Bloody hell

Worst Christmas ever. I loose my valuables.

Today I won't forget

Why do I even bother.

One word to sum up this season

Nostalgia.

MW2, shove aside

Time for speculation!

Holy shit! Strange spiral lights over Norway seen by thousands! UFO? Portal? Wormhole? Exciting!!!!

End of second block

Ah I just realised how long I haven't blogged. A few posts down was "End of first block". So let's wrap it up. Drawing for Animation: New lecturer with much skill and experience. In animation. Other than that, nothing much to comment on. I wish he'd be more reasonable though. And organised. I realise one thing, though. In this school, we pay to get taught stuff. Stuff that, if you are hardworking enough, can be learned by yourself. The thinking process behind what we do, though, is where our money's worth lies most. Stuff we animated: Seesaw, Bird flying, Beanbag, Human walking. Yup, that's it.

As for Comda, it's pretty much revising how to research and write a proper essay. Again, the topic I choose is related to my passion :/

Well that's it, I'm writing from school, and the only people here are Year 3s. Everyone's gone celebrate Ziq's birthday. Gotta go soon, chao outside.

Why do old people like moving their mouths?

Random thought:

We kids are considered 'modern', right? So when we grow old, would things have changed so much that we become 'old-fashioned'? Would we be like our parents/grandparents who lived totally different lives back then? What would our kids think of us? AND, would we still have the internet as it is? Of course there'll be changes and improvements and whatnots, but I get this feeling we've entered a new era, where we will still visit forums, BLOG, and play video games even when we hit 60. Imagine your sons and daughters or even your grandkids visiting your blog, reading about you reminiscing about old times. No more language barriers, technologically unsavvy people. Unless of course something new and radical is invented that we can't fathom using. Imagine people using fashionable bionic hands that can be plugged in to our bodies to help us multitask in the future. I think I'd stick to my good ol' hands and remain 'old-fashioned'.

ANGST

Troubling

That sickening feeling in your stomach

End of first block

And thus ends the first block of this new sem. Psycho was ok, test was ok, video was ok, I guess that one's pretty much.. ok? Motion graphics was kinda like animation, having to listen in on every lesson. Assignments were pretty much screwed up except for the last. I guess I'll do ok for this module also, probably lousier than psycho though.

Finally, time to get Modern Warfare 2 and enjoy a bit of free time I have before school starts again. Bleah, I need my rest.

Sbs should really make the exit ezlink tapouts much, MUCH more sensitive. Ever notice how you have no troubles tapping in, but every now and then, it takes way too long to tap out. And when there's a bunch of people waiting to go out, you feel kinda stupid waiting at the exit for so long, you just walk right outta the door.

Money guzzling machines.

Faizal's experience with the unconscious was interesting, but kinda freaky. I'm not gonna try that anytime soon.

Never thought I'd venture into 2d games, but this project seems fun. Now how do we make Singaporeans stylishly cute/cool?

Awesome Carl's Junior meal with pb yesterday. And then some shopping which, this time round was successful! I love Uniqlo.

And you. =D

My opinions are, mine

Looks like you don't know me

Anyways on a happy note, yes, my plate is FULL.

Girls aren't the only ones with feelings

School's started, and the video isn't even completed yet. I finally got my long lost motivation when Ubin stepped into the room. But then it was near closing time.

GOAL: Finish it by next week.

On another note, I have a new favourite artist. Alex Ross. A genius with lightings and humans and watercolours. He makes the lamest superhero cool. Aquaman, anyone? Recently borrowed a DC comic painted by him, and I'm gonna use it as best as I can to improve. Some real inspiration in there.

So right now, it's: (in terms of art, not story)

Alex Ross>Marvel>DC

A little sketch I tried using the comic as reference.

Cookie to the person who can guess who this is.

Wasn't today a blast, madam?

Megazip's awesome, though it could be longer. Luge was cool, skyride not so bad, but could be longer too. Even on Sentosa, everything's rushed. Wrong day to go though, with Deepavali and whatnot.

Sweat, dirt and grime. All in the name of fun. I wonder if I'll be red with sunburn tomorrow. Oh and phone's spoilt. Dammit, stupid me went to put it with the wet slippers. I mean slipper. Poor missing other, drowning at the bottom of the whoknowswhatsinthereotherthanwaterandsand.

Fun and games... but not even once. Sigh. Well one day to school and I've got a bad haircut. Darn.

mind over matter

Put two and two together, bam! Random statement that turns out to be correct.

Busy bee

Need all the time I can get for self improvement and projects.



Blarg, school is startin soon.

Moral of the story, DON'T GET ANY Cs

"Results are out!" from Nadiah got me all excited.


One increase from a B+ to a distinction, and one decrease from a B+ to a C+ = NOT GOOD


I didn't reach my target, but it's still.. Ok I guess. Oh well, I can't believe I got an ok grade for psycho, considering I flunked the final test. (y)

Oh stalker, what're you doing here?
No bother, I like you near.


Mum knows. Dad too. Most probably. Just waiting for the awkward questioning session :/

dearpbilessthanthreeyouso

Yes baby, a car would be nice

I'm happy :) See the smiley face? (: :) :D

3 days. It's been fun. Ecstasy.

I can't find the words to say,
But they're overdue,
I've traveled half the world to say,
I belong to you

Then she attacks me like a Leo,
When my heart is split like Rio,
But, I assure you my debts are real

Whew. It's over. Hols are here. A quick recap of what's happened. SC doesn't like me coz I slept in class a lot. Mmm. She asked me why but I didn't feel good giving excuses, even though it was legit. 3 piano accompaniments, 8 songs to learn in one month. Course I'm tired. Swell/

Had an interesting 18th birthday on Sep11th. Got a shirt from topman from old classmates, thanks guys! I really like it, a lot different from my usual, but cool nonetheless. (y) Thanks to Nadiah, Nina, San, Aisyah, Joe, Jasmine, Puimun, Iylia, Wenjun and Shuhui! And thanks to Ubin for that AWESOME card. Very nice, I like! Went to comex after slacking in school a bit, met Ubin and kenny there, thanks for the figurines you two :) Marina square, bought two meals. Yum.

Listened to the new Muse songs from the new album, The Resistance. Very nice. A lot different from their usual, lotsa strings, piano and less vocals. Kinda not used to it at first, but got the hang of it after awhile. Orchestral. Still, i wish there was more Electric guitar. Love the exogenesis parts.

Then... same old... Well not exactly same old, the five day not-food fast ended. ;p Was teaching the kids when I received a phone call, I'd won tickets for GCA conference! Was excited at first, then saw the conference schedule, only saw two that interested me. Went with sis there just now. First talk about Games of the past and future was really interesting. A real big eye opener. Bottom line of that talk: Passion, inside. Not limitations, outside. Tried my hand at ODST. One word: Fun. Then met Ubin and Kenny for awhile. Then her. Another fun night. Guitarhero 5. Boonkiller. Fun shit. A little embarrassing though, seeing them play so well. Carl's Junior. Interesting stuff happened when we were about to leave. Disturbing. The comeback was fun though :)

Bought The Resistance, listening to it now.

C+

Busy busy busy. Finished the two accompaniment exams. It went well. Went to get haircut. Went home. Back to school. Back home. Back to clementi to accompaniment another student. Back home. 3 hour nap. Wake up, time for school work.

Abstinence

5 days. It's gonna be a torturous 5 days. ;p

The bricks were in place, the cement set. All that was left was for the cement to dry. To harden up.

Then a gentle breeze knocked on the wall. "Please wall, open a brick or two for me to pass through."

"What if I do, and a hurricane comes in, I'll be destroyed!", thought the wall. After some thinking, it decided. The wall broke itself into two, letting the small breeze come in.

The wall is not complete. But it's not completely destroyed either. It's living harmoniously with the wind.

The end.



For now.

bittersweet symphony...again

I wanna go someone's house and just chill for the whole day and night. A little escapism would be nice. Everything's almost fine, trying to adjust, and it's going well (y). What can I say? Close the door, and tiny window opens. At least there's still light shining through.

I got to see how you think yesterday. Very critical, but interesting to see the way your mind works. And ghost stories! Ah!

dot dot dot

At the restaurant...

"Ryan are you ok? Your eyes very puffy. You got allergies?"

I was writing halfway. I decided to delete it all. Argh. :'(

bored in school

I smell pastry. Smells good. I smell cinnamon. Will taste good. Cousins coming over. Not sure how I feel about that. School work is half done. Though I've got monday to finish it, I shouldn't wait so long. I haven't been drawing on my tablet. Gotta start working out the kinks later.

Sometimes you feel like expressing your adoration for someone so much so you're not sure what to do. Sometimes you go the extra mile just to be with that special someone. Sometimes that person doesn't reciprocate.

But it's all good, because all you want is to put a smile on that someone's face. And then you feel great the whole day just for doing that. Today was something like that.

Happy thoughts.

Remember me

I can't remember the last time i made origami. What was it? 5 years?

Not as easy for me as for you.


Sadly.

It's 1:55am and I'm Freakin Distracted. Argh.

Feeling:
Troubled

LOL

OMG THAT WAS SOME HILARIOUSLY SCARY SHIT.














i love you kenny

heart strings

I'm a puppet, a gear piece, a key hole. Only that one person, that one other gear piece and that one key can pull me, push me and unlock me. Make me feel this way. My mind's distracted, but that's alright coz there's nothing else to worry about. Incomprehensible. I'm exhausted. I wanna sleep.

Waiting4you

Soccer. Hmm. What to wear? Haven't done outdoor sports in a looong time. Shirt? Tshirt? Home t shirt? Jeans? Nah, not jeans, bermudas? Too flashy for sports? Home pants? Ok bermudas. The black one. The one I used to wear out. Not really sports clothing, but it's all I got. I think, not really bothering to search my wardrobe.

Then I get there. And the first thing I notice. Kenny. In skinny jeans. Playing soccer. While everyone else is in their thin pieces of sports clothing. Skinny jeans. HAHAHHA.

Rizal taught me some moves. I played with some other unknowns. Ran, sweat, but not tired enough. Rizal hurt himself yet again. Never disolocated my ankle before. I wonder how he deals dislocating it so many times. Ouch. Push ups. Popeys. Chicken. Strawberry jam. Mmm. Faizal and his nonsense. Lol.

lipslipslipslips

It's 1:13am. I've not finished film lang final assignment. I haven't started. not good not good. I feel like I'm getting more lazy this past month. not good not good. focus la

*knocks head

Happy thoughts

Your voice is the soundtrack of my sleep time.

=)

Brave front

"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." James 4:14

How true, you can be here one moment, gone the next. Make full use of our time here on Earth.

*

Grudge. What a distant word to me. I don't understand it. I don't think I ever will. What is it? Holding a grudge? Is it my fault that I cannot remember ever holding a grudge? What is it? I don't get it.

Asking myself, am I distracted? I realise that I've been kinda distracted, albeit at a manageable level. Not today though. Yesterday changed today. Today I feel extremely distracted. Distracted distracted distracted. What a word to describe. Thinking. Thoughts. Memories. Not too old memories. Still fresh. I think it will stay there for as long as I can think of. Thoughts. Thinking. Should stop thinking. Flow. Mxide messages. Random subsections of thoughts that are interconnected. Gotta stop. focus. Focus. FOCUS.

~Chemistry

It's time, the chemicals say, it's time
To listen, to listen not
Oh, how can you be sure
That you won't stir up the boiling pot

Fingers not shaking
Heart-a-racing
Open your eyes
Your face is red

When you look back, now
What do you see
Experiments, conclusions
Questions or answers

'Twas time, I felt, 'twas time

Couple of dreams last night. Most memorable of which I was up on the rooftop of some old abandoned HDB flat. There were quite a few of us up there, snapping pictures as F35s, Eurofighters and some others flew right by us. It so real, the building shook and swayed each time an aircraft pass by. I took quite a few really cool pictures, and I was so sure it was Daily Deviation material. Only to wake up and find that I didn't have the pictures. Or the camera.

The Sandman: I had no idea what it was about, but after reading two volumes, I'm hooked. I like how each comic has its own story, though all have connection to one another, and of course, the Sandman. I also like how the story progresses. Each new comic starts off with the reader trying to interpret the speech bubbles and words. Then bit by bit, new information is given, like treats to a dog. And finally we get the whole picture. The marvelous imagination of Neil Gaimen.

The dream realm. The word games between demons. The idea that each god/demon exist only because humans believe in them, and thus the destruction of humans=destruction of the gods/demons. Dreams. Hope. Desire. Death.

Tp library has quite a few starwars comics, to my surprise. Looks like it's gonna be a new popular destination for me. Came back from cell, met this new guy who can OWN a guitar. 8 years of playing it, I'm awed. Jimmy Hendrix, Muse, man this guy rocks. Gotta check out what this music cca in tp he was telling me is all about.

Ah and I'm glad for you, you never stopped trying, and look how things turned out. All the best to you.

Am I expendable?

I hope not.

On another note, I want a Macbook. I'm doing well academically, and almost everyone except me already has a laptop. I should be given a laptop, right? Right?

/rant

Oh and I was taught how to style hair just now by San. (y)

Hello there, I'm watching you

The Exorcist. The movie Alfie damn well pumped us all up for. I can understand why it won the best sound in the 1970s, but now, I'm afraid it didn't live up to our expectations. Not that it's a bad movie or anything, don't get me wrong, but it didn't live up to expectations in terms of scare factor. And I quote Shaun, "This one like comedy sia". Again, not that this movie is not creepy enough, but compared with current horror movies which can scare the shit outta me almost every freakin second, this one scared me. For awhile. Then the we got to see the girl's face all possessed, and we got used to it. Funny eyes? Check. Pale skin? Check. Scars? Check? Spews vomit every once in awhile. Check that too. The scare factor, in this case, the girl, was given a lot more screen time then current scare factors.

Sleeping bag. I brought it to school, no kidding. And it was comfy. Audio lesson was boring, till we had the hands-on session which made things more lively. I wish he would stop shooting himself, saying how dry the lesson was. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that.

Contemplating

"Are you more in love with the idea of love, or with the person you love?"

Wow that really got me thinking. Just read finish the Killing Joke I got for sis at Kino yesterday whilst out with Miss Potatoe. I gotta say, I'm not too impressed with it. Maybe it's because I don't really know much about the Joker, so this backstory didn't have that much of an impact on me. But after hearing from sis who Barbara Gordon really is, I guess it's good value for money if you're a DC fan. I'm still more Marvel, but probably mainly because of the art style, which is so much more dynamic. Though Dc's plots can be more interesting at times. I think. I'll have to get Sandman or Watchmen from the library sometime. Sometime soon preferably.

Well well well

Were you trying to send me a message?

Or was I thinking too much?

Apparently it's the latter.

Busy day yesterday, a lot went through my mind.

Watched Animatrix with Ubin. Really cool. Now I kinda understand what the Matrix is all about. I wanna watch the movies. Haircut later, they better do it right.

Not such a boring day after all

Class was more fun than usual. Watched Crash, already watched it before, but this time I appreciated it lots more. Loved how everything came together.

What a difference to your day a phone call can make.

Sound room, closed doors, 3, 2, 1, Fight! Wing Chun vs Kenny. Exhausted, but good exercise. Been exercising the past few days, only bad thing to come out of it is the tiredness I feel. Which explains why I've been sleeping so early these few days, around 10/11 pm. And I need a freakin hair cut.

Well that was a fun yesterday

Today was fun too. Started the day off watching Amelie. Something I've always wanted to watch, but never found the chance to. So.. Oh what the heck, I'll just do a review tomorrow. Time to sleep man.

Hey there, let's be friends

a Saturday night in school. Wish you were here.

Psychology's over. Presentation went well. But Psycho's over. And there're so many things to miss. Jeff is one of them. He's the awesomest lecturer around. Every single one of his lectures was fun. Lectures about how memory, how intelligence, personality etc comes about may sound boring, but Nooo, not when he's teaching. Sigh. I wonder if any lecturer can top him. Looks like there'll only be one reason to look foward to the next Psychology class. Though that might change. Vodka and Root beer. I'm not feeling anything yet. It's gonna be nice knowing you better.

-edit-

I'm feeling a bit of the effects of the alcohol. A little sleepy, and... woozy?

It's Q&A time, and the group presenting should be prepared for answers that the floor (us) should give, right? Well what if you have a question that you know would be damn tough to answer; you've got them trapped. Only if you asked. What do you do? Give them the chance to show their full potential and answer the question? Or sit back, relax, and prevent them from a possible awkward situation?

I didn't get to choose. Because time was running out.

Oh and tomorrow is the last day of psychology. Sadface.

I don't think I can get an A for either PcomD or Psycho.. Sadface x 2

-Corrupted transmission error- Sadface x 3

well THAT sucked

So I stayed up all night, ok not really, I slept 30 mins thanks to Jes for waking me up, basically mugging for the Psycho test. Intelligence, personality, Abnormal behaviour, Disorders and Treatments. Oh and not to forget the portfolio. 8 pages of words and pictures. And then to totally flunk the test. Flunk because I did not know how to do almost half of the paper. -.- Note to self, CREATE MINDMAPS, MEMORISE THE BIG PICTURE, NOT JUST THE INDIVIDUAL DETAILS
For some reason I couldn't remember what I'd memorised. Maybe I should've brought along a chewing gum eh? (According to psychology, chewing increases ability to remember)

Slacked awhile in 310, talked about ghosts and vitas. Lol.

Ok, this might have been the first time I had sleep paralysis and hallucinations at the same time. As usual, this happened at a time when I had not had enough sleep. So I lied down, with the laptop facing me on my left. There was some light coming out of the screen. I tried to sleep.

X amount of time passes.

I felt the sensation of sleep paralysis. I was used to it. This time I tried fighting it as hard as I could. Then I managed to flutter open my eyes a little. There was light shining on my face, from the laptop. Then I heard voice repeatedly calling out "Ryan, ryan ryan" It sounded like mom. But it can't be, I realised, she wouldn't call my name in the middle of the night. And she wouldn't be doing it right beside my ear. I fought the paralysis, and managed a soft "What...?" Oh and the blanket was covering me.

I 'woke' up. The screen was not lighted up. The blanket was all the way pulled down. My mom was not there. It was dark. Probably hallucinating. I went back to sleep.

MALAYSIA. Freakin hell wasted my day. Woke up at 7 to prepare for this trip. Drove to coach. Coach drove us to Malaysia. Stupid checkpoints. Got to this chocolate shop thing. Looked so good on paper. But all it was was a big shop selling chocolates. Samples. A little talk about the making of chocolate. And a heavy price tag on a bottle of chocolates. Not even as good as Cadbury, but 5 times the price.

Then went to a food farm. More like vegetable and fruit farm. Ate lunch there. It sucked. Walked amongst the vegetation and stale, humid air. Rambutan, durian, jackfruit trees. Blah blah blah. Walked around on our own with cousins. Experienced tour guide leading us. Went to the 'animal' farm. Which was really an enclousure with some monkeys and rabbits chained to a stand. And some goats. Well at least there was this fail part where this dude waved a stack of notes in front of a monkey. And the monkey grabbed it. And he tried to take it back, which was a stupid move. And the monkey took a bite out of the notes. 50 ringgit notes, mind you. It was hilarious. Eventually it dropped the stash and the dude got it back. Torn.

Proceeded to this talk about bees, which was really a way to get you to buy the nutritious honey that can be smeared on your face and eaten. Mmm. -.- Then dinner. Which too, sucked. Oyster omelette. Eww. Crayfish was not bad. One weird thing though was that I ate prawns, crayfish, oyster egg and crab. Considering that I don't fancy seafood, that was really something. But whatever, we got to play 'catch the fly with your chopsticks to win points' game. Oh and we tried cracking the crab's shell with our chopsticks. We failed.

Ahh, the interesting part. Fireflies. Got into an old wooden boat, travelled a little out into this river. Like the ones you see in whats that show--Anaconda. Yes. Trees on either side, but coz it was kinda dark, all you could really see were the sillouhettes. Then we saw them flies. Lepaking near the river edge on the trees, they flicked on and off, lighting up like christmas lights. The lights aren't that bright till they light up the whole tree, but they were sharp enough, imagine stars. The boat driver then moved us to one of the tree sticking out, and the flies came in! Rushed to the front, caught a few, a few escaped. It was really cool, trying to catch these small flickering lights. Finally caught one, showed it to Susan, who then showed it to mum. The firefly then somehow crawled into mum's sleeve and burrowed itself in there. Imagine a flickering greenish yellow light shining through a white sleeve. Awesome. Bagged it and brought it back here.

And now I've still gotta finish up the banner.

*

It's been really easy talking to you these days. /sarcasm

i AM your subconscious

Psychology is the shit yo. And with Jeff, psychology is the shit. Wordy and long at times, Jeff somehow manages to keep the lectures interesting. I like Jeff. I like Psychology. I like the people in Psychology. I like me. (Fulfilling self actualization) Right...

Stayed in school till 2315 with Kin Shaun and WeiRu. Did the characters for the banner, and made fun of Kin and Wr. Oh and Shaun too. How could I forget Shaun. But the limelight today was on Kin. Muahahaha. Go on, use your wushu punch on me. I'll wing chun punch you back 10 times more. Hahha.

And hope all goes well for you San.

When you crashed in the clouds, you found me

ENTP: Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving

"ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil's advocate. ENTPs are as innovative and ingenious at problem-solving as they are at verbal gymnastics; on occasion, however, they manage to outsmart themselves. Both at work and at home, ENTPs are very fond of "toys"--physical or intellectual, the more sophisticated the better.

ENTPs are basically optimists (Major setbacks they tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determin- ation.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and show little restraint in demonstrating this. However, they do tend to be extremely genial, if not charming, when not being harassed by life in general. In terms of their relationships with others, ENTPs are capable of bonding very closely and, initially, suddenly, with their loved ones. ENTPs are also good at acquiring friends who are as clever and entertaining as they are. Aside from those two areas, ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience -- good, bad, or potential."

Wow. So much more accurate than those Horoscopes thing. No offense Kenny, but I'd rather stick to Psychology then the constellations of moons and stars :)

And... Cousins are in town! WOOT! Can't wait to meet them and see how much bigger they've grown.

Gosh it's getting strongerrrrrrrrr.

What's up with those disdainful eyes?

It can be such a downer.

Psychology video is finished! I haven't slept yet, and am freakin tired. Good thing I still have one more can of RB. Presentation for PComD today, hope everything goes well for the whole group.

Rather hectic two days. Realising that we can't get the tape digitised. Rushing on Sat to meet Kin Leung's Wushu coach, discussed with him about the logo and banner. Friendly guy on the outside, but the details he gave us were way too little. Then rushing off home to get the tape to pass to Ubin''s uncle. Then rushing to school to meet the rest, and staying till 2130 discussing our project. Then finally going home to do the animation.

Went to Kin's house today. Did another logo, and damn, our client said that it doesn't really have any link to Wushu, though it looks cool. And almost every question we asked him was replied with a "I dunno". At first we thought that was easier, having the freedom to do what we want. Now we know. Quote of the day "1 eye can see"

Singlish fail la. Lol.

It just doesn't seem... right, talking like that. For others, yeah, fine, but... I really am not sure how to respond to that.

Maybe it's the defensive mechanism kicking in. I dunno.

That was fun

Thanks ubinibu.

Bummer

Staying positive is not easy

Where'd you go?

I'm from Moi. I know what I'm doing, give me a break will ya? That idea will work. But looks like my group's steering towards something else. I just hope it's workable.

And so my other blog has taken the spotlight.

Wow just talking online and I'm all awake!

=D

Waking up to a nice surprise.

Not sure how to finish this level

Stage one is completed. But where do I go on from here? I've become an optimist over the past 2 years; anything I want, I will get. Just putting my mind to it and seeing it a reality will make the difference. But... chapter 7 just eludes me, and I guess I've been a pessimist over that. So. How do I go on from here? And... this is where a private blog would come in handy, considering that it's getting too deep. All in all, today was a success.

Formed groups for Psychology class. Too bad Mr. Jeff here made the groupings, and I gotta say, it could've been better. Not just for me, but for others. All four MOIers are split up into different groups, and our assignment? Do a tv commercial. If we had been grouped together... But let's see, I'm pretty fine with my group, Justin the Judo guy, Dinah the... Dinah, and Cheryl the girl with the accent. Stuck outside the house with no keys, I used the time and came up with an idea for our commercial. Surprisingly the idea came to me quite fast, and if we can pull it off, I think it will work.

Cough can be such a downer. Also, comparing me to mr.x. Was I really like him? In any case, we all have changed, so watch out for pwnage.

You don't know the depths I'd go

I've finally got the motivation to work hard for PComD. Desmond's lecture just now really helped me understand the importance of all these interviews and portfolio and resume trainings. Now that the motivation is here, time to do work.

I wish this block could last forever.

Thumbs of steel

I carried a sniper rifle for the first time in my life today. Went over to the military exhibit in TP, and the first thing that caught my eye was a sniper all ghillied up. He was in the ghillie suit which looked like moss and algae. The rifle he let me carry was a Steyr SSG 69. Fancy name, but not that fancy in appearance. It's a bolt action rifle, unlike the semi automatic Barrett M82 that I've read so much about. It's 4kg plus, but the cool thing was that I could look through the scope. It wasn't blocked or anything, though I think it wasn't zoomed to the max. Talked a bit to the sniper, and man, do I have respect for these guys. I've watched videos about the super tough training of snipers, and how only the top get selected. These guys are tough as nails. I didn't get to ask him a bunch of questions, though, no worries since they'll be there tomorrow.

Went inside a tank, and it's soo spacious. I wonder how fast someone can get from the outside to the driver seat without bumping his head or legs anywhere. 22 tons, that's 22 thousand kg. No wonder they had to put plywood beneath the tracks to prevent scratching the ground. Talked quite a lot to the guy manning the Light Howitzer. It takes 8 men to man that piece of artillery. It takes around 40 minutes to secure it to a Chinook for liftoff. They even have to tape the lights to prevent the glass from breaking due to difference in air pressure. The destructive radius of a single shell can reach up to one football field. It can move at a rate of 12 km/hr and weighs 5 tons plus. It can shoot up to 30 km away o.o.

I guess I have my dad's genes, I'm strangely attracted to military weapons and equipment.

Watched Night at the Museum 2 just now, kinda forcing myself to keep my head up. I found it boring. Maybe I was just that tired. And so far Rowell is the only one I haven't beat in thumb wrestling yet! Damn that guy is strong! Woke up to a terrible dream in the morning. I was about to be executed in front of my family and friends to set an example. Now the dream is kinda muddled, but I think it was my dad or something who was going to behead me. I wasn't panicky though, just sad. You can't imagine the relief I felt when I woke up.

What do you do... When you're inside the heart, think you're inside the heart, then realise that all there is, is the blood that rushes to your head.

Great start to the new block/

Nuff' said

God, how time flies so fast. Tomorrow. Hope for the best.

Worked today for 7 hours! Woot! Money! Something I'm running oh so low on. Met this guy called Syazwan, kinda a nice guy I guess, but everybody's nice when you first meet them. I can't tell, but he's cool. Lucky plaza ain't so cool though. Lotsa penoi walking around, with the occasional blondes and brunettes. :)

Went to watch Transformers again with bro, coz dad didn't wanna make people inside the cinema feel uncomfortable with his coughing. It was alright the second time around, I wasn't too 'wowed' of course, and in fact found several scenes with the twin robots kinda fake. Then I was trying to grasp why it seemed fake, and I just couldn't. And I remembered Alan saying something about how the human eye can easily detect if something's not right. Well, it was still enjoyable, don't get me wrong. Though this little 'outing' with my bro reminded me of how uncommunicative we've been. Always on his ipod wactchin something, he rarely speaks to me. And when I do try to start a conversation, he usually gives one worded replies. "So how did you find the movie?" "Good la"

-.-

Nibu I can't imagine how you're feeling man, that really sucks. I wish I never have to experience that.

Evolving from a little grasshopper

Transformers 2! Met Faizal at the bus, took the mrt to pasiris. Wait what? Pasiris? Whatever for, you may ask. Simple, to get seats when everyone else alights at Pasiris, then, comforatbly wait as the Mrt brought us to City hall. Faizal's idea, and a good one if you've got the time. So, transformers 2. Awesome. Gripes: Too many Jarjarbinks wannabes. Well that and an average storyline. But man, all the robots and explosions and more explosions. And Fox. And explosions. A fun movie to watch, one which I wanna watch again, but probably am not since two of my tickets thanks to the Army are going to my bro and dad tomorrow. Ah heck, with all the reviews going around everywhere, I think it's redundant to have mine, so I'll just quote my favourite review.

"With machines that are impressively more lifelike, and characters that are more and more like machines, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" takes the franchise to a vastly superior level of artificial intelligence. As for human intelligence, it's primarily at the service of an enhanced arsenal of special effects, which helmer Michael Bay deploys like a general launching his very own shock-and-awe campaign on the senses. Otherwise, little seems new compared to the first installment, except that this version is longer, louder, and perhaps "more than your eye can meet" in one sitting. It will reap similar B.O. rewards worldwide."--Variety

And Shuhui, see, nice right? "What's so nice about robots fighting each other -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-" lol.

Finally, I've finished the MC vs Elite pic which I have now renamed "In. Your. Face." Hard work man, hard work. but I'm glad it's done. http://spu7n1k.deviantart.com/art/In-Your-Face-127194466

Now for speedpaintings to increase my speed. What an informative sentence. Right. Just browsed through my old drawings and winced. http://spu7n1k.blogspot.com/2006/10/odst-lock-load.html I still remember thinking those were the awesome and top notch, thinking to myself "Would I ever be able to top this? I mean, it's already quite good." Now, 3 years later, I know I can. Can't believe I thought those were good! Well, 3 years from now I bet I'm gonna say the same thing about my current level.

What the hell man, Ronald. So we aren't allowed to practice in the 2dlab, because its the holidays. First time I heard a teacher/lecturer chase students out of a classroom because its the holidays.

I think... I fractured my ribs... Ever since that day in the sound room when I laughed till I coughed, which was like many weeks ago, I've been coughing. It was really bad, then it got better, but every now and then, I'm still coughing. And that's ok, because it's only every now and then. Till Saturday hen my ribs started hurting, and Sunday when I coughed quite hard, and suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my right ribs. From then on the pain hasn't subsided, but I think it got worse. And I read some articles that said that coughing too much can fracture your ribs. Big breaths hurt, stretching hurts, coughs and sneezes are the worst. I hope it gets better, or I might have to see a doctor. Something I absolutely loathe.

Went for Jame's bbq today, not as many people from other classes as expected, quite a few of his other friends. Before that we went to TM to find a present, slacked awhile then headed for the chalet site at East Coast Park. Slacked there mainly, nothing much to do. Ate, walked a bit at the beach, dai de, slack, then went home. All the while careful not to cough too much. Sian, first it was cough, then ulcer, then this.

I was talking to you. Then I remembered that yesterday I dreamt I was talking to you. And I thought, what a coincidence. Then I woke up. @#!

Linda
Less than 10 minute scribble, might do this someday.

The dreams keep coming. Today I had a very nice dream. A not so nice awakening.

Kenny, Alex, WJ, Shaun and San came over yesterday for awhile, partly because mum came home, kinda spoiling the mood. Kenny played Deadspace for a bit, then they decided to play Mirror's Edge. Went out to TM and T1 afterthat with the intention to go to Bugis later on, but after walking around for so long I guess we were all tired. Saw a Spiderman shirt at Topman, and I just had to buy it, even though it costed a bomb. 49 bucks! Thanks to Shaun for that 15% discount thing, but still, 41 bucks! Nevermind, at least I can show off to Eddy. Hahaha.

Went to eat at Subway, while constantly on the look out, but surprisingly, there wasn't really any we could find 0.0 Except for two xmm who were hogging the Bomberman arcade machine which San so wanted to play. Waited for them to get off, then San procceeded to own the machine. Impressive, most impressive. I wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes in there, but he seemed to know everything about the game. Too bad he died at the (i think) last boss. Kenny was playing Metal Slug, and I realised that they all know so much about all these arcade games compared to me. All because I was banned from entering arcades since young. Till now. But who cares, really, as long as I know my spending limits. And I didn't spend a single cent yesterday. Kenny 'sponsored' me to play one song from the Guitarhero machine at T1 though. Knights of Cydonia. And dammit man, those people who set up the arcade machines really know how to do their job. The strum tab required more force than a normal one, sucking out my energy faster than you could say "Bellamy". Finished the song in the end, good workout. lol.

Then proceeded to buy 4 bottles of beer (them, not me) and went to some block around there to lepak. I tried a little beer, and it still tastes the same like it did a few years back when I tried it at Bangkok. Bitter. Talked a bit, shared a bit, sang a bit, but no nonsense at all. Such good kids we were yesterday. Then we left at 10 and I passed my Spidey shirt to Alex for 'safekeeping'. See, my mom would scream at me if she were to find out I bought a 41 dollar shirt, and I couldn't make sure whether or not she would be in the living room when I got home. So come Monday, I will get back the shirt, put it in my bag, sneak it home, put it in the washing machine, and hopefully a few weeks later my mom will say "Where did you buy this? I've never seen you wear it before~" And I will say "Oh long time ago la"

The end.

Torso and some detailing are done, I might change the waist a bit. Now to find some reference pictures for the background. Was zooming into some other people's paintings, and I realised that to make a metal-ish effect, the shading wasn't as smooth as mine. I think mine's too smooth, but let's see whether the textures I put later on will be of help.

Weird dreams again. Two, but I can now only remember one, where we were at this HUGE room, oh and we being the whole of MOI and strangely, my sis. She was sleeping in the middle section. The room was split into three sections, the left being KL/MH's class. Kangling and Yiting were the more recognisable faces in my dream. Then the middle was supposed to be my class, and it was strangely empty, maybe because some of them went to the right section, San/Eddy's class. Oh and Alfie was there on the right looking at his laptop. I said hi. The right section was rasied, which i guess attracted more people :/

Another reason to join animation!

(Videos taken from Halowars website)

Damn I just had a dream. But I can't remember! Shit!

-Edit-

I remember now, I dreamt that I was in a race, and halfway through the race I stopped and waited for someone to pass by. That person never came, so I eventually took off, and caught up with everyone via a tactical grid/map thing. Weird.

I had two weird dreams last night. First, I dreamt that I was watching youtube, and came across a video of a HUGE octupus playing something like a cello/violin. It looked something like two instruments joined together, like what Jimmy Hendrix plays. And the octopus was playing that instrument underwater, specially made by humans because it was so taleted. All 8 tentacles were strumming the strings, performing an orchestra piece, but I can't remember what it is now. I was planing to post that video on facebook, that's how real that dream was.

Second, I dreamt that Halibel from bleach didn't die from that ice blast thing, but said she had to be hit 13 times by that attack to be killed. 13... Strange number~~

Now I'm in 2dlab, and I haven't started on my painting yet, waiting for Kenny to finish drawing to return me the pen. Just watched the pilot episode of "The Office", and I'm liking Steve Carrel! He's so awesome~ Just transferred quite a few episodes to my hard disk, not enough space to put in all...

Went to school just now, met Alex and Kenny, played some music in the sound room for awhile before heading to 2dlab to do our stuff. And by stuff I mean photoshop painting, but somehow that 'stuff' soon became trying to sleep because I was too tired... Ulcer's not gettin better, and eating's a chore. I kinda prefer my tablet over the school's one, though it has yet to have a name. What should I name it? Hmm. Gonna go to school later then to Bugis area to collect that ODST card thing. I swear man, everytime I think of going town area I feel so sian. It's so freakin far, even though it's not compared to other countries where towns and cities can take hours to get to... MC's doing fine, still have the hands and torso to finish up tomorrow. Then the background. Then the textures. :)

Bamboo fun!

After that huge argument yesterday, I finally got my tablet today. 6 by 9 inch Bamboo Fun. And I got a new haircut too. Thankfully the guy I usually go to wasn't there, so I got to try a new shop. Some China guy who cut pretty well. He seemed quite experienced, and much better than the guy I usually go to. Great. Tablet. First impressions, big enough for me to use. More rough, texture feels like using a marker and writing on paper. I guess that's better than the one at school. Ok maybe not technically better, but everyone has their preference. NPNT*, so here it is.






I can't wait to start spamming paintings on it, and no better time since holidays just started. I plan to use this two weeks wisely. BBQ tmr, gotta go Giant and find some steaks! So far my cough isn't really getting any better, and worse, I've got a huge ulcer on the lining of my mouth wall. Can't say I'm looking forward to BBQ tmr that much.

It's been such a long time since i've felt this raw emotions; Anger Hate Sadness.

Hell, it looks like you'll never change.

I had fun doing this. Footage from "Supermassive black hole", "Butterflies and Hurricanes" and "Newborn" plus of course, Modest Mouse's "Miss the boat". I love Muse.

Blackout

I'm dead tired. Up the whole night doing video edit since morning. I guess that would be 18 hours of sitting in front of a computer screen yesterday and today. Thankfully I managed to finish it just before 7am just now, in time for school. I actually enjoyed video editing, and I'm happy with the final result. Fast cuts ftw. And Muse is erotic? lol?

Coughed so bad just now that I couldn't breathe properly, teary eyed I rushed to the water cooler. Even wondered if this is what death feels like. Overreacting probably, but hey, my brain wasn't functioning too good. Bertrand liked my videdit and our animatic, at least all that hard work didn't go to waste. Kinda surprised at his response to the animatic though. Still, I can't help but wonder why he didn't critique our work the way Amanda and Julian did. Modest Mouse is growing on me, and I'm not sick of "Missed the boat". Yet. I wonder why so many people's opinions about sg differ from mine :/ Time to bathe and take a nap, then to do my journal for Videdit.

I'M FUCKIN PISSED

I was, now I'm better. Mmmkay.

Spent the whole day at Animation lab doing STOPP. Hanah told me that even she thinks Birdbird isn't doing his job properly. I'd rather learn more and be expected of higher standards than slack more and have lower standards. I'm kinda addicted to Pink Floyd's Comfortably numb. Psychedelic. Haha, just now was walkin with Joe, San and Kenny. Suddenly turned around to find San and Joe. There they were, talking to a random girl sitting at a table, pointing to me. Lol shit sia, somemore say "The one in the orange shirt". Fun stuff.

I'm kinda disappointed in my drawing today, dunno what's wrong with me. Couldn't seem to get it right. The head. Get it right and everything else'll be good. Well thanks to San for buying me dinner, really appreciate that gesture :) Another day of STOPP, gotta sleep now, wake up early this time.

I like reading

Speed painting practice, Mouse

So. Somehow I can't wait going to school tomorrow and use that Wacom pen. I couldn't seem to get it right the last time round doing my stopp frames, maybe tomorrow will be a better day. It's amazing how much inspiration Deviantart can give you.

On another note, I've been reading about theories about the big bang, different dimensions, black holes and the existence of God. So far, everything points towards there being a God, or supernatural being who created the universe. I'm not gonna talk about specific religions, but rather, the whole God concept.

People thought the universe was static, unmoving. The theory was that if the universe is infinitely old and large, there would be an infinite number of chances for life to exist. Imagine throwing a dice with ten trillion sides infinite amount of times. Eventually you'll hit the side called "Life". Now we know it is expanding, planets are moving further apart. It is not static. What does that mean? Simply, that the universe was once clumped together. Hence, the big bang theory. Plus many other evidence, one of them being the left over radiation detected everywhere in our galaxy, confirming a huge explosion. But that's too scientific for me to explain.

So. What does the Big bang mean? It means that once the universe was never here. Thus it had to be created. The big bang was its cause, but who created the big bang? Agent X. Who's Agent X? I believe it's God. But then, since we went so far back to the beginning of he universe, let's ask: Who created God? When did he/it come into being? The answer is simple. He was always there. If he created the universe, he created the laws of the universe. Time. It never existed before the universe was created. That means he created time, long with all the other physics equations and whatnots. So a God which created time is not confined to time. He doesn't need to have a beginning. Not that hard to grasp eh?

"Both John Chapter One and Colossians Chapter One make that claim about God; He has no beginning, no end and He is not created. The Bible is the only Holy book that makes that statement about God." But let's not go into religion, back on topic.

Let's talk about somemore reasons why I believe God created us.

Electromagnetism- Unless the force electromagnetism takes on a particular value, molecules won't happen. Take the nucleus of an atom. There's an electron orbiting it. If the force electromagnetism is too weak, the electron will not orbit the nucleus. No electrons orbiting nucleus= No molecules= No life.

Strong Nuclear force- Protons and neutrons are held together in the nucleus of an atom by the strong nuclear force, which is the strongest of the four forces of physics.

If the nuclear force is too strong, the protons and neutrons in the universe will find themselves stuck to other protons and neutrons, which means we have a universe devoid of Hydrogen.No Hydrogen= No life.

On the other hand, if the nuclear force is too weak, all we will have is Hydrogen. Life can't exist with only hydrogen. 0.03 stonger, no life. 0.06 weaker, no life.

Gravity- It is necessary for the universe to be electrically neutral. The numbers of the positively charged particles must be equivalent to the numbers of negatively charged particles or else electromagnetism will dominate gravity, and stars, galaxies and planets will never form. If they don't form, then clearly life is impossible.

The numbers of electrons must equal the numbers of protons to better than one part of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 to the 37 th power). That is one chance in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 to the 37 th power).To say all that happened by chance is kinda ridiculous.

I'm just gonna copy paste this whole chunk here coz I don't think it needs me to paraphrase it.

"The right star is needed. We can't have a star any bigger than our Sun. The bigger the star, the more rapidly and erratically it burns its fuel. Our Sun is just small enough to keep a stable enough flame for a sufficient period of time to make life possible. If it were any bigger, we couldn't have life on planet Earth. If it were any smaller, we'd be in trouble, too.

Smaller stars are even more stable than our star, the Sun, but they don't burn as hot. In order to keep our planet at the right temperature necessary to sustain life, we'd have to bring the planet closer to the star.

Tidal Forces

The physicists in the audience realize that when you bring a planet closer to its star, the tidal interaction between the star and the planet goes up to the inverse fourth power to the distance separating them. For those of you who are not physicists, that means that all you have to do is bring that planet ever so much closer to the star, and the tidal forces could be strong enough to break the rotational period.

That's what happened to Mercury and Venus. Those planets are too close to the Sun; so close that their rotational periods have been broken, from several hours to several months.

Earth is just barely far enough away to avoid that breaking. We have a rotation period of once every 24 hours. If we wait much longer, it will be every 26 or 28 hours, because the Earth's rotation rate is slowing down.

Going back in history, we can measure the time when the Earth was rotating every 20 hours. When the Earth was rotating once every 20 hours, human life was not possible. If it rotates once every 28 hours, human life will not be possible. It can only happen at 24 hours.

Speed of Earth's Rotation

If the planet rotates too quickly, you get too many tornadoes and hurricanes. If it rotates too slowly, it gets too cold at night and too hot during the day. We don't want it to be 170 degrees during the day, nor do we want it to be below –100 at night, because that's not ideal for life.

We don't want lots of hurricanes and tornadoes, either. What we currently have is an ideal situation, and God plays this. He created us here at the ideal time.

We need the right Earth. If the Earth is too massive, it retains a bunch of gases such as Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Helium in its atmosphere. These gases are not acceptable for life, at least, not for advanced life. But if it's not massive enough, it won't retain water. For life to exist on planet Earth, we need a huge amount of water, but we don't need a lot of ammonia and methane.

Remember high school chemistry? Methane's molecular weight 16, ammonia's molecular weight 17, water's molecular weight is 18. God so designed planet Earth that we keep lots of the 18, but we don't keep any of the 16 or the 17. The incredible fine-tuning of the physical characteristics of Earth is necessary for that.

Jupiter Necessary, too

We even have to have the right Jupiter. We wrote about this in our Facts and Faith newsletter a few issues back, but it was also discovered by American astrophysicists just this past year. Unless you have a very massive planet like Jupiter, five times more distant from the star than the planet that has life, life will not exist on that planet.

It takes a super massive planet like Jupiter, located where it is, to act as a shield, guarding the Earth from comic collisions. We don't want a comet colliding with Earth every week. Thanks to Jupiter, that doesn't happen.

What these astrophysicists discovered in their models of planetary formation was that it's a very rare star system indeed that produces a planet as massive as Jupiter, in the right location, to act as such a shield.

We Even Need the Right Moon

The Earth's moon system is that of a small planet being orbited by a huge, single moon. That huge, single moon has the effect of stabilizing the rotation axis of planet Earth to 23½ degrees. That's the ideal tilt for life on planet Earth.

The axis on planet Mars moves through a tilt from zero to 60 degrees and flips back and forth. If that were to happen on Earth, life would be impossible. Thanks to the Moon, it's held stable at 23 ½ degrees.

Just as with the universe, in the case of the solar system, we can attach numbers to these. In this case, I've chosen to be extremely conservative in my estimates. I would feel justified in sticking a few zeros between the decimal point and the one. I would feel justified in making this 20 percent, 10 percent, for example, and on down the line.

We Even Need the Right Number of Earthquakes

I've got so many characteristics here, and I let the Californians know that you have to have the right number of earthquakes. Not too many, not too few, or life is not possible. I share them with my wife, who doesn't like earthquakes, but I just tell her that when you feel a good jolt, that's when you have to thank God for his perfect providence."

All this has been taken from http://www.cosmicfingerprints.com/audio/newevidence.htm

Check it out if you've got the time.

And yes, this might be my longest post yet.

Today kinds of wraps up the week, I guess. Did STOPP in the animation lab the whole day, and I'm starting to worry that I'm taking too long to colour the frames. Monday I'm gonna try my best not to be distracted and see how much I can finish. If all goes well, I'll continue doing what I'm doing, if not, something's gotta change. Thanks to Kenny and Alex for stayin in the lab with me or I might've died of boredom. Didn't see much of SG (haha) this week. Stoked for ODST, Reach and Conviction. Oh and Insomnia might be the very first Korean song that I actually enjoy.

I'm also thinkin of switchin to Livejournal. Should I? Pros and cons?

The reason why I'm choosing animation

Too much awesome, too much!

Man o man today can be summed up in just one word: WIN. Mirosoft's E3 announcements were so awesome I just can't imagine ever experiencing this much nerdgasms in one day. First up. New games. Sweet mother lookin games.

(Full screen the trailers, stupid blogger doesn't seem to like embeds)

-Splinter Cell: Conviction

I've been waiting so long, too long for this game to come out. After Double Agent, we were told of a new game, Conviction, that was coming out. But after 3 years, it fell off the face of the world. Or the gamer's world, at least. Then came the little teaser trailers, and finally this! The gameplay's A LOT faster, the camera angles are sweet, and the graphics look top notch. Looks like the 3 years they spent keeping it from us were spent good.

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Video Games | Splinter Cell: Conviction | E3 09: Extended Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

-Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare 1 was the very first Call of duty games I owned, and I've had no regrets playing it. Now comes Moern warfare TWO! Two mothertooots! That means more guns, explosions, guns and jaw dropping levels. Did I mention guns?

"

Video Games | Modern Warfare 2 | E3 09: Press Conference Gameplay

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

-Starwars: The Old Republic

Ok I don't really use the word fuck, but in the context of what other people mean when they say this word, FUCK YEAH! I was pulled on board the hype train when they revealed this new RPG coming out earlier this year, but word was that this game is so immense, so the chances of it being released this year are slim. Those little tidbits that Lucasarts revealed every Friday slowly builded up and aroused interest, but it was still not enough. Tidbits about new worlds, location, character classes etc, but nothing that really got me out of my seat. Except for this trailer. The sweetest lookin trailer out there now. Even though it's pre-rendered and all (that means not actual gameplay footage for teh noobs out there), it still deserves the "FUCK YEAH" response. Ok enough talk, now for the video itself.

"

Video Games | Star Wars: The Old Republic | E3 09: Jedi vs Sith Cinematic

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

-And let's not forget about Left For Dead 2

I never really got to play much of L4D, but it seemed like a cool game. It was even cooler when played with friends, and I only did that once at a lanshop. The trailer seems pretty cool, but what's up with the 2 Black dudes, 1 black chick and 1 white guy? Not that I have a problem with African Americans, but a game like this must always have at least one white chick. Always, fullstop.

"

Video Games | Left 4 Dead 2 | E3 09: Teaser

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

-The trailer for Assassin's Creed 2 was pretty meh.. Another nice looking game, but if it's like the first game, I wouldn't bother with it.

-And finally, PROJECT NATAL

"There are those who said this day would never come. What are they to say now?"-- Halo 2 reference.

THE biggest surprise of the whole E3 event, Microsoft's new toy, Natal. This is the Wii killer. The Wii-ner. Geddit? Nevermind. I bet it's still ways before the finished product, but this thing is lookin good. Lookin very good. Full body motion capture? Even mapping the living room? Depth of field? I never thought I'd see this day.

"

Video Games | Project Natal | E3 09: Project Natal Intro

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

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Video Games | Project Natal | E3 09: Ricochet Stage Demo

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

My only question: How much is this baby gonna cost?

-The final icing on the cake, HALO 3: ODST

With all the new games being announced, an expansion didn't really blow me off my feet, but it's still sweet, can't wait to get the game. I just wish it isn't so motherfriggin expensive considering it's an expansion pack.

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Video Games | Halo 3: ODST | E3 09: Gameplay Trailer

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

All this coughing is making my eyes hurt. At least storyboarding's done, now to video editing.

6 pack

That's what this damned cough is gonna get me. I wonder how many time I've cramped up my stomach the last few days. I can already feel the ache. Argh. And I haven't started on video editing yet. Great.

We spoke

I'm wondering if I can finish that 20 storyboards by Monday, and the editing by Tuesday. So far I haven't started on editing and only done 6 frames for STOPP. Shit.
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The general consensus is that that's not the way to go. But I'm feeling otherwise. For once am I right when everyone tells me that's left?
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For the first time.

Suaning. I learnt the true meaning of that word yesterday and boy was it fun. It was also Eddy's birthday and we celebrated by going to Pizzahut for dinner. Cheese + anything = Awesome.

Ok I'm done, 5:56am now and I have to go draw the rough 'preview' of my storyboards.

Lately I've been wanting to draw a human portrait, more specifically, a closeup of a face. Someone's face, anybody's face. I want to try make it as super detailed as this guy does: http://aramismarron.deviantart.com/

Of course I won't reach his standard in one shot, but I'm willing to give it a try. All I'm lacking right now is a boost of energy and a model/photo. Anyone have any suggestions?

Omg Cheryl listens to Muse! Freakin awesome, coz that means that we can play some Muse on the keyboard in school. Hysteria spammage ftw. On other news, went with Ubin and his friend and Shuhui to Deviantart meeting at the Merlion. Nothing really interesting, just some updates on what's new that's coming to Deviantart. Could easily have been showcased online, instead of showing it to the crowd on a single laptop and on a hot and humid day. An 'exhibition' showcasing some top Deviant's artwork would have been pretty cool. Oh well. Having second thoughts, but... meh.

Oh and we got back our group reports, and we scored an A. Apparently we did the best in the class. Woot =)

For exercise 1 of Stopp. Too much effort? Maybe, but good practice. 2b pencil, 3 hours.

The song just had to play at THAT moment eh

Today was fun. Spamming Hysteria on the keyboard and learning it on the guitar. Awesome. Celebrating Janice's birthday and playing GH3. Long time since I been there, too bad I had no chance to try out Killzone 2, but hey, GH3 was fun. Long time since I played that too. Short entry eh.

I guess beauty IS in the eye of the beholder

Hugh Jackman is a sexy beast. That being said, the movie wasn't. It wasn't that bad, but not fantastic too. I expected to see more of Wolverine's origins, more specifically, his experiences in all the different wars along with his relationship with Sabretooth. Instead, they skimmed through the different battles and past experiences to get to the main storyline. Considering the time constraint, I guess it wasn't their fault, but wouldn't it be cool to see Wolverine and Sabretooth in France ripping apart the German army? Or maybe taking part in the gulf war, just as seen in the comics?

I'm no expert in camera angles, but some of them were weird to me. Ok, maybe not weird, but not what we usually see. Zooming in on a truck from high above and moving foward at the same time? It didn't feel right at the time. Plus the exact camera angle for two different scenes when the truck rolled by left me wondering if they could've done something different. I like Deadpool a lot, a pity so little screen time was given to him. Considering he became the big boss at the end. Who got decapitated. Oops, spoiler, but who cares? Not like anyone actually understands that the ugly dude with the stitched lips is actually Wade Wilson. If you're not into Marvel and mutants, you probably won't understand different characters' roles in the movie as opposed to the comics. "Omg is that the son?"--Cheryl. "I know who that is! Jean Grey!"--Again, Cheryl. Of course, wrong on both counts.

Missed BBQ to go movie, too bad I can't have the best of both worlds. I really wanted to see Cheryl drunk and get a little high myself. Just a little. Oh well, tomorrow is another day, and the day after that, starts a new block. And so ends Consumer Lifestyle Research, which went pretty well. Glad that MeiSin praised us for being the best group. Time to hand out the 'A's yo.

It's 0416. I went to sleep at 0320? And what a torturous one hour it was. Especially at the end of it. My imagination was going wild all along, getting wilder and wilder. No, not in a kinky way, but rather horrifying. I kept thinking of that face, then I rolled over, thoughts about (y) and what my suspicions, about how you know that I know that you know. Then the noise. Damn, the NOISE. Voices. Genie. Hearing Zhiyong's laughter. Hearing him talk. It was overwhelming, so overwhelming that I decided to get up. But to my horror, I couldn't. Sleep fucking paralysis. I tried to open my eyes- Too heavy. Move my hands- can't feel them. Aha! Wriggle my toes. That should work, right? It usually works. No, it always works. Except for today. It worked only after I wriggled for what seemed like forever while the voices were getting louder and Louder and LOUDER. Then I got up.

/rant.

Peter freakin Parker

What it says

2nd movement of the oddysey

Happy? Sad? Opportunity? Problem?

2 months seems like a long time.

Anyways, went to work with Kenny just now at Outram. Started work 'officially' at 12pm, and 'officially' ends at 4. Why the ''s? Well because we ended at 1:15. We did our jobs fast- no, very fast. And we ended early. So who's to blame? Heheheh. Kenny says he's a complex character. I think I am too. Or not, I don't even really know myself. But we've got the same goals: Girlfriend by end of year. Unlike his 'Go with the Flow' mentality, I think a lot about this strange XX chromosome species. Like a lot. And I have one in mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if things don't work out. Shocked? Bet you are. Why am I typing all these information? Maybe it's the Baileys from my fridge? But I only had a little to drink. Or did I? Plus the fact that this blog is dead. Dead in the water. Buried in a coffin. Nothing but ashes and dust.

Mother's day message was good, I just wish Dad and Mum had brought along relatives, it was really good.

Signing off,

your mom
















wait what?

-Edit- 100th post! Whoo!

When saying Hi isn't enough

I've been getting sucky marks for CLR. And it sucks. But what to do? "More graphics" i guess.

This "ROCK ON" thing is spreading, all thanks to Madeline. I've never met anyone so hyper before. Lol. So many dirty little secrets exposed in our group 'discussion', and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little disturbed. Too much information man. A little too much.

Working tomorrow, I hope I can finish up whatever assignments I have by today.

Adapt or die. Unfortunately, the prime examples of those who don't are my parents. I can't really remember how many years they've been in this, but they can't seem to realise the deeper mess they're getting themselves into by not changing. It won't be the truth if I said I didn't care, but it also won't be the truth to say that I haven't become a little numb to all this crap. After all, what's new? Mum plays small, but bit by bit, trade after trade, she gets more greedy. Mum looses money, she doesn't want to cut her losses, so she looses a heck lot more. Dad gets pissed. Mum cries. Mum promises to not get back in this game if she can get out of this mess. Eventually we do get out, but at a loss. Cycle repeats itself. And a huge WTF from me. Hundreds of thousands gone down the drain just like that. Ahh heck.

Space dementia is easier than I thought. Just gotta memorise the chords and that's it.

And finally, what an... awesome-? Ok no, that's not the word... What a shocking and exiting 60 seconds that was. "You don't know the sacrifices I made to come to your fucking class on time. Something something something fucking class" Damn! Yet, however *insert adjective that I cannot think of right now* that was, I cannot say that he didn't step out of line. Everybody has problems, and no matter how bad his were, I'm sure there're people much worse off than him.

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Pros: There's a tighter control over it all, much less miscommunication.

Cons: We have to control it all.

Either way, I'm not really complaining. Or maybe I am, but I don't really care. In a good way. Or bad. I don't really care about that too.

On another matter: Dayyyyuuuuuuuuuummmm.

48 hr film fest. Stayed over at a friend's house to gain EXP +1. It was what I expected, computers and cables everywhere, people hard at work editing stuff, some taking a nap and so on. I got to see my senior model and animate a 3d scissors. EXP +1 again lol. This really opened my eyes a little more as to the life of an animator.He spent the whole night animating the scissors and human model, only to have it shown on screen for less than a second. Overall I think they did a pretty good job, having had help from friends at Perth also. Though it was interesting, I don't really see myself doing something like this in the future. Oh well, we'll see how it goes. Maybe next time I'll be animating stuff for projects like these.

Finally exercise 1 is done! Strangely though, I did not sleep till 0530 am and only felt tired at 0515. And I did not need the help of Redbull! Haha, I wish my body would be like that more often, then maybe I'll be able to tahan more school work. School's been pretty fun, and apparently there's someone who looks like me. But I don't agree :/ I guess its gotta do with seeing my own face for 17 years.

*Goes off looking for more Coldplay songs*