Ever since i burnt out from the previous project, I've been procrastinating alot. doesn't help that my professors have encouraged it by cancelling projects due to the lack of time from extending project deadlines because all of us are so terrible with following them due to the insane amount of work and quality demanded of us.

Nonetheless, my "procrastination" has pretty much been propelled towards my excitement of preparing for my career. building up my portfolio, getting my name up and ready for networking, expanding my horizons in the design world etc. in simple terms. I am slowly becoming an art geek. Despite the negative connotations from geek, I actually love that term. To me, it just reminds me of how much my future job is become a way of life, MY life. it'll no longer be work or a job, or something I do to pay off my loans and debts and the gah men of singapore or the US..whatever the future may bring...I can finally say that I see a reason why I'm working hard and I'm enjoying it. That's the beauty of being in design. We get eye-candy daily. It IS our job to CREATE eye-candy.

As such, I have decided to set to work on a blog dedicated to design alone. It shall be my inspiration resource and learning journey, design trend following place, my networking and promotional place. and today, I posted my first art related (FINALLY GOT MY BUTT DOWN TO DOING IT...) blogpost @ gloriawu.wordpress.com

hopefully I'll get more time during school break and NOT during procrastination hours to fully load up everything and get it fully up and running and hopefully get more visitations from others on it...which is why I'm now on networking sites LinkedIn and Twitter...which I still think is dumb cos who the hell wants to know if you're WALKING TO THE BATHROOM or THE WAY MY POOP GATHERED IN THE POTTY LOOKS LIKE A BOTERO SCULPTURE. Ironically, I AM trying to promote myself amidst all the dumb posts as per mentioned above and hopefully get filtered out and CLICKED on and preferably re-tweeted before being one of those #mentioned names in people's tweets and RTs. It gets me excited to read friends blogs, especially those in the design field and read about their work and progress and actually understand what they're talking about. what can i say...i'm a geek/nerd/dork...as perry likes to call me and in response, I go "DORKYY DORKYY DORKKYYY" :)

Next 2 weeks is gonna be filled with...excitement.

1. I find out whether the spring break trip to alabama is going on (or NOT)

2. I have another interview for a SCAD tutor position this wednesday

3. Roommate talk with the 2 other girls to notify them that they are gonna get kicked out next year (oohh the drama. might as well be on abc family)

4. Find out whether i got accepted as a student ambassador

5. Finals CHIONG AHHHHHHH

6. Hopefully have time to squeeze in scholarship application stuff and get wilkie's letter from singapore/auzzie.

ah wells.

PEACE OUT HOMIES!

so a friend of mine got engaged today and though we're not close, I was surprised to be one of the people she texted considering how the only time we spent together were in our 2 classes during the summer quarter. I guess i'm supposed to be happy for her but i'm not :S i guess it's cos based on what I know from hanging out for her during that what little amount of time, I don't think she's exactly ready for the commitment and all. no wonder the divorce rates in america is shooting up. it just makes me wonder how anyone my age can be ready to step into marriage. i don't think I'm ready for it any time soon. I'm not even ready for the working world...let alone something that's supposed to come up further in the line. EEK.

anyhows. soo..the reason why i didn't hear from the alternative spring break trip to Alabama is cos they haven't gotten much applicants...ok. 2. me and another girl. which is really sad because the other kids who went on the trip last year wanted to do it again. then i guess now that we're older and more into school work and the industry, these things just take a back seat. so...unless there are 8 more people who are joining this thing, this trip will be cancelled. I'll just let it be since i have stuff i could do anyway.

anyhows. my cards went on showcase at scad and other professors saw it and complimented it, which is awesome, but what made me beam was when my professor told me that other professors have heard about me so I already have a reputation amongst them. WHOOT. network network yo! I've never been so...pro-active in my future my entire life until now. writing resumes, cover letter, puttting my portfolio together. being a grown up is not easy.

everyday i get reminded of my aging process from news of engagements, pregnancies and birth. OH SCARY SCARY :S not to mention the big 21 of my batch this year. EEPS. i'm still so young in my braiinnnnnnn!!! speaking of which..i think i was a dog in my previous life. or maybe i was supposed to be a dog in this life but something went wrong. i realised this when i was in bible study yesterday when it struck me that i like getting the door when the door bell rings, i get easily excited. when people throw things i just want to run and catch it...and somehow my mind processes that my hands are the dog's mouth (which is good cos i think it would hurt real bad to catch things with my mouth), i sit and move my head as i watch objects move, i get excited over squeaky things, i cock my head to my side and i feel one ear going up like when a dog goes "huh" and sometimes i want to stick my head out the window and pant like a dog.

i have a strange strange brain.

people told me it would never get cold in savannah, let alone snow.

WELL GUESS WHAT?!?!1 global warming took place and the snow storm finally came to the south. IT STARTED SNOWING!!

AWESOMENESS :D

I SURVIVED HELL WEEKSSSSS. yes the emphasis is on the S in weeks. never slogged for so long for.erm. so long. my days were seriously wake up. class. eat. work. eat dinner. work till 2-3 am in the morning, sleep, repeat. the final stretch came when I was rushing to finish up the typography project and I ended up sleeping at 6am in the morning and I now have a permanent neck ache from bending over to cut the cards.

nonetheless. I now have a gorgeous set of self designed and cut typography cards :) Black Jack for the CNY anyone???

anyhows. that project took forever because it was practically impossible to fully please my professor. I created a totally different design and decided to try out playing with the forms of the letters of each number and showed the 4 different versions of designs to my professor and he absolutely loved what I did with the few that I tried out. Soooooo all my work during the past weekend on my original design for the entire one suite of cards went down the drain, which set me back 2 classes from everyone else. It was so hard to please myself with the designs, but much less the professor. He was absolutely excited about several, which made him judge the others more harshly because now i had to match up all 13 cards to create the same euphoria. BLAH. i never felt so stressed. My original plan was to utilize the history of Rockwell typeface for the cards, but it ended up being scrapped from the style of screen printing and colors outside the intended areas to aboriginal designs and color palette to tie in with the blocky, geometric forms of the font to i have no idea what the style of the final result is. It does however, scream very "me" once again. Printing the cards out and making sure everything was perfect was frustrating if not very expensive as well. In order to make it as playing card ish as possible, I ended up spending US$80 getting them printed because the printing company screwed it up and I had to have it reprinted without a refund of the errors because it was expensive paper. blah. now you know why designer cards are expensive. Each deck that I have right now (2 + partial deck) cost about 20-30 ish dollars. Not to mention it excludes the labor cost of MANUALLY cutting all 54 cards out and the box.

After the project was done, I was soooo done with it.

Another place I've disappeared to more was the library to work on my After Effects project - Typography in motion. I selected the song "Think About It" by Flight of the conchords because it's so hilarious and I just love some of their ridiculously funny songs. I wanted to do more of the song but didn't have the time and energy to do so which meant I only ended up with a quarter instead of half of the entire song. nonetheless, this project of animation alone, excluding concepts and storyboarding took about 20-30 hours to complete. so here you go. my second project in motion graphics.

the process it such a pain as usual...but the final results is always satisfying. What's more satisfying is hearing the pleased claps and positive critiques and knowing that there was nothing wrong with it. :)

Other updates of my life in the middle of all those hours on project is my successful application to be a student ambassador. Contrary to what michelle and I thought, they do not interview every applicant for the leadership positions. Unfortunately, despite applying for 2 positions, Michelle didn't get to interview for either. I did get an interview slot which sent me in a formal blouse, black pants and formal court shoes braving the wind, rain and cold weather of Savannah's unpredictable global warming winter weather for the interview. oh what PAIN those shoes brought to me. It was tight in the front and just barely half the way there I could barely feel my toes. which sucked real bad simply because I could still feel the dying toes and the pain it had from being squashed by my weight pushed onto them from the elevated back of the heels. STUPID HEELS. the fact that I had also worn those formal shoes a total of 1 other time for SA during some formal school event didn't help either. the mouth of the shoes was seriously eating the back of the feet and it HURT like hell. The only thing in my mind as I went through the interview was my feet and I cannot remember a single thing about the interview other than the fact that I wowed them with my knowledge of the school's mission statement. I was surprisingly not nervous and I'm not really caring if I get in or not just because I'm not sure I can juggle all that. I'm not looking forward to having to dress up for events as a Student Ambassador nor talking to strangers. I do not like people in general. haha. ANGST ANGST ANGST.

another thing that popped up is I've been nominated by my professor to be a Student Peer tutor, which is another paid job in the school which would also be great on my resume. I'm waiting to get an interview slot for that though i've been contacted for available timings. we'll see how THAT goes.

lastly, I didn't get the disney off campus trip thing which is actually a good thing because I don't feel ready for it anyway but at least i know I gave it a shot and hopefully, they'll have it again next year :) another thing is the alternative spring break trip which I wanted to go only for the sake of going on a cheap travel trip to Alabama. Sadly, with the previous more relax director gone, this new replacement is apparently over gung ho about charity work which probably meant that my application got more screened than usual and my lack of involvement in community service during my past 2 years here at SCAD basically reflects that I'm on this trip only for the fun of it. Which..of course. is very true. but it ain't so bad cos I was thinking of using spring break to put together my work and portfolio and master programs so I could do more in after effects. plus. I won't have to work with old people and mini ang moh people during spring break. oh how i dislike working with people. thus..i do enjoy my hermiatta lifestyle that I've been living for the past 2 weeks hiding in work.

just a few good, close friends like the ones back home and in australia and London would do. :)