The end of another chapter

Well, not officially yet, to be exact. But once again I must stress upon how time flies by when you’re paying it the least attention. I was barely aware of the passage of time last semester, merely intent upon my work and letting the days tick by. To be short, I was really oblivious, and hey presto, I’m at the middle of the semester, and suddenly that said semester is now over. This year has been especially hectic for me. Work and work and work. Kinda literally no play at all. Well I had my breaks and good times, but mostly it has been a tiring year so far. At times when I’m having a homework-free day, my thoughts wander involuntarily to my work at home.

I’m glad that I’m graduating soon. I feel excited to actually work and gain some good experience. Since I’ve never worked before. Seriously.

Visited KLCC with Hwee Lynn today. I think that the pianos are marvelous-and pricey. But to hear the melody from the keys are pretty rewarding, don’t you think? And crowded book fair was crowded. I can barely take a step back without treading on another person’s foot. All in all, not a favorite place to hang around at. It was reminiscent of the PC Fair-which was just as huge and stuffy. Things are definitely overpriced here-particularly books. I believe that one of the reasons people here don’t read much is due to the incredibly high prices of books. The taxes imposed upon them is quite unbelievable! I can only ogle at other countries as their books are affordable there…

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam airs tonight. Well Hwee Lynn and Victoria are watching, haha. Anyone else tuned to the Disney Channel tonight?

On another hand, Kuroshitsuji 2 ends in 2 more episodes. Don’t ask me how I figured it out; I simply happen to remember irrelevant things, my bad. (: I haven’t been keeping up with this season apart from skimming through discussions and reading the key events-some which transpired to be truly odd, amusing, disturbing and full of fanservice. Everyone’s into fanservice nowadays, just ask the people of Twilight. Jacob Black can take off his shirt and Edward can uh… (?) to boost ratings.

My semester starts again tomorrow. Lets hope the workload doesn’t increase further than last semester.

On a parting note, Dexter is awesome.

Hush, hush.

But I can’t keep the lid on the recent Apple Keynote and it’s latest announcements! Anyway, new iPhone aside, here’s something that my class have been working on for Manga Drawing. We have to create a single comic page or illustration based on our stories respectively. This is mine:

Enjoy. : 3 Done with acrylic, color pencils and artline pens on plywood.

We’ll be a dream

Oh, I can’t believe my luck!

I’ve gotten first place in my college’s essay competition! Things can’t be any better. I won an iPod Shuffle and a limited design T shirt. But I’m more thrilled that I won. Really.

You can click here to read my winning entry. : >

The inevitable end

When NBC canceled Heroes and a few other TV series, I was rather taken aback, although a part of me felt that we all knew that this was on the horizon.

Heroes was akin to something once so magnificent and great only to fall short soon after and disappear altogether. Season One was fantastic-the hype it spurred! Season 2 was a tad bit bland if compared to the first. And the rest is really sort of history. Somehow, the series had failed to resurrect the hypnotic pull it once had. I have no idea what drove it to go downhill so steeply. I admit that it was a little sad that NBC did not let the show reach its finale. An official closure would’ve been more ceremonial-and final. In a way to speak that we could have dealt with it’s end and move on without giving too much thought. But I guess NBC has other things in mind.

I no longer follow House on AXN; I decided that I can live without it after all and follow Glee solely on weekdays. It’s very simple to like Glee-though people might give you different answers, the core message conveyed would be somewhat interlinked. Not to mention the routines that they always have in store for us every episode. Oprah said that the cast is extremely hardworking, and I must say that I agree. It must be extremely taxing!

7 more months until I graduate. Time is moving slow yet fast when you’re busy. I hardly noticed time last semester-I really didn’t notice the passing weeks/months until we’re at our final project. Time seems to be measured in this way now.

I’m submitting my essay entry tomorrow. Both excited and nervous. I haven’t joined anything in years. You can read my entry below-this is the unedited version; I had to shrink it down to 500 words. Anyway, there isn’t much difference so to speak.

Wish me luck. Now, I’m heading back to homework.

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It loaded! Well too late anyway.

It’s 10pm and I’m heading off to bed in half an hour’s time.

I had a great semester break. There was the Langkawi trip, and my first plane ride ever. Definitely an experience at 19. For me at least. Saw Avatar in 3D. And Sherlock Holmes. Love. Went to three shopping malls on three consecutive days. Whew. Got some great news, and now I’ll hope that this year will be much better than the last.

I’m rather worried about tomorrow’s class, but then it’ll eventually come to pass. I’m scared of the unknown. I admit that.

Eventually, I just want to be happy. Crappy update, but then, it’s the least I could manage now haha.

Off to brave Monday!

Many things

Well haha, maybe I should be clearer in defining what I mean by exercising. Of course I did exercise. Allow me to explain. (:

I have to walk to the nearest bus stop when I have to take the bus and vice versa. It’s about a 5 minute walk. It’s quite fun, really. Because I go around 11:25 a.m. when the marketplace is still running. I hardly visit there anymore, since I haven’t the time. Just the occasional trip to get breakfast-and that’s pretty rare too. But if I reach back at 7 p.m. onwards, I take a cab back from the train station. It’s really dark by then and I don’t want to get mugged. Since Sebastian doesn’t exist right? 

I like to reply comments via posting an entry because I get to elaborate further. Somehow I think that the small comment box isn’t too apt for lengthy writers like me.

The bus I take to college doesn’t exactly drop me in front of the building either. Instead, the bus stop is quite a distance from the place. So I have to walk about 7 minutes to reach my college. How suave. 

Speaking of Sebastian, I did a presentation on Monday. Not about him, obviously, but let me get to that in a moment. The presentation was about the American Realism art style, which is really quite unique. Trying looking up David Grove‘s work, who remains one of my favorites from that era. We also have to introduce a few of our favorite artists. I did Tony DiTerlizzi, Brian Froud, Kmye-Chan (Camille) and Rie Fu. All traditional artists. I was rather nervous at first, but the nerves diminished when I start talking. It normally happens like that. So it went all smooth to the end. At least, that’s what I thought.

One of my classmates: Where’s Sebastian?

Me: (froze) Erm, what? 

Classmate: Yeah, where is he?

Me: (shakes) He’s not here. (haha, way to go, Captain Obvious) Why, do you want to know more about him? He doesn’t exist.

Why am I stating the facts.

Tutor: Yeah, tell us about Sebastian.

Me: Oh, dear.

Thank heavens the lecturer wasn’t there. If not I may have to give an explanation after all.

After much laughing (on the class’ behalf) and skirting the issue (me, huh) I managed to get away with it. I don’t think I’ll be so lucky next time, so perhaps I should prepare. For instance: He’s a demon and he skilled in using cutlery. Literally. It’s Norah’s fault. She blackmailed me into accepting Sebastian as my imaginary husband. I must be brainwashed at the time. Now, the entire class wouldn’t let me forget! Can’t we all have a Sebastian-free day, at least once a week?

Yay, I updated. (: That’s all for now. Have to start on research.

Edit: Watching Harry Potter this weekend. Pray that it will be at least, a breather from the previous movies. I’m not hoping for anything big, but since it’s getting considerably better reviews than Transformers, I’ll give this movie a chance. After all, we grew up reading Harry Potter. I remember clearly how my dad bought me the 4th book first because it was cheaper. The result? I didn’t get a thing about it! So we had to go and get them in chronological order, ha. Reading it the second time around was much, much better. My first time was something like this: Voldemort? Huh? 

Fatal fail on both of our parts. Can’t wait to catch up with you, Hwee Lynn. It’s been awhile. Emily, are you still going to inspire me? (:

Darker Than Black has gotten the green light to proceed with their second season. This is probably old news, but for Norah and I, it’s relatively fresh. See how outdated we are? (sarcasm) So Norah, rejoice! Your husband is making a comeback. Hopefully, with more style. That mask doesn’t do any favors okay. I feel abnormally psyched. Why. Perhaps it’s because I got enough sleep last night.

a brief run-through

Yes, I’m back to posting. (: Thanks for dropping by, Kitsune. Yes, that was such an adorable rabbit!

This is going to be a quick update while I sort through the massive load of photos I have taken on the Malacca voyage trip. It was pure fun! We ought to have more field trips in the future. Cast a vote, people!

After getting mediocre reviews regarding the latest Transformers film, I’ve decided that I won’t watch it. I will survive, don’t worry. And it saves some more money in the process. 

Exploration week seemed to be nearing to a close. Somehow. Time does fly.

Ilina, where are your Urbanscapes photos? Haha, I would like to blog about our outing with your snapshots as well! (: 

I’m currently watching a series called Ergo Proxy. I have only cleared the pilot episode, so I can’t say much yet. It has that futuristic feel though. The names in the show are so weird. Rei-I came out sounding something like Reiru. But I’m hoping that it won’t be as confusing as The Matrix.

Flying the kite

Well, looking at the date on my previous post, I have been pretty AWOL lately. Goodness, it’s been awhile. I’ve been busy, and I have sort of lost the blogging bug-for the moment. But that doesn’t mean that I have given up completely on writing! (: That untitled story of mine is still alive and ongoing, except that Norah and I are working on it on a more regular basis, and that the internet isn’t exactly stable. Unless anyone still wants to read it, let me know and I will update the previous chapters here.

Ethan, I’m terribly sorry for being so stagnant here. ): Because you aren’t online, and I’m hardly online myself. I haven’t watched Transformers II, can you believe it? I can scarcely believe it myself. But here’s a couple of updates on my side.

It’s Exploration Week for us Diploma students. It’s just a week without classes but more homework. Throw in a couple of field trips and you got a pretty busy week in the end, just sans the assignments.

My dad is making a constant reference to Adam Lambert. Whyyyy. 

For our Photography lesson, we’re all heading down to Malacca for a full day trip! (: I haven’t been to that state in ages, so I’m terribly excited. We also have to visit the Islamic Arts Museum for Survey of South East Asia Culture. 

Ann Chi was pretty wistful that our college didn’t catch the H1N1 bug. Isn’t it better without the school closing (with will stir up more replacement classes in the process?)? 

Madame Mahone and Madame Michaelis paid a visit to KL Urbanscapes 2009 over the weekend. There were thrills, spills (literally) and the weather that refused to put a damper on the event. No really, it was incredibly hot. The air conditioned building suddenly felt very tempting. A can of Coke cost RM4 because it was burning. Rip offs. Madame Mahone did not bring an umbrella (smart) and she managed to turn a shade darker than she already is. You really like to get a tan, don’t you? (: Photos will come later.

The koi at the Japanese garden were incredibly fat. And cute.

 

How's this for adorable?

Now we want to sabotage our own white rabbit ourselves-so you got to tell us where to get an eyepatch, rabbit-size.

That nagging thought in my brain

I’m not entirely sure what is bothering me, but deep down inside perhaps I know the answer.

Really cryptic, I know. And really short too. :} 

It’s rather obvious now that I have sort of lost the mood to blog, at least for the time being.