Come as you are

(WELL, NOT QUITE. I FAILED THAT DAMNED PHYSICS LAB CLASS. BUT I’M WELL OVER THAT NOW. SO.)

I still can’t believe it. WE SURVIVED THE FIRST YEAR IN MAPUA! /confetti!

We survived a whole year of DEADlines, sadistic professors, killer schedules, and fatal all-nighters. All thanks to inspiring professors (lol), energy drinks, and our batchmates (who are forever there to keep you company during sleepless nights).

Good vibes! (Tapos bagsak pala sa Solid Mensuration oh.) Oh wells. There’s really something about surviving the first year that makes you pretty optimistic of the succeeding years to come. Sophomore year, we’re so ready to take you on! But before all that, it’s time for our 1 week term break <3

My new Harry Potter books finally came in the mail. *phew. I was thisclose to starting a fight with the seller. OMGAH. Must. Start. Reading! O..kay. I’ve been living like a hermit these past few days. What with the flood and all. I was practically stranded in our own house. And don’t even ask the last time I took a bath. (Cue: EEEEWWW)

At least I was able to waste my time creating crappy studies :/

They all suck, God help me. :( Hehe. But.. HARRY POTTER BOOKS! HOOOORAY!

Oh, and check ‘em out.

http://www.gianlucafallone.com/

http://linn.olofsdotter.com/

aaand

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/art/.

A compilation of the tutorials I swore to do tomorrow.

Broken Glass Text

No Pressure Introduction to Css

Something

Applying texture to shape

Neat abstract art

Text reflection

Mirror Effect (not really a tutorial, but it’s a remind for my future self. Heeh.)

plus LGBT rights posters and 3d text and and and strangers! So much to do. Yipee.

Oh, and I don’t know her personally, but we have the same name! (Almost) And she’s a very wicked artist! Ms. Celina’s blog is muy inspiring.

I’m alive! Hurray. I actually have a lot of time on my hands right now.

Today I only went to school to take this exam in Solid Mensuration.

But I’m fortunate that I don’t have P.E anymore.

OMG Alan Rickman. <3

So, I get home early (just a quarter of an hour after lunch, enough to make my stomach curse me), and I proceed to procrastinating web-surfing stalking doing my plates. :) This is the time when I post pictures of the said plates.

It’s a CD design for our portfolio. I enjoyed making this one! However, I find it impossible to pick between the two. Which one will I pass? Huuu.

I did that using gradient mesh! That means it ain’t a photograph of cherries, guise. See how, mysteriously, a shadow is nonexistent? Right, it’s because I forgot to make it, that’s why. That image is made up of grids and gradients and all those stuff. You can try it here.

It’s (the only decent) one of the six studies I managed to do today. Hee. It’s for LGBT rights. Of course, I’m pro all the way. No h8, let’s pretend it’s for this. Anyway, I made the H look like an unequal sign (=/=). So yea. It needs tons of polishing. More studies to come tomorrow.

I get so kilig when I see pictures like that. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know either.

Oh, when I grow up I want to be a psychic.

Procrastinating!! HNGGGG. I don’t want to do any conceptualization tonight, thank you.

Braaaaaaaiiiiinsssss!

Heh. I now officially declare that I have an evil twin sister. Say hi to ‘zombabe’. Dundundun. (I’M BEING IRONIC HERE, PEOPLE. Don’t mind me :P)

I’m no Sam Spratt, but whatever. My wrists are already hurting so I decided to stop for a while and do this post. This assignment tops all the other assignments of other courses combined. (Well, except for culinary arts! The students get to cook, and that’s called ‘school work’. Cool beans.)

IDEK. Tumblr ugly-fies the quality, so. Yea. I’m def bored.

Teehee. I made this in 30 minutes (including the time I spent looking for the stock images :p). Sobrang natuwa naman ako sa clipping mask eh no. :p

Happy Independence Day to my fellow Filipinos =)

Let’s make sure we put our freedom to good use. Countless, nameless heroes died for us to experience it, after all.

Heh, these are pictures from my last vacation in Singapore last yr. I picked the pictures that weren’t posed. Or, you know, just random pictures! It was all for the purpose of recording the memories. I look at them and I remember the exact moment I took it. I can imagine how the air blew the hair off my face, how the sunshine made me squint my eyes, the voice of my mom. These pictures suck, of course. But I like seeing them in my blog.

^manipulated. Teehee. Say hi to my mom’s dry ends.

It’s nice that I got to sit near the ‘wings’ of the plane :p It was my first time, too! Score.

Well. Hm, that’s it. The others are prohibidado. (Fired up, holla!) So yea. This year, this is what summer looks like to me:

And by this I mean my summer is spent doing plates like that^

Ooh, so much negativity (compared to all the ~positive energy~ in my last post. Just proves how bipolar I can be.) What’s up with dot.

My brother and I are still not speaking with each other. This is one of our longest fights, I think. Or IDK, lately, everyday just feels dragging. Plus, the rain is still bringing me down :( My back hurts (from doing plates  a plate the whole day. I work very slow, fml.) and I’m having my ~monthly~ cramps. Jizzas Cries.

I must digress: I read that lack of exercise contributes to painful cramps, so. All the more reason for me to start an exercise routine. Plus, our maid says my ARMS are getting bigger. NEVER A NICE THING TO SAY TO ANYONE FSUIHFSOHFJ. I just want to say that she’s still alive because killing is illegal.

Moving on, I finished reading Deception Point today. I finished it in two days, holla. It’s so good, except for all the scientist-talk parts. Dan Brown is tha mannn.

So yeah. I forgot why I wrote this post in the first place! (Guess, it’s just me trying to be a consistent slash boring blogger.) Here, have a picture of my plate:

It’s a seamless pattern wallpaper thing. So it can be used in such a way ‘tiles’ are used. Ay, what. It’s continuous if you plot it horizontally and vertically. O…kay. I did this for a good three hours, okay. Hahahaha! I was the one who pen tool-ed the flowers (I traced it from actual flower pictures I got from google. Hah.) and I had a hard time following the tutorial. Plus, why doesn’t Illustrator just have a ‘Crop’ button? It took me a while to figure out how to use the clipping mask.

The title doesn’t have any connection to what I am about to post. I just love the lyrics.

I thought today is going to be un-productive, but boy, was I wrong! I woke up and I was tempted to stay in bed the whole day. Maybe something in me had a feeling that this day has something better in store for me, so up I went. And I dealt with the rains and floods like a piece of cake. Heh, I didn’t even realize the possibility that our classes might be suspended for the day. Probably used to it, the way they treat us like we’re waterproof and all.

Anyway, we had this activity in Scripwriting where we are going to edit our classmate’s works. Elementary stuff. (Oops. ‘course I’m kidding.)

The thing with our Vector class is, we can’t use the Mac lab during Thursdays! We can only use it during Tuesdays and Saturdays. I mean, what’s the point of learning a computer program without using a computer? It’s completely futile. So most of the time we spend our Thursday Vector classes just killing time and boredom. Apparently, not today. Our ever-so-surprising professor (last Thursday we watched something about Ladyboys and, I quote him, ‘the art film called Rome and Juliet’) has prepared something for us. We did this bizarre activities (think: list 50 girly names starting with the letter ‘X’ IN TWO FRIGGING MINUTES). But it was fun and really relevant to what he’s teaching us. So yea. It felt like a whole pep talk session. A little push to inspire us and all that shiz.

But it doesn’t end there, I saw Risa Hontiveros in the flesh. Yay. She’s this popular senator and advocate of the RH bill. Me and my friends watched their discussion about the bill after my classes. At the end all I can conclude about the matter is this: The bill isn’t the sole answer to every problem of the country. As usual, the change must start in the discipline of the citizens. See, if we were all responsible citizens, we probably wouldn’t even need the bill in the first place. Even if the bill gets approved or not, its goals would not be met if we don’t start the change within ourselves.

K. Mooooving on, when I got home all I did was the plates our professors dumped on us. That’s always the case with lazy professors: they dump all the plates they need from you when you’re close to finals week.

^That’s not one of the the plates. I was just practicing the transform tool. OH AND EXCUSE THE LAME PHRASE ABOVE IT. LOL ~I’m about whatever man~ This is what I’m really going to pass:

I like hearts, I guess. Haha. K, I’m bored now. I got 3 more plates to finish. I’m out.

i’ve learnt that to make dreams come true, you have to be obsessed. truly, utterly obsessed. i think of obsession as passion squared, and if you have passion for something people will see that. if you go through an entire day without doing something towards your dream, you’re not obsessed enough to make it happen. 

sure, some people get lucky, but we’re not going to wait around to see if that’s us. we need to make things happen for ourselves, because we are the only ones in control of our lives. with enough obsession and work any dream can come true for you. you will be disappointed, sleepless and somedays you will want to give up. but you will be happy, because you are living. 

- Nirrimi

She’s one my biggest role models, seriously. All I have is respect and admiration for her. Not only do her photos have an unimaginable influence over young photographers today, her prose (some are here: http://nirrimi.tumblr.com/, but the ones I’m raving about is on her DA) is legendary. That’s my opinion, though and I have little doubt anybody will disagree. Oh, and did I mention she is mighty fine?

It’s sad that I haven’t updated my blog in quite a long time.

I considered deleting this, but I just can’t imagine me without a blog. Heh. See, I’ve been blogging since I was 12. Any argument is invalid. The truth of the matter is, this blog sucks donkey balls! But I just find it impossible to part with it. So, in an attempt to make this blog a little more personal (and less of a reblog dump site), I’m going to update this with what’s happening with my ~life~. (There’s not much really, shiz.)

I tried my first ever vector portrait:

It’s fugly, I know. hahaha. And what are those gray shapes?

Anyway, I also did my first henna tattoo. I have no picture of it which is good because it’s fugly as well.

It’s also the debut season. Which only means 2 things: high school friends reunion (yay!) and being late  dressing up.

Aside from all this my life has been boring. Heehe. I didn’t have any ~summer~ memories this year because of our quarter semester system. But it’s not as depressing as it sounds ;)

I can’t believe we’re halfway through 2011 already!