...on Kaori's blog. XD

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I looked so retarded back then O_O;;;

XD but those days were fun, constant hanging out with novix. 8D

1. Upgrade Wordpress.
2. Finalise logo for photography/portfolio website. (also for HAWTPEPPER)
3. Eat.
4. Scan Archive.
5. Do 'COOL' mind-map.

My fingers still reek of curry.

So today we were at the prata place, here's a list of crack/weed/cocaine we had:

"'Vhat j00 vant to eat?' Later the uncle come over and bash us up."
"'Uncle, I can has sugar?' 'Sorry, vut I donch has money.'"
Funny Indian accent is funny. "Vahn uhnion prata, vahn yeagg prata, vahn preahn prata, and vahn teh tarik."

I guess you had to be there to understand and roflmfao like I did, but now you just have to read my poor romanisation of the funnys.

And yesterday, we went to SLS and there was a shop that had a TV showing a Metal Gear Solid 4 tutorial. The character, Snake (who is the player's POV btw), tried to take down an enemy soldier from behind, only to make it look like BUTTSECKS (I hope I don't get Simsecreted XD) and then there was when he tried his blend-mode while standing next to a statue, he grabbed the poor stone man's balls. And then there was the CARDBOARD DRUM CAN disguise (WINZ!) he could even roll around in the disguise, take down an enemy, and then proceed to puke from the motion. Then he pulled out a men's magazine (notable candidates: Playboy, MAXIM, FHM) with the narrator saying, "When you're sick, a men's magazine will make you feel better." (HOLY WINZ!) Aaaannd, he controlled his MK.II with a PLAYSTATION 3 CONTROLLER.

I don't think there's another FPS game with so much crack or cocaine. Now I wanna play it, just because. XD

I saw one of Nick La's illustrations made into laptop decals at Sim Lim Square today. NOT COOL. I'm a fan of Nick La's works and have been religiously reading his Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials for a long time now. Seeing such piracy makes me angry.

The computers in lab 05-34 are crap. No Firefox, no IE7 (they only have IE6), I can't even open the Firefox packed in my thumb drive.

I can't read my friends' page like this. My Livejournal layout does not show up pretty on IE6. Which sucks. I really want to do a bit of surfing on the Nets before class.

Argh. Why are DPM classes NOT in MAc labs?!

I think I would like to get an iPhone 3G, to complement my iPod Touch (which still can't do webclip icons because)

Then perhaps some time in the future, an iMac (running on Windows Vista at start-up)


Just thinking.

No that I'm fresh out of the shower and my head is a little clear, I shall write about today.

#1 SURPRISE FROM MY YEARS IN NAFA: NEW 20" iMACS FOR MAC LABS.
Complete with Mac OS X Leopard.
Still stuck with sucky Adobe CS2 though.

Jean was okay, she was rambling on and on about the project brief and stuff, then I was surfing the Nets. I can't seem to stop touching the Mac O_O;;; I think I needs to get myself a new computer or something.

Then I had Bakaboi come over while I was at MOS Burger chatting with Nicole, then they talked about mangas and Comiket and cosplay, kind of surprising that they hit it off so well.

Then Bakaboi and I walked around, went to Suntec City, I played with the gashapon machines, THE PINK YUJIN MACHINE ATE MY COIN, went to Toys R Us and played with...well, toys, had lunch at BK, walked to SP, hanged out at AP, went to KKnM, then I called it a day and went home (twas nice of Baka to walk me to the bus stop though, hehe)

Also, I have a new resolution or... something... that is, I'm gonna save $5 everyday from now till October, then I'll buy a nice birthday present for myself. Dolls? DS? PSP? RAM? I dunno. X3

Why, why is it that I see really badly taken photos from my contacts on Flickr?!
Why is it that people can still take grainy photos via hi-ISO even when they have a fucking desk lamp shining on the subject?!
Why do people abuse flash and use it practically on everything?!

I understand that at some point, most of us have taken really bad photos courtesy of bad lighting, bad focus, wrong shutter speed or aperture, hi/low ISO, etc. But even so! The ones I've seen so far are from people with a thousand photos in their photostream. "Because my camera is crap" is not reason enough! Why someone would take bad photos for months even when using a Canon Powershot is seriously beyond me.

Why would someone use high ISO to compensate for poor lighting (yeah right, even when you have a desk lamp? pish) instead of using a longer shutter speed? Most Canon Powershot cameras are manual or semi-manual cameras, no? Correction: most of the newer cameras are semi-manual cameras, no? Heck, even my old 2.8mp CybershotU camera was manual. And the fact that people have desk lamps is seriously not reason enough for grainy photos.

When you use flash on dolls or toys, the shiny parts become too shiny, like the eyes and lips, shoes, jewellery, etc. Why? Why abuse the flash to such an extent? To compensate for low lighting? Or because you suck with Photoshop and refuse to take photos without flash so you wouldn't see that horrible yellow/blue tint that haunts your photos (just tweak the white balance!) I've never seen Cho-sensei, Wong-sensei, Keith-sensei use their external flash for anything except photographing events and places with horrible light conditions (yet their photos are almost too perfect)

You can use your camera's flash for candid photos with friends and stuff, I don't mind, I think photos like this turn out better with flash anyway, but when people use it for almost everything, I feel sorry for the subject.




I feel better now. I have been suppressing my emotions and thoughts about this for a long time now. Another reason why I don't visit Flickr regularly.

(Cho-sensei, Wong-sensei, Keith-sensei were my high school teachers. They taught me English, Math, Technical Studies. I've always known Wong-sensei is as serious as an arm and a leg when it comes to photography, it was only like, last year or so that I learnt that Cho-sensei and Keith-sensei are interested in photography as well. They must've taken up photography only a few years ago. Still, you got to admit their photos are really professional)

When it comes to writing about events and/or gatherings I tend to procrastinate, push it back until I feel like writing it, but by then I have forgotten everything.

Saturday's gathering was at HortPark, this small park located along Alexandra Road, there was a lot of rain, so not many of us took much pictures. And I got to meet Camouflage and Cheeesepie (Camouflage's boyfriend, who's on SGCollect), Ricebunny and Beibei, and Miuchan, Akane, Kelvin, Ivy, Shufen, Fiona! ^_^

I can't wait till Kaoko comes over to Singapore, then we'll have a gathering for her. I hope she brings Junpei along, but it's unlikely since he'll take up much space in her luggage. XD

So first day of school was fun. I thought I was late for school so I rushed, from Dhoby Ghaut MRT station. I ran like heck and my feet ended up with a major blister attack, only to find that the lecturer was late. Then Ange and I went to the cafeteria to get some drinks, and saw Joseph having his lunch with Russell. D8 and he was oblivious to the fact that there were two classes waiting for him in the classroom.

I love the crack session at MOS Burger today, Nicole was pinching everyone's foods, that "soft bones" sticker XD OH MY. Corn soup is awesome in the cold weather.

Then during GD, we had this assignment where we were given an hour to find four things, we went to SP for the first one and I saw Bakaboi, talked to him a little, went to Cold Storage, DAMN YOU KYORU MY BRAINS R FILLED WITH PREGO NOW 8D, I got a nasty pack of Kinder Bueno, THERE R BOOKS OF POETRY IN OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY and I totally grabbed a title to read. <333

That basically sums up two days. ;D photos from the gathering will be up some time this week, I'm gonna get started with my homework now.

So I finally got Viki (whom I promptly named Viktor because it's my favourite boy's name) I thank God I didn't surrender his raccoon hat to the costume chest because it looks so cute on him! *_* That plus I love how the angel wings shrink in size just to accommodate his small body <33333

What disappoints me the most is Vicente Rio, he's lvl63 now which is all good and dandy, but his Bard attacks are the SLOWEST when compared to... hmmm, practically every RNPC in Granado Espada. Pistols and rifles are 100x faster than musical notes. I also don't like that he looks like some crackpot when he's not attacking. I can't wait till he gets to lvl100 so I can get his Serenade stance.

And oh my, pistols are the most expensive weapon in Granado Espada now, thanks to Outrage Shot and Sight Shot. I was looking for new weapons and the thought of surrendering 300m for a bloody lvl100 +4 Antique Pistol with crappy stats scares me. Desert Storm also rose in price. And why are Le Blancs still so expensive, despite the vast amount of them in the Market?!

Thanks to crappy Market inflation, my vet scout is still wearing his lvl84 Capezzolo.
But yeah, now's the best time to get Bernelli if anyone is interested rifles. She's about 5m in the Market now. Because she only has Close Encounters and Gigantic Blaster for Vet stances.

I have the urge to play Brunie Etienne now. And Lorch, because then he'll be the most important character when Calyce is released <333
But when Calyce is released, Granado Espada will remind me of Maple Story. Hope the crossbows aren't noisy in-game.

Every other hour I wake up and check on the computer.

Is Vicente dead? Is Romina dead?
No? Time to sleep then.

Then I keep turning, my eyes wide open. I can't sleep O_O knowing the Helenas and Sashas will whack the shit out of my characters sooner or later.

Then... at 7am, I managed to sleep. Only, when I woke up, I saw the two of them dead. No, three. Including my vet scout.

Tell me how hard is it to AFK at a spot that has relatively less monsters than any other FTs I've been to!

I won't even start on the Mamund thing, GAWDS how hard is it to get one?! Where's my Viki?! I have everything needed for his qust except Mamund!


*calms down*

Granado Espada is SRS BZNSS.

And I'm coming down with a fever methinks. PLEASE NO FEVER BEFORE A DOLLIE MIXTURES GATHERING O_O