Think about arts (6th of December)

Good on yah owner, you just made it on time before the train left. We both hopped on the train as the door was going to close within a minute. 

Today, our main destination was to the art gallery of NSW. I led him to there, we paid for the tickets at the entrance but left his bag at the locker because it wasn't allowed to get in. Instead of being like everyone else who was having some serious judgement towards the origin of pop culture artwork, owner has made some fun of anything he could in the sight of his own interpretation. I couldn't stop to appraise how far he went beyond what the artwork is originally presented, as if it was meant to be amusing. For anything to do with nudity, or even has any association with sex or taboo topics, we didn't mind talking about them. Some of these antiques are seemingly simply made, to the point that we even thought we could be also be the artists doing the same. But arts, does not make sense at times if you only take a glance at it. Or might still not make sense at all by taking a few glance more. What it really means to me is that our interpretation could be varied, the textures could be understood freely. There could have been so much more possibilities from how we perceive. Just like we might not take this serious. We had our fun to view them differently, even in an incredibly funny manner. This is art. From here, context is lost. But not absolutely a loss. We gain, our context is here and there.We don't experience the same as how the artists had felt during the construction of a particular masterpiece under a particular period of time. But we have our own time picturing our own version of understanding. However, it was so struggling to giggle quietly in the museum. I mean, I didn't hope everyone turned around and looked at me with this weird look. To the minimum of showing respect to some places like this, laughing our heads off in front of all these exclusive art is not a good idea to do. But it was pretty repressed after listening to his amazing jokes, I had to stop myself from being too happy about it >.>

Next, after such an amazement we felt towards a classy place, we found a spot to lie down on the grass, and staying there for almost 2 hours having some quality couple time lol...Thanks for teaching me some basics to take good photographs. And that sweetest 2 hours was so much to describe here. So cut that. I would save this part for myself only...So much huggies and kisses. You know, touchy feely time was unbeatable. So much feels, le feels.. That moment when we even discussed how we would be hugging each other to sleep during our trip...

Later, Botanic gardens was where we stayed for another one hour. I learned how to take better pictures by using his camera. He has taught me those techniques which I just learned from my film class a few days ago. We then talked about the script. Oh wait, I mean just some initial preparations for my promotional video. He joked about me having this contact with the birdies around via wechat. Naughty him even put the seeds into my shirt after I teased him...>.>

Unfortunately the weather was so bad that we couldn't even stay a bit longer. It even ruined the good view from seeing and taking good pictures under the Christmas tree at Martin place. Til the weather was slowly getting better, we then walked back to the train station and headed to Central for dinner. We picked a small restaurant near AIT though. The set meal he ordered was great but spicy. His lips soon became two huge sausages because of that...

But after all, it was a great day with owner. Even though we didn't get to talk much at the food court at Central park, (The only thing we did was to watch two episodes of that TV show) But we laughed, and we shared so much fun and connection...That's enough...

PS: First time to go state library too.. Great feeling~

PH effort, PH spirit (5th of December)

T-shirt design is finally done!!! The president asked all the executives to vote for the one they think it's the best to represent PH. The purple version has gained a few votes, way less than the white one :)

So Lulu didn't come today, she was waiting for her to come for the entire day though. I didn't really care whether she came or not, as I was still busy working on my own thing, such as my promotion and design proposal. Ideally, I would write down all the plans I have for next year. I really love how I am in this position, deciding everything for my department. Yes, I call it my department under the name of faith love and hope lol I love PH, and I love how I used my effort to get myself a position. 

Now what's waiting for me is their vote. I saw some love my design, especially the first version, some are just being picky. I know it's hard to make everyone happy. If I ever try to make everyone happy, that means, I won't make anyone happy at the end...So I rather to let them pick what they want. I'm done with my job, next, it's them who make the final decision. This thing is off my shoulder. It's you guys' choice now :)

Mum has been dreaming about my future career and my promising life in the afternoon when I was really concentrated on doing my work lol...Sometimes she could think way too far. But I actually found her so funny longing for that rich life I'll be having one day. I mean, I wish for that too. But it's hard lol...Let's just take baby steps now. Don't put too much stress here haha

I also received my another task from the president. He asked me to start thinking about the draft for the promotional video. Especially we get to think about what where and how they will film in that donation trip taken on the 12th. Just a week away from now, I need to get this organised. So I left a long message telling my promotion group about this. 

Lots of plans for us tomorrow. Lots of things waiting for us to discuss. Our gallery trip is going to be fun. Same as our exploration around the city to look for Christmas decoration and such. Of course, our script and promotional video planning will be also an important part of our awesome convo. 

Btw I linked him that article. He said I've fitted in 5 points out of 8 (of being a good girl). And yes, I totally agree that we should get improved together :3 As always, nothing can stop us from going forward. If we have a definite goal, we will fight for everything to get through. So about the Jap fest next Sat, can't wait til next week lor :3 

PS: Our executive meeting will be held on the 15th. I have to try to make it this time :3

PS1: From everything I've done for PH these days. I found my belonging :) 

Plan ahead, be productive (4th of December)

Briefly speaking. A normal day with lots of talking with somebody in the morning. He asked me some opinions towards something...

I was sort of having bad luck when I paid for my ticket at the machine. It somehow didn't return my 40 cents change =3=...Then yeh...during animation, we were still guided by Sharon who only keen on showing us some examples to do animation. She has given us so much extra info in our upcoming animation making. The lighting, background (could be the mix with 2D and 3D), all the angles and small details to manifest the meaning, and is also a good idea to get the audience more engaged.

My peak productivity hour was when I did my work alone after class. I found a room and quickly jotted down everything needed to do for the day. Next I followed my plan in finishing one by one. I'm also happy that I talked to Sharon after class for a bit. She told me a lot of ways in presenting my pitch, but one of them is to flexibility, which I remember the most. She said, just be flexible instead of restrain yourself in a conventional presentation. The most essential to do a presentation is to think the best way to get people involved.

Anyways thanks for Jim's detailed feedback. Finally everyone responded, now I could feel like this is a teamwork. I ain't alone lol...

PS: It was so stupid of me to talk about that kind of thing in front of her. Once again, my stupidity got her hate me to the utmost. Not that I have ever realised how stupid I might sound before I actually said it out, but it was really pissed her off as I said it. I may sound gullible and lack of experience in travelling, but I at least try...It does take me some time in growing more experience in some aspects, why can't she just be calm and wait for that...
PS1: Owner and I have been discussing the T-shirt design for the whole night. For some reason, we slowly shifted our topic to philosophical life experience lol>.> We talked about individuality, association and such...And we named ourselves as dar dar and har har lmao...weird much >.>

T-shirt design participation (3rd of December)

Really crap signal as I walked past UTS. Got almost 15 minutes cut out from net when I was still talking to somebody.

We basically just watched a few examples on how to make better animations in the rule of filmic techniques and such. And the second hour was for us to make our own silhouette figure with the black cardboard. Patrick let us to do the rest of our music video for the entire class, so we rather to be quiet. Even after the class, I was still working on it til 7ish, then made the final mad rush to export the file with an ok-ish quality since 77mb was failed to do so. The one I uploaded on Youtube is 44mb. Some commented on my own post right after I linked them on Fb. But I've also seen some others have done pretty well. The right timing, the beats, the selection of video clips and all the special effects that enhance the combo between the clips and audio.

I couldn't spare some time for myself to rest after I got home though. As I posted all those 5 versions of my T-shirt design. Couple executives commented and liked my post, asking me to also do some other versions for the purple based with white texts as well as the back design by tomorrow.

Anyways I am glad that I've learned something new today from Tao. He taught me some skills in photography. Later I showed him my mv, and I explained the meaning of that for a bit. In the meantime, I talked to Henry for a bit to know what his preference is as well as how he likes about my design and such. He gave me couple suggestions on colour, logo and to show me some past examples.

I truly understand one can't represent the whole, so feel free to hit me with any feedback. Everyone's participation is important in improving my design :)

Patrick is a good helper (2nd of December)

The most dangerous moment of the year. I was closely hit by a bus this morning when I was going to cross the road at Central. For some reason, I thought the light has turned green, so I walked. There was this bus coming from my right, a few meters away before hitting me, the driver warned me with the horn, so I quickly got back to the pedestrian, freaked out quite a while...I was such a douchebag ey >3<

So Patrick taught us quite a few techniques such as the blend mode we could also use when editing the videos. It's just as same as what we have for Photoshop, except that now the moving images are more sick with these crazy effects.

Around 7ish at night, the computer started to run slow. Towards the end of my editing process for the day, it stopped me to go any further in editing since it says the memory is now full, which it disabled the system to run my application. I quickly asked Patrick why this happened, he said I simply just needed to change to another computer. I tried, and it worked well. He then explained to me why this happened, and I assumed that it's because I had been using the same computer for too long from what he said.

Having my good time talking about my holidays plan and all the upcoming list of things waiting for me to do, such as my uni, AIT plans. The things that are unable to finished, the courses that I can't pick etc. Some are easily solved, some have to be negotiated with the institutions....

Anyways I got my T-shirt front design done. I shared that on our fb promotion group chat. I know how inactive others are sometimes, I don't blame them, because I will be like that too if I am them. I used to think we are not really obliged to reply to someone who leaves a long message to you. It's really our choice to reply the group chat. Until I am now the one that doing this to a group of people, now I think how bad le feels.... You see how the karma comes ~~>.>

Busy MV editing (1st of December)

Had a couple convo with my owner in the early morning. We mentioned about these two characters from the novel whilst we were acting them out in the way we talked lol I also told him how I have thought about bringing a baggage to Gold Coast.

The rest of the day I stayed at AIT doing my T-shirt design, as well as my mv. I couldn't help to even take off any seconds to rest, but kept working on my project. I got a minute done with lots of overlay and time lapse effects. Then I headed to Central park to have my seafood tempura.

PS: We have changed our Saturday plan weeeeee~~ We are going to contemporary art gallery to look at the popism culture :3 I can't wait!!!

Misfortune is fortune (30th of November)

I know she has been thinking about my future life, happiness and all that. I accepted everything she said from our deep talk this morning. She loves me, so she hopes I would understand the beauty and ugliness, and that I can avoid something bad happen to me, or make a wrong step. I like how she has stated the friendship bit. She said, the choice of friends is essentially a determinant in shaping one's life. Investing in the ones that are worth your time to be with, looking for the ones that can really help you to build up your better life, accepting the ones who are willingly to make you happy, and reducing the times to be with the ones who only know about what a materialistic life is like.

I enjoyed travelling alone especially on Sunday. I always have this moment of contemplation, making myself into a deep thinker whilst looking out from the window, picturing how I have been, what I have been doing and what and how all these have already happened influence what and how I am now. I have thought about the future tasks, the things I have to get them finished by the 19th, and my plans on what to do first and next. I was early to get there today btw. My student Calvin was ok-ish today. My manipulation and bossiness made him behave, and I guess this really works. I truly get what I have failed to do so. I seriously wasn't strict enough to make him treat things serious. When I was still complaining I was mistreated, I didn't see the really core of the problem induced by the minor changes neglected. Now I'm getting better and better to know how to calm this kid down. I just have to take full control to make him respect. I just have to make him do more than 3 pages of revision in a limited time for him to understand time is short, productivity has to be made. And I gave him one of my greatest comeback in order to make him feel insulted as I did. If he likes to use the example of 'balls', I would shove that in his face by repeatedly use that word in my explanation.

Towards the end of the lesson, Jenny told me that they would be going to the USA and Canada on the 19th too, the exact same date with my trip. When they come back, they will be moving into their new house, Arncliffe. Later I don't need to have my 2-hour trip every Sunday. More time is saved to do something else. I was having this good mood throughout the whole time til I went back to Central, and found that my jeans were wet with blood stain. It was my own fault forgetting to carry a pad. This is first...The embarrassment I had towards my shame walking among the crowd, scared of others move their eyes onto my butt when they walked behind, was something that kept me really uneasy. I tried not to make myself walk like a freak, and carrying my bag in a way of covering my butt, but no matter how hard I've tried to pretend and tell myself that I was fine, my worriment got me thinking so much about the weird stares behind me. So I started to feel so awful and sick, stomach cramped was happening at the same time as I was holding my toilet time for quite a while. Also it was heavily raining as I arrived at my suburb. Thunderstorm looming over, making me soaked as though I just came from the swimming pool, but not with the swimming suit. Although that was bad enough, I still didn't have anything like 'are you ok' from her as I finally got back. That long two hours have made me soulless, almost had this thought of 'die in a hole', but now, adding to the wound I got from getting no comfort, I was into this deeper level of depression. Even during dinner time with them, I didn't talk much.

But thanks for his company. Without him, I would even feel worse than ever....

PS: Nice planning for trip in the morning though. I wish I can carry that good mood with me for the whole day, but my stupidity somehow ruined it. But still, I really hope that I can spend my boxing day with somebody so we can shop around like crazy.
PS1: Next trip is Parramatta. This is just our initial plan. After her persuasion, I think that going to contemporary art gallery next Saturday is a better plan. Why? She said I needed to manage to count the trip fee too. Going somewhere far on Sunday, is a better idea to save money....True, and I should accept that..
PS2: Finally booked the flight tickets tonight. The hidden fees they have really made me understand why the price of the flight ticket itself can be this cheap. Crystal clear...So after I went to visit their website reading what other items I can't bring, he suggested me to just bring a light bag with clothings and small items. That's all about it. So great plan!! Everything is done. Plus I've got a humorous and nice partner  for the trip. This is going to be awesome!! And I actually learn how to be more positive too from him :)