Tuesday, 24 July 2007

Idle

23 July 2007, Monday (cont'd)

After blogging from the CAD Lab (filled with people) i left for class at the ADM Studio. Third floor, IVM, Kristine Tan. At first Kristine portrayed herself as a strict and no-nonsense lecturer, but after that she turned out to be a nice auntie. HAHA. And we were gonna have field trips. Sounds so The Magic School Bus right? (Anyway the field trips are to CK Tangs and Little India.

After that i took the bus home. Damn tired all the way i reached home. Bathed and just slacked in front of the google box. Cause i was simply TIRED.

But after that i somehow picked up the energy and i couldn't sleep till 11.30pm. What the hell. I'm just not fated to sleep early.

That's all.

Monday, 23 July 2007

Hiatus

Oh my goodness. I am damn beat now.

So i shall not blog today.

=)

Going Back

Yes. We're going back to school again. Weekends are just too short yeah.

Today mama fetched Nicky and I to school. Nicky escorted me to 05-03 for 2D Art Fundamentals. We were seated in a semi-circle, like an inverse C-shape. Wilson, the lecturer, started off by briefing about the schedule(we don't have lessons every Thursday, but unfortunately National Day is on Thursday = one less hoilday. Aww so sad.).

Then he started to introduce himself, and asked us to intro ourselves. He went by the namelist. At first everyone started to say where they live blah blah, then Wilson changed the topic to making the rest describe the person. Okay blah blah... MY TURN. Oh gosh. There was silence. PURE silence. But when Wilson prompted the class, someone said,"She is quite quiet lah" and then Wilson said,"That is not very good..." I just gave a feeble smile lor. And someone(i think i know who) said,"She loves to wear ties!" And Wilson was like "Really?!" BLAH BLAH BLAH. He was quite understanding, and changed the topic after me. He said,"Okay, let's change the topic. Now you tell us what you want to achieve from this course". So people started to give their aspirations.

After that I went to the toilet on the 3rd floor. Then i came back to do the viewfinder. It's just this card with a box cut out from the middle, and then you paste a film of plastic over it, and draw grids on the plastic sheet. I did it wrongly. I actually cut out a box, not cut out the box. HAHA. As realisation hit me Wilson handed me a new piece of cardboard. And i continued. Through the lesson i was actually smsing, and i think Wilson saw it once or twice. Then after i cut out the box, he came by, and i was fiddling with my phone again. So he said,"Are you okay with it? Calculating?" I replied,"Fifteen by twelve right?" He said "Yes" and walked away. He is a very kind man, isn't he?

And we completed drawing it. After that we were to draw the same thing on A3 paper. We placed five objects on a table in front of us, and we have to draw on the paper what we see through the viewfinder.

The next part of the lesson, we were told to do pinhole drawing, where we poke the pencil through a piece of paper which would cover what we were drawing. Meaning, we were not allowed to see what we were drawing. I was paired with Huong anyway. And we "drew" the shoes. 3 in total.

Homework was allocated. A viewfinder drawing, and the reflections for the viewfinder and pinhole drawings.

Lesson ended at 11.30pm, but i saw many people still at work, which i can't figure out why, cause we were told to draw out the shapes only.

After class i went to look for Mich at ITAS. Had lunch with her and her friends, then i went along to their group meeting as well. They had this role-play thing which was hilarious. But very good presentation overall. HAHAHA. "Bus fighter" hahahahahahaha.

They rehearsed, and i escorted Nicky up to class at 2pm. And i went to Cheers. Now i'm here. CAD Lab. Not Studio. Over are the days of Digital Essentials. Sobs.

I'll be back at night.

Bye for now.

Sunday, 22 July 2007

Fiesta

Hello all. This is my 250th post. Quick, ain't it.

Sunday Fiesta. I woke up at 12pm cause i slept at 3am yesterday making CDs. And then after slacking for some time, brothers and I set off. And i discovered i left my wallet behind in the car yesterday DAMN.

So i got the standard ticket and we went to Somerset. The show starts at 4.10pm. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. So we went in early, popcorn and all.

The movie was... just a Harry Potter film standard. Of course it can't be better than the book itself. But bro said it was better than Goblet of Fire.

After that we walked to Dhoby Ghaut. Played a game of the drum-hitting game at the arcade, and we went home. Actually we wanted to play Dota, but it was getting late. So, sadly... SIGH tomorrow school starts again.

We dabao stuff home at CP. Then i was just watching tv till just now.

Pretty tired. So much for the weekend.

Saturday, 21 July 2007

Euphoria

Hi there. Saturday again. One week just flew by. Wow.

So today Nicky and I went for the PDP (Personal Development Programme). "Working Women's Professional Image". I thought it would be like a workshop on how to conduct yourself and blah blah blah, but it turned out to be a MAKE-UP workshop.

And then the first part was pretty dry, about skincare, most which i've learnt from Ladies' First (a.k.a. Nu Ren Wo Zui Da). Then we wore this milkmaid looking hairband and they gave us the cleanser and moisturiser to try.

The next part was makeup. Foundation, concealer, eyeshadow, lipstick. Boring shit. Okay. Not THAT boring, but i wished i was learning something more useful and applicable. After that everyone went for the balance session, where the two ladies from Shiseido balanced up the makeup you've just put on. I thought that all the people who attended this course looked weird. Like country bumpkins kinda... yeah. My balance session was the FASTEST i guess. She just trimmed the brows and glided on some loose powder.

Nicky's took a bit longer and we were the last to leave. At least we got the door gift which consists of a lot of gimmicky samples.

After that Nicky left and i waited for mama, drenched in the rain. We went for lunch at Bedok. And then we went to the optician. Okay. Now let me do the explaining. This optical shop is the one my mother's friend opened, and the business has been passed on to his daughters. We've been there ever since i was like in kindergarten or something. Long long long long history lah.

Yay. Finally for a change. After trying on dozens of frames (literally), I got the ONE. HAHAHA. My papa, mama and didi agreed that that pair was the best for me. It just happens that the auntie there (they have two workers right now) helped me pick out the colour that she thought would suit my skin colour. Aiya. I wanted to get this gorgeous creamish yellow, but it didn't look nice.

Then i randomly tried on a pair of Esprit sunglasses, and they said it was nice. So mama said that if my vision has not worsened, i can make a pair of sunglasses, then she crap about her younger days when she also wore sunglasses out with her friends on picnics blah blah. HAHAHA. So i went for the check. "GOOD", "VERY GOOD" pretty much sums up of what i said. HAHA. And for once i didn't have any increase in myopia. WEE HOO. AND I CAN HAVETHE SUNGLASSES DONE! Oh my goodness that just thrills me so much. Heh heh.

After that we dropped by at Chinatown Maxwell Hawker Centre, then we went to AMK to look for my GuGu. OUI is aunt lah, but that's what we call her. Then we went home. I immediately plonked down on the bed and slept. I think it was 6.30++pm by then.

And i slept all the way to 8.30pm, although i was still very sleepy. And i watched tv, and now i'm here.

OH GOSH Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows is out!!! Bro went to get it today at Popular and he was just reading it just now(now he's off to sleep). Cool man. I can't wait. But then when i think of that fucking bitch who can't keep the spoilers to herself, it just makes my blood boils. KILL HER! Kill her! Kill her!

Ooh you've gotta watch the new Channel U 10pm show. I forgot what's the name but it is a superb show. And the who is damn handsome in it. Zhang Zhi Lin. Tiffany knows what i'm talking about. *Winkys*

That's all. I gonna make my CDs. And maybe steal a peek at the book.

Bye.

Friday, 20 July 2007

Dum Diddly

HELLO PEEPS why are you peeping at my blog? Okay, okay... lame.

Cause i'm simply too happy. It's the end of the block PEEPS! Yay. But it's already a block that's quite relaxed. Next week starts 2D Art Fundamentals and Introduction to Visual Merchandising. Oh my god i can't do no drawing.

I'm now hearing out JJ's new album. Quite disappointing lah.

Anyway here's what today was about.

Dum dum diddly dum (sorry can't control the excitement haha).

I woke up reluctantly at 10.30pm after offing the alarm at 9am. HAHA. Then i went to draw the development of ideas and the final designs for the DiEss assignment. Actually i didn't really have any cause i did everything on the screen. Mama bought lunch back. After lunch we set off for school.

I reached at 1.30pm. Far too early. Wrapped up the drawings and packed up the files in the hard drive. Quite messy, cause you need to have the linked files. I doubt you know what i'm about. You just need to know it took four or five CDs. I thought i brought enough. But i used up all four and have to go to the bookshop last minute to biuy five more(just in case). And i settled it and gave it to Mister Yong Kin. Woo i like to see Yong Kin in his super-small fitting T-shirts. Haha.

Oh my god. One bitch in class has to bitch about the spoilers she saw from the internet. For? Harry Potter, The Deathly Hallows. Oh fuck.


Then i went to play Extreme Pamplona at Miniclip again. Yong Kin saw but he didn't care lah, of course. Then we started on InDesign again. We did Character and Paragraph today. After that we could leave. I left at 5++pm. Oh so sad to end this class cause it's so slacky, no frills (no presentation, no sweaty shirts a la TexMan blah blah blah) and you have unlimited access to the internet. SOBS man.

Then i went to TM to get my stuff from Sembawang(CD) and Popular(stuff needed for 2DArFun) and went to slack at Dano after just going there before i went to Popular. GO and kajiao Shi Yng and Siew Foon lor. Then Nicky came at 6++pm and we went to shop around. I got 3 bracelets today hurray.

Due to budget concerns, we had dinner at the food court. (There's a cool 70's/80's kopitiam exhibition beside Umeya.) Then just when to chill a bit and headed home.

Ooh-la-la. Tomorrow's gonna be a fulfilling day.

Ciao.

Thursday, 19 July 2007

Crossover

HELLO.

Soon, the block's gonna end. By "soon", i mean real soon, like one day away? MUHAHAHAHA....

Today was the last class for Fashion Merchandising. In the end nobody did any presentation. Almost everyone binded up their stuff.

During breaktime i went to Cheers, and the bitchy auntie was complaining that she has to void (an item) in the beginning of the day. Cause i took two items and wanted only one in the end cause she doesn't have enough change. BLEAH.

And we watched videos. Some people left at 12pm. Not before we filled up the PBL assessment forms. I was in a dilemma. Oh man. Then i stayed back to watch more vids and left at 1++pm.

I left Huong and went to look for Nicky at Business park. Joined them at lunch. Then me and Nicky and Nicky's friends went to the Sports Complex. They were having a Captain's Ball Competition. Wah so cool lah. Nicky wanted me to join but luckily i didn't. Aiyah cause of some useless bums in their group they lost. I felt so helpless sitting at the sideline and watching the scores go away. Very T-e-N-S-e lah. Haha.

After slacking for some more time I rushed for class. Reached class sharp at 3pm, on it was 3.03pm when i switched on the computer. Today we learnt InDesign, a programme mainly used for newspapers and publications.

After school i waited for mama. Then she called me at 6.20++pm, like after half an hour, to tell me to go home by myself. Well, i thought my ezlink was quite empty, and since i didn't want to squeeze onto any bus, i walked to TM. The journey seemed very long today. I took a new route. Haha.

And i reached there at 7++pm. Okay.I filled up the card and took the bus home. YAY.

That should be all.

A Random Post

This is a utterly RANDOM post.

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Wednesday, 18 July 2007

Bang

Yesterday i slept at 1.59pm after scribbling stuff in my Hamster Diary.

Today i woke up at 2.14pm, not counting the time when i migrated to my mama's room at 10+am.

Then i droned though the rest of the day, eating lunch at 3pm, playing Miniclip game Sure Men at 4.45pm and blogging after that.

Now i've to wrap up my projects.

1. Reflection for the Interview assignment
2. Development booklet for DiEss project.

Yes, that's all.

Bye.

A Fateful Day

17 July 2007, Tuesday

Reached school early to bind the report. Too early cause i didn't know it was instant. And i went to the library, where i heard the Singapore Songs blasting on the speakers. Cool atmosphere.

Sat in the class. We loaded our ppt up in the computer, and cause Irene said we were starting backwards, our group went first. "Well done" except for a few misleading info. Great. It's finally over. Then the rest of the people were suddenly very enthu today, all raising their hands to be the next one in turn.

And it went on. During the rest i rushed off to the toilet, and unfortunately JN was there with Huong, and JN asked me to join them. I said,"I want to pee" and quickly ran off. I could hear her saying, "I'm also going to the toilet" but I DON'T CARE. DAMNATION.

We finished up the rest of the groups' presentation, and we were done. Irene said that we don't need to do a ppt presentation for the individual interview assignment, but she will ask some people to present. OH GOD I HOPE I'M NOT INVOLVED. I just wanna stay beneath the surface, please.

Then Huong made a confession to me. Nothing serious; she's done that a lot of times. I know a lot of her secrets now, but i hadn't let her get hold of much of my info except that i've hamsters. And we went to the library in search of something sinister, but to no avail.

So we went for lunch and went to CAD Studio. Started work on my DiEss. The rest of the class went still having this big hoolah about the Friendster thingy.

It seems like JN is involving everyone in the class for her SLIMMING PLAN. They are gonna run two rounds around the miniscule school track every Friday. Oh great.

I finished up my stuff by 6plus. Took the bus 23 after seeing two 15s go off right under my nose and following the buses around like an idiot. I went to meet bro at CP to dabao KFC home. And i bumped into ex-ex-classmate Jon Lim at bus interchange.

And i went home.

I still remember the days when we used "A fateful day" over and over again in our essays.

And the fateful event took place.

Bye.

Zero

I shall continue from Monday.

So there wasn't Irene's class on Monday, but we went early anyway to complete the project. We met at 10.30am (i wanted to go earlier to do my illustrator stuff but i didn't want to get off the bed).

I reached first. JN and her grp members were already there. So i did my stuff. JN and grp suddenly have this idea of looking for Gini's and Val's pictures on Friendster. (FYI Gini and Val are two people in our assignment.) They searched and laughed LOUDLY like crazy people(only JN, to be precise). Then JN suddenly asked me,"Can I use yours?" I said,"Anything". I bet she didn't expect me to say that. She just wanna involve me in EVERYTHING she does. The bitch.

Huong and G came. We couldn't do the binding of the report today cause Huong didn't bring her reflection. (I spent the night before printing this and that and editing the damn ppt.) So we continued on some leftover stuff.

And the rest of the people in our class filled in, and then they started to look for funny personalities and pictures online, Friendster. And JN started laughing like crazy. How funny could it be? Wah lao. And the rest, as always, like to play along with her, laughing together oh ha-ha-ha. She just loves the ridiculous attention.

Yong Kin came in at 3pm. He commented that one of my designs is not bad(but later on i realised he diodn't get the message i wanted to convey for that design). Then i left at 6plus.

It was a very tiring day, as usual.

Indescribable

It's kinda weird
A feeling
That I can't describe.
Deep inside.

Sometimes there is
That split second
When my mind gets into a mess
Thinking i'll go out and play
When he's no longer there.

It's as if
Part of me is gone.
Some joy.
Some of the life.

It's a piece of puzzle
That's lost forever.

But someday
We will get together
Once more.

Consequences

As bro and i chatted about the mentioned incident, i'm reminded of an article i read before in MYB. It sayd the family of a deceased go through 4/5 stages after the occurence. It's something like that:



1. Shock

2. Realisation

3. Denial

4. Acceptance

5. Explanation/ Consolation of oneself



I'm now at 3. It's just too difficult to accept it now.

Do You Know What Is a Cry?

Yes. It is just a hamster, but i don't know i just have this surge of emotions over me. Maybe it's the first close death i've even been throughh. I've always said that i'm not afraid of my own death, but that of others'.

I'm now having a real headache. But i wanna say what i need to say.

I've only realised it has been a long time i had a real "cry". Readers of my blog will know i've always been emo-ing about school and all, but all that i did was sob. Sobbing is not crying. It's just a little bit of sniffling and you're done with it. Crying. Crying is the real explosion of your sadness. Thus the phrase "crying out loud".

Maybe it's the society we are turning into. We all want "face". I also didn't know that i'll break down that hard. But it just happens. I got shocked by myself. We don't even have time to cry, do we? We just stifle all those emotions inside and not let those tears stream out. We force them in. Back in. It only all spills out in one big time when something really bad happens.

Sigh. It comes back in waves. Just when i thought it's gone.

In Loving Memory Of Smoky Lee

Dear Smoky,

My old friend.

Thank you for all the wonderful and joyful memories.

We love you and we'll never forget you.

Love,
Ka Sia

Sunday, 15 July 2007

Yucks, Homework.

Hi there. Sunday. My most hated day. Isn't it ironic that my fave day and hated day is just that milli second away?

Okay. So i woke up at 11am today. And after preparation i set off straight away to CP, and took the train to Bugis. At City Hall i saw a primary school classmate. I walked directly in fornt of her. But she didn't see me cause she was in a daze. Phew.

It was already twelve by the time i reached.

And i went to look for Vida straightaway. And i stood there like an idiot, waiting for people to pass to take that perfect shot. People were staring at me. SOBS. Haha. And i didn't want to be spotted by the retail staff there. So i pretended to walk around and i would finally go back to Vida. Haha. And i got some shots.

Then i set off for Bugis Street. I got a pair of laces-less-loafer-like sneakers. And i got a tie. And i almost got an orange cap but it was ten dollars siao lah.

Okay. So my next destination was Sim Lim Square. With a lil bit of Nicky's help i got there. And after walking around the fourth floor one time and walking around the fifth floor two times, I found the shop. BEST BARGAINS. I got Swivel Pro 2GB cause they don't have stocks of Flash Pro. $30. Way damn cheaper than the latter. I looked at a chart and compared Swivel and Pro. They have the same functions, so i got Swivel. Flash is only better cause it is BLUE. Haha. Anyway i've been hogging didi's thumbdrive long enough and it's time to get a new one. (My old one caught a virus, remember?)

Then i walked to Little India MRT. Halfway through, at the stretch of road before the stretch of road where the MRT station is, i saw a large crowd lining by the fences by the side of the road. i thought they were queuing up for a free ride somewhere of what. There were people, wheelchairs and baby strollers. And as i walked by i took peeps amongst the mob of bobbing heads. First thing i saw, a van. Second, a SBS bus. Third, a police car. Fourth, another police car. I may have missed something in between all the heads, but when i reached the end of the pathway, i saw a tent. Those blue "P O L I C E" tent. And while a waited by the traffic light i saw blood seeping out from the tent. So there was a death. I crossed the road and took a picture. Upload next time.

Wow. I don't doubt it'll be in the news later. Then i took the train back to Sengkang. 2pm. Went to the arcade alone cause bro and didi didn't want to come, one round of Time Crisis 3, one round of Catch the Pooh Bear, one round of Maximum Tune, one more round of Catch the Pooh Bear. And i went off. Nothing much. But they've added bowling.

I went to buy Bubble Tea. Hmm... today's one was the best i've ever tasted of Cup Walker. The pearls don't have that weird taste. While queuing up bro called me and said they were coming. So i waited for them, and we went to Metro to look at Transformers. Popular. And we went to Kiddy Palace to wreck the toys. Then Mini Toons. Didi and I are always making fun of the staff, cause they always say "Welcome to Mini Toons!" So sometimes we will purposely walk inside to disturb them.

Okay. Then didi and i went home, whiule bro went to get bubble tea. 4pm.

After bathing and blogging, 5pm.

And i got hell lots of stuff to do.

CIAO.

Saturday, 14 July 2007

Xtreme

Alright! Today is a Saturday. MY favourite day. So i woke up at 11.30am. At 12plus i called Calvin for the interview. Okay i went quite well and he was very cooperative. So i quickly typed out the interview while the memory is still F-R-E-S-H.

For the rest of the day i just watched tv, packed some stuff, and watched tv. That's how Saturdays work.

So now i'm blogging, surfing the internet, and i think i'm gonna start on 'beautifying' the powerpoint.

Oh and shucks i have to do the personal reflection as well.

Ok i think i'm going to Bugis tomorrow to 1) Buy thumbdrive, 2) Take pictures of "Vida".

Here's the overview of next week's DEADLINES:
1. 17 July 2007, Tuesday:-
Fashion Merchandising: PBL Part 1 (Groupwork- Written Report+Powerpoint Presentation)
2. 19 July 2007, Thursday:-

Fashion Merchandising: PBL Part 2 (Individual- Written Report of Interview)
3. 20 July 2007, Friday:-
Digital Essentials: Final Assignment (Individual- 6 designs on Photoshop/Illustrator)

NEAT, yeah?

Yeah, right.

Work

13 July 2007, Friday

After the project we stayed in the CAD Studio, waiting for class to begin. Halfway through my work, Yong Kin came over for the consultation. He said a lot of stuff which i sometimes get and sometimes not, but the gist is that i have to make the designs more light-hearted. Uh-huh, but i'm naturally a very serious person.

After that we continued on the project at 5++pm. I smuggled Nicky in and she did her work. So our group worked on the powerpoint, and by the time we were done it was 7.30pm. Wow. I didn't realise. So i brought home the ppt and report to edit.

Reaching home i tried downloading Adobe Illustrator CS3 (continued from ytd) and it took damn long. When i went to sleep it was still at 99% after being 99% for half an hour.

Friday, 13 July 2007

Victorius

HELLO people. I'm at the CAD Studio right now. So far so good, for Friday the 13th.

Morning, mama fetch me and Nicky to school. Then we went to business school. Two funny incidents happened, at Cheers and the vending machine.

Then i came here to find G. Huong came later and we sat down to do our assignment. We've just finished and now it's break time. See you later!

Thursday, 12 July 2007

Umm

Morning, Fashion Merchandising. Peer teaching. I think i did(we took photos to be used in the PPT presentation) okay. I'm always converse better in small groups. After a break we watched a video on Vera Wang. All along i thought of her as a very talented designer who creates gowns and evenong wear. I'm now more impressed after watching the video. I really like the simplicity, with the right amount of details, in her work. =)

Irene then asked those groups which have not been assessed to stay back. And we were one of those. So she asked us about the peer teaching stuff, after that she said something which shocked me. Sort of. She said,"Presentation wise, I'm not so worried about the two of you(Huong and G), but Ka Sia, you need to express yourself more. I don't doubt your abilities, but you have to show what you know, not hide all your research. You have to be more confident... You are very focused... BUT...". Anyway this is just the shortened version. Know why i was shocked? Psst. Cause i don't do much research HAHAHAHA. That's why i don't elaborate much during presentations. Don't tell her, okay? Anyway i don't think i'm an inconfident person. HARK HARK! Ask my buddies about it.

Then i went to find Nicky, and lunched with her friends. Then i tagged along for their profect discussion at the library. I called "Calvin: once again, and NO answer. So i sent a super-duper long message to the number, giving all my personal details and such. HAHA and i found out it was the wrong number. Cause the person replied "Wrong number". Poof. So i called Poi Foong again, and got the number. Damn i was two digits wrong. And i called Calvin. Real one. He only agreed to a over-the-phone interview even though i encouraged him to give me a face-to-face one twice. Never mind. It's okay. And he'll send me his photos, but he doesn't have a namecard. And i told him i'll call him later cause i've yet to compile the questions.

After a while i left for DiEss. Worked on my first design. Shit lah i have to meet Yong Kin tomorrow about the assignment. Well everyone has to.

After that i went to TM. It just happens Shi Yng is off on everyday i go to visit Dano. So i did some shopping, grabbed some food and went home.

Ahh. Watched tv, arranged the questions for the interview, and now I'M LOOKING AT YOU. =D