostly anime watching and surfing the net. I've also come up with 3 stories needed for the next 2 assignments of CreatSt, we're supposed to fill up Character Development Worksheets (not those moral education stuff but literally Character development) but I'm not sure whether to fill them up. We're to fill up 2 'CD' worksheets per story- one for the antagonist another for the protagonist. I'm not sure whether I'd come up with better stories in the near future so...
Ah well, I'd probably fill some of them up later on; don't want to push everything to the last few days now would I?

2008-07-31T16:40:00.002+08:00

Despite all my whining yesterday, I realised that the theme is not set in stone. By 'TOGOE', the lecturer actually meant that the protagonist eventually manages to 'defeat' the antagonist. Furthermore, the antagonist does not have to be human. Using examples given in class, the antagonist could be- an emotion, an organization, a situation, etc (Which sort of 'fades' up the 'limiter') But, I would guess it still has to be a 'happy end', so... there's still a 'limiter'.
In all, I'm rather glad the problem has cleared but I'd rather there be not any 'limiter' at all and we're allowed to put in 'bad end's. But! Like people say, beggars can't be choosers so... I'd have to settle at that.

2008-07-30T19:29:00.004+08:00

No CreatSt today! The Lecturer got a sudden MC and noticed us yesterday via TP mail. I spent the whole day infront of the laptop, watching anime. Which reminds me... we were asked to watch more TV so that we can get more 'inspiration' and we'd know what's 'out there' (so that we don't copy else's idea). For CreatSt... we're supposed to come up with three story ideas and hand the ideas in by 8 August (Olympics).
We're supposed to have:
1. Sypnopsis of each story idea.
2. Make-up of story's main char.
3. Goal(s) of char., what motivates it/him/her.
4. Objective of storyteller.
Then by 21st August, we must have 1 story from the 3 choices redesigned to fit 'triumph of good over evil'(TOGOE). So far, I only have 1 story idea, but it's not 'TOGOE' material... I mean... shows nowadays rarely have that, right?Since, 'TOGOE' doesn't necessarily apply to real-life. >.> (I may be wrong, but that's how I feel) And... the only 'TOGOE' I can think of are those cliche and 'completely copied' kind of story(eg. Power Rangers). The stories have to be TV-worthy as well, since we're writing for the masses, not for O-Levels composition writing. I like writing stories, that's why I want to do well for this subject. *sigh* But I know... it won't be an easy feat.

2008-07-28T07:41:00.002+08:00

Today's the start of a new block and I hope that the lesson would not be as tough (or even tougher) than the last few we had, namely FunDigPho.
Speaking of tough, it reminds me of DrawEss. Why's that? I think I've mentioned before, but my class has quite a number of 'talents'. They're drawing skills are very very good, it's almost depressing to look at their work pieces. Specially one person whose skills are 'godly', maybe at a professional level. With such people in the class, nobody would have the drive to do well because they know they'll never be first. Though it's possible some people aim to be like the 'talented' and work hard towards the top.
I know that there'll be genius storytellers as well. *sigh* It's as if we're at a different starting point...

2008-07-26T09:47:00.002+08:00

God! I've been spending the past 1 1/2 hours or so trying to undo a windows update. I'm not sure whether it's the update problem or not but... straight after the update on the laptop, the Internet Explorer stopped responding and I am unable to connect to the Internet (even though Msn still works). So, I've been trying many ways to find our what the problem is and solving it. After a loooonnnng time 'exploring', I found something like a 'roll-back' and managed to reset the Laptop's version to before the update and solve all the problems. >.>
I'm seriously wondering whether it's the update or not... but I'm rather convinced. Ah well, goes to show not all updates are reliable, specially when you're not a genius at things concerning the computer.
Well I'm just glad to get my Internet Explorer back, if not... my sisters would probably put the blame on me. ^ ^;;

2008-07-26T07:33:00.003+08:00

Exactly why do we dream the stuff we dream? I've heard that dreams are like recollections of things that happened before, though some dreams are very similar to the things that actually happened before but... there are those that aren't. I had a dream the previous night, about rabbits.
(In the dream) While going to my Grandma's house for a visit, there were lots of rabbits on the ground floor and they were huge. Probably up to my knees when they're at ease, then the biggest rabbit of all was at the lift lobby, probably a head taller than me (at ease). Then (mother) rabbit suddenly became aggressive and chased us (my dad, my elder sister and me), then my dad got into the lift in time and went upstairs. I was locked on by the mum-rabbit. Then I ran to the road and weaved in and out of cars, when I suddenly was pinned down by the mum-rabbit, I hit 'her' in the head and (somehow...) managed to lift her up and throw her.
The dream does continue on, but it'll be too long-winded so I'll just end there. Odd dream... I've had similar dreams of being chased before, either by a psycho-killer or by dinosaurs. Dreams probably have meanings to them, though I doubt nobody can be certain what the actually mean, literally or not.

2008-07-25T20:31:00.003+08:00

New drawing up! Though the drawing is simple, it looked rather nice. Drawing Essentials and Fundamentals of Digital Photography officially over! Next week onwards would be CreaSt- Creative Storytelling. I've heard from several people that the lesson is slack, but I took it with a pinch of salt. Not everyone's idea of 'slack' is exact, and different lecturers would also lead to different teaching style.
Earlier today, I went to organize the all the Anime that I've watched. The overall number was pretty shocking- 150+ different anime inclusive of sequels and prequels. Compressing all sequels and preguels into 1... It'd still be at least 80. Never realised that I've watched that many anime in the past few years.
I hope that I'd still have spare time in the coming future so I can watch all the anime I want.

2008-07-18T16:35:00.003+08:00

Been busy the past few days due to FunDigPho- the photo-taking, the final project, etc. But FunDigPho's finally over! Final project done and presented today, so... not more FunDigPho! There has been many nice movies that came out, makes me feel... bad that I could've done something like them instead of choosing to do on my dad. Not that my dad's a bad subject but I just am too lazy to brainstorm and so... I chose my dad as the subject to do the project on.
Now that FunDigPho's over, I'd have to do my sketches for my DrawEss. I'm seriously lagging behind and so I plan to do at most 10 drawings per day starting from tomorrow onwards. Though I doubt I'd be able to do 10 drawings a day but I'll do my best.
I feel like getting a new background up using my 'improved' drawing skills from DrawEs, but now that the schedule's packed I doubt I'd have time to do it.

2008-07-14T17:50:00.002+08:00

Long time no blog since I've been busy the past few days, mostly rushing on FunDigPho stuff. The final for FunDigPho was bad, but most of the trouble is gone now and I'm about done with the assignment (3/4 done according to the lecturer). The assignment is due Friday, by which we will be showing our 'movie' to the whole class and we'll probably be presenting some things as well. Not forgetting that we must 'dress up' for the occasion though I don't see the point, since the presentation would probably be less than 5 minutes. I guess it's so far so good for FunDigPho, I just hope I can get all my photos up and ready.
DrawEss has be rather 'slack' if I could say so myself, ignoring the fact that I'm almost 10 drawings behind time. DrawEss is a lot nicer compared to FunDigPho though I've got a feeling that it'll be easier to score in FunDigPho than DrawEss (I have no idea why).

2008-06-30T16:57:00.002+08:00

Man... not good. Start of a new... timetable, and the first day sucked, overall. Drawing essentials like expected, was about drawing. The lesson basically teaches you how to draw properly, tones, etc. I like drawing so Drawing essentials isn't so bad, just that we have to get 40 sketches done at the end of 4 weeks. It might be rather easy on its own but combined with assignments that will be given in both DrawEss and FunDigPho, it's going to suck. FunDigPho is Fundamentals of Digital Photography and the first lesson was horrid. The lecturer was talking away non-stop, I didn't have time to 'digest', all I know was that he said we have to start on our final assignment (for FunDigPho) early and he gave examples of what students from previous batches did. I mean... who in the world tells their students about our final assignment on the first day of the lesson, it's definitely going to kill our enthusiasm for the subject (that's my own perspective anyway). FunDigPho seems like a lot of work and totally not 'Fun' at all.
I hope that drawing essentials would have less work, if not this 4 weeks is going to be hell. Worse than ComDI and 3DArFun combined.

2008-06-29T07:52:00.002+08:00

Ahh... Finally have time for a break. The previous few weeks were bad, ComDI and 3DArFun make a very bad combination. This week would be... DrawEss (Drawing Essentials) and FunDigPho which is probably Fundamental Digital Photography (The short form is seriously odd). Now, the lessons would be from 9am to 3pm, it's a morning session so... it's good I guess. I'd rather get the lessons over and done with in the morning than come in the afternoon. I've seen several Drawing Essential art pieces, I must say there are some very talented people out there. It's the same for my class, I can see those with talent through the many assignments thrown at us, but for drawing I'm not very sure.
I've got a feeling Drawing Essentials would be less fun than it sounds, I hope I'm wrong.

2008-06-21T07:20:00.003+08:00

New background up as you all can see. It's... based on a story I thought of myself, didn't have a real storyline since I have almost no time to be writing. So, yeah. New background.

2008-06-21T07:14:00.002+08:00

Man... I've been busy busy busy the past few days. Planning 3DArFun final assignment and ComDI second assignment (which is probably the last one). The ComDI assignment is... not complete yet, and we need to present it on Wednesday! Darn... For the 3DArFun assignment, my planning is done and what's left is to complete it and hand in the final piece by Friday. I'm more worried for the ComDI one because we have less time, and yes it's project work. I'm going out tomorrow to help my mum at the market, which also means I have even less time.
I can't stop whining the past few days and I'm probably going to be 'MIA' for the next few days.

2008-06-16T18:26:00.005+08:00

Been seriously busy the past few days, got to rush to complete the assignment 1 for ComDI and finally... it's done. The presentation was today and I am rather confident that I'll be getting a decent grade. I've got a narrative written for the ComDI assignment 1, I don't have anything much to post so I'll put it here. (It's rather long and I'm not forcing anyone to read it).

The moment I stepped into the yard I could sense that something was wrong; there was the presence of a human being. An intruder! I immediately abandoned my backpack and dived into the hedge. I needed to devise a plan to get hold of the intruder without being spotted. With only camera for protection, my options were limited. I zoomed in using my camera and got a clearer image of the intruder. A female intruder, alright! I can at least handle a girl on my own, no problem! I sneaked into the apartment and waited outside the room for my chance to strike. The wooden door slowly creaked open and there was a faint scent of mint. Now’s my chance!

“I got you now!”

I leapt from my hiding spot and managed to pin the female intruder onto the ground but it was all abnormally easy. The female trespasser stayed motionless on the ground. Don’t tell me I killed her?

“Hey Julia, are you alright?” I asked, shaking the motionless body on the ground.

“Of course I’m not; I just got pounced on by a pervert.”

I helped Julia to her feet.

“Sorry, I didn’t expect you to be weaker than last time.”

“I just got off the plane a few hours ago; can’t you give me a break?” Julia explained looking rather pissed.

Julia spent the rest of the day in her room, probably unpacking her luggage or maybe she fell asleep halfway. Anyway, I will never know.

The next day, I passed by the abandoned train station and spotted someone sitting on the bench in the station. How unusual, it was rare for someone to be ‘visiting’, nobody ever comes to this place; me being the exception.

I strolled towards the bench and there was the fragrance of mint amongst the smell of grass. Sitting on the bench was a girl, a pretty one at that. The girl appeared to be sleeping, her face looked really innocent. My hands then started to itch, it’s telling me to grab the camera. Yes, I must capture this with my camera. I reached for my camera in my backpack.

“Snap!”

The girl woke up.

“Hello girl,” I said sarcastically.

“I was waiting for you Kam,” The girl seemed to recognise me, “I knew that you still come by this place everyday so I thought I’d wait for you.”

“You remember me?”

The girl stared at me and gave a long sigh. “Your jokes are as ‘funny’ as usual; you don’t crack me up one bit.”

“Sorry Julia.” I then took a seat beside her. “So, what’s up?”

“I just wanted to talk, it’s been three years after all,” Julia paused for awhile, “and I need to talk to you about my condition.”

“I’ve heard it many times before, you have that amnesia something.”

“Yes, but lately my condition has worsened and my body’s getting weaker. That’s why my parents wanted me to move in with you and auntie.”

I turned and look at Julia; she was staring into the azure sky, she seemed to be lost in thought.

“It’s a real pain in the ass isn’t it, your anterograde amnesia.”

“Oh, so you do remember what it’s called.” Julia smiled. “My condition allows me to skip school, you should be happy for me.”

I just kept silent. Even I know that if her condition worsens, there are chances that she would lose all her memories after the accident, including her time spent with me.

“Don’t worry; you’ll be the last person I forget.”

Julia seemed to read my mind; she probably still remembers our time spent together.

“That’s assuring.”

Julia’s birthday was just a few weeks away and I knew that I had to do something for her. I started to look for part-time jobs to save up for Julia’s gift. For the past few weeks I worked as if my life depended on it. I needed to juggle my school work with my part-time job and by the time I had enough for her gift, I was already half dead.

July 16, it was Julia’s birthday that day but I ended up with a cold, probably due to overexerting myself at work. Unfortunate Julia ended up taking care of me on her birthday; since mum was rarely home due to work.

“Sorry for troubling you.”

“No kidding, it’s my birthday! It’s fine if you do not have a birthday present for me but fancy you catching a cold and I have to take care of you. Seriously…”

I was planning to get Julia’s present later that day but now that I’ve fallen ill, I was stuck at home.

“I’ll make it up to you.”

“For now, just focus on getting better.”

I was feeling a lot better the next day and went out to shop for Julia’s gifts. I then asked her to meet me at the train station later in the afternoon.

“You’re late!” Julia’s face puffed up.

“Sorry.”

I finally managed to catch my breath and it was time to put my plan into action.

“Julia you keep a diary right?”

“Yes, the doctor recommended it.” She then pulled out a pink notebook from her pocket.

“Can I take a look at the contents?”

Julia’s face turned a bright red, “What’re you saying, of course not!”

“I thought so,” I paused, thinking of what to say next, “It’s not a pictorial diary right?
Julia shook her head, “No, I do not have a camera and I suck at drawing.”

“Then I have just the gift for you,” I reached into my gigantic shopping bag and handed her a small parcel, “Happy belated birthday to you.”

“Huh? A digital camera?” Julia looked rather confused.

“Yeah, it took quite awhile for me to select the right model. I thought you might need this, it’ll help you ‘remember’ things better,” I then lifted the larger gift onto the bench, it weighed a ton. “This printer is my second gift to you; you’d need a printer to print out the pictures so I thought that I’d get you one as well.”

Julia looked rather troubled, “You’re so stupid, who gives a camera and a printer for birthday presents?”

“Oh I didn’t think about that, sorry.” How disappointing, I thought that Julia might like the gifts but I guess I was wrong. It feels as if I’ve been rejected even before I have confessed my love.

Then, I felt a soft, warm yet moist feeling on my left cheek. The smell of mint was ever so strong.

“Ju- Ju-“I was stuttering, my face felt hot and my heart was pounding against my chest.

“Don’t worry, I already have a photo of you. You didn’t need to get me a camera for that.” As usual, Julia completely read my mind.

She opened up her diary and at the there it was- my photo!

“I’ve already reserved a spot for you,” Julia said with a smile, “by the way I love the gifts, thank you.”

The storyline of my first draft was taken from an anime but I didn't want to be a copycat, so I re-written my storyline in my second draft and this is my final draft. Long time never write composition and this is a thousand plus words or so. I need to go off to finish my 3DArFun assignment, and I doubt I'd be free anytime soon.

2008-06-09T08:17:00.002+08:00

I've been busy the past few days so I've got no time to blog. ComDI and 3DArFun make very bad combinations. 3DArFun has loads of 'one-day-completable' work while ComDI is 1 HUGE assignment and LOADS of research and stuff. Even now, I still haven't completed my descriptive essay and time's wasting away so I'd make this short.
Yesterday's my elder sister's birthday (which I totally forgot until we had the celebrations), we had Sakae Sushi yesterday (first time having it). Good stuff, but I didn't try the raw fish- never did like raw stuff.
I've done quite a number of things in 3DArFun and I've taken photographs of them in my digital camera, I'll put them in my blog once I have the time.

2008-06-02T19:27:00.003+08:00

Darn... ComDI is NOT something to do with computers (like I thought), but it's about communicating. If I remember correctly it's communicating design ideas (too lazy to check since so far, that subject sucks). It's about... well... writing, and some of the things were taught in English lessons before, which makes it suckier and I can't seem to focus in ComDI class- feel like falling asleep. We've already got information on our first assignment for ComDI, we need to do LOADS of things, eg. find some things which contains interesting design things and research, etc (lazy to list them all). *sigh* 3DArFun IS 3 dimensional art fundamentals but... it's not as interesting as I thought it'll be, and I didn't expect that there'll be things associated with 'sculpture' in it.
Overall, things aren't going too well and I'm missing all the 12pm re-runs of Mythbusters. GAHHHHH!

2008-06-02T07:33:00.002+08:00

Block 2 starts today!! Which also means that it's the end of the 2 weeks break for me, and it's back to school. Lesson from today onwards (week 7), lessons would be 12 to 6. With ComDI from 12 to 3, and 3DArFun from 3 to 6. ComDI, probably some digital stuff (duh) not exactly sure what it does but I'll be back with updates. 3DArFun, probably '3 dimensional art fundamentals' will come back with the exact name for it as well. *sigh* looks like from this week onwards till week 22 I won't have any 'holidays' (according to my timetable).
I'm rather looking forward to 3DArFun (if it does what I think it does).

2008-05-31T10:21:00.002+08:00

Heading out to White Sands later at around noon to do abit of shopping. My youngest sister actually promised to go there with me but, just now her classmate called and invited her to 'Wild Wild Wet', and apparantly she agreed. >.> Darn, the sky is dark right now and she'd go out with a classmate to 'Wild Wild Wet'? Makes me feel rather 'unwanted'.

2008-05-31T09:32:00.002+08:00

New background up as you all can see. As usual, my colouring sucked and it (kinda) spoilt the whole drawing, but using Paint.NET I was able to 'salvage' it. The drawing is from the game I'm currently playing on my ps2- Persona 3 FES- the ending part of 'the journey' with the main character lying down, head on the lap of the 'mechanical maiden'. I only saw that part once, so it's rather hard to get the drawing done and part of it may be inaccurate (eg. the way the main character is lying down), but overall I'm quite pleased. Yesterday, near the completion of the drawing (during the colouring part), my mum commented that the guy lying down is too... flat. So I tried to improve it and well... since I've nearly completed my colouring at that time, I couldn't change it much but I've done my best.
I hope to be able to draw LARGE-SCALE drawings next time (like... a group of a dozen people).

2008-05-30T09:09:00.002+08:00

I didn't post anything the past few days as I was 'busy' playing my ps2. I've already completed the first part of the game, 'the journey', and now am trying to complete the second part, 'the answer'. I have to head out later to collect my assignments at 4pm, 6th storey at the teacher's office, which I forgot how to get to. I'd also need to photocopy my sketches and write ANOTHER journal regarding the whole ideation lesson (which I want to say that it's kind of boring).
The only reason I came online was to check my mails but thought that my blog could use a new post. I was also thinking of drawing up a new background from the game I'm currently playing, but...

2008-05-24T07:39:00.002+08:00

I've spent most of my time the past few days infront of my PS2, and my... time passes so quickly when you're having fun. It's Saturday already, almost 1 week left till classes start again.
I went out yesterday to collect my matric. card, I was told by my care person to get it from the One-stop service centre but after a few minutes of waiting, they told me to get it from the design general office. Riiight... But then again, where is the general office? My sister isn't from design so she doesn't know as well, but she was the one who found it in the small corner, guarded by rather heavy doors. So, I got my matric. card! When I reached home, my sister helped me check my mails (I was too lazy) and 'my god!' 44 mails in my inbox. One of the mails informs me to collect my assignments and excercises on next Friday at around 4pm. Which means I'd have to head out AGAIN next week.
Man... I'm seriously lazy to go out... I just want to spend my holidays at home.

2008-05-18T07:41:00.002+08:00

CCN day on Friday, as I said before I didn't really want to be there, but I guess it was rather fun. My shift for the stall was 12 to 1, but I stayed there for almost the whole time, though I was dazing out between 2 to 5 since my extended shift was over and I had nothing to do. Even though the fondue stall got $100+ (forgot the actual amount) total, we still made a loss, so we decided to not refund the $5 contributed by everyone from the class and the rest would be given to CCN. Though refunds would be given to those who bought all the items, the amount left is still rather large, it's all to help the needy.
Yesterday before APEL, at around 9.20(?) there was a talk on double diploma or something of sorts. Talking about graduating with 2 certificates for the top 10% of the cohort. However, the marks would only be taken from 1.1 (for block system only), which means from the first to the fourth week only. Upon hearing that, it made me (sort of) regret not really taking some of my assignments seriously, now I'm sure I won't get a spot. But whatever, what's done is done.
I spent the rest of the day playing PS2, which is also what I'm planning to do after I've finished blogging and watching anime. Oh yes, from now on it's holidays for us! 2 weeks, but I'd have to go out one day to check if I can get my matric. card, it's pretty troublesome without one.

2008-05-15T21:12:00.002+08:00

We got the final assignment yesterday, and... I'm about finished. Rushed work though, not very 'high-quality' but I don't really care, it's the last assignment (just get it over and done with). There was rain yesterday but thank god it stopped before I head to school, but the rain of bugs didn't stop until I reach the bus stop (the bugs that appear when it's about to rain). When the rain stopped, the bugs were falling all over the place (it's almost the same now, though I'm at home and the amount is dramatically reduced).
The rushed assignment work was completed this morning, so I have all afternoon to play my ps2. Addictive game, involves going out during midnight and LOADS of shooting yourself in the head. The shooting in the head part is one of the most addictive (probably why it's M 17+).
School starts at 11am tomorrow, not really 'school' but CCN. To tell the truth, I don't really want to be involved in such a thing.

2008-05-14T07:51:00.002+08:00

Class starts later than usual for today at 4pm, to ensure that we have enough time to complete the design. The sky's turning dark, it's probably going to rain soon. I just hope it stops raining by the time I'm about to leave for school. This week is the last week before the holidays, there's going to be a 'critique' assignment coming up probably today. Friday's going to be CCN day, we're setting up a chocolate fondue stall and I still don't have any post or job to do. I guess I'll be assigned to one soon, if not by Friday.
Friday is going to be one hell of a busy day, I can feel it.

2008-05-13T21:20:00.003+08:00

No school today, but there's still an assignment to complete. Deadline: tomorrow. I'm almost done, all that's left is the rationale and some pasting. I still can't think of anything to write in the rationale, I've got to finish fast as I need my sleep. I'm feeling alot better today, though I still sound rather funny due to blocked nose but I think I'll be fine by tomorrow.
Got to go! Time waits for no man (I think it goes like that).

2008-05-12T08:03:00.002+08:00

Darn, I've been unwell for the past few days already and I'm still sick. I've been unwell since... Thursday night? Something like a cold, except that it comes and goes but the headache and fever is always there. There's still school in the afternoon, I don't know what to do. If I skip school, it'll be hard for me to catch up since most of the class consists of consultation and the actual completion of the assignment.
I just hope that I'll recover soon.

busy busy busy

2008-05-11T09:06:00.003+08:00

I've finally gotten the game I want- it's an M17 game. They didn't ask for certification that I'm 17 so...
I've changed my blog background and added a new 'dislikes' at the sides, currently incomplete I think, there'll definitely be more coming up. OK, I've taken pictures for my assignment and I've done the selection. Now it's just the resizing of the pictures and pasting them on A3 mounting board. Oh yes, there's also the rationale to write so it's going to be a rather busy day. There's ANOTHER new assignment given on Friday, a real headache- choose a font, use the font to create a design for a wrapping paper of sorts. Darn, I've yet to complete the photograph one and there's a new one already?
This week is week 4 of school, and week 5 and 6 is going to be a holiday so there'll be no school, hooray! But this week is busy busy busy. We don't have exams so assignments are given to grade us, but seriously... the amount of assignment kills, so I'm seriously looking forward to the holidays so that I can play the new game I got (I doubt I'll have time this week).

2008-05-09T09:05:00.002+08:00

It's been a few days since I last posted something. What the hell? What's up with the blessing and all that questions? I'm happy to be 'blessed' but the number of questions is definitely not a blessing.
ANYWAY, school has been moderately 'entertaining' I guess, I've received a new assignment. Man, the amount of assignments is bound to make anyone feel like 'why in the hell did I choose this course?'. New assignment- photo-taking, design elements- Complicated stuff. I didn't have a digital camera until yesterday so... I'm behind schedule. I'm planning to go somewhere after my APEL on Saturday to get the photos taken. Currently I have 1 photograph done, and I'd need a total of... 9 I think. I've not really grasped the 'true essence' of design elements so... I'm having a little problem with the photographs. I've been looking forward to a new digital camera but... not using it for assignments.
Ahh... What can I say, sometimes things just don't go your way.

2008-05-03T16:27:00.003+08:00

The past few days weren't exactly nice... A lot has happened since I last posted something. I went out on Thursday and didn't really buy anything. On Thursday, I got a PSP game from Greg and headed to Tampines Mall. I went to the Popular to find myself an A3 sized mounting board (for my assignment 2) but couldn't find any, so I headed to Century Square. I wanted to get a PS2 game there but they don't have it, so... I left and went to White Sands. I wanted to see if the White Sands Popular has a mounting board but like the Popular in TM, they don't have mounting boards. So I went back home after I bought some food to try and comfort myself from an unfruitful 'trip'. I went out alone... Later in the evening my dad bought a new printer, it was totally cool! I specially love the scanner, I can't wait to try it out (That's probably the only good thing that happened)

Yesterday wasn't exactly a great day as well, I found another reason to dislike my class (well some of the people anyway). Just as I was trying to concentrate on the work that was given to us that day, I heard some very irritable laughter (I shall not say where it's from). Slowly, some of the details into the laughter went to my ears (I guess I... eavesdropped but whatever) the group of people were making fun at another person (from my class too of course). They were pretty loud, it's as if they want the person to notice them. They were also calling that person names, not very pleasant ones. That lesson felt like the longest 3 hours ever.
Even though I know that doesn't involve me but it's hard not to be bothered by it. I mean, who knows whether the group of people are calling others names, maybe even calling me names. But what the heck, I'm just glad I'm not involved (for now anyway).

2008-05-01T07:45:00.002+08:00

Before I can even say 'My god, time sure flies!' it's May already... my god, time sure flies! I handed in the first assignment yesterday, and as written in my 'timetable' assignment two was on the way. The last hour of the lesson, the teacher passed down the 'question paper' for assignment two. Another 20%! Darn... Us moving images students are really busy. So far, 1 exercise and 2 assignments and it has only been 2 weeks into school! Tch... Oh well, at least there's no school today so, I need to do some research. Heading out later this afternoon, I need to get a new PSP game and if possible, a new PS2 one. I'd need some stationary as well, for this assignment.
Collage huh? I'm not with pasting stuff...

2008-04-30T07:34:00.003+08:00

I suddenly remembered that I forgot to blog about 28 March, Monday. Nothing much actually, just something that happened on the bus on my way home with my sis. Taking 34 and nearly reaching the expressway, the traffic suddenly became very slow. We got stuck in the traffic (on the same stretch of road) for more than 20 minutes. It was only around 20 minutes into the jam that everyone on the bus felt that something was wrong. The bus driver went down to check what was going on, (it was the first time I was in a bus without a driver). When he returned, he explained that the jam is caused by a lorry breaking down on a one-way road. Which also meant that the only route for the bus to go up the expressway was jammed. I wanted to get home fast, so I urged my sister to call to see if my dad was at home and can drive us back. So she called and luckily for us, he was at home. So we got off the bus, being the 2nd group of passengers that got off the 'rooted' bus.
My sister and I crossed the overhead bridge towards IKEA (that place was near the giant IKEA) and waited at the bus stop for my dad. Since I was rather pissed for being stuck in traffic and missing my anime, I SMSed Greg to... 'vent off a little frustration' by pissing him off by telling him that there'll be no classes for me he next day. After waiting for quite awhile, my dad brought us home. -The end-
Somehow that post has a 'story-telling' feel to it. Just feel that way...

2008-04-29T18:27:00.002+08:00

Took some time off to organize my blog and I shouldn't really be doing this. I'm currently trying to finish my assignment 1 which is due tomorrow, and I'm still left with a reflection journal (1/3 page left) and some colouring to do (which I suck at). There's also the problem of printing my journal, but Kaya offered me his help (though he'll be online roughly at around 11 to 12). I've got no choice since my printer's spoilt, even if he gets it printed out I'll still worry about whether he'll remember to bring it to school tomorrow to pass to me. I guess I'll have to trust him.
There are no lessons today so I have time to finish my assignment. Well, I'm supposed to have enough time anyway. The assignment is 20% of my marks so I MUST finish it by today. I'm having some trouble writing my reflection journal as I have no idea whether I can put it in 'totally informal' (like while blogging). Speaking of blogging, I want to change my blog, I mean totally change it. The places at which things are placed, the background... everything. But I just don't have the time for that, not yet anyway.
There are some things I'm looking forward to, like some anime and my birthday. There's a game I want to get very much but it's for 17 or above ages. I could ask my elder sister to help me get the game but she's as lazy to go out as I am. So, even if I want to go out, she might not share the same sentiments.
OK enough yakking, I seriously need to focus on my assignment.

2008-04-26T08:03:00.002+08:00

It's finally Saturday and I can take a break from school... not quite. Moving Images students got their first assignment yesterday, character making (or something similar). We need to create a character using random attributes for example, traits of a cow, has a wavy shape and rubbery texture. That example is my 'project' and I have to work on it. The random attributes were selected by the teacher (for my class anyway), apparantly Kaya's class gets an upperhand- they can choose the random attributes themselves. So... Just choose simple combinations and draw it out nicely, it'll be worth good marks. By the way, this assignment is worth 20% of the exam marks (we don't have exams so we are given assignments and exercises), so we don't have the leisure to 'whatever' or 'anything'. We can choose whether to create a creature or a robot thing using the attributes given and we have to draw them in THREE DIFFERENT VIEWS, in a SUITABLE FANTASY ENVIRONMENT, COLOURED! There are also a journal to write and some description thingy as well.
Man... things are going to get real busy. I'm currently trying to get ideas so that I can sketch them out in my sketchbook, then I'll choose one that's most 'believable' to use as my main creature. I'm not going to draw a robot because I suck at mechanical stuff. Got to stop now to get my research done.

2008-04-24T10:24:00.002+08:00

School... 3 hours every weekday, from week 1 to 4. It's good that school's that short, but it isn't all good as well. 3 hours of school everyday makes you want to skip it, you'd get the mindset that 'what's the point of going to school everyday for only 3 hours, it's not very productive.' Furthermore, school starts at 3pm. Afternoon classes aren't my favourite, specially in an air-con room. The cold air makes you sleepy, the lunch you had earlier would start working its magic as well- that makes concentrating in class very very difficult. With school starting at 3pm, I'd have very little time to draw since there are shows to watch in the morning, and I'd have to leave home by 1.45pm, after I've done my share of the housework.
What's worse, it's raining today. It's a pain in the ass to go to school on a rainy day, the cold air, the air-con room and your tummy would make such a 'perfect' combo (maybe too perfect). I'll have to stop here before I'm late for class.

2008-04-22T10:34:00.002+08:00

So, today's going to be my first day of school. I was going to check out where my lesson would be held yesterday, but apparantly I forgot. So, I'd have to head to school abit earlier to find it.
The day before yesterday, my mum found an old video camera which belongs to my dad. He used the video camera to capture videos of me and siblings when we were young. My elder sister meddled with the video camera and amazingly, it works! She played one of the casette tapes (yeah, it's that old) and it showed my sisters and I when we were young. Memories started to return when we watched to tapes. I saw myself jumping up and down, all over the place. The tape makes me think "My, how I've grown". I used to such an energetic kid, with loads of friends. Now, I've become less social and keep things to myself. I wonder what happened... I can't remember, childhood memories fade with age. But if you record things in for example, a video camera, memories will return and you'd feel envious of who you used to be (a kid with no troubles).
But even video cameras will spoil, it's just a matter of time.So I guess memories are meant to fade away, the good or the bad.

2008-04-22T10:13:00.002+08:00

It was a chaotic day yesterday, things just suddenly pop out of nowhere. In the morning, I was deciding whether to head to school earlier to 'explore' a little before class starts at 3pm. But then at around 12, Kaya called and said that there are no lessons for us. Apparantly, Kaya was already in school and Greg's lesson would end at 1pm, so I thought that I'll still head to school to explore the surroundings. Kaya and I was planning to collect my matric. card which we failed to receive due to my absence from the orientation camp, but they would not allow us to collect without the permission from someone (forgot from who). Then Greg was going to collect his EZ-Link card so we tagged along. While looking for Greg's name in the list of the 'completed EZ-Link cards' , I found mine and so I got my EZ-Link.

After walking for awhile in school and there's still some time, we left for Tampines MRT. Kaya hasn't had his EZ-Link card done yet so we headed there first. When he's done with his EZ-Link, he said something about unblocking the card after he has collected the EZ-Link. So, with our newly collected EZ-Link, Greg and I went to unblock it, which cost $3 each.

We then headed to Century square for lunch. While having lunch, Kaya got a call from Kin Leung saying that there's a meeting for those in Moving Images (the info about no lessons is from KL as well). Kaya explained that we're having lunch and would not be able to reach TP in time. So, KL offered to pass on any important message from the meeting.

2008-04-20T07:32:00.002+08:00

There was an orientation on 15 April, Tuesday. Apparantly, you are allowed to go home that day but you are required to return the next day for the orientation CAMP. But being myself, I cooked up some lame excuse and skipped the 3 days of the orientation camp. But since 1 of the days is actually speechday, so I had no choice but to skip. The other 2 days however... I just don't feel like going. Since I skipped the orientation camp I didn't receive my matriculation card, which also means that I would not know my timetable. Darn? Nah. Luckily for me, I have a sister in TP. She logged in to the TP website and helped me search for my timetable. So, even though I do not have my matric. card, I know my timetable.
But the first time I saw my timetable I was like, 'HOLY SHIT!'. My timetable was complicated, (Moving images timetable anyway) and I didn't really understand how to read it. But I sort of figured out a few seconds later and from week 1 to 4, I'd have lessons from 3 to 6pm. So, it's a rather short day for those in Moving Images.
Tomorrow... *sigh*

2008-04-19T17:20:00.002+08:00

I took a long break from blogging and I guess it's about time I returned. Yesterday's speechday and I had to go back to East Spring for the Academic excellence award. It's a pity though, the award didn't include cash. It had ten $10 Popular vouchers though so I guess it's not too bad. I had formal wear on for the first day yesterday so I look rather odd.
While having some refreshments in the parade square, the circus arts had their performance but not everything went smoothly. Near the end of the performance, several circus arts performers had to toss their fire stick into the air. But one of the fire stick landed on a performer's face. (Ouch) I have no idea what happened to the performer, but I hope it isn't anything serious.
School starts next week Monday. Man... I'm not ready yet.

2008-04-07T10:33:00.002+08:00

I'm feeling alot better compared to yesterday. My headache's almost gone and I'm no longer feverish (That's what I think anyway). But I'm still feeling rather tired as I couldn't get to sleep yesterday night, probably due to the nap I had in the afternoon.
It's already been a week into April, I want to continue slacking... but that's never going to happen. So, I've got to brace myself for the things coming up, though I bet I'll still be in 'slack' mode when I get hit in the face.

2008-04-06T08:05:00.002+08:00

I can't believe my luck, I fell sick during the holidays. I was fine till yesterday evening when my head started to hurt. Now, I'm slightly feverish and my head hurts like mad. Even though I'm not feeling very good, I still woke up pretty early-around 7am. I've got to drink loads of water and pray that I'll be well again.

2008-04-05T16:26:00.002+08:00

As usual, nothing much to do the past few days. Just watch a few episodes of anime, draw some stuff, and most of the rest is TV. Though I have very little to do the past few days, I'm not getting enough of sleep. I wake up at around 6 to 7am every single day, and after I wake up, I just can't get back to sleep. It's a pain...
I'm quite worried about the few things that are coming up. Basically, East Spring speech day (I have to be there) and the others are Temasek Poly stuff. I've got loads of things that need clarification, but there're very few people that can help me with them.
Loads of anime coming up in the near future but there are few that interest me. I don't like anime with wimpy male protagonist and unfortunately for me, some of the coming anime has 'something like that'.
Got to find things to do...

Update

2008-03-29T15:26:00.002+08:00

New drawing done. New background up.

2008-03-29T07:45:00.002+08:00

There's nothing much for me to do the past few days so I've got time for some drawings. I've got some that are quite nice but I drew them on an exercise book. Even if I can tear the page out and scan it into the computer, the lines would spoil the drawing. Usually I draw on exercise books- those that still have blank pages. Firstly, it saves money. Secondly, they're easy to find compared to a few sheets of paper.
Though I've got drawings done in books, I want one to replace the current background picture I'm using. But sometimes, ideas just don't come. I'll work extra hard to try and find things to draw.