it took my family 9 freakin hours to go home after church had finished today...
seriously
i'll tell you real quick what happened
after church they had a Filipino Fellowship meeting - which was ok, cos i had my laptop with me, which meant i could watch movies and surf the net.
this went on for 3 hours after 12pm.
at around 3 / 3:30pm they decide to pack up and go home
but my parents dont JUST go home...
some of us stayed back and dad had the brilliant idea of going down the local McDonalds... ok... free food, free internet - i'm ok with that.
but my laptop only had about an hour 30mins of life left.
we were there for almost 3 hours....
so yeah - at around 5:30-6:00pm my family (and the ppl we were with) decide to go home, so we walked to the car and lo and behold... dad cant find the keys
so mum and dad talk amongst themselves asking each other where each other's keys are
mum's are inside the trunk, in the bag
dad's are missing - presumably in the trunk as well
so we're trying to jimmy open the car doors through the key hole
but the keys that our car uses are realy diff from the usual key
so we were in deep
we could either - keep trying to open the door, or, call the car repair ppl and get them to open the door
which would cost us $
we chose the first option
so anyway, one of our family friends was with us and he was also trying to give suggestions on how we were gonna open the thing
i only had one thing on my mind... i wanna go home.
anywhoo - dad calls up of the people that were with us about hours ago and asks them if they could help
one is a mechanic
and the other has the same car as us - so we hope that his key might be able to open the car door atleast
so me, still as uninterested as ever; go to sleep in the other person's car
i wake up - and i find adults jamming crap down a gap in the passenger's side window
they had a plethora of wires and cables and they were pretty much trying to wind down the window
and somehow open the door that way
after about 15 mins or something, the guy that was with us the whole time, brings out a unravelled coathanger
which btw he had the whole time - just never thought of using it.
that aside, we used that and successfully open the car.
hooray! now i could go home!
big mistake
they stayed there talking about how it was great to have friends and if we didnt have anybody we'd be stuck
btw; they found both keys in the trunk
so anyway we stayed at the carpark for another hour before they decided that we should go to somebody else's house and talk some more.
i told them if they were gonna do that - they should spare us the long agonising death from boredom and take us home first
so that's what they eventually did.
and now i'm here... 9 hours after the church service actually finished
i pretty much bugged mum, and dad pretty much knew we'd rather be at home than be stuck with them and other adults for another freakin 3 hours
my parents can honestly (if they were left in their own devices) talk the leg off a damn donkey
like literally
FREAKING A.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
First Week of a Second Year
so yeah - this is my last year of my course and i have just started on the first week.
my class pretty much started on tuesday; met up with a couple of my group mates whom i knew were in the same course last year but didnt talk to cos; well - they were in a diff. class. Ben was there though (ben's a mate from last year - same class) so i had someone to talk to.
anyway we were taught on how to animate on AfterEffects and utilising Lights, Cameras and Shadow effects to set the mood of a scene.
it turned out really awesome - i wish i could post it up here but i'm too lazy :P sorry.
next subject was a briefing on our group major project - but with different ppl again...
but i was fortunate enough to have 2 of the people for my group last year.
we were to make a short advertisement, a promotional poster, and a website for a charity of our choice (probably because of the whole bushfire thing).
we chose to do an environmental awareness group call "Friends of the Earth"
cos we didnt want to do a depressing charity like oxfam or world vision.
it's been done to death (no pun intended).
wednesday was a WTH day - i had to get out of the house at 12 to get to church, because i needed to film this week's Youth News; which btw i didnt get an email for.
so anyway since i had a class later in the day anyway i decided to stick around church.
i also started to do the rough cuts for the news so i dont have to stay up late editing the whole thing. but as i was capturing the video from the camera - it kept screwing up!
so the capturing (which was 13mins in total) took way longer than expected.
it was almost 5pm so i packed up and headed to the tram stop.
did i mention that my class was at 6:30pm? and it was my only class for the day?
i know, wth right?
that aside - i attended class and while the teacher was talking about the course we were doing, i fell asleep... for a good while, i woke up and only an hour had past...
=_=" it's gonna be a long night.
we ended up watching a 10 min clip of a movie 4 times and on the 2nd time watching it we had to list down all the noises we heard from the movie.
it was ok i guess.
thursday was ok too - Major Project class; had to share some of the ideas i had for a mojor project to the class - i was supposed to have 10 - i only had 4.
and seriously - it was like a freaking "Magic SchoolBus" Moment, my teacher was talking about Movie sets and he was like - "hey there's an exhibition in the ACMI (aus. center for the moving image) about movie sets; lets go!"
so yeah, we went on a surprise field trip to see how movie sets were implemented and created in the movie industry. and because of this trip - i was broke; i had to use my 10 bucks i was saving for dinner... i ended up getting dinner anyway but i had to use the money in my card.
I got told off during Design 3 (the class afterwards) cos i wasnt paying much attention to the teach.
i was on facebook and Aim talking to Elizabeth, a friend of mine from phils and my cousin in philippines (who by the way was telling me off cos i sleep late).
when i got home i finished up the Youth Video to show at youth today.
so Today - i only had one class but it was for 4 hours... but only went for 3 cos everybody just started to leave. it was pretty easy - basics of Website building and HTML... after that went straight to church and took care of everything that needed to be taken care of.
Loved the message today - really spoke to me; it was about relationships and about being with the right people and being in the right environment.
i got in a minivan - along with about 15 islander guys and girls (samoan, fijian... big guys) and me, my sis and this guy william were the only asians.
Dave (my fijian youth leader) drove us home and here i am; typing this blog and talking to garbo at the same time.
sorry for the long blog - just giving you the taste of what i'll be going through these next couple of weeks.
ugh... let this be over please.
my class pretty much started on tuesday; met up with a couple of my group mates whom i knew were in the same course last year but didnt talk to cos; well - they were in a diff. class. Ben was there though (ben's a mate from last year - same class) so i had someone to talk to.
anyway we were taught on how to animate on AfterEffects and utilising Lights, Cameras and Shadow effects to set the mood of a scene.
it turned out really awesome - i wish i could post it up here but i'm too lazy :P sorry.
next subject was a briefing on our group major project - but with different ppl again...
but i was fortunate enough to have 2 of the people for my group last year.
we were to make a short advertisement, a promotional poster, and a website for a charity of our choice (probably because of the whole bushfire thing).
we chose to do an environmental awareness group call "Friends of the Earth"
cos we didnt want to do a depressing charity like oxfam or world vision.
it's been done to death (no pun intended).
wednesday was a WTH day - i had to get out of the house at 12 to get to church, because i needed to film this week's Youth News; which btw i didnt get an email for.
so anyway since i had a class later in the day anyway i decided to stick around church.
i also started to do the rough cuts for the news so i dont have to stay up late editing the whole thing. but as i was capturing the video from the camera - it kept screwing up!
so the capturing (which was 13mins in total) took way longer than expected.
it was almost 5pm so i packed up and headed to the tram stop.
did i mention that my class was at 6:30pm? and it was my only class for the day?
i know, wth right?
that aside - i attended class and while the teacher was talking about the course we were doing, i fell asleep... for a good while, i woke up and only an hour had past...
=_=" it's gonna be a long night.
we ended up watching a 10 min clip of a movie 4 times and on the 2nd time watching it we had to list down all the noises we heard from the movie.
it was ok i guess.
thursday was ok too - Major Project class; had to share some of the ideas i had for a mojor project to the class - i was supposed to have 10 - i only had 4.
and seriously - it was like a freaking "Magic SchoolBus" Moment, my teacher was talking about Movie sets and he was like - "hey there's an exhibition in the ACMI (aus. center for the moving image) about movie sets; lets go!"
so yeah, we went on a surprise field trip to see how movie sets were implemented and created in the movie industry. and because of this trip - i was broke; i had to use my 10 bucks i was saving for dinner... i ended up getting dinner anyway but i had to use the money in my card.
I got told off during Design 3 (the class afterwards) cos i wasnt paying much attention to the teach.
i was on facebook and Aim talking to Elizabeth, a friend of mine from phils and my cousin in philippines (who by the way was telling me off cos i sleep late).
when i got home i finished up the Youth Video to show at youth today.
so Today - i only had one class but it was for 4 hours... but only went for 3 cos everybody just started to leave. it was pretty easy - basics of Website building and HTML... after that went straight to church and took care of everything that needed to be taken care of.
Loved the message today - really spoke to me; it was about relationships and about being with the right people and being in the right environment.
i got in a minivan - along with about 15 islander guys and girls (samoan, fijian... big guys) and me, my sis and this guy william were the only asians.
Dave (my fijian youth leader) drove us home and here i am; typing this blog and talking to garbo at the same time.
sorry for the long blog - just giving you the taste of what i'll be going through these next couple of weeks.
ugh... let this be over please.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
starting my 2nd year
so yeah; i just had orientation today and our teachers gave us a schpiel on what we're supposed to expect during our last year in the course.
so i'm going to be doing mostly motion graphics and 2d animation. cos i hate 3d - it's too complicated.
anyhoo; the whole thing took like less than 2 hours to finish. so that meant that we all had time to spare to go out and catch up.
i saw everybody again and some didnt seem to change while others had some sort of makeover during the summer.
one friend of mine cut his hair (it was previously past his shoulders), i mean so did most of the guys.
as for the girls; uhmm there werent many girls in my class last year, so seeing them today wasnt much diff. although i was told that one of my classmates was going out with another guy in the same course for a good 2 months now.
so that aside, we're gonna have new lecturers/teachers this year as well as the old ones we had last year.
my timetables so weird though cos:
i have monday off
8:30am-3pm on tues (two classes - 3hrs each)
6pm-9pm on wed (yeah only one class)
12pm-6:30pm thurs (2 classes)
12-3pm fri (one class)
i'm not complaining about some of the time but the time's are really odd. i wonder if i'll be able to work with this kind of schedule...
so that's my day pretty much; when i got home i just took off my shoes and started playing L4D; kept losing - bad team - so i changed games and played TF2; pwned in that game.
left early and now i'm in my current position.
i'm about to watch Lie to Me, which is starting to become one of my favourite shows.
and its not because of the "youtube hype", i so coulda watched LTM even if SXEphil hadnt made a tag game of 2 truths and a lie to commemorate his liking of the show.
Check out this pen! the body's made out of rolled up recycled paper and the clippy thing's made out of recycled wood.
as for the plastic... i'm taking a stab that it's recycled too.
see you guys around,
take care
so i'm going to be doing mostly motion graphics and 2d animation. cos i hate 3d - it's too complicated.
anyhoo; the whole thing took like less than 2 hours to finish. so that meant that we all had time to spare to go out and catch up.
i saw everybody again and some didnt seem to change while others had some sort of makeover during the summer.
one friend of mine cut his hair (it was previously past his shoulders), i mean so did most of the guys.
as for the girls; uhmm there werent many girls in my class last year, so seeing them today wasnt much diff. although i was told that one of my classmates was going out with another guy in the same course for a good 2 months now.
so that aside, we're gonna have new lecturers/teachers this year as well as the old ones we had last year.
my timetables so weird though cos:
i have monday off
8:30am-3pm on tues (two classes - 3hrs each)
6pm-9pm on wed (yeah only one class)
12pm-6:30pm thurs (2 classes)
12-3pm fri (one class)
i'm not complaining about some of the time but the time's are really odd. i wonder if i'll be able to work with this kind of schedule...
so that's my day pretty much; when i got home i just took off my shoes and started playing L4D; kept losing - bad team - so i changed games and played TF2; pwned in that game.
left early and now i'm in my current position.
i'm about to watch Lie to Me, which is starting to become one of my favourite shows.
and its not because of the "youtube hype", i so coulda watched LTM even if SXEphil hadnt made a tag game of 2 truths and a lie to commemorate his liking of the show.
Check out this pen! the body's made out of rolled up recycled paper and the clippy thing's made out of recycled wood.
as for the plastic... i'm taking a stab that it's recycled too.
see you guys around,
take care
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