ok. so i've been pretty lazy about updating but not much and not little has really happened. with school going on, life's been pretty much a blur, going so fast all the time. In fact, mid terms are next week! doesn't quite feel like it though :S

anyhoos, highlights of my life included 4th of july, which meant fireworks. I don't have a tripod so most of my photos came out blur and you can see the zig zag of the fireworks in some even though they're supposed to be straight. lol. the picture below is possibly one of the worst in terms of blurness which is kinda sad, but i put it up because the fireworks was HUGE. 

it was kinda cool bustling around americans gurgling beer down. i mean...free beer. who wouldn't grab some if you were of legal age?? (ok..i possibly won't. the place smelt terrible cos of the beer. ack). it was super tear jerking when the fireworks came on and the song "God Bless the USA" came on and people starting singing emotionally. oh my gosh...that made me want to be american for that moment. how many national day songs can we sing so enthusiastically huh??? esp the songs nowadays. or maybe it's cos we no longer have national day sing-a-long sessions in school which kinda made the song strange and foreign and less patriotic to sing. forth of july fireworks was breathtaking, but it would have been better if i had someone to share it with :( boo to summer and everyone being gone. then again...it was also because i was all alone that's why it was easy for me to squeeze through the crowds to get a front row seat for the fireworks. HUR. 

in addition to that, I've also been very privileged to watch a nest of lil birdies grow up, from egg to flying little things. they grow at a rapid pace! like within one week, they transformed from egg to ugly pink alien creatures to cute furry chicks to normal looking birds with abit of small stray feathers here and there. it's pretty amazing. meet my housemates half grown up! this was them at their cute fuzzy chick stage.

gonna miss having them around. sob. 

classes have been going pretty decently too. my psych class is uber fun and we had a recent group project and i actually enjoyed it. Personally, I hate doing group project works because i can't make a decision fast because people will disagree la dee da and we'll make a few rounds before coming to the conclusion etc etc. and the results are usually half assed anyway. this time however, being in a psych class, our professor had very nicely came out with a grouping system that went according to our personality results so we all had balanced groups and it was easy to work. people did their work and we had so much fun. minus the fact that my house was a huge sticky mess from the spray mount and i ended up having to mop the entire floor. kinda reminds me once again of why i am not very hospitable as a host to guests. 

Psych class is teaching me quite abit as well, as i learn about my personality and all that jazz and I realised that i made a good choice coming here because I am not able to reach my creative potential had I stayed in the stressful environment in Singapore. yay. class is also fun with the chance to play with play dough and color brains and do our exams in groups even though it is multiple choice. haha. yay art school. to think i went through all that A level hardness because it "prepared me for college"...it probably did a little too well...way above what i needed. lol. we even got to do role playing as cell bodies and dendrites and neurons and earn smarties for that! lol. yay to the USA's rewarding education system. >.<

speech has also been going surprisingly smooth, though i am slowly counting the number of speeches I have left to get this class over and done with. Professor Lancaster, a theatre and speech professor is super fun and entertaining and class is more of a sit back chill and listen to a comedian time unless it's speech day. I've also realised that in my great bout of nervousness, not only do i shit alot, but my throat goes really dry and my voice either goes very low or high...and i sound super hyper :S i guess it's just trying to cover up the shakiness. haha. so even though i'm so nervous that i don't remember a single thing of what happened during my speech, apparently I do so well that my fellow american classmates are afraid of me :S quoting one of them, "shit, we just got owned by a foreigner". *shrugs* i love being an international student. u can fake stupid. HAHAHA

graphic design on the other hand has been ups and downs. I go to class feeling shitty about my project because it ain't very good to me, but i go to class and i realise i'm not that bad after all. apparently, the way that i think and work through my designs are the exact same things professional graphic designers do, which makes me, a natural graphic designer. HAHAHAHHAHA. innate instincts. WOO HOO. 

some of my classmates in the class have been rather annoying. I felt really bummed during the first project because i spent so much time racking my brain to find a solution to designing the street signs. It was such a simple project but because of that, it's even harder to come up with something better yet new and refreshing yet practical. I got annoyed that despite staying up and getting only 2 hours of sleep, people came to class with sloppy drawings that seriously showed little to no thought and during hte next critique, i saw that many had adopted my ideas and elements that i used for the signs. boy was i pissed. it made my original idea look ordinary. pfftt..but it's ok. the professor's been pretty pleased with my work so at least I know i have it in me. 

we're on our second project now and though it's another one of those acky projects it's fun to see what people came up with especially since half of it was based on our own choice. we got to see part of the professor's personal collection of inspiration stuff which I have been collecting too! so its kinda cool. i thought it was only common sense to do all that research... apparently not. nonetheless, i came out of class excited because i discovered a whole load of new sources to scout for paper and print samples which would be highly useful in the future :D YAY ME! (oops. too much london tipton from the suite life of zack and cody!)