My stomach is still uncomfortable.

I feel bad missing the class. I really thought I’d have perfect attendance this semester. Oh well. I text messaged my friend and asked her if she could see my marks for the analysis of “Ladri di Biciclette” that we did before the holiday and she said I got 10/10. Not sure if she saw it correctly, but if I did get it, yay, if not then bummer… if I did, then too bad I wasn’t there to see it myself argh.

Yesterday I went with mom and mom’s friend to pizza hut cuz mom’s friend decided to treat us. Now I see why I’m getting so fat, I just ate pizza last Monday with Sharina, lol. It was so-so.. they sold out most of the stuff in the menu that we wanted.. they didn’t even have stuffed crust! *G-A-S-P-S* Then after that we went shopping.. I only bought a new cheap roll on perfume that I can put in my bag so I can take it everywhere, a new mask, and a day moisturizer. I don’t know why I keep buying facial stuff cuz I have so much of them yet I don’t use them. I do however need wrinkle cream cuz I’m starting to have bad wrinkles, especially around the eyes due to lack of sleep. I didn’t have enough money yesterday and I refused to spend the 50 bucks my uncle gave me so I couldn’t buy this makeup stuff that I wanted. I also saw this really nice skull necklace for around RM50 (70% discount, it was RM190) and I wanted it :(

That’s basically it. I was so tired yesterday. On Saturday I went to a wedding.. I’ll blog about it in a bit cuz I need to resize the pictures first.

My holiday is over :(

However… today I’ve been having really bad stomach ache, and since my uncle came and told me that he heard major traffic jam on the highway (estimated million cars on the highway today) so I decided not to go back to KL tomorrow.. which means I have to skip 2 classes tomorrow… reluctant, but I have no choice. Besides, I’m scared to be on the road at night with lots of things in the car. It’s dangerous. I don’t have life insurance. I should ask for life insurance quotes and get some kind of insurance, you know.. just in case.

So that means I have 3 extra days here. I’ll go back on Thursday morning. What I’m gonna do today is to get an mc from the doctor, then read on neorealism and the movie that I watched before the holiday - Ladri di Biciclette. Gah, I hate missing class tomorrow. Gah. Then tomorrow work on my animation. Wednesday do research. I downloaded the movie A Bout de Souffle which I’m supposed to watch this Friday yay. I can do research on it. Then research on my movie.

I’m going to rest now. I have so much to write about but I’ll take a break now. Before I end, I’d like to talk about EcoQuest printing. If you’re like me who works with art, and who always print things, you can check out the site. They do high quality printing for example for posters and more. It’s very useful if you have a business that needs good quality printing of posters or whatever and in bulk. They do except various file type that people commonly use but they mentioned in their site that they prefer pdf file better. So if you need printing service, hope this helps.

Continue more later.

Last Friday, we watched BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN in class… as usual, almost everyone hated the silent film, lol. Early that morning, I watched the movie and did a research for it so I’d be prepared for class and at first, I didn’t think I’d like the movie cuz it’s realated to battles, politics etc but turns out I liked it. It’s quite disturbing though, the part of Odessa Steps.. I don’t know, there’s something about it that disturbs me. Hated the ending though. I was like EH? Plus the choppy editing and Eisenstein’s belief in non-continuity makes the movie a bit confusing but I do like movie that is open for interpretation. So today in class we discussed Soviet Montage and felt like history class cuz we have to know about Tsar and the Tsarist regime and all. Same with before when we learn about German expressionism. My movie analysis score was 8/10 .. blah, a point lower than the first one for Dr. Caligari but Ms Shana did say I have the best interpretation of an image, lol. No comment.

I finally finished downloading LADRI DI BICICLETTE (The bicycle thief/thieves) which is supposed to be shown this friday in class.. wow… very touching and depressing movie :( I loved it though. You can see a very strong bond of father and son in it… and I love watching movies with realism, as in I could really see what Rome was like in the 1940’s and the environment of the post-war era. Heh, never thought I could be watching movements type movies and actually liking it. But next week is holiday (i hope for monday class too) so we’d be studying about Italian Neo-realism after Eid celebration. I’ve been wikipedia’ing about neo-realism and it’s much more interesting than soviet montage. Not sure how much I have to read up about WWII in Italy and the post-war story for exam… I hate studying, memorizing and written exams.. argh :(

NOTE TO SELF:

Bourgeoisie - the rich
Proletariat - the poor

Okay, I think I’m gonna play Need for Speed now.. I finally finished downloading Need for Speed: Most Wanted after months of downloading, lol. I loooooove NFS series ever since I was like 14 or 15. Then I have to do my 3d model, then go to see my dermatologist later today.. my appointment was last week but I forgot and thought it’s tomorrow.. argh. My brain don’t work no more.

I got my result!!

Okay.. I’m happy with it yet also disappointed, lol. Happy that I don’t have any ugly C’s..but unhappy that I didn’t get all A’s. Oh well, you can’t be too perfect XD But I did bounce back from my horrible near-fail experience in semester 3 :D Here’s my result:

Presentation Skills : B+
Black & White Photography : B-
Animation 1 : A
Video Production 1 : A-
Script Writing : A-

GPA: 3.48

OMG totally unexpected!

Presentation Skills - Okay, I was hoping for an A for this but I got B+ and Ms Jenny was giving me the result today and I was whining, asking her why she gave me only a B+ and she was like, I should be glad cuz she failed a lot of people..ack. At first she was scaring me when I reached the room, lol.. I thought I did bad and Ms Jenny reminded me that in semester 3 after all the troubles I had, I did promise them I’d bounce back and get at least a 3.50 GPA for the next semester so I was very disappointed I’m only 0.02 points away from getting that. :( :( Only 0.02 points away!! ARRRRGH

Black & White Photography - Hmm Mr Kelvin is extremely nice yet he’s the toughest to please lol Even for last semester, he gave most of us a B.. and he did it again this semester for me.  Oh well. Haha It was fun though doing all those developing black and white photos. I didn’t do well in printing the pics cuz I keep getting bugged by the guys haha.. plus I was rushing cuz I wanted to finish it before 8 PM.. I hate being at college after 6 pm cuz it’s spooky..

Animation 1 - So Mr Terry was right when he told me and Jackie we got A.. :D I was kinda expecting the A anyway cuz I worked so hard to research and do the final project which was the 3D commercial logo animation.. and my hard work has been paid off with that A :D What a relief!

Video Production 1 - UNEXPECTED! My group did not do well in the creative stage, hell, we didn’t have much to produce during the presentation unlike the other group. I still remember when Eddie said something like we pretty much fucked the presentation/creative stage and on the verge of failing AGAIN.. and our only chance to save us from failing is that we’d do extremely well during production and post-production.. from that point I pretty much said we’re fucked. I thought even if we do good in the final thing, we’d prolly get just B’s or C’s.. but I still worked my ass off just to save me from failing, so that was unexpected.. thanks Eddie XD I saw Andrea’s (she’s in the other group) result, and she got A- too for their redbull ad.

Script Writing - Even more UNEXPECTED! Okay, I did the best I could for this class. I never failed to produce anything Eddie asked us to show.. whether it’s the pitching, the treatment, the draft etc and I was doing well until the final submission day, lol. It’s because the night before I was doing developing photo you see until 8 pm, and I only reached home at 10 pm. Then the next day I had to cut those photos and mounting board and frame them. So I didn’t have time to do the script. So I asked Eddie if I could submit the next day.. he even asked what went wrong cuz I was doing fine before this lol So he gave me until midnight to email him the script or I’d lose marks.. but I procrastinated and stayed in college for my junior’s fundamental of direction final assessment cuz I wanted to see their film.. and I only started writing my script after midnight, after hours of fighting writer’s block lol My brain only works during the night. I finally finished it at 5 am, emailed it to him and later that day went with Jackie and Ito to bind the script and submitted it at 4 pm. Hehe. So the A- was unexpected.. plus I didn’t think I did good anyway, rushing the story and all…plus doing it after midnight and I was sleepy as hell lol. I thought I prolly wrote crap.

Sorry for the long story lol. After I got the result, Ka Mun and Yee Sing came to pick up their result and I ended up staying there and hanging out with them for a while whining and being annoying with our result lol. Ka Mun has so much pressure on her. She got 3.75 GPA and I was like extremely jealous at her but I found out she needs to maintain at least 3.70 GPA every semester or she’ll lose her scholarship. Wow. I could never handle that extreme pressure. Even my PTPTN loan needs just at least 2.0 GPA minimum every semester hehe.

Well overall, I”m still quite happy with my result. I did work extremely hard so yeah. Fuuhh. Just this semester and then I’m free for a 1 1/2 months.. yay.. I so need a vacation during that time. I’ll probably go to somewhere in Malaysia. AirAsia flight is cheap to go to places but airplane is scary. You’d need travel insurance if you travel a lot. Ok, I’m done blogging. lol. I’ll write another blog later about yesterday. I so need to rant.

Hmmm….

Monday’s class was looooong… it’s because I haven’t been getting enough sleep but class was quite interesting. We discussed about THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and the German expressionism. I find it all to be very interesting. And apparently Effendy thought I suggested that ‘boring’ movie too, lol. Oh we got back the result of our analysis on the movie and grrrrrrr! I got 9/10. Just one point less from the full mark! Ka Mun got 10/10 and I was sooooooo jealous. I’m hoping today I’d do ok. According to the study guide, today we’ll be watching “The Battleship Potemkin“, another silent movie.

3D is getting more complicated. I spent a whole night last night doing a head model and finally it’s almost completed. This weekend I’ll do the body, and on Monday I”ll show to Mr Terry and see what needs fixing and by next Thursday I have to submit it. I’m soooo glad I don’t have lots of assignment for FILM APPRECIATION class except study about films so I can at least concentrate on 3D. If not I’d be soooo stressed with trying to rush with everything in just 7 weeks.

I planned to do something productive on Tuesday and Wednesday but nope, lol. I ended up doing nothing at home. You know, I can’t wait to work. Ever since I’ve been working part time for college, I’ve changed my mind. I rather be working than studying. It was the opposite before. I’ve been lazy because I had mom and my ex supporting me financially but now I like the freedom of having my own money and spending it because no one can tell me how I should be spending it. But hey, I still LOVE it if somebody would spoil me *winks* I wonder how lots of Malaysians claim they can be millionaire by doing small business on the internet? Mom told me to grab any small business opportunity available on the net (oh trust me, there’s ALOT, it’s ridiculous!) but I don’t trust it :\ I don’t know.. are those people really millionaires and want to “help” other people be millionaires too or just claiming it becuase they have something up their sleeves?

I woke up at 2 am now I can’t go back to sleep. I’m going to watching Battleship Potemkin that I downloaded. lol. I”ll blog about what happened yesterday later today. I”m too tired now.

I’m seriously hoping last semester’s result comes out today.

*Yawns*

I so need to get my sleeping pattern back. I’d fall asleep after I break the fast at night and wake up at 2 am… same thing every night and it’s draining my energy during daytime.

Work was so boring yesterday, lol. I came at 10-ish am and straight away did the pasting of the stickers onto the envelope.. I was doing it nonstop until 2.30 pm, and I have no idea how many stickers I pasted..prolly hundreds cuz they were ALOT. By 2.30 pm I was so dead, my back so friggin hurt. The others went to lunch except me and this guy so we chatted a bit. After that I finished my stack of envelopes I decided to rest so I went to my car to rest my back and fell asleep for half an hour. By 3 pm when I went back up, they finished the work o.o; 2 hours more with nothing to do. I brought my mp3 player but my headphone is shitty. So I just sat at the front counter doing nothing, freezing my arse off. I kinda fell asleep there lol until Ms Kong told me off :X lol.

We were allowed to go at 4.30 pm cuz the college is closed anyway.. but I was trying to call my mom on the school’s phone and she wasn’t picking up, and Edwin came and we chatted until 5-ish pm, lol. He’s a nice and very talkative guy. I kinda got lecturerd though from him, lol because of my sleeping habit.

Blah, full day of classes today… but tomorrow and Wednesday I’m free! Yay.I can rest… or go shopping lol Somehow I”m tempted to buy this Sylvanian dollhouses that I wanted so badly 2 years ago. I remember when I my ex gave me $300 for it but I used that money for other important things first.. and now I”m regretting it and I want it again :( Oh well.

Wow work was..ummm.. boring yesterday lol. I came at 10 am and what did I do? Inserting thousands of letters into thousands of envelopes nonstop with half an hour in between to guide this one family to the hostel. Then back to dealing with the letters.. first there were just like 5 of us.. then later joined by some others including Jackie who kept bullying me and tempting me with food cuz I was fasting lol.. I was the only malay and the rest were chinese so they were speaking chinese .. and since I was fasting, I couldn’t have lunch break so I was doing the letters NONSTOP. After like 3 pm we started pasting name stickers on the letters… I heard there’s like 5000 names to be pasted on the letters, and today we’re supposed to continue pasting them damn stickers. By 4 pm, I was so dead lol. So for one hour I was just bored to death, waiting for the clock to strike 5 pm so I could go home. I wanted to bring my mp3 player - I should have :( But I couldn’t find my earphone. I have to find it and take it today or I”ll be really bored.

After that I went to the DVD store at my place cuz I wanna find a movie to write about for my movie analysis assignment. I bought 3 DVDs:

- Black Dahlia
- Grindhouse’s Planet Terror
- Pulp Fiction

Ok, Black Dahlia was this awful homemade-like crappy movie.. I wanted the FILM but this was the wrong movie..I didn’t know there’s another crappy version with the same title Black Dahlia. Blah. What a waste of 9 bucks. I couldn’t even watch a second of it. I knew I should have bought Donnie Darko instead… oh well.

Planet Terror, FINAAAAAALLLLYYY!!!!!! Omg. I have been wanting this DVD for a very long time lol. Ever since Mr Eddie showed this in class last semester. It rocks. I’m gonna write about this movie for my assignment. There’s something about this movie that I really love .. apart from it being a super bloody gory zombie kick-ass action that I love, lol, I love the special effect and cinematography in this. Especially how Robert Rodriguez made this movie to look like a 70’s damaged movie. Of course not to mention Freddy Rodriguez is extremely HOT in it.

Pulp Fiction - It’s been mentioned so many times in classes… because it’s one of Quentin Tarrantino’s best movies.. and I think I’m the only one who haven’t seen it so I decided to buy it and see what the hype is all about so next time, when they give any examples from this movie, I won’t be clueless lol.

Blah 5.10 am. Going to eat ( to start the fast) then search for my earphone and then sleep before I have to work so I don’t feel so sleepy… or if I don’t feel like sleeping, maybe I’ll watch Nosferatu silent movie on youtube.

Crap.

I’ve been re-addicted to THE SIMS 2. I finished downloading Apartment Life Expansion Pack few days ago and I haven’t stopped playing… Since I couldn’t get any sleep at night, I’ve been playing it all night long. I wonder if the game can be played on my laptop computer? At least when I go back to Ipoh for Eid celebration, I have something to play.

We watched THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI yesterday in class, lol. That was surprising, I thought we were gonna watch another movie. It was an interesting movie… pretty straightforward and at times quite confusing but hey, most of silent films are confusing… unfortunately, everyone was bored to death, lol. But we all had to keep watching cuz we have to write analysis at the end of movie. Apparently Jackie and Ito (not sure who else) thought I suggested that movie, lol. No, I suggested ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW which will be screened at the end of October.

After that we all went to this talk. A university is having a film making contest and I”m very interested to enter… so is Ito.. I suggested we send our Levi’s commercial, and maybe I”m gonna re-edit our DP reel and send it in.. we’ll see.. have to ask Esther and Haze if it’s ok. Would be great if they still have the footage.

Then I went to return my book that I borrowed from the library. You know, the librarian is such an ass? He promised he would not count one day, and then denied it yesterday.. we were arguing cuz I was sooooo pissed cuz I know I was right. It’s not the matter of money, it’s the matter of dignity cuz I KNOW I WAS RIGHT. I made him count the days again.. I said after independence day was a public holiday and oh noooo.. he said noooooo… he fucking denied it when 10 minutes later, after recounting and rechecking the calendar, he said “Oh Monday was a holiday”… so I said THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING! And you know what he said? “You said public holiday, not day off”… wtf? Isn’t that the same meaning????? I hate dealing with stupid people. At last he gave me 2 bucks off..making it RM24… fucking expensive. Sure, Segi University College has a policy of borrowing red tag book for a day but imagine this - that red tag book is 700 pages thick! How in the fucking hell can you read a book that thick in one day??? If you’re a day late, it’s 2 bucks fine…. WHAT THE FUCK. I understand the book needs to be at the library cuz it’s the only copy but my question is - ONLY ONE COPY? Isn’t it supposed to be a library? Why can’t they buy many copies so we can borrow and study it? That’s fucking stupid.

Anyways, open day today.. I”m working, yay! Then today and tomorrow, I have to work on my 3D modeling… baaaah it’s complicated :(

*yawns*

I finally got around 2 hours-ish nap after I went back from college. Feels better now but I’m still tired. College went well today! My morning class is Film Appreciation with Miss Shana and she’s so cute with a really cute haircut and she seems nice so far. As usual, since the class combines video & animation students and mass comm students.. my intake plus other intakes (as in my juniors too) so it’s crowded. We just talked about the class, our fave movies and all.. I said my fave movie is Night of the Living Dead .. I have a lot but I just picked one lol I couldn’t even think of a fictional character that I like…urgh. And I said I recommend ppl to watch Motorama cuz it’s sort of a surreal movie like David Lynch’s Eraserhead.

We’re gonna be watching movies! But damn, we have lots to study and write, plus there’s written exam! Argh, my first written exam :( As someone put it, it’s a literature class minus the books plus the movies. It’s mostly gonna be old black & white movies cuz as the class is named, we have to ‘appreciate movies‘. I like black & white movies XD And we’d be watching The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari yay:D And then we vote what movies we wanna watch in musical, crime & western genre… oh I suggested THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! Everyone voted for that so yeaaaaaaaahhhh I’d be doing the time warp in class whooo hoooo..!

Faculty briefing was eh… what can I say.. it’s the same thing every new semester.. Luckily Joe sat next to me and we just talked so I wasn’t bored to death. If not, I’d be alone all sleepy, tired and fucking bored. There was no one else I know in my course (we had to sit according to our major) there. And Joe was telling like funny stories and I was laughing so time went by quick.

Oh btw, I only have 2 subjects this semester. Here’s my timetable:

Monday (9am - 12pm) Film Appreciation ,   (2pm - 5pm) Animation 2
Tuesday : FREE!
Wednesday : FREE!
Thursday (2pm - 5pm) Animation 2
Friday (9am - 12pm) Film Appreciation

Less stress, only 2 subjects, 7 weeks.. :) No filming thank god. No group project thank god.
Since tomorrow I’m free, going to clean up my place and try to kill those goddamn tiny little roaches!! Grr. Then go to Tesco, buy some stuff XD Well going to rest now, and work on my sites later. toodles.