PAYDAY PAYDAY PAYDAY!!!
My first ‘income’ from this internship.

I”m no longer completely broke lol. Thing is, I desperately need a 1TB external HD… like right now.. I was gonna wait until PC Fair which is in April but I desperately need one. I have GIGS of videos of my work-related that I can’t keep in my laptop cuz it’s running out of space… Another thing is that I need to pay for my domain. How extremely hard money come, and how extremely easy money go :( I also need MP3 players…

Last Wednesday, as in my birthday, I went to the night market with my colleagues and got home quite late… as in almost 9 pm and I was surprised that mom cooked something special for me.. glutinous rice (in Malay culture, glutinous rice is a food symbol of gratitude etc) and some other stuff, with special table setting… I was so touched that I nearly cried but I didn’t cuz I didn’t want to embarrass myself lol. Mom and I don’t get along a lot, we argue every single day…but that was the most special surprise she has done in like…ever… so I was really touched.

I’ll edit this post with pics later.

Thanks for all birthday wishes in msn, myspace, and facebook.

I have to get my stuff ready for midterm on Monday..blah :\ But I’m gonna go meet up with Skyler tonight so I’m happy. She said she got a haircut..I so need one. Oh btw, I FINALLY finished downloading and installing Adobe CS4 Master Collection! Fucking finally. I loooooooooove CS4.

It has been a very much pain in the donkey arse to load websites, be it at work or at home. But despite the fucked up connection, my Adobe After Effects CS4 has finished downloading, yay. Took 2 days to download when it usually take one night (I go to sleep and it’ll be done when I wake up). I’ll install it later. My Adobe Master Suite CS4 is still downloading… fucking 5+ GB. x.x Been downloading for days.

Me and my colleague, a junior editing is like stressing out at our current task…we’re supposed to edit some biography type show for this legendary Malaysian artist…the thing is, with old people, plus legendary, they tend to be extremely fussy… they want this, they want that… so I’m kinda like stressed cuz I”m doing montage and graphics for it and I’m not sure if they’ll like any of it.

Yesterday we had a meeting at the other office all of a sudden at 5 pm… I thought it’s gonna be about the movie, but turned out it’s more like a counseling session.. haha.. and a get-to-know each other type of meeting.. because since our 2 offices are separated, we barely know each other from the other office. It was sooooo fricken funny. I won’t go in detail what happened but the meeting lasted until 8.30 pm with lots of weird, funny stuff happening. At least they gave us some ‘unhealthy’ snacks lol… “CHICKEDEES!” lol. If you’re Malaysian you’ll know what that is. But the guys took most of the snacks >.> lol.

I got home at 10.30 pm and ate my KFC and just..passed out. x.x I was soooo dead tired.

Ok I better get back to work x.x

I’ve edited the previous post with pics.

Anyways, the past few days has been extremely boring. Not helping that it’s been raining hard. Makes me all depressed and gloomy. Anyways nothing much happening on Friday. I spent my day trying to master After Effects.. but what the fuck is up with the internet connection for the past one week? It has been absolutely shit.. and I’m not the only one affected. I’m downloading at like what… less than 5 kbps? Shit.

After work on Friday I decided to go to The Summit in Subang Jaya cuz I wanted some AE tutorials DVD.. and my colleague says there’s no other place (and it’s cheaper and closer too) so I had no choice but to got to Summit… rah.. I was stuck in extremely bad traffic jam. I finally go to the place like almost an hour later, when it should’ve taken like what…15 minutes or less? Anyways.. wtf is up with the RM4 per entry parking? So that means if I wanna go there for 10 minutes, I have to pay RM4? Crazy.

Summit has got to be the most boring mall ever. It was soooo empty and I don’t know…gloomy? I hated it. But I did get 3 AE tutorials DVD (4 discs altogether) for like RM45.. fucking cheap. Other place would’ve cost RM60 (RM15×4). I wanted the whole Adobe CS4 Master Suite but it cost like RM48.. gah too expensive. I need CS4 version of everything I use (AE, Premiere Pro, Illustrator) and I would usually download it, but fucking net! GAH. This piss me off. I also saw a DVD with all 3 “CREEPSHOW” movies that I’ve been wanting for so long but didn’t have any money :(

I used to think it’d be cool to go to college just next to a mall, cuz my college’s Subang Jaya branch is next to Summit..but after seeing Summit, I take that back. That mall sucks. But it’s cool when you want pirated softwares and movies.. or slutty looking clothes.

My birthday is in 2 days!

Haha I just saw Kal Penn in “24″ ad… weird to see him in serious action series when I’ve seen him in Harold & Kumar lol.

Saturday.. well barely anyone was in the office so I was bored to death, learning AE with fucky net. I stayed until almost 6 pm when it was thundering nonstop.. afraid it might rain I rushed home only to be stuck in a massive traffic jam.. in HEAVY RAIN. I couldn’t even see the road. I decided to stop by at the nearby restaurant.. and there’s this waiter who’s been extremely nice to me and mom cuz we’re regular customer there lol. So I was eating alone, chatting.. etc… and him telling me he, too, goes clubbing which I thought was so hilarious.. and I got the most generous discount and a free roti canai (Canai bread) that the waiter secretly ordered for me, haha. So nice of him.

I had a very boring Sunday. Slept most of the day, catching up on my sleep. Speaking of sleep, I should sleep now. It’s 4 am, wtf.

Yeahhh!

Finally!

My current workplace finally has proper wireless net installed, so I don’t have to use old shitty internet of theirs with LAN cable (I think it was ’screamyx’). If I’m not mistaken they installed wimax? The other office has fast wimax, and this office, after all the problems, finally has its wireless working.. which is a good thing cuz I was told to move room, lol.. so if there’s no wireless, my LAN cable is not long enough to reach the other room’s modem. I’m extremely happy.

So far loading videos like youtube and other videos are very fast. So I can watch tutorial videos and learn and not be bored to death from doing nothing. Speaking of video tutorials, my boss told me to learn and master After Effects, Premiere Pro and Photoshop.. so currently I”m trying to learn After Effects (can you believe I’ve never touched AE before? Only opened once and that was Mr Eddie showing me stuff).. and guess what?

I’ve grown to looooooove motion graphics. Somehow I feel like I wanna do motion graphics and visual effects after I graduate..but then again I change my interest a lot… maybe I can ask my old lecturer to be my sifu :P Kidding. But seriously, I wanna learn and master after effects, motion graphics and visual effects… it’s actually an important thing to master, as everything is connected (editing, film, graphics etc)

On a different subject, feels quite strange to change and share room now..cuz I was alone before, so I was free to do whatever without anyone knowing. Now I have to be careful :( Oh I also forgot to mention that on Monday, I went to college and filled up and submitted my subject registration form. Thank god no one yelled at me.

Hey guys. You know I mentioned before that my monitor is broken… I’m still saving up money to buy it :( But just not sure how long I can stand until the PC Fair which is in August.. now it’s only June. My back is seriously hurting. I want to use my other comp so badly. Unfortunately I don’t know where I can find used stuff for a temporary use.

Although, if you’re looking for new comp, or used, you can try a site called TC digital. They have used cisco, compaq, hewlett packard, IBM, etc. Argh my left thumb has been numb since yesterday.. see why I need my new monitor asap? Ok now enough break. Back to researching for my presentation.

Oh what I’d do for Wendy’s float right now…

Since in my previous blog I mentioned that I can’t sleep, so I thought I’d write another post and I’m gonna review something. I think I’ll review something useful for your business or at least something.

There’s this site or product called “Pelotonics” (pelotonics.com) that makes project manager software. It’s a tool or some sort to make your everyday life in your business much easier :) Here’s what it is. It’s a calendar, to-do list, messaging, file sharing and a time tracking project software all in one. SO if you have a project going on, it’s easier to keep track of things. But it’s sort of like a hosting thing. You have to pay monthly to use it. 5Gb but with unlimited projects plan is $199. But if you need to use for just one project, it’s free :P But it has only 5 MB for file storage.

5 am.. should I go back to sleep or not… ? Hmm. I think I’ll go watch a movie. Hallmark channel is showing The Nanny again at 4 am until 5 am.. YAY :D I love The Nanny. Fran is hilarious and so is Niles, lol. Okay, going to eat something, take med and watch a movie.. maybe go to bed so I don’t get sleepy later evening. My sleeping pattern is so fucked up now.

I just installed this plugin called Deepest Sender so I can blog from my browser without actually having to go to my site, log in, go to wordpress interface, typing and submitting the blog. This would make quick blogging to my site easier.

So I’m just testing it. If this appears, cool it worked!

EDIT//

Yes it worked, cool. When I’m currently depressed.. blah. So I don’t feel like blogging much. I also need to get some acne solutions fast because I hate getting breakouts from all the stress, and depression and especially from the lack of sleep since I feel restless nowadays. Blah. Monday is public holiday so this week I had 5 days off, great. Well I’m gonna go lay down and well…do something. Hopefully I’ll feel better when I wake up. I have to sleep on the floor tonight cuz my cat peed on the bed…great.

Yesterday I went to ANIMATION SEMINAR at UiTM (Universiti Teknologi Mara/Mara Technology University) in Shah Alam. If I didn’t go I had to attend class anyway so might as well go and gain extra knowledge. So I woke up early then got ready and rushed to school at 8.15 am and reached there at 8.30 am. The thing is.. Mr Eddie said we were supposed to meet up before 8.30 am and he was nowhere to be seen until almost 9 am lol. I guess he got stuck in traffic jam. So it was just me, Esther and Mr Eddie with Mr Eugene joining us in Klang. So we took the NKVE to Bukit Raja toll which seems endless lol. We saw Mr Eugene’s car and followed him to UiTM which is like 5 mins away. Our journey there took 30 minutes.UiTM campus is so fucking huge, it’s like a city or town of its own. Kind of isolated with lots of old buildings and hella confusing narrow zigzag roads. We got lost at first but then managed to find the building somehow.

The view of the building from the car park.

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