Underground film festival (6th of September)

Too much fun with my friend Tao today at underground film festival at Marrickville. Good thing that we planned ahead, And we made it there 40 minutes before the first film started. We joked around shittyrail and all on our way to that place where it took us 20 minutes to walk. So much laughter during the time we wandered around that place in that half an hour. We shared hell lots of past stories and soon, I revealed that part of me as something he said reached my heart. So I've found my good buddy here who also likes to explore new places and do new things. I couldn't say how relaxed and happy I felt today, even I was half joking half serious insulted by him who described my lower body as carrots like lol I had this self-mocking moment saying how long and skinny my fingers are, unfortunately my legs aren't having the same traits as them...

Several break between each film was our time to start talking again, the film values we found in every film we watched, the perspective we had for disagreeing or agreeing with the producers, we were sort of exchanging what we felt about the movies, which got me really excited to listen to how he felt everytime when we finished watching it. Talking about the language exchange program we are having now is another thing we have in common. After knowing how he has this passion to travel alone, as well as learning languages, I was quite interested in knowing his travelling experiences in Thailand and Malaysia. Random me had so much random hysterical things to say to the point that he laughed crazily. Even 6 or 7 times of aeroplanes flew over our heads have gotten me wow-ing so much hahahah We had our glorious moment talking about the Jap action movie. And when mentioning about marriage, I told him that I didn't want to get married, he asked if it's because of my parents who got divorced, I said part of it; then he proceeded with a speculation that I may haven't found the right one, and he started to ask about my relationship, and I told him all, even including how my mum thinks about him.

Anyways I have to say I was quite worried about this guy having no food at all for the whole day. I know gym people do care to keep themselves healthy by having healthy food, but one day of unhealthy food won't harm that much right? >.> This guy insisted not getting anything. So I shared my corns with him at least. He was a fast eater whereas I spent half an hour finishing mine... Rainy day caused the weather so cold, even worse was that we had to wait outside with no seats at all, since most of the seats were taken. During the time we waited for the third movie, he grabbed me a chair to sit yet himself was standing next to me. Not to mention how caring I felt from him when he typed a message asking if I was safe on my way back home. But before he sent that to me, I already asked him if he was safe home yet. So we were laughing at how sync we are to type the messages to each other for the same purpose at the same time. Same as him, who said he had been overwhelmingly having fun with me today to the underground film festival, I was too, enjoying myself in the film watching experiences, as well as our awesome interaction for the whole day :) Looking forward to seeing you next week!!

*Here are my thoughts about those 4 films we watched today:
1. LOVE CHILD is the movie, or a series of compilation switching between virtual world and real world. I particular like the filmic elements and the way they makes the video so unreal by metaphorically adding so much scenes from the actual game, which the couple was addicted to. On the other hand, the digitalised hand gestures and couple's back shot carried so much sense in relation to the theme of virtual world, where people have already turned this addiction to the ultimate level, where they cannot even distinguish what's real and unreal. By talking about the city-Seoul, is one of the high tech cities in the world, I assumed that really is a force has driven their people more into virtual gaming indulgence...After all, it's ridiculous to rather raise up the anima in that game instead your child. Looking at how technology has done to people, it'd be a much better idea to detach yourself a bit more from your gadgets STARTING FROM NOW...

2. APOCALYPTIC is just a name for 8 short films which they all have this central concern of the destruction of the world. Two of them are the ones I like the best - The last artist and yearbook. Here, I'd like to talk about the former. The last artist is to express no matter how beautiful the world is or you decide it to be, it won't be somewhere you enjoy living in if you are the only one here to see these views. Beauty you see from something only appears when you ain't alone; same as fun you have from something if there is someone else there share the fun with you....

3. Super duper Alice cooper is another documentary depicting this rock star's whole life. Sad that I fell asleep halfway through the movie. I seriously didn't find it boring but that was the time I usually have my nap at after uni on train or bus >3< I missed out a lot, Tao said I fell asleep for almost an hour >.> It sure is a good documentary though. How can it not be when seeing all this outrageous stage antics Alice Cooper has made his trend of shock rock o3o....Shooooooooo amajinggggg.....This half man, half woman and half alien dude really not afraid to have his own style. He really deserves that many fans to love him....

4. Why don't you play in hell features the insanely bloody scenes of this conflict between two clans, comes along with this madly untalented group of filmmaker wannabes collide with this clan's boss who wants to make a great movie for his daughter. The movie is so much wicked and fits in that category of 'Japanese action', hentai, like really, if you get what I mean...But everyone seemed to have their good time laughing their heads off through seeing so much ketchup (so much tomato sauce flying across the screen) which makes the ultimate action epic in its own way. Endlessly irreverent, wildly and hilariously visceral with a unique vision to its unleash...How mad a movie can it be....This producer is just so hentai...

Weapons of wars (5th of September)

The happiness I had for making a few friends in my Jap seminar because of the situational activity that brought all of us together. I was more of leading my group to extend the conversation. We tried so hard to make up some really long sentences and we screwed that up when actually saying that lol James and Roslyn are so cute taking the roles of two customers together. The look on Roslyn's face as if she was having constipation hahaah...

An hour of break to have my lunch and browse around some techniques in videos making....

Next, my international security lecture was on...Once again, I sat at the front having this motivation to keep myself up for the entire 90 minutes. Today we were given this topic of feminism, the consequences the wars cause. Rape, is the word that repeatedly heard once every a few minutes. In today's society, the male-dominant-driven society is still fked as hell, the issue of rape is still continuing to be one of the weapons during wars. Countless women and girls got raped or gang raped brutally because that is how offenders reinforce their power over the targeted regions. Hence, the issue of rape, any form of sexual violence perpetrated against women is with a direct or indirect link to armed conflict...

Enough of revision above ^...I got everything done at night before I headed to bed. I did my blog for design principles, prepared for my Sunday tutoring, looked for a media artefact for international security tut, and and and discussed with Tao how and where we would meet up for the underground film festival tomorrow...

I'm happy to have this new friend who seems like he gets me quite well. And I am glad that he enjoyed the time he was with us in that meet up. I am really happy to have him as my group member too. :)  

Pretty Sociable (4th of September)

Another awesome day IS todayyyyyy....Well well well well well....I was 10 minutes late for my studio class, but lucky the teacher wasn't there yet. And all of us were just finalizing our work. People were stressing me out as some of them have already submitted their work whereas I was still working on mine. I knew that it wouldn't take that much time to design four postcards, but I kept changing my theme in the first place so I was still just up to half of it...Pai was the one helping me out a bit. Her suggestion has always been so helpful for my project. None of them ever had that much great advice like the ones she gave me. Though I was half distracted by Tia, this cute girl who got bullied by my evilness all this time, and having that moment of overwhelmingly facepalming....She said...How can I have such a friend loool....I love her as always, I even asked her to check my every postcard to see if any colours I should change...Yet I kept teasing her by doing my trademark 'tsk-ing'...saying how not supportive she is hahaha...

With Jim and Mickey's occasional bothering me to help them out with the written concept, I rejected quite a few times because I hadn't even done mine yet....Towards the end of the lesson, Nelson came. Even one of the procrastinators among all my friends finished his....He sat next to me and pointed out that I should've changed something to darker to show much more contrast in the image BECAUSE Helen said so lol....>.> Thanks anyways...Though I have to say you are friggin late to tell me about this, I still want to thank you for telling me and letting me to use your account to print out two A3 papers....But somebody was nice enough to wait for me even knowing he'd be late to go to have lunch with his friend...

One hour to meet up with my language exchange group. I was worried that I'd be late and I ended up getting there so early. Horace and Tao came late. They asked me to have lunch with them but I was already there sitting at the stairs having my yogurt. Takuya senpai found me, and asked me that he'd go to that room first to wait for us. So that one hour was shoooooo damnnnnn happppyyyyyyyy to be with Takuya, Horace and tao. Or was I just too high to calm myself down? Too active to be quiet this whole time>.> And and and Horace and Tao were so damn good at Jap...Remember whoever claim themselves are not that good or bad at something? Never trust them...They might be too modest...Instead, I found myself slow and couldn't respond in a full sentences. It always took me some time to think through what question Takuya just asked...Tao was laughing at my twisted answers, almost every answer I provided was funny enough to make them happy...Hehehe, even I found myself entertaining :3

But but but but they all couldn't make the launch at 6 :( Horace didn't want to wait and Tao needed to go gym...Takuya had classes after our meeting >3< However, I was still having my own great time bumping into my old friend Kiah, the one in my tut from last semester. I only noticed her as she called out my name at the back. She then introduced her friend Lisa to me. But Lisa got her own group mates to wait for, so she left us 15 minutes after we went into the lecture theatre where we had our one hour presentation by this beautiful presenter Pia, the one and only representative of this program who held this event. I enjoyed every minute and every second being in this meeting with my old friend Kiah, and my new friend that I made throughout this presentation. The video Pia showed was a great example to represent her point-lost in translation. Hilarious and informative...Pia, is the one that has gone through everything she said in the issue of lost in translation because she's half Swedish and half Indonesian. She suck at speaking Indonesian until she joined up this exchange language program in her hometown 20 years ago, where she started to be taught by all these local Indonesian friends and in return, she taught them Swedish...She told us that she's been doing this program for almost 12 years. From all the aspects of her personal experience, with lots of examples she showed from the slides and we were also told that all the popular languages required to exchange, such as Japanese, Korean, German and French, are always scarce to match up with the number of applicants. Hence, she had to invite/encourage all the ones who are from these backgrounds from this campus to participate this program. AND just by thinking about my Japanese exchange friend in my group-Takuya senpai was that assistant in my tut and seminar last semester, yesssss good looking senpai!! Yeeesssss the great performer on the stage in our Jap lecture!!! HE IS in my group!!! How lucky am I!!! I see him as an idol lool...

Ok...back to the point....*cough cough* Pizza time was shoooooooo good with my new friends Lisa, Tamarra, that jap jap girl and that guy...Especially Lisa, the one that Kiah introduced to me, is the BESTTT...I found another ideal friend of mine >3< We talked hell lots of Jap thingy, something that we both had in common. I was super sociable to talk to all of them when we were having the pizza. I didn't get another slide as I was too busy to make friends there...

So Lisa walked me to the bus stop, we added each other's fb, numbers and wechat...And her group invited me to go join them sometimes. I am totally welcomed to have my extra Jap group hahaa....I even told my current group mates about it right after I left uni. They all felt happy for me to have an extra group. :3

Hello new group mates!! (3rd of September)

Starting from the first second I woke up in the morning, I already felt that it'd be a good day today. It was true that I made it on time, or even a bit earlier to get to Central. I went to ask around Opal card and bought one upstairs with 20 bucks.

Somebody said I've added too much elements into my design, so I had to redo some parts again. It's fine as none of us really understand what she wants. But one thing I'm sure is that she wants most of our design to be simple. I had no inspiration throughout the whole damn hour though. With Gold, Mickey and Tia sitting around me doing theirs, I started to browse google to look for some resources to set my idea straight. Towards the end of the second class, I talked to Casey about her work. She chose the right and easy theme to work on, the season is easily to break down as 4 sub-themes. All you need to do is to imagine the atmosphere relates to each season. It doesn't have to be a definite solid shape or object...whereas mine...yes...I changed my idea eventually all because it has been too challenging and time-consuming if I really work on it. Even with Pai's help, her helpfulness did give me some ideas on how to improve my work, I still didn't think it'd be a wise choice to continue with. And yes, Mickey's work is not closely related to each other, they don't seem like they're from the same set of design as each of them represents individual concept and pattern. It's hard to see them as an unity. Thanks for Nelson's advice, but I did help him a bit in return too...

Oh and lunch with all my AIT mates was a good time after class, as usual. 2 Koreans, 2 Thai and 2 Chinese as if we were having a division when each of us was sitting the opposite with our own mate...lol And Nelson thanks for telling me something about muscles...I wish your 6 packs are growing soon :)

Getting back to uni where I met my 3 new group mates for that language exchange program, I had my afternoon tea on the bus. Tao and Takuya senpai, yay....So lucky to be paired with senpai, this great performer used to be in our jap lecture, as well as our lovely jap assistant in both of my tut and seminar, so how can I not recognize his face when I at least saw him 2 or 3 times a week? It's my honour to have this good looking senpai in our group. Of course, it was so damn happy to see Tao as well, the one that talks to me heaps since we added each other a few days ago. I became hell talkative taking all my chances to speak and entertain people. Even when Horace, our third group member came 10 minutes later, I tried to be friendly by saying I thought he was a girl from his name written on the form. We all laughed so much having so much fun in interacting each other. Then we went to look for seats from level 4 and 10, where we couldn't find any, I mean, we didn't want to disturb other people studying for being so loud...I wasn't really leading them, but I seemed like I was when all of them put me to the front...Til then, we decided to walk back to outside and found a table to talk for another half an hour. We got to know each other quite well in that half an hour for being super sociable. So Takuya'll be attending this conference in Hongkong this year, this is the reason why he wants to learn Cantonese. The three of us were joking about our own language and topic shifted to courses we are currently doing somehow. Btw, I bumped into Karen at the library before when we were looking for the seats, her innocent face stared at three of them behind me, and I awkwardly introduced them with a look of here-are-my-friends-I-JUST-MET....

Anyways...We really wish Horace didn't have to go at 3 so we could talk more. But Takuya and Tao were nice enough to stay for another half an hour with me :) Once again, I can't wait to get my shits done in the early morning so I can meet up with them at 3 tomorrow, oh, as well as the launch dinner thingy at 6pm....seeee you guys realllllll soooonnnnnnn....

After the group meeting, I went to help out my society, the stall was just next to the library where they were selling the rice cake. I approached them and said if they needed some help. I spent that half an hour helping them to make a few boxes til Liwen came, she happily found me there to help, came to me, and talked to me a lot of plans about our promotional video because we've got too much to prepare. She told me to make a mini promotional one as well as the full version one. Then Sinclare came to film our great fundraising coordinator :3 Sooooo happy to see my group member, my Sinclare is such a charming one that her smile is so cute that makes me happy....

However, it was time for me to go back home....I had my wonderful journey back home with an apple, a yogurt and some newspapers...To finish reading the newspaper, I spent another 1 hour sitting in front of that Asian store. Btw...this act of atrocity is really disgusted....Can't believe another US journalist got beheaded today....What is belief? What is humanity? ....

PS: Happiness extended to dinner time with mum when we exchanged our awesome day with each other. She was damn happy today as well, but not as happy as I, who kept on appraising the group mates I met, all these conincidences I told her and the good feelings I got from knowing them, talking to them, and being good friends with them. Our film fest plan this coming weekend...cannot wait....
PS1: Illustrator isn't working tonight so I couldn't even do my work which I planned to get most of it done =3=...shit happens...My friend Nelson was trying to help me and we ended up encouraging each other to do some necessary work that are due tomorrow...Even with my software failure, I wasn't that frustrated for not being able to do something I want. This might be the belief I have in me, and the motivation I get from this friendship power...AND AND AND AND AND my overly epic day with everything I did, and everyone I met....

Please stay with good mood :)

Master of poker face (2nd of September)

A day full of readings and critical review editing. It was the first time ever I handed in an assignment one day passed the actual due day with the loss of 3% in whatever mark I'll get. I would be panicking at utmost if I was still in high school. But I see everything as nothing now, after going through some unpleasant uni experiences...And I was still with this poker face by the time I finished this friggin assignment...Not contented nor happy...

The only time I smiled was when I saw several friends commented on my wechat post, the one that I put into my must-to-do list...Time to have some plans to go to some upcoming events with a few friends.....

Moody Monday (1st of September)

Life is such a troll when seeing another extra 500 words have to be written for the assignment. For some reason, I've been thinking it only requires for 1000 words until I was going to submit it, and check it from the outline again...What's wrong with me these days. I seem to lack of motivation to work hard in anything I do, and I make minor mistakes, but they all count...

Stress level was to the max with my sleepiness that has been making me so upset, and I was late for her appointment again. For 5 minutes. She was calling me once every 5 minutes. And she got more and more angry each time she called. Towards the end of the second or last call, I didn't pick up at all. I was close to breakdown on the train after I clumsily pushed a person because it was too crowded and I didn't get to hold anything to balance myself...

Shed some tears when she started to yell at me, even inside the MTC where we were sitting down, she whispered with a bit of anger. I shed some tears, but in order not for anyone to see my teary face, I pretended that I constantly yawned...

After getting the next appointment from her consultant. She needed to shop around in hursy for some food and wines. We carried all of them home, and I was heaps more frustrated than ever as she became a bit annoying before we got on the bus...Coming back to do my Jap homework, read through my lecture, and ready to get on with that 500 words but I seriously can't think at the moment. I only know that I'm really down...really really down...sleepy...really really sleepy...without caring, support and all, plus extra work to do. 3% will be gone if I can't get it done by tonight...But I let it go this time...I rather to get myself some rest tonight....

Morning shiny buttcrack (31st of August)

In brief, the followings are what I've seen, heard and done today:

• I saw this guy facing me with his back in the toilet. His pants were off....I didn't mean to break in but he didn't close the door...So at the end I quietly closed the door for him just incase he turned around
• evil kiddy farted so loud when he just walked out of the lift...First hour he laughed a lot, second hour I bribed him with something
• Finally got to contact my language exchange program mates by texting and wechating them. We now have a wechat group discussing when and where we would be meeting up in a few days. And I just found out that Takuya senpai is the one insisting Fukui sensei last semester. I miss his performance forming a love triangle with other two performers on the stage in Jap lecture...So glad that he'd be the one leading us to practice Jap :)
• Nothing much but been busy doing my critical review....Got heaps of things to fix and lots of readings to do...But I got tired after 11-ish...
• However though I went to sleep early, I didn't sleep for the whole night because I was still thinking about the unfinished assignment....
• Insomnia+stress from not getting my assignment done, I woke up at 4-ish to continue with it. Finishing it off at 7 or 8ish...But no...That's not it. I still got more to go....