ok if you haven't read the previous posts then... don't. I said that I have lost my pencilcase one fine day last week through the panic and what-not, indeed that was true until this morning. I discovered the whereabout of this elusive creature. It was hidden inside one of my bag underneath piles of clothings! OMG I don't know whether to be happy or sad. It seems that I have been played around with =__= I was seriously devastated when I lost it and I realised through my own stupidity that I haven't really looked around INSIDE the bags to see whether it is there or not!
*sigh* I'm sorry that I have troubled some people by the disappearance and now that it is back on hand I don't mind the extra things I have purchased through the amount of time I have thought it was lost though.
So that is all for today just a revelation of yet another act of my stupidity and carelessness...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Animania workshop
Woot! I got in into volunteering for Animania 2006! *throw arms in the air* So basically just a brief summary of Animania:
It is a festival celebrating the anime realm. It is held in a couple of areas around Australia (I think Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane). Based on what I have said last year was actually the first year I have ever noticed and attended the festival in Sydney. It is usually held in Town Hall in Sydney. And what it is is basically a gathering of anime fans (or maybe otakus, who knows?). It covers quite a range of fields of animes. It has screenings, karaokes and artist tables (where anime artists usually sell off their stuff whether it's their own creations or fan arts). But what makes this spectacular or interesting for me is actually the amount of people cosplaying (dressing-up) as their favourite anime characters. You wouldn't believe how much effort they actually have put into their costumes. Most of them are so intricate and true to the last detail it is almost mind-boggling. Even though I still think the costumes are pretty much should not be created into real life because sometimes they are not as suitable in real life as in the anime themselves ^^; but that's just my opinion.
So this year Marina and I decided to try our luck into attending the festival as volunteers. The only benefit on being a volunteer is that you get to really see the knick knacks of how the festival work as well as free ticket in (you have to pay $20 for entry on the day but you can pre-register). And we also crossed our fingers into getting accepted for backstage duties. Backstage duties seem to be the most hectic position in the whole field when we went on the 2005 festival. It mostly involves the stage where there were going to be a lot of screenings, events such as artists corner and different things but the most intriguing part has to be the cosplaying event. In the event every cosplayers who register can go on stage and strut their stuff. It is amazing how much people cosplayed and actually are able to stand their and perform as their character ^^; But I admire their bravery. It must have taken enough courage to dress up and do their stuff on stage in front of god-knows-how-many audiences.
And before I delay the news any further I just want to tell that we did get to be volunteers positioned at backstage duties (YEAH!).
So last Saturday we went to a workshop to learn a bit more about backstage. I wasn't actually expecting such a fun workshop though. And just to think that the meeting actually coincided with UTS Open Day and with Marina missing our train (haha!). So anyway here's how the story goes:
I was the first to arrive at the place of the workshop at UTS. But our meeting actually got kicked onto another place because of the Open Day. Actually that was quite lucky that we were kicked to another place, partly because those people who are late can be late and because the workshop ended up taking more room than the lecture room we first was assigned in. So that was kinda a lucky strike.
First we had introductions and then we were divided into two groups (there were actually volunteers from Karaoke and Backstage duties). The Backstage duties went outside the lecture hall and began introducing (yet again). And then we played this game where someone shouts out an animal and then we have to neigh or squeak or oink or something and jump around and then in the middle of the whole thing someone would shout out a number and we have to make a group consisting of that amount of people. So that was fun since we actually didn't get picked at all (hehe). Then we did the name game, which was hard since Marina and I actually sat almost the end of the circle ^^; (you know, the game where you put an adjective in front of your name and then the second part of the game was as you go along the circle you have to remember everyone's adjective and name before you and as such). Omg you have to see how serious I was trying to remember the names. Marina kept on sushing me, which fits because I kept on correcting everyone's wrong names etc as each person do it. Embarassing stuff. But that was just me :P I was probably the only one who took the game so seriously :D
So after that god-awful-embarassing game, we moved on to the newspaper game. So what we do is we divided into groups based on numbers. God, that was so weird. I was practically the only girl in the group. I was looking around and when I realised these were four guys I just sighed and tell myself ok they probably want something to do mecha (robot) related stuff. And actually, I was right. Oops, forgot to tell what the idea behind the game is. What you do is you dress one person in the group as an anime character, vaguely, since you -are- using newspapers to do the costumes, and then let the other groups to guess who the character is. Yeah I, even though I was a part of the group, have no idea who the heck our character was, but I guess that can't be helped. I was lucky enough to not get picked anyway, since I'm the only girl in the group. But Marina's group was different they were all girls with one guy so naturally the guy was picked :P but he turned out to be the most refined and funniest out of the other characters (hehe). And then we joined with another group to make another character. That turned out heaps better than before :P (NOTE: if you don't understand the parts after this then don't worry you really are not missing on anything) We decided to dress one girl as Luffy from One Piece and then decided halfway maybe we should do a cross over between luffy and Kingdom Hearts (haha!) and so we also made a keyblade to the costume (hehe) 'twas fun :P
So next came the 30 minutes lunch break (YEAH! 30 MINUTES!), we came back to the lecture hall to find the news that there was actually free bbq down at the UTS tower front. (I kinda know but forgotten when the break was there :P) So we ended up spending money at Maccas (hehe gomene Marina).
After that we stayed up in the lecture hall being informed of the other necessities in this duties. And we did a little role playing on what we should do when it comes time to the cosplaying event so we get a bit of idea how to go about it. Yup, so that was pretty much all. After that we were just being photographed for our id cards.
I admit. It wasn't really something that I expected out of a workshop but nonetheless that was a fun thing to do after that bad week that I have to succumb to *shakes head in disgrace*. After we all scram from the workshop Marina and I went to Town Hall and ended up going home at about 6 coz we went to different places to buy stuff :P when we were supposed to go home after the workshop ends at 3pm. (hehe)
Alas, that's all the tale I can manage this late at night. And btw, I still haven't done my uni workS yet :P I'm so doomed.
It is a festival celebrating the anime realm. It is held in a couple of areas around Australia (I think Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane). Based on what I have said last year was actually the first year I have ever noticed and attended the festival in Sydney. It is usually held in Town Hall in Sydney. And what it is is basically a gathering of anime fans (or maybe otakus, who knows?). It covers quite a range of fields of animes. It has screenings, karaokes and artist tables (where anime artists usually sell off their stuff whether it's their own creations or fan arts). But what makes this spectacular or interesting for me is actually the amount of people cosplaying (dressing-up) as their favourite anime characters. You wouldn't believe how much effort they actually have put into their costumes. Most of them are so intricate and true to the last detail it is almost mind-boggling. Even though I still think the costumes are pretty much should not be created into real life because sometimes they are not as suitable in real life as in the anime themselves ^^; but that's just my opinion.
So this year Marina and I decided to try our luck into attending the festival as volunteers. The only benefit on being a volunteer is that you get to really see the knick knacks of how the festival work as well as free ticket in (you have to pay $20 for entry on the day but you can pre-register). And we also crossed our fingers into getting accepted for backstage duties. Backstage duties seem to be the most hectic position in the whole field when we went on the 2005 festival. It mostly involves the stage where there were going to be a lot of screenings, events such as artists corner and different things but the most intriguing part has to be the cosplaying event. In the event every cosplayers who register can go on stage and strut their stuff. It is amazing how much people cosplayed and actually are able to stand their and perform as their character ^^; But I admire their bravery. It must have taken enough courage to dress up and do their stuff on stage in front of god-knows-how-many audiences.
And before I delay the news any further I just want to tell that we did get to be volunteers positioned at backstage duties (YEAH!).
So last Saturday we went to a workshop to learn a bit more about backstage. I wasn't actually expecting such a fun workshop though. And just to think that the meeting actually coincided with UTS Open Day and with Marina missing our train (haha!). So anyway here's how the story goes:
I was the first to arrive at the place of the workshop at UTS. But our meeting actually got kicked onto another place because of the Open Day. Actually that was quite lucky that we were kicked to another place, partly because those people who are late can be late and because the workshop ended up taking more room than the lecture room we first was assigned in. So that was kinda a lucky strike.
First we had introductions and then we were divided into two groups (there were actually volunteers from Karaoke and Backstage duties). The Backstage duties went outside the lecture hall and began introducing (yet again). And then we played this game where someone shouts out an animal and then we have to neigh or squeak or oink or something and jump around and then in the middle of the whole thing someone would shout out a number and we have to make a group consisting of that amount of people. So that was fun since we actually didn't get picked at all (hehe). Then we did the name game, which was hard since Marina and I actually sat almost the end of the circle ^^; (you know, the game where you put an adjective in front of your name and then the second part of the game was as you go along the circle you have to remember everyone's adjective and name before you and as such). Omg you have to see how serious I was trying to remember the names. Marina kept on sushing me, which fits because I kept on correcting everyone's wrong names etc as each person do it. Embarassing stuff. But that was just me :P I was probably the only one who took the game so seriously :D
So after that god-awful-embarassing game, we moved on to the newspaper game. So what we do is we divided into groups based on numbers. God, that was so weird. I was practically the only girl in the group. I was looking around and when I realised these were four guys I just sighed and tell myself ok they probably want something to do mecha (robot) related stuff. And actually, I was right. Oops, forgot to tell what the idea behind the game is. What you do is you dress one person in the group as an anime character, vaguely, since you -are- using newspapers to do the costumes, and then let the other groups to guess who the character is. Yeah I, even though I was a part of the group, have no idea who the heck our character was, but I guess that can't be helped. I was lucky enough to not get picked anyway, since I'm the only girl in the group. But Marina's group was different they were all girls with one guy so naturally the guy was picked :P but he turned out to be the most refined and funniest out of the other characters (hehe). And then we joined with another group to make another character. That turned out heaps better than before :P (NOTE: if you don't understand the parts after this then don't worry you really are not missing on anything) We decided to dress one girl as Luffy from One Piece and then decided halfway maybe we should do a cross over between luffy and Kingdom Hearts (haha!) and so we also made a keyblade to the costume (hehe) 'twas fun :P
So next came the 30 minutes lunch break (YEAH! 30 MINUTES!), we came back to the lecture hall to find the news that there was actually free bbq down at the UTS tower front. (I kinda know but forgotten when the break was there :P) So we ended up spending money at Maccas (hehe gomene Marina).
After that we stayed up in the lecture hall being informed of the other necessities in this duties. And we did a little role playing on what we should do when it comes time to the cosplaying event so we get a bit of idea how to go about it. Yup, so that was pretty much all. After that we were just being photographed for our id cards.
I admit. It wasn't really something that I expected out of a workshop but nonetheless that was a fun thing to do after that bad week that I have to succumb to *shakes head in disgrace*. After we all scram from the workshop Marina and I went to Town Hall and ended up going home at about 6 coz we went to different places to buy stuff :P when we were supposed to go home after the workshop ends at 3pm. (hehe)
Alas, that's all the tale I can manage this late at night. And btw, I still haven't done my uni workS yet :P I'm so doomed.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
follow up...
So... a follow up to yesterday's ranting. Just to think that nothing could get even worse than what already happened...
It's like having a whole week of bad luck plus a day just to make it perfect or in my case worst. So today I didn't get to sleep till about 4am after I finish the project. And just to make sure it was alright I kept on checking my ipod to see that my file is in there so I can print it out once I get to uni. I rushed through the whole way to the train station realising I had heaps of time before the train gets there. Of course anyone in this situation with an ipod would grab it and then play some music right? Things cannot happen much worse. I lost all my songs in it. So throughout the 10 minutes waiting for the train I was worried that my files weren't there, and I know if I actually go home now I would have missed the train and therefore lose my chance of printing all my files. So I took a gamble and head for the train instead and see whether I have to run back home to do it all over again (since I only saved it in my ipod). LUCKILY though I went to uni and all my files were there! "EUREKA!" I was happy!
But that happiness doesn't last very long. So I got enough time to print everything out and mount the prints onto a board (because this is part of the presentation) So I thought "alright, I'll grab the boards and glue after I finished printing." So everything should be handy dandy from here on right? WRONG! I was way too excited when I found a brand of glue other than UHU that costs $2 less. So I went ahead and buy it. That was the most regrettable purchase I have ever known to do in my whole entire life...
The glue won't stick properly, it was messy, and once it dries it just ripples. And I don't want to print again because, one, I have to spent another $16 just to print 4 colour A3 printouts and, two, I don't have enough time!
It is as if faith is making a mockery of my day I turned up to the level that my class is in. And re-glue every bits that won't stick. So I thought that should be alright. But then came the news... MY TUTOR IS NOT EVEN GOING TO BE THERE! So therefore whereby in the beginning I have to worry about presentation and all other things I don't really have to since apparently we only need to hand in the project!
Alright, so in the end I decided to go home after handing it in. I went with a friend back home. Once I went home the only I could do is bludge. Because I won't be doing the stuff for tomorrow until the night. It was all handy dandy until I opened my bag and realised something... MY PENCILCASE ISN'T HERE! Panic struck in. I rummage through my bag, turn my bed upside down, books are flying in every directions to realise that there is not a trace of the huge black bludge of a pencilcase that I so dearly treasure...
Now, to those who don't know this would be my second time, YES second time that I have lost my treasures. To someone who does this course or even love art and drawings it became a huge mental part of you, the pencilcase. It holds sentimental pieces of stationaries that only I can afford once in a lifetime. It was such a huge loss.
I will try not to dwell on it too much and attempt to find it tomorrow. I really wished I wasn't stupid enough to lose it. And just to make matters clear YES I remembered having it in my bag when I left home. I even took it out when I had to cut pieces of the printouts.
This blog is dedicated to my pencilcase and its content. TT__TT hopefully I'll find it soon.
Wish me luck.
It's like having a whole week of bad luck plus a day just to make it perfect or in my case worst. So today I didn't get to sleep till about 4am after I finish the project. And just to make sure it was alright I kept on checking my ipod to see that my file is in there so I can print it out once I get to uni. I rushed through the whole way to the train station realising I had heaps of time before the train gets there. Of course anyone in this situation with an ipod would grab it and then play some music right? Things cannot happen much worse. I lost all my songs in it. So throughout the 10 minutes waiting for the train I was worried that my files weren't there, and I know if I actually go home now I would have missed the train and therefore lose my chance of printing all my files. So I took a gamble and head for the train instead and see whether I have to run back home to do it all over again (since I only saved it in my ipod). LUCKILY though I went to uni and all my files were there! "EUREKA!" I was happy!
But that happiness doesn't last very long. So I got enough time to print everything out and mount the prints onto a board (because this is part of the presentation) So I thought "alright, I'll grab the boards and glue after I finished printing." So everything should be handy dandy from here on right? WRONG! I was way too excited when I found a brand of glue other than UHU that costs $2 less. So I went ahead and buy it. That was the most regrettable purchase I have ever known to do in my whole entire life...
The glue won't stick properly, it was messy, and once it dries it just ripples. And I don't want to print again because, one, I have to spent another $16 just to print 4 colour A3 printouts and, two, I don't have enough time!
It is as if faith is making a mockery of my day I turned up to the level that my class is in. And re-glue every bits that won't stick. So I thought that should be alright. But then came the news... MY TUTOR IS NOT EVEN GOING TO BE THERE! So therefore whereby in the beginning I have to worry about presentation and all other things I don't really have to since apparently we only need to hand in the project!
Alright, so in the end I decided to go home after handing it in. I went with a friend back home. Once I went home the only I could do is bludge. Because I won't be doing the stuff for tomorrow until the night. It was all handy dandy until I opened my bag and realised something... MY PENCILCASE ISN'T HERE! Panic struck in. I rummage through my bag, turn my bed upside down, books are flying in every directions to realise that there is not a trace of the huge black bludge of a pencilcase that I so dearly treasure...
Now, to those who don't know this would be my second time, YES second time that I have lost my treasures. To someone who does this course or even love art and drawings it became a huge mental part of you, the pencilcase. It holds sentimental pieces of stationaries that only I can afford once in a lifetime. It was such a huge loss.
I will try not to dwell on it too much and attempt to find it tomorrow. I really wished I wasn't stupid enough to lose it. And just to make matters clear YES I remembered having it in my bag when I left home. I even took it out when I had to cut pieces of the printouts.
This blog is dedicated to my pencilcase and its content. TT__TT hopefully I'll find it soon.
Wish me luck.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
a week of hell...
So after that last post of brief complain on my current uni situation I just found a new complaint!
This whole week has been a complete disaster! So first it all started with a flu I caught on Wednesday of last week probably due to the strong winds in the city. So got home and the flu wasn't that bad it was lets say managable. But then upon going to uni the next day I have discovered that my flu was getting even worse! O how fortunate of me. Of course being in uni doesn't give you the priviledge to just bludge at home leaving all academic learnings and just show up the next day with a piece of paper signed by your parents (or possibly forge it) saying the reason why you didn't attend classes.
Things of course took turn for the worst on Friday. That morning I felt like sh-- but eventually the flu wasn't that bad by the time we had dinner. But still I couldn't go to the other outings fearing my flu would get worse. Of course this is when everything should turn up for the better. NOT! Flu wasn't as bad as Friday morning's but still felt really weak. Sunday was ok because I didn't go out throughout the whole weekend and rested which helps.
But on Monday because we have to go to the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Arts) for research purposes (out of our own time althought I've been there twice I still can't remember, in detail, the exhibition) we went. But because of course it's right next to the the goddang ocean it didn't help. Tuesday was again feel like sh-- spend the entire day squirm up in my little blanket.
Of course all this doesn't help the fact that the next day (which is Wednesday aka today) I have an interim (worth 5% of total mark) due. And still have to do that even though it's 'simple'. PLUS it doesn't help much when my headache got worse at uni and so went home straight after class to discover that I really need sleep. So spent the times between 3 till dinner in the land of dreams. Of course that dinner was forced down so I don't feel hungry. And because since the time I woke up at dinner I slept again coz I (again) felt like my brain went mushy. So I was in the land of nods till about 9.30 and now stuck here in front of my comp trying to do the project for tomorrow.
CONCLUSION FOR THE DAY: I'm so screwed!
p.s. I just realised I'm partially deaf in one ear.
p.s.s. lets just hope this thing would get better before saturday comes (I kinda doubt it but I really hope so)
This whole week has been a complete disaster! So first it all started with a flu I caught on Wednesday of last week probably due to the strong winds in the city. So got home and the flu wasn't that bad it was lets say managable. But then upon going to uni the next day I have discovered that my flu was getting even worse! O how fortunate of me. Of course being in uni doesn't give you the priviledge to just bludge at home leaving all academic learnings and just show up the next day with a piece of paper signed by your parents (or possibly forge it) saying the reason why you didn't attend classes.
Things of course took turn for the worst on Friday. That morning I felt like sh-- but eventually the flu wasn't that bad by the time we had dinner. But still I couldn't go to the other outings fearing my flu would get worse. Of course this is when everything should turn up for the better. NOT! Flu wasn't as bad as Friday morning's but still felt really weak. Sunday was ok because I didn't go out throughout the whole weekend and rested which helps.
But on Monday because we have to go to the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Arts) for research purposes (out of our own time althought I've been there twice I still can't remember, in detail, the exhibition) we went. But because of course it's right next to the the goddang ocean it didn't help. Tuesday was again feel like sh-- spend the entire day squirm up in my little blanket.
Of course all this doesn't help the fact that the next day (which is Wednesday aka today) I have an interim (worth 5% of total mark) due. And still have to do that even though it's 'simple'. PLUS it doesn't help much when my headache got worse at uni and so went home straight after class to discover that I really need sleep. So spent the times between 3 till dinner in the land of dreams. Of course that dinner was forced down so I don't feel hungry. And because since the time I woke up at dinner I slept again coz I (again) felt like my brain went mushy. So I was in the land of nods till about 9.30 and now stuck here in front of my comp trying to do the project for tomorrow.
CONCLUSION FOR THE DAY: I'm so screwed!
p.s. I just realised I'm partially deaf in one ear.
p.s.s. lets just hope this thing would get better before saturday comes (I kinda doubt it but I really hope so)
Friday, August 04, 2006
ZOMG~
ZOMG~ O..o
uni sucks... too many things to do. urgh projects projects and more projects...
*mumble* *mumble*
uni sucks... too many things to do. urgh projects projects and more projects...
*mumble* *mumble*
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