PUTIH! LET’S DECLARE OUR LOVE TO THE WORLD BY SINGING ORETACHI NO JOY?!:

You substitute yama and I shall substitute Ichinose Gokudera 8D.

*runs away*

Last night I decided to really focus on my CG’ing but it didn’t work.. I NEED to watch/read something while CG’ing so I came up to transfer some videos/mangas. Since I saved my file in my thumbdrive, I decided to check how it looks like. Of course, I should have expected the worst.

The colours were OFF. Like seriously! I definitely coloured it differently on the laptop. I mean, I KNOW that when you play with colours on a laptop, it will look differently on a pc monitor cause.. you can move the laptops screen so the colour changes depending on what angle you’re looking at (and coco has the same problem when she uses her mum’s laptop!) but now, I dunno which to trust cause.. I looked at the laptop at eye-level!

I feel that I shouldn’t trust my pc monitor cause it’s a 5-6 yrs old CRT monitor! CRT monitors tend to get duller and darker once it’s old so… I’m at lost. I’m about to give up entirely on this pic like srsly… SO yea, someone tell me, do you see light purple, or dark purple on his hair? (pick the darkest shade, NOT black).

Also, WHY THE HELL IS THERE A TRAFFIC JAM NEAR A HOSPITAL?! Did someone important die and was I not informed of it or something?! The traffic jam is THAT bad till the cars reached my house! as for cars entering my neighbour hood, the traffic jam got as far as carrefour (maybe even further since I only managed to see until carrefour before turning into SS15). I forgot to photostat my classics book so rushed there when I was supposed to be at home preparing. When I got to the shop (after god knows how long), there was a long queue. thankfully, I knew the owner so I begged him to let me cut the line and he let me. SAAFFEE. Managed to photostat in time. Also, I slept early for once (gave up CG’ing). Early is 2am. But I woke up at 5am cause I couldn’t sleep =_=. So annoying.

So, I thought why not play sudoku but my phone was dead… so instead I thought of stuff. I thought back, wow, high school is actually over. Can’t believe it ended so fast! I mean, I remmeber very clearly me going ‘Dammit, I’m just tolerating this cause I’ll be out of school soon!’ or ‘A FEW MORE YEARS! And I’m soo out of this school!’ and now I am! It feels so unbelievable that I actually managed to accomplish stuff like, being a prefect (I actually gasped and shivered when I thought of it. Me? A prefect?! I was really a prefect for 2-3 years?!), a Leo president (and I was telling off people older than me!) and part of the schools editorial team (which I doubt I would pass the interview and all cause I did it only for the sake of pleasing coco but maybe it was just cause she wanted me in it. Maybe?). It seems so.. impossible. But I still won’t consider myself out from school. I still have my results. My results would be given to my school so in a way, I am still connected to the school. My result book is still with the school. My leaving cert is still with the school. But really, wow. I finish high school. I didn’t realize it till now. But I feel so young! (since I can’t drive *coughcoughcough=_=*) But at the same time I feel old (since I am now not a school girl). All in all, it has been one hel of an experience. I can’t wait for college! (I can’t believe I’m actually saying this….

Btw, who thinks I suit to become a lawyer! :D

EDIT: The pic is big eh… lol Now you can see my ugly colouring OAO and lineart…. and drawing… *locks self in room*

Anyway, back to the topic. My mum is drilling ‘architecture is so much better than advertising’ on me right now. If only she knew if she wanted me to take architecture, I would happily take it. One really bad excuse which really stabs me is when she, well actualy everyone mentions how architecture is a professional job. Who decided this? Yea fine, it is technical and yea it’s tough to get through the whole thing but who decided this it’s a professional thingy? Just cause you’re a graphic designer that’s not PROFESSIONAL. Is it THAT easy. Do people look down on it THAT much?

In my opinion people take stuff like Graphic Design, Culinary Arts, Hospitality so on so forth for granted. Why? Cause it sounds so easy. Everyone can do it! Everyone can just open photoshop click here click there and wala! Everyone can just open their fridges, hammer here, fry there and wala. Just cause you CAN use photoshop, you CAN cook and you CAN be a good hospitality person, it doesn’t mean you have the rights to earn the qualification. Hospitality isn’t such a small thing! The only difference is what and how you are going to earn big bucks.

A professional career or so they call it are usually jobs which usually have a secure future. Doctors for example. Everyone knows doctors earn big bucks. Does that mean copywriters can’t earn big bucks?! Architecture. You can just design a building and whether your client likes it or not it’s up to them whether they wanna demolish it and waste more money or what. You just need to say ‘Oh, it’s impossible to do that design’ and if they don’t listen, whatever. That’s what some architectures tell me. But in the end, you earn big bucks. For these ‘unprofessional’ careers, big bucks come in when you really work hard.

As a graphic designer, it’s up to your skill. If you are really cool and awesome you will go far. Is that easy to achieve?! NO. Lawyers, you can list a whole list, some really popular ones. EVERYONE knows them. Some make fun of them. Do you hear about graphic designers? Who are the ones behind all the ads? DOCTORS?! Just cause the job SEEMS easy, not EVERYONE can do it.

Like in the movies Ratatouille, everyone can cook, but not everyone can.. something. So I really feel kinda… I dunno… uneasy when people view graphic design, mass com, culinary arts, hotel management, and quantity surveying as an ‘everyone can do it’ thing.

Bottom line, I guess I shall take architecture for it’s technical. I agree advertising/graphic design would be a hard job to live on. After getting maybe a degree in architecture I’ll take advertising/grtaphic design. Then work as a graphic designer. If that doesn’t work, I can always opt for being an architecture. I guess I just don’t have the confidence sometimes. What if I’m not good enough as a graphic designer?

I have always thought of taking graphic design but talking to people who have gotten through their studeies, I though okay, take advvertising with graphic as minor/2nd major. Advertsing sounds so not posh eh? Graphic Design sounds like such a small field eh? People think so many negative points about them. Graphic is a pretty wide field. You can go to fashion, ads, buntings, bus wrap, so many other stuff. When you’re in architecture, you’re stuck with buildings. I dunno anymore… I’m sticking with my plan whatever. like people said, I’m young. I have so much time. Use it. So technically, if I keep this up I won’t get married till I’m near 30 or something! Will I even have the time to find a boyfriend?!

On another planet, my winamp has recorded that I have listened to Oretachi no joy 2598 times =D Let’s not go into Goku’s song and Yama’s song. Also, my mum just got a new car. Just for me to destroy~ Which reminds me, she got her last car the year my older broother was finally legal to get a driving licence! Is she doing this on purpose. Which also reminds me! My father does that too!!! My father getting a new car soon too! XD

So lineage. I barely play it lol but once I play it I get addicted like hell. It’s not that I don’t want to play I DO! It’s just that.. I have like… CG’s.. animes… manga’s… MOVIES. OH SO TEMPTING! So yea, Cause aria server was down I decided to make a new character in the blackbird server. I happily created what I can with what I am provided and wala!

I was once a sad elf cursed with poverty until I got a tunic!

Then I got richer and richer and managed to buy a better tunic!

I’m gonna get even richer and according to coco I can get puffy dresses! This is somewhat the only motivation for me to play right now lol. And I’m so in love with mystic! His powers are wind based!!!! Tell me I’m not a fangirl! Anyway, gonna continue drawing odd poses for ChikaxGokudera. I’m SO into it.

Larry is a great man! Met him today when me, stepo and coco () attended this really awesome course which was a package consisting of lecturers exposing you to lies of how fun college is 4 different courses. Advertising and marketing, creative writing, mass communications and finally multimedia thingy which I didn’t really care cause not really heading towards that path not that I would be taking creative writing either but creative writing was interesting.

We started with a field trip to astro. First stop, radio station. We got to see JJ and Rudy at work. OR SO WE THOUGHT. LOL! While Junior (I think) explained to us about what they have to go through and how the thing is broadcasted and all, they “interacted” with us through the mike only to be cut off lol. Then we went around the radio thingy and saw lotsa awesome stuff. Then met the 3 of them at the elevator again. This visit has changed me perception on engineers. They just sit there all day on a chair and look at TV shows. HOW FUN iS THAT! You can set your own work time and just need to work for 2 weeks! Maybe yea.. a bit boring just staring at thousands of screens but there’s always the movie! And the only time you work is at times of crisis. Not bad not bad! Anyway, we didn’t get to go visit the big satellite dishes. Dammit. All in all the trip was fun and entertaining! But too short…

We got back to IACT where they fed us with tons of ads while the stall lunch. The ads were entertaining! There was one where they showed this car driving in Giant. The hon was like… permanent and it was soo annoying. Then it stopped. Then it was noisy again. Suddenly the woman steps out of the car. An ad for wonderbra. How thoughtful LOL. Then there was this ad about this man who was filing a complain so the police read it out in I forgot what language. Apparently the guy got hit by a lorry and he rolled down the cliff and all these weird stuff happened and it ended with him with a lorry on top of him. Then they showed his car and it was PERFECT. LOL! SO COOL! Then there was the Fed Ex ad where the cave man.. I should stop here… ANYWAY, lunch arrived and after that we headed back to the same room to start listening to lectures.

First lecture was about creative writing. I’m not into creative writing so I didn’t bother to take it seriously AT ALL. We were split into groups of seven and each had to think of a slogan and a brand name for a banana. I dunno what got into me but I decided that we shall name the banana ‘LARRY!’. Of all names I know. And the slogan? ‘I like it big.’ Obviously everyone rejected my idea but I was the scribe so I wrote it down anyway, along with my other nonsense ideas. In the end they divided the paper into two. One half of it was ‘insane’ and the other was ‘sane’. Obviously everything in the ‘insane’ part is 100% mine. Okay well, I wanted it like that. I got lotsa help from my group members. Okay fine… 90% of the slogans were based of what we all thought lol. After much consideration and pondering and not much convincing they decided to take the insane path (after I drew out Larry cause they decided not to listen to my insane ideas). And hence, our slogan…

What is juicy, tender, long and delicious?
Larry’s Banana! Long and really really yummy!

If you have no idea why we decided that as our slogan, Long And Really Really Yummy. SMART EH?! I didn’t come up with it though lol. I DID come out with the name! Anyway, one of our group members was against LONG so we tried out BARRY (big and really really yummy) or maybe HARRY (huge and really really yummy). But alas, EVERYONE LIKED LARRY!!! So we went ahead and I had the privilege or presenting Larry to the world. Thankfully everyone had a good sense of humour and I assume are perverted enough to understand what we really really mean. So when the lecturer commented on each group one by one, she skipped our group. Kinda scary but then she was like ‘I think everyone liked Larry!’ and everyone ine the group sighed with relief. We got chocolates!!!!

Next workshop was mass communication. Stepo was taking mass com but I wasn’t planning to take mass com either so I didn’t take it seriously. The lecturer talked about romance, wars and pretty much swear words. We had to list down the brands we had around us and what did we have to do with the brands? We had to list down the countries they came from. He censored his swearwords and all but heh, we are smart enough rite?

After that we headed off to graphic design workshop. YES! FINALLY! SOMETHING I AM INTERESTED WITH! Sadly, the computers were CRT monitors and they were still WHITE. We used photoshop CS and I happily set photoshop to my liking. I guess it wasn’t bad but… I wouldn’t want to study here… To get to the lecture room to the computer lab… we had to get out of the building and re enter the building! Hopefully TOA isn’t like that. So while the lecture taught us how to make movie posters, coco and I explored. I made a layer set called ‘original’ and ‘fake’ I worked on the fake more and less on the original but my final product was an incorporated piece of the fake into the original. I know I’m talking crap but bear with me. We had to do a Spiderman poster in 72dpi. Need I say more?

MOVING ON. We then moved out of the building and re-entered the same building to go to the multimedia lab. LCD WIDESCREEN MONITOR. SO COOL! Sadly, the screens had a tinge of green so flash looked… olive green. Not that I mind cause it made the thing look nice but imagine if you were to design on that com lol. Anyway, compared to the Taylors trip, the flash workshop was… lousy. I did learn some stuff other than what I learned in Taylors but yea, we had a 1 hour restricted time and imagine cramming everything into 1 hour. I pity the lecturers…

So when I got back, I really missed my tablet! Photoshop without tablet is not the same anymore! And photoshop without my personal customized settings is also not the same! So yea, Can’t wait for tomorrow! We shall be campaigning for Bush!

Anyway, went out with putih, cocot, Juls, Fen, Stepo and finally the one and only guy Riz. It was a Wednesday so age wise, me, putih, juls and Riz were supposed to be in school but no such nonsense! WE ARE FREE PEOPLE!

So back to the main story, although all of us were obviously bored with pyramid, it was the place majority of us decided to go to. I went there early to waste time so I managed to go to popular, MPH, speedy and around Jusco to munch for food. I was happily browsing some magazines until my phone rang. Juls and Fen had arrived so since it was already around 11.45pm I thought fine, meet up with them since everyone would be here by 12 anyway! So I met up with them and Fen gave me presents meant for me from Pei. It was a plushie of Sylvester Cat and a platypus (which is now similar to a pokemon since it can only say it’s name) and a dolphin mood swing necklace! Pei… I think the necklace is permanently blue or something…. So while Fen drank her tea like an elite person, I played with my platypus and showed them  my phone. Yes I love my phone! The others (coco, putih, stepo and riz) showed how malaysianny they were by arriving 30 minutes late. CONGRATULATIONS.

For the first hour, we walked around aimlessly and finally went to popular where we indulged ourselves with an assortment of nonsense stuff. Although entertaining, I soon got bored and headed out followed by Juls, Fen and Putih. Being even more bored I decided to head off to our lunch spot first only to get myself lost! I met Rifdy on the way only to find out he was working! Damn. S I continued getting lost. Then met up with the guys and we stared at the directory aimlessly. Where is Italiannies (however you spell it I dun bloody care!). Apparently, it’s still under construction. So I remembered that I encountered an Italian Restaurant while I was lost so off we go. Dunno what happened but instead of going there we headed of to Fridays instead.

In Fridays, we happily announced (and I happily reminded) the waiters and waitresses that two people in our group were celebrating their birthday! Guess who the lucky 2 were. JULS AND RIZ! We had a waiter named Tommy which I found really odd. What a name! Tommy. I thought only cartoons had those kinda names! I mean Tom is acceptable but Tommy?! What was even odder was that I was wearing a Tommy Hilfiger jeans and top that day. How… disgusting? So I asked him why his name was Tommy only to be IGNORED. FINE! I didn’t really mind since the others (coco to be specific) were apologizing for bringing me here. So I suggested we all shared food to reduce the cost and the helpings were big anyway but everyone decided to have individual meals. =_=. When will people ever listen?! Pretty much everyone ordered ice lemon tea. I ordered sprite. Coco ordered apple juice (which disappointed her since it had no pulp only to have me point out that the waiter behind the counter right behind of her was pouring Sunkist apple juice into a glass. Talk about being discreet!) and Fen who ordered sky juice (TSUNA’S URINE I TELL YA! AND IT WAS FREE!!! Talk about CHEAP). Soon, Stepo needed a refill. So I dared her to go to the waiter and ask for ‘MORE’. She didn’t do it. Riz was also dared and I THINK he did it. Can’t remember I on the other hand, failed the first time cause I was busy laughing. But the second time, I was asking it like a drunk woman. ‘I NEED MORE PLEASE!’

Lunch came in huge portions. I happily added salt on my fries while the person beside me screamed on and on about high blood pressure. Then Tommy came and offered me that pepper grinding thing which I happily took and grinded over my fries. Good Tommy! When the fires finished, obviously I would move to the burger but then Riz had to talk about flour which I had no idea why it was funny but it just was! Then we made up jokes about Cauliflower and cucumbers and how Riz would go ‘HELLOW BOYS! SHOW ME YOUR CUCUMBERS PLZ!’ when he becomes a doctor and he would win an award for most cucumbers chopped with a single swing. WE WERE NOT DRUNK. None of us had and alcoholic beverages we were just plain… crazy. I felt full half way through the burger so asked Tommy for a doggy bag. Most of us packed our foods back. THIS IS WHY WE SHOULD HAVE SHARED!

Then came the CLIMAX of the day. The people of Fridays forced asked RIz and Juls to get on a chair and both of them had to hold ketchup bottles as mikes. Then one woman was like ‘now you have to unscrew the bottle and drink the contents!’ Riz, apparently the smartest of the bunch showed how little common sense he had by quickly unscrewing and was already ready to tilt the contents into his mouth even though the words that came out from his mouth was ‘HUH?!’. The woman quickly stopped him. Then he gave some long speech which I quickly forgot. Then Juls turn. She thanked us all and told us she would miss us when she’s gone. So touching! But get it over with! Then they blew their candles after the Friday’s people sang LOTSA songs. Riz swore that all of us shall receive the same fate when he gets back. He should be glad I didn’t bring out the water.

Then Thursday I can’t remember what happened. I just know that my parents called and at that time, I was busy moving books, papers, thumb drives and my tablet to my room. So I overheard my cousin talking on the phone that I was busy setting up my base of operations. I assumed it was my uncle she was talking to until she called me ‘OI! Your mum want’s to talk to you!’ My jaw practically got dislocated. I hesitantly greeted my mum who replied with a firm ‘What base is this do I hear about?’ SHIT I WAS DEAD! I told her I was clearing up STUFF and she told me as long as I clear up whatever tornado that passes by the time she gets back she will not blow up. I’m so taking 1 week to clear up my mess…. Anyway, I happily practiced CG’ing in my room COMFORTABLY. I STILL SUCK!

Friday, I woke up in the afternoon and switched on Hanakimi. I watched and watched and watched and at night, I happily sms’ed my cousin about Kayashima-san. She told my other cousin (we have this weird thing where my cousins instead of living with their respective parents live with my single aunt instead) about my current love interest. My cousin called and her first few words were, ‘IF I’M GOING TO HAVE A COUSIN IN LAW LIKE THAT THINK AGAIN! YOUR MUM IS SO GOING TO NOT APPROVE OF THIS!’ WTF?! I fought for Kayashima. He IS hot and he is unique! He has a good personality so WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT?! So my cousin threatened that when my parents get back, I’m done for but knowing her, everything shall be forgotten. By midnight, I was reaching the end of the series. Sano and Nakatsu were in a maid outfit and a nurse outfit respectively. They were in the toilet and peeing. Then my cousin jumped into the hall and went ‘What are you watc-GAH?! MY DEAR COUSIN! YOU NEVER FAIL TO AMAZE ME!’ and she scrambled up the stairs to join my younger brother to watch cartoon. I yelled from downstairs that my other cousins watched it too! The show ended with me screaming at the TV. THE STUPID CD IS CORRUPTED AT THE END! So sadly, I replayed Kayashima’s scene 4 times. There goes the Sano and Ashiya kissing scene.

So yea I have been bed ridden for 2 days straight doing in and out of consciousness. The first day was spent with me in denial. I continued using the com even though half way through I fell asleep waking up to continue chatting then sleeping again. Then at night I imagined playing Tetris. Don’t ask. Then my aunt found me in my room at 10 mumbling to myself about Tetris. She made me change out of my clothes and made me eat something and sent me off to sleep after shoving panadol into my mouth.

I woke up unable to breathe so I expertly set up my medication and breathed but alas… it did not work so I went to the hospital at 3am and found out my temperature was at 40.2 degrees. They gave me lotsa pills after that *sigh*.

Second day I felt much better! So I went up to use the computer until I felt sleepy again so headed down with my bowl of porridge and mug of tea. I slipped. Laughable ain’t it. Not so when it includes china! I bruised my calves and my butt. I know my mum isn’t too picky when it comes to her plates and all breaking into pieces but I felt really bad cause I really liked the mug and the bowl and the clam vongolashaped plate. So the rest of the day I slept feeling MUCH MUCH MUCH better by nightfall!

Then I woke up at night again and noticed my fever escalated again. So in a panic I took my medicine cause I really wanted to attend my art class and watch movies with pei and fen! Then I started not being able to breathe AGAIN. AGAIN I went to the hospital and the doctor said I wasn’t having an asthma attack but instead, a panic attack! Oh yea… I forgot… I’m prone to panic attacks as well… So after that I got home and continue sleeping.

Woke up feeling MUCH better! But by night time I was having a fever and coughing AGAIN.

TODAY I AM REVIVED!! Coughing slightly having fever slightly but I have a feeling I’ll be alright!

Anyway! While being sick, when I’m feeling better and all I played with the tablet on my laptop. Sadly I couldn’t CG stuff cause when I colour on the laptop, I find that it changes colour when I transfer it to my computer and I trust my computers monitor more so I just practiced inking and after much trial and error (believe it or not there are different layers for each lineart for this same artwork)