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Wala lang. I was browsing around Amazon a while ago and noticed that they’ve invented a new packaging system which looks hella easier than the normal packaging that products have. They call it the “Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging”, it’s the first thing you’ll see when you go to their homepage.

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I guess I’m one of the many who can relate to this kind of thing. Especially when I got a new HDD for my birthday 2 months ago, the packaging was really a pain in the rear to open. I even got paper cuts cause of the plastic packaging was too hard to pry open, even with the use of a cutter! Took me more than an hour to open it actually, and it wasn’t fully open.. I was only able to cut a smallish horizontal opening and I had to get my hands inside the package to get the product itself. In the end I got a lot of paper cuts and finger cuts. (lol, is there such a thing?) If you read the ‘letter’ at Amazon, I can definitely relate to the ‘Wrap Rage’ term, a lot.

So far, the Frustration-Free packaging feature by Amazon can be found on selected Toys that they have on sale. I hope they implement this on their gadgets as well, especially on products with packaging like the one on my HDD. As if I’ll get to buy any gadgets at Amazon.. too expensive and shipping will definitely cost an arm and a leg. Better keep on wishing for a trip to the US to personally shop for gadgets (since they’re cheaper than here in the Philippines).

Have I told you that my latest hangouts on the net are Amazon and eBay? Ever since two weeks ago I’ve been looking at some books at Amazon then at eBay to see if they have auctions for it, y’know.. cheaper way to get those ‘wants’. Jullia got me in to go eBay mode again. Sadly the local eBay in my area doesn’t have any of those books on auction. I was also eying the first edition of Heroes graphic novel at both sites to see which one is cheaper, and after sometime of research I gave in and went o buy the one I saw at eBay. Later I figured out that the reason why the one at Amazon is expensive is because it’s the hardbound copy. I don’t really need a hardbound copy and besides I don’t like them in the first place so I went ahead with a softbound cover of the book. Last word I got from the seller was the tracking number of the package so I’m really excited to receive it! Been a long time since I’ve done any transactions online. If only I can sell stuff internationally again that would be fab, I’d love to save up PayPal money again. But because I don’t have exactly a lot of time right now to go back and forth to the post office, that would have to wait.

But I really need money right now. I’m starting to be POOR because of buying art materials (specifically materials for my FREHAND classes) which eventually goes to waste because the prof doesn’t accept it and I’m forced to re-do everything again. Right now I’m procrastinating.. end up doing it when it’ll be too late. I’ve never had financial problems like this before. I get too shy to ask money from my parents now.

I also have to plan/find a good place to shoot within this month. For my photography class, our final project is to create a coffee table book consisting of 6 (minimum) photographs, but I believe I can do up to 10. Problem is, I don’t have a definite place to do a shoot. Suggestions, guys? If possible (but you can totally ignore it and just suggest away) I hope it matches my ‘criteria’.

Photo-taking is allowed (what’s the use if the place is beyond infinity in terms of beauty but I won’t be allowed to ‘capture’ it, right? There ARE places like that.. I just don’t know where exactly. )

This marks the end of my post, lol. Oh .. for some reason I wanted to plug my wishlist, hahaha. IDK, maybe if someone who has a lot of money drops by my site and may be in the mood to be generous, please buy me something! Or or, a domain name will do.

In case you might be wondering, I’m not moving out *if* I receive/buy a domain. It looks like Google is never going to give back my PR 3, I have to find out another alternative to earn money through blogging. Wah.

I tried so hard
and got so far
but in the end
it doesn’t really matter

WOOHOO! Tonight marks the end of my first week of my 2nd term in CSB! What’s best way to celebrate it? Treating your friends out to Yellow Cab in the middle of the afternoon.

Saturday afternoon, my friends and I went to Yellow Cab in Taft Avenue. I treated them to pizza and pasta because it was my birthday recently. Actually I did like 2 parties, first with my HS friends last Tuesday and for my CSB friends I treated them today this Saturday. Thought it’d be a perfect day for them since most of us have NSTP classes in the afternoon, excluding Seth cause his NSTP class is on the morning . But thaaaaaanks for waiting till 4 to come with us. (Sosyal, you’re mentioned in my blog!) Anyway, so there. We all went to Yellow Cab, we were laughing and as usual we were the loudest people on that place. We ate a huge pizza, shared this Chicken Spaghetti, haha. Bonded, laughed, joked about different things. I had fun, most of the people who came were guys and according to Char, it was even, 6 girls and 6 boys but I didn’t notice it. *shrugs off*

Thanks Ian, Char, Princess, Jeanne, Andrew, Reji, Seth, Jacob, Alrenz, Yssa, Goldie and JM (Seth???) for coming! LOL. Okay I hope next year I can manage to do this again, hahaha. Thanks to my HS batchmates too who came over to my house last Tuesday despite their early classes next day, and for the ‘5 special people’ who stayed till 12 to ‘really’ greet me. You’re way too many to list, and you know who you all are! IDK if you read my blog, probably you don’t.

Ooh! And much thanks to everyone who greeted me on my Multiply and Friendster, people who made posts on their Plurks to greet me. SUPER COOL! Much appreciated.

So I’m 19 now. I still feel 18. I don’t feel REALLY old, because I’ll never look old. Teh lulz, get what I mean? See in person, you’ll find out why. Daaang. Okay this is freaky but I sometimes think what if I’m in my 20s already? Would I be still be immature for that age? Enough. Shit like that shouldn’t be said in this blog, haha. Tamang trip lang dito.

First week in school was okay. I have 2 days of no classes, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Feels like I’m back to having a ‘term break’. Feels like I’m not taking school seriously with 2 days of no classes, hahaha.

It begins with ‘Monday murder’, 3 three-hour subjects! Photography, Philippine Design and History of Arts and Design 2. I don’t like the third one, it’s HARD. I wish I got the prof I had in the first HARTDS1 subject last term, we didn’t do ANYTHING major except report on that which is OK for me. Ugh. I don’t wanna do art activities and all that shit on a ‘lecture’-ish subject. I just don’t feel the prof on that subject at all. K, gotta stop, she might get here and read this and THEN fail me. The good thing is, I have the prof in our History of Arts in Philippine design, woohoo! Okay, should I expect that he will not let us do a lot this time again? Or not.

Next is ‘Terror Thursday’, Computer Graphics subject (3 hours) in the mornings with my friends BUT I’m scared of the subject… sort of? The prof seems nice but I’ve heard a lot from her. Rawr. Our first HW was to make a mask out of photos SHE provided, thought it’d be easy but I haven’t conceptualized ANYTHING up to now. And to think this is Computer Graphics, Photoshop! I’ve been using the damn thing for 3-4 years almost and just coming up with a mask design is hard for me. WHYYYYYY?!?! Fail! After that I have my Color Rendering class, the prof is okay but … you know, the type that expects a lot, makes us do a lot of HARD things. This is hard for me, cause I can’t draw. Haha. Neither color well. I hope to learn & pass. And the materials are SO expensive, boo. The prof screams and yells at our class when explaining, he doesn’t come off as scary, but funny instead. My friend who was under this prof last term was even surprised that some of my classmates like this professor.

‘Friday freehand’. I only have one class and its Freehand, where we are majorly required to draw. The prof made us draw anything so he can assess us, or something. I drew a scene from the park (it ended up looking like a drawing from a Grade 1 student), a cellphone (Nokia 5610, which was badly rendered, IMO, but I was happy with the out come, LULZ), and.. a Chuck Taylor shoe (supposedly MY Converse shoe, rendered badly again). I feel that I’m the only one who needs serious attention to being tutored how to draw starting from the very basics. Huhu, Anna you’re such a loser. Everyone has experience with doodling, semi-okay rendering and perspective. I hope I learn! Or I’ll go on LOA, HAHA! I kid.

Lastly, is ‘Saturday service’. One class which is NSTP. Okay I thought it’d be so-so. But it’s hard.. I feel that it’ll be hard. Our first homework is either take photos on how we view poverty (that would be an easy way out IF I didn’t have much to do on my other subjects, but I’m scared to go to poverty driven areas, too, which will be a problem) or write a essay reflection on poverty. I think I’ll go with writing an essay instead. I probably won’t have time to go out and take stellar photos of people in such areas where poverty exists.

I feel stupid getting a Monday schedule. I forgot to put into consideration I have Saturday classes while encoding my schedule. So I have Sunday-class next day-2 day break after. Frustrating, but I’ll get used to it, eventually.

That’s all for tonight, I’m too draggy and sleepy. Hopefully tomorrow will be dedicated to conceptualizing a digital mask for my Computer Graphics subject due this Thursday. *yawns* Bye for now!