May, 2009

On school and making a comeback in the gig scene

24May 09

School started for me last Thursday. I was right all along to be nervous, because my first day wasn’t easy. I mean, having two drawing subjects in a day and the profs gave us a head start on what we’re going to do in 14 weeks. Draw, draw, draw! For my 2D animation class, we’re told to start thinking of our character, then on my Technical Drawing class, the prof gave us some worksheets to start working on. I like the lettering activity sheet best, haha.

Yes, I needed help that time!

Nervous, yes. Hopefully I won’t breakdown in the middle of the term. Good thing I’m a person who does things in advance. *panics* =)) Just need to think of an easy character.. *sigh*

I’ve yet to attend my Monday and Tuesday classes. I have Web Development, Video Production and 3D Animation classes for Monday and Tuesday. I don’t want to assume that I’m going to do well in Web Devt. subject just because I know a little bit about it, I know it’s always going to be hard. Just like in my Computer Graphics class before, I thought it’d be easy cause I know Photoshop blah blah blah, but its definitely hard.. harder than I expected. I’VE LEARNED MY LESSON. I’m going to walk in that class knowing NOTHING about web design, haha.

Concept Photography is my only class during Fridays.. I didn’t realize how hard this subject is until I actually attended that class. See, my friends took the subj earlier than me, and they’re always saying how it’s hard to conceptualize. Next meeting we have to shoot still life objects, and portraits too I think. Damn, I seriously need to get my photography mojo back. And one of our exams includes a shoot where you have to copy an ad. Say, a photo of a model, you have to do a shoot like that.

To make this short and sweet: JUNIOR YEAR WILL BE THE BUSIEST AND POSSIBLY THE TORTURE YEAR OF MY LIFE.

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As for the part of coming back to the gigs scene. I took a break from school and decided to go watch some bands the night after. Friday night I went to MOA with my brother to watch the MTV Exit event. MTV Exit is an event to raise awareness and increase prevention of human trafficking.

We only watched two bands, Pupil and Itchyworms. Watching Pupil again after 2 years gave me the push to go out and be active in watching live bands again. It’s going to be hard to catch up now cause school’s definitely going to be busy.. but I hope I can make it to their upcoming Hard Rock show! I really want to shoot bands again now that I’m using a DSLR, I’m more motivated. )

BTW. I’m thinking of making this website Tumblr-powered. I have another ‘blog’, AE on Life, it’s basically the same as this one except it’s updated every day and I show a photo or two per post. It’s like a photo journal, but easier to manage. What I plan to do is, get rid of WP and replace it with Tumblr.

I’m not sure as of now.. the fact that I have more comments and more posts here (dating back to 2005) is holding me back from doing the big switch. It’s no biggie for me to manage 2 blogs.. but I thought I’d make things easier, for me.

If I did switch, it won’t be the same. I lose pages, comments and posts.. (but still have backup of it). I could put Disqus on the posts but it won’t be the same either.

*shrugs off*

Trinoma

8May 09

Post tags: Boredom / Film and Movies / Life / Photos / School / Summer —
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At least na -“Tri mo na”. Hehehe… – eagle4

Despite the typhoon yesterday we still pushed through with our Trinoma trip. Luckily I didn’t get sick from the weather. If the weather cooperated more we could have looked at the whole place and not stress over the time with rushing to go back to the train station to get a good spot and from beating the traffic on our way home.

Yesterday was the wrong time to rain on our parade. Hehehe.

But I’m glad we watched 17 Again because its one of the movies I was dying to see. My money was well spent on that movie, I enjoyed it a lot and I would love to watch it again. My friend treated me to some Mrs. Fields cookies (my fave!) and I bought a box of Krispy Kremes on our way home.

I hope I can go back there soon on a sunny day, haha. Something tells me that’s not the first and last time I’m going to that place. The north takes some time getting used to in my opinion but I’d love to back there again!!

Next on my to-do list: Buy new clothes and have my hair fixed.

Hehe, school’s just a week and half away. Nervous, yes. I haven’t enrolled myself, no paid my tuition for next term yet. Boo, I already feel that I’m going to be a loner on my first day, seriously.

I want to buy a new pair of shoes btw. I’m eyeing a white pair of Chuck taylors lately, but I’m torn between getting a low-cut or hi-cut pair. I have 1 hi-cut pair of Chucks which looks pretty ruined already cause I’ve worn it sooo many times and its starting to fall apart, haha.

Low-cut or Hi-cut? White or suggest me another color? Thoughts?

Friend told me that I should get a low-cut pair cause hi-cuts are not that in anymore, haha. I wear my hi-cut with long pants anyway, but I like a pair that I can wear with anything, not just pants and shorts.

Baby, that’s just me

5May 09

Post tags: Entertainment / Idiot Box / Life / School / Site Updates / Summer —
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How do you guys like my new layout? I admit, I don’t put much time and effort to my 5 year old site as much as I did before but I make it a point that whenever I ‘come back’ I spoil my baby with a new layout, ahaha. Luckily I got to finish this in 4 hours, I thought it would take me all day. Good thing I found some pretty Hayden Panettiere photos online. She’s really pretty for her age, no? I thought that quote on the header fits her very well, and yes she said that herself!

This is my favorite layout so far because a) its white and b) it turned out good compared to the last white layout I did years ago. I also had a hard time deciding which artist to put there since I haven’t done any blends in a long time, I don’t know how I’ll make it stand out without looking unnatural or something. My choices before landing on Hayden’s photos were Kristen Bell and Yvonne Strahovski. ) Anyway that’s okay, I’ll keep those girls in mind for my next layout.

I think I’ll make it a point to feature female artists starting now. I noticed that most of my layouts feature men. ;;)

So what do you think?

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Today is May 5, 15 days later I go back to school, 5 days it’ll Mother’s day. TBQH, I’m very nervous about going to school. Heck, I think I’m more nervous than the freshman kids. I’m having major subjects this term mostly that’s why I’m so nervous. What if I fail more than 1 subject? I suck at drawing and I have 3 subjects which requires us to draw (animating too) and I don’t know anyone in my other drawing, gosh. Also, my first day of school is on the 21 and my schedule is up to 9PM. :doh:

Hmm.. I feel that I still have 2 weeks left of break time, it seems so close to me but I’m procrastinating here still and doing nothing like going to the salon and have my hair fixed lol. Well, I started sleeping early again if that helps and I’m starting to wake up early in the morning as well so my preparations are effective?

I’m still bummed that NBC’s announcement about Chuck is put off for another week (or two). I’ve said it many times already, keep Chuck/I hope they don’t cancel Chuck, but I heard from a friend that another show got canceled (way long ago) irregardless of its popularity and whatnot so that got me back from worrying if they will keep the show on air.

For the meantime, I’ve been searching for TV series’ online hoping that it would be my temporary meds until Chuck and Heroes will be back on air, haha. So far I found the following shows to be interesting:

Castle (starring Nathan Fillion of Firefly fame)
True Blood (starring Anna Paquin, show about Vampires)
Gossip Girl (need I say more? everybody’s practically addicted to this show)
House MD

I started downloading True Blood and Castle weeks ago and I’m just waiting for True Blood to finish. I’m watching Castle right now and I think I can still catch up because they’re only on episode 9 (or 10?) today.. I’m on episode 4 as I type this. I like Castle already! Hopefully I finish it soon so I can watch True Blood when it’s finished.

BTW, I finished Firefly (series) and Serenity (movie) in just 3 days. I was on withdrawal after finishing it and itching to find a new show to watch.. then I resorted to watching Daria reruns. Also downloaded the whole Beavis and Butthead show, been a month now and it’s close to finishing.. thank goodness. Though I feel that this torrent will be a waste of my time, lmao.

Oh yeah, my title is from La La Land by Demi Lovato. Erlack apongoes, I know right? Who knew I’d get to liking her music… Hahahaha. Gotta admit, she’s (possibly) the only Disney girl with a good voice. Sorry, Miles. I like you and all (I even defended you!) but you’re starting to get on my nerves and you’re freaking 15, my brother’s more mature than you.