I’m Back. Again.

Oh no I am so not looking forward to sorting through my photos. I actually managed to use up my 4GB Memory Stick, a first for me. But then again I was shooting at 7MP almost all the time (except for when I accidentally set it to 5MP at Roaring Camp – ARGH! Those were the nice photos) so I guess it should have been expected.

In the meantime, have a screenshot. Yeah, I have invites. Go on and ask for them.

 

Gonna download my copy of Office 2010 Beta now. My internet is being iffy though.

My new wishlist

Not sure when my party will be but anyway new wishlist:

120 film (med format) pref black/white asa400
the hobbit the gold cover edition that matches my other Tolkien books

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Status update from LA:
visited Getty center and saw famous paintings,Only for an hour though. Going to UCLA tomorrow, then Disney land and universal studios. My google wave invite has arrived, so has the invite for the office2010 beta though I think it’s public beta? My birthday is comin soon! Guys if you’re reading this I want a 120 to 35mm adaptor for holga 120n but you can just buy little white vinyl spacers for not a lot. Please

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Status update from LA:
visited Getty center and saw famous paintings,Only for an hour though. Going to UCLA tomorrow, then Disney land and universal studios. My google wave invite has arrived, so has the invite for the office2010 beta though I think it’s public beta? My birthday is comin soon! Guys if you’re reading this I want a 120 to 35mm adaptor for holga 120n but you can just buy little white vinyl spacers for not a lot. Please

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Hi I’m in America now! Using my rommmate’s iPod touch to post this. Sugi don’t SMS me I am overseas and it costs money to receive smses. Ok that’s all

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Flying off!

At Changi Airport’s T3 now, sitting at a table with Ruio and Xeo and waiting for Xeo to finish her iced lemon tea which she claims is not sweet. Anyway, to those of you who haven’t noticed, I’ll be away from 17th – 30th Nov so don’t call or SMS my cellphone because roaming charges are INSANE. Have 10 minutes left before I have to report for…something (security check?) so yup that’s all now.

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In Which I Ramble A Lot and Post Several Photos

Well, I started yesterday’s post too late – at 9:45, I think – so today I’m starting it at a very respectable 8 minutes earlier.

Right, before I blab a bit about America and JC and worrying about which university to go to and what course to take because art seems to be pretty bloody useless now isn’t it? oops there I go again here are some photos of a styrofoam sword I made this morning for fun. We bought a new wine chiller, and there were several sheets of styrofoam so my brother acted his age and I didn’t. He made some dirks and I made a sword.

Like I said, our old wine chiller died, so we dumped the bottles in plastic pails while we waited for my dad to buy a new one.

I went to Chels’ house sometime last week. We messed around with the new Wii for a little bit, though Elsa just watched and I joined Elsa in just-watching after about 15 minutes. Or something. Yeah anyway we spent a ridiculous amount of time coming up with likenesses of ourselves (i.e. me, Pam and Elsa) on the Mii creator thingimajig. Some photos:

 

I guess now I start rambling. I just finished (at long last) my JC AEP application form, which consists of a personal statement and a personal details form. So the personal statement was like @_@ I really didn’t know what to write, but managed to come up with about a page or so. As for the second form, it asked what subject combination I wanted to take and which CCA I wanted to join.

So to fill in the first field I asked my dad about my subject combination again. At first I wanted to take KI, Econs, Art and Computing, but because apparently by the general consensus of everyone in JC, the parenting community and that weird kid you met on the street last week,

a) not taking Math in JC is a very stupid decision

b) if you’re taking Math, might as well take it at H2 level because H1 is for noobs and

c) this subject combi is sheer madness,

my parents changed it to Art, Computing, Math and ??. Now filling in ?? was another horrible ordeal. My parents wanted me to take Lit at first, and I was like Lit? No way so I mentioned English Language and Linguistics, which is like a more technical study of the language as the name suggests. My dad went “isn’t ELL for people who want to become teachers?” and since I’m not too sure either I suggested KI instead. But KI is a relatively new subject, and it was developed by the local Ministry of Education so there are still some accreditation problems here and there such as with Uni of Warwick, LSE and some colleges of Oxford (according to a quick online search). I couldn’t find much on this topic so in the end I just listed “maybe KI” in the form.

Of course, all this worrying about my future made me launch another web expedition to find out more about art courses in uni. Cambridge only has History of Art, interestingly, though Oxford has Fine Art. But iirc it’s not in the Times ranking or something. I went to WhatUni and clicked on almost everything I could find, so I guess my UK choices would be something along the lines of Graphic and Media Design or Fine Art at Goldsmiths’ or University College London.

I don’t know. I think growing up sucks.

Oh yeah. America. Right, so as several of you know, I will be going to California from the 17th till the 30th – please do not SMS me because roaming charges are insane. This year I actually made a packing list and somehow managed to fill the huge suitcase (?) my mum bought for me in  fit of TSA-induced paranoia. And my backpack is fluorescent. Orange. I’m so gonna get robbed.

Psst: I make icons sporadically.

Now that that’s out of the way, let me move on to more serious issues. Such as: Why haven’t I posted a proper diary-like entry in aeons? and Am I going to be able to get in for AEP in JC? and Why am I writing this at 10:45 PM when I should be getting ready for bed? and Uh oh, I should totally be writing my personal statement right now.\

Uh, whatever. I’ll post tomorrow instead.

Have I Ever Mentioned How Gorgeous Zune 4.0 Is?

Words of wisdom from met2art (granted, not about this software, but anyway):

This looks very, very good. And I really don’t care who it’s from. I prefer to attribute excellence to a single product based on its merits, rather than the manufacturer or branding. Microsoft and Apple have had many failures, but also many successes in different areas. Are the tallies balanced? I do not know, nor do I care. But, I do know that to simply assign "win" or "fail" to any product, especially when just a rumor, based solely upon the imprimatur is arrogant and ignorant. For that reason, I find it difficult to accept the supposed awesomeness of the alleged Apple tablet, simply because it’s from Apple.

 

 

The fonts are only screwy in the screenshots because my system is in Chinese. I assure all English-edition Windows users that Zune will turn out to be the most beautiful media player you have used in a long time.

In other news, Microsoft should be releasing download links for Office 2010 Beta on Nov 30 (and ending the Technical Preview program) so Xeo and Sugi can go get it soon.