Hello~ Been a while since my last post. So for the last week of easter, I've pretty much wasted my holidays by rewatching dramas. It's the only way for me to feel in touch with my asian side XD I actually want to continue practicing orally speaking chinese more often, but there's no one I know who speaks it besides my parents and the shop workers. So it's quite limited, and really not that great. I'm actually thinking maybe I'll try typing chinese for some of my blog entries. I think that'll be fun to see how far I can go with that- although I might have trouble and leave some words in pinyin if I don't recognise the character. ^^" So I'll just try that now....
现在我想给大家看这个MV。 我觉得这首歌很可爱，我有一点影像我小的时候听过这首歌。这首歌是很除名，其实我赶赶听过在 My Lucky Star 里面。 一边打中文字一边想我应该说什么挺难。-.-" 我真的不知道我因该说什么。算了， 我就讲完了。

Some of the lyrics
对面的女孩看过来 看过来 看过来
这里的表演很精采 请你不要假装不理不采
对面的女孩看过来 看过来 看过来
不要被我的样子吓坏 其实我很可爱
寂寞男孩的悲哀 说出来 谁明白
求求你抛个媚眼过来 哄哄我 逗我乐开怀
我左看右看上看下看 原来没个女孩都不简单
我想了又想猜了又猜 女孩们的心事还真奇怪

Rough translation-
the girl over there is looking over here, over here, over here
the performance here is amazing, please don't pretend by ignoring
the girl over there is looking over here, over here, over here
don't be scared by my looks, I'm actually very cute
(?)boy (?) , say it out loud, who would understand?
begging you (??) come over here, treat me well, (??)
I look left, I look right, I look up and I look down, actually no girl is that easy
I think and I think, I guess and I guess, girls' feelings are really weird

(The question marks are the parts I don't really understand/can't read so I have no idea what it means. And this is a really rough translation so excuse the lack of proper sentences and stuff. It actually sounds a lot cuter in chinese than my crappy translation XD )

Wow that was hard. Sometimes I feel like I know how to say it in my head, but I can tell that it's not the proper way to say it... I feel like I have a lot more vocab in my cantonese, but can only think in mandarin when it comes to looking at characters. I think that's probably because cantonese has so much slang in it... I was really hoping to improve my chinese though. Man this is going to be hard.

Quiet...

Sorry if I'm boring people with my narcissistic, self related posts; I guess I don't have anything better to say. And sorry that my posts become extremely long. I guess it represents how long I actually think about the matter. I really wish I didn't over think things so often- it'll be the death of me.

Screen play

I kinda regret saying that I wanted my screen play to be one of the screen plays produced... It's a lot of work, and I really suck as a director. I want to be with my group of friends except we're only allowed 4 people per group...
So yesterday in class we had a practical lesson in my film class (first one). We started off by doing exercises like breathing exercises, making faces, funny walks etc.. (did you ever do this janet??) for pretty much half of the class before we begun.
We were then to choose which screen plays of the 9 screen plays Cam (teacher) selected, which would be used for the workshop. Few people offered their screen plays up, and I wasn't one of them, but Cam said that mine could work -.-" So we ended up with 4 screen plays, mine included. Sorta felt rejected because none of my friends would be working with me, but I guess I can understand why? In the end, I only got two people to work with me and Cam volunteered to be part of my screen play... errrr...

Let me just show you a part of my screen play shall I...?

"STRANGER looks down where MAN has placed his hand and looks up at him. She smirks at him and slowly slides his hand away allowing his hand to run down her arm. She turns around and heads into the crowd but turns around to look at the MAN with the same smirk.
MAN grins and follows the STRANGER deep into the crowd, slowly losing sight of the STRANGER. Finally he loses all sight of the STRANGER and he frantically turns around in circles in an attempt to find the red dress. A hand is placed on his shoulder; he turns around to find the STRANGER's face a few centimetres away from his own. He grabs her around the waist as she places her arm around his neck; they engage in a passionate kiss as they sway towards the blasting music. "

So that would mean Cam would be the MAN. Crap. I felt sorry for whoever had to be the STRANGER....><"
Of course, we wouldn't actually show that part of the scene, because I'm sure the Uni has some sort of rule against stuff like that... XD
So I had two international students working with me, and a Michael Keaton look-alike. Awesome.

(This photo actually looks just like him XD)

It didn't go too bad, although I had to say, Cam kinda looked creepy. -.-" He's expressions were pretty spot on in terms of being a sleazy guy trying to hit on a girl, albeit a bit over exaggerated. He would put his arm around the int. student's shoulder and do a close whisper thing... Eek. ><" At that point, I was really glad I wasn't the actor. I commend the girl who managed not to freak out or anything.

So, now I'm debating over whether I should use my screen play or not for my assessment. The girl who played the STRANGER said she would like to do my screen play, but that would mean looking for actors and stuff -.-" And I really don't want to in charge of my own screen play...*sigh* I would rather be the 'sheep' than the 'herder' in this case. I'm not familiar enough with the behind the scenes of how stuff like this works, and being told to direct my screen play is just... Eek what do I do?!? kind of feeling. God I wish my friend was back from Thailand already... well she'll be back tomorrow so I guess I can discuss that with her then.
Also... there's this girl in class, who I can tell wants to work on her screen play, except I'm not very keen on it either, but she's kind of you know... I need people for this, and I'm sort of.. well.. I want to check out other peoples' screen plays because I couldn't hear them in class last time -.-" A bit mean of me I know, but at the moment, I personally don't think she could handle becoming the director when she has so much stuff going on in her life. There are so many times when she leaves the class early or answers a phone call in class... I think it's hard for everyone to try to get along with her sometimes... it's not like I hate her or anything but sometimes shes a bit overbearing and a bit of a know it all kind of personality. Damn it.. did not mean to turn this into a bitching session... So I'll shut up before you judge me any more.



(Anyone want to read my screen play? XD)

Something that I want

There's this artist that I admire on dA, who draws some really pretty copic marker pictures ^3^ She's released a book a few months ago, and it's only for a period of time (which I think has/might be ended?).

http://myrollingstar.tumblr.com/post/4678222944 (cartoongirl7 on dA)

There's something really nice about her art, she uses really nice vibrant colours that bring her pictures to life.

Also love this artist called yuumei on dA. Her artworks always have a deeper meaning, and she always has something to say about the current world issues. One of my fav artists on dA.

Oh and another dA I love is teh-akuma-yoru XD He's this guy who writes comics about pokemon, naruto, and mainly his real life. God I find them hilarious >_______< He has this way of telling his story and showing the expressions perfectly. Hahaha XD

You know what, I just remembered something. My mark for my video. Agifjefiojeoiw; is very annoyed. I only got 70 which I don't know why. The general response in class when we were viewing them was pretty good, the only thing the teacher really criticised was that I shouldn't have put a zoom out because it made it redundant, wasted time, and that maybe I should have made it more faced paced even though the whole idea of it was based on sloth.... So I pretty much don't see why my video was marked so low. My friends managed to score around 75-77, and I'm just curious as to why my one is so far off. I'm not saying they don't deserve it, it's just that I thought my one wasn't that bad, possibly the same standard as them? I dunno... I think my teacher is into those really wacky filming... The movies he shows us in class... Gummo and Trash Humpers? Thank god we never finished watching them because they're crap. And he thinks it's genius. Maybe I just like the conventional ways of filming rather than the different... but we just started filming, it's not like you dive straight into the deep end right?

You know, I think I'm gonna give up on recounting my trip to china. It takes forever to type up again, and honestly, I don't think anyone gives a damn ^^" I guess I'll just keep it in my memories and hopefully remember all the good times in my later years... orz ^^||

Out of curiosity, of those who have been brought up in a cultured family (eg. chinese, greek etc), what do you consider your first language? I've always been unsure and usually say English, although I don't really think that is the case. I think I might have started English at kindergarten. Sometimes I feel that I am at a disadvantage because I don't participate much in all the Aussie culture and stuff, and have no clue what certain terms mean, or perhaps certain issues or basically anything in general. But then again, I'm a lot better off than those who moved to Australia to study, so I don't want to 'tip the scales' or anything. I'm just wondering what I should pick for future reference.

Now that I think about it, I don't think the teacher would choose my screen play. I mean, I've got two actors who are meant to be passionately kissing; I don't think anyone in our class will volunteer for that XD But the feedback that I got was generally good, which is a good sign ^__^ Now I just have to wait for the marks to come out, and see which screen plays he picked so we can form our groups already...

Oh yes. My list of stuff that I have. Okay, what I list now will be incomplete because I can't be stuffed plugging the hard drive in. So I'll base it off memory, and later I'll edit this post.

*Air Gear (COMPLETE+MOVIE)
*Avatar the Last Airbender (COMPLETE)
*Baccano (3+?)
*Bleach (10+?)
*Cardcaptor Sakura (COMPLETE+MOVIES)
*Chobits (COMPLETE)
*CLAMP Detectives (3+?)
*Code Geass (COMPLETE S1+2)
*Death Note (COMPLETE+L.A MOVIES)
*Detective Academy Q (COMPLETE)
*D.Gray Man (COMPLETE)
*DNAngel(COMPLETE)
*Durarara (COMPLETE)
*Elfen Lied (Plan to get..)
*Fruits Basket (COMPLETE)
*Full Moon o Sagashite (COMPLETE)
*Fullmetal Alchemist (COMPLETE s1+2)
*Gintama (more than 20 eps?)
*Gravitation (COMPLETE)
*Hetalia Axis Power (COMPLETE s1..not sure about s2)
*Hikaru no Go (COMPLETE)
*Inuyasha (COMPLETE! not final act though)
*Junjou Romantica (COMPLETE s1+2)
*Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn! (140 or so?)
*Kobato (4+?)
*K-On! (COMPLETE s1+2)
*Kuroshitsuji (COMPLETE)
*La Corda primo Passo (COMPLETE s1+specials)
*Love Hina (maybe...)
*Loveless (COMPLETE)
*My Hime (COMPLETE)
*Naruto (more than 100 eps.. not sure)
*Naruto Shippuuden (5 eps...?)
*Natsume Yuujinchou (COMPLETE s1)
*Ouran High School Host Club (COMPLETE)
*Paradise Kiss (COMPLETE)
*Prince of Tennis (COMPLETE + MOVIE)
*Rurouni Kenshin (40+?)
*Sailor Moon (eng) (COMPLETE) jap (1st season and last season)
*Skip Beat (COMPLETE)
*Tsubasa Chronicle (COMPLETE s1+2)
*Vampire Knight (COMPLETE s1)
*XXXholic (COMPLETE)


Some I would suggest watching (not including the ones that most of you guys have seen): Fullmetal, avatar, K-On, D.gray man, inuyasha, my hime ,Khr (just the first 3 arcs?) and maybe air gear.

A lot of them are an excellent watch, I suggest them in the order that I've listed (from best to "worst"...or maybe start with the worst and build you're way up?). It's a lot to watch but I really do love re-watching them. I could seriously pick any random episode and just watch and still be into it. I think a lot of them though start slow, so you'll have to see probably more than 3 eps before you get to the good parts? Yes. Anyway, will update the rest of the list when I get to it.

Still writing up my screen play *sigh*. Hopefully I should be done in an hour, seeing as it's due tonight 11:55pm. What a stupid due date. Who makes homework due on a weekend? Well I think I know the reason why it was due on that date; our teacher needs to pick some screen plays which we will be use as the real deal on Tuesday. So scary. o.O It would be cool if mine got picked, but I'm not hoping or anything XD I'm still annoyed that he's made me do nearly a 360 on my screen play, but there is some fun in writing one up I must admit. Although I don't think I'd ever choose it as a career. The thought of someone picking apart what I've worked so hard for is quite depressing.
Lol I swear, writing these entries are so much easier and faster- why can't we do something like this for a screen play? Haha XD

(Oh guess what? I've finished all the coloured parts for my cross stitching!!! XD All that's left is the black chinese characters and I'm done!!! So probably be done by next week..hopefully.)

The world of action scripting is a cruel world... a Child gets removed from a Parent...

Today was good^_^ Bought 3 things (usually I'd buy a ton of badges, but this time I didn't!) One volume of manga (FMA- yay!), a little keychain dangle thing from K-On!, and lastly, a KH merchandise!(Although it was cloud, but that still counts!Would like Sora or Axel next time though XD) .

When I came back home though, it started pouring. Annoying because I didn't think to bring an umbrella. Also realised that I lost a bra strap. Which is why I hate this de-attachable ones. Lol probably tmi but yes, I'm annoyed at that.

LOL crap I did not know that I've watched so many animes O_O If you count the ones on FB, apparently I've watched 42 animes? And that wasn't even a complete list of what I've actually watched... Yikes. Maybe I should stop....

Feel like my blog's kind of dying atm :(

Sometime this week (or next week), I'm gonna put a list up of movies/dramas/animes/music I have just so it makes it easier for all of us. So if you ever want something, just say the word and I can give it to you. As for the movies, I'll probably have to exclude a lot of the movies we actually have, because a lot of them would be my dad's downloads, and the titles are usually chinese so I can't tell what they are -.-" Just letting you know, this will probably be a very, *very* long list? And don't judge me XD I can't help it that I have so much time on my hands. Well, did anyway.

I'm so excited (and I just can't hide it!)

I am super duper excited at the moment!! XDDDDD Just finished my action scripting game thing, which I'm kind of proud of because I suck at it so bad XD I had trouble trying to get this pop up box to appear to show that you've leveled up, and it leads to the next stage. It was basically a repeat of what I've done in class, but you know, once you're out of class, everything seems so much harder. Half the time I don't get what I'm really doing, I'm just following instructions. But I think something clicked, and I kinda understood what I was doing. I'm so glad I have friends who are actually good at action scripting though, it certainly does help XD
I'm kind of worried about how I'll put the action scripting in for the actual playing part. What I've done is basically create the visuals and the navigation GUI prototype (basically creating a way to navigate between all the pages). I don't know if what I've done so far might be affected by the coding for the actual playing part- what if I can't actually click on a student because the table is in the way( or something like that -.-")?
Also I finished my ident! 30 sec video of my friend being 'sloth'. I don't think I'd be a great editor, but I thought it wasn't too bad. ^^ I'll show you once I've handed it in.
So both of those are due tomorrow... Now I just have to write up my screen play (preferably by tomorrow so I can get it checked first), and revise for my jap mid semester test >.< Oh god I hope I manage. So far I've been sorta able to keep up with jap without having to revise much, although I really need to go through everything again just to make sure.
"toshokan de benkyoushimasen ka?" Do you study at the library? I think that's right? I really need to go over the particles... -.-"

(ps. I am also super excited for Saturday's Supernova!!! Best reward after weeks of hard work!)

You know, I haven't downloaded anything at all this month. Not including programs and such for the Mac. Which is very rare. Seriously. It's not like I don't have anything I want to download. There are plenty of things I want to download. But I don't know... I think I just want to stop it for now. I have heaps of stuff I still haven't watched, my downloads and my dad's downloads... I really need to catch up on all the good movies that I didn't go see in the cinemas. And I *have* to finish watching Inuyasha. It really sucked a years back when I got up to ep 54 or 56 (can't remember) and I couldn't find the eng sub jap dub stream online. And I didn't want to download it because back then, or plan was so much smaller than it is now. Maybe I should skip right up to that ep and watch on from there, seeing as I still kinda remember what was happening. But then again, that doesn't feel right.
Oh! Guess what? Recently my dad changed our plan to ADSL 2+ unlimited, which was good at the start (I got a faster connection than cable, which is weird...), but it kept disconnecting after a while. So now my dad is going to upgrade the old 70GB cable plan to 500GB plan for an extra 10 bucks XD !!! How good is that?! Only problem is having to cancel the ADSL 2+ plan after signing the contract not too long ago ^^" It would have been fine if only we weren't stuck in the very middle of where they provide ADSL 2+. That was probably the reason why it kept disconnecting.

(On another note, I'm super excited for Saturday!! Btw, how are we going to get there?)

Ehh apparently Show Luo was in Australia for a concert?!

Procrastination

You know, I think I know why I procrastinate so much. Well at least one reason why I do it. It's because I still get decent marks even if I don't make much of an effort. eg. My design specification for my game, which is basically a design brief but a lot more in depth. I somehow managed to get a D (although I guess I mainly got satisfactories and a few excellents) despite only working on it the night before. Either they mark way too easy or I've just gotten good at procrastinating to know how much time is needed for me to pull off a decent job. Not that I'm saying they should mark our assignments harder or anything. It's just, homework like this always seems like I can always just manage somehow. I never really think too far ahead on what I should do, how I should achieve it; more like can I do this-> leave till however long I can procrastinate.

So today I watched a movie in class, called Blue Velvet. Can I just say, that's some messed up stuff right there. And it was really awkward watching the sex scenes (if you can call it that) when you're half expecting something to happen in between, and the fact that you're watching it with the whole class. I don't think any of you would really want to watch this, so I won't hold back on spoilers.
Some guy named Jeffry comes back from the hospital after visiting his father, and as he heads back home, he spots a cut off ear on some block of land. This leads him to becoming curious about it, and so he goes off investigating what's happening. So he sneaks into this lady's apartment but then has to hide in the closet as the lady comes back home; so he ends up watching her strip down before he's threatened with a knife (he made some noise) before they start making out (WTH). Then they're interrupted, so he goes back into the closet, this other guy comes in (he's a bloody psycho) and proceeds to abuse her after inhaling some drugs. He kinda starts grovelling and calling her mummy and...sorry I really do not know how to describe all this without sounding so vulgar. Maybe you should see it for yourself? Just so you can feel like WTHHH?! I really can't say I like this movie at all even though my teacher said it was good- it was just too weird for my liking. Especially when that guy was involved. Eurgh. I kinda wish I did walk out of the class now...

Cold Feet

My feet are freezing at the moment T_T So cold today! Let's see. So far I don't think I've really accomplished anything on my to do list. Well working on it a bit, but not really. I'm really excited how my cross stitching is coming along though! =D I'll post it on facebook when I'm done! I've done the flower, and most of the bamboo, just got the chinese characters, and two more koi fish to do. At the moment, I'm having a lot of fun switching between to computers XD Got my laptop on my table now so I don't have to keep moving back and forth. I'm just downloading stuff on my laptop because it's really too slow to do anything else, so I'm doing a lot more stuff on the mac now. I feel like I've betrayed window users D= It's not like I like the mac, it's just a lot faster than my old laptop. Like, a bajillion times faster!! My laptop really is in a sorry state.
I just realised not too long ago that Supernova is coming up! =DD And I think a lot of my homework is due before then, so I probs won't have to worry about hw? YES!! Really exciting! XD

I wish you guys would post more often because I check blogspot all the time. I need something interesting to read.