Second Vivid explored (7th of June)

After updating my status on Fb. People were all willing to help. Thank you for those ones who left me messages and inboxed me. Esp to Seri who has already taught me how to add audio tracks and all that he could pick up from his tut session, although he also has a lot of work to do within one day, he still spent almost one hour of his precious time to talk to me. This is what I called a caring friend, a true friend. And and and Gino, Tia asked me not to worry about it too much, as well as Pai that will go AIT with me on Tues so we can work on our thing together :3 Now I'm not as worried as before, finally I can put this weight off my shoulder and wholeheartedly to start my uni final which worth much more than anything-50%...This is more worrying, isn't it?

Mum put the poster I made on the door and asked me to sign it. She's just so cute sometimes. She's so proud of everything her daughter makes x3 Even if it's only a creation I made for my final assignment, nothing really big, but she cherishes it a lot.

So mum wanted to have more vivid tonight. I once again took her to Circular Quay to wait for the ferry. Btw, trackworks today caused us some trouble for travelling around. We left home at 4:30, but didn't get there til almost 6ish. Apart from the troublesome we got from trackworks, mum also forgot about this and that. We also wasted a bit of time to get her boots changed before we left for city. However, it was still a pleasant ride...wait...maybe not realllyyy...once this woman got on the bus, her giggling was so loud that you even wanted to block your ears with some cottons. 

Nevertheless, to sum up my awesome night, here are the photos I'd like to share...(follow me to my journey yoooo...) 

Yes, you might think it wouldn't have that much to see if you've been there once. No, you are so wrong. There could be still a lot of hidden places you've missed. Keep having surprises throughout the night is our goal...Because of mum, I was asked to catch ferry with her. But I have to say, I have have have to say...Thanks for mum's suggestion, it was the best choice I made tonight. The view was just so beautiful around. I swear, photos are not enough to illustrate how beautiful it really is....

Wooohoooo the cruiseeeeeeee....I'd like to try that next time with mum. In fact, we were planning to do that this year, sadly we didn't have much time left...

Now here is just a low angle shot of the harbour bridge on its side. The glowing light has made the entirety more stand out from every direction you see. I could have been to the other side of the bridge and take some photos from a different angle, but we were at North Sydney at that time looking for that computer utilized to change the colour of this bridge...I felt sorry for mum though, it was my fault taking you walk all the way back to the train station when we just dropped off from ferry...

Ok...we were now walking towards Luna park. Can't believe this year's light installation is extended to North Sydney. Or it was just me who didn't visit North Sydney in the previous years o3o... But from what I've read online, new locations added to Vivid this year, the Star is one of them, not sure North Sydney is the other or not..

Before telling you what we were doing...This shot is certainly not taken from the internet. And I don't do post-editing to any photos in this blog. Mind you that I like naturalness too. So hmmm everyone else is familiarise with ferris wheel right? Reason why I took this photo is that I was just too bored lining up for that changing colour machine (Yes I found that machine to change the colour of the bridge!! xD) But this photo isn't bad at all right? 

 That was another shot taken during our time of waiting. Mum was there in the line, I asked to take a leave shortly, walked around Luna park and the path outside, and found three men in suits playing instruments happily. Their presence have added quite a lot of happiness to the surroundings where people like me, followed them from here to there...

The bridge is too good to be a bridge... I was still waiting for my turn...It was almost an hour of waiting there...People took damn long to colour the bridge. There was also a photo booth next to it for family photos after you made your own masterpiece. 

So finally after an hour of wait, it was our turn to colour the bridge. This is the computer for us to select the area where we wanted to change the colour, then you pick any colours you like by one click, it immediately would change the colour of that selected area. After getting done with every part on the bridge, choose the effect underneath, as the last step to activate the movement of the colours, either static or movable...Here is my final work appeared on the screen..Now I just noticed I changed two areas to pink...ewww =3=

I guess you won't be able to see how my final work was like, only if you viewed it in person. But this is a photo taken right after I activated it...I should have picked static effect to make it more obvious =3= Oh well...

Now after a lot of fun from changing the bridge (nope...not really...the waiting time was too damn long =3=) we were on our way back to Circular Quay...I purposely picked a backseat of the ferry to watch the night views

That's where we were approaching Circular Quay...

Ok...So this was a new spot we found at the Rocks, where precisely it's a few steps away from that tunnel. The sign directed us to go up, so we did. Following up the crowd and squeezed into a little house. At this moment, I was surprised of what I've found in front of me. Canon store, is another place I felt I belonged lol...The arts presented from interactive and digital media on the desks, walls, screens, and mirrors took my breath away..I wish I've found it much earlier >3< So this photo was taken at the entrance. The overlaid images are projected in the air. Sorry, I couldn't take a photo at a right time >3<

 Yes they offer new Canon products, such as scanners, cameras...I did have a look at them but hmm..I don't think I'll be willing to afford them by now lol There was a few section here I love the most. Here is one of the corners I exceptionally like...Well...It's Canon..as a sponsorship, and a part of Vivid festival, they definitely provide good stuff to promote their brand at the same time..

Sorry...I'm into images lol But that's exactly how I like about a place. Sometimes not the products themselves matters, but how this company presents them. I don't quite understand business etc. However, to my own experience, if now the images are placed in a line in an orderly fashion, I'd find that so boring, maybe I won't even stay there for 5 minutes...I see the displacement here, is very refined and cultured. For example, you see how the boxes are made for small-sized items to put in, which is more likely for us to go up there and check what's inside.

I didn't take any photos of new Canon products because as I said before, I am more into art representation. The enjoyable thing in this place is how much value I find it related to arts. This photo is beautifully taken in that accurate moment of time..I can't say whether post editing was involved or not, but I like how it represents two forms of water in the same picture- the liquid and solid; water and ice; move and stillness; regularity and irregularity; shaped and unshaped; definite and indefinite quantity...

A showcase of customers' precious moments stick on the wall...The loving and togetherness are what make up the world..

Enough of Canon photoshots lol...Now let's move on to Darling harbour...Once again, we caught ferry to Darling harbour to wait for the last ever Aquatique...On our way to get there, I took several photos of that Maritime Museum and the Star where light projections were also installed on them...

Maritime Museum again..The little showcase of a series of sea world...

This is where I met my bf the second time in an outting for the same purpose-friend's birthday dinner..

Another night-view-photo taken. The Aquatique wasn't as good as the one I watched a week ago. As mum said, it was lack of 3D effect. Unlike how good I described to her before, she said it was plain...>.> 

Photo taken from harbourside, on our way to the Star..Anyways, the last one hour was left for the Star, where she eagered to go to Sky Terrace to enjoy some wines, take more pictures up there while listen to some classic western music...

Photo taken inside the Star*

I really have to say sorry that we couldn't make it mum...I should have asked earlier in case it closed, but I didn't...Though I asked more than 30 people where that place is, most of them didn't know and minority of them gave me a brief description while time was running out during that last half an hour, I knew how disappointed you felt, as that a few times you used your fist hit me, as some signs of showing how irritated you were, but I didn't blame you for anything...I should have made you happy the whole time but it failed to last for the very last minute...But I do hope that sort of drama scene never happen again in the public.. :/

It will always be alright afterwards no matter how angry you are/I am...Except that intense half an hour saddened me a bit, the rest of the night was fantastic...Also adding to find out this ad when I was waiting for my train back home at the platform, I'm thinking if I should go, or who I should take to...

There are so many events in Sydney, one after another. So sometimes I don't understand why people say 'we have nothing to do in Sydney' or 'Sydney is a boring place' when indeed, it's your own problem not wanting to explore more. I mean, isn't everywhere the same if you only stuck at the same place doing the same thing each day instead of trying out new things out there? 

Short post (6th of June)

Short post:

My day has been full of work. Lectured by dad and read quite a bit of online news. Plus, slept a lot....AND I downloaded an SMS backup app just then because text messages are removed automatically is pretty frustrating somehow...

End of story...

Night night peeps...tomorrow will be another long day getting mum to Darling harbour at night....

Last day of Sem 1, 2014 (2) (5th of June)

Yesterday was the last day of uni, today is the last day of AIT. I skipped my first class in the morning in order to do my final assignment for digital images. Then Katie also came to the same class later to work on hers...

So my final work was done in the class with Gold's help. A minor mistake I made was fixed by him. Jim and Carson were sitting next to me doing theirs, Jim was rejected by me when he asked if I wanted to listen to some music during class lol...He occasionally asked for my opinion towards his work, but what he did for the whole lesson was to change the font of 'First rate'. Even I asked him to add some textures to the figure and the background, he couldn't be bothered doing it...Then he got cranky at times because of the awesome lag photoshop caused.

Happy that I finally finished both of my assignments in several hours. My friends were all sitting around me after we finished our classes. Nobody was willing to leave as we all wanted to get them all done by today. I picked Pitbull (the singer..not the dog lol) as the main figure of my music poster anyways. So much changes, adjustments, and editing over and over makes the ultimate perfection. More than 20 layers overlay one another, set the mode to dissolve of the headline, change the blending option of the figure and duplicate two other layers, enlarge size of the figure and place them to each side showing half of the face, lower the opacity and add patterns to the foreground, as well as the background etc....Everything takes time, a lot of time...

By the time I got back home, it was almost 8:30. Dinner time took another one hour or so. Shower, another half an hour. Viewing group chat was one of the fun thing to do for chilling. Group members these days have been busy looking for the other half esp Janice and Mariessa both like their closest friends, but the guys don't seem to show any interest somehow....And thanks for panpan sharing that adorable Malaysian girl's video to me. BUT, you are even cuter than her >3< Look at your face on webby, cuteness overdose!! That pinchable cheeks and tricky smile :3

Last day of Sem 1, 2014 (4th of June)

No, my peak productive time wasn't arrived. I didn't do much in that two hours at AIT. Gino was the one helping me out with my retouching assignment because apparently I came across this step where the background has to be changed to black after you finish all the previous steps as required. Helen didn't tell us how to do that in the video he recorded from the class. And the main problem I had was that I should have picked a dark colour hair one instead. He left afterward and tell me to call him when I needed. Pai came to me after class, she said she almost got her work done, which made me so damn jelly >3< Dude...I haven't even started my poster T___T

Jap quiz was screwed up. It might not be as bad as I thought, but still, bad... :/ I really wish that Fukui Sensei could give us one extra minute to check our answers. Within one min to check our answers wasn't enough for beginners like us to pick up all the mistakes we made. Also it was way too fast for a dictation quiz when she read the sentences at her local Jap speed. I left some gaps between, as well as I didn't get to write all the kanji as I should. How bad le feels when looking at your exam paper which you were so confident to ace it yet you got no time to write kanji when you had to hand it back in to your teacher...=3=

And and and my last media tut was to run through how each of us planned to write our final assignment, shared our great ideas to the rest of the class what questions we will address to in our chosen media issue. Lastly to discuss what career we are thinking to get in after we graduate, is also essential in this tut. Andrew, the tutor gave us some important advice to our career paths when some people already have had their plans on the next 5 years. Several of them have had a few internship being an online magazine writer, retailer, social media analyst etc outside of uni. Seeing how much they have done in their lives, compare to mine, which work experiences are the ones I lack, more motivations have taken over me that I start to think about what I really want to do. Even though I have thought about this for multiple times, to the point that I once convinced myself not to think too much about it as I am still taking other courses at AIT. I got no time to apply for a job. Now it sounds more of an excuse when seeing other people are close to their goals in my age, whereas mine is still unreachable. Should I make more changes before I turn 23? I really need to ask myself this question before it's too late. But thanks for giving me a great lesson. Stress is needed for more self improvement...

The last Seminar was to chill a bit. I always feel regret for not doing something. Guess I should really take a step forward and have this do-it-first attitude when things happen. Regretting, is indeed a really bad thing in life. Chances don't knock your door twice. Once you miss it, you miss it. So my point is, I missed the last session where senpai came to our class last week. Fukui sensei said to me, there would be local Jap come to classes next sem. So if I'm still doing Jap, remember not to miss it again!! I take that in mind...

Oh and my uni timetable is finally done. Mon, Wed and Thurs will be at uni, taking two days off, from uni though. I am not sure about how many days I will take for AIT. Next semester will be tougher, trust me. I have searched the course outlines from google where I pretty much will be having some group presentations coming along. That means, weekly meeting is unavoidable...

The only happy thing is that Jacob waited for me after Jap sem, the first also the last time he walked me to bus stop, and we both caught on the same bus to central. We nearly forgot to add each other on Fb at the end of this sem til tonight lool Yes, after we've been knowing each other for the whole sem, and he's one of my best group mates at our table. Well, I will miss everybody in Jap...Thanks for all the great time we had together throughout these 13 weeks :)

Epic Vivid night (3rd of June)

*Today is the 6th of June, but here I'm updating the 3rd of June, 4 days ago:

I've never been to Kogarah this early, like 9ish. The time when I was still semi-awake but I already had to take her to the private hospital to do her final test. Dr Howiston, nice to see you again. One of the best doctors I've ever met as he doesn't only calm a patient down when they're worried, but also brings them so much joy. I'd say now she finally can let that go, her problem won't be a problem again. Thanks for Dr Chauhan recommending her to go private hospital, and thanks for Dr Howiston as well, for healing her :)

Before we left, the receptionist lady asked mum to sign on a sheet. And she complimented my green watch and asked me where to get it. That wasn't the first time people like my watch. A lot of people seem to like my watch as much as my blue platforms. 

Sometimes I really like some aspects of living in Australia when it provides us with free services, people should all feel lucky having this guarantee to live healthily. On our way to the train station, she and I walked into a elegant store where it sells luxurious clothings. They are really the types I like, which are all about irregularities because I'm really into things that take the form or nature of weirdness. 

Anyways, she went back home, whereas I headed to AIT to study for a bit before we met up again at 6ish at night. I was alone sitting at a corner doing my uni and AIT work in that 4 hours while a teacher was in charge of a studio class there. The background music was so loud in that student's video, the teacher managed to tell him to change that to another in order to get a higher mark. Several others went up to that teacher asking for some opinions towards their short clips. And there was this guy asking a friend of his, who was busy doing his work at that time, to go to the park with him for filming. He was going to reject, but seems like his friend had a really good offer which attracted him more when he said he'd introduce several sexy girls to him later on. lool....guys are guys...

My vivid night was awesome. In the beginning, I arrived at Circular Quay 20 minutes before the actual meeting time. I then went around the Rocks where it led me to some hidden places. This was my first time to go vivid with mum. Unlike the past a few years, I went with different people. But this time, mum persuaded me to go with her. It could be another great new experience spending such a colourful night with your mum right? :) The common ones such as Opera house projections is too prevalent and that majority people have seen them, so here, I won't be share those photos again. I've got my map from one of the information booths. So I followed the path to go from no.1 to no.56 in the sake of not to miss out any light projects in Vivid. Now, I'm going to introduce some other new places which people don't normally find their way to get there. I'm telling you....YOU ACTUALLY MISS OUT A LOT!!! Thank god for my enthusiasm and time consuming exploration in that 6 hours with mum, who also keen on searching, was really worth our time looking around. Though at the end of the day, our feet were sore, no food til almost 11-ish.

Anyways please enjoy looking at the following photos I've taken that night. Pictures worth thousand words, short captions will be offered you a great overview of what's in Vivid. AND don't forget to visit this amazing festival in Sydney if you come here one day :)

Firstly, a great view at Circular Quay where you are able to see this creativity of lighting and lasers, all coming together to decorate the beauty of the skyscrapers at CBD. Along with classic music playing at the background, has added a bit of surprise, entertainment and inspiration.For those like me who enjoy the nature of arts presented, will all be gratefully enjoying Filament storm..

Here is another picture of....ahhh....what's name of that building? =3= Light installation vividly covers the whole building every year. Same as before, one of the must-sees turns into one giant, visual spectacular. Vivid goers are allowed to take turns on the stage to try 'painting' the building as they dance with the pop music.

The TetraBIN is another great design which you throw a piece of cupboard inside the hole as the white object comes to the middle, then a new die will be soon dropped down on top of the built tower of dice. It doesn't sound much, but interaction the design has for us, has gathered a crowd of people within 10 minutes.

Other than the most common ones are viewed by millions of people. Now this is one place I discovered from the Rocks. It's named as 'Heaven's cloth', is one of my favourites. In here, you don't get to manipulate any latest technologies to see any different changes, but it produces you an extraordinary feeling here. The transparency you see through the nets is really heaven-like, various light changes once every a few seconds builds up a higher level of illusion..

Here is another image I took from the same place, 'Heaven's cloth'...hmmm if I don't remember it wrong, the light feature number is 20 something..

I took quite a few photos here. Mum even made a recording seeing me go hyper jumping around >.>

So this is called 'Positive feedback' I guess? The interaction they have there is as positive as its name lol You move, a wave of reflection will be projected on the screen. Easy and fun. Oh and btw, people might block your way if you stand too close, better to stand farther from the screen but close to the projector if you are short :) Because I've experienced that>.>

OK...no need to explain what this is. This design is pretty self-explanatory...I'd like to call it a 'cloudscene'

Another light projection covers the building...

Tetris on the wall..The formation of blocks changes according to where you stand at..I remember mum was like a kid trying to step on every square on that area so to see the changes.

Irregular artwork stands for pre-space if I remember it right. This might seem to be a boring piece of artwork to you. But for me, my aesthetic value is inclined to be the stillness you find from those which you see nothingness as somethingness.

I basically just think it's so beautiful in all dimensions as it displays. The optical illusion is something you should have when you land your eyes on it. Btw this light feature is at Walsh Bay. Right, I walked all the way from Opera House to Walsh Bay, dedication much~

Another favourite of mine, the 'LOL', really represented by 10 LOL faces. They react to any sounds they receive from people. They occasionally whistle when they are bored, and laugh when you laugh or keep making more noises. The more noises you make, the longer fun they have, the longer fun you have as well. Laughter is contagious!!
*Please click on the video I share at the end of this post. :)*

Yup...as this is the last light feature of the map, no.56...named as 'starry night'. Be the master of this year's universe!! Delightful interactive installation uses sensors to capture the liveness of your movements. Either you stand there still, spin around or arm out wave at something. Once you step in that area where it's activated, the motion of star formation will be generated by an algorithm based on how you move, how the waves go.

Lunar net somewhere close to Walsh Bay...Too damn beautiful. I couldn't even believe what my eyes have seen.

Now here comes with the interesting bit, the 'Graffiti me' demands you to get your face closer to the camera where it scans your facial features at a certain distance. Once the process is done, graffiti of your face will be projected on the wall. This is my face...Sometimes the entire face might not turn out as clear as it is, BUT the main feature of my face-my adorable eyes are recognizable :3

This is mum's, the iconic feature is her glasses lol...

During Vivid, make sure you don't miss out other great locations such as Martin place. The jungle, or a jungle-like projection is to depict the nature, the growth of plants and the mostly miniature figures.

This has something to do with Sydney Film Festival held at Martin place. I didn't get to see what happened as I went there late.

I've read that it represents a flower blooming in this winter...

Yup, my favourite as well!! The giant head is the reflection of your own face once you stick your face on the video feed. I made so many faces but they are too terrifying...so here is one of the images I took which I think it's alright-ish...less freaky I'd say? >.>... Ain't I cute? o3o

Plus this image was taken much earlier when I visited the Rocks, sorry my photos are a bit out of order. This is my favourite xD Basically you put something under the projector, your hand, the bottle, any sort of your personal belongings, as long as it fits. It then scans, and cut that image into a junk-like object, then you'll see it drop from the top of the screen right afterward. Sounds fun doesn't it? Go and try it before Vivid ends!!! A random funny fact: There was this white girl trying so hard to put her head under that projector but she failed lol

Lastly, 'LOL' face wooooooooooo~ Enjoy the 4 sec video :3 lol

Future survivor (2nd of June)

No stories to be told today. Dragon boat day is meant to be a day for everyone to spend time with their families. Don't forget the core value of this festival if any of you is Chinese :)

So basically I got everything done by 3ish. In the beginning when I started writing my online course final assignment, I was thinking of doing a science review. 1 hour later after I have already 200 words. I just didn't feel like doing any more research, so I restarted my whole assignment and picked that science fiction which doesn't require researches but use your own imagination to write a good piece. And my story is about this dude lost all of his memory, doesn't know who he is, where he lives etc. Lost of identity has made him feel so desperate til one day there is this girl, a complete stranger who sees him in the restaurant encourages him to start a new life, and named him as Rochi. It seems like a stranger even knows him more than he does. Anyways at the end of the story, a truth is revealed when the girl comes and visits him the second time the same day, next year, he finds out that he's the last survivor of one future war conflict in which a scientist's creation has gone wrong and that his troop of cyborgs have to be terminated by the ones from outer space. Then he sent Rochi to the past, which is 50 years ago (now) to continue his unfinished mission to learn human emotions and behaviours.

Yes, I had to condense this story in the length of 800 words or somewhere around it. And I only found out that the due date is wrong when I checked my zmail, the notification came late and I have already done my final today lool So my last minute work is now an early finished work, like one day earlier.

The rest of the day was same as usual, kept reading online news and my epic media readings. Didn't get my media blog done because I was distracted by talking to quite a few people online. One of them is Enoch who has finally submitted his animation work and that he uploaded his masterpiece on fb. More than 100 people clicked like, and I was one of them. After made a few comments on his status, he inboxed me and asking about what I'm doing for my animation work in the coming 2 weeks. We talked for another good few hours about stuff other than uni.

Good day overall, but tomorrow will be better :)

Still a child (1st of June)

I forgot to say 'happy children's day' to Calvin today but guess he doesn't really care since he claims himself as a man...Look..I'm a manly man, *next min, smiles at me in sort of way that only a child will do* I am glad that the speech I helped him last week got him the top mark of his class, and he also got to have this chance to enter the school competition and perform on the stage. That two hours of tutoring was relatively pleasant. I spent most of our time reviewing all the grammar points I have taught him so far and he was cooperative enough to do the work. It took him 10+ minutes to memorise 2 pages of rules, mind you that the font was big so 2 pages weren't that much to be honest. He got things wrong wasn't unexpected, at least he gave it a go, that's what I care the most.

That emotional moment when you heard a Jap song from a music box in the room that brought back so much of your memories and made you go teary, it happened to me today at panpan's room during the time we both were chilling there. The more you try to desensitize yourself, the more it comes back to you in some certain points. You think you buried that part of you somewhere deep down there where you won't let anyone to find out, but a wave of emotions you have make it even more visible within you. Somehow I talked a bit of this though at the end of the day, I still didn't reveal to him what really went through my mind. I like how he brushed my hair though. That's one of the greatest thing a bf does to a gf. He said that I'd look prettier if I brush my hair everyday, not only when I wash my hair. It might be true, but I don't seem to care my image that much sometimes. I mean, the very basic thing to take care of myself well is neglected at times, and it's so obvious that I am not aware of what things I could possibly do to make me feel even better. Anyways he took me to the train station due to the darkness outside. Another touchy-feely afternoon panpan chan...somebody is now a pro ey ;)

Btw I saw two children playing games next to me and their parents were watching them having fun laughing at each other. I saw a complete family there, an ideal family that I also want to have for years...

Happy children's day to me. I am forever a child and I let this side take over me because this is the only simplicity you have for forgetting unwanted things...