the school currently has a whole "zombie vs humans" game going around campus and basically they start out with a whole population of humans who try to fight the infection of zombies and try to stay human for the entire length of the game. These humans wear bandanas on their arms and they carry nerf guns. which are really toy guns which shoot out sponge darts. Then, there is one person who is a zombie, whose mission is to turn as many people to zombies as fast as possible. They basically do so by touching a human with 2 hands. when you become a zombie, you wear your bandana around your neck or head. People here treat the game so seriously it's INTENSE. there are people who carry around machine gun nerf guns, some people have dressed up as bounty hunters, with duct tape belts and guns and what nots. it's interesting. the play areas are basically non-SCAD buildings, which makes everyone super nervous whenever they head out, especially to crowded places. it's very amusing. apparently, the original zombie is a girl who has only tagged less than 6 people and now practically everyone are zombies. the power of multiplication. AHA

anyhows, I'm glad my housing is more or less settled for more housing issues for the rest has resurfaced. my batch must be down with the guinea pig curse. everywhere i go, no matter singapore or the states, somehow...my batch always ends up the guinea pig bunch :S ok. so they did a new housing registration system and sooo many kids are either in lousy housing or no housing. which seriously sucks. i'm just glad i don;t have to deal with all that shit anymore. 

on the bright side, i've submitted 3 works for a foundation honors competition and 2 got shortlisted and are now on display in the scad building. Now I have to wait for the results that will be out on the 1st of May. If i'm lucky, i get to win $200 f, $150 or $50 for each category. if the school thinks it's fantasmo, i get an extra $350 if they buy it. *cross fingers*

on a side note...more photoshopping and photo manipulation...check out the original photo below...

and after photo manipulation....the lighting was annoying and cutting the tree out of the picture was annoying. i decided to restrain from being over ambitious and just stop at 3 images with color adjustments and shadow and highlights added. I must say...i'm pretty proud of myself <3

I got to meet up with joy to take a look at her furniture. not the best looking stuff, but definitely basic and sufficiently cheap for all that i need. She's gonna give some of it to me free and overall i got a few tables, desks, organising plastic boxes and shelves, bed, lamp, mirror etc all under $100. which is awesomo. It's the power of singaporeans. she inherited all that from the previous singaporean and from what it seems....it's going to be a singaporean inheritance for scad. LOL. it was a good time just sitting down and chit chatting. it's amazing how we spent like FOREVER talking when this is only the second time we've met. indeed. it's the bond of fellow countryman :) <3

happiness