Officially Graduated

As of last Thursday, I have officially finished my studies!

And yesterday was the faculty’s first convocation. My batch had their convo yesterday. Yes I’m very sad I couldn’t join, because they told me I COULD join the convo unless I have an exam based subject and they LIED. They like to lie to your face, giving you hope then crush it later. Anyways. My final presentation for DTP was on Thursday morning. Before that I barely got any sleep trying to finish my DVD cover design because they quoted me that I’d need at least RM200 to print a custom maltese cross digipak boxset.. Are they CRAZY? I’m NOT spending that much for a first semester elective subject. I mean even if I did shit, I’d still pass it with an average.. so I had one day to redesign everything and get it printed before shop closes on Wednesday.. From supposedly RM200, my revised design with standard DVD cost me only RM33 (+RM5). Not bad. I had a DVD box, 3 covers, one 8 pages booklet and 2 CD labels.

Yeah my presentation went well. They were expecting a good design from me anyway cuz hey.. I’m a senior.. a supposedly graduated senior.. if I give shit work, then I should ask myself this: “What have I learned in the past 2 1/2 years??”

I did however wasted RM5 to reprint my cd label because they got it wrong.. the print was off.. even after fixing, they STILL got the printing wrong. Wtf. So basically I wasted RM5 and I didn’t need to reprint. I should have just showed them the other one, cuz that’s the one they took anyway. Now printing part. I sent my stuff for printing on wednesday afternoon around 1.30 pm.. and they told me they couldn’t finish on that day, wtf. I was panicking so I begged them to print my stuff first because the other 2 printing shops nearby there are shit. One couldn’t print and one prints like shit. Oh yeah, story about the other printing place!

This place is called AD print shop or something.. in dataran sunway. Not only I was greeted with a sour grumpy cranky face by the Indian lady, but everytime I told her what I need and how I need my stuff printed she would sighed and mutter to herself in Indian which seems to me like she was cursing or something in TAMIL. EVERYTIME. EVERY FUCKING TIME I told her I need this and that she would become a whiny bitch. WTF BITCH. I’m a paying customer! You’re supposed to follow my demand because it’s MY project. If you print it wrongly then I’m the one who is screwed and having to pay for your mistakes! If you want to be a grumpy sourbitch, then don’t fucking work. Thank you.

Anyways.

At 5 pm I went back to the printing shop to see how they print my stuff .. well.. images turned out great, except for some photos which were too dark because I couldn’t estimate the brightness setting after printing.. but small matter. There were a lot of mess-ups like cd label print was off, the box was a bit small, the cover was too small then too big.. the booklet was off a bit.. but after hours being there, I solved most of my problems.. my friends joined me to print and we stayed until like 8 pm there because they, too, had problems. Then one of them took out a pirated dvd because the dvd case I bought wouldn’t fit and guess what? His casing fit! So I was searching for my dvd casing until like 11-ish pm.. luckily there’s a pirated dvd store nearby my place and I asked him if he would sell me the casing but instead he gave it to me for free Nice dude.

So overall… I’m satisfied with my final work. I have blogs and photos to post later so stay tuned.

Oh yeah, here’s what my DVD looks like! Sorry I forgot to take a photo of the cd and booklet.. silly me.

DVD Box - FRONT

The front of my DVD box.. the inside case cover is the same except the graphic is toned down.. the cover doesn’t have the name titles.. but instead they’re at the back.

DVD Box - BACK

The only thing I’m not satisfied for the back cover is the dark pics and the bottom text.. again, I couldn’t estimate the size of the text and it ended too small! Working on the covers I barely had any sleep.. and my college years have seriously left me dark circles and wrinkles under my eyes.. I do have eye cream for dark circles which is treating my panda eyes sloooowly but for wrinkles?! I look 10 years older with tired eyes! T___T Help.