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Up Dharma Down’s album launch is going to be this Friday and I’m really hoping I can go! I really want to watch them again because the last time I watched them was 2 years ago, methinks. It was when Lokomotiv was still in the country and 6 Underground Makati still existed. Oh yeah, next Tuesday is Bamboo’s album launch for Tomorrow Becomes Yesterday. Good thing I didn’t bought their album yet cause I’ll get it on the launch next week if ever I get to go. Nothing’s really stopping me from going, parents are okay with it, no financial problems and I have my way of transportation to get there and thankfully it’s in Makati so it’s pretty near my place anyway. But I have many things to accomplish for school, aka PLATES! My parents are irritated whenever they sleep because I’m still up after midnight making these plates it bothers them because I’m still awake, when I should be asleep instead. My batchmates are irritated at my plates (not me) because it’s keeping me from going out to hang out with them, oh they have tons of free time now since it’s their sembreak (there’s only 2 in our batch who’s in CSB right now).

Actually, I only got a break right now from plate-making. More like procrastinating, hi-ya! I feeling quite bipolar-ish lately. I’m having mood swings, not because I have my period. I don’t have right now actually. I hate it. I’ve thought about dropping subjects to dropping school and just be a bum, I can do that.. or maybe I can’t. I’d really feel guilty about the money my parents spent on my tuition already. And I know I would miss a lot if I leave school, not academic-wise, duh. My friends, people I know, people I love (FRIENDS still). I remember my friend (who turned a year older yesterday, haha!) said something that goes like this during our freshman year, “It’s the people that makes my time in school worthwhile, never mind the hard works our professors give us, as long as we’re with the people we want to be with”. Oh yeah I definitely agree. If ever I turned to a weirdo/loner at school, I would’ve dropped my studies. Sadly, yea.

Mhmm, so just a little gist with what I’m up to these days. PLATE-MAKING. It’s making my like deteriorate unfortunately. Subjects I thought I’d love are starting to go to my hate list . Being a loser that I am (hahaha) during freshman year I was so eager to take up COMGRAP and I finally did this year! Hurray! Only to find out it’s a crap subject. IDK, just my opinion y’all. Sure I’m learning but it’s sooo hard. Goddamn lazy SOB. We have to do a graphic novel cover of ourselves. Why can’t we just color someone’s lineart? Why am I like this? Because we have to draw the character who’s going to be on the GN cover. And you may have known that I really can’t draw to save my life. So yeah, I smell the stench of failure somewhere here.

Same goes for my FREHAND subject, I had to repeat 2 plates because it looks ugly and unpresentable, sad. Professor demands QUALITY. My friend shared that it also looks like the prof’s putting us on a competing scale against the other section (God I hope the prof won’t see this). I’m done with plate number 1, . I’ve no idea if he will accept it.. it looks clean for the most part, its completely WHITE. JK!

(Actually it’s better when it’s farther, HAHA.)

I hate FREHAND. Same with COMGRAP, I can smell the stench of failure as well. Don’t even get me started with COLREND. It’s alright at first but that’s because our real prof was gone for 3 weeks and we were handled by substitute professors. Tomorrow he’ll be back and it’ll be hell again for sure.

So much hate in this post, I’mma neutralize it with LOVE. So I love our Photography subject.. it’s not exactly my best subject (I’d say NSTP is my best subject this term, hahaha!) but I’m learning and I love it. For our finals, we have a coffee table project. Last Monday we were told to give proposals for a theme and I had 6 themes but he chose my proposed Nature theme. I’m excited but I’m unequipped if you what I mean. I don’t have a DSLR. I don’t think its advisable to use a P&S cam, no? I’m trying to borrow one from a friend… and I told my dad about it but he still doesn’t think I’m in the position to use one. Geez. Goodluck to me on that one.

Aww Gel, thanks for much for the award!

One week left and it’ll be November by then.. who’s excited for Twilight?

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!