Today we went down to Mingchi University of Techonology to look at the ID department there. It was quite interesting. Their studio is so big and airy and best of all, has natural sunlight. Lol. THe scary part was eating lunch cos we all were split up alone and sat at a table with one group of student. And my Chinese isn't that great. But it was pretty alright I guess? We could communicate a bit and they asked me a lot of things lol.

After that we went to visit this ultra amazing retirement village with super good facilities, and then went downtown for dinner. Then went to visit a design store which was quite nice. Saw plenty of design stuff and books. BOught a really awesome gift for everyone. haha! And then got this super cool drink coaster I've been eyeing for damn long since it came out. So glad I finally got it! haha yay! Never thought I'd be able to get my hands on it!

Long day but I had fun. Went down to the National Palace Museum today to look at the exhibits. Very...cultural. All Chinese painting and calligraphy and documents. The most interesting exhibit was the piece of jade that was carved to look like a bai cai vegetable and one that was carved to look like a piece of pork. Damn imba hahaha. After that we went down to Ximending (I think) to walk and shop around.

Anyway we all agreed we must wear scarf together one day so I had to find one. In the end we found one going for NT$100 which is about $4.50SGD. SO CHEAP. :D So I bought a very nice scarf for a price much much cheaper than in SG. Then later I also bought a nice leather jacket for about $80 so I can have a nice jacket when I go overseas next time. :D

Later we met up again and were supposed to go for dinner. Then long story short, our dear friend =.= ran off from the group to buy a fracking soft toy. We couldn't leave her alone so we ended up being separated from the main group of people. =.= We returned to a hairdressing salon to find another member of our party and then some of us waited damn long outside. =.= Zzz.

After that though, we had dinner and then decided to go drinking. After much wandering and nearly giving up, we found a place with a few watering holes. Sat down ordered drinks and snacks and played Murderer. lol! Then after it got boring we played truth or dare LOL. We said and did things that will never be repeated ever again. Because tonight never happened. =P hahaha.

HELLO FROM TAIWAN! TODAY WAS SUPERHAPPYMEGAAWESOMEFUN. I HAVE NOT HAD SO MUCH FUN IN A REALLY REALLY LONG TIME. I'm damn glad I went on this trip. It's the best decision I could've made. It's been a really awesome way to relax after the insane week i just had and the things I've been though. I'm quite happy. I really really am and it's been ages since I felt this way.

Even though there are days when things are going ok, but I just feel...well, normal. That's all. It's been ages since I felt truly happy happy. I really need this. This break. It's a good feeling and I must enjoy it while I can.

Today was super fun. Had breakfast, flew in at about 3 plus. Took bus down to our hotel then after that settled down and went to take the train to an Orchard Road like place. Walked around, tried the Fried Chicken OMG SO DAMN NICE better than anything you can find in Singapore hahaha. SO NICE. Then drank a bit of bubble tea ^^ and had some pastries.

Then we went outside Sogo and did some jump shots there SO AWESOME!!! I did some really nice ones wahahaha. Shall try to upload the photos soon. Had a really sumptous dinner at a Jap place buffet OYUM and then headedback to the hotel. =) Day 2 tomorrow!!!

IRRITATING LEH. I'm packing for TW and I wanna bring my stuff home and pack some more but they have this stupid thing in hall. We have to meetup and discuss how to put together a video. One of the members has a meeting so we aren't meeting yet. Only much later. I guess this means I'm not going home today.

I have to rush home tomorrow morning, pack my bags, head down to my friends home to take something, head somewhere else to pass someone else something, then back home for project. Fk all of u man srsly. Screwing up my plans. I'll be glad to go TW and escape for a week and wash my hands of you guys for a week. Be free of all this crap. I'm glad I'm quitting hall next sem, and the only reason I do all this is out of principle. Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

In fact, I'm just gonna head home, do my things, and the last you hear of me will be a gleeful, gloating status update for all of you suckers while I'm on a plane headed north. Sayonara muthafuckas!

Today was ok. I meant to sleep till 1030pm and go online, but in my tiredness I set it for 1030. Slept till then. That was 13.5 hours. Lol. Went to school and did a bit of work. Relaxed, and chatted with friends also. But disappointed too. Didn't finish what I wanted too. Sigh. Cos I went back for hall dinner. Now got hall stuff too. Stupid meeting. I really wanted to finish all my stuff ASAP b4 I flew off to have less of a burden on me. Shall try to finish tomorrow I guess?
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Dammit. Meeting's canceled cos that guys meeting ran late. Ugh. Now I'm stuck here till morning when I need to rush home. Damn you. Conflict in class. A made a joke abt B, B scolded him, A scoleded back, now fight. Now unfriend. Not even the decency to send a unfriend msg on FB at 3AM. How? Now B is telling me how not to trust A. I slightly agree but wonder if he's telling me the truth. I feel like a pawn in something bigger.

Connected: The Great Game is increasing...

OMG you will not guess what happened. I found a mouse. not only that, I found a Razer gaming mouse! The Razer Naga to be exact. And it's not the low-end kind. After a whole week of work non-stop, I went back to hall and napped a bit. Next went to CLB for a marketing meeting despite being majorly tired and all. I've had...16.5 hours of sleep since Sunday morning. So 16.5 out of 5 x 24 = 120 hours was spent sleeping. The rest of my time in studio.

Anyway we met up, and went to this place called Perk Point and located an unoccupied table. It was the first time I had stepped into the place, and then I saw a mouse on our chosen table, all alone. Hmm. No one was around. Would someone use a Razer mouse to chope seats? I moved it off the table and then we began doing out work. Midway, I slid the mouse from on top of my laptop bag to below it. Then when we packed up, I packed it up too and left.

And OMG it's amazing! Instead of any other gaming mouse which wouldbe mad awesome but also slightly wasted on me, this mouse has like 17 programmable functions and the ability to map them to any key and application. Meaning...YES I have a handful of Photoshop shortcuts on my mouse now! Same for Indesign. Amazingly suited for these applications too. I supposes at times one can get a break in life.

Hmm. I feel. Like I'm in Inception. Maybe it's lack of sleep. I feel like my room is slanting alarmingly to the front and left. Or alternately right. Actually both. I am not making this up! And I haven't been drinking either. OMG. Gravity off center. WOW. This is kinda fun. But totally weird and not normal. Gravity is confusing me.

Tired. Fell asleep in the middle of class once more. Had 7.5 hours of sleep since Sunday. Totally KO till my teacher came to me to view my sketches. It all looks like crap but he's nice and doesn't mention that. Sleep comes easily now. I close my eyes for a moment, sleep. Sanding models, sleep. Finishing models, sleep. Maybe I'll finally get some proper rest tomorrow night. Or latest Thursday.

School was ok. Sigh slept only 3.5 hours last night. I totally forgot about subject pool. Had to wake up at 7am to get to school. Ugh. Gave out chocolates to the girls. Well, some of them. -Cough- LOL. Our project was...so-so. I guess. More work to do. I was so damn tired, during class I was just so tempted to go to sleep right there and then. Which I did. Just found a nearby table while others were presenting and KO-ed.

Quite a a few people are staying back to do work but I have hall stuff to do. Zzz. Went back to hall. I walked in to dinner and to my surpise the aircon was on. That was pleasant. But what I couldn't stand was the onslaught of vday songs. Ugh. I really couldn't take it at all. I ate my food, and left as soon as possible for my room.
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Turning off my mind to the barrage of work has worked quite well so far and carried me through the past few weeks, finishing all of my work on time. Compared to some of my classmates who just didn't do some things at all, I've completed all that was requested by going full speed ahead.

But it's taking a toll on me. Lack of sleep aside, I'm feeling like I'm running out of steam. UGH. I have my last sketch to shade but I'm a bit unmotivated. Maybe it's because I'm still new to Copic markers. Everything that comes out looks like crap. Seriously. Crap crap crap. It looks so bloody ugly. I'm damn disappointed in myself. I guess while I can do it in pencil, marker is a whole different ball game altogether and I just can't get the hang of it. Sigh. I'm totally lost at sea. All this is probably ruining my mood and motivation.

Maybe I need to be around people. Maybe later once I'm done with hall stuff I should pack up and head down to studio. There's people staying. sheisstaying But that's not the point. The point is to try and finish 3 more handsets and to refine the rest. The point is to finish sanding the metamorphosis models. I must finish it soon! Or maybe stay over tomorrow night. Hmm.
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I really might go back to sch. That's all what my life revolves around now. Work,work, and only work. Ever since channeling everything I have 100% into work a few weeks ago, I've barely stopped since. I finish up my work, and more work comes along non-stop. Note, I'm not exactly unhappy because I do enjoy what I do and learning all this, but when my entire life has been sucked into this black hole of work day in and day out for several weeks(including all weekends)...things start to feel a little crazy. If there's a time to break down or crash and burn, that time might be soon.

Nightmares 4
Nightmares are becoming a problem. Some nights you hardly dare sleep. If this reaches 5, bad things may begin to happen. Don't let it reach 8.
-Echo Bazaar

Had dinner at Val's. Went to sch to do project first then XW came by to drive me down. Yay! =) Then stayed till pretty late before I realised I couldn't really go hall. Then I went home instead. Luckily I checked my mail; cos I have SUBJECT POOL TMR SHIT. 9AM. Balls. I have to wake up early to travel down to Biz. UGH. STUPID MKT. =.=

Didn't play GDS today. =( Went to my friend's place to do project. Spent pretty much the whole day there working on it. Whole day gone. Kinda don't feel like doing work but I don't have much time left. Need to finish my sketching soon. =(

So, overnighted, did some project work, and did some more other work before heading back to watch my hall play. It was pretty good and funny. Haha. When I came back I kinda felt really swamped with work. Maybe cause I spent a couple hours at a play. Need to try finish some more work tomorrow. Got project meeting everyday. Also, my family dinner has been shifted to Sun. This clashes with dinner with the rest. =(

Addicted to Game Dev Story. Helps me to relax. I created an Animal Simulation game and named it Dogling Rush. LOL.

Staying in school today. My friend wanted to stay too but then I didn't know. =( If I had told they they would have gone home to bring stuff down. So I'm alone again. Just finished my sketches. Still need toshade them but no refills. Zzz. I'm going to do up a paper version of my plant model and then do 6 more handsets. If there's time maybe do my metamorphosis ba.

The best thing about sleeping alone in hall is that you get to whine and snarl and generally let loose whatever frustrations you may have whenever you wake up much too early but still have to get up anyway. School was ok I guess. Need to make more models! I finished a bit of work today. Progressed on a couple of items.

I got a new iPhone game called Game Dev Story. Quite cute and fun! You run a Game Company and try to produce games and make money. Different from the rest. It has amazing reviews and I tried the lite very fun out for fun. My first run kinda sucked but after that my second attempt was much better. Decided to get the full version. =) Quite fun to pass the time! lol. And it's non-persistent so I don't have to commit to it, and I can play as long as I like.

Tomorrow is submission for the handles project. Wish me luck! Need to work on models and metamorphosis. And sketching too. Maybe stay over tomorrow? Chiong finish models I only need to make 3 more but I'm dissatisfied with some older ones. Re-do and make nicer ones!!! Yeah. All for my grades. In the mood for work. BUT. Hall stuff. Sigh. I'll try and finish it later first.

Shit lah. Now I know why am I so busy already. Sigh. I rush schoolwork non-stop and just when I think I have pulled ahead of that monstrous all-encompassing wave for a quick breather, I get swamped by hall stuff. Need to redesign 2 banners and make a video. Gah. Work work. No rest for the wicked.
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School today was ok. Cos we weren't presenting lol. Watched the other grps present, then had lunch and went to buy our MKT textbook. $48 plus. D: So expensive. Sigh. I have to resell next year. Went for MKT tutorial later, and headed back to hall. For once I'm in my room before dinner starts. I'm a bit hungry now though. I got no food! Eating MILO powder. Wtf.

Gonna try and finish sketching later. Have yet to shade. Still got plenty of work to do. My weekend will be spent on project meetings. And yeah I've entered a sort of a buisness venture with my classmate. We're splitting the profits 50-50, and he's thrown in the first bit of capital to get our products. ANGRY BIRDS. Our current model of marketing is through word of mouth and also Facebook. So would appreciate if you guys can take time off to just 'share' the pics on your feed. =)

Also I tweeted it, although I'm not sure if it will help. Got so much stuff to buy. =( Like today's book. That's why I'm going into business. I even email blasted my relatives with it. Lol. Need to find some way to earn money. I hope more people respond.

School today was ok. We came early and did up our project and later pinned it up along with the rest.We then were supposed to rate everyone's boards from 2-10 (Ours would default to 1). After the ranking and socring, the group with the top scores would get to choose the porduct for our next project. Our boards would also be reviewed by our tutors. Suffice to say, we got some pretty decent comments, so yup. =) As you can see I'm deathly afraid and paranoid of jinxing anything.

Then after that we were supposed to choose the products we would work on. We were second to choose, so yeah. =) Good job guys and let's keep it up! I was kinda surprised too. Lol. Must let this motivate me so that when we work on our project this weekend we can put up something good.

After that showed Dr. C my metamorphosis, and I need to make some minor changes. See if I can do it tonight. Actually I'd rather do it tomorrow-NO I must finish it by tonight. Ok. I need to finish my sketches too. Buy MKT textbook tmr. =.=

Went to mel's b'day party. Had fun! But I've got a headache right now. Could it be not enough sleep? But I got 7 hours of sleep last night. =( Oh well. Spent today in sch doing some group work, then left for the party. We had a lot of fun with the balloons lol. Like trying to float ben's iPhone, and tying balloons to Xw's cutlery LOL.

Later we also tied a balloon to a piece of cake and made mel try and eat it HAHA. After the party was over we had some fun by bringing out that bunch of balloons out. OMG jealous. Did not bring my camera. Plus everyone was a bit tired. Can you imagine the amount of photographic opportunities with a HUGE bunch of balloons? SO NICE. Too bad we couldn't stick around long enough to really play with it. =( Tried doing some jump shots and stuff. Hope they turned out nice. 18 balloons looks super nice and impressive!

Overnight in sch today with a coupla people. Lol. Today was kinda more productive. I redid one sketch I made yesterday which sucked and went to do my handsets. I thought we were supposed to do 5, but I did 6 cos one sucked. Later I found out we needed 6. lol. Well at least saved me the disappointment. Now trying to see what else I can do next.

Helluva lotta handsets. It may not look like much but you have to realise that each of these are different from the rest, and each were slowly carved by hand out of a single block of foam. Slowly cut, carved, sculpted, and sanded down.

I AM FALLING BEHIND. SHIT. =( People are catching up and pulling ahead. BACK TO WORK.
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Ok I am sketching now. Got more work done today now that CNY is over. I finished my Ergonomics essay and got a couple of sketches done. And worked a bit on my history project. Tomorrow, back to studio once more. Blew off two outings with friends today but I at least went home to eat steamboat with my folks. Though I was a bit reluctant to leave school so early. =(

I slept really late last night. Had only 3 hours of sleep before I woke up to goto the Botanic Gardens. Ended up really late thanks to my friend. We took bus down. Ended up at an exit on the other end of the park from everyone. By then it didn't matter anymore because they had all dispersed. =(

So we just got out instructions and made our way through the park taking pictures of stuff. Explored, took some fun photos and walked to the other end. Lol. Wanted to go Bugis to buy copic refills but the shops were clsoed. Had lunch, went home, and went for reunion dsinner at night. Still try to complete some work b4 I sleep.

OMG I feel like crap. I slept really late last night trying to dig up info for our brief presentation today. Then our presentation was so short. Definitely need to redo it. Then my clothes were in the dryer so I stayed up to play Sims 3 until they were done and folded them. Slept at, close to 4? Then woke up like 10 mins before class at 850. D: Dozed off a bit during lesson so I went to get milk tea with sugar and some food. Now I feel so sleep-deprived. Like fast heart rate and shallow breathing. Caffeine does that to you right? So. Exhausted.
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ARGHHHH I feel nauseous and buzzed and restless and I can't concentrate on my work cause of the nausea. Ugh. I'm not going to lose my breakfast but I can't work. Must resist urge to throw up. Work, dammit!
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Update! YES I'm finally in the mood to work. Showed my stuff to my tutor, and got some comments back. After the feedback I now have a direction to head towards and can start heading there. I'm determined to go now. I've somewhat slacked off this week (lost the mood) and let other people catch up but now I'm ready to put the pedal to the metal and surge ahead. That coupled with the holiday mood motivates me. Must pull ahead as far as possible and wham everything down!

I don't wanna jinx it, but suffice to say, I got some quite decent comments which encouraged me, so I'm all recharged, refueled, and ready to hit the road BAM BAM BAM taking down projects one after another. Gonna try and finish two today. I also have hall stuff to do but that oughta be kinda fast. ONWARD!

Handle is down to 70% but I'm ready to pull it back upto 90-100% and also to 100% my metamorphosis today. Next I'll take down sketches, handsets, and see what I can do on the group projects.,