we went to the Academy of Art University Open house yesterday and the whole business-y professional and marketing shit reminded my bro alot about smu though he did say that the entire thing made the school looked well established. it's really quite a madness having like 32 buildings in the whole city area (union square) in San Fran. everywhere you turn, you see an academy sign. it kind of juts out of the entire area and spoils the scenery of the city...which really isn't much. Considering that there are like 32 AAU Buildings in the area, it still takes forever to get around. even with all the shuttle busses to provide transport...it's still a pain to get around cos it takes a long time cos you have to make loop-de-loops around the city since most of the roads are one way and though u have the building across the street you still have to take a long time to travel to alight there.

The school's alright. i'm attracted to the standards of the work they do and the connections that they have. the whole USA thing provides a good environment for me to function in, but i don't quite like the entire city environment. the whole city thing makes it very frustrating for me and i get pretty much annoyed and grumpy cos it's so much stuff going on at one time. If there's any kind of environment that stimulates my brain to work...it's that of fisherman's wharf and pier 39..but thats another account for later on. ..so yeah...in summary of the whole experience....i'll go check out SCAD and see which i prefer. hahhaa.

finally meetin up with julie was cool cos she was excited to see me and she was like OH MY GOSH...GLORIA! IT'S SUCH A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU! in this whole american twang. i have no idea if it's true cos everyone in america seems so happy to meet you. i'm still not used to the entire greeting system where i get tongue tied when they greet with "Hey. How's it going?" and i'm like stunned for a while before i reply with....cool/fine/ok/good. i still very much prefer the HELLO :) allows u to react with a reflex. plus..people in the service sector don't quite greet you :S

after talking to julie, we caught the school's graduating student's fashion show and GUESS WHAT?!?! among the models were Chantel and Eugena from America's Next Top Model...yeps...this is to make all fans of ANTM super jealous. haha. it felt so cool...like my bro and i never imagined ourselves seeing them in person kinda thing. and of course...all honour goes to my bro (an avid fan of ANTM) to notice them and point them out. the fashion show was cool....runway and all...pity only 1 of the guy models were hot..most were just pretty boys...and when i say pretty..they are really like GIRL PRETTY. acks...anyway...there's loads of floppy guys at art schools too. it kinda freaked my brother out. heh.

we checked out the golden gate bridge and fisherman's wharf and pier 39 after that. i love the environment there. it's relaxing and there's so much interesting activities going on there. we saw wild sea lions at the pier and there were like loads of them sunbathing and it was quite entertaining. especially the 2 who were super territorial and were trying to fight over a space on a platform. it was really very interesting cos they were really like shoving one another off and when they succeeded the winner would watch out on all side, ready to defend his space. i think my bro got a video on it.

then there were loads of artists there. there was this cool spray paint artist who was superbly talented. He completes like 1 work in like 5 min or under! it's amazing. and his work are like WHOA......damn nice man! think my bro got that on video too. yep...and other cool performances...which are common in USA. haha. it;s cool to see people just lazing around on parks...u'll never get that in Singapore..its tool hot :S

gtg. ciao!