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May 24, 2009

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*

Filed under: Concerts and Gigs, Entertainment, Life, Music, Photos, School

12 comments

Lei Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Wow! Your classes started early. I guess ganon talaga kapag trimestral.

Back when I was in my fourth year in HS, and was deciding on which school to attend and which course to take, I actually considered CSB and taking MMA as my course. Buti na lang hindi ako natuloy. I hate drawing, probably because drawing hates me as well. Nung 1st year HS ako, we had this computer drafting class and I hated it so much. Simple straight line without using any ruler di ko magawa

For me Senior Year was the busiest for me pero sobrang saya naman It was when we had our thesis, dito ko rin naexperience yung hindi pumasok sa class because of thesis. And after passing the thesis, sobrang sarap ng pakiramdam. Andun yung feeling na I can just do or not do anything and still graduate Kaya that was the year also na hindi kami pumasok sa isang class dahil pumunta kami sa Tagaytay. Well, actually papasok kami dapat dun. Maaga nagdismiss yung class namin before lunch so we had enough time for lunch in Tagaytay. Kaso along the way to Tagaytay nasiraan kami haha! So hindi na kami nakapasok But it was fun sobra!

Anyways, I’ve never been to concerts like the ones you’ve been to. The last gig I attended was MYMP and South Border pero sa school lang yun haha! Ang loser ko ‘no?
Kimeh Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Wow. Ang early nga nagstart ng classes mo. I swear, I still don’t want mine to start. :pray:

I really will miss the summer, won’t you?
Geline Says:
May 25th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
I’m happy that u supported MTV Exit
Michelle Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Yayy I’ve been wanting to know more about your course since forever. That’s exactly what I want to take. Unfortunately UP and UST don’t have such.

Oh well. Good luck Anna (okay, no more Ate haha)! I’m sure you can do that. Especially if you really like what you’re doing.
Donna Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
We had that lettering thing for my engineering graphics class too!!! We draw everything from polygons, circles and other shapes hahahaha. It’s such a torture!!! good luck in school looking forward to posting some of your works in the net i don’t know much about gig scenes but i wish you enjoy both school and gigs haha lots of college students say that junior year is the busiest year in there whole college life haha g’luck.
Rachel Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Ang aga ng pasukan mo Anna, nakuh konting tiis lng at matatapos ka din sa pag-aaral =D
vanessa Says:
May 31st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
on the bright side, all your classes seem to be interesting. (:
Joanna Says:
June 5th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
wow. ganda naman ng mga classes mo, too bad hindi madali. good luck
cars Says:
June 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I still can’t believe na hindi pa nagpopostpone and CSB. (lmao) So weird.

I hope you find the passion for you classes Anna! (For me) they seem exciting and fun and hard. Kaya, a big big goodluck! Post your character here, I’d looove to see it!

And. Hmm. WP Tumblr switch huh? Well. I dunno what to say.
shaihyie Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
aww, ang aga aga ng pasukan mo.
Kala ko maaga na yung akin (MAY25:)
Well, goodluck!
Chiui Says:
June 8th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
wow, your subjects are so interesting! i hope i have Video Production too! XD
and im still waiting for my Dslr from heaven. haha.
Wanits Says:
June 10th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I suggest just dont switch to tumblr, I think it’s better this way, WordPress. Haha. Oh! Hectic, I don’t have any idea about the subjects and stuff, I only understood the words ‘photoshop’ and ‘phptgraphy.’ Haha! But well yea, your right, we shouldn’t be so confident.