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if only if life was like indiana jones irl... XD

Currently listening: Indiana Jones Theme Song
Currently watching: How I Met Your Mother
Currently reading: Fruits Basket Vol.1 by Natsuki Takaya
Currently feeling: happy

i also wanted to let you all know that i updated my website, in case if u haven't seen it yet. i tried to make the layout more simple and i am so glad that i was finally able to make my website by using div tags. i'm usually never able to format div tags and end up using tables which most of the time end up moving the body of the text around. i also made a new name from my old website. i tried to think of a name that i felt would represent me most so i decided to call my website "curious pup."i kinda felt like this represented me most because i'm always curious about things and some qualities a puppy/dog has such as being loyal, playful, and some other stuff but i can't think of at the moment. ^_^;;  i also added my prints (from printmaking class) and my movies/animated shorts (from my motion graphics class) in the portfolio section of my website.

i dunno about anybody else but i feel like it's so hard to find a job out there, especially for graphic designer/art jobs. it's like mostly all the jobs ask for someone who has at least 3-5 yrs or more experience in that field  and i have only 1 yr or less. *sigh* ugh. i don't even feel like i have that great of a portfolio.  well hopefully someone likes my website and hire me somewhere. then again, i probably should try and have more confidence in myself...is it just me or is anybody else having the same problem?

happy new year! i mostly spent my new years eve at the ferry building watching the fireworks. it was okay, but i think i'd rather watch the fireworks on tv... no offense. i mean i like the fireworks and all but i'm not really a big fan of the smell of pot (or so people told me what the smell was...). i also hanged out at my friend's friend's house although she lives on russian hill so it was very hard and long to find parking... we also played nintendo wii which was pretty fun.

i sent in my comic today for the tokyopop rising stars of manga. good news, i was finally able to finalize it before the contest ended which is jan. 11th.  bad news, i just found out a few min ago that i forgot to put my entire address on the entry form... i put the street address but i forgot to put the city, state and zip code. ugh god i feel crappy. hopefully that doesn't count as not completing the entire entry form... cause then i'd be disqualified but i did put my e-mail on the entry form. i mean i even let my sis look over my entry form to make sure i filled out all the parts. *sigh* i wish i could catch the fedex guy who has my envelope and complete the rest of my address on the entry form. *sigh* i just have this strange feeling that i'm going to get disqualified. i mean i know that my comic isn't going to win but if i get disqualified then i dunno if i could just complete the entry form fully for the next contest and enter the same comic. what do you think? do you think i'm going to get disqualified? i really really hope i don't. i also hope that if they accept my entry that i actually win... ah well...

i still didn't get a call from viz but hopefully sometime soon... but then again, it's kinda nice to stay up late and wake up whenever i want to. but then again they have some pretty cool stuff to take from the free table. :D

i'm also going to try and volunteer for all three days at wonder-con.  then that way i won't have to pay for admission and spend my money on other things. heh. i didn't sign up yet though but maybe soon. but if u want to come it's feb. 22-24  at the moscone south center in s.f.

i'm also glad that i graduated. my family somewhat didn't think i would go all the way but i did. now i won't have nothing to worry about. well that is until graduate school. since i graduated with a ba in graphic design, i was thinking about going to graduate school for a masters in animation since i always wanted to do animation. but i can't decide between academy of art or the california art institute. unless u know a better art school for animation. i would take it at sf state since they're a great school to learn animation but i would have to take a bunch of prerequisites in order to start the program. plus it'd probably be even harder to get all of your classes there. well all i know is that if i don't get a job then i'm just going to go in the fall and continue as a freelancer at viz (that is, if they still need me).

anyways, other than that, i really really hope i don't get disqualified just bcause i didn't put the city, state, and zip on the entry form but did include my phone number and e-mail address.

well actually i got it about 2-3 weeks ago. i just kinda been lazy lately updating my journal and stuff. but u probably already knew that. ^_^;; anyways. it was ok though. i got a bunch of money but i still have to wait for the other half. i think. *thinks* o.o i've also been trying to find the naruto fanbook. i wanted to find it to see if my name is really in the credits and if they spelled my name right since i did design some of the pages. btw, if you find it and see my name in the credits then let me know! =D u don't have to if u don't want to though. ^_^;;

school's been going okay. i feel like i have no pressure at all this year, which is great. especially when you're just taking art classes. no finals! =D just projects, which kinda sucks but at least i don't have to study for anything. i also feel like i don't even have to try hard for the semester. i guess that would be bad since it's supposed to be good to be learning something new i guess? well i guess i am learning some things new like how to use adobe after effects and how to make prints using different types of materials such as plexiglass(?) and copper for printmaking class.

o yeah i also ended up getting my skull sculpture back from the sculpture class i dropped out of. in case if i didn't tell you, i dropped out of sculpture class because 1.) i have way enough units to graduate, and 2.) no offense, but i can't work in a class where the object to be modeled in clay is a naked model. sorry i just can't handle it. my mom thinks the sculpture is just way too scary.

 o yeah. i almost forgot. i'm gonna be graduating on dec.14th how exciting is that? very exciting if you ask me. =D i also have 2 tickets left for my grad ceremony. so if u'd like to come let me know and i'll save them for you. =D also, no offense but ever since they e-mailed all the students who are graduating about the grad tickets/info, people have been copying the e-mails and emailed everybody off the list asking them to either buy or sell tickets to other people. that was soo annoying. but also interesting how some people responded back in anger. some had some good points about how people should just give their tickets away instead of making them pay. ah well. anyways.

so i also found out that there isn't going to be any more tokidoki designs for the lesportsac bags. yeah i'm kinda bummed being a tokidoki fan and all. heh. so supposedly the christmas design is the last design. now i feel like i should try and get all the designs. would that be crazy? heh. probably so... *sigh* o well at least there's still the clothing. ^_^;; and the bags r all on sale! =D well most of them.

that's about it. but if u'd like u can watch the movies i made in my motion graphics class.

This movie is about Dorothy, who instead of falling with her house to the land of OZ, ends up in a fairytale land. while trying to find a way out, she ends up bumping into many characters from different stories such as the witch from Hansel and Gretel, the wolf from little red riding hood, the three bears and the white rabbit from Alice and wonderland. For motion graphics class, I was assigned to make a 2 min movie on a narrative with a twist to change the story up a bit. So this is what I ended up making. So I hope you like it. If not then sorry. enjoy! =D

p.s.: the music might be a bit too loud, so be ready to turn down your volume if it is. the speech bubbles also might go too fast in some scenes. sorry.

Sorry for the late update. I’ve been so busy lately. o.o;;  lately I’ve been on an internship search, volunteering, and anything else I could find for the summer since my mom didn’t want me to stay at home for most of the summer, even though it would sound a bit nice to hibernate over the summer after sleepless nights during last semester…  this also probably would’ve given me the time to work on some comics. O well. Anyways. Here’s what’s happened so far (p.s.: if u want to read about the viz internship scroll down to the yesterday date in this entry (and sorry if I made this entry way wwaayy too long)) :

Sunday, May 13 (Happy Mother’s Day!):

So for mother’s day, me and my sisters decided to treat our mom to lunch at some small English tea house.  It was ok. The food wasn’t that great. So I just got a hot chocolate to drink.  But then I accidentally got an allergic reaction to something.  It was either the pesto sandwich or the mushroom on a toasted thin piece of toast or something like that.  I think it was the mushroom one though.  But either way, I felt terrible.  My throat felt like it was closing in and everything.  My sisters didn’t believe me though and just thought I didn’t feel good because I was still kinda sick and didn’t get much sleep.  ok. ok. So I was still kinda sick and was recovering from a cold but I really really didn’t feel so good.  I felt like I was gonna die or something because of my allergic reaction and my throat closing in.  the only person who believed me was my mom.  Thank god she believed me. So she ran out to get some benadryl.  I ended up taking some and then went to the car. She helped me to the car though but then I had to tell her to slow down cause I didn’t feel good.  Then she said that I’m always causing some sort of drama on mother’s day, which I guess would be true. I mean there was the other time when I was 5 or something and I kept asking my mom to let me have my ears pierced on mother’s day or something like that.  But then when I got to the car I ended up throwing up since I felt even worse. But I guess that’s just too much info.  I don’t think I’m gonna go to an English tea house any time soon. I can tell you that. 

Tuesday, May 22:

So today i had a job interview with this lady for a magazine called b for beautiful.  She’s ok but sometimes I feel like she’s just using me instead of working as an intern. But I guess any internship is better than not having an internship at all I guess.  At first she wanted me to build a shopping cart for her site but I totally had no idea how to do that, so I tried to look up some shopping cart codes on the internet.  I found some but I still didn’t really know how it worked.  It felt more like computer science than for a web designer.  Either that or I’m just not great in html code and need more work.  *sigh*  she also always wants to meet at this one café but it’s soo far and feel like a long drive just for a 5-10 min meeting about her website design project.  O well. I guess that’s just how the real world works, right?

Monday, May 28:

Happy birthday sharyn!!!  She turned 22. heh.  So for her b-day me, sharyn, and two of her other friends went to hillsdale.  Unfortunately we ended up taking the wrong exit and getting lost. So we ended up going to a gas station and asking for directions to the hillsdale mall.  We saw a police man pumping gas and asked him if he knew the way there. He said yes but then had a long pause. So we asked him where do we go and then he told us how to get there. But then sharyn got distracted and ended up missing the exit and then had to go to the next exit and go back on the freeway. Then we finally found the right exit and got to the mall.  Then we went to moonstar with her parents and her dad’s friend.  I’m surprised they had cotton candy there.  But I didn’t eat any because I was soo full.  I got her one of those sleeping puppies that looks like it’s alive and sleeping but it isn’t and that the tummy just moves up and down. I couldn’t find her fav dog though so I just got her a shih tzu.  I also got her a small black piggy bank and some earrings from American eagle.  Me and her friends also joked around about how we’re gonna get her a navigation system for her car for her next birthday since she’s always getting lost somehow on mini road trips. Hehe.  Then after eating dinner at moonstar, we went to watch pirates of the Caribbean: at world’s end.  It was a good movie.  It’s too bad most of the people in the theater left during the credits. The scene at the end of the credits was pretty nice too. 

Thursday, June 7:

Today I had an internship interview from viz.  they took so long to call I thought I didn’t get the internship, especially since they wrote in the description that the internship was going to start in late may through august or something like that.  I also brought a bunch of artwork along with my portfolio because I really wanted to find another internship instead of the one I already had since I didn’t really like it much…I got there too early though.  So then I just decided to walk around the mall there. It was pretty small but ok.  Then I got curious and decided to look for burger king since they said that they moved to taylor st. and viz was on bay st.  I found taylor st. and then found burger king. But then I walked back to viz since it was time for my interview.  I was a bit nervous, especially since I was going to be interviewed by 2 people. They were nice though.  I’m glad they liked my work though. I brought a lot of art work, my portfolio, and one of my mangas just in case.  Then I got a phone call from viz when I got home on my answering machine.  I thought I didn’t get it but they actually said I got the viz summer design internship! =D I work on mon. and wed from 10-3 and thurs. from 10-4.  I felt so relieved but I also felt kinda bad on whether I should tell the other lady that I don’t want to do the web design internship since she can sometimes be very flaky.  *sigh*  I dunno. Maybe I’ll just do the website and add it to my portfolio or something…

Saturday, June 9:

Today, I went to Sacramento with my family for a wedding.  It was ok. Didn’t see the ceremony though but they did have it in Hawaii which sounds nice.  Although I kinda felt sorry for the bike man with green hair who got hit by a car when my family was driving towards the wedding dinner place.  Apparently the man was just hit by the car because he was just laying there with his legs still on the pedals on the ground.  I’m pretty sue he has some sort of head injury since he wasn’t wearing a helmet and had a bit a blood coming out of his head, even though I didn’t really see any blood or anything like that.  Then we saw the ambulance leave since it was right across the street from where the wedding dinner was taking place.  The food was ok but I still felt hungry and hot.  Back at the hotel my family bought some 2 liter sodas nearby. The vending machine charged $3 for a 20 oz bottle of soda.  $3! Holy crap that’s a lot of money for that size. They usually cost $1.25 or $1.50.  but $3?  that’s just crazy.

Yesterday:

Yesterday I started my first day at viz for the summer design internship.  Unfortunately, nobody was there at 10 a.m.  plus I needed to ask them if it was ok to start even though my registration form from school wasn’t ready to turn in yet and still being processed.  So I just waited for them in the waiting room.  Finally someone came at 10:15 or 30 I 4got. But they showed me around the first floor (again (I already saw the first floor but o well)).  Then I got to see the second third and 4^th floor.  It all looked pretty cool.  I then asked her about benefits and if I get any discounts on viz products (yeah I know I probably shouldn’t have asked that on my first day but I couldn’t resist.).  anyways. It turns out o don’t get discounts on viz products or benefits.  Instead I get them for free!  Free!!! So then when she said that I get it for free I was like .oO(*loud car screech* free? o.o )  then I asked if she was sure and if I had to pay anything for a dvd box set.  Then she was like o no you don’t have to pay.  Just write a list of what you want and I’ll order them for you.  O.O .oO(*does a freakin’ happy/excited dance*) then I was like o cool and tried to stay calm when I said that.  I thought that was soo awesome. It’s like I can get all the inuyasha and ranma ½ and other great anime/manga box sets for free that were created by viz media!!! =D I can’t wait to write my list. If anybody needs anything that’s distributed by viz, let me know and I’ll see what I can do. =)  they even have a table where they’re giving away some free manga.  I would’ve taken this mew book but the lady giving me the tour took them both. I was like .oO(crap! I knew I should’ve taken it earlier). So before I left I took a manga.  I didn’t want to take more than one on my first day.  Plus they were mostly mangas that were later in the series like vol. 19 or something like that.

Then I signed out and walked to the bus stop.  I took the f line home but it took forever for the bus to come that was empty.  Darn tourist season…no offense.  Although there was this one bus that some tourists got kinda mad about because the bus man could only allow 4 more people on the bus, but that’s only because the people standing in the front were too freakin’ lazy to move to the back.  I mean c’mon.  it’s like the theme park rules when you’re about to go on a ride, “move all the way to the back or down the row so that everybody can get on.”  *sigh* so I ended up waiting for about half hour to an hour at the most.  I also forgot my ipod and left it at home, so I also had nothing to listen to at the time.  Luckily I still had some burger king fries left over from lunch.  Although when I ate it at viz for lunch I ended up eating alone… if I knew I could’ve eaten at my desk I would’ve.  O well.  Maybe later I’ll have someone to eat with at work? 

Today:

Today I drew up some sketches for the other lady for her b for beautiful website.  I just have to make a flash image for her site so it shouldn’t be too hard, right? Right? o.o;;  well hopefully she likes them. Either way I think I have to get used to criticism. Before I was a bit bothered by the comment left in my tokyopop manga, shipwrecked.  I mean I know it’s a storyline of different people stranded on an island that’s been written and used over and over again.  But then again after reading the comments again I’m kinda over it.  I think I just need a bit more work on handling criticism, especially the really harsh ones.  I also think I need to be a bit more confident in myself and in my work… o well. Maybe someday… o well. laters.

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Currently listening to: Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Currently reading: The Crying of Lot 49 By: Thomas Pynchon
Currently watching: Naruto
Currently feeling: confused

ok good news and bad news. good news: i applied for an internship on experience.com or some website that usf recommended the best to look for internships. anyways i applied for some web design internship and the person replied back asking to meet with me. =) so i guess i have an interview?=D it's some bridal magazine company (i'm guessing?) called b is for beautiful. i dunno. i think they're website is www.bforbeautiful.com. i dunno. anyways i'm pretty excited that my resume was good enough and that i was at least able to get one company's interest to get an internship.

ok now for the bad news...the bad news is that she wants to meet with me an see a portfolio. well actually she said that she wanted to see a portfolio if i have any. i do have a portfolio up but it's more like a web portfolio... i should have an actual portfolio though...well making a portfolio can't be that hard, can it? o.o;; i thought it couldn't but then my mom kept scaring me. o.o and now she wants me to stay in school for an extra semester because she doesn't think i'm ready unless if i take the portfolio class. all i see people doing in portfolio class is mostly web portfolios. ok so my web portfolio might not look the super best website ever but i'm working on it. o.o;; ...or at least trying to...*sigh* in case if u're wondering, i'm supposed to graduate in december but since portfolio is only offered in the spring my mom think it would be best to take that class because she thinks i'm not ready if i don't take the class. i wanna graduate and get out of school though! o.o *sigh* ok. ok. maybe she has some good points i guess...i dunno. what do u people think? should i just stay an extra semester and graduate in the spring just for one or two classes or should i just take a summer school class and grad in december? ugh. holy crap i dunno what to do. and at the same time my mom is starting to drive me crazy. sometimes i wish she could have a little faith in me... it feels like even though i look like her when she was young and i have to admit, it's great that she's honest and stuff, but it feels like she doesn't really believe in me as much as i want her to... does that sound weird/needy? ok maybe just a little bit. or maybe just a lot? o.o;; anyways. maybe i should just reschedule the interview until i feel ready i guess... also if anybody has any interview tips or tips on building a portfolio let me know. any tip/advice will help =D especially since i never had a job or did an interview before...

 other then that, yesterday i went to my first baseball game. eh it was ok. lou seal the mascot was funny. he tried to pick a fight with the opposing team. i also thought it was funny how these two guys in the crowd were kinda fighting with each other. one guy was saying "lets go oakland" a lot. so i guess this giants fan was getting annoyed with the oakland fan and said "go back to oakland" in the same tone the oakland fan was cheering. so they did that 3 times.and then the giants fan was like point across the bay and said "look! there's a shortcut" hehe. i got a clam chowder breadbowl at the park. the soup was good but the bread made me so thirsty i had to buy something to drink. the view was great but they're were soo many stairs since we had the seats in the nose bleed section. but i guess that's waht happens when u win free tickets from some radio station. my dad won 4 tickets. but then again, it's not bad for a first time experience. =)

o well. laters.

somehow i have a feeling that tomorrow is gonna suck...when i had class on wednesday last week or on the last wednesday before spring break, we had to present our class projects. fortunately not everybody got to present. but then when class was over, at the last min. someone goes up to the teacher and asks him about her project and i guess she had a problem with it and wanted to present her project. but class was over so i was like .oO(yes! *celebrating in her head* ) but then the teacher says that since some people had a problem with their work and the five people who didn't present will present on the following monday after spring break. i was like .oO(*celebration stops* d'oh!) i almost said it out loud with the same expression homer does on the simpsons. i hate presenting projects... it's so scary and i always get so nervous. especially around corwin and ravinder... i just know they're gonna ask me hard questions in that class. i mean ok. i know that i'm supposed to get used to presenting projects and handle hard questions and criticism as a graphic designer but i'm just not used to harsh criticism... i should be used to it by now since i'm a senior but still... *sigh* i really need to be more confident in what i do...

anyways, if u want to see my project here it is. the assignment was to created an image or something with the amount of text found on clement street. he assigned each group a group of streets on clement street and each person creates their own text image. my group was assigned 6th-10th on clement street. so basically the first and third group of circles on the outside represent the signs found on clement street, the second group of circles represent the advertisements on clement street. i put those in circles because i felt that the signs and advertisements were never ending as i walked on clement street and circles were the only symbols i could think of as never ending at the time. the numbers swirling into the circles represent prices, phone numbers, building numbers, etc. the numbers represent the buildings, businesses, restaurants, etc. on clement street. i swirled the numbers into the circles of advertisements and signs because it felt like the businesses and restaurants were trying to suck people into their businesses and restaurants with their never ending signs and advertisements. confusing? if i did then sorry. ^_^;; i'm pretty sure i repeated myself too much. ^_^;; holy crap i feel like i'm gonna die up there... hopefully nobody asks me any really hard questions or something like that. either that or i hope nobody says anything too harsh about it. although i should really get used to harsh criticism by now...*sigh* anyways. wish me luck! i feel like i'm gonna need it. o.o;;

and to make things worse, i have to read this book called "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon and it's so confusing. thank god the book isn't long and has big words. but still, it's so confusing. i read a couple chapters and i'm still getting lost. it keeps jumping from one scene to another. my classmates say that a lot of art teachers like reading his books and assign them to their classes. although there would be times when i'm about to get it but then get totally lost later on and have to reread the section. either that or sometimes i would try and concentrate really hard and read the story and next thing u know, i end up daydreaming and notice that i've moved up a couple pages and not know what the crap those pages were about. o.o;; has that ever happened to anybody before? o.o;;

*sigh* anyways...only a couple months until summer...

sorry for th long delay in updating my journal. i wanted to finish making my website. i finally finished it though! =) it looks good in firefox but it's not doing so great in internet explorer. eh...i'll fix it later... anyways. here's my website. i didn't know how to make my old website automatically redirect people to the new website so i just inserted an image and link that people an click on to goto the new website.enjoy and feel free to sign the guest book, if u want to. btw does anybody know a good free guest book site? cause i'm thinking about getting a new guest book that doesn't take up the whole comp screen. unless u'r all ok with that... anyways feel free to comment on my site in my journal or in my guest book on my site. i'm pretty sure it's not good looking but i'll fix it up later on.

it feels like spring break went by fast. well maybe it's just me. most of my friends have spring break in april. it sucks. i didn't really do anything great over spring break. just two mini road trips with sharyn to valley fair in san jose, gilroy outlet shopping, and the great mall. we also went to dave and busters. games were fun. although i think we wasted most of our game tokens on the jurassic park game because we kept dying and used our tokens to stay alive. hehe.

i also went to the christina aguilera concert with pussycat dolls and danity kane as opening acts. my sisters thought it was weird that there were mostly old guys in the very front rows of the concert. i also thought i was in trouble for taking pictures in the concert. but the security guard actually told me that i can take pics but not video tape the concert. i wasn't video taping though but i was taking pics but i guess he told me that because i was taking pics with my flash off at the time. but i only did that because they said no flash photography, but everybody else was.

danity kane was ok. although i hough their fan dance was pretty good. pcd was pretty interesting though i thought their sweatshirt was pretty expensive. $75 for a sweatshirt? the sweatshirt did look kinda nice though. and comfy. o.o but i'm not willing to spend that much, especially if u can buy it cheaper online. but i guess that's just me. cheap. cheap. cheap. i should really find a job...

i'm probably going to volunteer for the summer in a museum like sfmoma or the asian art museum. i wish i could goto comic-con or anime expo for the summer but i can't... o well. maybe next year. =)

wonder-con was ok though. i ended up spending $50 there. or maybe more.  i ended up buying the entire series of tsubasa: resevior chronicles on dvd. although i was kinda hoping that they would have the english audio available on the dvd even though people say it's better to listen to the jap version. o well i guess i gotta read when i watch it... i also bought some of those voo doo doll keychains. i bought bat boy, spidey boy, and pass the love (couldn't find a pic for the last one so i'll post a pic of it later). i wanted to get the witch but i didn't feel like spending any more. the costume contest/mascarade was fun. well maybe except for the intermission. that was soo freakishly boring. it also got anoying when this guy in the audience kept yelling things. i felt kinda sorry for the contestants in some parts because of what he shouted. especially during intermission. i mean yes it was boring but he didn't have to be really really mean to the guy. *sigh* ah well.

o ya. i also joined facebook. i had nothing else to do and was super bored at the time so i was like o what the heck and just signed up. so if u want. add me. =)

p well. laters.

ok. i know that this might be too early or late to ask, but does anybody want to goto wonder-con with me. it's on the first weekend of march which is i think march 2-4? anyways. for those of u who don't know, wonder-con is basically a comic and anime convention. well it's more comic convention i guess but they have some anime stuff so it's cool. if u want to go u can buy tickets early at the participating comic book stores on their website or buy it at the convention which is taking place at the moscone south building? the tickets would be at least $3 cheaper than buying it at the convention, well maybe except for sundays because it costs the same for that day...or well if u want i can try and buy ur ticket as long as u pay me back. and if i do buy ur ticket please make sure u can go on that day because i don't want to end up with an extra ticket that is i think is non refundable. not to sound mean or anything. o.o anyways. for more info about wonder-con, here's the website: http://www.comic-con.org/wc/index.shtml

other then that, i'm still working on my website. i'm trying to give it a major upgrade since it looks soo newbieish (can't spell) now. i'm trying to use css but i don't think i'm getting it so well. especially with darn div tags. man... they are soo annoying. i got used to them in web design class but i guess after being away from dreamweaver for a while to work on my comic, i guess i pretty much 4got how to work the div tags. ^_^;; i'm working on it. o.o;;

yesterday everybody was pretty much scared in my advanced type class. basically because my teacher got mad at us last class because we didn't read the articles he made copies for the class. so he wanted us to have about 10 print outs of our rough draft of the identity of clement street. bad thing, most of the class only had at least 3 rough drafts. and most of us, well i know i did, did most of our rough drafts an hour or so before the class started and mine looked really crappy. i was afraid he was gonna yell at me. i'm always being so negative... *sigh* well i'm glad i wasn't the first one to go and talk about my concept. corwin asked her all these hard questions and i was like o.o .oO(holy crap i'm gonna die!) i'm also glad i didn't have to talk about mine. yes! but now i have to worry about creating my project for next class.

*sigh* i feel like ever since i took web design, i've lost my creativity... i just hope i pass all my classes...i also feel like just working on my comics and not worry about anything else. but then again i feel like i should goto graduate school and take animation or something like that at some art school. ya i know i said "i feel" too much. i need to stop worrying and being so negative. i think i need to hang out with friends more...

well at least i'm relieved to hear that i have the possibility of getting an a in japanese 4th semester as long as i get good hw and quizzes because i pretty much suck at speaking japanese since i haven't taken any japanese classes in over a year/year and a half. most people in my class are from hawaii which is pretty interesting. dunno why though.

ah well. i guess that's pretty much it. didn't get caught in the rain though. i kept missing it. when i sat in the car to do hw this morning, it went to being very quiet to hard drops of rain coming from nowhere as if all the drops came down at once. man.. it was crazy.

well. i'm having dinner with my dad's side of the family tomorrow for chinese new year. last week i had it with my mom's side of the family. they ordered this green tea and i've never seen it with a flower blooming in the tea before. it was awesome.

this was after it bloomed though but it was cool to watch the process of watching the flower bloom. i also didn't know that the tea isn't ready until the flower bloomed in the tea. very interesting. sounds fun to try.

anyways. i just hope that dinner with my dad's family goes well and doesn't end up as dinner and a show (in a bad way) unless if it ends up good then it's ok. 

laters. 

happy birthday to me! heh. ya  know i said that already. ah well anyways. today i turned 22. awesome. although i think i signed up for too many newsletters...y? because most of e-mails i got today were e-mails from the newsletters wishing me a happy birthday. ^_^;; o and if u'r reading this sharyn, thanx for the text message and ya we should hang out! =D actually i didn't get to celebrate my b-day with my friends yet...hmm.. i guess i should work that out... *feels like a loser* anyways.

today i thought i was going to be late. well at first my mom called to wake me up for school but she usually calls me 30 min. before i usually wake up, so i went back to sleep after she called. next thing i know, the clock says 7:50. crap! so i'm driving to school and this huge gmc or some sort of truck almost hits me and i did have the right of way since he had a stop sign and i didn't have one. but i wasn't late and got to school just in time.

japanese class was kinda boring and i was trying to concentrate but i was so sleepy still from last nite since i went to sleep at 3 a.m. or somewhere around there. we ended up reading an article from the japanese text book about the beatles and yoko ono. i kept unfocusing in that class and ended up losing my spot continuously in the readings. she also kinda gave me an f from last week's quiz. even though i had the vocab in all the riht spots she said something about how it should be switched around. i was so tired and unfocused that i kept talking to her about how i got confused and thought she wanted the transitive in one column and intransitive verbs in the other column. i guess i kept talking about it so much that she told me that she'd give me th credit if i can explain to her before next class the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs and when to use them... great...

i didn't really have time for lunch so i just grabbed some clam chowder soup. it looked kinda weird though. i guess it's because i'm used to the clam chowder being white. this clam chowder looked more yellowish like. kinda like chicken noodle yellowish soup. as i leave and walk back to the car to eat my lunch, i just remembered that i forgot my soup spoon. crap! so i ended up only having about 10 min or less to finish my lunch by the time i got back to my car.

then i kinda ran/walked fast to philosophy class. teacher was late though. glad i didn't have to sit in the front. although the class was pretty full...i couldn't concentrate in that class either. i kept daydreaming. darn day dreams... then i drove home.

had korean beef for din din. and ended with an icream cake from cold stone mmm...ice cream cake...it was good. yum. heh. my family got me a nintendo ds game, a wireless remote for my ipod, and 2 shirts. my mo gave me an iou since she didn't get me anything. my dad paid for my birthday din at house of prime rib, which happened on sat. i felt accomplished on that day because i usually end up full after 1 prime rib but i was actally able to get seconds that time.

i was also thinking about old friends and that i should probably talk to them as a new years resolution, while i was thinking about this i ran into noriko from basketball. i'm surprised she still recognized me. heh. i guess i didn't change very much. ^_^;; i also e-mailed some old pen pals and tried talking to some old friends but i don't think it's working out so well. i still don't know if i should make this a resolution but i know that i'm still going to do the other resolution which is to get good grades or something like that. heh. ah well.

well that's about it. laters. bye.

Currently listening to: Kelly Clarkson - You Found Me
Currently reading: Allegory of the Cave - Plato/Socrates?
Currently watching: South Park
Currently feeling: happy

hi all.

so school starts tomorrow...great...it feels like winter break went by fast...i'm so nervous. >.< i'm afraid that my classes r going to be so hard.i'm taking advanced typographics, Fourth Semester Japanese, Japanese lit in translation, and Philosophy of a human person (or something like that). i hope my classes don't end up too hard. i also hope i get more sleep than last semester, even though i mostly hibernated during winter break. ^_^;;

other then that, i think i have a major problem. i think i suddenly became a tokidoki addict, especially the ones from LeSportsac. i think Sharyn can agree with me. lol.  it's so expensive. i already have the jungle/animal/foresta messenger bag, the angel/paradiso style camera bag, and the devil/inferno style backpack. i was even going to buy the shirt at virgins. i think i should stop though. o.o;; but i can't help it. it's very cute. or at least i think so. o.o man... that's a lot of links in one paragraph...

 i'm not really enjoying the weather lately. i like how it's sunny but ot a very big fan of the coldness. it's been very very very icy cold lately.can't wait for the hot weather to come back.

i've been so bored lately. so Sharyn asked me to draw her hawkgirl and the flash from justice league. i'm not very good at drawing people so i just drew hawkgirl(i think she looks prettier in this pic =) ) in anime style. here's a drawing of hawkgirl with her mask on and another without her mask. o btw. the links might go open up into a new window. heh. sorry. i guess i should've mentioned that earlier. but i guess u probably already figured that out since the previous links opened up in a new window if u clicked on those. ^_^;; anyways, i 4got which one she wanted so i just drew both. although i should've drew her in the other outfit she wears in justice league unlimited since she wears a different outfit. ah well. i'll fix that later. i also tried playing with shadows and lighting but i don't think i did a good job...well i hope u like it. =) if not then i'll just keep prcticing and my bad. ^_^;;

ah well. anyways. i hope everything turns out ok tomorrow. i hope i don't get yelled at or nothing bad happens to me. >.< i also might carry my tokidoki devil/inferno style backpack to school today, even though i only have one class tomorrow. *sigh* i have advanced typographics. he's so scary. i heard he yells at people, even though i had him for publication design...

o well. g2g. laters. bye. nite.