Crazy Pixels

I’m going crazy spending the day working on Redball’s web… and yet so far I’ve not touched a single strand of HTML code.

Oh Photoshopping headers, how I loathe and love thee. Am procrastinating on the last header because the image doesn’t seem to fit and I. don’t. want. to. find. another.

But it’s good for me too because I’m ultimately using the website for myself la. Haiz. Mangaaaaaaaa~~~~~

Yesterday I spent the whole day in the photolab, following the final critique in JK’s painting class. We made noise pollution by hammering dratted nails into the mobile walls. Ear pain. Also, was too arsed to take a proper photo, so will do that only this Friday when I go back to school, and then will report in a post when I’m more free.

Meanwhile, it’s rotting at home for these two days to try to finish Redball’s website, Sunshine’s FYP report and Charcoal’s journal, in that order. I have my foreseeable (no)life worked out as compared to some people :P

Today over dinner, Aunty Serene casually remarked that Ti scored a 100 out of 100 in one of his three test papers (the ones before the exams). The other two were pretty high scores as well, and though I can’t remember the figures it was something like 7/10 and 74/76?? I dunno, was too shocked after hearing about the 100/100 one.

WTF sia!?!??! I don’t know what subject that was in, but I think he’s mad.

Is that even humanly possible?

The highest I ever came close to a perfect score was a 96 or 98 in English. And that was in primary school. Since then I’ve been quite proud to be what others would call loser-ish. HAHAHAHA! XDD

Speaking of turned characters, I bought Macdonald’s for dinner last night in school. Toon was in front of me.

He was buying dinner for his gf! WAH SO GENTLEMAN! Also he commented that he was going to graduate at the same time as me, and asked what I wanted to do in the future, had I found a job, or was I looking for prospective employers and so on.

And I was like, noooo don’t ask me complicated questions! To which he seemed a bit perplexed at my laissez-faire response.

Anyway, the end of the story is that Toon seems to be a changed man! Hahahaha Ade and Puey this is fodder for grilling at the next class outing! Btw I also met Big Ben a couple of days ago (he was unshaven, quite shocking) and told him to organise one already :D

Fei’s Flying Kick

 

My personal message on MSN was simply ‘MacBurger Pro’.

Fei: your personal message reminds me of this:

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/10/burger-king-japan-sells-windows-7-burgers/

Me: HOL/y SHITTTTT

Me: yumm

Me: but no thnx

Me: LOL

Fei: holy shit is what happens the day after

Me: ROFL SO TRUE

Me: u r genius

Me: i’m putting tt on the blog

Fei: ..

 

Today was Weird

I know I’ve had countless dreams of having to pee since young, but this morning’s one consisted of me having to take a dump. For some inane reason, I went to Vader’s house where he and Mum were, and the toilet that I went to suddenly turned into his room. Apparently I had to shift everything from the bedside shelf on my right over to the table on my left so that I could use the toilet. So I did.

One by one I shifted the white stuff over, while suffering from the sensation of having to go. There were two particular things from the shelf that I remember having to carry over. They were at the back furthest from me. The first one was an oddly-shaped container and the base was wet- it made a water rim when I lifted it off the shelf. The second was a normal transparent jug of water.

I was about to finish up clearing the shelf when suddenly I heard Brat#1’s voice shouting urgently behind me, “Zhe! Wake up late already!” and I responded with a very tired “Hnnn!“. Am still not sure if this part happened in the dream or in the real world ^^;

After washing up I thought that perhaps my dream was telling me that I needed to shit. So I sat on the toilet bowl before taking a shower… nothing. CHEAT FEELINGS LA. (But I did go tonight XDDDD)

Charcoal’s class was okay. We showed our colour photos. He commented that my colours were very surreal but it worked. AngelS discovered that she has a fetish for leggings and kept touching my orange plaid covered-leg.

Elicited lots of gasps from prople at school over my new haircut. Realised that Jerms still calls me 无名 and said that I looked different but nice. QQ said I was the second most daring person after Itchy. Quite a number of people went, “What have you done to your hair?!!?” Lulzzzz

JK’s class was also okay. I was minding my own business in my little corner of the room when a thud was heard. A girl had fainted behind me. Two of her friends were supporting her (One of them was Turner- I don’t know the fainting girl and the other girl but they were all Indonesian friends I guess) What happened from my pov, in sequence:

1) Took in the whole scene after turning around to see what the noise was about. Fainting Girl (FG) was propped up by Turner who was behind. Other Girl (OG) had her back towards me, blocking a large portion of FG.
2) Saw FG’s eyes roll back to reveal the whites.
3) Lowered my gaze to take in FG’s left arm twitch forward twice.
4) Immediately exclaimed to the class who didn’t know what was going on, “Wah, hyperventilating!” (I was grossly wrong but the twitching made me say it and it looked like we needed all the help we could get… unfortunately nobody seemed to be able to offer assistance except to circle round lol)
5) People crowd round. I panicked a bit because Turner and OG were still propping FG up in a sort of sitting position, and if this was a seizure that wouldn’t exactly be the best position to have FG be in, although I was quite unsure if the knowledge was remembered correctly or not. Am not sure if I told them to lie her on the floor or if the thought only existed in my head. At that same time, FG came round.
6) JK asked what happened, and somehow the story became something like an easel fell on her and she fell. People fussed a bit about her, and then separated. I was very confused about this story, because clearly I had seen the the symptoms of her fainting spell. I went about my business, getting cadmium yellow from the common paint box. Squeezed some of it onto my palette.
7) Went back to FG, confirmed with an excited Turner about the white eyes and twitching hands, because we witnessed the same things and were probably confused by the incongruency of what happened and what was said to have happened.
8) Asked FG if she had a history of fainting. She did not seem to comprehend after asking it twice. Then I realised I probably had to rephrase because she could either be still in shock or her English wasn’t that good, and asked if she had fainted before. Turner also helped by translating it in Bahasa Indonesia.
9) FG had not fainted before. She had cut her hand on an easel earlier, and a while after that, she suddenly fainted.

While the two events may not have any links to each other, this occurrence was very perplexing, and Shasha and I advised her to go see a doctor, because it could be a reflection of something bad happening to her health (but touch wood ahh). As a non-citizen, if FG finds out that there’s something wrong with her body, it’s going to be hell for her to foot the medical fees in Singapore without subsidies :S

This whole event was more like a dream sequence that the dream I had this morning la!

Transformer!

Ugh I’m supposed to blog about a whole lot of stuff but I’ve been going out non-stop since Tuesday that every time I come home I just want to vegetate in front of the comp. Ade says that she goes out everyday when I complained to her today, but you have to know that my natural habitat is inside of a house, a.k.a. 宅女 (also termed by Ade).

Although I insist that I’m not really one, or at least hover on the non-extreme spectrum because a 宅女, through a brief Google search, brought about this definition:

“宅男宅女”新兴的网络语言，指“痴迷于某事物，依赖电脑与网络，足不出户，厌恶上班或上学”的新新人类， 他们过分沉迷于某种事物，例如动漫、游戏、影碟等。他们完全封闭在自己的世界中，不与陌生人接触，不爱结识新朋友。

“宅人”关键词：痴迷某事物、依赖电脑和网络、不想上班和上学、作息时间不稳定、极少出门、不喜欢接触陌生人、性格多少有两面性、收藏癖、体型偏胖、一般是独身、喜欢或有写日志的习惯、喜欢上虚拟的人物。

如果你符合以上多条，那么恭喜你，你是“宅男宅女”！如果你全部符合，并有更多症状，那么更恭喜你，你可是高级“宅男宅女”！

Basically the definition is in the second paragraph and a person is characterised as such through an obsession with stuff, dependence on the computer or the internet, reluctance to go to work or school, unstable working and resting hours, low frequency of going out, dislike of socialising with strangers, a tendency to have dual personalities, liking to collect things, a body which favours the plump side, is usually single, likes to write a diary or already has one, liking fictional characters.

Err.

Digressing, I finally cut my hair today after the failed attempt last week when Ti and I went all the way there only to find that the shop closed.

This is the last digital photo of my previous hair, taken I think two days ago:

And this is the first digital photo of my current one, taken today:

Please excuse the constipated faces and inability to look a camera in the lens.

Everyone who has seen me was shocked – Ade asked if school was stressing me out, and it did manage to elicit a few exclaiming shouts at home… the exception being Pa because he would only be shocked if I stepped in his general vicinity with dog shit smeared across the soles of my shoes. Shocked and then very angry.

Even the hairdresser was shocked. I remember asking her to cut it even shorter twice during the session when she paused to show me work-in-progress :P

$10 only! And I was so excited when she used a shaver to shave the sides at the back after I told her I wanted the back to be shorter XD (I originally asked for a ‘V’ shape for the back but it became apparent that she didn’t want to do it ^^;)

Also, she styled it for me with a dab of gel! $10 onlyyyyyy!

The general concensus is that it looks nice, with the exception of Brat#2, who maintains that it’s ugly and that if I wanted short hair, I might as well wear my short-haired wig. LOL!

Good things can only come out of this new hairdo:

- Less shampoo.
- No need to hair dry my hair because it dries fast.
- Earrings don’t get hidden anymore.
- No more eating strands of hair by accident.
- Time to wear scarfs on the neck! Because of the cold.
- HEADGEAR!!!!!!!1 Tried on some headwear at Pull & Bear and M)phosis today and hats that looked ugly with my long hair looks disarmingly agreeable now!
- I’m sure I could pass off as a guy if I dress right!

But there are some minus points:

- MY WARDROBE DOES NOT MATCH THE PUNKY DO. This is the most important.
- I probably need to go for a trim every now and then.
- I actually look a bit toot. This was probably the best photo which made me look more serious and un-dorky than I really am. Mum says I look a whole lot younger now, like 17-ish. She did comment that I didn’t like and even cried for having short hair when I was younger (but that was because I didn’t have a choice, Mum…)

Okay time to sleep now. Hair is dried!

Welcome to My Family

Last night as I was writing a long-overdue letter back to Aunty Dev in the Philippines, I wanted to explain to her the meaning behind Ti’s name (whom she had named her son after), when I realised that I never really knew why Ti’s name was the way it was. I remember many years ago I asked Mum why his name was chosen, and she said that it was because there was nothing left to choose from. LOL! It’s times like this that I feel lucky to be a firstborn XDD

Well last night I asked her again. She thought for a while, and said that it meant ‘benevolent’, and I was like, why?!? Our middle names already mean ‘benevolent’; does this mean that Ti is supposed to be some kind of saint? Anyway I looked it up online and it actually means ‘outstanding’. Well done Mum :P

After that she said that my name meant ’strength’, while doing this aja fighting pose. Damn weird. It was then that I decided to break it to her that the banyan tree (which I’m named after) is actually semi-parasitic.

TO WHICH MUM BROKE OUT IN FULL-FLEDGED LAUGHTER AND JUMPED AROUND THE ROOM IN UNBRIDLED MIRTH.

And then, still laughing, she said that I wasn’t semi-parasitic… but completely parasitic! This is totally FML-worthy man XDDD

But she said she was joking, and later fondly said how much of a good children Ti and I are, while I told her how my life is doomed from the start of wrong name-choosing.

Welcome to my family. If at any time you think I’m crazy, just remember where I’m coming from. XDD

Okay further proof has just unearthed itself. Mum finally found the iPod charger she’d been looking for since yesterday and when it was found, I started clapping above my head while she swung the iPod wire round and round singing ‘Old Macdonald Had a Farm’.

Also, am terribly amused by this MTV. I know Shasha would be absolutely mortified and outraged over this video, but somehow I can’t stop looping it to hear her sing “nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeh” at 2:05.

Btw, apparently that Korean company kenna successfully sued by Square Enix over this XDD

I HAS STYLE? & Near Death

Lolspeak is unacceptable but words fail me.

Tuesday, I had oil painting class. We finally got started on painting still life, after everyone got into a clamour for white objects to set up.

At the end of the session, Ai said that my painting was ‘very me’, and I was like, HUH does this mean that whatever I draw looks the same?!?!!? WHAT’S THE POINT?!?! Noez there goes $50+ of oil painting supplies orz

Thursday, I proudly showed Pa a work in progress doodle in my BB Sketchbook (short for the Brian Bolland sketchbook that he autographed XDD). I was like, “Taadaa!” and he was like, “Why do all your drawings look so gloomy and sinister.” and I was like, HUH WHERE GOT?!?! And then he tried to explain in vain the characteristics of my drawings.

Friday, Ai and I continued our oil painting for homework and I don’t know, I think Linda, Ruru and Sal said that it looked finished, even though I had barely gone a few strokes into it. Which was really amusing XDD

Last night Brat#2 fell face-first onto my bed in slumber. Mum then decided to lay the mattress on the floor so that I could have her bed to sleep on. I was awake till 4+am.

Sometime during the wee hours of the night, Brat#2 gave a vicious shout and started violently punching the pillow next to him (i.e. where my head would have been), and then he collapsed back onto the bed.

NEVER HAVE I BEEN SO GLAD TO BE AWAKE AT 4AM.

Even Mum woke up! I kept laughing in relief (to be alive).

Brat#2 is damn dangerous.

Punny Name

I have JK for painting class this semester. She has never taught me before. When I came up to her to mark my attendence, she remarked, “I wanted to see what you look like!“

And I was stunned– what did I do to garner such infamy?!?!- and managed to stutter out a “Huh, why?“

She said that my name was nice. After that she asked how she should call me, and I was still reeling from the shock and conflict because Izzy had fun calling me by my surname (as I am known to Shasha and Ruru) earlier in class. When I told her she could call me Ren, she pointed to the last part of my name and said, “Yea calling you this wouldn’t feel right.“

Get it? Calling me by the last installment of my name wouldn’t feel right. Because it’s (w)rong.

OMG damn lame I kenna double stunned la! Only Kenken is supposed to 出 this 招 lor… And then she said that my name was nice again, to which my brain got fried just enough to say, “Er okay,” and laugh sheepishly in response.

This morning dear old Charcoal marked attendance and when he came to my name (dropping the surname), I raised my hand and he joyly exclaimed, “Ah, there you are!” And I was like, huh??!? Also, people seem to be amused when I make self-introductions. It’s not my favourite thing to do so I normally leave things brief and vague.So I simply said the bare minimum: name, major and presence of film (for next week’s class).

When Charcoal asked if I was still in Animation I was like, what question is that? How to answer? And eventually said that er, I was hoping to graduate this year…? To which the class laughed, and he laughed too, saying that he hoped I would too!

And I sat there perplexing over what was so funny. Btw, majority of the people are year two photo majors. Am damn scared sia! Quite a number have lots of working experience in the medium don’t play play ahhhh.

There goes the first day of my last year of school.

Oh and I talked to CHLim while waiting for the next class today and he excitedly gushed about the new motion-capture system the school had just acquired. I was like, wah lau must be damn ex! Five digits?

No. It was six digits and the first digit was a seven. Asf;ladglknda!!!!! It is sitting in the film room and I’m not too sure why :P

Sian FYP II

I told Kiampa my FYP woes, and this was the amusing conversation.

Kiampa: wow ur famoous
Kiampa: famous
Kiampa: they stole ur idea
Me: not steal my idea
Me: but now its an idea tt can be recognised liao
Kiampa: then how
Kiampa: change idea
Me: watch rerun and see what they did lor
Me: if its diff from what i wanna execute can
Me: but if not i can always change la
Me: got a few similar ideas
Kiampa: screw ndp
Me: HAHAHA
Me: feeling damn bummed liao la
Me: its not supposed to be so effective against me BUT I FEEL SCREWED
Kiampa: oh yesh you are screwed
Kiampa: haha
Kiampa: i didnt really keep an eye on the parade
Kiampa: other than hear so i dont know
Kiampa: but u better change ur idea
Kiampa: cos anything thats worthy to be on ndp is shit
Me: HAHAHAHHAHAA
Kiampa: on the eve of school starts
Kiampa: the state screws u

It is also precisely why Kiampa’s nickname is ‘Kiampa’, Hokkien for owing a beating to :P

Btw, happy 44th birthday today, Singapore! I waved the miniature cloth flag on a pole that Brat#2 got in school for a while today while waiting for Ti to change so that we could go down for dinner.

Wah Sian FYP

Another reason to pon school for the rest of next year. Okay I kid, but still…

Shasha 08:00 PM
Eh, your fyp idea. They’re doing a similar thing with animation on the national day parade. Now.

Shasha 08:00 PM
Crap. End already.

Me 08:01 PM
Shit i just missed it :(

Shasha 08:01 PM
Yea. See repeat telecast. I think you have to see it.

Me 08:02 PM
Er ok… Was it an animation or just vid??
(Obviously the shock made me forget what Shasha’s first SMS said)

Shasha 08:03 PM
Video mix with animation. That’s why you must watch, so that you don’t accidentally do the same.

Me 08:04 PM
Siannnn ok :(

Shasha 08:04 PM
Haha. It was very cute. All the best yea.

Me 08:05 PM
Tq for warning!!

Shasha 08:05 PM
No prob :)

From this exchange, any idiot can surmise that I have good friends and unoriginal ideas XDD

£1 Gospel

Sorry for the pun :P

But anyway, Puey came back from her grad trip and bought £1 leggings from London! I have five. OH THE LOVE.

I wore two of them out yesterday, along with my new pink sale!skirt– I had a particular distaste for bubble skirts, but the colour and print on this was enough to override my prejudice :D

Lilac 50denier leggings that Puey’s sister rejected on grounds that it was too bright and argyle netted ones that she said no one else would wear ARE A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN. Puey, I’m not giving back the lilac even if your sis wants it back hor! HAHAHAHA XDD

Oh and those are gold nails :D

Being corny.

I positively need to go to London XDDD

In other time-wasting news, I spent the whole of today at TvTrope and it’s insane wiki-style articles (much like ED.com). Here are some I love:

✿ You Should Know This Already

Tycho: You just wrapped up Kong?
Gabe: Yeah, the ending was kind of a low point. Everybody knows Kong dies, but…
Tycho: Kong dies? Thanks a lot, jackass. I was going to see that.
Gabe: Kong? You don’t want me to spoil Kong, a seventy-year-old movie? There’s a statute of limitations on this shit, man. Everybody knows he climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. What did you think happened next?
Tycho: I thought that, you know… maybe he climbed back down…
— Penny Arcade, 2005-12-05

This troper saw a poster for Fight Club, that named the actors “Brad Norton” and “Edward Pitt”, which highlights the identity confusion of the characters.

Likewise, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as originally conceived, was a mystery. You weren’t supposed to know Hyde was Jekyll all potioned up. Thanks to numerous film adaptations, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the phrase being constantly (mis)used in popular culture, it’s not a mystery any more!

Instead, it’s Dramatic Irony.

✿ High Heel Face Turn
(a female take on Heel Face Turn)

Related to Beauty Equals Goodness and Double Standard – both henchmen and ugly, older Rosa Klebb type villainesses seem far less prone to being redeemed. Interestingly, the Beauty Equals Goodness aspect could be read as yet another way in which this trope might be considered sexist: Pretty women who are appealing to men are much more likely to be redeemed than less conventionally attractive women.

✿ Throw It In

In the film version of Titanic, there was a scene with Leonardo DiCaprio telling Kate Winslet to get on the daybed in preparation for him sketching her nude portrait, saying “Get on the bed — errr, couch!” According to the director’s commentary, the original line had no reference to a bed, but DiCaprio’s nervous flubbing of the line seemed just too perfect to leave out.

The actor playing the drunken uncle in Its A Wonderful Life is accompanied by a loud crash on one of his exits; the noise was actually caused by a grip tripping over a prop table and scattering its contents, but the timing was so serendipitous that director Frank Capra decided to use the take anyway.

• The way I heard it was that they were GOING to re-take it, but the actor playing Uncle Billy shouted “I’m alright! I’m aallllll….right.” That saved the take, as it made it look like he’d just done an off-screen collision with a garbage can.

In Disney’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Phoebus naming his horse Achilles was an ad-lib by Kevin Kline, first cropping up in his line “Achilles, heel!”

✿ Unfortunate Names

Speed Racer, probably. Honestly, who names their kid ‘Speed’?

Speed: What kind of a name is “Spritle”? That’s not even a word!

Spritle: You think my name is bad? Your name is the rate of motion expressed via distance traveled per units of time!

• The kind of people who’re prophetic enough to know that their son will be the greatest racer ever. (And they themselves are named “Mom” and “Pops”, so…)
  Pops: What do you guys have to complain about? My wife’s name is “Mom”. “MOM”! Do you have any idea how awkward that is? Do you have any idea how awkward that is during sex?

The IT Crowd gave us Peter Phile, who was unfortunate enough to be paged over an airport loudspeaker.

✿ My Name Is Inigo Montoya

“Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare To Die.”

- The Princess Bride, in one of the most trope-heavy statements in the history of film (Incidentally, it named most of them.)

:DDD