Thursday

Yesterday I had to go into uni to borrow stuff for filming. Pretty bad day for filming in general, although good thing was that my group were filming inside a carpark, so the rain didn't affect the surroundings. I think I was the only one organized though, our main prop (a chair which the bottom could be removed) that we needed, was not there. =.=" So in the end we had to substitute it with some other wooden chair and change one of our main scenes. Overall, loads of fun >_< We blew up a lot of balloons for the stop motion part- scary part was bursting them D: Freaking hell, I seriously do jump. All the guys were laughing at my reaction =.=" I accidentally uncovered my ears for one second and a POP later I jump into the air with my heart trying to jump out of my body.
After filming we started heading towards one of the guys' house, who lives just 5 min drive from me. Pretty convenient. But before that, we stopped at coles for snacks. Dear god guys can really eat. =.= If I remember right- 4 pringles, 5 soft drinks, mint pods, chips, lollies... anyway, all in all, $45 worth of snacks =.= I somehow ended up paying, so one of the guy owes me 40 bucks.( Just saying, I ended up only eating a few mint pods because I had to leave early)
So we headed to the guy's house for some gaming. Diablo to be specific. We didn't start actually till this other guy turned up around 9.30 ish. So we basically ended up ordering pizza, watching some beauty and the geek (just lol X'D) and a bit of funniest home videos before we moved onto watching some anime. Have to say, hanging out with guys is a lot of fun, although sometimes it would be nice to have a few girls around to talk to when guys go into their own zone =.= There were meant to be a few, but none of them could make it.
So when we finally started, I had no clue about what I was doing, but I chose to be an amazon as my character. Everything seemed to be ok except some of the other guys had problems with their connection. So in the end, I only managed to play about 2 minutes of Diablo before I had to leave =.= Pity, coz I was having fun slaying some of these demon looking things.
Sigh... ok, enough procrastinating, gotta go work on my interactive house and website... TT_______TT

Mid Semester Break

Wow. "Holidays" are here. Already halfway through them :/ Been pretty busy so far. Just a recap of what has happened so far.

Monday, my friend from Geelong came over to stay again for two nights. I have to say, she's probably one of my closest friends ^_^ I can literally talk about anything with her, whether it be about uni or guys or anything ><" So glad I met her, even though it's been a year and a half XD But anyway, we were "working" on our assignment, which is a modern take on beauty and the beast. Atm, it's a bit...mehhh. We're having trouble coming up with a character design, as well as drawing in a comic book kind of style. I've suggested to use actual models and just edit them in photoshop if we have no other choice. I'm thinking this is probably the road we might have to take :/
So Tuesday night, both of us went to a house party (I guess this is sort of the first time we've hung out with uni friends which was not watching a movie together), which was basically a drinking party. ^^"

We brought along costumes which will be used for filming tomorrow, so we got the main guy to dress up in it (clown costume) to see if it fit. X'D Then some of the other guys dressed up with what remained of the discarded parts of the costume. Hahaha>< So much fun. After that we went to go get dinner, and the guys were still dressed up in the costumes (lol we dared them to haha) so that was fun X'D We went to Maccas (how appropriate yeh?) and I won a free drink, which was perfect because I didn't have one because the special deal didn't include drinks. Lol I'm probably not making much sense atm, but all in all it was great fun :P We eventually headed back to the apartment, and we started playing charades XD A bit of drinking was involved (on their part) although I doubt they were drunk yet. Erm..yeah so then a few other people arrived and so we eventually began some drinking game called "kings". At this point, I guess I sort of gave into peer pressure (well I guess more like I just wanted to join in the fun), so I decided to have a Smirnoff? Basic overview of the game:
Ace- slap your face
Two- F--- You
Three- F--- Me
Four- Touch the floor
Five- Touch the sky
Six- Girls Drink
Seven- Guys drink
Eight- Grab a mate
Nine- Bust a rhyme
Ten- Choose a category
Jack- Create a rule
Queen-Quiz Master
King- Pour drink in centre glass

Erm yeah. So first time playing a drinking game. Have to admit, it was a lot of fun ><" So evil though, one of my friends, she chose me as her mate, so it meant that I had to drink whenever she did x'D Also, we had some other rule which was from last time (which I didn't go), which was that they couldn't say mine or else they'd have to do 10 push ups. Lol I think I said it myself a few times, but luckily no one heard or didn't say anything ><
Soooo.... anyway my friend and I had to leave 'early' (nearly 11pm?) from Caulfield and catch public transport back to my place. This is probably the first time I've done something so 'reckless', although honestly, I had a lot of fun. I wish I could have stayed over, except, I don't think my parents would have approved if I told them we'd be staying at some guy's place ^^" Especially if they were drunk. Haha I hope I'm not turning into some party girl... :S

Just wanted to share a lol moment with you guys~ XD Yesterday during class, I was admiring this drawing that apparently one of the girls did (who were presenting). They were international students, so I asked one of them in Mandarin if she drew it XD And just lol- the reaction I got from them XDXDXD I think they were really surprised that I could speak Chinese XD Especially this one guy, his face- just LOL XD Oh god XD I think he was full on surprised and his mouth gaping open and then he started laughing. Ahh this is what I aim for in life~

Omg things are starting to get a bit hectic now... STRESS STRESS STRESS. I want to explode. I have to say, working in a group is becoming a lot harder than I thought... I usually like working in groups because the workload is shared, and it's usually just easier. Except this time round, I don't think anyone is really into it. Got 3 group projects atm, one haven't progressed at all, the other, the guys are really lazy, and the one I'm working on right atm, my friend is just a bit out of it. Usually she is a hard worker except lately we've both kinda in that mode where you just can't get into that mood to work. All this stress is making my skin horrible too =.= God I hate my skin. Why can't these projects be easy?? I also need to think about my website... D,: No clue about that yet. And my essay... wanna cry now TT__TT

Frustrating

I said I was going to post my list of assignments at some point and I will. But first, I have to get some stuff off my chest. ASDFASDFACIC WEM RC!!!!>!!@$o o Really *really* crappy scores for my recent assignments. CRAP. I realized my clock would be a lil below standard, but it was too late for me to change it when I realized that it wouldn't work out. And then my eye simulation. #@$&!!!! Honestly thought it would have scored a bit better... but no. scored 4/10 for professionalism. wth. Everything was functioning before I submitted, it pretty much worked when it was demonstrated in class- the only criticism the teacher had in class was that the eye function part was a bit over the top (I already knew that but couldn't work out the as3), and that he doesn't like text justified for reading information. Ok, fine. But overall, I thought it was a pretty clean look, looked nice. Where the hell did I go wrong??? We were also meant to submit it in a html file, but I assumed it was meant to be uploaded to the net... so when i clarified that with him, he said to just reupload the link, which didn't work for some reason, and he knew that... Yeah I'm really hating this semester. Big drop in grades already and these are only the first projects. Thank god they're worth a little... just means i have to score really high on my other assignments now TT______TT

Assignments= 7
-2500 essay on a Photography topic- 55%
-Ad agency portfolio template (website) - 15%
-Research blog -10%
-Educational software, which might be available as an app but not sure yet- 60%
-Experience design, possibly an interactive comic at this point, haven't decided yet- 50%
-Interactive house map, basically will have the function of showing how much electricity is used within my house -30%
-Film, probably the only assignment I'm looking forward to at this point, although it's getting hard to understand what the rest of my group is looking for- not sure what this is worth


So I think these are all the assignments for the rest of the year. Might not seem like a lot to some, but let me tell you, this is... enough to kill me =.= If I knew what I was doing, this would have been a lot easier.. At this point, I'm worried about the assignments that require me to do coding ie. interactive house and the ad agency. I've said this once but I really suck at coding. Really. The logic behind it all... just... I'm not a very logical person when it comes to stuff like this. Please just please let me do well for the rest of the year. This semester has been depressing enough as it is.

It's really kind of scary when people find out something you don't want them to know.

Happy Birthday to Me

Just want to say a big thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday :) Really means a lot to me, definitely feeling the love :D To be honest, I think I've said this before, but I don't like celebrating my birthday. Honestly, it actually gets me a bit depressed. I didn't really do anything today- slept a bit, stayed in bed, watched 3 movies and then went out for dinner. Pretty boring I guess. But it makes me happy when people care enough to send me a message saying happy birthday :)
Received a bit of bad news though today- I really wish my sister didn't tell me today. Apparently one of my cousins has liver cancer. Definitely a cool kid, I really can't believe it. Our family has been relatively healthy, don't think we have much history with diseases... just can't believe it. I'm kind of scared. My grandma will be going back to look after him next week. At the moment she doesn't know that he has cancer, she only knows that he's very ill. Despite complaining about her a lot, I'm really worried how she's going to take it. She's probably a bit excited to go back to china at the moment; I really can't stand it. I'm not actually supposed to know about all this, but my dad told my sister.. and she told me. I don't know how to feel...well I guess I feel kind of depressed now. I just hope he'll get better soon.