Take note that this site will be deleted within a month’s time.

- Hooboy. I thought I would have at least one week of rest before going back to college to finish my finals. The happiest times was during Christmas but after that I’ve been reformatting, uninstalling stuff and cleaning my com, going the lowyat purchasing new harddisks, meeting people, figuring out how to run my new website, doing freelance work, which continuously never ends.

- My sleeping and eating time is totally haywired. I got a hard time waking up, since i just loooove being a vampire to do all my work at night. Sometimes I don’t pay attention to what I eat, which breakfast consist only a bite of ferrero rocher chocolate before heading out.

- I think at one point of our lives we can’t stand living under the same roof with our parents. Since my maid left both are so extreme – one too naggy, the other too lazy. I have made a point to just do my chores and then stay up in my room doing my own thing, as usual. I can’t stand the nags, the yells, the scolding. It’s either I stay out of the house, or lock up in my room.

- I feel a need to be that runaway rebellious child. When you we’re young and angry, you plan to run away from home by any form of little resources you have. When you’re already 20, you plan to move away, rent a place, get a job, live in peace, and perhaps, disconnect from your family. That would be stupid, wouldn’t it? I resort to runaway through projects and work right now,  it’s controllable, it’s half-satisfying, and I’m pretty much doing my own thing.

- Sharing, gossiping, politics  can be all the same bad thing if you are commenting on someone. Not being professional can lead to bad recommendation. Gossip and judgements can lead one’s reputation to ruins. Misunderstanding can lead to strains in relationships. Something to relearn from the past weeks.

- I hate holier-than-thou people as much as I hate KL jams.

- I’m hoping for the best in my final project. We need to get it done as quickly since both of my group members are flying away.

Curio Graduation Showcase:

17th – 22nd Dec 2010
Black Box, Map KL,
Solaris Dutamas.

OPENING NIGHT : 17 Dec 2010, 7pm.

Visit US!
www.facebook.com/curio81
www.curio81.com

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Lets face it, 116 people is too big to accommodate our puny One Academy gallery. Within just 3 months, tons of fundraising, tons of publicity, viral campaigns, seeking for sponsorships, we managed to raise an enormous sum of money just for the showcase alone! We appeared in events like Pink Tober, Pipit Wonderful Market, State of the Arts KL, also had bazaars in Amcorp, Eco Film Week, plus set up our own designs to sell from kasutkuda, curiotee, curiography, caricature, plus lapansatoo!

Not to mention those who had sponsored us, companies, parents, uncles and aunties, whom had lighten our burden tremendously to raise runds.

Plus, our Viral Campaign, CURIOCITY, we had, last week, just to steer up curiosity in KL, not to mention attracted a number of police and guards on the way.

What a mouthful! This should be one of the most happening exhibitions since Phenomena 75!

Pipit wonderful market – House Installation

 

Flash Mob in KL

 

Curio in Black

Bazaar @ Amcorp

Photoshoot Session

DG with their brains still in tack

DON’T MISS THIS 5 DAYS!!

Hello world.

Within the last 3 months, the graduating batch, Curio 81, has went through a significant list of events to fund raise for our exhibition. And through all those efforts of promotion and sales, we are now 3 weeks close to our exhibition date. I don’t have any posters and visuals with me. Just visit Curio81 facebook.  Our website shall be out by next week.

If i had the time to post a long list of pictures and promos for all our fundraising and events, you would have said, why didn’t you tell me about it?? There’s so much happening!! But facebook is the new promotional strategy. Since facebook gain it’s popularity I think our blogs are pretty much dead. Or perhaps maybe, I don’t have the luxury to write a long post.

For our Final Project, we are extremely slow. Hooi Ling said at this rate we’re still alright, since we aim to deliver quality workmanship. But I still find it way too slow. There’s so many things getting in the way – bazaars, events, meeting, fundraising. I can’t seem to sit down and just work on maya in peace. To check out the Modeling progress, check my facebook album Xpline Studios Modeling Progress.

Also, I’m freelancing at Lex this Nov-Dec, helping out in 2 major projects. Lex is now having a lot of promotion in conjunction with the Rapunzel movie out. Really good packages, and a lot of digital products to win. There’s promotions if you pay for a RM25 package, you slide down the slide, get a goodie bag worth RM70 which includes a TGV pass to watch Rapunzel, some vouchers, a lucky draw to win something. There’s also promotions that if you were to spend RM100 above at LEX, you can peek into the Rapunzel tower hole with all sorts of digital products inside, try to guess the value of everything, and the winner wins all the digital stuff inside. Yes, I peek inside, there’s wireless modems, pendrives, maybe phones, I donno! You have to spend and see for yourself!

Right now, I’m squeezing any ounce of my time with my friend to watch a movie. I think we have no choice but to watch during the night. But with the timeline so tight and now all I really think about is what i need to complete within the day, I feel like I’m gated within the constrains of responsibility and can’t leave everything hanging at one point.

MY GOD IS BIGGER THAN MY PROBLEMS!!! YEA MAN!

Being in TOA mold me from a complainy weener to a more tougher and stronger nut. I think after 3 years here I’m far better off in coping with stress. I don’t even think that I was that stress within this whole year. Only within a few weeks when I couldn’t sleep. But the memories that hold and bind relationships, Some are still strong, some are weak, half I leave behind, half I bring with me. When so many of my friends are still studying, are still enjoying campus, while I’m gonna walk into the workforce. I bear myself to say that I am an artisan. And that, I shall grow to and flourish within the next decade of my life.

I shall listen to my own voice and not submit to the flow of the world.

It’s tough to see so many of my friends enjoying, partying, having a big campus be study in, while TOA students are stuck in shoplots for 3 years. Makes it feel like such an enclose place. We haven’t seen so much of the world. But by 20 it’s already time to grow up and start earning. Everyone does it. Everyone needs to work. All that I hope is that if I’m working I’m playing and discovering. And sooner or later, perhaps I might wanna start a studio, a production? Push to get in ILM? or Pixar? or Dreamworks?

There’s nothing much to say this days. A lot to do though. I find I can’t say anything much until we see results on the table.

I just attended my cousin’s wedding today. She’s 25, newlywed with her new husband, 29. They’ve been together in a relationship for 6 years.

Planning a marriage is so much work.  Sometimes it would be nice if you were to just go for a 2 hour marriage session in Vegas?? I had actually thought of a my fantasy wedding before — something that i really wish would happen, but ‘sigh’, never will. I shared it with one of my friends. It’s kinda like a ‘runaway’ wedding – no 9 course dinners, no reds, no crowds of relatives, no big planning, but an experience of a lifetime, like an adventure!

Sometimes we don’t know how biological we are, until we realize the cycle of life is that biological.

I’m not gonna be 20 forever.

Yea, the details are pretty blown off by the shadow.

Here’s a drawing I’ve drawn last semester. I don’t have the rendered version done by my friend. Hopefully I can re-render it for portfolio purposes.

Lecturers say that we should get a job as soon as we graduate but I still wanna stick to my plan to have a break before working like crazy again. (maybe a shorter break)

I wanna go to China, learn new stuff and built my portfolio during my break days. I think I wanna climb a mountain too!

Back to square 1, this sem is gonna be a lot of hardwork. I would say Final Development now becomes ‘our project’. I think I have turned into the QC member of the group(Quality Control). It’s quite painful. Cause my job is basically, tweaking and modifying and reducing or adding divisions from everybody’s models, and checking and rechecking everybody’s work to make sure everything is extremely consistent. I have my own set of stuff that I need to model but after some discussion we decide that I let my group members model then have my friend and I recheck topo and tweak. The results are good and extremely consistent but i find the QC’s job quite painful. It’s harder to tweak someone’s work then tweak your own. and Tweaking is a much longer process then actual modeling(to me).

The work in the end, becomes ‘our’ work, cause everyone is taking over everyone’s work plus rechecking everyone’s work.

I really feel like uploading what we done so far. But I want to wait until the stuff are fully modeled and textured.  Actually, there are tons of work that we drew over the last semester but I didn’t post. Cause it’s not entirely a solo project.

Oh well. Give time. We’ll make it look the best we can!

The only thing I don’t like about it was the ending. I was really cheese off about Minerva popping out. I was not fond either of the Assassin’s philosophy ‘nothing is true, everything is accessible’. It makes not sense. to me. And it kinda sounds a bit dumb(to me).

But I enjoyed the unsuspected storyline. And this time, the missions are more interesting. When I came to sequence 13 I was so tired that I had to assassinate 9 lieutenants, which wasn’t easy cause most of time needs to be silent kill. *tears*

I think the whole game is a masterpiece itself. At first I thought Florence was so big but Venice is huge! I let my sister do the feather and glmph collecting cause I’m too lazy to do it. And partly I really have to get back to reality and work on stuff that I’ve not completed.

Somehow or rather this game would get me to reopen my history books and read about the Renaissance again. It’s clearly an artistic masterpiece of excellence!